Gene Steinberg's Financial Shenanigans @ Paracast forums

erickson

Honorable
Then I thought, I could write an open letter to Gene here (since the whole thread is apparently kind of an open letter to him anyway) and urge him to do something constructive for a change.

I tried to urge Gene to take a different approach - to be honest about his past and take advantage of resources available to him for his present and future. He blocked me on twitter. He responded to my emails with more of the same. And if he has read any of the "open letters" I have posted here or on the UFO Trail, that specifically were addressed to him, then it has not changed a thing. I finally decided I was out the advice business.

Others have offered him similar advice over the years - even contacting local agencies to see if they could assist somebody in Gene's situation.

I still believe that Gene is not being completely cynical. At this point I don't want to speculate why Gene fails to take even the most basic steps - psychoanalysis is beyond my field of expertise. But Gene's complete inability to change is fascinating.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Steinberg has a total disregard for all humans but himself. They call that a sociopath. If he will burn his son's good name to further himself financially, what does that tell you?

There have been plenty of people who have tried to reason with Steinberg. His response has been to ban those people from his websites and elsewhere. At his age, I doubt the game will end positively in his favor.
 

Trevor Hill

Honorable
Another one I never got to the bottom of is Helen and Stephen Beizer, and a disabled son Jaret. Wasnt Gene flogging some crap about him being a child when clearly he was 30 or 40? Didnt Gene say he needed large amounts of money and then of course it all went missing? Brilliant idea though: Disabled, special needs nephew.. Gene puts himself last to save the boy.. etc.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
You need to exaggerate it more

THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL

My feet are still hurting and after taking a close look I have two of them. This is twice as bad as I had even realized!! I can't even use my hands to type (you figure out how I am doing this) because of the serious medical condition which prevents them from doing any real work. I was told it's "Arthur-itis" and there is no known cure. I have to pay a specialist for my pullingfromthestone therapy and friends, that isn't free!

I checked the wicker basket last night and only found a used condom and some chewing gum! At least the gum hadn't been used. The time to act is now! My truck needs an oil change - and a new body, frame, tires and steering wheel.

Oh - and Supergirl !! Yes Supergirl! Just because five minutes has passed and I haven't mentioned her .....

Act now before it's too late! Remember - this is the season of giving!
 

goblin

Noble
I tried to urge Gene to take a different approach - to be honest about his past and take advantage of resources available to him for his present and future. He blocked me on twitter. He responded to my emails with more of the same. And if he has read any of the "open letters" I have posted here or on the UFO Trail, that specifically were addressed to him, then it has not changed a thing. I finally decided I was out the advice business.

Others have offered him similar advice over the years - even contacting local agencies to see if they could assist somebody in Gene's situation.

I still believe that Gene is not being completely cynical. At this point I don't want to speculate why Gene fails to take even the most basic steps - psychoanalysis is beyond my field of expertise. But Gene's complete inability to change is fascinating.

The reality that he appears to not take even constructive, helpful advice reminds me his circumstances may not be as he portrays. I mean, taking advantage of a free or steeply discounted meal at a senior center strikes me as right up his alley. Is he doing it? Even if so he'd rather let us know about spending his last $1.08 on a fast food cheeseburger.
 

goblin

Noble
Anders is a fake character that Gene made up when people called him out on his bullshit about his claims of a website revamp:

For ages Gene was saying that he had a "professional" who was going to revamp the forums and website as well as creating a new webstore. He couched it like it would be the saviour of the Paracast and it became a running joke how long it was taking - a new website doesn't take long to make (especially for an expert).

Most people called bullshit on it and asked who the professional was since Gene would never pay anyone to do anything.

In what seems like a classic response from Gene (from reading these forums and the tweets on SchemeGenRC) he put out the random name of "Anders" as being the person in charge of doing this - as if that would mean anything to anyone.

The way he did it made it absolutely clear that it was a hasty response to the online ridicule.

Anyway after several months the only thing that has happened is that Gene upgraded the forum software version - HIMSELF (this was proven by his comments and moronic questions on the Xenforo forums).

So the revamp turned into a forum software upgrade - and even that click button exercise took months, not only that but Gene managed to cock it up and break lots of things in the first few days because being a lazy bastard he didn't do any testing or checking of what would change.

To make matters worse this was a software upgrade he had previously already done on his forums for his crappy haemorrhoid novels almost a year ago (yes believe it or not they have their own forums).

The end result is that the forum looks exactly the same because nothing changed - a perfect metaphor for Gene himself.

He has completely given up talking about the merchandise store and website revamp now. Again these things could be done in an afternoon (or day or two at most) by a competent professional - it's not like the Paracrud website is doing something complex, it's just a front page that links to the forums and the podcast feeds.

There are also lots of plugin tools for merchandise stores that even a moron like Gene could hook up in a few hours. The greater work would be involved in creating the merch designs but I doubt Gene would do anything beyond just sticking the Paracrud logo on mugs and Tshirts.

There is no way any of that would take months and the fact that Gene (sorry Anders) has still not completed it shows that the whole story was a garbage way of trying to give the impression that he was doing something to change his situation (even though it was a pointless exercise anyway).

Like most dysfunctional liars Gene has absolutely no consistency in the crap he makes up and his own erratic behaviour disproves what he says.

I will admit to being in the minority, possibly even a minority of one, who believed there was and is a real Anders, who volunteered to do some web work for the Paracast.

I did not believe that anything he did would make any real difference to Gene or the Paracast's fortunes.

There is an Anders member on the Paracast forum, and I found the person associated with the account on both Facebook and Twitter. He is real, and it's imaginable to me he decided to make an offer of help, which Gene turned in his emails into assurance of deliverance coming in the form of a web store by 'their new webmaster'.

I will guess for whatever reasons Anders subsequently flaked out, since Gene has seemingly dropped the idea in his emails that the big hope of his future is the Paracast website / web store revamp that will somehow change everything. Then again it's not like he invests any effort in consistency or followup in his dumb emails. It's all just a few sentence saying "give me money now" then more sentences detailing how to give it. The guy is a bum to the core.
 
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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Another one I never got to the bottom of is Helen and Stephen Beizer, and a disabled son Jaret. Wasnt Gene flogging some crap about him being a child when clearly he was 30 or 40? Didnt Gene say he needed large amounts of money and then of course it all went missing? Brilliant idea though: Disabled, special needs nephew.. Gene puts himself last to save the boy.. etc.
go to UFO trail.. Jack Brewer has done some remarkable research on Gene his BIL and his SIL.
If you need my own interaction with Gene feel free to send me a private message.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
In order to change your circumstances you need to have some ambition. Steinberg has zero of that going for him. Changing the look of your websites is not going to draw people in so they can spend their money. Besides he has banned a good portion of his former members. He seems downright stupid in that regard. He had a relatively good thing going and he blew it.

He had two co-hosts who did the bulk of the work putting together the show. Steinberg decided to keep all the spoils to himself. He now has ended up with a sycophant co-host who is waiting to take over if Steinberg falls by the wayside. It’s quite a life he has made for himself.
 

GhostofBiedny

Celestial
In order to change your circumstances you need to have some ambition. Steinberg has zero of that going for him. Changing the look of your websites is not going to draw people in so they can spend their money. Besides he has banned a good portion of his former members. He seems downright stupid in that regard. He had a relatively good thing going and he blew it.

He had two co-hosts who did the bulk of the work putting together the show. Steinberg decided to keep all the spoils to himself. He now has ended up with a sycophant co-host who is waiting to take over if Steinberg falls by the wayside. It’s quite a life he has made for himself.

I think Slimeberg does have one ambition and that is to get the most money out of other people whilst doing the least amount of work.
 

goblin

Noble
I had occasion to revisit this post and thread on Jeremy Vaeni's blog over the weekend: Is Gene Steinberg A Fraud?

Two things here that I think are really pretty interesting.

1. Jeremy Vaeni already made most of the points I've seen us make about Gene back in August 2016. It didn't help anything. He completely identified the pattern of BS and pointed out all the problems with Gene's stories.

2. Pre Jack Brewer's series of blog posts on Gene, Gene still felt like coming out swinging when people pointed out the obvious about his career as a beggar. Check him out in the comments on this post. I don't see those high handed, insulting 'counterattacks' out of Gene anymore. There's more and more lying email from him, of course. But I think it says a lot about Gene - none of it good - that even just about one and two years ago he was still trying to paint the picture all his financial problems went back to him helping a relative out. He does admit his "original pleas for help" started in 2006.

Oh and, you can see Gene defending him getting the 2014 KIA Optima ("at a huge discount" - which somehow translated to $674/month payments!) here; he clams up when someone says but you were begging at the same time.

3. Plenty of comments on this post from folks who had also figured out Gene's stories don't pass any kind of smell test.

4. Eye-opening also that some were fed up with the begging in 2011: UFO Magazine - UFO Magazine Blog - AN URGENT SUMMER UPDATE From Gene …
 
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Standingstones

Celestial
There tends to be more urgency from Steinberg since these 2016 comments. I suspect that the money tap has been closed off considerably and Steinberg must send out more begging emails and posts than previously. I do hope that the message has gotten out to the public about all the BS that Steinberg has performed. Luckily, there are places such as the UFO Trail blog, Twitter and Alien Expanse that have shined the light on the nefarious actions of Steinberg.
 

goblin

Noble
There tends to be more urgency from Steinberg since these 2016 comments. I suspect that the money tap has been closed off considerably and Steinberg must send out more begging emails and posts than previously. I do hope that the message has gotten out to the public about all the BS that Steinberg has performed. Luckily, there are places such as the UFO Trail blog, Twitter and Alien Expanse that have shined the light on the nefarious actions of Steinberg.

Gene himself wrote in one of his emails words to the effect of, some wonder why I send these emails so frequently; it's because I get so little from each email....

This logic has of course been questioned by others. But never by Gene. Full speed ahead!
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Gene himself wrote in one of his emails words to the effect of, some wonder why I send these emails so frequently; it's because I get so little from each email....

This logic has of course been questioned by others. But never by Gene. Full speed ahead!
Unfortunately, no one can do an audit on Steinberg. The public can only go on what he tells everyone. I wouldn’t trust anything coming out of Steinberg’s mouth. If he wants someone to believe him, post some documents from Uber/Lyft. Also, where is that Social Security money going? He needs to be pinned down in that regard. He has never once told the public what he spends on those monthly funds.

By virtue of his secrecy, my take is that money is being blown on nonsense things.
 

Trevor Hill

Honorable
If one goes back to Jeremy Vaeni's blog post titled "Is Gene Steinberg A Fraud", there is comment by someone stating,

"Something just doesn’t smell right. Your son is living in Europe where it’s very expensive, but his parents are supposedly close to eating dog food for meals."

Is this literal? Did Gene ever claim he was close to eating dog food..?
 

Wade

Stare..... They are always staring
I never heard this so I hope teddy bear is looking around both shoulders through the holidays
 
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