Monavie, Gillmap, Idaho Falls, Google Treasure Chest and Oprah

Monavie, Gillmap, Idaho Falls, Google Treasure Chest and Oprah Winfrey

Introduction

Oprah Winfrey speaks at the Barack Obama rally at UCLA
Oprah Winfrey

Last June, a contributor to this website @Not Kevin made a telling entry here (https://strangelyperfect.tv/4308/google-revolution-different-name-same-scam/#comment-1589) that has direct prescient relevance to the court case in the USA that Oprah Winfrey has heaped onto a host of companies and individuals for using her name to promote their products. (see here and here for instance)

The original posting was part of my investigation into how the original Google Treasure Chest/Money Tree scam was morphing (and is still!), into various other scammy operations while continuing along the same murky path.  Paul at workathometruth.com shows that even though the scammers changed for a while after the Texas and Utah court cases started, they now seem to have reverted to type…

https://www.workathometruth.com/blog/2009/09/16/kevinsmoneytree-org-and-sandiego-tribune-news-com-review/

In my eyes, the stuff in his video is just as conning as it was a year ago and demonstrates the complete contempt that these people have for the law and the on-going charges against them!

Details of Oprah Case

A recent commenter (Matt Jezorek) said that their are six degrees of separation between these scams – but I begged to differ…  it’s about 2 IMHO!!!

Monavie Stuff
Monavie Stuff

Oprah, one of the world’s richest women, has taken umbrage at her name being used to promote all sorts of stuff; acai juice, teeth whiteners etc.  On August 18th this year (2009) she and her company filed charges against a host of these people.  Prominent among these was Monavie, the very same company that’s picking fault with Lazy Man!  (It’s been an observation of mine that criminals and borderline criminals shout loudest just before they cave in…).  The killer posting is here.

You can read the whole Oprah charge sheet here: https://www.marketwaveinc.com/oprah-vs-monavie.pdf

It’s quite a thing, with ~40 defendants named. To spread the word and put some load on my server, you can download it here, oprah-vs-monavie-etc.pdf, also!!  It’s a right riveting read I can tell you.

The point with @Not Kevin’s original research is that many addresses and company names listed as defendants to Oprah’s charges are in his original comment!!  So well done @Not Kevin!

Analysis

One that attracted my attention was Gillmap.  It’s such a daft name that it stands out!  Not Kevin and I have the County Durham address as:

Gillmap Limited
9 Broomhill
Stanley, DH9 8AZ
Durham

Oprah’s charge sheet (paragraph #15) shows the address as either:

Gillmap Limited aka Natures Perfection
600 SW Army Post Road,
Des Moines, Iowa 50321

or

Gillmap Limited aka Natures Perfection
4977 Fairview Avenue,
Boise, Idaho 83706

In Oprah’s paragraph #32 we find JDW Media from Idaho Falls which Not Kevin addressed perfectly.

There are also defendants from Henderson Nevada, Phoenix & Scottsdale Arizona, Florida, Ontario, Wilmington Delaware and elsewhere.  Many of these addresses and places have popped up in our research over the past half year.

Monavie comes in on paragraph #46 of Oprah’s charges.   In paragraph #51 we have some folks from honest Sandy, Utah.  Sandy in Utah is the hole that started my whole investigations running way back in April with, Google Treasure Chest – it’s a scam and a half! It turns out that Orem and Spanish Fork in Utah are also on Oprah’s list.  These towns along with Salt Lake City, Draper and Provo figure prominently in my research.

Robert G Allen
Robert G Allen

In paragraph #29 we see Rauscher Bekke aka ReVLife etc.  One of their addresses is

12399 Belcher Road South
Suite 140
Largo, FL 33773

..which appears as one of the spammers I wrote about with regard to chubby Robert Allen and the rest of the scum hanging round the Utah/Idaho border, here, https://strangelyperfect.tv/3533/robert-g-allen-grants-and-a-credit-card-slimeball/.  The other address appears in paragraph #18 as,

2375 East Camelback Rd.
5th Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85016  (different zip code though!)

Not Kevin also pulled out:

871 Coronado Center Drive,
Henderson, NV 89052

…”which appears in paragraph #17

Many individuals are named by Oprah.  However, her lawyers have had the same difficulty in unravelling the miasma of interlocking companies and sites involved.  In the court document they say they are currently after 500+ websites and their owners and will amend the document when they are traced.

That’s one seriously annoyed Oprah!

Conclusion

Don’t mess with Oprah.

A Flying Pig
A Flying Pig

That’s enough analysis.  I haven’t been through every address to see if we’ve picked them up previously.  But like I said at the beginning, I reckon there are only 2 degrees of separation between any of these scam-meisters.  I can’t wait until Oprah’s team hack through the other 500 sites…

Of course, the outcome of this court case and the others isn’t known yet.  All these companies could be like  goody-two-shoes and that we’ve all (including Oprah) got them totally wrong.

But I don’t think so.

Extra Information

On top of the Oprah case, the Texas case and the Utah case, last August also saw the Illinois AG file a similar case against acai snake oil purveyors.  See  https://www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/pressroom/2009_08/20090819.html Links to complaints forms are provided on that page, if you think you’ve been swindled.  This is the charge sheet(pdf).

Comments

6 responses to “Monavie, Gillmap, Idaho Falls, Google Treasure Chest and Oprah”

  1. MonaVie avatar
    MonaVie

    It is very useful and meaningful for us.Thank you very much.

    1. Strangely avatar

      Ha! Just let this crap through (again!) as an example of the desperate measures Monavie reps are now taking. i.e. auto-pinging anti-monavie postings and then thanking them for it!

      Quoting, straight off the page from the website, 'http://monavie-emv.net/how-does-acai-berry-help-in-increasing-energy-libido-and-stamina/ (backlink removed);

      Acai berry is touted by many around the world as the number one ‘super fruit’ due to the benefits it offers to the human body. They include aiding in weight loss, fighting against ageing, increasing body immunity, increasing energy, improving digestion, rejuvenating skin, increasing body metabolism, flushing out toxins from the system, increasing sexual power, fighting cancer cells and many more.

      Acai berry contains up to 19 different types of amino acids along with both omega 6 and omega 9 fatty acids. The amino acids serve as an excellent source of carbohydrates and fibers which helps in increasing the body metabolism to an exceptional extent. This facilitates a swift detoxification process and makes the impurities move much faster from the system. As a result the nutrients are processed at a much faster rate. This causes these nutrients to be assimilated in the body and quickly converted into energy resulting in a tremendous improvement of your overall energy

      Apart from the sales speak wrongness, it's also plain wrong.

      e.g. Amino acids are the components of proteins, which make muscle etc. Carbohydrates are completely different and a different class of chemical altogether. To be strictly correct, in the style of the Mona-vie blurb, it should read,

      "Carbohydrates are an excellent source of ..er ..carbohydrates!"

      For further info on all this, see https://www.lazymanandmoney.com/monavie-scam-was-m

  2. Monavie avatar
    Monavie

    Oh!what a great writing style..i really appreciate your blog..well done

    1. Strangely avatar

      I had to let this one through… Oh the irony! It had a backlink pingback (now removed natch) to 'http://monavie-emv.net/

  3. Not Kevin avatar
    Not Kevin

    There is a news report today (courtesy of a Google Alert on justthinkmedia ) but I think it is just referring to the lawsuit in your post above and not a new one. It does give the name of Just Think Media rather than Gillmap but otherwise it sounds the same.
    https://www.edmontonsun.com/news/edmonton/2009/12/

    So I guess the Edmonton Sun is just 3 months behind with the news!?

    Anyway the new 'legal assistant' at Just Think Media should be kept busy. 🙂

    1. Strangely avatar

      Better late than never.

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