National Home Trainers, The Motivators Network, Team Fitness America, Go Large Records, Cali Sky Internet Fraud, scam, theft by deception Currently Operating In Near Clearweater Florida
This is an internet scam runned by Cali Sky (an alias, not real name) and her boyfriend Tim Estes (real name). With the fitness scam they require payment in advance by the client and trainers wishing their services a fee also. When you challange their scam they harass you with intimidating phone calls and various other threats. Their MO is to make it your fault, the trainers fault, or the economy. No one gets paid except them.
They have soo many fake names. Alan Prior is a fictious name that they use to register a website. Here are some others:
Jennifer Holderman
Michael Singleton
Derek Jiles
Jacquie Thomas
Anthony Rialto
The Fitness scam is offering in home personal training for close to nothing. But it requires a full payment for the package. They were known as National Fitness Trainers aka The Motivators Network until they had too many pissed off people after them. They disappeared for a few years then I just found them as teamfitnessamerica with TONS of free press releases and classifieds postings. Haven't seen any reports on anybody getting caught up in the new scam yet. Start up your Google seraches for these terms.
To get a picture of this thief you could have gone here:
http://www.myspace.com/celebrityworkout
But as of yesterday 7-22-09 she deleted it just like her website...
http://www.golargerecords.com
But because she has too many lies to cover she forgot about this site (probably lost the login/password)
http://www.myspace.com/westcoastcalisky
so now you have a face to go with it.
It is doubtful that "Cali Sky" is her real name, her real name probably has a nice wrap sheet to go with it.
Here are some other ripoff report complaints on the same person:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/444/RipOff0444321.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/searchresults.asp?q5=the+motivators+network&Search=Search&q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search!
http://webinfo4.brevardclerk.us/facts/name_search.cfm
type in:
Timothy
Lane
Estes
back date to 1990 you will find this:
05-1991-CF-022028-AXXX-XX THEFT FORGERY FRAUD ORIGINAL DISP 12/19/1991 STATE VS ESTES DEFENDANT (1) 01/29/1970
Cnt Record No. Charge Dt Statute Charge Disp Dt Final Disp Citation No.
1 1 11/08/1991 812.014.2.C.1 GRAND THEFT 3RD DEG MORE THAN 300 LESS 20000 12/30/1992 CHANGE OF VENUE
2 1 11/15/1991 812.014.2.C.1 GRAND THEFT 3RD DEG MORE THAN 300 LESS 20000 12/30/1992 CHANGE OF VENUE
3 1 11/18/1991 812.014.2.C.1 GRAND THEFT 3RD DEG MORE THAN 300 LESS 20000 12/30/1992 CHANGE OF VENUE
He wrote bad checks up to a total aroungd $5000 and did jail time.
and this:
1 1 06/29/1992 FORGERY
2 1 06/29/1992 831.02 UTTERING A FORGED INSTRUMENT 12/30/1992 CHANGE OF VENUE
3 1 06/29/1992 CASHING OR DEPOSITING ITEM
4 1 06/29/1992 812.014.2.D-A EXP PETIT THEFT 12/30/1992 CHANGE OF VENUE
They also use to have these sites among many others you can post here after.
Alonce Music Agency - http://www.aloncemusicagency.com
CA2NY Media - http://www.ca2nymusicmedia.com/
They use every possible free Press release website to post on. They use myspace and craigslist to get their victims.
The FBI is following this and can be contacted (Tampa Bay office) here:
Address
5525 W. Gray Street
Tampa, FL 33609
Telephone
(813) 253-1000
Facsimile
(813) 253-1456
Email
General information: tampa.division@ic.fbi.gov
Office Hours
8:15 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday
They recommend that if you were ripped off by these people and their various aliases that you file your report at the link provided below.
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
This is part of the FBI also, the internet fraud division. They are close to putting these 2 behind bars for a long time. But they need your info.
Its all over now
Clearwater, Florida
U.S.A.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
JohnG
Rex,Georgia,
United States of America
Ex Employee's View/Contractor
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sat, April 14, 2012
Firstly, I would like to say that the personal trainers have had nothing to do with the Fitness Motivators scam. I saw their advertisement for personal trainers, and I contacted them and got the job. It was around 2005; I left about a year and a half, after they stopped paying my vouchers. At first I was getting paid correctly, then it stopped all of a sudden. I kept requesting to be paid but was never given the money that I was due.
The Clients never paid us; they paid for service in advance to the company through credit card. The trainers were paid after they sent off their Client Session Sign Off Sheets. My clients started telling me that they were being doubled charged for services, and National Home Trainers refused to give them a refund. That was the beginning of the end for me. But I just wanted it to be known that the trainers were owed money and duped also. The trainers are regular folks who needed a job and did work but was never paid, and the clients paid and never received training.
This didn't happened to all clients, nor did it happened to all trainers. I believe the people who ran the company simply did not know how to run a personal training businesss. They were supposed to pay themselves after sessions were given, but they were overstretched; they had too many clients in too many places, and they had no idea how to pay bills. I believe they never put the unclaimed service funds into abeyance until service was rendered. They just spent it like drunken sailors as soon as it arrived. So when clients dropped out and requested the money was gone. This, I believe started their spiral. They are criminals and criminally dumb.
tired husband
Weston,Florida,
United States of America
Oh brother. Hope you are wrong
#4Consumer Comment
Fri, January 14, 2011
We just started using this company... they sent out a guy who arrived promptly on time, was very professional, etc, and there was no indication this was any sort of scam.
So I guess we will see. To date (only a couple days into this...) it had seemed totally legit (two sessions so far). But then now today they called my wife on the phone and really harassed her about the fact that she had not yet selected and paid for any particular plan.Apparently they have several options depending on how much personal training you want. Anyway, my wife opted for some plan but then when she finished talking to them on the phone, she was so upset by how they had "cursed her out" (to quote her), that she now wants to cancel, so now I am stuck with trying to undo that situation.
I don't think they have an excuse for giving her a hard time when they were the ones who called to arrange the first two personal trainer sessions (knowing that they had not yet been paid yet) and they did not rather simply put the sessions on hold pending payment.
It is clear the boss person actually said to my wife "you are a pain in the a*s" and a variety of other demeaning things.
So definitely they need some customer relations training. But the actual personal trainer they sent to our house seems completely competent.
John
Garland,Texas,
U.S.A.
Alan Prior
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, February 19, 2010
Alan Prior is not a ficticious name they used to register a website. His full name is Alan Earl Prior II, his birthdate is October 12, 1982 and he is a 2000 graduate of J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, TX. His cohort is Christy Lee Ullman whose birthday is July 7, 1974 and is a 1992 graduate of Pottsgrove (PA) High School. I would guess that Cali Sky is an alias used by Christy. She also may be using Alan's name.