Comments on: Twitter Can Ruin Your Reputation

By: Coyote Lee

Coyote Lee — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:32:09 +0000

I know what you mean.

I was attacked by the actor and comedien George Lopez for a SmokeyC4
News and Views video that I made at liveleak.com

It was about people screaming racisim when it was not true.

Lopez called me a rasicist and even showed pictures of the KKK refering to me.

People can make you look horrible even when your being honest.

http://www.smokeyc4.com

A site I built for everyone

Coyote Lee

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:19:04 +0000

Your welcome! I’m not invested in this story like you and others are, but I think it’s important to make people aware of the possible “dark side of social media” scenarios that may be out there.

By: Roger Knowlton

Roger Knowlton — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:08:42 +0000

Thanks for your support and for posting this info on your blog. Many people have joined the crusade for justice and helped me tremendously in this effort. With everyone’s efforts NO Aloha (@alohaarleen) will be exposed for the many scams she has pulled. I can’t thank all of you enough. Best regards, Roger.

By: Roger Knowlton

Roger Knowlton — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:56:00 +0000

I am not only following this scandal I am the one who started the whole thing. Andy, Bruce and Damon helped me get started then it just rolled on from there. I can say that the information on the $7500 Grand Theft from the Special Olympics and my Judgment for $20k+ plus interest (which is now over $32k) from the state of SD is 100% true. I sat in the courtroom when her proceedings took place March 8, 2004. I would say the other checks from HI are legit too. I’m no handwriting expert but the way she makes her A is pretty convincing on all the checks. The remainder of her signature shows a similarity as well. Depends on how fast she signs on how readable it is. I can also vouch for the fact she is not a very good housekeeper, although the photos shown are worse than I saw, she was not twittering all day then either.
Arleen Brenda (Long) Anderson was born in 1960 (4-12) and grew up in Dixon, CA. Her father and her half brother are MD’s. Her father was married many times and she has a full brother and sister and at least 3 other siblings . She has a degree from a college around Santa Cruz and purchased a home there with her mother’s help. This is the home she used to get me to loan her the $20K. She married poor Mr. Anderson and they had one daughter. Their marriage lasted about 10 years. They had a company called Top Communications, I believe, which had something to do with phone systems and installations. She supposedly sold that in 1999 and moved to South Dakota which is where I come into the picture. We were just starting to date when she purchased a house on a contract for deed. She was the Black Hills Director for the Special Olympics from around 2001 to 2003. This position pays little or nothing. She helped organize a blood marrow drive for a gal named Stevie and had a good turnout. I signed up and was later found to be a match for someone so even as many bad things that she has done she did do some good things also. She did some fund raising on the Internet which is where I come in with the loan I made her in ’02. She started a fundraiser called SOKEM which stood for Support Our Kids Education Management I believe. We were broke up when she was arrested for Grand Theft here. I sympathized with her and did not believe that she was guilty then and got sucked back in but my friends introduced me in ’03 to the lady I have been happily married to since ’04 and I finally broke free from her or had I. She has not made any attempt to pay me since Feb 10, ’03. Had she paid or been paying I would not have got a Judgment, kept tabs on her whereabouts or searched for her on the Web and she would have kept her devious ways up for who knows how much longer.
After emailing her she called back right away and said she was coming to SD and would pay me off. She said call her in a few weeks and we could talk about it. I knew she was full of herself so when I tried to call her # was disconnected and her email box was full. Tried 2 or 3 times to email and gave up. Followed her tweets and saw Andy Bumatai had tried to contact her about a Tax ID and money owed. That got my attention so I found his email and emailed him and if you have been following on twitter you know the rest and that ONE person can make a difference. You just have to make the first move. She thought I and everyone else she’s done wrong would just go away but thanks to Twitter, not only did we not go away, we are forming a strong community on Twitter. I am unable to name everyone because hundreds or thousands of people have helped spread the word. You know who you are and I thank you all. Hope this helps Kay and any others to know more about AA. Thanks again, R_A_K_

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:04:47 +0000

You’re quite correct about how silence translates into an admission of guilt for many people. It’s hard to view her as a victim of trumped up accusations when it appears she has fled Twitter since this started.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:59:13 +0000

Ive been watching both sides of this as well, and find Arleens silence rather telling. She has almost ceased to tweet, about this or anything. The court of public opinion is gonna take this as an admission of guilt, even if the claims are false.

I do not personally know Arleen or those claiming they lost money…but if you dont know someone-as well as not knowing anything about their past….why are you giving ANY money to them?

There is truly no “get rich quick” scheme out there that works. It is all about hard work – period. AND – this also goes to show how you need to do a background check when giving substancial amounts of money OR renting space to anyone.

I can only imagine whats going on in Hawaii and with her fiance….I know the twitter world is seein it.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:48:38 +0000

I saw the quick post that Ted Murphy put up on the Izeafest site indicating that Arleen would no longer be joining them for the Twitter session http://izea.com/izeafest-change-speakers/

If their decision to remove her from the lineup was brought on by all these current allegations, I wonder how long they’ll have her being a mini-spokesperson for “Sponsored Tweets”.

By: damon

damon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:21:09 +0000

Thanks for the write up and the links.

This lady needs to be stopped and it appears Izeafest has now officially pulled her as a speaker.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:56:07 +0000

I edited your comment for you, and the only thing I touched was the spelling of Arleen’s name.

Sorry about the “awaiting moderation” thing…. before I wiped this blog out and started over I received a lot of spam commenting so I then changed the settings to where all comments are moderated.

By: Kay Lorraine

Kay Lorraine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:24:52 +0000

Speaking of “awaiting moderation,” I now see that I have misspelled Arleen’s name throughout my entire comment. Is that something that can be fixed? I can’t seem to erase it or edit it from my end. Sorry about that.

Kay