I am being followed

I have asked this question before under another name. I am hoping they( the men who are following) can't block me this time. I have wrote to Glen Beck in hopes he could look in to this case.Dan Noyes didn't do anything .
My soul reason to go a gainst Mike Johnson is not for revenge. it began like that I was hurt, but I have prayed a bout it and I think he asking for help ; I am hoping he comes to reason. He is stealing from others was he hurt at one time? I just want them to stop following. No they hav't hurt me bu I am scared but would never admit it to them. As Isaid " I can careless what they do to me but my family is wh I protect. Your's inJesus name

Deaf Community Targeted By Scam, AgainTuesday, September 19, 2006 | 9:03 PMSecond Professor Accused By Dan NoyesSep. 18 - KGO (KGO) -- The ABC7 News I-Team has found yet another college professor accused of ripping off members of the Bay Area's deaf community.

We thought it was all over after we exposed one local college professor drawing deaf people into scams that cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, it looks like his good friend's been pulling the same thing during the past two years.
It's been two years since we first introduced you to Brian Malzkuhn, a professor of deaf studies at Fremont's Ohlone College -- he's deaf himself. Person after person told us Malzkuhn dragged them into scams that cost them their life savings, and in the case of one San Jose couple, their home.
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Bill Ramos, scam victim: "I saw that and I thought, 'Oh, it makes me sick. What's he doing running from the camera? He looks like a coward. Why doesn't he just tell the truth?'"
Bill and Marie Ramos lost the home they owned for thirty years because Malzkuhn convinced them to take out first and second mortgages, close their investment accounts, and get cash advances on their credit cards -- more than a million dollars total.
Marie Ramos, scam victim: "So, we filled out the paperwork, everything went well, we got the money and we gave the money to Brian."
It appears Malzkuhn sent most of the money -- if not all of it -- to a Nigerian investment scam. Chances are, you've seen those "get rich quick" e-mails. After the I-Team revealed what happened, several law enforcement agencies investigated, but the case went nowhere because they couldn't prove Malzkuhn personally profited from the scam.
Sources at the FBI now tell us, here's the most frustrating part of the case. Their failure to prosecute Malzkuhn appears to have emboldened his good friend, another college professor, to pull the same sort of scam.
We met Michael Johnson in the summer of '04 outside the Ramos' home. At the time, Johnson told us he knew no one ever made a penny from those Nigerian scams. But, in the months to follow, he got involved himself and he got others involved.
Hsiu-Ling Yeh, scam victim: "He said it was a business emergency, he didn't explain it in great depth, he just said he really needed it, it was for a business emergency."
Hsiu-Ling Yeh is a job coach for deaf workers at Old Navy and Johnson's long-time friend. He convinced her to take out an equity line of credit on her Daly City home. He even went to the bank with her. At first, Johnson needed $91,000, but he kept coming back for more.
ABC7's Dan Noyes: "How much money total did you give him?"
Hsiu-Ling Yeh: "$584,000."
Johnson wouldn't answer any of our questions by e-mail, so we tracked him down. He teaches sign language at City College of San Francisco, at College of San Mateo and at West Valley College in Saratoga.
Dan Noyes: "What happened with her money?"
Mike Johnson, college professor: "I don't know. She agreed to help me, so sorry!"
Johnson wouldn't say what he did with Hsiu-Ling Yeh's $584,000.
Dan Noyes: "Did you send a lot of Hsui's money to Nigeria? Is that what you did with it?"
Mike Johnson: "It's not your problem, it's not your problem. It's not my problem."
Dan Noyes: "It's not your problem?"
Mike Johnson: "The case is closed."
The case Johnson's talking about is the bankruptcy he filed this year -- he still could face criminal charges. In court documents, we found another deaf person Johnson drew into the Nigerian scam  Gary Hendrix.
Gary Hendrix, scam victim: "As a result of this, over the course of two years, I've lost 15 pounds, my wife has suffered, been constant aggravation, I feel he really destroyed my life."
Hendrix had an insurance settlement after a house fire and Johnson took $95,000 of it. The professor even signed a note, promising to pay back the money within a month. He didn't.
Johnson sent Hendrix this e-mail, citing his old friend Brian Malzkuhn: "What can I do? Nothing! ... The Ramos couple had no way to get the money back from Brian at all. They lost everything."
Gary Hendrix: "And I know I've lost my money and I won't be getting it back, but we feel that we really want to see him punished for what he's done."
Mike Johnson: "There's so many scams, all over, not me, I'm not the only one. Why do you pick on the deaf people only? Why don't you pick on the hearing people?"
Dan Noyes: "You were picking on the deaf people."
Hsui-Ling Yeh and Gary Hendrix complained to the Daly City Police, but got nowhere. After a cursory investigation last month, an officer wrote, "I have profound moral sympathy" for the victims' loss, but "I have no evidence of a crime."
Former San Mateo County prosecutor Dean Johnson disagrees.
Dean Johnson, ABC7 legal analyst: "If I were still prosecuting white collar crime in San Mateo and got this evidence, I can virtually guarantee you that a case would be filed and somebody would go to prison."
He says Michael Johnson should be investigated, even if he didn't keep a dime of the victims' money.
Dean Johnson: "If he knew that the Nigerian scam was a scam and he still promoted these people to invest their money and gave all the money to Nigeria, it's still theft by false pretenses."
We contacted the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office this afternoon and they are now looking into the Michael Johnson matter. The FBI is adding him to their Brian Malzkuhn investigation. We'll stay on top of this, during the coming weeks.
We want to make sure word gets out to the deaf community about these scams, so we've taped a sign language interpreter for this story. Click on the video player at the top of the page to see this report with the sign language interpreter. (NOTE: There are three versions of this report in the video player -- 1) Report with sign language interpreter, 2) Sign language interpreter ONLY and 3) Report with no interpreter)
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Hi Mgina

I recall your earlier posts about this subject.

I am unsure as to how we can help you but I am happy to try, my first thought is that if you truly are being followed then this is not a case of an internet scam, which is what we are qualified to give advice on. If it is a stalker, which appears to be what you are suggesting, then the best advice I can give you would be to contact the police.

If you are suggesting an internet scammer is stalking you then I suppose I have limited knowledge and enough to say that I have never heard of an internet scammer actually stalking anybody, it just does not make sense, internet scammers make their money by sitting at the computer and telling lies to people online, there is simply no money to be made by following you around while instead they could actually be writing to several people from the warmth, comfort and safety of an internet cafe and all with a much better chance of stealing money.

I am terribly sorry, but I dont think we can help you with this, I personally am not qualified to deal with these issues of stalking, I do however wish you luck in finding a suitable solution to your problem but it does not appear that you will find it here

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Hi MGina,

I have spoken to you at length about this in emails. If someone is physically following you, you have to go to the police. As Ralph has said, there is nothing we can do through this forum to help you.

Ralph is also exactly accurate in his explanation of why an internet scammer wouldn't stalk you. If the person who has scammed you is nearby your location, this isn't the sort of scam we deal with here. Please do contact someone locally for help with this. Good luck to you.

Gina
Just thinking, did you recieve any recent emails from the people you believe are stalking you, if so I may be able to show where the emails originated from, of course, the police could do the same thing as quickly and perhaps more accurately as i can but it may give you some piece of mind know where the emails actually originated from, if as I suspect the emails were sent from Africa, then it would be very hard to believe that these people have come from Africa with the sole purpose of following you and further that they have done so for much of the last month

I dont mean to come accross as being rude or uncaring, but I also dont want you to waste your time trying to get help from us that we simply cant give you.

My email address is posted below, if you would like to email me about this feel free but at this stage I certainly cant promise i will be able to help you in any way, in fact, I am leaning towards that being a certainty