Ryan's Recovery Fund

My name is Ryan Denief, and I was recently diagnosed with a severe Anxiety Disorder and Chronic Depression, and have been informed by my doctor that I am unfit and unable to work until nearly December 2017, because I am currently mentally unfit to do so.

I was working very hard to take care of myself on my own and was working two jobs in August, one I was about to leave and one I had just started.

The house I was renting from was sold to someone else in July, and they didn't allow me to be present for any signing so that I could have my rights as a tenant secured. They forced me to move within one month at the start of August. 

Right at the end of the month, they told me they needed me out a day earlier even though I had the day booked off all month for my move.

I was forced to move almost my entire house and furniture by myself. Then had to force myself into work the same day. Suffice to say I could not keep up with the work pace and flow and couldn't maintain my employment at this new job.

I found out that I had a major sprain in my back from having to rush that move and could not work for all of September.

The people who had bought the house, dumped all my big furniture into the alley behind my new place, while he was intoxicated drinking with his buddies at 9:30pm at night, and had to beg on Facebook for someone to come help me.

During all of this, a long time friend of mine approached me with help renting a vehicle through my credit card since his broke down, for himself and his buddy, Jonathan Landry, so I obliged. I later learned this was a grave mistake.

A 3 day rental turned into a 10 day rental, and they spilled gasoline in the rental according to the rental company when I followed up. They cost me $1100.

I was just starting to get set up with seeing a Councillor with my Doctor around this time to get properly diagnosed for my Anxiety and Depression, along with getting treated with Cyclobenzaprine and Tramadol for my back sprain.

It took me a while to manage to get My friend and Jonathan to communicate with me and come up with a way to pay me back, and they decided to do it through a cheque.

I have known this friend of mine for almost the entire time I have been living in Lethbridge, Alberta. Where I am currently living. I trusted this person implicity. It turns out his buddy Jonathan could not be trusted at all though.

They kept asking me for help after that with getting things settled for his buddy through other cheques, under the guise of helping me out as well. His buddy's running story was he was running away from an abusive boyfriend in Ontario, which I now know was not true.

Just as I am getting diagnosed with my Anxiety Disorder and Depression, and am about to start taking Cipralex and Lorazepam, I find out that the whole thing was a sham and a fraud.

Every cheque they got me to help them with bounced. My bank account I have had for 10 years is deep in the red because of what these two people did for me, and I am struggling to get any kind of financial aid or support to keep myself afloat.

This man, Jonathan Landry, has a Warrant in Ontario, which is why he ran from Ontario. He has frauded and scammed countless people whom I have many case numbers for, and is currently on the run once more looking for more victims. My friend is currently missing and with that man, and his closest friends and family have not heard from him at all since September 27th.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1771751786451187&set=a.1383528321940204.1073741828.100008491481808&type=3

This is just one post related to Jonathan that I have found through facebook. I am not prepared to post my legal information about my own case to a public website like this at this time. Which includes the name of my friend who is now deeply involved with all of this.


I was already out of work for September, and now I'm out of work until nearly December under orders from my doctor, to properly get my Anxiety Disorder taken care of, to let my Seratonin balance out again.

I hardly interacted with the man, but he managed to take my life that was already turned upside down and shove it even deeper into the ground then before.

I trusted my friend implicity since he has helped me move several times, helped me buy my vehicle and has been a very supportive person in the community for many of the friends I have come to meet through him. Now my life is in shambles because of that trust in him and this terrible man he got himself associated with, Jonathan Landry.

I have no way to recover from this on my own. I have yet to recieve any income from EI, I have no way to currently pay any of my current due bills and I desperately just want this horrible chapter of my life to be behind me.

I am mainly making this Gofundme so that I can recover that bank account and go back to my life, since my bank has made my liable for the funds since they consider it a Civil issue, and even if he is caught I know he has no money to his name and I will still be liable for all of my losses caused by this.

I've been in constant contact with my local Crisis Hotline and Victim's Services at the Police, and have been almost constantly trying to be in someone's company so I can keep myself together through all of this.

Along with a couple visits to the Emergency at the hospital to talk to someone just to keep myself together, isolation room included.



I've even tried to get income support for this issue, and all they told me in the end after explaining this to them was,"I guess you learned your lesson".

I already have enough to worry about with my mental recovery, I can't deal with this on my own, especially since I am mentally incapable of working.

My bank account is currently -$5800. I've only just managed to make another account with the wonderful people at Tangerine, so I could even make this fundraiser. I can't do anything with my actual bank account until I can recover these funds.

I need to be able to pay for my bills,  rent, food, medication that I don't currently have coverage for, insurance. Everything really.


My trust in most people has been severely violated and destroyed. I implore anyone who can help me out with this to prove to me that not everyone is horrible and people can come together and help someone who is in a bad place.

Anything helps. Thank you for taking the time to read my story.