Lisa McAdams aka Lisa Kato is now also using the alias Sylvia Ferrell. She has other names she uses when she posts horses for sale because her name is Mudd.
I also have had the misfortune of dealing with her. Twice.
The first time was about 15 years ago. She was using the sob story about her kid, Cassidy, whose health issues she has exaggerated and has exploited endlessly for personal gain. The horse I looked at was looking at was sketchy at best and I walked away. Selling the horse to pay medical bills if I recall correctly. That was her spiel, anyways because she’d gotten her kid written up in the local paper. “Poor Us!!”
The second time was just last year. Someone named “Lindy” posted a horse for sale on Equine.com. The ad was a day old. I messaged “Lindy” about the horse. The horse was already sold (imagine that) but she had another one even better. (Bait and switch anyone??) I went to see the horse. I recognized Lisa immediately, even though it was 14 years later and a different farm. “Lindy” was still going on about Cassidy’s issues. Said they were moving to Colorado or Wyoming or someplace and selling everything to pursue “poor sick” Cassidy’s dream of Barrel Racing or something like that.
I was looking for a beginner safe horse. “Teddy” was supposed to be the dead quiet horse anyone could ride. I told her in advance I wanted to see a fresh horse. I wanted to see it groomed and tacked before we rode.
I show up and Teddy is in the ring, covered in sweat and foam, but the saddle was off. Clearly Teddy had been ridden extensively and they’d just untacked. They threw the western saddle on (Literally), and got on Teddy and rode him around. Even after obviously being ridden hard, Teddy was still very forward and clearly not a beginner safe horse. She said I could have him cheap and dropped the price before I said anything. Yeah, no thanks. Total waste of time.
I recently posted looking for another horse. She PMs me as “Sylvia Ferrell” saying her friend has the “perfect horse”. She sends me a really bad photo that looks like it was a phone pic taken of a pic on a computer screen. She won’t send a video. She won’t tell me her friend’s name who owns the horse.
A little research shows that Sylvia Ferrell is the name of her neighbor. “Sylvia” also provided the neighbor’s address as hers. They share a common driveway at 1924/1928 Eastham Rd., Bumpass, VA.
I recognized the address and Google Earthed it and yep, “Sylvia” is Lisa.
Ask yourself this: If she is legit, why does she go to such trouble to hide who she is?
