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report scam| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| City | Henderson |
| Address | 170 S. Green Valley Parkway, Suite 300 |
| Phone | 1-702-990-3358 |
| Website | http://www.silverbrookcapital.com |
Silverbrook Capital Reviews
This report is about an individual, Jonathan Mark January, who owns an Investment Firm called "Silverbrook Capital" and appears to be a "registered investment adviser".
On his website silverbrookcapital.com he lists various services such as Equity investments, Portfolio management, Asset allocation, etc.
If you are looking to hire the above for a finance professional and thinking about hiring a financial adviser, I would strongly advice to stay clear from this individual for the following reasons:
Back in July of 2018, I had just moved into a new house (my first) with my then girlfriend at the time.
I was not aware that the above listed individual had some sort of prior romantic involvement with my then girlfriend long time before we had met.
In fact, I did not know about this individual until I started noticing missed calls on my girlfriend's phone from this individual on a regular basis.
This individual also began to contact her via Facebook messenger and continued to try to inject himself into our daily lives via his constant attempts to keep in touch with my then girlfirend.
I did not act upon this matter and was hoping this individual will simply move on at some point but boy was I wrong!
One time I noticied a package in front of my house and it was addressed to my girlfriend.
She rarely received any packages so this was somewhat unusual.
What was even more "unusual" was what was inside.
It turns out that the above listed individual somehow managed to obtain my home address information from my girlfriend.
He then went on Amazon to order a sex toy called "Magic Wand" and then had the audacity to mail said sex toy straight to my house and addressed to my girlfriend.
This guy's sheer arrogance is something I have rarely ever seen.
Keep in mind that I had never met with nor spoken to this individual ever before, yet I started getting sex toys delivered to my home address
from some "registered investment advisor" out in Henderson, Nevada working for a company called "Silverbrook Capital".
From there I found out via conversations with my then girlfriend that this individual kept inviting her repeatedly to go on casual sex vacations with him, despite the fact that he was fully aware she was in a relationship.
Again, the arrogance and disresepct towards other people that this guy displays is baffling.
As any other concerned boyfriend, I started to keep an eye on these messages that this individual would send to my then girlfriend.
I will not go into too much detail but let me say that this guy kept sending sexually explicit messages on a regular basis via Facebook messenger (and possibly via texts).
If you are fine with trusting your financial future with such an individual please do so at your own risk.
While he may or may not be a good investment advisor, his lack of respect and sheer arrogance leads me to believe that this individual may have previously engaged in many similar activities and me personally would not want to do any business of any kind with any such individual or company he is associated with.
People of that nature may think they can do and get away with whatever they want and nobody will remember any of that down the line.
One thing is for certain though: His sex toy as well as some of his sexually explicit messages sent to my then girlfriend will forever live on the internet
to warn other people if they ever were to cross paths with this individual.
This individual appears to be a lawyer as well so consequently, these issues have been reported to the State Bar of Nevada’s Office of Bar Counsel in
the form of a complaint with the Ethic's & Discipline committ
Attached are various images of this individual on Socail Medaia and other places in case you try to avoid them dealing with your finances.
If you are no longer able to connect to these profiles due to them having been deleted or the content was changed drastically, please use the
Web Archive to retrieve a snapshot of these sites to confirm their existence and state they were in.
Picture 1: Facebook @jonathan.january.33
Picture 2: LinkedIn @jonathanjanuary
Picture 3: Instagram @january7538
Picture 4: Twitter @jmjanuary
Picture 5: sex toy (called "Magic Wand") sent from Jonathan Mark January
Picture 6: sample messages of Jonathan Mark January to my then girlfriend
Website: silverbrookcapital.com
Phone: 702-990-3358
Work address: 170 S Green Valley Pkwy, Henderson, NV 89012
Home address (fyi: I refrained from sending sex toys to this address):
Henderson, NV 89074
I am in a complete mess because of this firm. Been working on 4 years worth of Taxes Jonathan has done. Just to find out how much was wrong. The amount that I found is unbelievable. I didn't need to be an absolute expert in taxes to realize the obvious mistakes that were made. Even now I owe thousands of dollars, and have recently found out he was also doing taxes for my ex-spouse allowing them to make the same mistakes!
You would think knowing one was claiming head of household you could not tell the other to do the same especially when they did not even qualify! After years of going to you and sending friends, once Sh*T hit the fan and all I did was ask questions for help, you wouldn't even bother to return calls. Oh and its not just me, sadly EVER SINGLE person I have referred also has been sent letters stating you did not file correctly.
Its extremely sad that now its going as far as when speaking to a professional this year we are finding so many "interesting' things in your paperwork. Im sure the IRS will be excited to learn the news.
Honestly, I am not a vengeful person, I figured after years of working with you, at least have the decency to man up and accept the mistake and do everything in your power to fix it. I guess its easier to hide in a corner or run away.
I wrote this so people can see this and hopefully thing twice. OR maybe you can do more you can take your time and actually HELP others instead of yourself.
I cannot believe this guy is still doing business.
Several years ago I contacted Silverbrook Capital to file 2 years of my taxes. Jonathan charged me approximately $1,000.00 upfront for his services. He assured me that he would file my business taxes and my personal taxes together as a flow through entity. After about 12 months of checking status with Jonathan to find out when my taxes would be completed, he finally answered his phone and told me that he filed them with the IRS. No longer than 3 months later, I received a letter from Uncle Sam that I had an income tax lien against me because I had not filed my taxes. I was shocked to hear that Jonathan lied to me and did not file my taxes.
Jonathan stopped returning my calls so I contacted a lawyer to reach out to him. He did not return my lawyer's phone calls or respond to his letters or emails.
I ended up preparing and filing my own Taxes with the IRS and paid the measly tax lien amount of about $350.00. Had my account warned me that he did not file my taxes, I could have done it myself and paid the small balance owed. Instead I have to live with this tax lien on my credit or 10 years. This tax lien is still going to be on my credit report for another 8 years and today it is 03/30/2019 it is still causing trouble. I am in business for myself and a tax lien is not good for a sole proprietor who has her credit checked several times per year for business purposes.
Stay away as far as you can!!!!
Jonathan is a nice guy, but terrible accountant for corporate purposes. We have a relatively complex corporate tax problem with the IRS and FTB. Granted, our situation is not the simple 1040-EZ form than Jonathan is likely accustomed to working with. For matters of that size, he may be a fine professional (though likely not). For more detailed tax planning, he is certainly not qualified to assist you.
The advice he gave on closing down old corporations was misinformed and completely incorrect. It's clear that he had done no work or research in this field, even though he held himself out as having specialized knowledge. He provided inaccurate information, tried to bill $800 to complete 6 simple forms (which I handled in less than 10 minutes), and it turned out these forms were not appropriate to file at this stage in the process.
Our personal returns were also mishandled. Mr. January listed incorrect companies for my 1099s. It's as if he used a leftover template with someone else's information and did not proof read his work.
When asked for a refund of the nearly $4000 we paid to have no results accomplished, Mr. January replied, "see you in court." An acknowledgment that he was wrong and a simple refund would have been appreciated and proper given the circumstances.
I'm frustrated to say that Mr. January was of no assistance in providing reliable advice. We will be suing to recover the excessively high fees charged and will be recommending to all individuals that they seek more detail oriented and informed professionals for their tax planning needs.
I did not want to write this review but my experience was horrible, and I wanted to share it with you guys. I went and got my taxes done real early this year because I travel for work and didnt know when the next time I would have the opportunity to do so. So I got my taxes done on Feb 21, 2018.. Then I left to california for work..... A month later, I still have not got my refund so I called Jonathan and asked him if he has heard anything back about my taxes. He said that he will check and get back to me.
I didnt hear back from him and I texted him asking if he heard anything. I got no reply. I was busy at work and didnt have time till the following weekend to check up with him. I called and left Jonathan a message and he didnt pick up but he sent a text saying that he heard back from them and said he needed me to send him a copy of my ID so he can send it to the IRS. I thought that was weird because the first thing he asked me for when I went there to get my taxes done was my ID, so he can copy it. Anyway, I sent Jonathan a copy of my ID, I did not hear back from him and I assumed everything was good. The weekend came and I decided to check on the IRS website to check the status of my refund and it said my info was incorrect.. I thought ... hmmm... thats weird.. so I called Jonathan again and he told me that he did not receive my photo ID... It got sent to him on my end but i really dont know what happened, so I sent him another copy.Then it was the waiting game again for me..
In the meantime, I have been monitoring the refund status on the IRS website to check the status and it said the same thing everytime..... your info is incorrect... So I called Jonathan back to ask him why it kept saying that. His response was processing takes time, but it has been 3 days since I sent him my picture of my ID... I didnt think it took more then a couple of days for my tax forms to be submitted.. So today, its nearing the tax deadline and I start to panic a little.. (I didnt want to get screwed over on my taxes this year) Jonathan told me to wait but I didnt want to wait past the deadline and get penalized, so I called IRS to make an appointment to talk to a representative to extend my tax deadline.. They check everywhere in the system and tell me your info has not been submitted.. I trust them more then I do Jonathan, so I called him and he messages back saying to text him...
Turns out, I was messaging his "assitant" and she said that she would check it out when she gets into the office.. I call back an hour later from the last message to check up on it and the person who answered told me that it should be processing... I check the IRS website and it actually finally said my tax forms have been submitted and processing... Almost 2 months later from when I did my taxes with him... This has been a real pain, and I feel he is not really providing the services he claims.
I am glad it is over... I will not be doing my taxes with him in the future... Thank you for taking the time to read this... Please be careful who you trust with your taxes!
Silverbrook Capital aka: Jonathan January promised that if I paid his fee that he would help me with my product and assist me with securing funding, this turned out to be a lie after I paid the fee twice due to some issue on his side I later found out that the first money transfer he told me that didn't make it into his bank account had actually been deposited. I spoke with him several times about refunding my money and for several weeks I thought that he would honor our business agreement.
Several weeks turned into a couple of months and I grew very frustrated so I told him how I felt so he decided to call the police who contacted me via email and I explained to them the situation which also didn't help me so I want to expose him here, if I am going to lose $4500 to a scam artist I want to make sure I spend that in effort to make sure people like understand when he lists all these services on his website to attract people there are consequences so I will do what I can to hurt your business like you hurt mine.
I am sure he thought I would just go away but I will not I will continue to put this out everywhere I can. He can send me my money back and i'll stop but until then get used to me posting this everywhere I can.