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总结一下就是旧金山市里老广东移民SU WAN仗着自己有两套apt building从华人地产杂
志里面找卖方agent
假装说要他们represent她卖房子。见面时候约卖房agent在高级餐厅吃饭，当然吃完是
agent买单。还有叫agent带她去看
牙医，买东西，从日常用品到lv包包，假装说没有带钱包叫agent先付钱。。。。就是
占便宜呗。听说已经这样做了二十年了。。。。
“It’s cold hearted.”
“She’s just a scam artist.”
“I was mad as hell.”
“It’s been happening over and over.”
“I want her to pay for what she did to all of us.”
These are the unexpected reactions to someone you could easily mistake for a
sweet Chinese grandmother. She might be 85 pounds soaking wet, but talk to
her former tenants or the realtors she’s called about buying and selling
property, and you’ll quickly learn Su Wan is not one to be taken lightly.
“I don’t know what a con artist or a scammer profile would be but she
certainly doesn’t fit that profile in my mind ,” said Robyn Chan, a
licensed San Francisco realtor.
Chan says she first encountered Wan back in December of 2009. She says Wan
called, expressing interest in buying a fast food restaurant. Chan says the
petite, elderly woman spoke with authority, and knew all the real estate
lingo. “She wears a Rolex, Coach shoes, Gucci handbag, St John outfits…She
showed me bank account [information] to show that she can buy the property
with all cash if necessary,” said Chan.
But Chan says when they met for the first time, she got a bad vibe from Su
Wan. “She insulted me by saying I don’t think you’re smart…She got
abusive.” Chan says she later learned she dodged a bullet, because Wan was
well known in certain circles for posing as an investor, and literally
taking realtors for a ride, mooching fancy meals, groceries, even Louis
Vuitton purses.
“Realtors are like a taxi service to her. She uses us a taxi she doesn’t
have to pay,” said Century 21 realtor Thomas Nguyen (no relation to this
reporter). “She’s very smart, she scams a little bit.” Nguyen says he
spent two days and nearly $200 on meals and groceries for Wan but started to
suspect she was a little off because she refused to discuss business after
the first day, instead saying she needed to eat first, or run some errands
before she could sit down to sign a contract agreeing to work with him.
He says he connected the dots after talking to another agent in his office
who said he’d been contacted by Wan and wasted several days with her before
realizing she had no intention to buy or sell any property. Nguyen said, “
I went to law enforcement already it seems like they’re not going to do
anything.”
So he contacted NBC Bay Area and invited us to observe his third appointment
with Su Wan. We watched as Nguyen drove her to the dentist, then a dim sum
brunch in Chinatown, then across town to buy groceries on Clement Street.
He says she told him she’d sign a contract to work with him the next day
they met. But as many other realtors told us, it’s a day that never seems
to come.
“It erodes your trust in other people and she’s been doing this for years,
” said Michelle Bouchet, another San Francisco realtor. “You always meet
with people and sometimes it turns into business and sometimes it doesn’t
and that’s part of the deal, that’s understood. But when someone
purposefully takes away your time and your effort and does so in a way that
feels malicious, it just makes you kind of feel sick.”
The realtors say Wan tells them she’s an investor from Taiwan who wants
their help to sell two San Francisco buildings worth close to $3 million.
They say she brings paperwork showing she owns the buildings, and bank
statements that show another $4 million in the bank.
“You pay for me because I will pay you back later,” said realtor Amy Ho,
who showed us a receipt from Louis Vuitton for a $1,300 purse. Ho says Wan
asked her to buy the bag, promising to pay her back. Ho says Wan kept the
bag, and never paid for it.
We asked Wan about the accusations from these realtors and if she had ever
taken advantage of them. She said, “Never!” And when we asked if she’d
ever bought or sold a home using a Realtor, she said, “No!” She
threatened to call an attorney to sue us.
“She knows the courts very well,” said former tenant Selina Wong, who won
a $645 judgment against Su Wan for unreturned rent and security deposits.
Wong says she sued after Wan made significant changes to their rental
agreement after she signed it. “She was verbally abusive.”
Wong’s not the only one. Records show another tenant sued, and won $4,935,
for first and last month’s rent and an unreturned security deposit. He
never even moved in.
People who have gone to the San Francisco police department say they were
turned away, told by some officers that they’ve known about Su Wan for
years, but they considered her actions a civil matter, not a criminal one.
“Only when I told them about her harassing phone calls would the officer
take an incident report,” said realtor Vanessa Miao.
“She said, “I’m going to kill you... I hope you die,” said Realtor Annie
Chang who first met Wan last August. She says Wan became aggressive and
left multiple voicemails threatening to get her license revoked, which is
why Chang thinks most realtors do not pursue claims against Wan. “I mean it
’s been a very stressful experience just dealing with this individual.”
But Chang said she’s talked to far too many realtors who also feel they
fell prey to Wan. She sent out emails to her colleagues to warn them and to
circulate a smart phone picture of Wan. “That’s what’s been great about
Annie spreading the word,” said Bouchet.
Chang also sent letters to the SF District Attorney and SF Supervisor Eric
Mar to ask for help, before contacting NBC Bay Area and asking other
realtors to share their stories too. “I feel like were finally coming
together to try to put an end to this thing,” said Chang.
Stephanie Ong-Spillman is the Director of Communications for SF District
Attorney George Gascon. She told NBC Bay Area Su Wan’s actions “would
constitute a crime if there is proof that she intended to scam victims. If
there is proof of intent, she could be charged with misdemeanor grand theft
if it's under $950 or felony if it's over $950. We have to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt there is a pattern - which means we need more than one
victim.”
Ong-Spillman says anyone who believes they are a victim of Su Wan can file a
report with SFPD. Click here for the SFPD Financial Crimes Unit. They can
also contact Lt. Carlos “Charlie” Sanchez with the San Francisco District
Attorney's Office Special Operations Division. His email is carlos.sanchez@
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: 总结一下就是旧金山市里老广东移民SU WAN仗着自己有两套apt building从华人地产杂
: 志里面找卖方agent
: 假装说要他们represent她卖房子。见面时候约卖房agent在高级餐厅吃饭，当然吃完是
: agent买单。还有叫agent带她去看
: 牙医，买东西，从日常用品到lv包包，假装说没有带钱包叫agent先付钱。。。。就是
: 占便宜呗。听说已经这样做了二十年了。。。。
: “It’s cold hearted.”
: “She’s just a scam artist.”
: “I was mad as hell.”
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发帖数: 2555 | 4 apparently, right now, it is sell's market, so, agents are very rude to
buyers.
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【在 m*******4 的大作中提到】
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: 总结一下就是旧金山市里老广东移民SU WAN仗着自己有两套apt building从华人地产杂
: 志里面找卖方agent
: 假装说要他们represent她卖房子。见面时候约卖房agent在高级餐厅吃饭，当然吃完是
: agent买单。还有叫agent带她去看
: 牙医，买东西，从日常用品到lv包包，假装说没有带钱包叫agent先付钱。。。。就是
: 占便宜呗。听说已经这样做了二十年了。。。。
: “It’s cold hearted.”
: “She’s just a scam artist.”
: “I was mad as hell.”
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发帖数: 884 | 5 旧金山市里老广东移民仗着自己有两套apt building从华人地产杂志里面找卖方agent
假装说要他们represent她卖房子。见面时候老叫卖房agent在高级餐厅吃饭，带她去看
牙医，买东西，从日常用品到lv包包，假装说没有带钱包叫agent先付钱。。。。就是
占便宜呗。听说已经这样二十年了。
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发帖数: 2890 | 6 这种故事10几年前在南湾也听到过许多次了。比较多的情况是假装buyer， 专门找新手
agent带她看房， 上馆子，狂商店，看房一年多都没有下过一个offer。后来故事慢慢
在agent之间传开，就尽量避开这样的人了。
【在 m*******4 的大作中提到】
: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Con-Artist-or-Clever-Old-L
: 总结一下就是旧金山市里老广东移民SU WAN仗着自己有两套apt building从华人地产杂
: 志里面找卖方agent
: 假装说要他们represent她卖房子。见面时候约卖房agent在高级餐厅吃饭，当然吃完是
: agent买单。还有叫agent带她去看
: 牙医，买东西，从日常用品到lv包包，假装说没有带钱包叫agent先付钱。。。。就是
: 占便宜呗。听说已经这样做了二十年了。。。。
: “It’s cold hearted.”
: “She’s just a scam artist.”
: “I was mad as hell.”
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