Niclu
Sydney, Australia,#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Thu, March 06, 2014
This is a totally untrue and defamatory posting. It was ME who was scammed!
In 2009 my company, V-Funding had a contract with one of the largest refineries in the USA to supply gold.
We engaged with an outfit called Sodicom SARL, based in Burkina Faso, Africa. They turned out to be a total scam, and I lost a LOT of money. I was obviously unhappy, so I initiated a number of posts about them on the internet to warn others.
You can see my initial post in Rip-Off Report, dated 17 September, 2009 here:
I also posted on Scam.com on the same date:
scam.com/showthread.php?t=120911
In the post I went to lengths to warn everyone about their fraudulent and criminal activity.
They retaliated a few days later in efforts to discredit me by posting in a number of online media, and made wild and libellous accusations about me – one of which you see here.
I was ultimately successful in my quest. I took legal action and had one of the ring leaders arrested. You will note the website I warn people about in the post sodicomgoldmines.com no longer exists, so justice was served in some bizarre kind of way. No doubt these criminals re-invented themselves under another guise and are still plying their trade.
Even though I was successful in getting them closed down – I have paid a high personal and reputational price with these untruthful reports circulating the internet, which unfortunately I can do little about.
I have significant documentary evidence to confirm my rebuttal which I will happily make available to any genuine enquiry.
My conscience is clear and I invite you to review my Linked In profile where I am connected to over 3,000 leaders in the business and finance world. I have numerous recommendations and hundreds of endorsements for my professional skills.
In addition, I have been seen and quoted in many international news media like FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC and many more and am an Amazon Best Selling author.
You can contact me through Linked In or my business websites v-funding.com and eads2profits.net should you wish to discuss this unsavoury matter.
Buyer
istanbul,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, October 21, 2009
Helloo my name is Akif i did not write the above recommendation. Please remove it from here. Everything is a lie. It is true I was in africa but never met these people in my life. I believe someone stole my identity and posted this. do not call me about the validity of these comments. The above mentioned is not true it is complete fabrication.
Please remove the comments altogether.
A reminder to others. I was in africa and 99% of so called gold sellers (especially those claiming to sell at a substantial discount) are crooks. there is no cheap gold in any country in Africa. dont waste your time and money.
sodicom mines
Ouagadougou,#4REBUTTAL Owner of company
Sun, October 04, 2009
I am Glad that you come out to identify yourself as Glens Rothquel, you mentioned that you do not hide from criminals then why did you at first used niclu as your name instead of glen rothquel? We both know that, you are South African convicted immigrant in Australia. I remember when you wanted us to ship the gold to you for free and when we refused you made a threat that, our name is clean in the internet and so we need to ship it on your so-called CIF. Now I know the meaning of your threat but I think you will greed with me that just because we are local miners leaving in remote villages does not mean we cannot respond to your lies. Readers are not fools or stupid. They need you to send them proof of what you are saying. You claim to have paid us $65.000 dollars, we want you to send the wire transfer of $65.000 dollars. many buyers wrote to me that they asked you of this information and when you cannot provide this then you claim that you send it by western union, how can you send a western union on that amount to people that you have never met before? the only reason you said that was because western union documents are very easy to do by photoshop. Readers also want your court documents against sodicom mines and a court documents that proof that I, Ali Keita is in prison. Please do that or you are a big liar. Check around the internet, you are the only person creating this liars. If sodicom was not real or good company, you will have seen many peopl making claim against us because we have been in business long before you even immigrated from south Africa to Australia.
Akif
Instanbul,#5
Fri, September 18, 2009
MY NAME IS AKIF ARTYKARSLAN, I AM IN INSTABUL TURKEY AND A TURKISH BY NATIONALITY. I WANT TO STATE HERE THAT SODICOM GOLD MINES IS NOT SCAM IT IS REAL. MY TELEPHONE NUMBER IS +905059039204. I GOT TO KNOW SODICOM WHEN I WENT TO BURKINA FASO TO DO A COTTON SEED BUSINESS. WE MET ONE GUY IN OUR HOTEL, LAICO HOTEL OUAGA 2000 WHO INTRODUCED ME TO THE GOLD BUSINESS. HE TOLD HE WAS THERE TO VISIT A COMPANY CALLED SODICO AND THAT THEY SALE GOLD, HE TOLD ME HOW THE GOLD BUSINESS WAS AND THE BENEFITS INVOLVE. I ACCOMPANY HIM TO SODICOM OFFICE, WE MET ALASSAN AND ADAM. AFTER OUR MEETING, I GOT INTERESTED AND SINCE I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT GOLD BUSINESS, I DECIDED TO BUY SMALL QUANTITY, PAY FOR IT AND FLEW BACK TO TURKEY. THE SMALL QUANTITY THAT I BOUGHT I SOLD IT AFTER REFINRY CONFIRM TO ME THAT THE CARATS WAS 22 AND PURITY WAS 93%. WELL THAT HAS BEEN THE START OF MY RELATIONSHIP WITH SODICOM UPTO NOW AND I MUST TELL YOU, SODICOM IS A GOOD COMPANY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THIS WRITER AND HE TRY TO DAMAGE THE REPUTATION OF SODICOM BUT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH SODICOM HAS BEEN GOOD. ALI KEITA IS A GOOD PERSON AND HE TRIES ALL THE TIME TO ANSWER ALL CUSTOMERS. ADAM IS ONE SMART AND GOOD GUY AND ALASSAN IS ONE OF THE DIRECTORS TOO. AGAIN SODICOM IS NOT SCAM, THEY ARE REAL