An engrossing read

There is nothing like combing through other people’s discarded digital hardware to gather the five journalistic brushes to paint their portrait. 

I have been busily scanning through the stash of data I had retrieved from supposedly irretrievable and unreadable drives my friend had discarded, from her legal files to her personal journal in which she wrote that "life could be scary and very tough without someone setting out to eat us ... "—I think she meant that figuratively as in having your life drained out of you; and how the experience of being married to a "hissing snake" of a psychopath and being subjected to all the flattery, veiled threats, guilt, and demeaning acts of abuses designed to tear down her self-esteem still haunt her in her sleep.

While copywriting and copyediting other people’s work, my friend has been quietly happy taking classes in screenwriting and transforming her thoughts into action as she shapes her book ideas. Not only that, but she is helping her son to develop his own pocket-sized book full of jokes. 

He has some really specific, compelling and distinct ideas that she is refining and polishing. The accompanying illustrative pencil and ink figures are hilarious, too—I laughed like crazy before shedding a few tears! This is good healing for those childhood traumas we all went through to some extent at the hands of those whom we relied on to protect us. 

I can imagine a TV series based on it … heheheh. 

I am not going to give away the subject matter, but here’s to wishing much successes to both their projects. I am looking forward to getting a copy or several copies to pass out to my other Asian friends; it is going to be phenomenal seeing their gut-wrenching reactions … yup, there is that sadistic streak in me; deal with it. 

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream / We believe / And we will succeed

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and the posting that are published after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own application for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Why? Why not?

Several readers asked why I am so keen on resurrecting this blog and exposing this Ya-Chang Robert Lin, whom I have never met, but more importantly, has never done anything immoral against me. 

My reasons are multiple, the supporting evidences—those that have been published and those that have yet to be published—are conclusive, and my response is long, but here is a condensed version: 

Like Phandeluys [see this post, http://faces-of-fraud.blogspot.com/2012/11/should-i-be-embarrassed.html], I believe that all productive relationships—be they professional, academic, or personal—are predicated on trust. Without mutual trust, productive and beneficial working relationships are entirely impossible. 

Using other people’s work as your own and not crediting them, stealing data on assignments, and lying all destroy trust and undermine our ability to work well together, or to work together at all. 

It is not my responsibility to keep you honest or to ensure you act ethically or morally. Your honesty and morality are your responsibility, just as my own choices and actions are my responsibility. 

If the door is open for you to cheat, lie, or steal, that is not an invitation for you to do so; if you decide to cheat, lie, or steal, that is your decision, your choice, your action. If you are so dishonest that you need other people to keep you in line, you do not belong in the professional world. 

I am committed to acting honestly and ethically toward all of the members of my communities. This include my friends. I am also unwilling to work with anyone who proves him or herself to be a cheating, stealing, or lying piece of crap. This also includes my friends. 

So, if you are caught cheating or stealing or lying in my communities, I will do my best to let the rest of the communities know that you cannot and should not be trusted. 

Stay tune, and until next post, 

We dream / We believe / And we will succeed

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and the posts that are published after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own application for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper, speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing for him]. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

Obsessed? Sure, and so are you, readers

Gifted a shiny new hardware, how many of you would jump at a chance to install it and test it? It has been three weeks since the server system was delivered to my friend but she has yet to pull the package open … . 

Well, I am patient, if nothing else—and there are plenty else but only for the right people. 

And while I am waiting for her reaction on installing, configuring, and running the server system, I have been hard at work retrieving data from encrypted and reformatted drives Phandeluys had thought fit to dispose of. [Yup, that’s me—the tallish and cute-looking guy sweeping up that box of hard drives, digital devices, and a laptop she had placed beside the trash bin.] 

Most people think that by encrypting and then reformatting a hard drive that data become unreadable even if they are recoverable. I do not blame them for that popular belief but I should like to disabuse them of it. Personally, I would add sledgehammering as the last step in the encrypting-reformatting procedure, just so my mind would not stray into sleepless-nights territory wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone was reading and acting out my private fantasies. 

One never knows. And certainty leads to peace of mind and happiness. 

Anyway, seeing how I just went off on a tangent, I am dying to know what other blog posts Phandeluys had composed but did not get to publish before the original blog was shut down. Anything else is a bonus. Inquiring mind wants to know. And for those of you who must know, stay tune to see the latest capture from my daily challenge recovering those files. 

A clarification and semi-disclaimer here: I would not classify this as challenging in comparison to my work in digital forensics and data retrieval. The challenge here is finding the encryption that was used on the drives and files … once I find that, the challenge is no more. Still, a partial challenge is a challenge and I never back down from one, in whatever shape and size. 

Stay tuned, send me your complaints and documentation [if I use them in my posts, I promise to keep your information anonymous], and until next post, 

We dream / We believe / And we will succeed.

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and the posts that are published after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own application for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper,  speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing for him].

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.

To resurrect or not | I hear you readers

Since my update, my inbox is filled with incoming messages from interested [and interesting] parties—half of whom are curious about my relationship with the blog’s original author Phandeluys, and the remaining half who wanted to voice their opinions—backed by first-hand experiences with and/or supporting evidences about the subject matter and/or the people involved. 

Other than what has already been written, I will not address the former subject matter; nor will I be responding to any requests for the latest Microsoft Surface Pro tablets or Intel server systems—tower or rack. 

Here are the reasons why: 

a. My relationship with Phandeluys is none of your business and if I choose to share a tidbit here and there, then that is my prerogative; 

b. Some of you may be a reader or even a subscriber of this blog, but you and I are complete strangers—you do not know me and I assuredly do not know you. I am not your financial supporter. Nor am I Judge bleeding heart whose heartstrings you can pull with your copious “crocodile tears” and other narcissistic, manipulative, and psychopathic tactics. Your guilt- and shame-inducing efforts, dramatics, lies, and trickery are best spent on someone else. Here is the one thing I can do for you: An advice to never speak and write just to please yourself because at best, you will end up pleasing no one; and at worst, you will end up tricking someone you shouldn’t. 

Now, what I will do with the attachments you have flooded my inbox with is to review all subscribers' emails, and with discretion, post any content and its attachment that document the many wrongs—moral and illegal—that Ya-Chang Robert Lin had committed against my friend Phandeluys [and might still be committing against other unaware persons out there in his attempt to gain power and security through trickery. Ingrained habits are ineradicable; the cheating, stealing, lying, and manipulating will surface eventually because that is all Ya-Chang Robert Lin knows—and anyone who is unfortunate enough to come into contact with him should know about]. 

Now, here comes the caveat: My friend has filed motions to appeal the jurors’ decision and for a new trial. [Personally, I never trust jurors—the cognitively alert ones that you can rely on to listen and judge unbiasedly will almost always find a qualification and/or excuse that will exempt them from jury service—so you are left with those who are neither cognitively “all there” nor conscientious about their duty.] The hearing is not scheduled until April, and pending the hearing, I will refrain from mentioning and posting new evidence or anything that might disadvantage my friend. 

Depending on the Judge’s decision at the hearing on the motion for a new trial, I may or may not decide to post all the documentary evidences concerning the claims underlying my friend’s petition for annulment of her 16-year marriage—a marriage that was entered into via fraud, built on fraud, and continued in fraud. 

So stay tune and until next post, 

We dream / We believe / And we will succeed.

About this blog 

Excepting this introduction and the posts that are published after March 2015, this blog mirrored a now out-of-commission blog, http://ya-chang-lin.blogspot.com, which was taken down on October 21, 2013 by its author Phandeluys Truong. 

The author's original contents and supporting documents were captured by multiple means from the above-mentioned blog while it was alive and active. There may have been a glitch here and there that prevented me from downloading the complete blog as it had existed. Thus, readers familiar with the original blog may find a few missing posts and/or comments. Those postings that I was able to grab and preserve in their entirety are reposted here under my name, however, all rights remain that of the original author. 

This series of posts documents the fraudulent, sometimes criminal, and frequent unethical/immoral activities of Ya-Chang Robert Lin, a Taiwanese native of mainland Chinese parentage, who defrauded a naturalized US citizen, Phandeluys Truong, into a marriage that had been his shield against USCIS for his intentional violations of immigration law: 

as a nonimmigrant F-1 student, he had willfully operated an international students recruiting business without prior work authorization from the then United States Immigration and Naturalization Service; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students to evade military drafts in their countries by facilitating their applications to study in the US and abroad; 

as President of said business, he had knowingly helped both mainland Chinese and Taiwanese students looking to enter the United States with the intention of gaining permanent US resident status under the pretense of studying; 

as President of said business, he had purposely evaded paying taxes on the commissions received from it and failed to report the earned income to the IRS by having the payments wired back to Taiwan to his mother Chang Hsueh; 

he had applied for reinstatement of his F-1 or student status and a change of status, while knowingly withheld the preceding facts on his own application for permanent resident and citizenship in the United States. 

And those are just the tip of the iceberg. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin had been employed at AAFES or The Exchange headquarter in Dallas, Texas as an information technology auditor, where he managed to steal—by downloading to CDs that he kept in his personal possession while abiding for time and opportunities to "do business" in Taiwan and/or China—thousands of his colleagues’ Social Security numbers and personnel files while working on one of its HR projects. The HR data on one of these projects became the basis for an academic paper,  speaking proposal for ISACA, and a consulting business he was "collaborating with " [more like conning other people into developing for him].

Ya-Chang Robert Lin is a reprobate with a seared conscience. Lacking normal capacity for empathy, remorse, and reciprocation of good will, he is addicted to lying, cheating, and stealing for the pure pleasures derived from being able to get away with it. Because he is such a good liar—so charming and well versed in manipulation techniques and acting skills—it is hard to distinguish him from reprobates. 

Ya-Chang Robert Lin was able to dupe some of the smart people in federal government, higher education, and information technology auditing and security. Among his legacy: A son who refused any connection with him and wished that he were dead.