Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Forgiveness... Is That What They're Calling It These Days?

In a shameless promotion of Brio Birth's latest scam, Naomi sent out an email pleading for funding to a very large list of addresses - and forgot to use the BCC: function. For those of you who know the ancient Brio history, this is not the first time this has happened.  The first time, it caused a storm of angry reply-all messages and the creation of an alternate identity for Kyle named "Jeff Smith."  This time, the recipients seem quieter, but in an exciting double whammy, the email address of at least one childbirth educator Brio has severely alienated was on that list.  This person replied:

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Dear Naomi,
I am sure that you sent this to me by mistake.  As you know, two years ago the Denver Police told your husband to never contact me.  I am asking you to never include my email in any of your correspondance with others.  Please take my address out of your contacts.  I do not and will never support any of your projects.
Sincerely,
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In an apparent misunderstanding of the phrase "never contact me," Naomi RESPONDED TO THE EMAIL with this mind-blowing bit of drivel:

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So sorry for the mixup. I have chosen to live in a way where I forgive like I have amnesia and apparently it has worked! Thank you for helping me to see that. I wish you the best I all of your endeavors. As we are successful in our individual endeavors we will only encourage everyone else to be successful. 

With respect,
Naomi Thomas

Sent from my iPad
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What, no "warmly?"  Somewhere, I think Cher Horowitz is shaking her head.

She wants to forgive like she has amnesia?  Really? Maybe she wants people to get amnesia and forgive her.  Of course, with her long history of syrupy cons and burnt bridges, that's a pretty tall order.  Let's break this down, shall we?  Who requires forgiveness here:

1) the childbirth educator who was so frightened by Kyle that she felt the need to involve the police, and insisted that she never be contacted again, or

2) the money-grubbing privacy invader who ignored that completely appropriate insistence and barged back into that childbirth educator's life?

To anyone who lives outside the Brio Bubble, the answer is obvious, as is the identity behind door number 2.  Our alienated childbirth educator sent quite possible the only civil response:

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Whatever Naomi.  Do not email me again.
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In the real world, Naomi, I think the word you're looking for is "delusion", not "forgiveness".

9 comments:

  1. Only Brio gets hacked by someone who deletes their account and refunds money, instead of using it for spam or personal gain. These must be the most honest hackers on the planet.

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  2. The "hackers" have a "Robin Hood" complex? Good for them!

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  3. Well, if nothing else can be said for the Thomases, I'll give them this: they keep their lives interesting. ;)

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  4. I wish one of the recipients of the email would "reply all" with links to the court documents.

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  5. If it were hacked, I'm sure that indiegogo would have it back up by now. They were found out to be a scam, so their fundraiser was shut down, and the money refunded. The Thomases lie yet again. Hopefully the mom will figure this all out and drop them before they ruin her birth.

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  6. How can they claim to be the fastest growing and have "Most comprehensive, up to date, expert developed curriculum available anywhere"
    Don't they have a clue as to what other childbirth education programs are doing?

    They trained 6 educators on a virtual workshop and never credit the "experts" that developed their curriculum.

    The lack of transparency and the outright misrepresentation is so unprofessional.

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  7. They claim to be the fastest growing because of the growth in fans of their Facebook page. As if having FB fans is somehow an indication of how large your organization is. Of course they are getting those likes because they STEAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY from other sources, put it in their photo albums, and then re-share it. I wish someone would sue them for doing this. I read a blogger recently who warned that it possible to get sued for doing this--EVEN IF CREDIT IS GIVEN TO THE ORIGINAL SOURCE (which Brio does not always do), and that she had been sued. http://www.roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20/bloggers-beware-you-can-get-sued-for-using-pics-on-your-blog.html

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    1. The "fastest growing childbirth organization" apparently has no educators. At least I find that if I search for an educator near me, none are coming up now. There used to be about 20 that came up, of which only 2 were *possibly* still affiliated.

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    2. Annnnnddddd....the search results where 90% of the listed educators are no longer with Brio is back!

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