Cameron and I first met around October 2019, when I realized I'd be retiring from the military soon. We met at a local real estate investor meetup. Cameron is young, age 26 (as of this writing, early July 2022). Since 2019, he has pursued digital marketing projects and real estate. We didn't interact much from 2019 through the summer of 2022, and we remained connected via social media, where I noticed the good work he seemed to be doing.
During the summer of 2022, I retired from the military. I bought a house in which I very briefly resided, and had intended to until I met Cameron and his family. I felt impressed that he had succeeded enough as a real estate wholesaler to motivate his family to relocate from California to North Carolina to help him. About that property, within nine months, he terminated his lease early. He further abandoned his obligations on the lease to return it to a re-rentable condition, but that's another story.
In September 2022, I introduced him to this tech project, Helium, that I found rising in popularity and that hadn't reached Fayetteville, NC, just yet. Helium is a sort-of decentralization of internet connectivity. Participants deploy hotspots (small "modems" or radios) around a town, and those hotspots also serve as "miners" of a digital coin called HNT (Helium Network Token) as an incentive to help grow the network. It's a Google-backed project. Around Sep. 2022, there were only about four (4) hotspots in Fayetteville, NC.
The promissory note and the broken promise
Cameron became fascinated with the project. At one point, he told me, "I think this could be my shot at becoming a billionaire." He asked for my level of participation, and I said that I'd prefer to back him financially but not as an operator within the project. Cameron had the motivation, seeming track record of success, and tech-savvy that I lacked for this project.
So, I paid $15,050.00 to acquire seven (7) hotspots. I was the capital partner. And although I had larger social circles through my hobbies, Cameron seemed to have a larger business circle here in Fayetteville, NC. Within a couple of months, we deployed five of the hotspots. Deployment requires that these hotspots be far apart and that we interact with neighboring residents or tenants to allow us into their homes and plug in. They were indoor devices. This presented a new problem.
How do we return for maintenance without intruding on our neighbors? Cameron said he found a manufacturer to develop casings to house the hotspots outside of a building. The enclosures would further provide backup solar power. For seven (7) units, he needed $20,000.00. Up to this point, he made good on all of his promises.
I wrote an unsecured promissory to him for $20,000.00, 10% interest, 12-month term, beginning January 2022 and ending December 2022. The payment is $1,758.32/month. We agreed to payments by the 11th of the month. I paid to acquire the devices, and I didn't have the additional $20K to contribute.
I had recently retired, and coincidentally my dad had, too. My dad was looking for an investment opportunity, and I mistakenly vouched for Cameron. So, my dad sent me the $20K, and I sent Cameron the $20K on 12/13/2021. My dad doesn't know about this because I'm still too ashamed to admit it. I'm a disabled veteran with children to support, and I've continued to pay the $1,758.32/month back to my father as if everything were okay. Cameron knows this.
I trusted him. He was a fellow veteran who seemed to have found success in civilian life shortly after finishing service. I vouched for him to my father.
The betrayal, deception, evasion, fraud
Cameron paid from January through May. In June 2022, he stopped paying, skipped town, left no forwarding address, and "ghosted." I've sought legal counsel and have been able to find his forwarding address. He still owes seven (7) payments of $1,758.32/month or a payoff amount of $11,908.00.
He routinely made self-aggrandizing comments about his integrity, ethics, and devotion to his religion and wife. I've found that the louder someone is about being a certain way, the more the opposite is the case. Perhaps he didn't intend misconduct initially but later got in over his head. But he intends misconduct now by skipping town and ghosting his obligations and the people who trusted him.
I've also come to embrace how anyone does anything (esp. the small things), in many ways represents how he does everything (esp. the bigger things). Back in September 2021, as he moved into the home I leased to him, he asked to borrow lawn equipment. He also asked to borrow about five books from my home library. In April 2022, I had to ask back for those belongings. He finally returned them in May 2022.
I called him out on this, and he said it wasn't really his fault. It's just who he is and that he has property from other people, waiting months to return. I asked a previous employer about him. That employer said, "We haven't spoken since 2019. We didn't part on great terms." Had I known.
"I cannot stand when someone is being taken advantage of because I would not want to be in that situation" (14:16).
"When I was in the Army, I always picked up random pieces of trash around base" (51:59). "I just take it that step further and pick it up. Because you never know who's watching. And if you're always leading with the correct kind of mentality that you want the world to have, like picking up a small piece of trash, as silly as that sounds, you can't believe the amount of rewards" (52:37).
This podcast took place in November 2021. I believe that here he's again self-touting something he'd like the rest of the world to believe about him that just isn't so. I have this personal quirk of exhausting the battery on my leaf blower by cleaning up the neighborhood until the battery dies. It's fun to do.
One day, I'd say just before that podcast, I went out of my way to clean up broken glass (not with the leaf blower) at a vacant neighbor's house. He happened to drive and stop at the open field right beside to let his dogs play. He asked what I was doing. I said, "Well, plenty of people walk their pets here, and as a pet owner, I'd hate to see another person or pet unknowingly step on this broken glass. And right now, no one lives at this house to clean it up."
"It's always your fault. Why you're not where you want to be is your fault? ... Extreme ownership" (54:19), a reference to a popular veteran and entrepreneur.
Further identification
Cameron Edward Johnson. White male, DOB 7/15/1995. Cameron attended high school in San Bernardino (city), CA, and served in the US Army shortly after that. He's married to Deonna Jasmine Aponte as of 2/2/2017, and Deonna is also a US Army veteran. Cameron is a real estate investor specializing in wholesaling and subject-to agreements. He previously resided in Fayetteville, NC (located beside Ft. Bragg, NC). He relocated to Wilmington, NC, around May 2022, hoping to skip town and evade his promises in Fayetteville, NC.
Cameron Edward Johnson Reviews
Cameron Edward Johnson
Cameron and I first met around October 2019, when I realized I'd be retiring from the military soon. We met at a local real estate investor meetup. Cameron is young, age 26 (as of this writing, early July 2022). Since 2019, he has pursued digital marketing projects and real estate. We didn't interact much from 2019 through the summer of 2022, and we remained connected via social media, where I noticed the good work he seemed to be doing.
During the summer of 2022, I retired from the military. I bought a house in which I very briefly resided, and had intended to until I met Cameron and his family. I felt impressed that he had succeeded enough as a real estate wholesaler to motivate his family to relocate from California to North Carolina to help him. About that property, within nine months, he terminated his lease early. He further abandoned his obligations on the lease to return it to a re-rentable condition, but that's another story.
In September 2022, I introduced him to this tech project, Helium, that I found rising in popularity and that hadn't reached Fayetteville, NC, just yet. Helium is a sort-of decentralization of internet connectivity. Participants deploy hotspots (small "modems" or radios) around a town, and those hotspots also serve as "miners" of a digital coin called HNT (Helium Network Token) as an incentive to help grow the network. It's a Google-backed project. Around Sep. 2022, there were only about four (4) hotspots in Fayetteville, NC.
The promissory note and the broken promise
Cameron became fascinated with the project. At one point, he told me, "I think this could be my shot at becoming a billionaire." He asked for my level of participation, and I said that I'd prefer to back him financially but not as an operator within the project. Cameron had the motivation, seeming track record of success, and tech-savvy that I lacked for this project.
So, I paid $15,050.00 to acquire seven (7) hotspots. I was the capital partner. And although I had larger social circles through my hobbies, Cameron seemed to have a larger business circle here in Fayetteville, NC. Within a couple of months, we deployed five of the hotspots. Deployment requires that these hotspots be far apart and that we interact with neighboring residents or tenants to allow us into their homes and plug in. They were indoor devices. This presented a new problem.
How do we return for maintenance without intruding on our neighbors? Cameron said he found a manufacturer to develop casings to house the hotspots outside of a building. The enclosures would further provide backup solar power. For seven (7) units, he needed $20,000.00. Up to this point, he made good on all of his promises.
I wrote an unsecured promissory to him for $20,000.00, 10% interest, 12-month term, beginning January 2022 and ending December 2022. The payment is $1,758.32/month. We agreed to payments by the 11th of the month. I paid to acquire the devices, and I didn't have the additional $20K to contribute.
I had recently retired, and coincidentally my dad had, too. My dad was looking for an investment opportunity, and I mistakenly vouched for Cameron. So, my dad sent me the $20K, and I sent Cameron the $20K on 12/13/2021. My dad doesn't know about this because I'm still too ashamed to admit it. I'm a disabled veteran with children to support, and I've continued to pay the $1,758.32/month back to my father as if everything were okay. Cameron knows this.
I trusted him. He was a fellow veteran who seemed to have found success in civilian life shortly after finishing service. I vouched for him to my father.
The betrayal, deception, evasion, fraud
Cameron paid from January through May. In June 2022, he stopped paying, skipped town, left no forwarding address, and "ghosted." I've sought legal counsel and have been able to find his forwarding address. He still owes seven (7) payments of $1,758.32/month or a payoff amount of $11,908.00.
He routinely made self-aggrandizing comments about his integrity, ethics, and devotion to his religion and wife. I've found that the louder someone is about being a certain way, the more the opposite is the case. Perhaps he didn't intend misconduct initially but later got in over his head. But he intends misconduct now by skipping town and ghosting his obligations and the people who trusted him.
I've also come to embrace how anyone does anything (esp. the small things), in many ways represents how he does everything (esp. the bigger things). Back in September 2021, as he moved into the home I leased to him, he asked to borrow lawn equipment. He also asked to borrow about five books from my home library. In April 2022, I had to ask back for those belongings. He finally returned them in May 2022.
I called him out on this, and he said it wasn't really his fault. It's just who he is and that he has property from other people, waiting months to return. I asked a previous employer about him. That employer said, "We haven't spoken since 2019. We didn't part on great terms." Had I known.
A podcast interview of him
https://www.audible.com/webplayer?asin=B09K68FSC1&contentDeliveryType=PodcastEpisode&ref_=a_minerva_cloudplayer_B09K68FSC1&fetchNewPlayQueue=true&overrideLph=false&initialCPLaunch=true
"I cannot stand when someone is being taken advantage of because I would not want to be in that situation" (14:16).
"When I was in the Army, I always picked up random pieces of trash around base" (51:59). "I just take it that step further and pick it up. Because you never know who's watching. And if you're always leading with the correct kind of mentality that you want the world to have, like picking up a small piece of trash, as silly as that sounds, you can't believe the amount of rewards" (52:37).
This podcast took place in November 2021. I believe that here he's again self-touting something he'd like the rest of the world to believe about him that just isn't so. I have this personal quirk of exhausting the battery on my leaf blower by cleaning up the neighborhood until the battery dies. It's fun to do.
One day, I'd say just before that podcast, I went out of my way to clean up broken glass (not with the leaf blower) at a vacant neighbor's house. He happened to drive and stop at the open field right beside to let his dogs play. He asked what I was doing. I said, "Well, plenty of people walk their pets here, and as a pet owner, I'd hate to see another person or pet unknowingly step on this broken glass. And right now, no one lives at this house to clean it up."
"It's always your fault. Why you're not where you want to be is your fault? ... Extreme ownership" (54:19), a reference to a popular veteran and entrepreneur.
Further identification
Cameron Edward Johnson. White male, DOB 7/15/1995. Cameron attended high school in San Bernardino (city), CA, and served in the US Army shortly after that. He's married to Deonna Jasmine Aponte as of 2/2/2017, and Deonna is also a US Army veteran. Cameron is a real estate investor specializing in wholesaling and subject-to agreements. He previously resided in Fayetteville, NC (located beside Ft. Bragg, NC). He relocated to Wilmington, NC, around May 2022, hoping to skip town and evade his promises in Fayetteville, NC.
His social media profiles
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameron-johnson-b25120191/
• https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010312780839
• https://shor.by/casadecameron
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdeULy0YQH4kxXA_mP3-AA
• https://www.audible.com/pd/277-Cameron-J-Real-Estate-Investor-Podcast/B09K68FSC1
• https://www.jiosaavn.com/shows/277---Cameron-J-Real-Estate-Investor/WJCMFYqgibI_
Other names or entities
• One Nine Zeros LLC (inc. 11/22/21)
• Cameron Buys Homes LLC (inc. 1/19/21)
• REI Connection LLC (inc. 12/3/19)
• Tri Home Investments LLC (dissolved 7/9/19).