Many of you will have heard of me. As you know, by running a nice steady stream of dodgy internet websites I’ve amassed a lot of money which I have to give away as I’m now a filanthropistpfhilanthwopistphilandpissedfillypistfullypissed philantropist.
And while I’m doing it, I’d charitably like to tell you about the most amazing things I’ve found on the internet (or web as it may be known to you newbies). These things are absolutely amazing and you really need one now!
Of course, in between charitable giving I like to talk about gadgets and girls, my two favourite topics apart from me and my charitable works – so first off:
The Gadgets you really must have!
(I’ll get around to Britney Spears later, f-nar, f-nar)
Ferrari
Ferrari
Broom
First off, check out the new Ferrari Broom? This FANTASTIC piece of kit is the dream piece for at least three of my mates and is a complete bargain at any price! It’s a clean sweep at any set of traffic lights!
Also comes in red!! Amazing!!!
Graphics Cards
Broom GTX
nVidia
Don’t get left behind in the high-tech stakes!
The latest cards from nVidia are a must have for anyone wanting to stick at the top of the tech game.! And the new Broom GTX has more b-b–r-r-r-ooom than anything else on the market, you can trust me on that one!
Mobile Brooms
The latest mobile phones from Broomsung are just the thing to have at a celebratory party following a charitable jog….
..err that’s enough broom for now (Ed)
…(article discontinued due to boring gibberish)..
[By the way, I'm not the Jesse Willms
that's famous for ripping people off.
No way! No sirree!
I'm the other Jesse Willms.]
Introduction Readers of these pages will need no introduction to Jesse Willms, self-proclaimed philanthropist and former purveyor of counterfeit software. But in the interests of traceability into the continuing insidious nature of the on-line marketplace, here’s a run-through of how to get from Facebook or MSNBC to Jesse Willms’ SwipeAuction (formerly SwipeBids), including a few...
Introduction There’s a well-known adage that says, Don’t believe everything you read in the papers (Point 1) Another, (which is derived from the mantra of the old UK stock market) goes like, An Englishman’s word is his bond (Point 2) Make what you want of them, but many people still go by this, replacing “An...
Don’t believe everything you read in the papers (Point 1)
Another, (which is derived from the mantra of the old UK stock market) goes like,
An Englishman’s word is his bond (Point 2)
Make what you want of them, but many people still go by this, replacing “An Englishman’s” with the word “MY”.
The Need for New Rules of Trust
The internet has made the job of snake oil salesmen, gangsters and other assorted conmen so much easier that the adages need to be re-thought and rules written. It’s a bit like Isaac Asimov’s Rules of Robotics. Here are mine, but please note the notes just below….
Note 1:All on-line businesses are required to reveal their correct identity through the WHOIS process. The only exclusions are for private non-trading individuals in certain countries. (Some people have a bit of a debate about this, but when you sign up for a domain, you’ll see!)
Note 2:The internet, (or world wide web), by its very nature is like the newspaper business – see Point 1 above!
Note 3: There is a consensus among decent people and a certain legality regarding tax etc., that most legitimate businesses would like to be known and contactable, or else they appear like spiv barrow boys on the make.
Note 4: There is no note 4… yet.
The New Rules of Trust
Rule 1:
Do not believe anything on-line without double or treble checking as a minimum.
Rule 2:
For any business that hides its WHOIS entry, do not believe anything that they say!!
Rule 2 and a half:
For any business that previously hid their WHOIS entry and later chooses to reveal it – same as Rule 2!
Example: Jesse Willms and his “businesses”
n.b. This is one example. This whole web area is currently ballooning and Willms is not alone!
A business that is anonymous, is on the edge of trust. (Willms’ businesses have previously been cloaked in the main. Only recently have they had publicly exposed WHOIS records.)
A business that uses false or misleading advertising, is on the edge of trust. (This very website is plagued by dodgy adverts, for which I apologise – it takes some time for the Google adwords filters to kick into play.)
The infamous Jesse Willms got his internet start by selling counterfeit software from Microsoft and Symantech (at least), and for which he had to pay oodles of dollars in damages.
Note: Willms translates this information on his website fluffs like so:
Before becoming a philanthropist, Willms was known for starting his first business – buying and selling computers and software when he was 16 – and launching several Internet companies by the time he was 22. see http://jessewillms.com/ & link & link (two links WHOIS hidden)
His current activities are in the business of skirting the lotteries and gambling laws with On-line “Bid” “Auctions”. These (and Willms is only one of many) are so far removed from the normal concept of an auction that they are more like Bingo.
In tandem with this he’s promoting himself as an internet good guy while still hypocritically continuing along the same vein of his previous activities. Like so…
His previous businesses included flogging green tea and acai fruits to either clean your bowels or make you thin with rippling muscles, and nicking the idea of and ruining the rotten business of a teeth whitening company, for which there have been sues and counter-sues which were resolved “with prejudice” as the wigs say (see link courtesy of @Justin Asking).
Like many fly-by-night websites, these were all promoted and run:
via fake websites in the form of informational blogs or news websites designed to appear as such, although minutely disclaimered as otherwise – good link with screenshots here and another here. These first two are run under the concept of “affiliate marketing” which harbours a whole realm of fly-by-night operations with virtually no scruples or accountability. Someone once remarked that managing affiliates was like herding cats….
via a plethora of drop-point contact addresses, widely dispersed around the globe having no relevance to site visitors’ locations.
via a plethora of dubious phone number contacts of highly variable functionality.
with an early predilection for multiple un-called for monetary withdrawals from customer credit accounts
with a penchant for rapidly changing website names that came and went faster than the seasons although much of the modus operandi and contact points would remain unaltered – a good test for these is that the registration period is generally only a year.
Swipe Offerings
SwipeBids.com which kicked off at the end of 2009 soon morphed into SwipeAuctions.com (see final point above!) How long this lasts is anyone’s guess… (p.s. swipebids domain expires soon).
Willms' Latest Fib
Currently, you’ll find that SwipeBids.com now redirects back to SwipeAuctions.com at a “prelogin” page. There, sit a heap of hysterically hypocritical statements right on this front page – see screenshot on the left and dissection below!
This website is Jesse Willms’ latest saucy effort at world domination! Tied in with this has been a massive internet hype of “Jesse Willms, the caring philantropist”.
The plethora of websites for which he’s been loathed continues in the myriad of hype sites and linkage referrals containing the vomit inducing self-promotional bilge, plus a continuing swathe of fake news websites.
Uncharacteristically, he sticks with only one “bid auction” website…? Hmm? (p.s. since this was written, the site has been pulled although rumours are rife about a new startup…!)
Meanwhile, like snake oil, the Swipe-Bid-Auction scam has proved very enticing to all the scum of the earth and has turned into a veritable plague… (p.s. since this was written, the plague of copycat sites is now a deluge)
Bid Auction Scum Fight it Out – it’s Getting Dirty
Dirty?
Yep! There’s a veritable bidding war going on to get to the top of the Google search results and the Facebook sidebar. As noted elsewhere, BidSauce.com has joined the affray and Willms’ lawyers have been issuing writs a-plenty.
My results show the following paid for ads on Google and their WHOIS hidden status.
BidSauce.com
Bidhere.com – Hidden
Biddi.com – disclosed UK company, KSB Trading Ltd
SwipeAuctions.com
SwipeAuctions-Register.com – Hidden! It also redirects to SwipeAuctions.com which is registered in California. Check out this info from @Not Kevin for an earlier version of the listings.
MadBid.com – disclosed as Marcandi Ltd in the UK
Bidhere.com – Hidden (again!)
SwipeBids.com
No paid for ads at the top but some of the above appear in the right-side advert box of paid for ads. Interestingly, swipeauctions.com is top!
What Does it Mean and What Should I Do?
Mean? It means that many people have seen this “bid-auction” as a good bandwagon to join, while it lasts!
Do? What I do is click on the paid for ads as much as possible! These ads are costing well over a pound to place and it costs those businesses for every click!!! (n.b. if you think I’m being hypocritical in allowing similar ads onto this website, then read my privacy policy.)
If it’s Facebook where I see the ad, I also click on it so that it fires up in a new window so the geezers have to pay again, then I click the cross next to the advert and report the adverts as “Misleading” – because, from all my research as seen on this website and others, plus the example searches shown above, they are all misleading.
Penny/Bid Auctions Mislead?
They mislead as it’s gambling, not an auction.
They mislead as you pay to enter the auction at each step, it’s not a bid.
They take money in advance – no auction does this, even one for a Van Gogh or an old wardrobe, because anyone can bid!
Swipe Auctions Duff Photo Evidence
Willms' Latest Fib (at the bottom)
Yep! At the bottom of his new landing page of swipeauctions.com, under “picture testimonials” Jesse states, today:
Each and every testimonial on the site should have a picture of the customer who sent it in. You can only use someone’s picture with his or her permission, so if there is a photo you can be sure the testimonial is legitimate. If there is no photo, the site’s management could have written a false testimonial.
And compare Jesse’s fine words with the fantastic investigative ScamRaiders revelation that the picture of an “auctioned” Honda as used on his website was taken and then Photo-shopped even before the website was set up!!!
Don’t you just love it when the creeps are so blatantly bad? !!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=36648669&postcount=22 – comment detailing the above BBB conflict of interests and how Jesse Willms’ businesses generated 2612 complaints at the BBB before they revised his status with his newer websites! n.b. This is one of the top UK websites!
Reverse IP checking is a very good indicator that many websites are related in some businesses, commercial or personal sense. Using this website, this website strangelyperfect.tv shows as follows:
Found 4 domains hosted on the same web server as strangelyperfect.tv (174.120.2.125).
This is hardly surprising and I make no secret of the fact…
Using this website again, enter these three domains into the box. What you find are a host of probably related dodgy websites, fake blogs and news sites, and other stuff. Look and see!
SWIPEAUCTIONS-REVIEW.COM :2 domains
live9news.com, swipeauctions-review.com
SWIPEAUCTIONS-REGISTER.COM: 101 domains including such gems as:
I’ve omitted most of the “foreign” domains. Make of that what you will but it is noticable that many snake oil websites are to be found grouped under a single IP address.
SWIPEAUCTIONS.COM: has just the canonical and www domains.
Disclaimer
Many things are said above that rope all “bid” “auctions” into the same boat. While some may have differing operational procedures with perfectly legal transactional and customer services, and may differ in their Terms & Conditions to Jesse Willms’ offerings, I accept those facts.
However, I consider all web-operations in this field of “bid” “auction” to be nothing more than gambling, and they should all be governed by those gambling laws applicable to their country of viewing and business location.
PreScript Advice If you think you’ve had your bank ‘cleaned out’ by any of a multitude of ‘life cleanse’ or ‘colon cleanse’ type internet scams, there is only one real remedy… Ask for a charge-back against the company through you credit card company. Your reason, when asked, is that the company has either: Not adhered...
Introduction Readers of these pages will need no introduction to Jesse Willms, self-proclaimed philanthropist and former purveyor of counterfeit software. But in the interests of traceability into the continuing insidious nature of the on-line marketplace, here’s a run-through of how to get from Facebook or MSNBC to Jesse Willms’ SwipeAuction (formerly SwipeBids), including a few...
It’s ten years since Ashcroft “gave assurances” that he would reveal his er.. something or other, to William Hague – according to William Hague in his famous Paxman interview – See Below:
“Lord” Ashcroft Now
Today’s news is that ifthe tories win the forthcoming election, (and in a statement today, he finally confirmed he WAS a non-dom), Ashcroft has promised to become fully “resident and domiciled” in the UK. Try The Sun for more or the BBC.
“Lord” Ashcroft Conclusion
What this all means, of course, is that either;
Ashcroft lied to Hague back in 2000 when Hague put him up for his peerage,
Or that Ashcroft deliberately misled Hague about it all,
Or that Hague colluded in the deception.
I cannot personally think of any other routes that would lead William Hague to state what he so emphatically said to Paxman last summer. What says you? I’m all ears.
However, it’s blindingly obvious (yet strangely ignored) that he hasn’t paid tax to our nation for at least ten years - and yet has a weird magnetic control over some of our affairs….
Labour Donors
Of course, the Labour Party have their own share of grey donors; all the way from Bernie Ecclestone back in 1997 to the Indian born Baron Paul with his own peculiar mix of richness, dodgy expense claims and donations.
The Labour queue is pretty long in financial scandal.
The stench of hypocrisy is becoming worse.
But what burnt the honesty cake for me these last two days, was the flag of patriotism being bandied about.
“It is an election we have a patriotic duty to win because this country is in a complete and utter mess, and we have to sort it out.”
Which is a formidable statement to make given that the whole world is in a turmoil where the rich get richer and the poor have to pay for it, and yet Britain is not a “one-off” and actually, is “not that bad”, you know…
Formidable because the starving poor are now castigated for hunting for food after earthquakes by a corrupt, politically charged and motivated media who employ brainless hacks to tow the editorial line.
Yet in the UK, no-one starves unless through neglect.
Anyone in Britain can get medical treatment and care on demand, with waiting lists at a fraction that they were when the Tories were last in power…
It’s a strange definition of the word “mess” – but a typical usage of the word “patriotism”, by a squeakily clean, disturbingly smooth, scoundrel.
Want and Need
What we want and need is simple.
In a reworking of the slogan “No taxation without representation“, there should be a new slogan, that empathetically states that we do not need lobbying or interference in our governmental process from any person or organisation that does not pay taxes; i.e. it does not directly contribute to the material well-being of the country.
No Representation without Taxation!
This means:
No positions of power.
No quango membership
No parliamentary membership.
No political donations, directly or indirectly.
No lobbying or ‘briefings’, directly or indirectly.
In other words,
Pay up , or shut up!
We all have to, the poor, long-suffering, tax-paying, public.
America
This is especially important for us, as where America leads, we follow.
Within the last two months, a legal judgement was made that made it perfectly proper for any business to promote any political party. The logic was that if a company pays taxes, it should have representation, just as the founding fathers wanted.
The crucial irony is though, that grievous complaints have been raised in the USA that their due process of democracy was already being undermined by these huge corporations that now bankroll the electoral system.
Of course, the reason that the corporations won was due to the massive financial investment in lobbying that they undertook to ensure they won…….
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Spring, last year, was when I first stumbled upon Pacific WebWorks (PWW) and their nefarious schemes. That was when I happened upon Google Treasure Chest, one of their many scams.
This then ballooned into a miasma of a web of crime which frankly astonished me.
Then, across the globe, many people fought against the scammers and there have been some small victories when the (mainly USA) authorities have used the law against them.
But as many scribes (e.g. Paul Schlegel) pointed out (e.g. here), it would, and it has all returned.
Okay Subject Please!
I’ve been trawling through the old posts on this website to see how the websites have changed. True, Google Treasure Chest has sunk to the bottom of the ocean, but many of the old websites are still around. They, the suck-in sites for the real ‘products’, divide, broadly, into two camps:
Fake blog sites
Fake News sites
Most of the fake blogs are gone, but most of the fake news sites are still around! What has happened is with some very quick coding, all the pointers go to new, non-google type sites. You can tell that the coding was quick because Google is still there in the hyperlink descriptions!!!
Example
Initial information on a fake News Site from @Not Kevin is here. He said;
Clicked on the link to Easy Google Profit from this fake news story: http://www.businessgazette.net/finance/article-3910/ and about 6 different sites are loaded through some javascript thing including yoursearchprofits.com seofromhome.com bsadn.pantherssl.com and a few others.
Business Gazette
This is the fake news website here: http://www.businessgazette.net/finance/article-3910/ A screen-dump is shown on the right.
Hover your mouse over the ads or the links in the “Business Gazette” page. They are all the same and they all point to http://www.businessgazette.net/google/ – Notice the word “GOOGLE” !!! Compared to previously, the links are now slimmed down to one!
Now click the link and it redirects to a really annoying, automatically starting audio from someone called Ivan Fienney at this website: http://www.ivanblogsecrets.com/campaigns/rgah/IF_1_new.php?linkid=212144&subid=50519&subid2=65513 This link shows all the affiliate IDs etc.
However, if you strip them out, the page will still load from this address, http://www.ivanblogsecrets.com/campaigns/rgah/IF_1_new.php, or if you type in or click http://www.ivanblogsecrets.com
Ivan the Terrible
If you listen to the smarmy voice, he’ll claim that it’s a real established business, is NOT MLM, is not a Pyramid scheme etc etc. That’s him on the left.
Q. Where do his links go?
A. They go to something called a “Instant Wealth Program”. You’ll find that the linking URL is http://212144.msicourse.com/
Q. So who could it be?
A. It’s that slimeball Robert Allen, famed for his spam, famed for his bankrupty, famed for real-estate dodgy deals.
Now Ivan Fienney, if you can stand the audio, claims that it’s not real estate or a scam, and yet, as I made plain last year, in Robert Allen’s own claims he DOES use real estate in one of his “plans”!
If you listen to Ivan until the 8:00 mark, you’ll find that the whole “plan” actually is “posting links on Google”. Well what a surprise, I’m sure!
And there we have it. The “Instant Wealth Scheme” is the old, old “make money with Google” scheme again. Good ol’ Bobby Allen. Aaah.
Robert Allen – Multiple Streams of Income
The quaintly entitled website, http://212144.msicourse.com/, is indeed Robert Allen. He’s hidden it’s WHOIS details using Moniker Privacy Services. However, check out the screen-dump below and right (as well as Ivan’s above).
Multiple Streams of Income
He claims various things, like “as seen on TV” (the Aussie one I saw was investigative journalism where he refused to speak and the reporters were bundled out of the room!) or NY Times. Maybe they are all investigative reports into his scam activities? Maybe they’re all a figment of ol’ Bobby’s fevered imagination? Who knows?
Also notice that his website uses the famed “countdown timer”, a tactic abrasively commented upon in recent USA court cases against scammers. If, like me, you’ve been on the page too long, it’ll helpfully prompt you when “time runs out” – and then gives you a whole extra ten minutes to make up your mind. Gosh. It’ll even do it again – with another 10 minutes!
I think I’ll pass on all that, if you don’t mind.
Prosper Inc
Robert Allen proudly states that he uses Prosper Inc for his “services”. They, of course, are from Utah, see their contacts page here: http://www.prosperlearning.com/contact.html
Erroneous statement deleted. Too many prospers but all info gratefully accepted.. (SP)
Now see the following few examples of complaints and worries:
Last year’s post on Robert Allen is here. Robert G Allen, Grants, and a Credit Card Slimeball. From all of this, you can probably tell that he’s not on my Xmas Card list! To confirm this, see various links which expose ol’ Bobby for what he was, and still is!
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