Timeshare Scams and Fraud

AKA Anne Singer and Samuel Kaplan. Same MO. She fakes being hearing disabled. Mentions use of First American Insurance as the title company. Asks for your basic timeshare information and then pretends to review and makes an offer. When questioned about legitimacy, she gets very irate. All correspondence is by email as she is "hearing impaired". Some situation comes up where she is trying to contact her broker but he's out of the country so she's going to send you a "cashier's check" for his fees, the escrow fees and the title transfer fees. She directs you to deposit the check and then issue another check to her broker, minus the $500 deposit for yourself. It all sounds very legit as she attempts to "personalize" herself using the disability... Read More

Anne Singer contacted us as a buyer of condos starting a new business. She was conveniently unavailable but her faithful attorney, Samuel Kaplan, would be in touch. Ms. Singer was mailing a money order from which we were to take our $500 good faith deposit and send on the rest to Mr. Singer. This in itself sounded peculiar.

Ms singer was abrupt and impatient about the speed in which this transaction was to happen and appalled that we would even consider involving our own atty. At this point, with a little detective work, we found the same couple on this website in various forms. Needless to say, we asked them never to contact us again.