In a professional relationship, you expect sincerity and professionalism from your partner, whatever your mutual obligations to each other in an arrangement are. A partnership only works when both partners keep up their ends of the deal and are aware of the responsibilities they owe each other. That's exactly what we expected from an investee as well, as honest investors investing our hard earned money. However, when you're dealing with scammers like Clay Cooley of AppSwarm Inc, be very ready for disappointment and humiliation because that's all he brings in a partnership.
We fell into his trap not knowing him for the scam he is, like every single victim of his before us. Given his image as the Founder of AppSwarm Inc, we had nothing to doubt when he approached as an investee. Since it was all public information easily available, we had also gone through tons of his interviews and biographies, and were aware of the so-called “success story'' he narrated like a broken toy everywhere. Our inspiration got the best of us and we agreed to invest with Clay Cooley. We let our guard down because of his reputation and didn't notice the warning signs that could've stopped us from the loss he left us with.
Foolishly enough, we trusted him to help us write our success story as well being the 'genius entrepreneur' that he was. However, what followed was a complete nightmare. It started with Clay Cooley giving us false hope and reassurances but no attempts to even update us about the returns we were promised. Not long after it turned into ignored calls and screened emails, and then complete silence. At this point, we had started doubting his sincerity and approached him personally to clear out those doubts. Sure enough, we were met with denial and threats. At first, we could only register the harsh blow that came from being cheated by someone like him.
But the realization followed shortly after, that the great entrepreneur behind AppSwarm Inc was nothing but a liar and an experienced investment scammer. Despite his status in society, his reputation and his successful business ventures, Clay Cooley turned out to be a greedy scoundrel who had had loads of practice. He shamelessly coaxed us into transferring the alleged investment directly into his personal account, the same way he did with many others before us. We did not realize it then but that was the biggest red flag we should have noticed, because that was the clearest indicator that the money was never meant to go to AppSwarm Inc operations but to Clay Cooley himself.
It didn't take a genius to realize that we were not his first victims, and the fact that his greed has no end which is why he targets anyone that he can. Clay Cooley scams unsuspecting investors of their life savings and proudly adds them to his net worth. He will claim to be a professional in front of you- but it's high time we all expose him for the scam that he is. Be loud and clear and tell the world: Founder AppSwarm Inc is the last person you should trust. Shame on him!