Michael Allen Lynch
experienced fraudster and convicted felon
"Anyone who knows me well knows that contentment is something I have rarely felt in my life. This is how my life has always been… I want something; I do what it takes to get that something. Then when I get that something, I end up wanting something else, or something more. This personality trait is partially why I ended up in prison."
Mike Lynch - August 22, 2011
Public Warning
About Michael Allen Lynch
Mr. Lynch is an accomplished serial fraudster who specializes in confidence schemes posing as a custom homebuilder, remodel contractor, or professional paintballer turned entrepreneur.
He’s successfully defrauded business partners, homeowners, subcontractors, and vendors in Maryland, Colorado, and Texas since at least 2005. After a much-needed break in 2009, courtesy of the Colorado Department of Corrections, his schemes ensued in Texas while still on parole. Not one to settle for being average, his resume highlights progressively bolder schemes resulting in greater thefts and more victims.
His strengths include charm, cunning world-class feigned sincerity and the ability to invent believable lies on the fly with a straight face.
His weaknesses include greed, indifference, biting off more than he can chew, and excessive reliance on his sugar mama du jour who he ultimately implicates in his scheme.
His mantra of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is evident in the consistency of his schemes which include pocketing homeowner payments intended for subcontractors/vendors, related construction delays, unkept promises, commingled business and personal expenses, bounced checks, abandoned projects after exhausting the supply of subcontractors/vendors willing to provide services and materials for free, then skipping town to repeat the cycle somewhere new.
If you encounter this man put down your checkbook and immediately notify authorities of this predator in your midst.
Criminal Timeline
Assistant District Attorney
Chief, Consumer Fraud
Harris County District Attorney’s Office
1201 Franklin, Ste. 600
Houston, TX 77002
(713) 274-5585 office
(832) 763-5748 cell
TURNER_VALERIE@dao.hctx.net
Mike was sentenced to 10 years but was released after less than 2.5 due to serving on a volunteer forest fire fighting brigade, possibly the only positive contribution he’s made to the world in his entire miserable existence. While in prison he got married (to a woman he met in Houston prior to incarceration, not his cell mate). He had lots of free time and took up blogging, so we’ve archived off his incredible work in the links below.
The first fraud scheme we’re aware of involves a woman who lost over $100k in an indoor paintball business venture with Mike which was dissolved after hitting “construction delays”, but not before he fraudulently opened a credit card in her name and incurred over $800 in charges. Mike presented himself as a professional paintball player who retired from the sale of a previous company. In addition to the crimes of theft, forgery, unauthorized use of a financial transaction device, and criminal impersonation, Mike has been arrested for domestic violence.
The Summit County, CO District Attorney’s office uncovered these offenses during their investigation of Mike in a subsequent construction fraud scheme in Breckenridge where I was one of his victims.
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