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Lebain & Co
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Harassment on Twitter and LinkedIn
By: Apr 30, 2018I’m sharing my experience to see if Scamguard can help me.
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I own a small company in Mexico and I was approached on Twitter by this guy Amintore Confalonieri @amintoreoficial. He asked me if I was active on LinkedIn. The message was signed with the name of his company Lebain & Co and had an address in Mexico: General Mariano Escobedo 476 Piso 8 Col. Anzures Delegación Miguel Hidalgo, Distrito Federal CP 11590.
When we connected he offered me to consult for my company promising he could obtain capital for our expansion but he asked for a substantial fee ahead of helping us.
Here is the funny twist. When we searched his tweets from the same day we found that he was publicly soliciting prostitutes in Mexico!. Here are his tweets to @PilarMilft10 and @ArgNicky
https://twitter.com/AmintoreOf...
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I also took a snapshot just in case he deletes the tweets.
I blocked him but he went around and contacted me again from a different Twitter profile @mrboova
I blocked him again but since then he’s been harassing me non-stop from Twitter, LinkedIn and direct emails to my company.
I reported him to Twitter & Linkedin. You can email me for further information.
I hope you can help me. Thank you very much.-
My demands:
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For Amintore Confalonieri and Lebain & Co to stop harassing me
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User Recommendation:
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I don't recommend them
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Identity Theft Risk:
- HIGH RISK Click for the explanation.
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Also reported:
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Agents:
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Amintore Confalonieri
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Monetary damages:
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$0.00
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Consulting and Investment Scam
By: Apr 03, 2018My company was about to offer Amintore Confalonieri a consulting arrangement based on his fake credentials with the companies Guidepoint and Bain & Co.
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Really grateful to Mr. Cordero and his legal team for supplying us with these existing reports and for warning us about this scam. We’ve reported Confalonieri to ISM and to Interpol. We hope others will follow.-
My demands:
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Warning people about this scam
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User Recommendation:
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I don't recommend them
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Identity Theft Risk:
- HIGH RISK Click for the explanation.
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Also reported:
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Agents:
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Amintore Confalonieri
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Managers:
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Valentino
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Phone:
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+58-414-308-1028
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Monetary damages:
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$100.00
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Cyber Criminal Scamming People
By: Mar 14, 2018This company is a pure scam. And the owner is a Venezuelan swindler. I lost more than 600,000 pesos with this deception.
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In addition Amintore Confalonieri is publishing Instagram photos that are my property and using them as if they were his own.
I want to recover my money please and prevent him from using my photos.
If someone can help me or advise me.
Many thanks
Esta empresa es una pura estafa. Y el propietario es un estafador venezolano. Perdí mas de 600,000 pesos con este engaño.
Además Amintore Confalonieri esta publicando en su instagram fotos que son de mi propiedad y las cuelga como que son suyas.
Quiero recuperar mi dinero por favor y evitar que siga utilizando mis fotos.
Si alguien me puede ayudar o aconsejar.
Muchísimas gracias-
My demands:
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Recover the money lost and prevent him from using my photos
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User Recommendation:
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Stay away
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Identity Theft Risk:
- HIGH RISK Click for the explanation.
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Also reported:
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Agents:
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Amintore Confalonieri
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Managers:
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Amintore Confalonieri
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Phone:
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+58-414-308-1028
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Monetary damages:
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$600,000.00
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International Con Artist
By: Dec 01, 2017Since the 1990’s this criminal has been stealing money from innocent people. It is now thanks to the power of social media that people are fighting back. He first puts on an impeccable presentation telling his victims he is a rich investor. Then he asks his victims to give him large sums of money with various excuses. His promises never materialize. ALL FAKE!!! He speaks just enough English to make his story seem legit.
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When his victims realize they have been fooled he tells them he is part of a Colombian cartel or the Italian mafia and tells these elaborate made up stories in order to convince you that he is a dangerous man you don’t want to cross.
He wrecked my sister’s life and stole thousands from her because she was gullible. He promised her investments, jobs, money and many other things but he never even met her in person. She ended up giving him all her savings and she tried to commit suicide because of him.
Confalonieri lives in Venezuela and he is NOT A RICH PERSON. HE IS A NOBODY a photographer that even snips other people’s pictures and artwork for his own gain.
amintoreoficial and amintore2010 are his main aliases but his real profile is mrboova
His latest scam is pretending to be a top executive for the company Bain & Co in the U.S.. He uses a similar name for his FAKE company “LeBain & Co” and pretends to be operating from New York as part of the Bain & Co enterprise.
I encourage you to contact Bain & Co and verify that they have NEVER heard of Confalonieri or Lebain & Co.
He is everywhere in social media posting fake jobs and fake business offers.
IT’S SICKENING! Nobody can touch him because he seeks refuge in his country and no law enforcement agency is interested in the costs associated with extraditing someone from Venezuela.
Also he convinces others that he has been a victim of scams himself. That is all part of his act to get you to feel sorry for him and give him your money.
When he can’t get what he wants he will use social media to trash your reputation like you were the perpetrator. He did that to my sister!!. He turned the tables and told all her friends that she was scamming HIM!!!! The nerve of him!!!
Walk away from this sociopath!. Hundreds of people can’t be wrong about him. Don't take my word for it just do your research.
Hopefully one day life will catch up with him!!!-
My demands:
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Warning Others
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User Recommendation:
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Stay away
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Identity Theft Risk:
- HIGH RISK Click for the explanation.
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Also reported:
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Agents:
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Amintore, Valentino, Boova, MrBoova, Confalonieri
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Managers:
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Amintore, Valentino, Boova, MrBoova, Confalonieri
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Phone:
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+58-414-308-1028
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Monetary damages:
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$50,000.00
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Asking for money up front before modeling contract
By: Sep 23, 2017Mr. Valentino contacted me on Twitter. He said he was a very big investor owner of lebain and co in New York city and his partner was a famous photographer. They were going to make me famous with a modeling contract in USA. I was so mad when he asked me to send money to him for portfolio and shooting rights. I never heard of such thing in my industry and I researched online. I found scamguard reports and from other websites too. When I told him about this he blocked me and then one day someone with the name Confalonieri contacted me on WhatsApp. He said he was the partner of Valentino and he needed my bank account to send me money for the modeling contract. I stop contact with them.
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My demands:
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They must not play with people and try to scam
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User Recommendation:
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Stay away
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Identity Theft Risk:
- HIGH RISK Click for the explanation.
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Also reported:
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Agents:
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Mr. Valentino, Mr. Confalonieri
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Managers:
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Mr. Valentino, Mr. Confalonieri
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Phone:
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+58-414-308-1028
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Monetary damages:
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$0.00
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Lebain and Co. is a fake company
By: Jul 13, 2017This is to report Lebain & Co. They are pretending to be Bain & Co but are criminals. I believe Valentino and Gerardo are the same person. Supposedly from New York but their IP pings out of Venezuela. They have a physical address in Manhattan 405 Park Avenue Suite 1701
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NY but the front office never heard of such company in that building. I responded to a tweet asking for my contact info and had a Skype call. The caller spoke terrible English and told me his company was part of Bain & Co. I was asked to western union money to a woman in Venezuela to complete a background check on me before an investment could be made on my start-up idea. This was a huge red flag. After further research I discovered the self-proclaimed owner of Lebain & co has a Linkedin profile, a twitter account and a blog. There is nothing else online. I reported them to Bain & co and they confirmed they have no affiliation with them.-
My demands:
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I am warning others about this
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User Recommendation:
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Stay away
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Resolution:
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Unresolved
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Identity Theft Risk:
- HIGH RISK Click for the explanation.
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Also reported:
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Agents:
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Valentino Confalonieri
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Managers:
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Gerardo Iglesias
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Phone:
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305-618-1000
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Monetary damages:
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$45.00
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Comments:
Claudia Robledo
May 15, 2018 1:53 PM
Grifter. Caused me a lot of damage on LinkedIn. Falsely claimed we had worked together in the past to hassle my connections for a job
Terry H.G.
May 11, 2018 6:29 PM
Le Bain @ The Standard in NYC is not associated in any way with Lebain & Co or Amintore Confalonieri
W. Gonzalez
May 10, 2018 2:28 PM
A word of caution to this tale. If you ever gave anyone from Lebain & Co or Amintore Confalonieri any personal information you should double check your credit report. I applied for a job with Lebain & Co last year thinking they were Bain & Co and I filled out a standard job application. I then realized that it was a fraudulent company but since then strange things are popping up on my credit report like inquiries to obtain credit cards or cell phones. I don’t think Confalonieri does that because he is overseas but I’m pretty sure he is selling applicant’s information to others. Also be careful with this scammer turning the tables on you. I recently had a heated exchange online with Confalonieri and on the same day my company was approached by an anonymous source stating that I was a sociopath. On the same exact day Confalonieri posted on his @mrboova profile something about a ‘sociopath’ that was ‘harassing him’. I came clean with my management about what was going on and they understood the situation. Anticipate he is going to attack your reputation. Having a plan is the best thing to do. I hope my experience is of service to everyone.
Michelle Scarborough
May 08, 2018 4:47 PM
Don't blame yourself. I was also a victim of this con. It’s not your fault!. Lebain & co is not real, it never was. There is no such company. It’s only in paper. Battery Ventures is real but the scammer Amintore Confalonieri never worked for them. Amintore is a sociopath with a lack of conscience. If he targeted you on social media it’s because you were worth it. He wanted something from you. If he took your money too bad, but imagine how sad his life is. You’ll learn from this and move on. You'll earn that money back. He won’t. If he trashes you on social media so what? ignore him. Don't engage. Block him, no one is falling for his cons anymore. But please don’t blame yourselves. Life is full of people like Confalonieri.
Elena Martinez
May 07, 2018 5:01 PM
Replying to: ElizabethVera Report him to Twitter and Linkedin if he is still harassing you. I understand what you are saying because every female that has reported Confalonieri complains about his unprofessional dealings with females. He is not only a con artist but a predator. Reach out to me if you need help
Aaron Brown
May 04, 2018 6:28 AM
I agree. He has the same M.O. with different companies
Nancy Cruz
Apr 30, 2018 1:02 PM
Elena you should also reach out to the victim's groups online. We have two, one in English and another one in Spanish. I can't post the URL here but just google his name and it will come out. Regards
Phil Gilmore
Apr 29, 2018 7:19 PM
Aaron; I speak for every victim to tell you that you have accurately described on your post the laughable life of the owner of Lebain & Co Mr. Confalonieri
Elena Martinez
Apr 25, 2018 4:10 PM
Thanks Phil Gilmore. I couldn't have put it better myself
Diana Serna
Apr 21, 2018 11:55 AM
Yes that is the person I sent the money to
Diana Serna
Apr 21, 2018 11:53 AM
Scam. Got me for $150
Phil Gilmore
Apr 17, 2018 7:54 AM
I’ve dealt with this scammer before. It's a one-man show, not a company. I spent $200 on an online consultation with Amintore Confalonieri that was a disaster. Instead of giving my company thoughts for obtaining VC funding he kept offering his services as COO. Basically he was begging me for a job. Anything he discussed was stuff widely available online. Like he reads the industry news every day and then he uses that information to sound smart but once you start drilling him down with specifics he can’t keep up. I lost the $200 who cares but I learned the valuable lesson of not trusting everything you see online. If you look closer this guy has thousands of followers on his twitter account @amintoreoficial and on Linkedin but barely no one ever interacts with him. This is the information era. Folks are clever and it doesn’t take a lot to realize that Confalonieri is not what he claims to be. He is also distancing himself from the Lebain & Co name and he's using his online involvement with an authentic company named GuidePoint. All this is surgically done by Confalonieri in order to boost his credibility. I’m shocked to find out that he also has the @mrboova alias
Ernesto Beltrán
Mar 27, 2018 12:17 AM
I had several calls with Mr. Valentino from Lebain & Co Colombia to help me get funding for my business. He promised to invest his own money or at least to have one of his affiliated partners invest on me. He told me that it would take about 30 to 45 days before I receive the funds but the first step was for me to pay for some fees around $500 for due diligence. I followed the instructions and I wired the money to someone named Amintore Confalonieri. After waiting patiently for three months my business partner and I decided to give Valentino a call to see if he had any new updates since the last time we spoke. He kept dodging the calls and he didn’t respond to our emails. We finally spoke with Mr. Confalonieri on March 9 and he told us that regrettably no one was interested in investing on our company and that they were keeping the $500 because it was used for paperwork. When pressured by my partner he was suddenly very hostile and told us that if we keep hassling him he would blacklist us so we wouldn’t get funding anywhere. He also denoted that he had thousands of social media followers and that he could seriously damage us if we kept it up. Before I wired the money to Lebain Valentino was always very nice and very attentive to my needs. He was always there to answer any questions that I had and he responded to my emails in a matter of minutes. After I sent the money, he was a totally different person. I don’t know how this Confalonieri person fits on their hierarchy but he is a very nasty man. Without a doubt they are a scam. I am so disgusted with this company ripping honest people off. I truly hope they have a special section in hell for all these con artists.
Jorge Guillen
Mar 23, 2018 1:56 AM
Thank you for sharing :-)
Jairo Vega, DP
Mar 20, 2018 5:59 AM
I welcome any information about Amintore Confalonieri. Please send me a message
SEBASTIÁN DÍAZ
Mar 15, 2018 3:17 AM
Where can I find information about Guidepoint? Many thanks
SEBASTIÁN DÍAZ
Mar 15, 2018 3:15 AM
This is a scam perpetrated from Venezuela by Amintore Confalonieri
Jorge Roldan
Mar 09, 2018 11:04 PM
Thank you very much. I would like to connect with you Silvia H. Chamorro
Paula Zuniga
Mar 06, 2018 3:31 AM
Thanks so much for the tip
Elena Martinez
Feb 16, 2018 8:40 AM
Thank you!
Elena Martinez
Feb 16, 2018 8:40 AM
He is from Venezuela. He lives in Caracas the capital
Elena Martinez
Feb 16, 2018 8:39 AM
My friend and I were duped by the owner of Lebain Co Confalonieri. I lost the equivalent to $2000 on a fraudulent transaction with a company that he didn't have the right to represent. I corroborate his company is a ruse with the intent of deceiving others. Lebain Co never had a website but the owner is on twitter #MrBooba operating under the name Boova Valentino. His real last name is Confalonieri. You can reach @IsidroArmas or @emartrinez67 for more information
Aaron Brown
Feb 11, 2018 8:05 AM
Unfortunately with ghost scammers like this Confalonieri oddball the only thing one can do is report them relentlessly to the sites where they are promoting their deception. Last December he found me on Medium and couple of other sites and reached out to me portraying himself as the CEO of Lebain & Co a multi-million-dollar investment company. It took me 10 minutes to realize I was being scammed. He really is determined I give him that but he falls short in execution. Too many holes in his narrative. What you all need to do is have some fun with these scammers if you have some extra time. Make them waste their time the same way they are wasting yours. This is part of the email I sent him when he kept coming back at me with all kind of BS after I had already researched him online and made myself clear to him that I knew he was trying to con me: “Dear Mr. Confalonieri thank you for reaching out for the 15th time. Persistence is a virtue. So let me get this straight: You live in Venezuela, you work at an office in Mexico and you double as a photographer in New York. I always wanted to know more about teleportation. Do you get a lot of teleport miles in your current position?. Also while data-mining your data from the inconsistent information you have provided to others I now realize your company Lebain & Co was acquired by Bain & Co on 2017, by Samsung on the same year and recently by Guidepoint. I’m not confused at all. I’m very interested to know how you accomplished that my friend. That’s what I call a triple whammy!. In regards to what you told me about your brilliant career as a business writer and author with @Inc, @startupsco, @HuffPost and @AlleyWatch I’m sorry but it seems like they have all taken down your articles because I can’t find anything with your name on any of these sites. I did find the junk you wrote on your own blog but nothing on the mainstream sites you mentioned. That’s just terrible!. I’m sure the editors are just jealous or they feel intimated by you. Finally I see you worked in the procurement field in Venezuela for a short period of time but since you pointed out to me that you have 20+ years of experience in venture capital around the world I was wondering if that’s something that you just decided to do one day. Like you woke up in the morning and said to yourself in the mirror: Today I’m going to have 20 years of experience in venture capital!. I always like to explore the effect of positive affirmation, visualization and spell-casting but this is really a big achievement my man. You must be from the house of Gryffindor. Perhaps you can teach me one day.” I never got a reply back from Lebain & Co or Confalonieri but like many others have reported a few of my online connections received anonymous negative tips about me. And this all happened on the exact same day I had sent Confalonieri this email exposing his BS. I have a simple advice for anyone researching this man: Block & Run.
Sunder Singh
Feb 08, 2018 7:26 AM
Thank you for this information Silvia Chamorro. I noticed that as well. He changes company names, titles and dates of employment very often. I don't get why LinkedIn overlooks this type of member behavior. Until recently he was working as Principal and CEO of Lebain & Co and then suddenly he changed the dates of employment like he left Lebain on Feb 2017. I also checked with the Guiedpoint office in Mexico just like you did and it's true there is no one with his name in their team. They told me he could be listed as a consultant on their online consulting website but that's something anyone can do it does not mean that he is an executive with Guidepoint or that Lebain & Co is even related to Guidepoint. I didn't know the MrBoova bit. Putting it mildly it's ridiculous.
Federico M.
Feb 03, 2018 2:11 AM
Thank you for sharing this important information. Definitely he is not in Mexico. He is in Venezuela
Silvia H. Chamorro
Jan 27, 2018 4:30 AM
Yes! I went back online as far as 1998 with his company "Armytel". Search for @IsidroArmas too there is a lot of information there
Silvia H. Chamorro
Jan 27, 2018 4:26 AM
That's exactly what happened to me!
Silvia H. Chamorro
Jan 27, 2018 4:24 AM
Confalonieri is no longer using the fake Lebain&Co name but now he states to be a shareholder of another company "GUIDEPOINT". On his email broadcast yesterday he said he is “working at Guidepoint’s Mexico office after his company Lebain & Co merged with Guidepoint” and he is allegedly "helping startups with venture capital funding” and "managing complex venture capital deals for Guidepoint”. He is not. This is all fiction. If you get an email or LinkedIn or Twitter invitation from him asking you to apply for a job or to submit your startup idea it’s fake. You should research his MRBOOVA aliases on instagram and twitter because there he is a “photographer in New York City”. Also fake! And on his dating profile on POF he is supposed to be the CEO of Samsung Colombia!. He is a complete joke! He is completely delusional and he is desperate. Do not believe a word this man tells you.
Federico M.
Jan 19, 2018 5:57 AM
I answered to a job ad posted at opcionempleo.co.cr from Lebain&Co a company in United Sates looking for consultants. The owner Amintore responded and we had an interview online. He told me his investment firm was acquired by Samsung Latin America and he was looking to expand his consulting workforce for startups in Costa Rica Mexico and Colombia. He asked me to send $250 to his bank account for a starter kit. Here I am several months later and he blocked me off of his phone whatsapp and everywhere else. This is fraud and I intend to press charges against this company and the owner.
Jesus Martinez
Dec 01, 2017 4:30 PM
He's been stealing money from innocent people since the 1990's. Confalonieri is a Venezuelan con-artist
Sunder Singh
Oct 08, 2017 7:52 PM
I wrote my report earlier. We are a small company in Simsbury CT and we were scammed by Confalonieri from Lebain. We lost 3K
Allison Noel
Sep 23, 2017 6:17 AM
Thank you scamguard and OP. Message me if interested in joining forces I was scammed too and my lawyer is looking for more victims of Confalonieri
Nancy Cruz
Sep 14, 2017 2:33 PM
I can confirm he is from Venezuela because of his accent
Nancy Cruz
Sep 14, 2017 2:33 PM
I responded to his job offer in Mexico and had a skype call this morning. Had a creepy feeling all over because he was mostly hitting on me instead of being professional! bragging about how connected he was and how much money he has WTF?. At the end of the call he asked me to fill out a form and send his office in Caracas $1000 to conduct a criminal and credentials check. Quite a scam beware
Iliana
Aug 29, 2017 6:27 PM
Last name used are Confal****** and Valent*** (redacted for privacy). My experience talking to this guy is that he is a scam. One day he was in New York following day he was in South America and next day in Singapore. He doesn't remember his own lies. Also he claims to have invested over 100 million but he can't produce the name of a single investment "for security reasons"
Ef Salazar
Jul 07, 2017 8:29 PM
Unemployed extortionist from Venezuela