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Crawling Across Chaos and Time Without End
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Jul
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More on Google Profits and Pacific Webworks![]() Oh What a tangled web we weave... Oh What a tangled web we weave…Back on May 1st I checked out this particular morph of the Google Money Bollox Kit Chest Scheme Plan… See here. I just had to show it because of the naff spelling and wordage, plus the inconsistencies in the text and graphics, and company name changes. NormalOf course, I’ve now realised that this is all totally normal and is done on purpose to keep Propellor heads busy.. At the time, the penultimate link in the chain of signing up, was:
So I thought I’d check if it still worked, it being a “secure” connection with session ID, and myself having been through several incarnations of Firefox as well as frequent cache and cookie clearances…. Copyright © 2009 Google Profits™Well I was still laughing at the dinky trademark sign when I fired up (in)s3curehost dot com. They obviously consider it something worth protecting! You’ll not be surprised to know that s3curehost.com still exists (so much for security and session IDs?). I’m actually surprised, in a small way, that they still keep pumping this stuff out. A Whois shows that s3curehost.com is “IntelliPay, Inc.” a.k.a. “Pacific WebWorks, Inc.” who we’ve already looked at in Salt Lake City on the original Google Treasure Chest – It’s a Scam and a Half posting. The “Google Profits” web-page has changed slightly, but the incompetent spelling and characteristic inconsistency is reassuringly still there!
I left my “qualifying” to another day, so I haven’t found out if I’m ‘eligable’ yet. Pacific Web WorksThere are two things of note about this business, apart from the “Microsoft Certified Partner” logo. [added 26/10/2009: Matt at scamtimes.com has checked out the claim to be valid here in this comment below. However, it seems very easy to get this 'logo' certification.]
At first glance it’s a normal business for this line of work. Here’s what they say about themselves and their custom software suite:
![]() The Plot Thickens So far so good. And the database – that must be where all the contacts are kept, securely, private? Now check that telephone number again. It was the 9020 that did it! Like primeval intelligence, it’s come back from the depths of my mind. It’s listed as the main contact point for Google Treasure Chest, etc, many times. See here and here for two of my posts. Now check this google search for the phone number 801-578-9020.
Another word for rip-off or scam is the legal term, theft. Conclusion![]() Like links in a chain Pacific Webworks are still in business – in fact, business is booming and they are reported to be in the top 40 Utah companies! (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/pacific-webworks-receives-recognition,890942.shtml). I’m not sure who this lot are doing the reporting, but I can guess the connections…(added 3/3/10: Link to Earth Times removed. This ‘business’ contains several puffs for PWW. Like most dodgy websites, it’s domain WHOIS is hidden, by Domains by Proxy, again! - SP) ![]() What a tangled web we weave... This industrial resource, http://resources.bnet.com/topic/pacific+webworks+inc..html, shows that the company had sales >$9m last year for its 34 employees. This is very interesting! The same source shows, on this page, that profits are doubling at the company this year.
Because the company, having exactly the same phone number as the main protagonists in the Google Treasure Chest scams, now cannot fail to be connected by the FTC in their investigations and imminent court cases. And from what I recall from the closure of the call centre, is that 200 employees lost their jobs. This is the same call centre that had 801-578-9020 as the contact number! It was people working at the call centre who said that 200 people worked there(see http://www.topix.net/forum/source/fox13now/T28A5BU37IS57DC8C/p3).
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Thanks @Not Kevin
This looks (because the Florida AG says that it’s a civil case) that this is some sort of class action to me. See what happens then….
I see that two of the companies listed are from Clearwater, Florida. I picked up some shack address there back in August last year, here:
http://strangelyperfect.tv/5612/mybookface-google-utah-and-nevis-scamboys-united/
I wonder if they’re related? The Florida AG has two different addresses for these “businesses” here:
http://www.myfloridalegal.com/lit_ec.nsf/investigations/468B2CA5B9D8F022852576500063C5D3
and here:
http://www.myfloridalegal.com/lit_ec.nsf/investigations/87E6CBBEB10F58A18525768600755159
But for me, the similarities in online name and physical locations are too close to ignore, after all the Google Bollox we’ve had to endure.
There’s an interesting wodge of info on the Clearwater folks by NilsC here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=55894d4f11234462&hl=en
The high charges and shoddy business practices are to be noted!
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More from Florida…
http://www.miamiherald.com/business/nation/story/1484959.html
The Miami Herald quotes the following from the FTC that on top of the sinful seven @not Kevin mentions above:
It’s a start, then.
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Good to hear some tough talk from the FTC:
““Federal and state law enforcement officials will not tolerate those who take advantage of
consumers in times of economic misfortune,” Vladeck said. “If you falsely advertise that you will connect people with jobs or with opportunities for them to make money working from home, we will shut you down. We will give your assets to the people you scammed, and, when it’s appropriate, we’ll refer you to criminal authorities for prosecution.””
From Paul’s blog at: http://www.workathometruth.com/blog/2010/02/18/ftc-cracks-down-on-con-artists-who-target-jobless-americans/
As you say, it’s a start.
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Interesting that 7 of the 8 are in Florida whereas Pacific Webworks is the odd one out being in Utah. Perhaps the Florida AG got tired of the Utah AG doing nothing??! (Apart from taking political donations from the scammers that is)
The Florida AG is also investigating these people:
RNR Media, LLC., a/k/a “Cleanwhites”, Rauscher Bekke, LLC., Green Bracket, LLC., Jesse Stein, Individually and Paul Nute, Individually.
Well Clean Whites is yet another teeth whitening scam – what is with people named Jesse and teeth whitener scams??
http://www.myfloridalegal.com/lit_ec.nsf/investigations/D744A92BBDA533408525766900688EA7
Note how the Just Think Media stable of scams by their own admission includes /included all the usual suspects:
AcaiBurn (Acai)
PureCleanse
ResV (Resveratrol)
Wu-Yi
Google
Grants
Credit Report America
Fraud Protection
ID Theft
Comprehensive Weight Loss
Insider Secrets
Dazzle White (teeth whitener)
PureLiftCream
List taken from the comment post by Mark A. of
JustThink Media at:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/just-think-media–dazzlewhite-c232583.html
Well here is another crowd of swamp dwellers for the Florida Attorney General to look into:
XM Brands Inc.
Address:
3389 Sheridan St., Suite# 217
Hollywood , Florida USA 33021
Telephone Number: (800) 440-4397
http://www.seflorida.bbb.org/Business-Report/XM-Brands-Inc-92013738
As can be seen here they too were running a ‘Google Kit’ scam:
http://sfholidays.blogspot.com/2009/11/scam-alert-xm-brands-refused-to-give-me.html
Google XM Brands or XM Brands Scam:
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=xm+brands+scam&meta=&aq=4&oq=xm+brands
and you will find a flood of complaints about their various ‘products’ as well as their website which shows that they too are flogging all the usual suspects: Acai, Colon Cleanse, Teeth Whitener, Resveratrol and Work From home garbage:
http://www.xmbrands.com/products.html
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@Not Kevin
That FTC release that Paul quotes (http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2010/02/bottomdollar.shtm) shows the continuing and expanding extent to which the thieving conmen will go, doesn’t it?
Fishing around, I came across this TV News investigation video from New Zealand from last August…
http://tvnz.co.nz/fair-go/whiter-than-white-2889431/video/
It’s quite a good “dummies” guide to how Jesse works.
Unfortunately, as we know, he’s still at it in his $40m Canadian house…. Here are a few links FROM THIS MONTH detailing how people have been thieved by Mr Willms and his ilk.
http://boards.answers.findlaw.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=89636.4&nav=messages&webtag=fl-consumer_law
http://www.complain-about-them.com/claims/196/activepro_866_417
http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/2010/02/19/teeth-whitening-products-sold-online-wipe-smile-off-consumers%E2%80%99-faces/
Now while not necessarily being Willms, the same methods are continuing with the same problems of tracking, stopping and catching the perpetrators from our law enforcers.
Even when we know who they are, quite often they (like Jesse Wills for instance), continue to act with impunity.
For instance, this posting starts back during last summer and still has recent complaints about Jesse!
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/just-think-media–dazzlewhite-c232583.html?sort=datea&page=3
It’d be really nice if good ol’ Jesse ended up in Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone after the run-down by the Tucson Citizen, 100km away. That what happened to the bad guys in the old days….
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[...] as many scribes (e.g. Paul Schlegel) pointed out (e.g. here), it would, and it has all [...]
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[...] Comments are now closed on this posting as Google Treasure Chest is dead. However, the problem has not gone away – the menace continues. For further information, all chat on this and subsequent scams is now here: Google Revolution, Different Name, Same Scam! and here: More on Google Profits and Pacific Webworks/ [...]
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Neat start-up information on Pacific WebWorks.
From this website which hosts a heap of related official documents, we have:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/21711204/Public-Offering-Registration—PACIFIC-WEBWORKS-INC—5-30-2000
QUOTE (from 2000):
As you’ll see, I’ve been selective in my snippets, but there, from the pen of Larsen & Bell, is their business plan.
The last paragraph I’ve highlighted as they state categorically that they don’t know of any laws that will affect their operation. Here they state in their business plan that deceptive practices and the common law of the land from biblical times do not apply to themselves!!!!
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Could this be the connection between the USA and County Durham? !! :D
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8544045.stm
Durham Police: http://www.durham.police.uk/press/news.php?id=1389
The police link is now down, but the text from Google’s cache reads as:
Texas is the state that first collared Jonathon Eborn in April last year.
Spennymoor is just down the road from Consett etc.
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Interesting. A post made today on this website also points out the connections between the Google Kit, Acai, Teeth scams etc and County Durham:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2071617&page=2
Not sure all his/her facts/allegations are correct though (Brock Felt, BBB) but a search for the address in the post + the word scam threw up a lot of porn sites: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=trD&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=18+Millfield+Court%2C+DH8+8TN+scam&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=
and this: lancashireecho.com
Lancashire Echo – Online News You Can Trust (yeah right!!) where the address is buried in the (very small!) small print below all the garbage about free Govt grants for UK citizens.
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@Not Kevin
Disappointingly this all seems to be coming around again….
Checking the address for the ‘company’ behind the ‘Lancashire Echo’ using my website (strangelyperfect.tv) only,
…I see several similar DH8 references. These are them:
LB Envision Net Worldwide Ltd. DH8 0LH
DH8 7QD
LB Eridanus Entertainment Limited DH8 7NG
DH8 0RX
DH8 0EP
Also LB LFP Internet Ltd used DH7 0LZ as well!!
Check out the new name,Caddish Rondeaux Enterprises Ltd… What’s it mean?
Caddish is obviously behaviour pertaining to a cad, the old English term for a complete and utter twat. This part is highly accurate!
Rondeaux is French for a Roundel, a heraldic mark most famous as the emblem of the RAF. See,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundel
Also notice that the businesses at Millfield Court variously use No 18 AND No 28!!
It all shows that either half of County Durham is loaded up with scam companies, or else most of it is just pure fiction…? Just as the variously named LB etc is now morphing to Caddish whatever.
Brock Felt: You spotted him way back in September 2009 here:
http://strangelyperfect.tv/4308/google-revolution-different-name-same-scam/#comment-1889
In the same comment you pulled out the DH8 7OS postcode which was used by a heap of ‘businesses’ as well as the cross reference to Steve Comer in UTAH.
Finally you pulled in ol’ Jesse Willms who was using the same addresses!
That was a hell of a comment back then.
And now we’re back to square one again! Even the porn is still tied into the same addresses and will probably pop up in a few Essex garages as well..
One thing about the ECHO bit. This leads me to think that there’s at least one operation in County Durham, no matter how many addresses and postcodes pop up.
The reason is that the local paper in Sunderland and that part of County Durham is called “The Northern Echo” – http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/ Echo isn’t used very often in newspaper names, so it shows a degree of local knowledge, IMHO.
Doing a quick search on
shows an earliest scam reference to unauthorised charges from about June 2009. The most recent are now and have ramped up in frequency since New Year. try:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/fed-packcom-c212089.html
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/grants–fed-packcom-c296613.html
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?p=885276
http://www.scamfound.com/f13/grants-fed-pack-com-unorthorized-charges-credit-card-86473.html
Finally, try this from the local history site for Consett!!!

http://www.consett-history.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=11933&sid=637648ed568f9309cfd1890d690d4801
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So the circle of scams begins all over again?? How depressing! Can we expect ‘Google Kits’ to make a re-appearance in a few months, followed by Acai and teeth whitening mark 2 (maybe Acai which whitens your teeth or something who knows!?)
Caddish indeed. Fed-pack is yet another US site with a County Durham address. Note the 1 day (yes 1 day) trial period before they rob you: fed-pack.com/static/terms
The grantsdot.com/uk/ website even has a ‘testimonial’ from Jon P., London who got a check – yes a check not a cheque, perhaps he is confused as to which country he is in. Or more likely he doesn’t even exist.
Caddish Rondeaux Enterprises Ltd does however exist – at least according to Companies House. They even filed a company return just last week: http://www.ukdata.com/creditreports/viewCompanyDetails.do?companyId=06818199&only-match=1
http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=%22Caddish+Rondeaux%22&meta=&aq=f&oq=%22Caddish+Rondeaux%22&fp=33a9a577caa4e7cb
Some recent victims:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/caddish-rondeaux-enterprises-c308805.html
From your scam.com link above it seems Fed Pack / Caddish et al is just another re-incarnation of an old grants scam called Grants 360 (Grants360).
Here we can see another scammy affiliate network encouraging their affiliates to promote this crap:
http://twitter.com/ewanetwork/status/9838133788
Their whole Twitter feed indeed is an A to Z of scams – Acai, teeth, Home income etc, it’s all there:
http://twitter.com/ewanetwork
Seems this ‘dude’ called Ryan Eagle is the man boy behind EWA:
http://www.nickycakes.com/ryan-eagle-super-affiliate-e-thug-yo/
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@Not Kevin
Ryan Eagle and his family look sooo nice. It’s hard to imagine them all being involved in “premier adult” websites, and that Ryan was (is) a reformed drugs and liquor addict? I can well believe that his faith in god is immense though…
See ryaneagle.com/family.php and
http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryaneagle (look for Fathom Adult Technologies)
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Here is Ryan Eagle aka EWA pushing the scammy grant offer (Grants 360 aka Fed Pack aka Radish Caddish Rondeaux or whatever they are calling themselves this week) yet again :
“Scale your existing grant campaigns into Canada and the United Kingdom with Grants 360! The UK is a huge unsaturated market waiting for you!”
http://twitter.com/ewanetwork/status/9948263036
And here is another affiliate network (CONvert2media) looking to exploit the ‘UK market’.
“I have 2 Private Teeth Whitening – UK campaigns looking for some traffic.”
http://twitter.com/convert2media/status/9686363430
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@Not Kevin
Do you know how long tweets float round in the Twitter ecosystem? This is a serious question as I don’t know. In other words, is there a tweet archive or do the tweets only float around in a defined memory space and disappear once they are past the edge?
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Not sure – but I am not quite sure of the point of Twitter either!
I think they (‘Tweets’ hang around a while though – quite tedious to keep clicking ‘more’ to get older ones but you can also try Googling for them.
Eg: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site:++site:twitter.com+twitter.com+dazzlewhite&ei=vVWQS62FLZTw0gTm4djsDA&sa=X&oi=nshc&resnum=1&ct=more-results&ved=0CA8Q2AQ
(There are some there from early last year)
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Hmmm….
It’s just that the way that Ryan at EWA etc bandies around all the latest ‘offers’, they are essentially UN-TRACEABLE!
There are no links in tweets just these quick-fire bursts of information. Therefore there are no back-link algorithms for search engines etc.
This all means that these crap websites that we’ve been examining can fire up and close down even faster than before once the few people in the know are listening in on the ‘broadcast’. It’s a neat way to trap the curious and unwary as well which further enhances the expansion of these websites.
This is why it’s important to make the companies that host and provide credit handling facilities, and the ones that provide the rest of the ‘vertically integrated web marketeer package’ are held accountable for their actions (e.g. PWW). Without them, then Ryan etc can tweet away into the ether without any web foundation….
Now we know that Ryan on his EWA website has already said that he’s intending to provide “the full package” to people for a fee that will include hosting etc. Once he’s done this, then he becomes another PWW and thus more visible….
Do you see the change and difference between the two things going on here?
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This is not Ryan Eagle but another affiliate network:
http://www.findaffiliateoffers.com/NDustry-Clix-415.html
Page looks familiar though.
Note the ‘offer’ start date (31/12/09) ie: well AFTER Google announced a lawsuit against Pacific Webworks etc!
The company running the offer is:
NDustry Clix Inc.
1622 West Britton Rd.
Oklahoma City, OK 73120 USA
President: Mike Pacheco
Office: 888-665-6165 ext.1
Cell: 405-618-3559
http://www.warriorforum.com/ad-networks-cpa-cpm-cpl-millionaire-makers/168236-eleadmedia-ndustryclix.html#post1731800
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…familiar enough indeed, @Not Kevin!
This is the thing. These templates are circulating everywhere – Google has a big job if it really wants to protect itself – but does it?
Interestingly, (and this shows the already extant status of NDustry Clix Inc), I use OpenDNS to block lots of stuff from my home router and NDustry Clix Inc is already on the blacklist. I’d have to open the settings up a fair bit to be able to view the landing page. In essence, peer reviewing within OpenDNS has deemed ndustryclix.directtrack.com to be pants for internet users!
One thinking occurred to me while looking at the screendump on the link you provided….
Currently we only know about the English versions of these scams (sorry, business opportunities). The two biggest internet markets by user numbers will soon be China and India.
Now my knowledge of both Chinese and the various Indian languages is zero, so has anyone seen a,
…in Chinese, or a similar Hindi offering? You know, complete with the 100% satisfaction guaranteed splash etc!
This could already be going on, and I’d never know. Anyone bi-or tri-lingual could make a real fortune in those countries.
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Pacific WebWorks and their supporters seem confident that the bad old days of being sued by Google are over…
Their share price is up to 11 cents.
Their Google case has been settled (apparently).
They’re up to their old tricks with templates, phones, unwarranted credit card charges etc – and it’s all done via a blistering mirage of shell websites and affiliated ‘businesses’. e.g. makemoneyonline.nanacity.com/make-money-online-with-google-money-tree/ auto-dated to today…
Here’s a nice share price graph saying buy, buy, buy…. except the vertical scale is logarithmic to emphasise the small values:
http://www.hotstockmarket.com/forums/showpost.php?s=e1fbc6154ce0671e01662ec555993a98&p=2386280&postcount=16
Another hot PWW topic, is something I’d previously missed from last December, 2009.
It’s ANOTHER court case with PWW in the dock. This one seems to be a private matter, listed as:
Nature of Suit: Torts – Property – Other Fraud
Cause: 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud
Further information about Deanna Pelletier and her case against the PWW creeps is very hard to come by. These are the only links I can find:
…so I wonder what’s going on with that one?

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Vogel in this comment on a huge posting devoted to the dubious business that is Monavie, make some fine comments about the close-knit community of F-rated scammers in UTAH, just based on ACAI alone! See
http://www.lazymanandmoney.com/monavie-scam-was-my-wife-recruited-sell-snake-oil/#comment-172261
Also, see this post on the UTAH grouping:
http://strangelyperfect.tv/5612/mybookface-google-utah-and-nevis-scamboys-united/
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