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This is my assumption that I was alluding to when I asked about clients who only have a server in Poland. I believe that they added on the Poland location much later than California and others, so it stands to reason that the contract with that upstream provider will end later than the others.
Bullies bully but never show up to the actual fight.
He will Deadpool even those whose do pay up, it's milking as much as he can get before he completely pulls the plug on the multi-phase exit plan. He didn't manage to get the thousands he hoped when he was trying to extort during the DDoS protection phase so now he's settling for peanuts.
Sounds like you need a new bank. Many banks issue a practically infinite number of cards for free. A good credit union does charge you if you lose your physical card, but only because those cards do cost money to re-issue and they don't want to pass that cost on to their shareholders in the form of hidden fees. If your card is compromised or physically destroyed, they'll always replace it for free.
I filed a dispute through PayPal's resolution center. I wrote that the company changed hands within a month of my order and provided a couple links to this thread, along with a brief description of their alarming behavior and legal threats they sent to the moderators. The dispute was closed in my favor immediately and the money was added to my PayPal Balance.
At this point, I simply cannot trust that the server will actually be around during the full 3 years that I paid for in advance. I was already kind of suspicious about that price point and contract term, so I considered it a gamble anyway, but I'm certainly not going to allow my money to be stolen if they're going to pull the rug within the dispute window. I highly recommend anyone else who's on the fence about it go ahead and file the chargeback, especially if you used PayPal or Stripe Link.
Yes, well done. This legal concept was actually posted earlier in the thread several times, but was overwhelmed by noise.
Once you realize it is an anticipatory repudiation, you no longer doubt yourself and no longer believe in the scammer.
Then, getting your chargeback is a whole different thing . . . your complaint must fit the correct checkbox for you to win. Simplify the complexity of the actual situation, as the payment processor and the scammer do. Complex factual scenarios or voluminous documentation from the victim generally lose in these situations.
Think along these lines:
"A scammer took over an abandoned business I patronized and pre-paid, using a similar company name that he created just a few days ago in another country, and the scammer said publicly we are not his customers. Please chargeback the original guy who you gave my money to."
Lewis seems to just find existing people and impersonate them or relations to them...
Well if you really need things to be clear, just open a ticket asking for a refund and he'll immediately terminate the service? At least he was doing that before he was banned from here.
Nope not in this country. But that doesn't matter for this moment. If something strange happens, chargeback is what it will be.
I don't think that's technically true, unless you are referring to the non-idiomatic meaning. A witch hunt is just an exceptionally excessive campaign where a group attempts to persecute or expose another person. It can be based on facts and still be a witch hunt if the reaction is excessive.
I do not believe what transpired here counts as a witch hunt, however. If we started persecuting other providers, looking for any hint that they might be giving unsustainable deals and then treating them like we treated Eric simply for, say, being in the UK and offering triennial plans, then it would be a witch hunt.
It was definitely true. My system slowed to a crawl and showed about 10 Mbps ingress that I couldn't account for, and a quick look with tcpdump revealed that there was a flood from spoofed IPs to UDP/53 on my IP, all with the same source port.
Does anyone know if VeloxMedia's upstreams implemented BCP 38?
I absolutely believe that he’s impersonating Tom and perhaps Eric. I’m less convinced that he would be able to create a new entity that is owned by Justin Morgan’s existing entities without Justin Morgan being in on it.
I still believe Justin Morgan is real and involved in this transaction.
Someone should reach out to him and find out. Send a message on linked in or something.
Hmm, I don’t know if someone posted this already, but I received this mail a few hours ago.
The first batch is 15th Jan. So, it seems you are the 2nd batch.
Horseshit, of course he is the same guy, thank god I requested a refund through PayPal a few weeks back, got my refund instantly. How can this guy be so ignorant to believe that people will use his services even outside the LET community? I believe we should all leave a review in the suggestion box https://www.trustpilot.com/review/veloxmedia.co.uk
No matter if he is the same guy or not, imo it's against (atleast) EU laws to discontinue without a refund done by him/them
@jsg if you don't got the email (so far)
No, not true (hate to say this). At least here (Netherlands) you can take over a company without it's customers. Technically those customers should then go to the old owner and he should take care of a refund.
However, things get complicated from there. We don't know the contents of the deal between the old and the new owner - the old owner stated that the "customers were taken care of", the new one denies that he "has these customers". If the customers are part of the deal, the new owner should continue the services. If they are not, he shouldn't.
However, he did continue the services, the did use the customer data, there was no downtime in the service (for most of us) due to the handover, so basically it's likely that the new owner owns the hardware it runs on. Heck, most of the customers may not even know that there was a take over. Also, he apparantly is looking into the chargeback state and de-activate accounts/services upon that. All signs that the customers could be part of the deal.
Only now, 3 weeks forward, slowly customers are being informed and asked if they want to have a new contract. Too little, too late, law here states that people should be informed as soon as possible about a company take over in case personal data is involved - and clearly the effort of informing ASAP is not there (stated here by the new owner and proven by e.g. the slow sending out of e-mails with renewed offer). Personal data, that has been obtained in the deal between old and new provider, must be either used for providing a service (i.e. it's a customer of the new provider), have conscent for usage given by the person themselves or be deleted at max 30 days after the take over date.
the amount of time we've collectively spent arguing the finer points of this absolute fraud is pretty impressive.
@jsg if you don't got the email (so far) > @zed said:
Watch your mouth otherwise Lewic will sue you
Suing? Wasn't him calling FBI to eliminate DDoSers? Don't underestimate him.
Don't forget homeland security
He meant Female Body Inspector not the real FBI
Technically, either Lewis or Eric are being fraudulent. Because, both of them assumed the liabilities (existing contract) are not on their hand.
The scam continues:
Thats the server I renewed till '27 then he cancelled it when he went crazy.
I urge anyone to remove any kind of payment details from their panel asap!
Also, mjjs spread the word please.