After The Examiner reported earlier in 2022 that Beaumont-based “Quick Cash 4 Test Strips” owner Richard Spillman is under scrutiny for allegedly taking products but failing to pony up payment for the goods, investigative reporters learned that criminal complaints have been filed against Spillman from coast-to-coast.
Southeast Texas’ Better Business Bureau (BBB) has handled many complaints forwarded to the nonprofit regarding Quick Cash and owner Dick Spillman. In 2019, the agency fielded more than 60 complaints regarding Quick Cash, an unusually high number compared to most caseloads in the Golden Triangle, reps said. By 2020, the number of complaints grew, totaling over 100. By 2021, the number of complaints generated at the local BBB solely regarding Quick Cash were so numerous that the agency was forced to acquire outside staff to assist.
“Basically, we had to pay someone else – there were that many complaints,” BBB Dispute Resolution and Retention Director Jay Sheppard said.
This week, the allegations against Spillman continued to grow.
Jeffrey Novak, of San Diego, California, found The Examiner’s coverage of Spillman’s alleged misdeeds while searching online for info on the test strip connoisseur. Unfortunately for Novack, the research wasn’t instigated until after Spillman allegedly received more than $400 worth of product from Novak for which the Quick Cash purveyor has yet to make good on payment.
“My test strips were received over a month ago, but yet no payment to my PayPal account as requested,” Novack shared, adding that initial attempts to contact Spillman resulted in no response to phone calls, emails, letters or social media messaging – at least not from the alleged conman.
Novack, again networking online to find out more about Spillman and his Quick Cash business, did start to hear back from masses of others saying they, too, were victims of Spillman’s cash-for-strips con.
“People started responding to me – all kinds of stories,” Novack told The Examiner, detailing tale after tale of diabetic patients mailing off their assets to Spillman only to be left waiting indefinitely for the money they are owed. “He’s still taking advantage of people. Three or four times a week, I have people sending me complaints of him doing the same thing to them.”
Getting nowhere with attempts to reach Spillman, Novack reached out to investigators all over the nation to get resolution.
To date, Novack has filed complaints regarding Spillman with BBBs in California and Texas, as well as Attorneys General in California and Texas, the U.S. Postal Service and the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.