I was defrauded by a fake business consultant and investor. His goes by the name Amintore Confalonieri and he resides in Venezuela. He presents himself on his multiple online profiles as a powerful entrepreneur and business mentor:
www.tiktok.com/@amintoreoficial
www.twitter.com/amintoreoficial
www.instagram.com/amintoreoficial
https://mx.linkedin.com/in/amintoreconfalonieri
He advertises webinars to help startups and business-minded people in general. Those webinars are supposedly endorsed by an expert network company with the name www.guidepoint.com
After connecting on LinkedIn with Confalonieri, I was impressed by his credentials and I innocently signed up for one of his webinars. After three cancellations on his part and one botched attempt to connect on Zoom I asked for a refund of my money $150 USD. I received a phone call from Confalonieri himself (not from Guidepoint) telling me that the technical difficulties were on my end therefore I was not entitled to a refund if I couldn't make things work in Zoom. That's when I realized it was a scam.
I immediately looked him up online and found hundreds of fraud and scam reports on Confalonieri.
Not only has he no experience in business but his LinkedIn profile is a complete lie that changes every couple of months (proof attached). He adds, changes and deletes company names, titles, and many other details as-needed to serve his cons better and when he is caught he switches the profile again.
I also found out he has another alias @mrboova as a photographer and he also scams victims using the name Booba Valentino.
The companies he is supposed to have founded as an entrepreneur are called Muchachomalo and Custo Barcelona but there is plenty of proof online that he never founded such companies.
Also as per his LinkedIn profile he is supposed to be currently donating his time as a business mentor at the non-profit organizations MicroMentor and Rotary International but that's also a lie.
All of the above can be verified by contacting the real companies:
https://muchachomalo.com/
https://www.custo.com
And the mentoring organizations:
https://www.micromentor.org/
https://www.rotary.org/
On his GoDaddy website he claims that someone defamed him and that's the reason about the negative reports online. However that doesn't make any sense because it's him who advertises the fake business seminars and it's him who put the information on his social media.
I put a claim with my cash app to recover my money but it's still pending.
Beware EVERYTHING about this fake investor and business tycoon is a LIE.
Country of complaint: Venezuela
I'm adding additional proof about the scam from Amintore Confalonieri
Mentoring programs Amintore Confalonieri supposedly works for (scam)
He tried to scam me too. He promised me a personal investment on my business. In exchange he wanted $1000 up-front to do paperwork.
Thank you! I was about to pay for a webinar with this person
Thumbs up for every person who wrote their stories about Amintore Confalonieri. He’s been harassing our CEO spreading lies about her just because she didn’t give him a job in our company. What we learned here from other people’s experiences will be very valuable to stop this swindler. Thank you!
Felicito a cada persona que escribió sus historias sobre Amintore Confalonieri. Éste hombre ha estado acosando a nuestro CEO difundiendo mentiras sobre ella solo porque no se le dió un trabajo en nuestra empresa. Lo que hemos aprendido aquí acerca de las experiencias de otras personas va a ser muy valioso para detener a este estafador. ¡Mil Gracias!
As a recruiter I know a scam when I see one. On every social media app there is a different take on who confalonieri is and what he does entrepreneur, investor, mentor, consultant, marketing guru, recruiter, job seeker. And to that end, why is a 50+ year-old affluent entrepreneur applying for a management job for beginners? It's too obvious he is a scam-artist
I can certify that this man is an international scammer
A homeless man not an entrepreneur