Saturday Morning Fraud News
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"It all started a few weeks ago when blogger Everyday Finance wrote a post about the ShopToEarn and ShopToEarth program. He highlighted both positives and negatives that he found with their MLM program. It wasn't long before he got a cease and desist email from Gerry Nehra (former attorney for mlm giant Amway), threatening legal action if he didn't take down his negative comments about the company.I then wrote my own critique of the mlm program, and got my own cease and desist email. The original blogger modified the posts on his blog that made Shop To Earn so mad, but that wasn't good enough. Gerald Nehra then demanded he take down his site within 24 hours.
And the blogosphere is rallying to stop this kind of bullying. Bloggers are entitled to express their opinions, whether or not MLMs like ShopToEarn want them to or not."
Roger Parloff, writing at his blog at Fortune, notes the difficulty that eBay is having with complying with the terms of the injunction.
"On the French eBay site, ebay.fr, the same searches (using both 'perfume' and 'parfum') produces 0 results for each of the brands - so some blocking must be happening. However, at the bottom of those same search results pages, there's a box with links to eBay boutiques outside France (US, UK and Canada, mainly, but I also saw Spain) that offer perfumes by the three [sic] producers for auction."In response to Peter's observations, an eBay spokeswoman says: "At this stage our comment still remains the same as earlier, which is we are actively working towards finding an effective solution."
I would have thought that the Court would have suspended its order for 30 days to allow eBay to come up with an effective solution. You should read all of Roger's article because he sets out all the different lawsuits involved.
Finally, some sense on the economic front from the Onion who reports:
"A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory economic bubble in which to invest."What America needs right now is not more talk and long-term strategy, but a concrete way to create more imaginary wealth in the very immediate future," said Thomas Jenkins, CFO of the Boston-area Jenkins Financial Group, a bubble-based investment firm. "We are in a crisis, and that crisis demands an unviable short-term solution."
Comments
No worries.
Respect to you.
Posted by: some sane truth | August 3, 2008 12:29 PM
Thanks, I agree with you having been shown the errors of my ways.
Posted by: michael webster
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July 28, 2008 10:06 PM
Thanks, I realize that I did no background checking on Lowde:
http://www.bizop.ca/blog2/complaints-and-investigations/mea-culpa-thanks-to-my-uk-read.html
Posted by: michael webster
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July 28, 2008 10:05 PM
I have actually written a retraction about my initial link.
Posted by: michael webster
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July 28, 2008 10:04 PM
I don't understand why you have turned some of my text into a link that has nothing to do with my comment. Does that earn you?
I was giving you a general warning not to get involved with a seriously unpleasant character, who was trying to draw you in. An unsolicited and condensed warning, granted, but I thought it would sound enough alarm bells in your head to wise you up to the game.
Obviously I failed, as you came back to ask rather technical questions, which rather suggests she has succeeded in intriguing you. My terseness was perhaps misinterpreted. That woman takes up far too much of everyone's attention, and rewards us all with nothing but vile spume.
The math? OK. She has been told that Piccadilly Line trains are 107 m long. Public info, displayed on many 7/7 diagrams. Yet she insists that Piccadilly Line trains consist of 7 cars of 25 m. (Previously she had these cars 80, 40 and 32 m long.) So you do the sum.
7 x 25 = ? (not 107 is it?)
Also Piccadilly Line trains consist of SIX cars. So she can't count either, but perhaps you should not be expected to know that. It is on the diagrams though.
Finally she insists that Rachel N had to be minimum 41 feet from the bomb. That is because she arbitrarily divides the tube cars into 2, an unwarranted assumption since they are actually more realistically divided into three, relating to the doors. So any sum she comes up with in relation to the distance from the bomb are gibberish, because the car is the wrong length and the bomb was not in the middle, and RN wasn't either.
Perhaps I should have said 'science' or 'logic' rather than 'math', but I would have thought that the shortest sojourn on that site would have revealed to you the essential hatefulness of the thing. RN has earned nothing from the work she has done for 7/7 victims. None of the arguments on that blog hold water. That 'experiment' based round walking along the platform is laughable.
You might not know how selectively she has misquoted her sources, which is why I wanted to point you at her aberrant reasoning, and highlight the personal abuse nonchalantly sprinkled throughout the text. Surely the stuff about the rape cannot have escaped you?
If you wish to use my comment for either humour or to mount a paid link then I cannot stop you.
I was trying to do you a favour.
Your call...
Posted by: some sane truth | July 26, 2008 2:01 AM
Felicity Jane Lowde is a convicted stalker of a prominent female blogger who was involved in 7/7 bombings. She is deeply disturbed. There are restraining orders against her further harrassment of this woman, which she has managed to circumvent by creating the hate-blog called "neverinthat carriage". There is no "we" involved in that blog. It is the sole product of Felicity Lowde. Her hatred is irrational and personal.
Posted by: Deb | July 25, 2008 10:04 AM
"neverinthatcarriage" is a convicted cyberstalker. not a good person to associate yourself with.
Posted by: Wasputinjail | July 24, 2008 10:03 AM
I've left you links - assume you got them?
Otherwise feel free to email me.
Posted by: POJOB | July 22, 2008 7:28 PM
Ok, could you point us to the restraining orders? I am not sure that the math doesn't make sense - can you be more specific. Again, if this is the work of Felicity Lowde a convicted criminal stalker, could you point to some evidence of the conviction?
Thanks
Posted by: michael webster
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July 22, 2008 4:59 PM
That hate blog is:
1. criminal - in breach of restraining orders in UK.
2. completely untrue. Check out the math and the wildly silly stuff about length of carriages, size of tunnels etc
3. insane. Check out the low level personal abuse. And the sickening, prurient stuff about rape.
All that should give you the idea that it is groundless.
Actually it is the work of 4 x convicted criminal cyberstalker, felicity lowde (google to see what she gets up to).
Advice? Leave well alone.
Posted by: some sane truth | July 22, 2008 6:31 AM
Interesting blog. Any idea about how much money she has scammed? Other than money, what do you suppose her motive is? Did she just get caught up in the limelight, do you suppose? Or was it much more calculated?
Posted by: michael webster
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July 20, 2008 9:56 PM
Good blog. Take a look at ours when you get the chance.
Posted by: neverinthatcarriage | July 20, 2008 3:17 PM