2025 onward
Sadly, you – or a close friend or member of your family – are very likely to be scammed – often for vast sums. Following are a few quotes taken from Real World Recent Experiences.
Contact: Email: endscams@pm.me

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“Last week I was scammed $18,000 US by an Exchange”

“My mom is not listening, she keeps listening to these people”

“I never thought I would become a victim, but my experience cost me nearly a quarter million dollars and taught me painful lessons”

“My father is in his mid 50’s and just lost 250k+ in “investments” from a company”

“‘I am 32, a Navy veteran, and a college student now. I was Facebook messaged by a “Stacy Chen” from Toronto, Canada around February of this year – I’m amongst those who lost the most, a net worth of almost $150,000.”

“my husband was scammed out of $850,000 through crypto”

If you are thinking “This won’t happen to me or anyone I know” you are 100% wrong. It has happened to some of the smartest and most tech-savvy people…and also to many who know nothing about finances. Sadly, some of these victims have taken their own lives…imagine working your entire life so you have some financial security and then losing it all in an instant.

I decided ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and am going to work with people on a one to one basis to protect them. One problem is that many who need help fail to ask for or get it! However, if I can save just a few people each month from ruining their finances I will be very happy.

Along the way I will also save and publish some case histories (with permission, of course) and some general hints for those who don’t think they need Expert Help.

My Qualifications? Some of my life and work experience is outlined below. However, the “special sauce” which I can provide is my record of life and financial decisions. I have been self-employed for 50 years – often doing many millions of dollar per year in business, and yet:
1. I have never been scammed for money or property.
2. Despite accepting 10’s of millions of dollars in checks and credit cards, I have lost less than $2,500 total over my entire career (bad checks).  The typical figure in the Industries I dealt with is about 1/2 of 1%.
If my record was “average”, I would have lost approximately $500K over my career – or about 200X (two hundred times) as much money as I actually lost. This was not luck or an accident.

Now, step back and think about it for a moment. What if I could make you 5X as safe as you are now? How about 10X or 100X as safe?

For now I am only accepting a limited number of clients – no more than 4 per month. I realize that everyone has different needs, so some clients may just need a letter written to their parent(s). Others may need more specific guidance.

I am not doing this for the money or extra income! In fact, when need-be I’ll be glad to give personal advice for no charge. However, if you or your family member are giving (or intending to give) thousands or tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars to Scammers, it would be fair to help me offset some of my costs. I do not charge a percentage or any unreasonable fees.

You can contact me at the email address below – for a free email or document-based discussion to see if we can work together to avoid SCAMS.

Craig Issod
Southampton, MA and Sarasota, FL
Email: endscams@pm.me

I created the Droneflyers.com site (2013-2018) and still provide consulting to the Aerial Robotics (civilian drone) sector. Here is a link to some of the Vimeo Videos I shot with earlier drone models – Here are some aerial photos from over the years

Droneflyers.com will be administered by the same group that current runs Dronelife and the IFly Drone ETF.

Craig was the founder and developer of Hearth.com, an independent hearth web site which has been active since 1995. Hearth.com is the most read hearth site in the world, with over 3.5 million site visits in 2013. As of January, 2014, Hearth.com was sold to Jim Fischer (Hearth.com LLC), who intends to further develop the site going forward.

Here is the background information on how I started Hearth.com

Online and Community Experience

I have been active online since long before the dawn of the internet age. I first joined Compuserve in the mid 1980’s and have been active in online communities and businesses since that time. Some of my friends and colleagues were active in the first internet communities, such as The Well, which was a forerunner of what is now called Social Media or Web 2.0. Before that time I had experience in HAM and CB radio (networks!) as well as actually living and working in REAL community.

What I can do for YOU

My current interests are – well – everything!

I am well versed in technology, community, construction, metal working, patents/trademarks and copyrights and the general fields of invention.

Qualifications

I bring 40+ years of self-employed experience to analyze your needs. Some of my work experience, listed by my age at the time, is detailed below:

18: Worked at Macrobiotic restaurant–Learned Nutrition and Cooking
20: Worked at Soy Dairy, exploring the uses and production of Soy milk and other soy products. Instrumental in the development of first Soy yogurt and Soy based ice creams
21: Vice President of demolition and salvage operation-Tore down and salvaged homes, barns and factory buildings (up to five stories). Sold recycled materials.
22-23: Learned carpentry and construction, worked on crew building houses, etc.
23-28: Started and operated successful remodeling company.
26-45: Started and operated Alternative Energy Business including stoves, Solar and conservation. Sold Business in 1998.
33-35: Bought and operated Wood stove manufacturing business- Learned the cast-iron foundry business as well as other aspects of metalworking.
35-40: Bought and operated importing and marketing company that sells Central Heating products. Visited Denmark twice. Introduced new products to the market successfully. Developed marketing and sales programs. Wrote Technical Manuals.
38-41: Invented and Patented new product–Manufactured and marketed same with first year sales exceeding projections. Sold business in 1998.
40-48: Created Hearth.com, a top rated site on the Internet. Also created many web sites for clients inside and outside the hearth industry.
48-58: Continuation of work on multiple projects – received patent for hearth and chimney related apparatus. Sold chimney company and patents. Hearth.com traffic (yearly) passed 3 million readers.
58-60+: Hearth.com hits new records – becomes larger than such well known web sites as ZipCar, The North Face, Brookstone and many others.

Date Based….from this point down……
2014 – Hearth.com sold to willing buyer who intends to further develop the site!
2013-2018 -Craig started a  new web site for drone (quadcopter) beginners which already has over 150,000 pages read monthly. Three Amazon ebooks and print books related to the drone site have become best-sellers – #1, #2 and #3 in the category. Book content is now available free (dated, but still relevant) on the Droneflyers.com web site.
2018 – Droneflyers.com site domain is sold  to leader in the Drone Publishing Business. Site will remain active and I will provide consulting and articles for the near future (as needed or strikes his fancy).
2018/2019 – What do YOU want help you with? I am working on some innovative inventions in the materials handling and noise abatement fields of invention….but have plenty of time to take on other projects. Please contact me at cissod at gmail.
2020-2021 – Pursuing mostly volunteer efforts.
2025 – Entering the Field of Scam Prevention – Email: endscams@pm.me

Non Profit, Volunteer and Teaching Work

One of my non-profit projects involved setting up a complete computer lab and network at the Boys and Girls Club of Burlington County (NJ). We got Steve Wozniak (The Woz), a founder of Apple Computer, to help with the first donation for the project!

I also volunteered as an advisor, teacher and trainer at Hopework ‘N Camden, an org that teaches technology to disadvantaged youth in Camden, NJ. Subjects that I taught include digital video, digital photography and PHP/MySql programming. In 2014 I did a “drone camp” at Hopeworks, where an introduction to aerial robotics was given.

In recent years, I have taught “Bringing your Products to Market” and “Success on the Internet” at the local community college. More recently, I have been mentoring at Valley Ventures Mentoring Group, presented to 130+ “nerds” at Nerd Nite Noho  (on Community and on Drones) and also working with aerial photography and video.

I work with many other groups including the Legacy Bike Trail in SW Florida – both as a bike volunteer and with drone and other photography. I also deliver regularly for Meals on Wheels here in Sarasota, Florida and volunteer at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron.

Craig established “local” sites as early as 1996 – here is an article about one of them!

Note about this Site

Some of the content here is quite aged – that’s OK, there is a lot of information and relevance in it for those who want to search it or dig around. Since I have recently (mid-2018) sold my last active (droneflyers.com) commercial site,

Some of my stories and opinions (I have LOTS of them) can be found at https://craigsfire.wordpress.com

Other Pursuits – Sailing, Family, Water (beach, bays, rivers, etc.).

Some pics……

Contact Info: Email: endscams@pm.me