Stay away from this deceitful company, and be CAREFUL from those crooked guys.
Stone Etc Inc is a fraudulent company and a FAKE business entity. After you will read our experience, I think you will too, agree that this company might be what you call “Money Laundry Operation” or even “Organized-Crime.”
My wife Patty(66) and myself, Robert(68) are older couple living in Pasadena CA. We have been victims of this company and got ripped-off by Stone Etc Inc and its owner, for the amount of $45,000.
The real legal name of the owner is “Yizhak Meir Maman”, but he go by the name “Jacques”- Be CAREFUL from that dishonest man, he is a thief and a con-artist. He looks very nice and kind at first, but DO NOT fall for his act, he will scam you!
We contacted Stone Etc Inc when we were planning on doing a big renovation in our home, for our only daughter upcoming wedding.
Two years ago we have lost our older daughter to cancer, so this wedding was a big “light” in our life. A little piece of joy and hope, something that my wife and myself didn’t have for a very long time.
We placed an order with them for almost $100,000 worth of merchandise and installation. The owner, “Jacque”, asked us to make down-payment of 50% of the order amount, and said it will take about two weeks for the merchandise to arrive from “Italy”, only then they can start the job.
Few days later, once the transaction of $45,000 down-payment was cleared from our bank account, the sales rep and the owner, both disappeared like ghosts. It was very hard, nearly impossible to reach them. We tried to get a hold of the sales rep who sold us the job, or even the owner himself to complain, but they were nowhere to be found. When we called the office number they told us they are busy or out of the office, for almost a whole month.
We felt helpless and frustrated, but that was nothing compare to what happened a week later. In the middle of the night at 3:00am the phone was ringing. On the other line a man with heavy accent and cold voice telling me that he is related to some group, and that we should stop calling looking for those people, otherwise bad things will happen to our relatives and loved ones. He said police not going to help, then read me some details over the phone, sensitive information about our close family such as addresses, social security numbers, and more, then hangup the phone.
We never got our $45,000 back, and of course they never even start the job. It was a well-planned scam right from the beginning.
After a long investigation we performed together with a private detective, It appears to be that the owner’s main business is illegal drugs and money laundry. We discovered that “Yizhak Meir Maman”, the owner of Stone Etc Inc, also owns more than a few of big illegal drugs operations that he runs and manage himself on a daily basis. We are talking about buildings in the size of 7,000- 10,000 sqf each if not more. The whole operation is cash based, with illegal employees, that have no papers or identity, no records, and no receipts. We could not locate all of his places, this guy is a professional and hard to follow, but we did discovered at least two of his main places which located at the following addresses:
3805 Avalon Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90011
5872 Mettler Street Los Angeles, CA 90003
We also followed him to his private home located in West Hollywood, which looks like the main location for his money “exchange”. Unusual high foot traffic of shady looking people that’s coming in and out of the house all day long. They were all carry big black bags with them, which we could only assume were full with money or drugs. The stone company is nothing but a COVER entity to laundry the piles of cash he’s making in drugs. His private home address is:
Los Angeles, CA 90048
We shared our story together with details and addresses, hoping that someday, somehow, this guy will get what he deserves.
We never went to the police and never filed a complaint, we were too scared and my wife asked me to let it go. We did not use our real names in the review, and we changed the amounts a little bit, so that they won’t be able to know its us. But I think you got the idea. Watch yourself from bad people, they are all over the place.
Stone Etc, Inc. Reviews
Stay away from this deceitful company, and be CAREFUL from those crooked guys.
Stone Etc Inc is a fraudulent company and a FAKE business entity. After you will read our experience, I think you will too, agree that this company might be what you call “Money Laundry Operation” or even “Organized-Crime.”
My wife Patty(66) and myself, Robert(68) are older couple living in Pasadena CA. We have been victims of this company and got ripped-off by Stone Etc Inc and its owner, for the amount of $45,000.
The real legal name of the owner is “Yizhak Meir Maman”, but he go by the name “Jacques”- Be CAREFUL from that dishonest man, he is a thief and a con-artist. He looks very nice and kind at first, but DO NOT fall for his act, he will scam you!
We contacted Stone Etc Inc when we were planning on doing a big renovation in our home, for our only daughter upcoming wedding.
Two years ago we have lost our older daughter to cancer, so this wedding was a big “light” in our life. A little piece of joy and hope, something that my wife and myself didn’t have for a very long time.
We placed an order with them for almost $100,000 worth of merchandise and installation. The owner, “Jacque”, asked us to make down-payment of 50% of the order amount, and said it will take about two weeks for the merchandise to arrive from “Italy”, only then they can start the job.
Few days later, once the transaction of $45,000 down-payment was cleared from our bank account, the sales rep and the owner, both disappeared like ghosts. It was very hard, nearly impossible to reach them. We tried to get a hold of the sales rep who sold us the job, or even the owner himself to complain, but they were nowhere to be found. When we called the office number they told us they are busy or out of the office, for almost a whole month.
We felt helpless and frustrated, but that was nothing compare to what happened a week later. In the middle of the night at 3:00am the phone was ringing. On the other line a man with heavy accent and cold voice telling me that he is related to some group, and that we should stop calling looking for those people, otherwise bad things will happen to our relatives and loved ones. He said police not going to help, then read me some details over the phone, sensitive information about our close family such as addresses, social security numbers, and more, then hangup the phone.
We never got our $45,000 back, and of course they never even start the job. It was a well-planned scam right from the beginning.
After a long investigation we performed together with a private detective, It appears to be that the owner’s main business is illegal drugs and money laundry. We discovered that “Yizhak Meir Maman”, the owner of Stone Etc Inc, also owns more than a few of big illegal drugs operations that he runs and manage himself on a daily basis. We are talking about buildings in the size of 7,000- 10,000 sqf each if not more. The whole operation is cash based, with illegal employees, that have no papers or identity, no records, and no receipts. We could not locate all of his places, this guy is a professional and hard to follow, but we did discovered at least two of his main places which located at the following addresses:
3805 Avalon Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90011
5872 Mettler Street Los Angeles, CA 90003
We also followed him to his private home located in West Hollywood, which looks like the main location for his money “exchange”. Unusual high foot traffic of shady looking people that’s coming in and out of the house all day long. They were all carry big black bags with them, which we could only assume were full with money or drugs. The stone company is nothing but a COVER entity to laundry the piles of cash he’s making in drugs. His private home address is:
Los Angeles, CA 90048
We shared our story together with details and addresses, hoping that someday, somehow, this guy will get what he deserves.
We never went to the police and never filed a complaint, we were too scared and my wife asked me to let it go. We did not use our real names in the review, and we changed the amounts a little bit, so that they won’t be able to know its us. But I think you got the idea. Watch yourself from bad people, they are all over the place.