Complaint Review: Blue Sky Ventures International - blueskyvi.com - Randi Shannon - Jason Shannon - Internet

This is being fronted by Jason and Randi Shannon down in Florida. They claim to be not linked to the founders of this scam but it is all clear to everyone another name change and change of play.

Check out all these links and stay away from Blue Sky as they will tell all kinds of bullsh*t as these Shannons are the scum and full of greed, lies fronting everything.

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The information and research below is credited to DumbBlonde30 from the posting at (((link redacted)))

The History of Blue Sky Ventures International LLC also http://www.blueskyvi.com

Here's how Robert Fitzpatrick's scam works: As you can see from the list below, he has been selling the Blue Sky fraud for years using different names. . The operation is always the same. The promise of a closed user group discounts, using pyramid selling.

Then the company will either go bust, or be closed down and everyone will be owed commissions. He will claim victim status and say he can't payout. This includes hotels, travel agents, security, printers, web designers etc

Any money that is left in the accounts (if not frozen) he will spend on lawyers As far as he is concerned, it's heads I win tails you loose! Any problems during the running of the business he will blame on the small group of yes men goons that he surrounds himself with, or the last person that left the deal. After a short while he will have changed company name and opened up in a different part of the world

Titan - UK 1996

British Consumer Minister closes Titan pyramid scheme:

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Freedom International - UK 1997

Freedom International is closed down by the DTI.

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Fitzpatrick finally runs out of road in his native Lancashire :

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SecureKeys - UK 1999

Another Fitzpatrick venture, where he even rips off his own Aunt ::

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A quote for Judge Gee, who described the comments made by the Fitzpatricks as:

"ranging from the unbelievable to obvious nonsense

Guardearly - UK 2000

The Department of Trade and Industry's Insolvency Service said the orders were made in respect of their conduct as directors of Guardearly Ltd, ...

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I just love Fitzpatrick's quote on this :

"And at the end of the day people knew exactly what they were doing. If they want to go into a bookies and blow 2,500 on a bet they can. It is up to them. You decide."

Fitzpatrick and other family members are banned from being Company Directors

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ddir/dqfind.cgi

Igennex - UK 2001

Fitzpatrick claims he was a millionaire at 26 But in 1996 is declared bankrupt (easy to do on paper) and then claims he can't pay anyone! Whilst living his champagne lifestyle.

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An article in The Metro showing the direct links between Igennex and OMI

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Igennex is closed down and becomes The Alpha Club

The Alpha Club - Australia 2001

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The Alpha Club is closed and becomes Infinity Concierge.

Infinity Concierge - New Zealand 2002

The UK Department of Industry (DTI) investigates Infinity Concierge:

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Statement by the NZ Government, who fine and close down Infinity Concierge:

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Infinity Concierge changes into OMI Club

Omega Marketing International (OMI Club) - UK 2004

Go back and read this blog about OMI. Exactly the same problems as with Perfect4U :

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OMI Club opens up in Ireland using the name Ignite Leisure

Ignite Leisure - Ireland 2005

Ireland's Consumer Affairs Minister expresses concerns over Ignite Leisure. Video Clip from RTE

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Read here about Ignite Leisure, which is registerd and owned by George Singh

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OMI Club is closed down by the OFT. So they change name and become VIP Club

Very Important Persons? (VIP Club) - UK 2005

Office of Fair Trading Press Release about VIP winding up order:

http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/press/2005/233-05

The Independent newspaper article on The High Court Injunction against VIP and George Singh

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BBC news article about VIP and OMI

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4543264.stm

Gurdeep Basra (Singh) and aliases is banned from being a Company director:

http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/ddir/dqdet.cgi?P=1160734901...

Millenium Leisure International (MLI) - South Africa 2006

Daily Mirror article about MLI :

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Reserve Bank Probes MLI :

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A blog on MLI can be found here

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MLI was closed down by the authorities in South Africa. So It changed name to LMM

Lifestyle Membership Management (LMM) - South Africa 2007

South African Press Article about LMI :

A blog on LMM can be found here :

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LMM is deliberatly crashed by Fitzpatrick as he sets up and funds Exclusive Options

Exclusive Options - South Africa 2007

As LMM dies in South Africa, Fitzpatrick sets up a new deal called Exclusive Options. This is a deliberate ploy to crash LMM and blame it on breakaway managers.

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A different name is used in Botswana in an attempt to avoid detection

C Lifestyle Management - Botswana 2007

They even ripped off the poor in Botswana

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So to the present time

Perfect4U - USA and Canada 2008

Canada Online Blog about Perfect4U ::

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RipOff Report here :

http://ripoffreport.com/reports/0/308/RipOff0308239.htm

True Perfect4U testimonials can be found here :

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and here :

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And in the near future

Name Change - Anywhere Stupid Enough Launching 2008

Exactly the same as all the other failed companies :

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The above has taken only a couple of hours open source internet searching. There must be dozens more horror stories regarding Fitzpatrick, Singh and the history of Perfect4U.

In all of the above blogs the same lies are used to defend the company I am a lawyer who has just joined is a favorite, in order to try and add some false credability.

Money laundering and other charges still hang over Fitzpatrick, by The Scorpians Crime Unit in South Africa and Singh is also wanted for questioning by the police in Botswana

Fitzpatrick will do a hit and run with your money when Perfect4U is either closed down by the authorities, it crashes or is deliberatly bounced by him.

Please take the time to read all of the above before deciding to have anything to do with Robert Fitzpatrick, George Singh (and alaises) their cronies and Perfect4U !!!!!

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Igennex Pyramid Scheme Buying Club

Sunday Mercury - Birmingham U. K. 02/24/02

A new pyramid selling scheme in the Midlands is persuading hundreds of people to pay pounds 1,600 each - with the promise of making them millionaires in less than a year.

Igennex Limited, formed last August, is enticing people to sign up at cult-like revivalist-style meetings held several times a week. (((link redacted)))

The Sunday Mercury was present at one session where more than 100 participants were told they could easily reap nearly pounds 33,000 in six months with little effort. All they had to do is persuade family, friends and associates to attend the secretive meetings and then earn up to pounds 750 for each person who joins.

Members, which the company refers to as junior agents, are promised pounds 250 for each of the first two people they introduce, with the third signing promoting them to senior agent status - and earning them a further pounds 750.

Extra commission of pounds 500 is then paid for each of the first two people brought in by their new recruits - and then their first two new recruits in a repetitive chain.

In the three-hour meeting participants were told to stand up and clap in unison to dance music anthems while awaiting the arrival of the sales team. They were also told that the company had more than 2,000 members.

To ensure the pyramid scheme is legal, Igennex has to have a product for sale and ostensibly members are paying their pounds 1,645 fee to join the Igennex discount card scheme for ten years which claims to entitle them to up to 70% off products ranging from holidays to cars and weekly shopping trips.

The 18,000 companies affiliated to the scheme are said to include Mercedes, Debenhams, Comet, Currys and B&Q but a simple call to some of the High Street stores by the Sunday Mercury revealed that none had ever heard of Igennex.

It seems that what actually happens is that members who want to buy something, from B&Q for example, send 100 to Igennex, which then provides B&Q vouchers for, say, 105. So it is possible to get a discount - but it would take years to recoup that huge membership fee.

Members are told that they can only activate their discounts by contacting the Igennex Call Centre and quoting their membership numbers but the call centre is actually the company's advertised headquarters at Brindley Place.

It appears that far from making massive savings at the point of purchase, the discount scheme has strict limitations including having to buy goods up to a certain value before being able to access the discounts. Discounts may well be available but it would take years to recoup the huge membership fee.

The second half of the meeting, billed as the 'most exciting opportunity you will ever experience' is all about how members can make huge profits by selling memberships to others.

Guests are told that the rewards are so great after six months that they could easily afford to take a three month break in the Caribbean and still be making money. Participants are encouraged to shout and yelp in delight every time they are told how much money can be made through the scheme.

What they don't tell prospective members is that there is a fatal flaw. It needs a never-ending flow of new members to pay off all the people who have joined before them.

Investigation also revealed that Igennex, which claims to be formed by 'visionary entrepreneurs', has employed Robert Fitzpatrick as head of marketing.

Its brochures claim that 'in 1996 Fitzpatrick achieved an enviable position of becoming a multimillionaire at the age of 26. Today he lives in the United Kingdom part of the year and the other part he divides his time between his other properties around the world.'

In fact, he lives in Burnley Road in Accrington, Lancashire - and far from being a millionaire, he is a bankrupt with debts of more than pounds 330,000. In 1996 he headed a pyramid scam under the guise of Freedom International which recruited people through happy-clappy meetings similar to Igennex. Recruits paid 2,600, and were promised big commissions for every new member that they in turn signed up

In 1997 Freedom International was closed down after a Department of Trade and Industry investigation and in February 2000 Mr Fitzpatrick was declared unfit to be a company director and banned from company directorships for 11 years.

The website says that Igennex's international headquarters is in Arizona, but ownership of the site is registered to Edward Fitzpatrick, who lives in Holly Street, Accrington, Lancashire but he claims to be only a member and has no idea why it's in his name.

Current Igennex directors are brothers James and Charles Grant Parkes, who live in a palatial yet fortified home guarded by fierce Rottweiler dogs in Shatterford, near Bewdley, Worcestershire.

Charles Grant Parkes, 32, who also runs nursing homes in Birmingham, told the Sunday Mercury that Igennex was not a pyramid scheme but "a discount club and people have made hundreds of pounds worth of savings with us."

'I can assure you that we are recognised by all the companies we list but we do use an intermediary agency to run the scheme. That is why some of the companies you called may not have heard of us.'

He added: 'We are not doing anything illegal and we are a professional outfit.

'We are aware of Mr Fitzpatrick's past but he has a skill and is good at his job.' Trading Scheme Regulations introduced in 1997 outlawed pyramid schemes with a new penalty of up to two years in jail for unscrupulous promoters as well as anyone who actually joins the scheme or attempts to recruit others.

The law makes it illegal for a 'promoter or participant in a trading scheme to persuade anyone to make a payment by promising benefits from getting other people to join the trading scheme.'

All this is the key to Igennex. People are unlikely to pay hundreds of pounds for modest shopping discounts. But they might pay up if they were promised even bigger sums for recruiting others, which is exactly what Igennex does promise.

Its message is: Pay 1,645, recruit four new members - and it's all profit from then on.

One disgruntled Igennex member told the Sunday Mercury: 'It is all very secretive and people only hear about Igennex through word of mouth. "As a member, you are told to persuade others to join and you cannot go to a meeting unless you are a member's guest." 'You are promised all kinds of quick rewards and the contract is quite obscure with the terms and conditions hidden away.'

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Tragic aunty 'ripped off'

From the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, first published Tuesday 10th Apr 2001.

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A BUSINESSMAN and his wife have been ordered to repay nearly 50,000 after a judge said an elderly aunt appeared to have been "ripped off" before she died.

Robert and Michelle Fitzpatrick, of Burnley Road, Accrington, had the county court judgment made against them after other members of Maureen Skinner's family tried to retrieve money they said they owed.

The court heard relatives of Mrs Skinner, who lived in Beech Cresecent, Altham, and who died in January last year, aged 71, blamed Mr Fitzpatrick for making her very stressed because of mounting debt in the weeks leading up to her death.

But his wife today said after the hearing they would never have done anything to hurt Mrs Skinner and accused relatives of being jealous at the closeness of the relationship the couple had with her.

Burnley County Court heard that when she died, Mr Fitzpatrick's aunt was in debt for the first time in her life after agreeing to take out personal loans, credit card accounts and store agreements for Robert and his wife Michelle.

A total of 17 debts totalling 59,206.39 were presented to Judge Gee by Mrs Skinner's relatives, all of which, it was claimed, were taken out by Mrs Skinner but were for Mr and Mrs Fitzpatrick.

The judge said: "I have no hesitation in granting this judgement, the only pity is that it is very unlikely you will see this money paid back because of other issues."

All the debts have since been settled by Mrs Skinner's relatives, who argued that her name had been blackened by the actions of Mr Fitzpatrick.

The court was told that Mr Fitzpatrick had been banned from being a company director for 11 years last year for his involvement with a company called Guardearly.

Last January the Lancashire Evening Telegraph reported how the company operated an unlawful lottery and money circulation scheme that was described as dishonest and a swindle on the public and similar to the Titan pyramid selling scheme which affected East Lancashire investors in the mid-1990s.

Judge Gee agreed to sanction a judgment of 49,913.01 after being told some of the repayments had been reduced after Mrs Skinner's relatives had told creditors that their mother had been duped.

Mr and Mrs Fitzpatrick did not attend yesterday's court hearing, after he requested an adjournment which was declined by Judge Gee who said he felt Mr Fitzpatrick was 'playing with the law'.

Judge Gee completed the hearing, which was due to last two days, in two hours.

The court was told Mrs Fitzpatrick had claimed in letters to Mrs Skinner's daughter that the debt had been acquired to cover the elderly woman's extravagant lifestyle, which had led to her living in poverty.

This was dismissed by Judge Gee, who described the comments made by the Fitzpatricks as "ranging from the unbelievable to obvious nonsense."

He told Mrs Skinner's relatlives: "Your aunt's estate more than covered the debt so there was no need for her to take it out in the first place. It appears he was basically ripping his auntie off."

He added: "The judgement is against both of them because I feel they both benefited. I assume that by spending 300 on a store card for baby goods that both husband and wife will have benefited."

Judge Gee gave an example of the "ridiculous excuses" used by the Fitzpatricks to explain away the debts when he pointed out a 5,000 cheque was written out for one of Mr Fitzpatrick's later business ventures, SecureKeys, by Mrs Skinner.

The couple claimed the cheque was to cover expenses they might incur while Mrs Skinner was abroad on a cruise, such as paying her bills and getting shopping.

"That was obviously not the case," added Judge Gee.

Mrs Skinner's daughter, Brenda, told the court: "When she first died, I was too upset to go through all her paper work and just passed it all over to the solicitors.

"I first became aware that something was wrong when I saw some cheques had been written by my mother. She never wrote cheques, she did everything by direct debit so she knew where she was at.

"I made inquiries to the electricity board and found out the cheque was for the Fitzpatricks. The same happened again when I checked out a cheque to Hyndburn Council. That is when the penny dropped.

"We paid off the debts. There is no way the things on the store cards were gifts. If something was intended as a gift, she went out and bought it outright."

Speaking after the case, Mrs Davies, who had wept in court as she read out a letter from Mrs Fitzpatrick which apologised for causing stress, added: "We feel this judgement has helped to remove the tarnish which has been cast across my mother's reputation since her death."

Michelle Fitzpatrick said: "We expected this but we do not think it is right. The family are simply jealous at the closeness of the relationship we had with Maureen.

"We would never have done anything to upset her and I think people are stooping very low."

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