So I did something stupid.

I paid £4,000 to someone I should never have trusted. His name is Jake Pearce (@thejakepearce on Instagram). Jake Pearce is a marketer from London. 

And honestly, seeing that smug face online, showing off the high-flying lifestyle, while effectively taking £4,000 from someone who did not have much to begin with, makes me feel sick.

How the Scam Started

I met Jake Pearce at a networking event in London.

After the event, he got in touch with me and offered to teach me dropshipping.

Looking back now, I genuinely do not know what came over me.

£4,000 for a dropshipping course?

Come on.

I am one of the most careful people you will ever meet with money, so why would I agree to spend that much?

The truth is, I wanted to believe what he was selling.

Work from anywhere. Make lots of money. Freedom.

At the time, I had no job. I felt lost. I wanted something, anything, to change my situation.

Desperate people make desperate decisions.

How It Turned Out

At first, the sessions were okay.

But there were warning signs early on.

He would take ages to reply.

Sometimes he was late.

Sometimes he moved classes.

Sometimes he missed them completely.

Still, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I thought we would simply continue the following week.

I was wrong.

When He Started Ignoring Me

At one point, I told him progress felt slow and admitted I was losing motivation. I asked if a partial refund was possible.

He said no.

Fine.

I accepted that and expected we would continue the lessons.

Instead, that was the moment everything changed.

He began ignoring my messages entirely.

For months.

Eventually, I contacted him on Instagram as a last resort.

He finally replied and claimed that because I said I felt demotivated, he assumed I was no longer interested and archived my WhatsApp messages.

Think about how ridiculous that sounds.

Who spends £4,000 and just walks away?

Then He Vanished Again

I decided to move on and continue.

We had another one or two lessons.

Then he disappeared completely.

No replies.

No explanation.

Nothing.

This time, he could not even pretend he had missed the messages. They had been read.

£4,000 Gone

And that was it.

I never heard from him again.

I barely even started building the Shopify store.

Nothing completed.

Nothing delivered.

£4,000 gone.

Why I’m Posting This Publicly

As someone who works in SEO, I understand how search works.

I also know that one of the few things scammers hate most is public visibility.

That is why I am writing this on my blog, and why I have also posted about it on Medium and Reddit.

People deserve to know what happened before they hand over their money.

If someone searches his name and finds this article before making the same mistake I did, then posting it was worth it.

I Do Not Care What He Calls It

Maybe he did not intend to scam me.

Maybe he has excuses ready.

Maybe he tells himself a different story.

I do not care.

If you take £4,000 from someone for a course, fail to deliver what was promised, repeatedly ignore them, then disappear, that is a scam in my book.

Lesson Learned

I should have paid in installments.

I should have asked for a written agreement.

I should have walked away the moment the red flags appeared.

But you learn.

And now I want other people to learn without paying the same price.

Be careful around self-proclaimed marketing gurus selling lifestyle dreams.

If you encounter Jake Pearce, don’t say you haven’t been warned. #

Jake Pearce is a SCAMMER.

P.S. Jake Pearce has since deleted his Linkedin. He has since dissolved his company Socian Vision, but he has a new company called JJ Scales LTD in Companies House. If you know Jake Peace, please let me know.