Velox media under new management

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@x0x0x said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@Wise said:
I love how he has the transaction I’d to identify chargebacks. So he is in full control of all data, not so legally

Not legal at all I may add. Even under US law what he's doing is illegal.

But you know... He not in the US.

He is in the US, according to https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZC072447.

Apparently... Truth though?..

tfgp99 · January 8

Now things are really going to heat up.

x0x0x · January 8

@Saragoldfarb said:
Fuck he did it!!!! He suspended me @angstrom @DP

He doesn't care about Lewis' customers. A big chunk of VeloxMedia customers are LET users. I wouldn't be surprised if went ahead and deleted everyone too.

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@tfgp99 said:
Now things are really going to heat up.

It will
..

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@VeloxMedia

Why did you suspend my service?

225thinker · January 8

Anyone taking any measure of comfort from the "301 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219" address should know that, per Google, that location hosts at least one mail drop/conference room rental service, under varying brand names.

tfgp99 · January 8

@225thinker said:
Anyone taking any measure of comfort from the "301 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219" address should know that, per Google, that location hosts at least one mail drop/conference room rental service, under varying brand names.

It can be the accounting office, but I don't think so as well.

Saragoldfarb · January 8

Committed fraud again @VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

Suspension Reason: Overdue on Payment

cdn99 · January 8

@VeloxMedia said:

@tfgp99 said:

@network said:

@ralf said:

@xvps said:

@VeloxMedia said:

@fuqet said:
I have a quick question. If someone issued a chargeback without informing Veloxmedia, would they still receive the service for free? How would the company find out about the chargeback if they don’t have access to the bank account used for the payment? Am I right?

We have the transactionID from the initial purchase and both stripe and PayPal have integrations for any vendor to check the status. They eventually mark it as disputed when we then can submit the client as fraud which can cause issues with your bank and stuff. Also we delete the account.

It just makes more sense to pop a ticket so we delete the account and make life easier for everyone.

How can you report the client for fraud while simultaneously claiming the payment was made to another company and then disputed?

Isn’t that itself a fraudulent fraud claim?

Even more so when you've requested customers to chargeback and then flag them as fraud with an automated process that flags every chargeback as fraud.

I'm sure Stripe is loving a brand new company with no sales of their own bulk submitting transactions of another company as fraud.

Only Stripe? Even Paypal will aligning with this.

We sell 8 figures with both PayPal and Stripe a year. Both of these providers register companies under umbrellas so they're linked with some of our other companies. Trust me theres no issue

Gotta say you need to get rid of all these low end customers if long term success is desired. All successful providers go through the path. Good luck!

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@Saragoldfarb said:
Committed fraud again @VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

Suspension Reason: Overdue on Payment

@jbiloh

x0x0x · January 8

@225thinker said:
Anyone taking any measure of comfort from the "301 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219" address should know that, per Google, that location hosts at least one mail drop/conference room rental service, under varying brand names.

'Pittsburg' you mean He can't even submit the correct spelling.

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@Saragoldfarb said:
Committed fraud again @VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

Suspension Reason: Overdue on Payment

How the fuck its overdue when you charged me twice and still holding my money

@VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

Saragoldfarb · January 8

Need more proof?

x0x0x · January 8

@x0x0x said:

@225thinker said:
Anyone taking any measure of comfort from the "301 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219" address should know that, per Google, that location hosts at least one mail drop/conference room rental service, under varying brand names.

'Pittsburg' you mean He can't even submit the correct spelling.

301 Grant Dt lmao!

ralf · January 8

@225thinker said:
Anyone taking any measure of comfort from the "301 Grant St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219" address should know that, per Google, that location hosts at least one mail drop/conference room rental service, under varying brand names.

And, as I pointed out early on in this thread, as the address for multiple other shady looking hosting providers all with the same address and different ZIP codes. It's either a default template he downloaded from somewhere or he's running lots of dodgy outfits from the same shared office space.

buzzyLET · January 8

@225thinker said:

@NotFoundException said:
The new Velox Media seems to be registered in Ohio. Searched using this (https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/)

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202535801636

Quick breakdown of the Ohio LLC Articles of Organization, which was issued with an effective date of 12/24/2025.

It was issued to a Justin Morgan, at an address that is a UPS Store public mail service. There is nothing unusual about people using a Mail Drop rather than their residence address. Justin Morgan may or may not be an owner of the newly formed company.

He could be a lawyer or paralegal or anyone who does the paperwork to create a company (i.e., the sponsor), without ownership or involvement. LLCs were created partly to provide enhanced confidentiality as to entity ownership. This is common U.S. business practice.

It is named Velox Media LLC. There is no necessity that it be related to any other entity anywhere trading as Velox Media. You can use any name you want as long as that state's Secretary of State doesn't think it conflicts with another entity name being used in that state.

Most U.S. companies have to have an entity designated to receive legal documents mailed to or served upon them. This is especially so where there is no physical office that could otherwise accept service. The Statutory Agent designated by Velox Media LLC here is Benthost LLC, for which Eric Banks accepted on behalf of Benthost LLC.

The physical address of Benthost LLC maps on Google to an office building in Worthington, OH.

On its face, being the person who signs for a Statutory Agent does not itself imply any other connection to the LLC entity. In fact, this is a service that people charge to provide and no other connection to the entity is required.

As I have posted before, in most/all U.S. states, the formation of an LLC or corporation ("Inc.") does not --of itself-- provide any protections to customers or parties doing business with it. In fact, the protections arise for the owners. This is why most lawyers advise their clients as a first act to form an LLC or corporation to conduct business under.

None of the foregoing should add to or detract from anyone's confidence in this particular operation going forward.

Those not familiar with U.S. ways should recognize that there is no "policing" of these corporate formations, no one checks anyone's claimed identity, or anything other than whether the fee was paid and that the name is not already in use by another registered entity in that state.

==

By all appearances, someone claiming to be "Eric" now has the logins to the servers that people pre-paid a "Lewis from the UK" to use. As is said, "possession is 9/10ths of the law."

"Eric" has claimed that all the monies previously harvested through the very recent "Black Friday" sales has been run off with by "Lewis" and that customers are stuck with whatever he chooses to do for them, apparently determined in part by how they interact with him. The experienced promoter on LET who "ran" the frenzied promotions for Velox/Lewis was the "TomHarper" guy. He is nowhere to be seen at this point, and his connection to "Lewis" is unexplained.

I previously observed that I sensed from his posts that "TomHarper" was an American with a certain background.

I suppose if I had pre-paid money to the Lewis/TomHarper Velox a few weeks ago, I would want to figure out whether the TomHarper guy has any connection to the above-referenced gentlemen, who seem to also be Americans.

The other pending question would be whether "Lewis" was really who he claimed to be and not someone posing, who pulled UK info off of Google to create a false sense of corporate legitimacy there.

If this is a coordinated exit scam, they likely don't care about EU law because no one involved ever had any actual connection to the EU.

The likelihood that an unrelated U.S. person with actual ties to a legitimate internet business would "purchase" a collapsing UK-based internet "business" based on a Reddit post, where that business quite publicly just took in tens of thousands of dollars in pre-paid fees is slim, in my opinion, unless "laundering" exit scams is a separate stand-alone business among strangers and is a proven, profitable one, at that.

If there are any innocents left still trying to figure this out, the above is for you.

Didn't see this mentioned yet in the thread. Justin Morgan is also on the Benthost LLC filing:

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201633000142

He is associated with the company Shield Management, also in Ohio.

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

Why are you committing fraud?

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

I might feel inclined to start another thread.... And not just here.

alexanderras · January 8

'Pittsburg' you mean He can't even submit the correct spelling.

301 Grant Dt lmao!

Indeed the work of a world class legal team

jsg · January 8

@tfgp99 said:

@jsg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

@VeloxMedia said:
So here's what I'm thinking. Since no one seems happy and our status is suspended here for no reason and people want their data deleted.

Why don't we suspend all our LET deal clients until we get this all figured out and everyone is happy and our status here isn't suspended? This seems to be fair. If anyone has issues they can just chargeback.

Re myself no need, I already was and still am happy with my @VeloxMedia VPS as well as with your support.

Wtf? He just threatened to delete your service one post above!

... to which I responded what you quoted.

Now, to be honest and frank, while I do not think that he'll delete my service, I would even understand if after the witch hunt here he decided to simply terminate all services to LET users.
After all, what basis would I have to ask him to please kindly differentiate between LET users who comment 'facts* based, asked question or even reasonably criticized @VeloxMedia vs. those just running a private war against them?

The way that he threat all the customers & users, you want to keep defending him? You can realize you are one as well. I've told you an example that you couldn't even reply. Since I can assume you wouldn't like being in that position.

(a) I'm not defending him. That would be implying that he did something wrong, and I don't see that he has (besides his PR/communications). I'm merely not joining a witch hunt. Big difference.

(b) I didn't reply because I saw nothing worthy a reply in that post of yours.

See the following quoted post for another example of a post not worthy a reply:

@alexanderras said:

@jsg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

@VeloxMedia said:
So here's what I'm thinking. Since no one seems happy and our status is suspended here for no reason and people want their data deleted.

Why don't we suspend all our LET deal clients until we get this all figured out and everyone is happy and our status here isn't suspended? This seems to be fair. If anyone has issues they can just chargeback.

Re myself no need, I already was and still am happy with my @VeloxMedia VPS as well as with your support.

Wtf? He just threatened to delete your service one post above!

... to which I responded what you quoted.

Now, to be honest and frank, while I do not think that he'll delete my service, I would even understand if after the witch hunt here he decided to simply terminate all services to LET users.
After all, what basis would I have to ask him to please kindly differentiate between LET users who comment 'facts* based, asked question or even reasonably criticized @VeloxMedia vs. those just running a private war against them?

Great mother superior. I see you have a monopoly on facts now too.

.

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

And now I guess the horde of hobby lawyers will take over again ...

Then this may come as a surprise. He holds my company data. We have real lawyers on retainer.

OK, so finally someone who says they do have actual lawyers on retainer. But do you also have them actually working on this, i.e. preparing concrete legal action?
If yes, do not forget to publish the relevant documents here! (PII blacked out of course).

@alexanderras said:
I see the GDPR ignorance continues. @jsg are you getting a cut?

Nope, and also no relations beyond having a cheap-ish VPS with them (I'm happy with). In fact, quite the contrary. My offer to pay something on top still stands.

@jsg

He threatened me and just suspended me and is still holding MY MONEY

Which I payed to HIM!

@angstrom @DP @jbiloh

Are you really sure that you didn't provoke him?

As for your money, I think, opening a ticket or sending a PM here clearly showing that you did pay without delivering the service paid for, should be sufficient to get a refund.

Btw. make a decision! Either talk about your lawyers on retainer and provoking him to terminate your service - or - tag admins, mods, and even the owner. Doing both just looks silly, sorry.

tfgp99 · January 8

@VeloxMedia
It is convenient to reply now.

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@tfgp99 said:
@VeloxMedia
It is convenient to reply now.

@VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

Very convenient.

NotFoundException · January 8

@buzzyLET said:

@225thinker said:

@NotFoundException said:
The new Velox Media seems to be registered in Ohio. Searched using this (https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/)

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202535801636

Quick breakdown of the Ohio LLC Articles of Organization, which was issued with an effective date of 12/24/2025.

It was issued to a Justin Morgan, at an address that is a UPS Store public mail service. There is nothing unusual about people using a Mail Drop rather than their residence address. Justin Morgan may or may not be an owner of the newly formed company.

He could be a lawyer or paralegal or anyone who does the paperwork to create a company (i.e., the sponsor), without ownership or involvement. LLCs were created partly to provide enhanced confidentiality as to entity ownership. This is common U.S. business practice.

It is named Velox Media LLC. There is no necessity that it be related to any other entity anywhere trading as Velox Media. You can use any name you want as long as that state's Secretary of State doesn't think it conflicts with another entity name being used in that state.

Most U.S. companies have to have an entity designated to receive legal documents mailed to or served upon them. This is especially so where there is no physical office that could otherwise accept service. The Statutory Agent designated by Velox Media LLC here is Benthost LLC, for which Eric Banks accepted on behalf of Benthost LLC.

The physical address of Benthost LLC maps on Google to an office building in Worthington, OH.

On its face, being the person who signs for a Statutory Agent does not itself imply any other connection to the LLC entity. In fact, this is a service that people charge to provide and no other connection to the entity is required.

As I have posted before, in most/all U.S. states, the formation of an LLC or corporation ("Inc.") does not --of itself-- provide any protections to customers or parties doing business with it. In fact, the protections arise for the owners. This is why most lawyers advise their clients as a first act to form an LLC or corporation to conduct business under.

None of the foregoing should add to or detract from anyone's confidence in this particular operation going forward.

Those not familiar with U.S. ways should recognize that there is no "policing" of these corporate formations, no one checks anyone's claimed identity, or anything other than whether the fee was paid and that the name is not already in use by another registered entity in that state.

==

By all appearances, someone claiming to be "Eric" now has the logins to the servers that people pre-paid a "Lewis from the UK" to use. As is said, "possession is 9/10ths of the law."

"Eric" has claimed that all the monies previously harvested through the very recent "Black Friday" sales has been run off with by "Lewis" and that customers are stuck with whatever he chooses to do for them, apparently determined in part by how they interact with him. The experienced promoter on LET who "ran" the frenzied promotions for Velox/Lewis was the "TomHarper" guy. He is nowhere to be seen at this point, and his connection to "Lewis" is unexplained.

I previously observed that I sensed from his posts that "TomHarper" was an American with a certain background.

I suppose if I had pre-paid money to the Lewis/TomHarper Velox a few weeks ago, I would want to figure out whether the TomHarper guy has any connection to the above-referenced gentlemen, who seem to also be Americans.

The other pending question would be whether "Lewis" was really who he claimed to be and not someone posing, who pulled UK info off of Google to create a false sense of corporate legitimacy there.

If this is a coordinated exit scam, they likely don't care about EU law because no one involved ever had any actual connection to the EU.

The likelihood that an unrelated U.S. person with actual ties to a legitimate internet business would "purchase" a collapsing UK-based internet "business" based on a Reddit post, where that business quite publicly just took in tens of thousands of dollars in pre-paid fees is slim, in my opinion, unless "laundering" exit scams is a separate stand-alone business among strangers and is a proven, profitable one, at that.

If there are any innocents left still trying to figure this out, the above is for you.

Didn't see this mentioned yet in the thread. Justin Morgan is also on the Benthost LLC filing:

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201633000142

He is associated with the company Shield Management, also in Ohio.

Known for a long time already

cybertech · January 8

@VeloxMedia said:
We've invested $12 million

lol wut

NotFoundException · January 8

@cybertech said:

@VeloxMedia said:
We've invested $12 million

lol wut

Late to the party, but I like it

Saragoldfarb · January 8

@jsg said:

@tfgp99 said:

@jsg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

@VeloxMedia said:
So here's what I'm thinking. Since no one seems happy and our status is suspended here for no reason and people want their data deleted.

Why don't we suspend all our LET deal clients until we get this all figured out and everyone is happy and our status here isn't suspended? This seems to be fair. If anyone has issues they can just chargeback.

Re myself no need, I already was and still am happy with my @VeloxMedia VPS as well as with your support.

Wtf? He just threatened to delete your service one post above!

... to which I responded what you quoted.

Now, to be honest and frank, while I do not think that he'll delete my service, I would even understand if after the witch hunt here he decided to simply terminate all services to LET users.
After all, what basis would I have to ask him to please kindly differentiate between LET users who comment 'facts* based, asked question or even reasonably criticized @VeloxMedia vs. those just running a private war against them?

The way that he threat all the customers & users, you want to keep defending him? You can realize you are one as well. I've told you an example that you couldn't even reply. Since I can assume you wouldn't like being in that position.

(a) I'm not defending him. That would be implying that he did something wrong, and I don't see that he has (besides his PR/communications). I'm merely not joining a witch hunt. Big difference.

(b) I didn't reply because I saw nothing worthy a reply in that post of yours.

See the following quoted post for another example of a post not worthy a reply:

@alexanderras said:

@jsg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

@VeloxMedia said:
So here's what I'm thinking. Since no one seems happy and our status is suspended here for no reason and people want their data deleted.

Why don't we suspend all our LET deal clients until we get this all figured out and everyone is happy and our status here isn't suspended? This seems to be fair. If anyone has issues they can just chargeback.

Re myself no need, I already was and still am happy with my @VeloxMedia VPS as well as with your support.

Wtf? He just threatened to delete your service one post above!

... to which I responded what you quoted.

Now, to be honest and frank, while I do not think that he'll delete my service, I would even understand if after the witch hunt here he decided to simply terminate all services to LET users.
After all, what basis would I have to ask him to please kindly differentiate between LET users who comment 'facts* based, asked question or even reasonably criticized @VeloxMedia vs. those just running a private war against them?

Great mother superior. I see you have a monopoly on facts now too.

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@jsg said:

And now I guess the horde of hobby lawyers will take over again ...

Then this may come as a surprise. He holds my company data. We have real lawyers on retainer.

OK, so finally someone who says they do have actual lawyers on retainer. But do you also have them actually working on this, i.e. preparing concrete legal action?
If yes, do not forget to publish the relevant documents here! (PII blacked out of course).

@alexanderras said:
I see the GDPR ignorance continues. @jsg are you getting a cut?

Nope, and also no relations beyond having a cheap-ish VPS with them (I'm happy with). In fact, quite the contrary. My offer to pay something on top still stands.

@jsg

He threatened me and just suspended me and is still holding MY MONEY

Which I payed to HIM!

@angstrom @DP @jbiloh

Are you really sure that you didn't provoke him?

As for your money, I think, opening a ticket or sending a PM here clearly showing that you did pay without delivering the service paid for, should be sufficient to get a refund.

Btw. make a decision! Either talk about your lawyers on retainer and provoking him to terminate your service - or - tag admins, mods, and even the owner. Doing both just looks silly, sorry.

No. He lied from the beginning that I didn't pay. I openly showed proof I did. Then he started to threaten me and committed fraud while at it...

Also.... Still holding my money.

There's no excuse.

@VeloxMedia

VeloxMedia.co.uk VeloxMedia Inc VeloxMedia LLC

x0x0x · January 8

@NotFoundException said:

@buzzyLET said:

@225thinker said:

@NotFoundException said:
The new Velox Media seems to be registered in Ohio. Searched using this (https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/)

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202535801636

Quick breakdown of the Ohio LLC Articles of Organization, which was issued with an effective date of 12/24/2025.

It was issued to a Justin Morgan, at an address that is a UPS Store public mail service. There is nothing unusual about people using a Mail Drop rather than their residence address. Justin Morgan may or may not be an owner of the newly formed company.

He could be a lawyer or paralegal or anyone who does the paperwork to create a company (i.e., the sponsor), without ownership or involvement. LLCs were created partly to provide enhanced confidentiality as to entity ownership. This is common U.S. business practice.

It is named Velox Media LLC. There is no necessity that it be related to any other entity anywhere trading as Velox Media. You can use any name you want as long as that state's Secretary of State doesn't think it conflicts with another entity name being used in that state.

Most U.S. companies have to have an entity designated to receive legal documents mailed to or served upon them. This is especially so where there is no physical office that could otherwise accept service. The Statutory Agent designated by Velox Media LLC here is Benthost LLC, for which Eric Banks accepted on behalf of Benthost LLC.

The physical address of Benthost LLC maps on Google to an office building in Worthington, OH.

On its face, being the person who signs for a Statutory Agent does not itself imply any other connection to the LLC entity. In fact, this is a service that people charge to provide and no other connection to the entity is required.

As I have posted before, in most/all U.S. states, the formation of an LLC or corporation ("Inc.") does not --of itself-- provide any protections to customers or parties doing business with it. In fact, the protections arise for the owners. This is why most lawyers advise their clients as a first act to form an LLC or corporation to conduct business under.

None of the foregoing should add to or detract from anyone's confidence in this particular operation going forward.

Those not familiar with U.S. ways should recognize that there is no "policing" of these corporate formations, no one checks anyone's claimed identity, or anything other than whether the fee was paid and that the name is not already in use by another registered entity in that state.

==

By all appearances, someone claiming to be "Eric" now has the logins to the servers that people pre-paid a "Lewis from the UK" to use. As is said, "possession is 9/10ths of the law."

"Eric" has claimed that all the monies previously harvested through the very recent "Black Friday" sales has been run off with by "Lewis" and that customers are stuck with whatever he chooses to do for them, apparently determined in part by how they interact with him. The experienced promoter on LET who "ran" the frenzied promotions for Velox/Lewis was the "TomHarper" guy. He is nowhere to be seen at this point, and his connection to "Lewis" is unexplained.

I previously observed that I sensed from his posts that "TomHarper" was an American with a certain background.

I suppose if I had pre-paid money to the Lewis/TomHarper Velox a few weeks ago, I would want to figure out whether the TomHarper guy has any connection to the above-referenced gentlemen, who seem to also be Americans.

The other pending question would be whether "Lewis" was really who he claimed to be and not someone posing, who pulled UK info off of Google to create a false sense of corporate legitimacy there.

If this is a coordinated exit scam, they likely don't care about EU law because no one involved ever had any actual connection to the EU.

The likelihood that an unrelated U.S. person with actual ties to a legitimate internet business would "purchase" a collapsing UK-based internet "business" based on a Reddit post, where that business quite publicly just took in tens of thousands of dollars in pre-paid fees is slim, in my opinion, unless "laundering" exit scams is a separate stand-alone business among strangers and is a proven, profitable one, at that.

If there are any innocents left still trying to figure this out, the above is for you.

Didn't see this mentioned yet in the thread. Justin Morgan is also on the Benthost LLC filing:

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201633000142

He is associated with the company Shield Management, also in Ohio.

Known for a long time already

Yeah old news. It was known the second Benthost was mentioned and identified.

buzzyLET · January 8

@NotFoundException said:

@buzzyLET said:

@225thinker said:

@NotFoundException said:
The new Velox Media seems to be registered in Ohio. Searched using this (https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/)

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202535801636

Quick breakdown of the Ohio LLC Articles of Organization, which was issued with an effective date of 12/24/2025.

It was issued to a Justin Morgan, at an address that is a UPS Store public mail service. There is nothing unusual about people using a Mail Drop rather than their residence address. Justin Morgan may or may not be an owner of the newly formed company.

He could be a lawyer or paralegal or anyone who does the paperwork to create a company (i.e., the sponsor), without ownership or involvement. LLCs were created partly to provide enhanced confidentiality as to entity ownership. This is common U.S. business practice.

It is named Velox Media LLC. There is no necessity that it be related to any other entity anywhere trading as Velox Media. You can use any name you want as long as that state's Secretary of State doesn't think it conflicts with another entity name being used in that state.

Most U.S. companies have to have an entity designated to receive legal documents mailed to or served upon them. This is especially so where there is no physical office that could otherwise accept service. The Statutory Agent designated by Velox Media LLC here is Benthost LLC, for which Eric Banks accepted on behalf of Benthost LLC.

The physical address of Benthost LLC maps on Google to an office building in Worthington, OH.

On its face, being the person who signs for a Statutory Agent does not itself imply any other connection to the LLC entity. In fact, this is a service that people charge to provide and no other connection to the entity is required.

As I have posted before, in most/all U.S. states, the formation of an LLC or corporation ("Inc.") does not --of itself-- provide any protections to customers or parties doing business with it. In fact, the protections arise for the owners. This is why most lawyers advise their clients as a first act to form an LLC or corporation to conduct business under.

None of the foregoing should add to or detract from anyone's confidence in this particular operation going forward.

Those not familiar with U.S. ways should recognize that there is no "policing" of these corporate formations, no one checks anyone's claimed identity, or anything other than whether the fee was paid and that the name is not already in use by another registered entity in that state.

==

By all appearances, someone claiming to be "Eric" now has the logins to the servers that people pre-paid a "Lewis from the UK" to use. As is said, "possession is 9/10ths of the law."

"Eric" has claimed that all the monies previously harvested through the very recent "Black Friday" sales has been run off with by "Lewis" and that customers are stuck with whatever he chooses to do for them, apparently determined in part by how they interact with him. The experienced promoter on LET who "ran" the frenzied promotions for Velox/Lewis was the "TomHarper" guy. He is nowhere to be seen at this point, and his connection to "Lewis" is unexplained.

I previously observed that I sensed from his posts that "TomHarper" was an American with a certain background.

I suppose if I had pre-paid money to the Lewis/TomHarper Velox a few weeks ago, I would want to figure out whether the TomHarper guy has any connection to the above-referenced gentlemen, who seem to also be Americans.

The other pending question would be whether "Lewis" was really who he claimed to be and not someone posing, who pulled UK info off of Google to create a false sense of corporate legitimacy there.

If this is a coordinated exit scam, they likely don't care about EU law because no one involved ever had any actual connection to the EU.

The likelihood that an unrelated U.S. person with actual ties to a legitimate internet business would "purchase" a collapsing UK-based internet "business" based on a Reddit post, where that business quite publicly just took in tens of thousands of dollars in pre-paid fees is slim, in my opinion, unless "laundering" exit scams is a separate stand-alone business among strangers and is a proven, profitable one, at that.

If there are any innocents left still trying to figure this out, the above is for you.

Didn't see this mentioned yet in the thread. Justin Morgan is also on the Benthost LLC filing:

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201633000142

He is associated with the company Shield Management, also in Ohio.

Known for a long time already

@NotFoundException said:

@buzzyLET said:

@225thinker said:

@NotFoundException said:
The new Velox Media seems to be registered in Ohio. Searched using this (https://businesssearch.ohiosos.gov/)

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/202535801636

Quick breakdown of the Ohio LLC Articles of Organization, which was issued with an effective date of 12/24/2025.

It was issued to a Justin Morgan, at an address that is a UPS Store public mail service. There is nothing unusual about people using a Mail Drop rather than their residence address. Justin Morgan may or may not be an owner of the newly formed company.

He could be a lawyer or paralegal or anyone who does the paperwork to create a company (i.e., the sponsor), without ownership or involvement. LLCs were created partly to provide enhanced confidentiality as to entity ownership. This is common U.S. business practice.

It is named Velox Media LLC. There is no necessity that it be related to any other entity anywhere trading as Velox Media. You can use any name you want as long as that state's Secretary of State doesn't think it conflicts with another entity name being used in that state.

Most U.S. companies have to have an entity designated to receive legal documents mailed to or served upon them. This is especially so where there is no physical office that could otherwise accept service. The Statutory Agent designated by Velox Media LLC here is Benthost LLC, for which Eric Banks accepted on behalf of Benthost LLC.

The physical address of Benthost LLC maps on Google to an office building in Worthington, OH.

On its face, being the person who signs for a Statutory Agent does not itself imply any other connection to the LLC entity. In fact, this is a service that people charge to provide and no other connection to the entity is required.

As I have posted before, in most/all U.S. states, the formation of an LLC or corporation ("Inc.") does not --of itself-- provide any protections to customers or parties doing business with it. In fact, the protections arise for the owners. This is why most lawyers advise their clients as a first act to form an LLC or corporation to conduct business under.

None of the foregoing should add to or detract from anyone's confidence in this particular operation going forward.

Those not familiar with U.S. ways should recognize that there is no "policing" of these corporate formations, no one checks anyone's claimed identity, or anything other than whether the fee was paid and that the name is not already in use by another registered entity in that state.

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By all appearances, someone claiming to be "Eric" now has the logins to the servers that people pre-paid a "Lewis from the UK" to use. As is said, "possession is 9/10ths of the law."

"Eric" has claimed that all the monies previously harvested through the very recent "Black Friday" sales has been run off with by "Lewis" and that customers are stuck with whatever he chooses to do for them, apparently determined in part by how they interact with him. The experienced promoter on LET who "ran" the frenzied promotions for Velox/Lewis was the "TomHarper" guy. He is nowhere to be seen at this point, and his connection to "Lewis" is unexplained.

I previously observed that I sensed from his posts that "TomHarper" was an American with a certain background.

I suppose if I had pre-paid money to the Lewis/TomHarper Velox a few weeks ago, I would want to figure out whether the TomHarper guy has any connection to the above-referenced gentlemen, who seem to also be Americans.

The other pending question would be whether "Lewis" was really who he claimed to be and not someone posing, who pulled UK info off of Google to create a false sense of corporate legitimacy there.

If this is a coordinated exit scam, they likely don't care about EU law because no one involved ever had any actual connection to the EU.

The likelihood that an unrelated U.S. person with actual ties to a legitimate internet business would "purchase" a collapsing UK-based internet "business" based on a Reddit post, where that business quite publicly just took in tens of thousands of dollars in pre-paid fees is slim, in my opinion, unless "laundering" exit scams is a separate stand-alone business among strangers and is a proven, profitable one, at that.

If there are any innocents left still trying to figure this out, the above is for you.

Didn't see this mentioned yet in the thread. Justin Morgan is also on the Benthost LLC filing:

https://bizimage.ohiosos.gov/api/image/pdf/201633000142

He is associated with the company Shield Management, also in Ohio.

Known for a long time already

Yeah old news. It was known the second Benthost was mentioned and identified.

I didn't see Shield Management specifically mentioned in any of the threads. I was curious what "shell companies" and other people may be involved.

Saragoldfarb · January 8

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Now holding my money not once but twice. He declined to address that issue.

Also declined to respond to my SAR request. Hence... You know whats coming.

tfgp99 · January 8

@jsg said: Are you really sure that you didn't provoke him?

It's not my problem if he felt intimidated by the sheer truth that was spoken. Everyone advised him, he didn't even care. If it is him decision, and if he knows what he is doing. He knows that he will deal with consequences.

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