Disturbing Confession ...

[samosa4u]

(Posted originally on autographs101)

"Mistermancave has sold over 4 million items. Yes million. Surpassed 350 million in sales. Sold and produced holograms fanatics Tristar jsa Radtke tse sports Schwartz sports every gtsm player mill creek mays bonds you name it we made it. We sold over 5 million fanatics holograms alone outside what we produced to the biggest vendors in the industry. Jsa we made and produced over 3 million counterfeit stickers and holograms. Steiner sports. Wow. We made yellow cards holograms and then numbered sets in the millions. Panini. Oh yea almost forgot. We produced holograms and cards for their entire database. When Kobe died we put out 80,000 items into the market place. Sold over 500,000 counterfeit panini items.

Dominque ball of Carmel Indiana was the sole person who put out the 100,000 tom Brady items in the market. He was the source of it all along with Nicklaus litcher. He funneled every item dom produced. Dominque sold under the name dilliano which was his brother and multiple Florida accounts with the name Steve Jordan and all those accounts riddled with Dom’s work.
He’s the one who showed me the dark side of the industry and the money that can be made. Dominique was the original artist for the holograms then it turned into auto pen. You can buy a 150 auto pen on Amazon have people overseas vectorize signature and use ink scape to auto pen.

There has been nothing like this since operation bullpen. We sourced it signed it certified it and sold it all over the us for 20 years. Ultimate sports. Athletes one. Signature dog. All American authentics. And mister fucking mancave. We are going to be what records are made of. No one’s ever sold the volume of items and holograms ever. We started with blue mounted memories cards and holograms when I met Dominque , Patrick Riley of Carmel Indiana (he was partners with Dominque ) and met with the hologram ladies in China himself for us. It was an addiction. How many items can I sell and give a front of a huge company. I did it for years. Purchased millions of dollars of legit items. Mixed it until Dominque found the hologram connect. Then I had the bank roll to buy even more. Do more signings. Every one item from a signing turned into 10,000. And it was certified. 95% of the Mahomes and Aaron judge on the market are sold by me. Basically every autograph sold in the last 25 years you should have it looked at. It’s fake and someone sold it to you other than me. I wish I had the exact dollar number of money taken in from this and I’ll go to my grave never knowing. I kept this secret from everyone. If you knew in the industry you knew. No family. No friends. No one. Even employees who worked for me had no idea. It was ran that well. The building was seized and I let it happen. The run is done. There’s over 500-700 MILLION dollars in value of holograms and cards in there. Let that sink in. Every company I’ve touched is now my bitch. That was my goal. Once you came at me or spoke my name I went after you and your company directly. Intentionally. Tristar. We made so many fake holograms and even your newest ones been sold. 97% of tom Brady Tristar is fake. We sold fake tom Brady for 12 years. Steiner came at me then folded. Fanatics I bought so much they didn’t know what to say or do but when you ran your mouth and what Michael Ruben thinks he’s done to the industry I set out to make as many fanatics counterfeit stickers I could. Millions upon millions.

There will be photos of this bust I’m sure of it. If it was fanatics they may try to bury it all but the Westfield police department came today at 9am with semi trucks. I hope no one tries to hide this. I want to expose it all and how big of operation you all knew was going on but grasp how big it was.

I wish I could write a book about this.

I always took it as a challenge. Started slow and bad. And shifted to the giant that was built. I spent sleepless nights planning what items to counterfeit next. I had every hologram we ever made extracted from every companies database and put into excel. So with a touch of a button I can type mahomes and a bin shoots out with every Mahomes sticker hologram or coa card. Every item automated and sorted. I’d spend countless hours scrolling excel finding my next score. It was a thrill having every athlete in every sport from every authentication company at your finger tips to produce the signature flawless authenticate it with flawless bootleg holograms and then sell it for half of what a company does by the 1000s. That’s all I spent my time and my life on. What was the next item to do. Next name. Next flawless signature. I was addicted. It was a rush. I wanted out. But the money was too good. I can make 100,000 in a week if I wanted to. The fact that not one dealer that knew what we were doing to the industry, or when I took their exclusive no one ever picked up a phone to confront me. That baffled me. I told multiple dealers I will ruin you and your exclusive. They knew better. Once the heat turns on. New company same game but make it better than the last that got you caught up. Every company made changes. We did too. They added security. We did too. There was nothing that couldn’t be done. I sat on an auto pen machine 8 hours a day perfecting signatures that would pass any coa. It even passed by own players during signings we’d mix in items. What would you do if you could create any signature on any surface flawlessly and have the holograms to boot. I just couldn’t stop. You will see a boom in bad autographs with good stickers hitting the market like a fire storm. I sold over 2 million in just holograms to every avenue I could.

Enjoy the industry all."

[bmattioli]

This is making the rounds across many boards.. anyone fact check this?

[homerunhitter]

oh oh! If this is true, then this is not a good thing for the autograph portion of our hobby and definitely not a good thing for TPA authentication or aftermarket autographs. ring the bell, iceberg straight ahead!

[Natswin2019]

Ive seen this in a few places and it reads like someone just rambling with no direction and not a ton of proof behind what he's saying.

[gunboat82]

I don't know if this specific story checks out, but the confessed scammer, Brett Lemieux, has some Internet bread crumbs:

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...y-restitution/

https://community.glowforge.com/t/on...on-focus/58773

[rdwyer]

I wouldn't be surprised. Just hope it's not true.

[BioCRN]

This has been going around (not this post specifically) for a few months.

I've still not seen anything about it anywhere else except social media posts. I'm not saying it is or isn't legit, but I'm surprised there's not more of a fleshed out story given this thing is like 5-6 months old.

[4815162342]

BREAKING NEWS: Sports memorabilia dealer raided, admits scamming collectors, hobby in $350M fraud and forgery scheme

https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/b...forgery-scheme

[4815162342]

[BioCRN]

Well, this escalated quickly.

[BioCRN]

For reference, the first I can remember hearing about any of this was a shared FB post about some sketchy Gretzky pucks back in January.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1697...7470872185824/

I'm not sure if this was what opened this particular door, or if there was past history.

[calvindog]

This is why I hesitate to spend real money on signed cards.

[egri]

He mentioned JSA; weren't they implicated in the fake signed T206 scandal from a while back? This guy mentioned mostly modern stuff, but it's possible him or someone working with him branched off.

[chalupacollects]

Originally Posted by Natswin2019

Ive seen this in a few places and it reads like someone just rambling with no direction and not a ton of proof behind what he's saying.

Yes reads like a drunken suicide note if the body they found is the guy who wrote it…


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[Salfino]

Lou Gehrig Says!

[doug.goodman]

Ok, so there's a body, but on a brighter note the opinion sellers made a profit.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Ok, so there's a body, but on a brighter note the opinion sellers made a profit.

If I understand this, and I probably don't, the opinion sellers were bypassed. These fakes were created by auto pen, then had fake authentication holograms/stickers/whatever type of certs added.

So, no, that's another sad thing besides the corpse. The opinion sellers didn't make a profit from this.

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

Yikes !!!

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by calvindog

This is why I hesitate to spend real money on signed cards.

Same here. Always a signed Fleer Jordan hitting the market, Jackies, Mantles, etc. How many of these are actually real ??

[Lucas00]

The sort of items he sold seem to be the ones I would see and immediately think, that's fake. It's almost like junk wax the amount of signed jerseys, 8x10 generic dime color photos, footballs, baseballs, large oversized "art". You see with superstar Autographs at low tier auctions and many shows.

Those booths have always just been instant passes because I just have never trusted them.

I feel like the amount of framed jerseys especially, all framed the exact same way all in the exact same layout and style all with perfect autos all using super low quality chinese jerseys was a dead giveaway.

[Brent G.]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

The sort of items he sold seem to be the ones I would see and immediately think, that's fake. It's almost like junk wax the amount of signed jerseys, 8x10 generic dime color photos, footballs, baseballs, large oversized "art". You see with superstar Autographs at low tier auctions and many shows.

Those booths have always just been instant passes because I just have never trusted them.

I feel like the amount of framed jerseys especially, all framed the exact same way all in the exact same layout and style all with perfect autos all using super low quality chinese jerseys was a dead giveaway.

100%. I’m sure these dealers specifically wish this news came out 2 weeks AFTER the National instead of before, so they could get one more big pay day.

I have one item that I now doubt its legitimacy — a multi-hologram Mike Tyson Punch Out 11x14 that’s gotten WAY too visible the last couple years.

[ClementeFanOh]

This is just wretched enough to be true. I've never been a big auto guy, and
this is exactly the reason why. Trent King

[ruth-gehrig]

It pains me to read rambling....maybe later

[ullmandds]

i'lll pass on reading that mess. Moral of the story...don't "invest" in autographs!

[bk400]

I'm hoping that my low end autographed cards, like my 86 Topps Wally Backman, are safe.

If this guy wrote a self-aggrandizing confession and then drunkenly offed himself, it wouldn't be the biggest tragedy in the world.

[SyrNy1960]

Originally Posted by bk400

I'm hoping that my low end autographed cards, like my 86 Topps Wally Backman, are safe.

If this guy wrote a self-aggrandizing confession and then drunkenly offed himself, it wouldn't be the biggest tragedy in the world.

Your 86 Topps Wally Backman is safe (good)

[jingram058]

There was a thread in the net54 autograph forum a while back stating the overwhelming majority of autographed items are fake. I agree with the above: "What did you see?" "Iceberg, right ahead, sir!"

[philo98]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

The sort of items he sold seem to be the ones I would see and immediately think, that's fake. It's almost like junk wax the amount of signed jerseys, 8x10 generic dime color photos, footballs, baseballs, large oversized "art". You see with superstar Autographs at low tier auctions and many shows.

Those booths have always just been instant passes because I just have never trusted them.

I feel like the amount of framed jerseys especially, all framed the exact same way all in the exact same layout and style all with perfect autos all using super low quality chinese jerseys was a dead giveaway.

Completely agree. Seems most are decorative items for mancaves.

[Fandom0610]

I 100% believe this. Ive seen so many Panini and PSA stickered photos pop up on ebay that coincidentally have no loa or coa and when Ive done PSA quick opinions on the ones im interested in they never pass. Especially with the modern stuff gaining alot more popularity its no surprise something like this would happen.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by jingram058

There was a thread in the net54 autograph forum a while back stating the overwhelming majority of autographed items are fake. I agree with the above: "What did you see?" "Iceberg, right ahead, sir!"

I suspect the thrust of the thread was “the overwhelming majority of autographed items are fake … except for the ones I buy …..”

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by jingram058

There was a thread in the net54 autograph forum a while back stating the overwhelming majority of autographed items are fake. I agree with the above: "What did you see?" "Iceberg, right ahead, sir!"

There have been several of those threads in the 10+ years I have been on here. Then the bigger auto collectors and sellers always come on and say don't worry it isn't true most autographs are real.

I find it funny all the people saying that is why I stayed away from autographs when the same exact thing is and has been going on in the card world. If you think fake slabs aren't a HUGE thing, LOL, good luck with that. The grading companies adding pics of graded cards anyone can lookup has greatly helped. At least now you can't crack a newly graded card and put that flip and a lower grade card into a newly made slab without everybody knowing the card is different.

There is a fake copy of pretty much everything made being. I hear southeast Asia is a good place to find those items or find someone that will make them for you.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I suspect the thrust of the thread was “the overwhelming majority of autographed items are fake … except for the ones I buy …..”

LOL, isn't that the truth.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I suspect the thrust of the thread was “the overwhelming majority of autographed items are fake … except for the ones I buy …..”

That’s what everyone thinks. I try to buy mostly checks but even that isn’t infallible. There’s just too many Robinsons, Clementes, Aarons, signed vintage cards and sets, that suddenly pop up in every auction in the hundreds every month. Did collectors who owned them not realize they had value until recently and were hiding them, refusing to sell them?

[ezez420]

Hopefully these dealers will be booted from selling the fake inventory before the big show next week


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[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by calvindog

That’s what everyone thinks. I try to buy mostly checks but even that isn’t infallible. There’s just too many Robinsons, Clementes, Aarons, signed vintage cards and sets, that suddenly pop up in every auction in the hundreds every month. Did collectors who owned them not realize they had value until recently and were hiding them, refusing to sell them?

The avalanche of signed Goudeys from obscure players that suddenly all surfaced at once in the past 3-4 years was particularly ridiculous.