Bert Young's uSight scam part 2
Message ID: 127974
Posted By: stats_for_all
Posted On: 2004-04-27 17:05:00
Subject: Re: Bert Young's uSight scam part 2
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continued from linked post, please read part one
The package of business services that uSight sold included a pay-pal clone called epenzio (or similar, there are multiple aliases). Epenzio evidently was a merchant service for credit cards, which involved the fraudulent lease of an imprinter. Epenzio is evidently a subsidiary and definitely a linked associate of a similar Massachusettes based scam called Leasecomm. Leasecomm is operating under a 24 million dollar judgement by the FTC (SEE: www.ftc.gov/ro/leasecomm). Leasecomm may have a RICO indictment (web information is ambiguous).
The FTC news release on Leasecomm states:
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According to the FTC, the scheme worked as follows: Leasecomm Corporation financed business opportunities, including Internet web malls, multilevel marketing programs, medical billing software, coupon clipping programs and similar, often worthless, get-rich-quick schemes sold by third-party vendors. Consumers typically made little or no up-front payments, but signed a contract, which Leasecomm called a lease, requiring payments ranging from $3,000 - $4,000 over a three or four year period. While consumers thought the contracts covered many items included as part of a business venture -- training, Web site design, and consumer leads, for example -- they didn't. They covered only one small part of the venture -- a "virtual terminal," for example.
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This is the same business pattern established at uSight, uSight uses Leasecomm credit services (web info from business seminar participants). Seminars are given by a John Palmer and Tim Payne of Alpine Utah
uSight has an enormous number of aliases ( a web search for uSight toll free number, 1-800-544-9459 will reveal current ones).
The Utah BBB site gives information on several of these. I looked up
Epenzio aka Avalon Digital Marketing Systems, Inc aka Capturequest aka Pacific Webworks, aka Work-At-Home
(BBB membership revoked Nov. 18, 2003)
Web Resource Group or Open Systems International
Home Office Marketing Enterprises, aka HOME Inc, aka Scott Anderson Financial
(purchased by uSight in June 2003)
Olympus Financial, Avalon Business Direct, Executive Credit Services
Travel Plus
Cybersem (unlicensed) successor to Anderson, aka HOME
Net-bizz aka Nbizz aka Electric Excellence Inc aka Bring It Home
E-Business Benefits Association aka EBBA (owner Scott Anderson)-linked on the uSight web page for complaints, a fake consumer protection shell
Liberty Vending, aka Vendworx, aka Consonlidated Marketing Group
different business- vending machine placement
Avalon Digital Marketing Systems is the most intriguing of these. It is a former NASDAQ company (AVLN) now in chapter 11 bankruptcy. It website is still up. It merged with epenzio, capturequest, C5 Technologies and MindArrow Systems. The date of the merger is reported to be September 30, 2002. The date of the Bakruptcy filing is September 5, 2003.
SEE : www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/compinfo/CompanyTearsheet.jhtml?tkr=AVLN
The Utah BBB site lists Robert I Webber, CEO; Brad Crawford UP, Paul Anderson, Registered Agent. These individuals names are linked to other of the uSight suite of companies.
The Forbes site for Avalon lists Paul Anderson as CEO of Duke Energy, Robert (A) Webber on the BOD of a Dutch energy company and several other impersonations
Avalon Digital was once a high flying email marketing company based in Irvine Ca., high profile clients were sold to a firm Silverpop just before bankruptcy.
How and when the Sandy Utah group achieved control is not obvious.
Sources: Avalon Merger www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/2003_Feb_22/97952285/p1/article.jhtml
Bankruptcy filing
bankrupt.com/TCR_Public/030915.mbx
Silverpop divestiture
http://emailuniverse.com/list-news/2003/05/20.html
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Posted By: stats_for_all
Posted On: 2004-04-27 17:05:00
Subject: Re: Bert Young's uSight scam part 2
Recs: 22
continued from linked post, please read part one
The package of business services that uSight sold included a pay-pal clone called epenzio (or similar, there are multiple aliases). Epenzio evidently was a merchant service for credit cards, which involved the fraudulent lease of an imprinter. Epenzio is evidently a subsidiary and definitely a linked associate of a similar Massachusettes based scam called Leasecomm. Leasecomm is operating under a 24 million dollar judgement by the FTC (SEE: www.ftc.gov/ro/leasecomm). Leasecomm may have a RICO indictment (web information is ambiguous).
The FTC news release on Leasecomm states:
< quote>
According to the FTC, the scheme worked as follows: Leasecomm Corporation financed business opportunities, including Internet web malls, multilevel marketing programs, medical billing software, coupon clipping programs and similar, often worthless, get-rich-quick schemes sold by third-party vendors. Consumers typically made little or no up-front payments, but signed a contract, which Leasecomm called a lease, requiring payments ranging from $3,000 - $4,000 over a three or four year period. While consumers thought the contracts covered many items included as part of a business venture -- training, Web site design, and consumer leads, for example -- they didn't. They covered only one small part of the venture -- a "virtual terminal," for example.
< /quote>
This is the same business pattern established at uSight, uSight uses Leasecomm credit services (web info from business seminar participants). Seminars are given by a John Palmer and Tim Payne of Alpine Utah
uSight has an enormous number of aliases ( a web search for uSight toll free number, 1-800-544-9459 will reveal current ones).
The Utah BBB site gives information on several of these. I looked up
Epenzio aka Avalon Digital Marketing Systems, Inc aka Capturequest aka Pacific Webworks, aka Work-At-Home
(BBB membership revoked Nov. 18, 2003)
Web Resource Group or Open Systems International
Home Office Marketing Enterprises, aka HOME Inc, aka Scott Anderson Financial
(purchased by uSight in June 2003)
Olympus Financial, Avalon Business Direct, Executive Credit Services
Travel Plus
Cybersem (unlicensed) successor to Anderson, aka HOME
Net-bizz aka Nbizz aka Electric Excellence Inc aka Bring It Home
E-Business Benefits Association aka EBBA (owner Scott Anderson)-linked on the uSight web page for complaints, a fake consumer protection shell
Liberty Vending, aka Vendworx, aka Consonlidated Marketing Group
different business- vending machine placement
Avalon Digital Marketing Systems is the most intriguing of these. It is a former NASDAQ company (AVLN) now in chapter 11 bankruptcy. It website is still up. It merged with epenzio, capturequest, C5 Technologies and MindArrow Systems. The date of the merger is reported to be September 30, 2002. The date of the Bakruptcy filing is September 5, 2003.
SEE : www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/compinfo/CompanyTearsheet.jhtml?tkr=AVLN
The Utah BBB site lists Robert I Webber, CEO; Brad Crawford UP, Paul Anderson, Registered Agent. These individuals names are linked to other of the uSight suite of companies.
The Forbes site for Avalon lists Paul Anderson as CEO of Duke Energy, Robert (A) Webber on the BOD of a Dutch energy company and several other impersonations
Avalon Digital was once a high flying email marketing company based in Irvine Ca., high profile clients were sold to a firm Silverpop just before bankruptcy.
How and when the Sandy Utah group achieved control is not obvious.
Sources: Avalon Merger www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/2003_Feb_22/97952285/p1/article.jhtml
Bankruptcy filing
bankrupt.com/TCR_Public/030915.mbx
Silverpop divestiture
http://emailuniverse.com/list-news/2003/05/20.html
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