Ken Ryker, Magaly Gude, Wayne Hamilton - DGM Financial Group, Inc. Collected $8000 from my debtor and kept it! Miami Lakes Florida

I filed a complaint against DGM Financial with the Florida Office of Financial Regulation. They sent investigators to the last known addresses and DGM was not there. Therefore, if anyone has a current address and/or other info about DGM Financial folks, please post it and let me know. Let's stop these criminals before they steal from others. Thanks.

Miami regional office of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation has started an investigation on DGM Financial Group, and is looking for victims whether they be Debtors or Creditor so that the state can file criminal charges against Wayne R Hamilton, DGM Financial Group and Wayham Associates, Inc. 

You can start your complaint on their website at flofr.com or call toll free 1-800-848-3792.

I received this email from DGM on 1/7/09:

Mr. Sxxxxxx;

At this time we are unable to find any record of any payments applied to your account. You have not forwarded to me the copies of the canceled checks which you state you have in order for me further research this matter.

A change of ownership mid-year as well as a fire in November which forced our offices to relocate has made the research more difficult and copies of these items, if they exist would help.

Feel free to contact whomever you feel the need to and I will be glad to respond to them with the same information I have provided to you. In addition, we have viewed your slanderous comments and filings on the internet, specifically the Ripoff Report and I can honestly say that your one-sided slant on the truth does nothing to entice anyone here to help you find these alleged payments. Your filings quite honestly make you like more like a whining business man who is a little too trusting with his business partners for his own good than like the poor little victim which you portray yourself as.

Please scan copies of these alleged payments as soon as possible and email them to me immediately as you have promised so many times to do in the past and I will take them to our bank and verify that they were indeed deposited by us and if so where the payments were applied to. If you are correct and we did indeed receive them and this is a simple matter of the payments being applied to the wrong account, you can rest assured that you will receive your money no matter how badly you act.

Regards,

Ken Ryker
Operations


Here is my reply 4 hours later:

Mr. Ryker,

I tried faxing you the canceled checks at 305-974-4240, but your machine would not receive them. I have many pages and had hoped to avoid the time consuming process of scanning each one. However, I chose the legible checks, endorsements and a few other documents to scan, totaling 16 pages. They are attached in PDF form.

Since this is your first communication with me since Dec 1 (38 days), perhaps you can appreciate my frustration. First of all, I am in the middle of a lawsuit against Firstenberg Machinery. His attorney surprised me (on Nov 14) with the claim that DGM has been receiving monthly checks ever since March 2008 and produced canceled checks to substantiate that. They certainly appear legitimate. Then I left several messages, trying to reach you, but cannot. And you refuse to return my calls. I become increasingly nervous about you and your company.

On Dec 1, you send me an email apologizing for not getting back to me. You asked you accounting and finance managers to research this matter and report back to you quickly. Your finance manager sent you an email stating that he would have more information later that day or by Dec 2nd at the latest. Now I am feeling relieved and wait expectantly to hear from you. I leave a message on 12/11 and again on 12/18. Still nothing. In the meantime, my attorney must request a continuance while we wait for YOU. By 12/23, I call the FL Office of Financial Regulation and they inform me that you company is registered, which means you have paid your annual fee and posted $50K bond. I get a copy of your Annual Report showing Magaly Gude of Pembroke Pines as the President and Wayne Hamilton as the Vice President. I attempt to contact these individuals, but both have unlisted phone numbers.

By now I feel that you are avoiding me, just like the debtors you try to find every day in your business. This is when I discovered the Ripoff Report and decided to warn other business people about Firstenberg and DGM Financial Group. If you consider my reporting of the facts as "whining," I accept it. Frankly, I am trying to collect my money, that's all. I was professional and courteous with Andy Firstenberg for over a year before turning his debt over to DGM for collection. I have been professional and courteous with you as well, but without results. Your failure to report back to me in a timely manner drove me to use more creative, aggressive strategies. If anything i said in the Ripoff Report is untrue, just point it out and I will publish an update. It's not slanderous if it's true. And if speaking the truth is "bad behavior," I plead guilty as charged.

Hopefully, after reviewing the attached file, your various managers will be able to figure our where the money went. I understand that you don't like me, but you still owe me a duty to perform as promised. If you have my money, let me know ASAP and send a check immediately so we can conclude our business. If you never received money from Firstenberg, please state that clearly ASAP so I can proceed with my lawsuit against them. Good day.

Bill Sanders - Centrifuge Specialist
SANDERS EQUIPMENT COMPANY
3505 Tarpon Woods Boulevard, I-408
Palm Harbor, FL 34685 USA
727-773-0077 (fax: same)
http://sandersequipment.com

It is now 2/7/09. Another 31 days has passed without any communication from DGM. How low of a priority must this be to them? From his attitude, there is no fear of punishment at all - no motivation to hurry. And from reading his response to the other person who filed a report against DGM, I see a vindictive spirit at work, vowing to hold his money 180 days or return it to the debtor! What kind of attitude it that? When will Florida law enforcement step in and throw these clowns in jail? As for me, I am hiring a lawyer on Monday to go after them. Refusing to answer the door is not gonna work this time Ken.