So I did something stupid. I paid £4,000 to someone who I shouldn’t have trusted, his name is Jake Pearce ( @thejakepearce on Instagram.)

And honestly, looking at that smug face, with his high-flying lifestyle, when he has effectively stolen £4000 from someone who doesn’t have much makes me truly sick.

How the Scam Started  

I met Jake Pearce at a networking event in London. After that event, he got in touch with me and offered to teach me dropshipping.

Now honestly, looking back, I don’t know what came over me. £4000 for a course in dropshipping?! Come on. I’m one of the most frugal people you’ll ever meet,why would I agree to spend that much?

I think for the most part, I wanted to believe in what he was selling. I can work wherever I want and earn LOTS of money. Back then, I did not have a job and I just wanted something, anything, I was desperate. Depressed and desperate, now that’s the perfect combination for bad decisions. 

How the Scam Turned Out

Honestly, the first few sessions were okay. There were just times that he would take a while to reply (He says he talks to hundreds of people on Whatsapp). There were also times when he was late or he missed a class or two, but I didn’t mind because I thought we could always just get on with the next class the following week. 

Oh, how wrong I was. 

You see, one faithful day, when I thought the progress was going a little slow, I shared with him that I might be getting demotivated and asked if it was possible to get a partial refund. He said no, and I thought that was it. We can continue on with the lessons, right? WRONG. That was when he started ignoring my messages entirely. For MONTHS he did not reply.

I decided to message him on Instagram as a last resort. FINALLY he replied. He says when I said I was demotivated he thought I wasn’t interested anymore and put my Whatsapp messages in archive. What kind of stupid rationale is that? Why would I just throw away my hard earned money and not finish a course I paid for?

But anyway, I shrugged it aside and told him I will continue on with the lessons. But we had about 1-2 lessons more, and that’s when he just COMPLETELY vanished. He couldn’t even reason out that he didn’t see my messages this time because there were two blue cheeks. 

And so, I never heard from him again.I only just about started making the dropshipping website in Shopify, with nothing to show for. That’s £4,000 down the drain. 

I don’t even care if maybe he did not set out to scam me, the fact that he vanished on me on a £4,000 course I never finished is a scammer on my books. 

Lesson Learned – Beware of Scammers

I should have asked to pay in instalments. I’m still not sure why I just blindly trusted someone I barely knew with a lump sum of money.

Well, lesson learned. Never again will I trust these so-called marketing gurns. They are just here to make money out of innocent people.

So if you encounter Jake Pearce, don’t say you haven’t been warned. Jake Pearce is a SCAMMER.