campaign to expose wesley’s alleged crimes
After a back-and-forth that lasted several weeks, I became convinced that Wesley was indeed a scammer with ties to organized crime, and that this anonymous victim did in fact have evidence to prove this. As such, I became more and more emotionally invested in exposing Wesley and bringing him down.
On August 10, the anonymous person told me that his expenses had ballooned up to “£40,000 to £50,000” and once again brought up the question of me providing funding. I responded that I would potentially be able to fund $20,000 to $25,000 if this all turned out to be real, and that Wesley was brought to justice as a result. I made this offer because I was truly personally upset that Wesley had wrought so much harm on other people. Again, this was never supposed to be my fight, but my emotions got the better of me. However, I made clear that I would send him any amount at all upfront.
The screenshots below recap our ‘negotiations’ through to August 20, which was when he made a concrete proposal to me.
Worn out by the endless back-and-forths, I finally relented and accepted these proposed terms on August 21.
However, on August 24, he bizarrely suggested that I had either leaked our discussions to other parties, or that my phone had been compromised. He said he had been contacted by a stranger, supposedly a Chinese national who was well-connected in the business world who also had a grudge against Wesley and who wanted to expose him.
Then, he claimed that Wesley had somehow learnt about our project.