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This thread is going to be as big as the Black Friday thread
But more fun.
For it to be fun we need more shitposting 🤣
You're a moderator, unban @VeloxMedia!
I'll enjoy @ralf trying to explain the exact same concept every 12 hours to him.
That’s above my pay grade sir
So, at this point, the possible end games
1. Do chargeback > Get booted of > End
2. Do nothing > Get notification > Doesn't pay monthly fee > Get shutdown > Do charge back > End
3. Do nothing > Get notification > Pay monthly fee > Trigger happy on slightest excuse (or even falseflag) > Service shutdown > Try chargeback > AUP violation > Denial for chargeback retroactively applied to Lewis's contract > End
I opted for do charge back > not get booted? > pay monthly fee for the lulz > ???
How have you escaped the Matrix?
Very low chance of this being possible
The VPS is still active. I posted in another thread that I paid via PayPal guest checkout, so I could only dispute via my CC provider, not through PayPal. I'm like 99% certain that my bank just approved the charge back as a courtesy. All that to say that I wouldn't be surprised if Eric couldn't see my charge back.
Via all of Eric's statements, I was not his customer until he offered me the $2 monthly plan, so all of my dealings with Lewis are irrelevant to the contract I now have with Eric. The VPS is literally doing nothing, so he can't AUP me. We'll see where it goes.
I didn’t get email for my data to be migrated to a different company or person to handle my data. Hopefully data is still stored in EU and not USA.
We can certainly help with that, but it'd also put an end to the thread being useful.
If a big shit... Why the seat up? So many questions...
Was it useful?
Nobody knows.
It probably won't have been until everyone gets their money back and all the exit-scam perpetrators are unmasked so they can't just repeat the scam next year.
The only thing that i know, i've neved received an email, regarding new owner. This man is still having my data.
Half the internet has your data, orange dino.
Might not be a problem, which half?
This is technically phoenixing as well as tax evasion (creating obscurity through formations).
In the UK, most limited companies are only liable for the value of their shareholder's paid up funds (usually nominal up to £100). This allows a director to dissolve a company with no liability for the company debts beyond that nominal sum, as they are recognised as two separate entities in UK law. You cannot take legal action against a dissolved LTD successfully. In this case, either the payment processors or banks eat up the chargeback costs or there are no refunds.
Everyone affected should report it to the relevant authorities. While it can take some time, many directors are eventually charged and disqualified.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phoenix-companies-and-the-role-of-the-insolvency-service/phoenix-companies-and-the-role-of-the-insolvency-service
There was no UK company involved in this case. If Lewis is real, he was a sole trader and will continue to remain liable personally for any debts from chargebacks. That's an issue for Stripe and Lewis to work out. When they discover he's not real and they screwed up their KYC, it'll be a bit more interesting, but chances are we'll never heard about that part.
might come out in the movie
Stripe will eventually send it to a debt management company but in the UK, they can't take what someone doesn't have (including assets registered under other entities). It's unlikely he opened a Stripe account without ID. They are fully KYC compliant to the extent I'd call them over zealous. What was the name billed to clients through Velox? Was it Lewis X or Veloxmedia? Stripe will suspend accounts after a few chargebacks and or a string even if you aren't doing anything wrong - Reddit is littered with suspended / blocked businesses.
It's really common to get cents on the dollar for debts here and many are eventually sold on that basis to sharks who can be bothered to try and collect on them. Payment arrangements are really generous here and judges seem to have a weird definition of affordability in comparison to income. Most defaults end up receiving £1 a month. I wouldn't expect much to come from this.
He was presenting it as run by Lewis Edwards from Aberdeen. It also seems from digging around that Lewis worked as a "beauty technician" in one of Veloxmedia's first clients, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if that Lewis is real and he stole his identity - maybe requiring his documents as KYC for something. Either that or Lewis is really stupid and actually tried an exit scam in his own name. In either case, Stripe should be in a position to get a court order to discover who really controlled the account that received the money and possibly track where it was moved to after that.
I understand your logic. Before live verifications such as today, a copy of an ID document would have sufficed. It's plausible.
FYI @techdragon @ralf on phoenixing:
Final edit:
It's disgusting
I highly doubt it's stolen identity. He's got veloxmedia.co.uk linked in his Instagram bio, and both Lewis and Austin have photos of each other on their accounts.