DAYTON — Prosecutors in Montgomery County are now investigating as more women file complaints with them and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, claiming to have lost thousands of dollars to a Facebook group.
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News Center 7’s I-Team first reported on the group Women Who Want It All earlier this month. More than 30 women had filed complaints to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.
Since then, that number has now grown to nearly 60.
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The women say they’ve lost tens of thousands of dollars to the women’s empowerment group.
“Every day it feels like a nightmare,” Lakeena Tennon said.
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Women like Lakeena, Lakisha Tennon, and Michelle Farris joined the group to take advantage of different promotions, including college or home utility reimbursement.
“I just got into a trance, seeing all of these things that I can obtain to make my life better,” Lakeena Tennon told the I-Team’s Xavier Hershovitz.
Last month, the women received an email from the group’s organizer that said all promotions would be put on hold while they were under review.
“I have just email after email of her just spinning me, ‘You’re on my list. You’re next in line. You’re going to get at the end of April,’ you know, and now here we are,” Michelle Farris, of Cincinnati, said.
In the first 30 complaints the I-Team examined, women say they were out more than $350,000 combined. That doesn’t include the nearly 30 complaints filed since the I-Team’s first report.
“My emotions and my finances are shattered,” Lakisha Tennon said.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, a spokesperson from the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office says their Consumer Fraud Unit has also received multiple complaints. Their investigation is ongoing as they work to get bank records and other pieces of information.
The I-Team has tried calling several numbers connected with “Women Who Want It All,” and all of them were disconnected. Earlier this month, Hershovitz tried going to the address connected to the business, and no one would come to the door.
Today, the I-Team went back out to the address.
“No one’s here,” a voice said over a doorbell camera.
That same voice then told the I-Team to “call her lawyer.”
The I-Team called the lawyer, who said this is simply a small business that has gone out of business, as many small businesses do.
We will continue to follow this story.
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