i give him credit for going on the show. If he had anything to hide he would have stayed clear. I am surprised his lawyers didnt advise him to keep quiet and let it play out with the authorities.
anyone watching this interview would agree that this story doesn’t pass the smell test. What business owner sends out large wires without verifying who the recipient is? What caterer/event planner shows up to a venue without communicating with the venue in advance? Which owner of a business sits back candidly talking about a crime that shut him down? Which owner of a business goes on video and calmly and collectively speaks about a crime against his own business with a smirk on his face? Then he goes on to BLAME those that reached out to him, for not making him aware that there is such a scam on the planet….. Puhleeze… This seems like a cover up, nothing else.
Notice he doesn’t once apologize or admit that he could do any wrong. No indication of remorse, guilt or shame on his part. Instead he blames and accuses everyone else by making light of all legitimate accusations/concerns and does it in the most arrogant fashion. Is he incapable to thank or even offer simple Passover well wishes and blessings to his many victims? Really? Pathetic
Wire scammers steal billions of dollars a year. Look it up. Unfortunately he is another victim. There are email of phishers watching emails and change the domains slightly and change bank accounts. Unfortunately most is unrecoverable, especially many weeks later.
So you have a 'bookeeper' that no one has oversight over, no checking that the funds transferred properly and timely.(purportedly 6 figures.) Heshy kept contradicting himself. I wonder what Judge Judy would say?
It’s quite a scheme, you have to admit. As he mentioned in the interview, he encouraged all his guests to buy vacation insurance, and he said many did. Those people will recover their money from the insurance company. So even if he refunds all those who didn’t get insured, he can still pocket the money of those who did have insurance. By the way, when asked why he himself didn’t insure his event, his answer was “I didn’t practice what I preached”. That would be bad enough, but more likely he didn’t buy insurance because then they’d investigate his story and discover the truth.
So you send 5 or 6 figures to someone (a few times, it seems) via a method that you have no purchase protection on (a wire) without calling the vendor to confirm? Really? And "You don't owe anyone an apology"? Seriously?
The deposit amount people put down would be what the company would have to pay all the vendors. I am sure since they did not pay the vendors with the deposit money everyone will get a refund. Are these hotel programs even necessary or wise?
We had a similar phishing attack last year. Fortunately we didn’t send any money out. But it was similar email breach. I feel for Heshy. He was obviously a victim
This guy is blaming everyone for not warning him about phishing scams. Even if he were to be believed - that the hotel didn't reach out to him all this time, including when they didn't get the *deposit* - he and his "accountant" didn't do the most basic of due diligence. Also, if there was a phishing scam it would be with a similar email, NOT the exact email of the hotel. They didn't get hacked.
One more comment offered as a word to the wise...don't even think of reserving with HG for Shavuos Holiday unless you can confirm that every dollar owed to the guests denied a Passover vacation, has been repaid.
This is so sad! I just did phishing training today at my job - unrelated to this story. And yes, what he's describing matches very well what a good phishing job would look like.
This story has an easy resolution. If HG reimburses all the guests for the money they gave him, he is an honest man. After all, there is no heter (i.e. right) for him not to make them whole. If he does not do so, he should be drummed out of business. Insurance may not help in the future as the insurers may well refuse to reimburse people who get into another situation like this one. People now are on notice that where there is smoke there is often fire. BTW, the company has many names so do your homework on this issue. Many do have the name Aryeh in some form. I would suggest that people form a group, call HG to a Din Torah (i.e. rabbinic court) in the individual names of the aggrieved, and then keep people advised of developments.
This guy is a crook plain and simple. Everyone else is at fault except for him. He has stories about the hotel not being good and other nonsense. Nobody sends a bank wire for hundreds of thousands of dollars and doesn’t verify the moment it’s sent that the hotel received it.
I feel very bad for the situation but if your the main account holder I don’t think any accountant should be handling sending payments and even new wire info always needs to be verified with the person/entity your working with I’m sorry that on the person
Phishing scams are the oldest thing for years. Cmon. How do you not confirm with the hotel?? How are you not communicating with the hotel coordinators?? Huh Delays you should be contacting your bank that minute. How many times can that happen
Nice people don't knock everyone like he dose in this interview and a nice person dose not file every year chapter 13 or 11 like he so he dose not have to pay his vendors sorry
I had a very brief but memorable dealing with him. He is a mentch. Last year I was working for a vendor the day before passover. I had a brief stop at his hotel and I was hungry. I asked the staff if I could pay to eat a meal from the welcome buffet. I was told that It was their pleasure to feed me and I should help myself. The food was abundant and delicious. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Everything makes sense in this story all those people laughing and trying to make fun DONT KNOW HOW SCAM LOOKS LIKE! These scammers know social Engineering and they can sit on your network for months till they scam you. There's a reason why every large business these days gives a basic cybersecurity training.
Yep all make sense the onwer scammed he's customer's, do some research on him and you will find out listen how violent he gets when someone tells him something about him and always someone to blame I guess he is just a guy without luck for that alone he should be out of business
You might be right I have no idea who he's, but the fact that people calling in and asking those stupid questions about the scam and laughing at the concept shows that they are uneducated on this topic! Most of the people calling don't even know him!!! They are just questioning the story ☺️
Mr Zev Brenner I watched all 3 interviews while it’s definitely entertaining please note you have zero halachic or legal authority . Who in the world do you think you are for judging this man with a wife and kids in Such a public setting? What he does or doesn’t need to apologize about is now debatable between every bored person who has zero to do with this. (No halachic authority publicly stated this was a need to announce for the sake of the future) What isn’t debatable is that you cant Apologize or undue the damage you did here to him. I ofc feel terrible for whoever lost money and had plans messed up there is no excuse for that but that doesn’t equal what you did to this man.. When trying to leave comment on ywn not agreeing with this third interview of you publicly shaming him it obviously doesn’t post …..
Not lashan harah. Imagine this years guests would have known?? He owes more than 1 million in his lawsuits and bankruptcies. The klal NEEDS to be aware of what he's capable of. He's a very slick con artist that always has an excuse. He tries to do good, but lies to everyone over and over mostly to everyone to make them feel he's a well known brand. Meanwhile he has non stop screwed people along the way in effort to keep up the show. It's arguably and likely falls under a ponzi scheme.
“I know what a phishing attack is but who send you the email ?“ lol ..what a shmuck. Everyone blasting this heschy has 0 idea about the cyber threat landscapes. People should educate them selves on the sophisticated and professional threat across out there and then hang their heads in shame for speaking so brazenly on something they were so naive about
Thank you zev for bringing him on to show the world to be careful of this man.
I love it each time he doesn't like a question just disconnect it
i give him credit for going on the show. If he had anything to hide he would have stayed clear. I am surprised his lawyers didnt advise him to keep quiet and let it play out with the authorities.
He went on this show because he wanted to do another event. He wanted to weasel his way out.
anyone watching this interview would agree that this story doesn’t pass the smell test.
What business owner sends out large wires without verifying who the recipient is?
What caterer/event planner shows up to a venue without communicating with the venue in advance?
Which owner of a business sits back candidly talking about a crime that shut him down?
Which owner of a business goes on video and calmly and collectively speaks about a crime against his own business with a smirk on his face?
Then he goes on to BLAME those that reached out to him, for not making him aware that there is such a scam on the planet…..
Puhleeze…
This seems like a cover up, nothing else.
But it's clever, he can't seem to be nailed on anything.
I hope justice is served
Notice he doesn’t once apologize or admit that he could do any wrong. No indication of remorse, guilt or shame on his part. Instead he blames and accuses everyone else by making light of all legitimate accusations/concerns and does it in the most arrogant fashion.
Is he incapable to thank or even offer simple Passover well wishes and blessings to his many victims? Really?
Pathetic
He is also a victim. People make it seem as if he is a crook who had intention to scam. He lost money he did not profit.
Wire scammers steal billions of dollars a year. Look it up. Unfortunately he is another victim. There are email of phishers watching emails and change the domains slightly and change bank accounts. Unfortunately most is unrecoverable, especially many weeks later.
Apparently he doesn't read his own Linked In profile.
@@LifeCapturImages please stop talking about things u know nothing about. This is the second comment from u. Please keep ur mouth shut.
So you have a 'bookeeper' that no one has oversight over, no checking that the funds transferred properly and timely.(purportedly 6 figures.) Heshy kept contradicting himself. I wonder what Judge Judy would say?
It’s quite a scheme, you have to admit. As he mentioned in the interview, he encouraged all his guests to buy vacation insurance, and he said many did. Those people will recover their money from the insurance company. So even if he refunds all those who didn’t get insured, he can still pocket the money of those who did have insurance.
By the way, when asked why he himself didn’t insure his event, his answer was “I didn’t practice what I preached”. That would be bad enough, but more likely he didn’t buy insurance because then they’d investigate his story and discover the truth.
So you send 5 or 6 figures to someone (a few times, it seems) via a method that you have no purchase protection on (a wire) without calling the vendor to confirm? Really?
And "You don't owe anyone an apology"? Seriously?
The deposit amount people put down would be what the company would have to pay all the vendors. I am sure since they did not pay the vendors with the deposit money everyone will get a refund. Are these hotel programs even necessary or wise?
We had a similar phishing attack last year. Fortunately we didn’t send any money out. But it was similar email breach. I feel for Heshy. He was obviously a victim
This guy is blaming everyone for not warning him about phishing scams. Even if he were to be believed - that the hotel didn't reach out to him all this time, including when they didn't get the *deposit* - he and his "accountant" didn't do the most basic of due diligence.
Also, if there was a phishing scam it would be with a similar email, NOT the exact email of the hotel. They didn't get hacked.
According to his Linked In qualifications he should have known about phishing scams and have established protocols for verifying transfers of funds.
One more comment offered as a word to the wise...don't even think of reserving with HG for Shavuos Holiday unless you can confirm that every dollar owed to the guests denied a Passover vacation, has been repaid.
I Really want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but nothing in his story is adding up.
This is so sad! I just did phishing training today at my job - unrelated to this story. And yes, what he's describing matches very well what a good phishing job would look like.
You do realize that based on his linked in profile he should know all about phishing scams.
I went once for Pesach to his program. was very nice
Yea when you get it for cheap it's always good but than the vendor are the one he screws but now he took it one step further and defraud his customers
Wasn't cheap. Was regular price.
@@zip19692000 yep you should've gone back this year or keep on going to him so he can screw you as well
@@joerubin My personal intuition lead me to not get screwed this year. I am just reporting the facts about the time I did go for Pesach
This story has an easy resolution. If HG reimburses all the guests for the money they gave him, he is an honest man. After all, there is no heter (i.e. right) for him not to make them whole. If he does not do so, he should be drummed out of business. Insurance may not help in the future as the insurers may well refuse to reimburse people who get into another situation like this one. People now are on notice that where there is smoke there is often fire.
BTW, the company has many names so do your homework on this issue. Many do have the name Aryeh in some form. I would suggest that people form a group, call HG to a Din Torah (i.e. rabbinic court) in the individual names of the aggrieved, and then keep people advised of developments.
This guy is a crook plain and simple. Everyone else is at fault except for him. He has stories about the hotel not being good and other nonsense. Nobody sends a bank wire for hundreds of thousands of dollars and doesn’t verify the moment it’s sent that the hotel received it.
I'm sorry but there's a lot of hiccups in the story
He is not a good storyteller, mistakes in every chapter
I feel very bad for the situation but if your the main account holder I don’t think any accountant should be handling sending payments and even new wire info always needs to be verified with the person/entity your working with I’m sorry that on the person
Which accountant makes payments for his client? Weird
So many things don’t add up
Phishing scams are the oldest thing for years. Cmon. How do you not confirm with the hotel?? How are you not communicating with the hotel coordinators?? Huh Delays you should be contacting your bank that minute. How many times can that happen
It's all lies. I was his partner
He's the nicest man out there. I've been to his programs and they're amazing. I feel for him.
Nice people don't knock everyone like he dose in this interview
and a nice person dose not file every year chapter 13 or 11 like he so he dose not have to pay his vendors sorry
Please don't. Have Rachmanus on his victims.
@@jacobjunior3692 I feel for everyone involved, Mr. Goldstein and his customers. It's a truly unfortunate situation.
@@NJREPORTER this isn't a "tragedy" for all involved. U don't know the guy.
@@jacobjunior3692 I've been to his programs in the past.
1:01:52 do you have an affiliate link?
If he knew the hotel had bad reviews why book it?!? So naïve
I was wondering the same
I had a very brief but memorable dealing with him. He is a mentch. Last year I was working for a vendor the day before passover. I had a brief stop at his hotel and I was hungry. I asked the staff if I could pay to eat a meal from the welcome buffet. I was told that It was their pleasure to feed me and I should help myself. The food was abundant and delicious. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Yes you said it good he's staff was nice but in the interview he keeps on blaming them as well what a bum and he owes them all Money
Sounds like the staff didn't care enough. Lol
@@ploni9208 I don't see what's so funny when staff was nice to someone and the onwer a bum did a scam on his customers and vendors real sad
follow up video is better
Listen to his voice ....hes shaking..I don't think hes a scam...
Give the guy a break
Everything makes sense in this story all those people laughing and trying to make fun DONT KNOW HOW SCAM LOOKS LIKE!
These scammers know social Engineering and they can sit on your network for months till they scam you.
There's a reason why every large business these days gives a basic cybersecurity training.
Yep all make sense the onwer scammed he's customer's, do some research on him and you will find out listen how violent he gets when someone tells him something about him and always someone to blame I guess he is just a guy without luck for that alone he should be out of business
You might be right I have no idea who he's, but the fact that people calling in and asking those stupid questions about the scam and laughing at the concept shows that they are uneducated on this topic!
Most of the people calling don't even know him!!! They are just questioning the story ☺️
Mr Zev Brenner I watched all 3 interviews while it’s definitely entertaining please note you have zero halachic or legal authority .
Who in the world do you think you are for judging this man with a wife and kids in Such a public setting?
What he does or doesn’t need to apologize about is now debatable between every bored person who has zero to do with this. (No halachic authority publicly stated this was a need to announce for the sake of the future)
What isn’t debatable is that you cant Apologize or undue the damage you did here to him.
I ofc feel terrible for whoever lost money and had plans messed up there is no excuse for that but that doesn’t equal what you did to this man..
When trying to leave comment on ywn not agreeing with this third interview of you publicly shaming him it obviously doesn’t post …..
Comments should be disabled. This is all lashon horah true of false
Not lashan harah. Imagine this years guests would have known?? He owes more than 1 million in his lawsuits and bankruptcies. The klal NEEDS to be aware of what he's capable of. He's a very slick con artist that always has an excuse. He tries to do good, but lies to everyone over and over mostly to everyone to make them feel he's a well known brand. Meanwhile he has non stop screwed people along the way in effort to keep up the show. It's arguably and likely falls under a ponzi scheme.
Real Rabbis tell people not to go away for Pesach!
Which rabbi and yeshiva taught him to be a crook? Zev tell us which sect he belongs to
It’s only money.
Please feel free to pay back the victims. It's just money.
“I know what a phishing attack is but who send you the email ?“ lol ..what a shmuck. Everyone blasting this heschy has 0 idea about the cyber threat landscapes. People should educate them selves on the sophisticated and professional threat across out there and then hang their heads in shame for speaking so brazenly on something they were so naive about