Submissions
Submissions made to webscammers.net or contacts. Generally feedback from people who have had dealings with Ryan Flynn and/or his organisations.

2008-12-21 Submission: Ryan and SSF Cambodia

This message was received via the Contact webscammers.net page (2008-12-21 09:14 UTC).

The Director of SSF Cambodia (the 'real', Cambodian Director) says that he is a victim of Ryan Roth (Flynn) too. The magician that White Orchid supposedly sent was duped too! Supposedly, he was promised that Ryan would take care of his expenses etc, but was never reimbursed. Ryan was not asked to be a director or advisor for SSF and they have asked to have bogus information taken down from Ryan's various web postings. This is shameful and really sinks to an all time low for Ryan. Just thought you would like to know.

2009-03-04 update:

I sent an email to SSF Cambodia in August 2008 to see what they had to say about Ryan's involvement and did not receive a reply. After receiving this submission claiming SSF have a problem with Ryan Roth / Flynn, I made a new attempt to establish the identity of SSF Cambodia. I approached UNICEF UK, asking how to identify or validate a Cambodian organisation, but didn't in the end receive a helpful answer. idealist.org have a listing for SSF Cambodia showing their website as www.ssfcambodia.org, and this, to me, seems quite reasonable.

After a series of intense emails from Ryan around the end of February 2009, I spent some time updating this article (2009-03-03) to make it more balanced, presenting Ryan's evidence of being an advisor: an email apparently from Vichetr, the director of SSF Cambodia; and a SSF blog post announcing a partnership with Our Planet Retreats.

I though that it seemed odd that Ryan's complaint was specifically about his being an advisor with no mention of the rest of the submission, including the accusation that SSF is in some way a victim, that SSF had asked him to take down false information from his websites, and that he had not reimbursed Mickey (the magician) for expenses as promised. My impression of this was that Ryan was making a noise about something small to make one forget about the larger problems.

The following day I sent a new email to Vichetr at SSF Cambodia, this time receiving a reply. It sounds like Ryan made a bunch of promises that he didn't come through on ("Ryan used to promise... but we didn’t receive"; "since the arrival of the magician, everything sounds promises are on the promise without outputs presented") and SSF "have a lot of works to do in helping our target beneficiaries than spending our waste time on the Ryan case".

Once again I'm appalled by Ryan's behaviour - not only for the disappointment and hardship he caused Vichetr and surrounding community in Cambodia, but also for his self-centred attention-seeking grab at recognition he decidedly does not deserve. Vichetr sent a carbon-copy of that email to Ryan (and to another address that I suppose is Mickey's), so Ryan can see for himself what Vichetr had to say.

The blog entry Ryan cites is an article titled "OPR Farming for the future", which announces "a partnership with Our Planet Retreats". The link on Ryan's site is to ssfcambodia.wordpress.com, which has since been deleted, but a copy of the OPR Farming for the future article (2008-07-22) appears on ssfcambodia.blogspot.com.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 07 March 2009 08:43 )
 

2008-12-18 Submission: Ryan in Australia

This message was received via the Contact webscammers.net page (2008-12-18 05:05 UTC).

I have been keeping a file on this guy for a long time. He was entrapped by a friend of mine that works in human trafficking (and does a great job at it, for real). He was exposed for being a fraud then, but he was living in Australia. Ryan is a dangerous guy that needs to be institutionalized. Thank you for your work - it is worthwhile and it keeps people from being duped.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 January 2009 07:54 )
 

2008-10-25 Submission: Ryan Roth in Los Angeles

Following is a comment left at http://rfinfo.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/where-is-ryan-hiding/ (2008-10-25)

Concerned Citizen Says:

Ryan Flynn, who "goes" by Ryan Roth is residing in Los Angeles, CA.  He is a complete con artist, who soon enough, will be caught up in all of his ridiculous lies.  He is truly a disguisting human being.  People like Ryan, or whoever the fuck he is, belong in jail or worse.  As for authorities tracking him down, I believe I will be assisting with that, if at all possible.

Source: Where is Ryan hiding? - rfinfo.wordpress.com (2008-10-25)

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 January 2009 05:22 )
 

2008-09-09 Submission: Our Planet nomad recruitment, Scotland Yard, and Confidential Disclosure Agreement

The message below was received via the Contact webscammer.net page (2008-09-09 17:18 UTC).

In a later email conversation (2008-10-26), this same contact writes, "I have stopped all communication with him. He wrote me from his new Allis (sic) Ryan Roth and said I need a lawyer but whatever I never did anything wrong." Further, "He is a scared punk kid that has nobody. I think he tried to trick me with getting info about me as a guy named Sam bush. Please keep doing what your doing because this guy is a creep and baby" and "I hope the three other kids he has figures out how creepy he is. Thanks for helping do the right thing and take care."

Note: Amendments indicated [in brackets]. All formatting has been added by webscammers.net to make it more readable, and certain passages of interest have been highlighted.

So I was excited about this project until he answered some weird emails that made me investigate his name and I found this [ie webscammers.net] and [some content removed] thanks guys

Here is his last two emails


[some content removed]

To recruit 35 Global Nomads.

How?

Each of you will have personal networks and ideas on how to recruit these nomads.

Each of the 27 nomads you will find, will need to be approved by myself, but this is more a formality. Each of you can guage what will be best for the company/project/experience and each of you will now have vested interest for the company to succeed, so pick those people carefully.

I am not stressed about this takeing 10 days, 20 days 40 days etc. I put a time limit on this before, which although a lot of people applied, very few were right for the job.

I suggest avenues such as, craigs list, facebook and myspace, gumtree etc.

Limitations

Remember at no point is anyone allowed to discuss myself or private information about the company, my name is one of those things kept quiet unless needed and approved.

How many people must I recruit?

There is the 27 Global Nomads, of which each of you will be responsible for all 31, divided into teams which you will act like a big brother/sister. Supervisor or someone of a slightly higher station.

This places no limitation on your own travel as a global nomad, you could even decide to all call yourselves chiefs or make up some team names etc, but this is totally up to you.

You will also need to recruit 250, Urban Nomads. 1 Nomad in each city, never more than one in each city. It can actually be a lot more than 250, but we need a network of people who will be able to do the same things as a global nomad, except to travel. They will sample all the products and services int he travel industry, but only for their city. This is how we will get the majority of our content for the site.

The Global Nomads is more about creating a buzz and a cool marketing tool.

Remember, all nomads urband and global must maintain blogs.

Added things.

I will make a private blog site, which all 4 of you can access and contribute to. This will allow you all to keep in touch.

Added salary

If none of you know this already, then you will have what is called a profit share.

5% of all OPO profits will be divided between the 4 of you. This is an added salary/motivation for all of you and something none of you were offered before.

I do not need to offer anyone this profit share, as you guys get to travel extensively for a year and have a great time doing it, while I am stuck working 24/7.

Events

I will be throwing 2 launch events for some other things I am working on shortly, which could be very good to help promote you all looking for global nomads.

Division of profits.

60% of all profits will be given to NGO's and Projects we select, at the end of each year.

Mickey, Alby and I have all met. Carolyn, we have not and neither have Michael and I. We will in time and I am happy yo do video conference as and when I am able.

Why am I so careful about information regarding myself and the company.

There is a small NGO I run and under UK law, you do not need to register as a charity until you receive 5000 sterling in public donations. On the org site, I have linked to people saying bad things about the project and myself, which has no basis. There is now a case against 4 people, who will be charged by Scotland Yard for ;stalking online, stalking in real life, harassment, slander, liable and death threats. My mothers address was placed online, by company address was stalked and we have video evidence and a lot of evidence against these 4 people now.

These people have done these things mainly based on their own understanding of US law and not English.

These people also tried to damage our relationship with SSF Cambodia, which Mickey was at, while they tried to affect us.

I have been helping Vichetr for some time and with Mickey there at the time also, it was just ludicrous that these people tried to affect us.

There is also no reasoning with these people, which I have tried. Anyone who does not agree with them are attacked and called, stupid, blind etc.

So this should give you a little more understanding to why I am so private about everything I do.

We might have 35 T-shirts being given to us by a sponsor in the next few weeks and we already have a major clothing sponsor, which is great.

In an ideal situation, at the end of the first year of the Global Nomads, one or more of you will show a great benefit to the company and I would then like whoever that is, one of you or someone else who is a passionate traveller, to take over more responsibility in the company.

What next?

Once the Nomads have been selected, I will then be able to move onto the next stage, and it will then be a short time until you all leave on your various adventures.

Also, I would prefer it, if each of you were in different continents to eachother, during your trips. It might overlap, but I would like this to make sure if I am not able to fix a situation with one of the nomads, one of you are close by – Hospital, problems etc.

None of you need to reference OPO.

Additional Streams of income and benefits

Our Planet Retreats is doing very well, if any of you can prove you have shown someone the site, or they have referenced your name on buying shares, you will receive 1 free share for every ten shares sold or 10% commission, which ever you would prefer. As people have been buying 10 and 20 shares at a time, this could be good for all of you.

You will also be able to spend 2 months of the year at the retreats, if you so desire, free of charge.

I hope the structure of this letter has been ok, I have said all that I wanted to, but maybe it has bounced around a lot, which I apologise for, but thats how my head works.

If any of you have some ideas for events to find the nomads, depending on where you are, I will probably know someone who can help you. Most of my connections are in – UK, North America and Australia.

Get back to me with detailed thoughts.


Hello Team,

It's a new week and good things ahead.

I have just started negotiations with 3 sponsors, not saying we have them yet but its good beginnings and I feel a lot happier that you will all be a bigger part of things.

I have attached a CDA - In English it means an NDA.

Read it, put your names and sign it asap, scan it and send the scanned copy back to me. You will also need to post it to me in a few days, do it twice, 2 copies, one for you and one for me.

On receipt of this, I will send you the other team members email address and also, the business plan. 16 odd pages, of which you will also see the financial section also, so I hope you like how it all looks and feels.

I will then also set up emails etc and we can all start moving along.

Ryan


and his privacy notice he wants people to sign

CONFIDENTIAL DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (CDA)

Between:

Our Planet UK LTD

And

...........................................................

1. On the understanding that both parties are interested in meeting to consider possible collaboration in developments arising from Our Planet UK LTD Projects, it is agreed that all information, whether oral, written or otherwise, that is supplied in the course or as a result of email, telephone, meetings or any other form of communication meeting shall be treated as confidential by the receiving party.

2. The receiving party undertakes not to use the information for any purpose, other than for the purpose of considering the said collaboration, without obtaining the written agreement of the disclosing party.

3. This Agreement applies to both technical and commercial information communicated by either party.

4. This Agreement does not apply to any information in the public domain or which the receiving party can show was either already lawfully in their possession prior to its disclosure by the other party or acquired without the involvement, either directly or indirectly, of the disclosing party.

5. Either party to this Agreement shall on request from the other return any documents or items connected with the disclosure and shall not retain any unauthorized copies or likenesses.

6. This Agreement or the supply of information referred to in paragraph 1, does not create any licence, title or interest in respect of any Intellectual Property Rights of the disclosing party.

7. You will at no time be permitted to divulge the name Ryan Flynn, unless expressly stated in writing on request. There should be few reasons to discuss Ryan Flynn, unless it is related to the press and at this time it is generally seen best to simply say ‘The Our Planet Team’ instead of one individual, unless personally reffering to yourself.

Confidentiality and Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDA)

Signed - ………………………………………………………………………

For – Our Planet UK LTD

Date –

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 January 2009 05:31 )
 

2008-09-01 Submission: Ryan in Paris (Spring 2007)

Following is a comment left at http://rfinfo.wordpress.com/who-is-the-original-rfinfo/ (2008-09-01)

Al * Says:
September 1, 2008 at 9:03 pm

If only I had found this sooner hahaha!

I wont go into too much detail (It takes about half an hour to tell this story outloud and I've done that about 10,000 times since this happened!)

I met Ryan outside a hostel in Paris in the spring of 2007. He claimed he saved children from the sex trade in south-east asia (which naturally captured everyone's interest since there's no WAY anyone would/could lie about something like THAT right?). We stayed in the same room, ate breakfast together, went to bars, cooked meals and after several days of hanging out constantly (I was fascinated by this guy, everyone was) his story about saving children, earning his money from playing pool/starting a magazine/knowing things about 'hedge funds'/his LivingLegends website, his dealings with Burma (thats right) only added to how stupid we all felt in hindsight. Every question you could possibly ask this guy, no matter how deep, was quickly, calmly and intelligently answered.
(lookinging back on it, Ryan is most likely some boarding school kid who flipped out, ran away from home and has lived off a combination of poor, sweet, gullable fools and daddy's credit card)

He eventually got busted when I asked him about the 'hedge funds' thing again in front of a guy called Sean that actually worked in trading. I was taken to one side and explained how everything he just said was bullshit, the 'stab wound' in his arm is identcal to Sean's (often they insert a plate after a breakage from, say, a snowboarding accident) and that I probably shouldn't go to Thailand with him in 4 days time like we were about to...

Sean basically saved my fucking life. That night, Ryan crept into Sean's room (we never found out what he was gonna do) Sean wakes up, causes a scene, hostel manager comes in and asks "who the fuck are you? you're not a paying guest, etc.." (turns out that first night I met him he was just waiting for me to go back to my room to sleep so he could let himself in, claim a bunk and free brekfast for the next 3 days). Ryan being Ryan, he managed to persuade the French hostel manager to let him stay the night until he could clear everything up (flee) in the morning. Gotta love that British charm.

It looked particularly dodgy when it turned out he he had no passport (which always made me wonder about the Thailand thing) refused to have his picture taken EVER (he claimed he was just shy the whole time) and the 'book' he claimed to be writing turned out to be a text book on south-east asia (hence how he knew everything about the geography of burma/history of thailand/etc, etc).

Next moring, me and the girl who had be hanging out of him woke up, I retrieved the 50 Euros I lent to him (thats right, the "minimum donation to help the kids" he wont mention over the internet), I took my coat back that I lent him (he was living out of a t-shirt), we calmly walked out of the hostel, told him we'd be right back, turned the corner and got the FUCK out of there. We literally ran 300 yards to the metro coz at this point nobody knew if he was dangerous or not.

I had to spend an extra 3 nights in Paris just trying to digest what just happened. I cant stress this enough: I'm not stupid, it only looks that way when I tell it back like this, at the time EVERYONE believed him. I later learned that if you ever wanna fool somebody into believeing anything you say, tell the biggest lie first: tell someone you save children from the sex trade and they'll choose to believe you or not, if they do (coz of course, what kind of psycho would LIE) anything you say after that just seems...logical.

Ryan is a far more effective con-artist in person than online.
I spent months trying to track him down over the net, but after just a couple of run-ins on couchsurfing.com I gave up (his white-orchid site wasn't displaying my questions) until I typed his name into google and found this site randomly today.
Feel free to post this if you think it'll help the next poor sod avoid to him. I hope you expose this guy until he has nowhere left to hide.

-Al

Source: Looking for info - rfinfo.wordpress.com (2008-09-01 21:03)

Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 January 2009 09:37 )