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Vampire fandom where $10,000 is apparently not a lot of money.
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Meet Leeser
Leeser is the biggest of BNFs in Moonlight fandom, and absolutely the most trustworthy of individuals. She'll do anything to save the show!
Round 1
September 16, 2008: An anonymous donor provides Leeser with $11,000 for advertising to appear on the backs of LA buses in mid-August. August comes and goes with no ads appearing.
Eventually the anonymous donor is revealed as Kayspleen, and she's not happy.
But Leeser has reasons-- she was carrying $3000 of the donor's money in cash in her wallet and had her wallet stolen. Of course she didn't report the theft to the police, but obviously she had to delay until she could repay it. She told people there was a delay due to printing errors, that the ads were being shipped across the country... and even that the ads were about to be posted-- but only because she was just so embarrassed about being robbed.
Totally logical, right?
Obviously, everyone else is just a big meanie for questioning the fact that $11,000 was spent and no bus ads have appeared.
Round 2
September 29, 2008: Site uber frau Leeser has been asked for about 18 flavors of accountability. A lot of cash has been forked over to her. She can't tell anyone how much she received. But it does sound as if thousands of dollars in cash and items from the show (prop vials of blood) are MIA.
Digging into Leeser's background has set off alarm bells. She is quoted in a 2001 computerworld article about how shockingly easy it is to perpetrate credit card fraud.
Seven years later she has moved through possibly four US states (FL, NV, CA, OR) and has hired herself out as a pagan priestess, a web designer and site host, a notary public, and a midwife.
The long list of questions board users at Leeser's MoonlightLine.com still do not have answers to are:
- How do you account for extra money you made at the LA Moonlight Con? (~$8K)
- Where are bags and giveaways you should have mailed out? (~130 bags)
- Where are the prop blood vials you were supposed to mail to prize winners?
- Why haven't you apologized to Kayspleen and tried to clear your name?
Fortunately, it's easy to avoid answering questions when you ban those pesky people asking them.
MLLers have a nice recap of all this woman's sins here.
But those bus ads Kayspleen paid $11K for are ostensibly out on LA buses! MLLers will surely find photographic evidence.
Any day now.
Round 3
October 2, 2008: Leeser has used at least four different names online, and the list of her various online businesses keeps growing. She may have scammed some parents out of money for a school related to her Pagan Ministry. (And Goddess Moon Circles Academy sounded so trustworthy, too!) There is a warning about her here. She also has a promising career in "Virtual Life Facilitation,"[1] and a fascinating history as a financial dominatrix.[2] One mustn't forget her pagan adoption facilitation service.[3]
Even some of the die-hard supporters are backing away. But not all of them.
And, finally, the missing blood vials arrive,[4] as well as the missing bus ads.[5] Vindication at last! Or is it? Wankas remain skeptical.[6] With forty buses supposedly carrying those ads in the downtown area, one might think it would be easier for an independent photographer to get a glimpse of one. But, at long last, one does.[7]
Round 4
October 5, 2008: The forums at MoonlightLine are down and no one knows if this is an attempt to purge all the incriminating material or not. (Hint: Probably.) Kayspleen, who donated all the money for the bus ads, was banned from MLL along with several vocal protesters. Shocker, or not. Meanwhile, Leeser's more rabid defenders are made moderators.
And added documentation appears on the missing money from the LA Moonlight Con...
Quotes
- "Simple way you should know she's not BSing... She uses her -REAL- name guys. And heck, it's not even a real large amount. $10,000... What is that? 5~ months rent in California?" - Leeser's daughter, Kate[8]
- "When a Fan Hits the Shit II: Moonlighting." - Anarchicq [9]
- "Oh, God, it's like staring into the abyss and the abyss is staring back and it's fucking stupid." - Lilichen [10]
