Juan Stumofu
Rockville, Maryland,#2UPDATE Employee
Thu, May 19, 2005
This is an email Jason Hoffman is floating around. Evidently he is proud that he is a scam artist once again. This time for weatherbug.com. Weatherbug.com is under contract with AOL to be allowed to access their customers computers via their spyware. Jay admits to posting bogus reports to throw of their detractors. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 06:18:34 -0700 (PDT) From: jay the benny Subject: well, the Model 1 cat is out of the bag To: edward , michele presley , TJ so one of my jobs here is to be the chief advocate on spyware/privacy issues - whenever someone says something about us being spyware I go and attack them, much the way i've attacked people over the years at M1 and TCT. I am the company pitbull apparently. so the other day my boss, the VP of Product, and the chief attorney who is also the CPO (chief privacy officer) invite me to lunch to discuss spyware stuff. I'm going with 4 other staff to las vegas next week for the huge NetWorld conference (i know- me at a computer conference when my computer skills are about 1 level above edwards'- it's pretty funny!- i'm just going to deal with any spyware stuff) so I think, okay, they just want to go over everything I may need to know before Vegas. so we go to lunch yesterday and I bring all my printouts and stuff, and I notice that as I'm passing out papers and asking questions, they don't seem real into it..... so then the attorney, who I'm good friends with and work with regularly says "well, actually we're not here to talk about spyware......we know about the Virginia modeling agnecy stuff"-"- and I am thinking "gee, I picked a bad day not to wear my Depends because these guys are about to "Jerry maguire" me and fire me at lunch"- now, you may remember that about 9 months ago WeatherBug fired some dude and in retaliation he found out about the Model 1 stuff and posted a bunch of ridiculous lies about me (and my friend Mike) on ripoffreport. 1 of the claims was that somehow there was credit card fraud at TCT- and since I have access to credit cards here at wxbug, this was a threat to all our customers. so they said "we know that most of what he wrote was not true, but the credit card allegation concerns us because you DO have access to credit cards here." so i told them it was 100% bullshit- the guy just found out that I had this achilles heel so he figured he'd make up whatever he could. and they said "well, normally it would be cause for concern, but we checked and could find nothing about any credit card abuse at the florida companies, and more importantly, you've been a great employee, very loyal, and a great advocate on all these forums and writing to customers who hear the 'spyware' rumors and correcting them, so we're putting the issue to bed." the good news is the attorney understands the consent order and obviously he could tell it was weak since they settled for 60K total. and obviously they had a feeling the credit card 'claim' in the ripoffreport was bullshit. so on the way back as I was walking to my office, my boss turns to me and says "don't worry about it- it's closed." but boy, for about 10 minutes there I was wishing I brought my Depends. so, I hope everything on your end is better! hear you're supposed to get some rain today. we'll be down in December- amy and i are going to disney for a few days b/c 1) she's a huge disney fan and 2) i had to use my USairways tix before those idiots go bankrupt again. say hi to cami and val. Jay ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Well Jay, if you screw enough people, eventually KARMA will catch to you. The show is now on the other foot.
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Lexington Park,#3Author of original report
Mon, August 16, 2004
Here is a copy of the business plan for their new package spice business he left on Weatherbug company resources as of August 14, 2004. [NOTE: they are even planning on using WeatherBug phones to market this crap.]
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Lexington Park,#4Author of original report
Mon, August 16, 2004
Here is a copy of the business plan for their new package spice business he left on Weatherbug company resources as of August 14, 2004. [NOTE: they are even planning on using WeatherBug phones to market this crap.]
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Lexington Park,#5Author of original report
Mon, August 16, 2004
Here is a copy of the business plan for their new package spice business he left on Weatherbug company resources as of August 14, 2004. [NOTE: they are even planning on using WeatherBug phones to market this crap.]