SCAM WARNING!!! Ebony Fambro Brewer, AKA SWEETPEA ADOPTIONS, is scamming!

[LisaB2007]

My name is Lisa Blum.  I WAS associated with Ebony and Sweetpea Adoptions, but am now having to rebuild my reputation, as I found out that what Ebony is doing is a scam - emotional, and now as well as a financial scammer.  Let me explain my story.

I met Ebony on cafemom.com, and we had talked for several hours.  She knew I also wanted to start an adoption referral service.  We had talked about opening our referral service under the name of Sweetpea Adoptions.  She stated she "had so many birth parents and didn't have adoptive parents to match" them with.  I told her that I would have no problem helping, and being her partner.  I made it VERY CLEAR that this had to be an ethical, legal, and moral business.  I do NOT need any issues regarding any sort of fraud.

Now, we have a toll-free number for expectant mothers.  This has been in service for the last couple of weeks.  It is also a fax number so that we can receive medical records for our expectant mothers.  Nothing, NOTHING ever came through.  I had kept asking Ebony to either copy me on these emails from expectant parents, forward the emails to me, or just have the doctors or ladies fax their records to the toll-free number, of which the faxes would come directly to my email.  Ebony made up excuse after excuse as to why this wasn't happening.  She couldn't copy me on emails; her phone doesn't allow her to forward emails, "I don't know why the doctors are taking so long".

I finally had had so many red flags, that I decided to check on her.  I decided to set her up.  I had no other way to do this.  I posed as an expectant mother wanting to place her baby.  We emailed back and forth.  I knew I had to get Ebony out here so that we could go through her emails of "expectant parents", and so that I could verify she ACTUALLY had been receiving emails from expectant parents.  I had to have her here for that, because she kept stating she "isn't able to forward or copy" me on any of these emails from expectant parents.

Now, I played "Samantha" who wanted to place with Ebony EVEN THOUGH SHE DOES NOT HAVE A HOMESTUDY, AND WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ADOPT ANYWAY LEGALLY.  I just told her about my "pregnancy".  Now, when Ebony spoke with me on Friday, as she was traveling to El Paso on the Greyhound Bus Lines, she mentioned that "Samantha" is bringing a friend who is also pregnant and wants to place.  Funny thing is, I'm "Samantha" and I never, EVER said that.  It was a lie!

When I did finally get her to log in on my computer at my house, after she arrived, I found that all her "birth mothers" were LIES!!!  SHE HAS NO BIRTH MOTHERS WHO WANT TO PLACE THEIR BABIES.  She lied to me, someone she called a "friend", and told me she had contact with "all these birth mothers who want to place their children with adoptive families", but she has no such contact.  All of her "birth mothers" supposedly are due "in a couple of weeks", yet for some reason, we can't get medical information on any of them.  Then, I got a toll-free number to field calls, yet, no one calls the number.  This number also has a fax that is sent to me via my email address, yet no one has faxed us, either.  She claims that the "birth mother" will call you, adoptive parent, she promises, yet no email or phone call.  Then she claims "oh, she'll call you on" whatever date is coming up.  That never happens.  Now, I have gone out of my way to advertise for her "adoption services" myself.  I've even talked to hopeful adoptive parents.  I tried to trust her, until I just couldn't ignore the signs.  UNFORTUNATELY, SHE HAS SCAMMED ME ALSO, AND NOW I MUST SALVAGE MY REPUTATION, TOO!!!

Also, I found out, much to my disappointment, that she has accepted money from at least one adoptive parent who was interested in our "services".  She lied to me over and over again that she "never received anything from J* (real name will not be used)", until I told her I knew she was wired $500.00.  Then she said, "Oh, yeah", and then told me she needed the money.  And here I thought we were doing this for free until we have our business license.

Finally got a hold of J, and it turns out Ebony has scammed her for bus tickets (hey, the girl had to get a ticket to meet her very own "birthmother") from Sacramento to El Paso, Texas; $1000.00 bank check (drawn on Wells Fargo Bank, who incidentally, made Ebony open an account with them to be able to cash the check); and the $500.00 money gram, going again, directly into Ebony's pocket.  Oh, and since this was all received in the State of California, it will be considered grand larceny, since it is over $450.00.

After I confronted her with all this information, and told her who "Samantha" really was, and how I KNOW she didn't invite a pregnant "friend" to meet with us, because I WAS "Samantha", it all crumbled.  She had lied.  And she may even be guilty of fraud, since she took that $500.00 from Jennifer.  She could go to jail, and I told her so.  I also told her I was going to be posting an expose of all her actions.  I told her I was going to make sure she didn't scam anyone else.  I told her I was going to help anyone who had given her money for "adoption referral services" prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.  I told her I was going to make sure the police were aware of this.  I told her I hope she is arrested and convicted.  Then I told her to leave my house, and do not EVER contact me again.

Now, I have had go back through all the emails we'd received for [e-mail] to contact all the adoptive parents who may have been scammed, and ask whether or not they had sent her money.  I did contact a lot of them, but have yet to contact all.

I am now trying to disassociate myself with her.  If you have been scammed or worse yet, sent her any money for her "adoption services", I'd like you to contact me.  I have her address (well, this may have to be a last known address since I just found out she has been evicted from her home for, YOU GUESSED IT, failure to PAY HER RENT, but here is the last address I have, which was good until June 31, 2010:  3638 Elkhorn Boulevard, North Highlands, California, 95660); date of birth (June 22, 1983); email addresses (they are [e-mail] and [e-mail], but there could be many more); phone numbers associated with her (one phone number she said she had gotten was 916-678-0275, and she had listed a toll free number, but it is no longer working, but it is 888-497-0182, but her MAIN NUMBER through MetroPCS is 209-513-8413) and anything else I can find out on her.  I am more than willing to give you this information so that you can press charges against her for fraud.  I no longer am in business with this person since I had discovered she is a con artist, who has emotionally and financially scammed not just me, but others as well.

I am so sorry this has happened.  I have now come to the point that I have to decide what is right for me to do.  The right thing for me is to make sure people know about her, her actions, and her lies.

If there is anyone who has sent her money, please contact me.  We are trying to get as many people together that she has scammed so that we can show she continually and habitually does this.  This goes a long way to proving Grand Theft/Larceny, and if we show she has done this to many, she WILL be charged with a felony!

Please forgive me.  I am so sorry.  I should have done a background check on her.  I didn't, but to make it right, I hope I have helped just one less person from being scammed by her.

If you need her contact information, please do NOT hesitate to email me at [e-mail].  If you need to press charges against her, I will gladly help you in any way I can.

Lisa Blum

FORMER PARTNER TO EBONY, BUT NOW I HAVE TO REBUILD MY REPUTATION.  I no longer have ANY contact with her.  I am no longer involved in ANY sort of venture with her.  I did NOT perpetrate fraud on ANYONE!!!!