It seems an unregistered company that extensively used the net and boiler rooms in Asia and Australia fleeced investors who trusted in a website and some chitchat over legitimate (non-existetnt) registration records, public filings, etc., for what is likely to be a few million dollars.
Full story is at: http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2003/07/21/story1.html?page=1 In short, they got an office service, a basic website, a couple of pirated sites and used the services of fly-by-night, sell-anything telemarketers to sell shares in a non-existent company. Trouble is, authorities say they are helpless and the scam is ongoing. The perpetrators did put some effort into it all as well. The office service was booked from Thailand, the domains registered from Australia, the US pnone number converted into WAV and emailed to a yahoo address. Nothing special there. What does surprise me however, is the fact that the domains are still active, the webs still hosted and the phone still redirected. Meaning the authorities don't know what to do! Just for the record we did not register the domain names and don't host any of the sites as far as I know... Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations + mail http://www.u2planet.com/cfdomaintrust.html --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
