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Sportalists Club sportalists.org Dudders, Conmen, Scammers, Gold Coastt, Internet
Check this out...The news gets around fast
http://www.puntingnews.com.au/sports-hedge-fund-scam-alert/
Sports hedge fund scam alertI've been preparing an article about two legitimate sports investment/hedge funds which are open to the public - more on that soon, but in a nutshell, they are everything the Centaur Group/Keith Sobey scheme wasn't - transparent, professional, diligent, organised...
But where there's betting involved, there will always be some scumbag pulling the conman trick. And it's quite a familiar name in Australian and British circles when it comes to conmen - Peter Foster.
From the guys at Priomha:
SPORTALISTS UPDATE
We reported recently about the formation of a new Sports Hedge Fund. As we noted at the time The Sportalists Group had copied verbatim information that has been readily available on The Priomha Group website for over 3 years. This started ringing some alarm bells and these bells have been ringing much louder courtesy of a Channel 9 story last night on A Current Affair.
According to Channel 9, Sportalists is the latest brainchild of serial con-man Peter Foster. A link to the story is available below.
SPORTALISTS IS A SCAM.
The Priomha Group has no connection with Sportalists and is taking the necessary action to ensure that they are punished for their flagrant plagiarism and removed completely from anything to do with the Sports Hedge Fund industry.
As always we will keep you up to date with developments and will readily answer any questions that you may have. Transparency and openness are the cornerstones of the success of The Priomha Group and we will continue to uphold those philosophies.
If you have any queries our CEO will answer them directly. He can be contacted at bpoots@priomha.com
Peter Foster's latest scam
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A leopard never changes his spots, he just finds new ways to screw people over. Legitimate sports investment funds will emerge and their number will grow, especially while interest rates are so poor. Do your homework and always be cynical when assessing such investments. Remember, it's your money, not a donation to someone to piss up against a wall. The post about the genuine funds will be up in the next week or so.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Scam Fighter
Internet,Australia
This page will expose the false unfounded negative posts that competitors have placed around the Internet about us. We have no victims we scammed or frauded.
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Wed, October 31, 2012
About Our Website - Our website is the industry
leader in the category. We have a Google PR6 rating as an authoritative web
site. As a comparison Rense.com is a PR6, davidicke.com is a PR6, Dodge.com is
a PR6, aa.com which is American airlines is a PR5, yamaha-motor.com is a PR6.
This should give you an idea of how powerful a PR6 website like ours is. We are
not an ordinary web site. This high of a rating is given to large old
established sites that provide a very positive reader experience with a lot of
content. Scammers and con men never ever would put years and years into a
website like this with tens of thousands of pages in different languages. They
usually have 6-8 pages and their websites are usually not used after 3-4
months. The heat gets too great and they abandon it and start a new scam site.
They never sit around answering the phone for seven years which is how long we
have been around.
Alexa Rating - Another way to evaluate a
site is to look at the Alexa rating. Our Alexa rating is approximately 130,000.
This means that out of the over one billion websites in the world only 130,000
of those get more visitors than we do. Considering that we are a niche market
web site that is impressive.
As
the industry leader we get attacks from competitors from time to time. People
who cannot build businesses the correct way, tend to attack the industry
leaders. This is common to all internet websites that are the industry leaders.
In our case we write exposes on countries and practices that are no longer
useful for asset protection and immigration. We expose those misrepresenting
their products and services indirectly. Those selling such products and
services from those countries will from time to time vent at us on the internet
since they prefer to keep their clients in the dark. Again this is the fate an
industry leader educating the public truthfully suffers.
We
could stop right here but we will explain the way the forum posting scam works.
Behind it is extortion and blackmail.
Forum Negative Posting Scams - Some
less than reputable competitors have taken to posting false reports and
accusations against us on several sites that are designed for people to post
real or false allegations against online businesses they do not like. The
owners of these sites do not care if the posts are real or not. We are happy to
say that none of these allegations are based in fact, in other words there are
no real scam victims out there. How could we stay in business for seven years
and answer the phone live all this time. Fairly absurd yet it makes them feel
good so they do it. Experienced internet users disregard this sort of posting
as just slanderous attacks with no factual basis of anything other than
anonymous posting. Others fall prey to these sort of sites, think the posts
could be real and ask us about the posts. We explain that anyone can say
anything about anyone on these sites. The forums and posting places verify
nothing ever. They do not care what gets posted. Of course reputable forums do
not allow pointless attacks aimed at people or businesses. The places that do
allow the slander are actually running a scam themselves in the form of
extortion and blackmail which I will explain shortly.
The
way the anonymous posters lend credibility to their posts is by using a few
user names on the site or forum. They use proxy servers so each post comes in
from a different IP address. Then they act like a judge and jury convicting
their victim's business. The victim may not even know about this posting for
many months or years. Generally the business will not respond to such posts.
Some malicious posters might even make a screen name impersonating the victim
business to further throw mud on them. Another trick is the slanderer will go
and post on a few forums cross linking the posts to each other. This makes the
reader think that some really big scam is being exposed. The thing is that
nothing is real. It is all anonymous forum posts. This is the virtual world and
nothing needs to be based on fact. People say what they want true or false. To
show you how gullible people are about this we can look to the penny stocks.
Years ago people would go and post on forums that some penny stocks were about
to go up in price giving some reasons. Then people would buy the stocks driving
the price up at which time the posters would sell and then the prices would
soon drop. The SEC made this a crime. Today very few people believe everything
they read online knowing that anyone can say anything about anyone.
False claims of being a Scam-
Some
have fabricated completely untrue incidents where there never ever was such a
person who was a client. The whole thing was made up from the get go.
Other
have posted all sorts of nonsense. They claim we are people who we are not.
They say we moved from one country due to having to leave. If you were wanted
in one country going to another openly is not going to accomplish anything.
Pure unadulterated lies.
Others
say people are looking for the firm yet here we are answering the phone daily.
And on it goes the list never ending.
Scam Accusations The way this works is the
competitor or professional poster who barely writes English posts on a site
that specializes in scam, fraud or disgruntled customer posts. Not one of these
places ever verifies a single post ever, for any reason. They do not care. They
claim fraud, scam, whatever. The idea is to get the business or personal victim
to pay money to the forum or website containing the post to have the post
removed. These sites charge the victim money to counter post or even have the
post removed. That is how they make their money. If you contact a reputable
webmaster about such posts they generally remove them within hours. The crooked
forums leave them up hoping you will pay them money to take them down. The
owners of such sites have been criminally indicted for this. If one posts there
they have to fill out an information form and who knows what they do with this
information.
What Can be Done About These Extortion Scam Sites They
are hard to fight. The owners names are well hidden. Their locations are well
hidden. They have loads of better business bureau complaints which never get
answered. It is hard to take them down in US courts, not impossible just hard.
What can be done is one can take them down in non USA courts. You can even get
them criminally prosecuted in non USA courts for fraud, extortion and
blackmail.
Summary We did not get where we are by scamming
people. None of these posts are real. If you are not engaged in internet
commerce in a large way you might be confused by such posts and even think they
are real and might be real. This is the intent and design of the posts. Anyone
can go and anonymously post false complaints on unethical scam sites and
forums. Nothing is verified. If you wish to treat such posts as real or maybe
real in the face of a lack of any facts then do so. This is exactly what they
crooks wanted. Fortunately today most are aware of these crooked web sites and
disregard these posts lacking any verifiable factual information. Question is
if you go to a competitor are they the evil posters? Good question isn't it.