WHO IS IAN SEOW YUAN YENN???

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Update, 28 July 2004
Well, miraculously, Ian Seow has somehow deposited all funds in Ms. Wong's account. It took her two months to find my website, and with my pressure from this website disclosing personal information on how to contact Mr. Seow, he has somehow relented and returned all funds. She has thus received all 15,000 RM in full.

If anyone else has problems with Mr. Seow, contact me and I will help as I can.

Here's a letter I received from Ms. Wong in the aftermath of this experience:

Dave,

As you can see, I kept letting him delay me as he had all these stories. It was like he made me believe that I was going to get the money but then there would be some hiccups which cause delays and this went on from day to day until suddenly it's like more than 3 months!!!!!

Ian has obviously been lying his entire life to come up with such things and with such ease! Gosh, how can someone possibly come up with one lie after another....no tickets, obviously not in Singapore, no funds in his account to clear his cheque, no Karen, no TT (there is even a document faxed), no explaination letter from the bank, nothing ever. PERIOD. He implicated even his staff to tell lies. They probably did not know the whole picture.

Thanks again

Update 4 July 2004
I have been contacted by a Ms.Wong from Malaysia about her dealings with Mr Ian Seow Yuan Yenn. Although he is now Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian magazine "Rush," he is apparently just as fraudulent about his professionalism as he was to me (see below). His magazine was websited (apparently until October 2003) at

http://www.rush.com.my

Ian told Ms. Wong that since his magazine was selling advertising to Malaysian Airlines, he had a lead on inexpensive airfare to the US. Thus, Ms. Wong paid Mr. Seow 15,000 RM (about $4,000 US). The money has now disappeared into Ian's coffers, and he has since related that somehow he doesn't have any actual connections or deals with Malaysian Airlines. Thus, Ms. Wong is painfully and actively attempting to get Mr. Seow to return the funds, but as you will note from my transcript, below, you will probably see why it is that I believe Ian needs motivation from an outside source to behave.

From the data that I have had to discover, Ian can be reached by cel phone or, as he lives at home, by a home phone, both of which I have and will relate as people request them, though, it must be noted that one of the reasons I got so actively involved with him was that he told me his parents had died in an auto accident
(I have the original email as well as every email he's ever written to me).

Please note, Ian uses all the following as his aliases: Ian Seow YY, Ian YY Seow, Ian SYY, and ISYY.

What follows is from the experiences I had with Ian from 1996 to 1997.

I have been deceived by an actual journalist, but without the ethics that the rest of us journalists hold, who is acting like a con man. I need help to track him down so he can be arrested and held accountable for his actions against me.

Last year, I met a writer, Ian Seow Yuan Yenn (aka Ian Seow YY), on the internet. He paid for a ticket on United Airlines, and flew me to meet him in Beverly Hills, at the Four Seasons Hotel. While I was there, I looked through a few copies of M3: Movie Music Magazine from Singapore. His articles were each a cover story interview. The three interviews I saw were of him and Madonna, him and Harrison Ford, and him and Emma Thompson. I saw him in the photos, as I looked him in the eye, and know that the person was one and the same.

Over the course of the past year, he offered to pay, and did pay, for my phone bills while I called him in Malaysia. I sent him my GTE 21-digit account number, and the 800 number for the service, and he paid my account off several times using the automated paying system that Electronic Data Systems (EDS) services for GTE. Using this approach, he paid for my account in November and December.

As I am on Social Security Disability income, the chance to get to work for a high profile writer as a writer was finally within my grasp...or so it would seem...

In January, Ian sent me a check (click to see unbounced check photocopy) for $5,000 to help me with my finances as well as pay me for some consulting I had done over the past few months. It was a blessing that I needed, and so, I deposited it, but because it was drawn off his personal checking, I was told it would take a while to clear.

In April, the check bounced (click to see bounced check copy in color) sky high. A week later, GTE contacted me, informing me that all payments made to my account were on an "unauthorized" (read that as STOLEN) credit card. To be blunt, I was very upset, but the worst is yet to come.

I contacted my local police department. The officer told me that, due to the nature of this problem, it may not be in the jurisdiction of my local police to enforce anything, though the bounced check is certainly a felony in Washington state.

The Richland Polce Department's case number for this is C97-2093 and they can be reached at: [email protected].

So, I contacted Agent Crowley at the Richland FBI office, who noted that since I was not personally out enough money, I was unable to get their help. But I was then told to contact the Secret Service, as these fake GTE charges will be under their jurisdiction.

I have not heard back from anyone. Mr. Seow still calls me, by leaving wasted messages at my parent's phone, to tell that he will do something about this problem, but he still does nothing. At this point, my phone has been permanently disconnected, and my finances, since the bouncing of this check, have been foiled.

If you have any information, any photos of his face, or can be of any other help, please contact me.

If you are in Beverly Hills, and would like a collaborator on this story, please contact the attorney Stuart Weinstein. I am not a client of his, nor in any way related, physically, financially, or otherwise. He's just been duped as I have by this same fellow, and Mr. Seow used Stuart's namesake a many communications that he sent me.

On August 7th, my mother-in-law loaned my wife and I the money to pay off the phone bill. Ian has now faxed me more documents that I presume are crap, including a copy of a cashier's check that I am quite sure is never going to arrive.

If you know Ian Seow, or have any idea how I may capture him for arrest, such as if you see him in the US, please let me know. Until this is resolved, these charges will remain against him.

UPDATE

On the morning of August 16, 1997, FedEx informed me that they had a parcel waiting for me. When I picked it up at 12:20pm, I found that it contained a cashier's check from Ian Seow that was drawn off the "Bank of America" Trust and Savings division out of San Francisco, and was bought from the Bank of America office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As soon as I received this, I drove to a local Seafirst Bank (Bank of America owns this chain of banks in Washington State) and asked about the validity of the check as well as about cashing procedures. They explained that since the check was drawn off the trust division, it would take about two weeks to clear through them, so they recommended, since I bank at another firm, that I just deposit it into my own account.

My next stop was at the City of Richland Police Department. In a discussion with an officer about, if the check clears, dropping charges, it was suggested that we wait for this check to fully clear, adding an emphasis that if the check doesn't clear, we can just add it to the police case in progress.

So, my last stop was at my bank...credit union actually...to deposit the check. We'll see if it actually clears, but from what I see, it's an actual cashier's check, not signed or written upon by Ian in any way.

If the check is good, I will update this site with a final message as soon as I know the truth of the endowment. It looks real, but I've said that in the past...

LAST UPDATE

It was noted that on August 18, 1997, THE CHECK CLEARED...and I dropped my police action. The city informed me that they could not prosecute, even if I had found Ian.

Thank you all for your help in this matter, especially those of you from the Four Seasons. I am most grateful!