Velox media under new management

alexanderras · January 23

@x0x0x said:
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.

Agree - plenty of real world data points on Justin Morgan too.

ralf · January 23

@x0x0x said:

@ralf said:

@techdragon said:

@ralf said:

@techdragon said:
This is technically phoenixing as well as tax evasion (creating obscurity through formations).
Everyone affected should report it to the relevant authorities. While it can take some time, many directors are eventually charged and disqualified.

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.

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 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.

Yeah, I just find it hard to believe that somebody can be that stupid to assume that debt risk as a sole trader, especially having been a director of multiple companies in the past.

Although all those other 2 companies were closed without trading - or at least seem to have been force-closed by Companies House for failing to file a return (at least according to the filings) so maybe he decided it wasn't worth the trouble if the first one lost him £2000. Of course, he could have appealed and filed his accounts, but maybe decided that he'd save more by not declaring anything. And maybe for Veloxmedia he decided he could fake his income figures more easily as a sole trader.

x0x0x · January 23

@ralf said:

@x0x0x said:

@ralf said:

@techdragon said:

@ralf said:

@techdragon said:
This is technically phoenixing as well as tax evasion (creating obscurity through formations).
Everyone affected should report it to the relevant authorities. While it can take some time, many directors are eventually charged and disqualified.

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.

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 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.

Yeah, I just find it hard to believe that somebody can be that stupid to assume that debt risk as a sole trader, especially having been a director of multiple companies in the past.

Although all those other 2 companies were closed without trading - or at least seem to have been force-closed by Companies House for failing to file a return (at least according to the filings) so maybe he decided it wasn't worth the trouble if the first one lost him £2000. Of course, he could have appealed and filed his accounts, but maybe decided that he'd save more by not declaring anything. And maybe for Veloxmedia he decided he could fake his income figures more easily as a sole trader.

Which 2 companies? Both Dash Aesthetics and ARPW seem to be listed as active on Companies House.

rpqu · January 23

@x0x0x said:

@ralf said:

@x0x0x said:

@ralf said:

@techdragon said:

@ralf said:

@techdragon said:
This is technically phoenixing as well as tax evasion (creating obscurity through formations).
Everyone affected should report it to the relevant authorities. While it can take some time, many directors are eventually charged and disqualified.

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.

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 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.

Yeah, I just find it hard to believe that somebody can be that stupid to assume that debt risk as a sole trader, especially having been a director of multiple companies in the past.

Although all those other 2 companies were closed without trading - or at least seem to have been force-closed by Companies House for failing to file a return (at least according to the filings) so maybe he decided it wasn't worth the trouble if the first one lost him £2000. Of course, he could have appealed and filed his accounts, but maybe decided that he'd save more by not declaring anything. And maybe for Veloxmedia he decided he could fake his income figures more easily as a sole trader.

Which 2 companies? Both Dash Aesthetics and ARPW seem to be listed as active on Companies House.

See > @rpqu said:

x0x0x · January 23

@rpqu said: See > @rpqu said:

Yeah, but those were old and probably never actually traded.

ralf · January 23

@x0x0x said:

@rpqu said: See > @rpqu said:

Yeah, but those were old and probably never actually traded.

Well, "never actually traded" covers a lot of stuff.

The majority of cheap providers who spring up and sell things in GBP usually disappear after 18 months because they fail to file any accounts within 6 months of the first financial year. In fact, that's the main reason for "company was dissolved by compulsory strike off" AFAIK.

Every single one of those new providers has carried out trade in the company name. Sometimes they've moved all the money through an Indian company and so it's just technically fraud by misrepresenting the company (much like Lewis was claiming Veloxmedia was the operator without any t/a notice). Other times, they'll trade for a year and decide they've made a loss (or not enough profit) and just fail to file any return at all.

Given the picture that @rpqu shared, it's highly likely that the companies were there to hide some scam operation, and then lapsed after the scam was complete. So my guess is they were traded, just never filed any accounts to prove it.

rpqu · January 23

@x0x0x said:

@rpqu said: See > @rpqu said:

Yeah, but those were old and probably never actually traded.

See

@openid said:
Look at these

Old Username  New Username    Date Changed    Changed By
auzzhosting   iserv   04:51, 20th January 2011    anon-e-mouse
iserv enigma-servers  11:04, 11th February 2013   VeloxMedia
enigma-servers    PandaHostEU 14:43, 24th November 2013   VeloxMedia
PandaHostEU   AuzzHosting 21:33, 4th October 2016 VeloxMedia
AuzzHosting   VeloxMedia  05:23, 14th September 2024  VeloxMedia

He indeed possesses abundant "experience"

x0x0x · January 23

@rpqu said:

@x0x0x said:

@rpqu said: See > @rpqu said:

Yeah, but those were old and probably never actually traded.

See
@openid said:
Look at these
Old Username    New Username    Date Changed    Changed By
auzzhosting iserv   04:51, 20th January 2011    anon-e-mouse
iserv   enigma-servers  11:04, 11th February 2013   VeloxMedia
enigma-servers  PandaHostEU 14:43, 24th November 2013   VeloxMedia
PandaHostEU AuzzHosting 21:33, 4th October 2016 VeloxMedia
AuzzHosting VeloxMedia  05:23, 14th September 2024  VeloxMedia
He indeed possesses abundant "experience"

Yeah. Pump and dump experience.

x0x0x · January 23

https://web.archive.org/web/20141228155019/http://justusguys.co.uk/ 'NSFW' by the way.

ralf · January 23

@x0x0x said:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141228155019/http://justusguys.co.uk/ 'NSFW' by the way.

Pumping and dumping are both covered then.

But that website certainly gives the impression that they were actively trading this company during 2015 and early 2016, and yet they filed accounts as a dormant company in October 2016 for the period up to 31 December 2015 showing ZERO business activity.

Although I guess they actually may have ceased trading around then as April 2016 they had "We are currently migrating our website over to a new and improved platform." and asked people to call in, and there's nothing archived again until 2020 at which point the website is very dead.

I guess maybe the business failed when they started leaning on Lewis' experience as a web developer and server hoster...

That last capture, again NSFW: https://web.archive.org/web/20160419055103/http://justusguys.co.uk/

rpqu · January 23

By the way, this is where lewis sold pandahosting to:

"New Panda" aka rogue-gamers ltd. Operational late 2014-2023
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08783806
Incorporated on: 20 November 2013
Dissolved on: 29 October 2024
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/pandahost.co.uk
Field Way 14, TN38 8DS, Hastings, United Kingdom
03300430147
[email protected]
pandahost.co.uk

He framed it as if the new panda quickly ruined the company (quickly), and he repurchased the domain.

@VeloxMedia said:
Pandahost.co.uk was a company I sold off many years ago when I moved countries and the person who brought it shut it down so I repurchased the domain which I use for my white label services. (I ran this when I shut down AuzzHosting until 2013 when I sold the company)

Confirmed:
Auzzhosting.com is using SC344535
https://web.archive.org/web/20090302132124/http://auzzhosting.com/contact.php

Confirmed #2:
https://nitter.net/WHD4U2010/status/60941374329065473

@WHD4U2010
So head over to pandahost as we have closed the doors to whd4u and opened up at pandahost.co.uk all customers have been transferred
Apr 21, 2011 · 5:42 AM UTC

auzzhost (2008-2011) customer transferred to pandahost.co.uk ( 2011-2014)

default · January 23

So... is the end nigh?

JasonM · January 23

@x0x0x said: 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.

veloxmedia.co.uk reviews owner login account contact eric banks abuse lewis austin uk usa

VeloxMedia.co.uk owners were running a dildo business at JustUsGuys. Both Lewis and Austin

P.S.: Austin seems more brainy than Lewis. While Lewis proved he is dumb fuck guy sitting at the computer all the day.

Did Eric meant dildo business worth $12M took over the servers of Velox Media? LOL

ralf · January 23

@JasonM said:

@x0x0x said: 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.

VeloxMedia.co.uk owners were running a dildo business at JustUsGuys. Both Lewis and Austin

P.S.: Austin seems more brainy than Lewis. While Lewis proved he is dumb fuck guy sitting on the computer all the day.

Did Eric meant dildo business worth $12M took over the servers of Velox Media? LOL

So, kind of begs the question of (NSFW)

which of them was into the dildos and which was into the fleshlights.

rpqu · January 23

@ralf said:

@JasonM said:

@x0x0x said: 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.

VeloxMedia.co.uk owners were running a dildo business at JustUsGuys. Both Lewis and Austin

P.S.: Austin seems more brainy than Lewis. While Lewis proved he is dumb fuck guy sitting on the computer all the day.

Did Eric meant dildo business worth $12M took over the servers of Velox Media? LOL

So, kind of begs the question of (NSFW)

which of them was into the dildos and which was into the fleshlights.

It is probably both.

x0x0x · January 23

@rpqu said:

@ralf said:

@JasonM said:

@x0x0x said: 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.

VeloxMedia.co.uk owners were running a dildo business at JustUsGuys. Both Lewis and Austin

P.S.: Austin seems more brainy than Lewis. While Lewis proved he is dumb fuck guy sitting on the computer all the day.

Did Eric meant dildo business worth $12M took over the servers of Velox Media? LOL

So, kind of begs the question of (NSFW)

which of them was into the dildos and which was into the fleshlights.

It is probably both.

It's all on Instagram

rpqu · January 23

Anyway, the recap:

Auzzhost/ Auzz Office ltd. (2008-2011) (liquidated by 2012) customer transferred to pandahost.co.uk ( 2011-2013) ; Which is taken over by "Panda new" by Croft siblings
JustUS (UK) ltd. (2013-2017) Adult toys
Gocaravan.co.uk (2017-2020) << Update thanks to @Calypso
<Unknown #2> LAR Direct ltd. (2020-2021)
Veloxmedia.co.uk TA (2021-2025)
Dash aesthetics (2022- Now)

Calypso · January 23

Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

zed · January 23

Oh gosh™

alexanderras · January 23

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-edwards-ba030514a?originalSubdomain=uk

I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

https://clubtogether.caravanclub.co.uk/discussion/357339/beware-of-a-con

Calypso · January 23

@alexanderras said:

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business. I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

Yes, I remember. However, why also with the name of Eric? Just wondering. Not really time for detective things right now

alexanderras · January 23

@Calypso said:

@alexanderras said:

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business. I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

Yes, I remember. However, why also with the name of Eric? Just wondering. Not really time for detective things right now

I haven’t found anything on Eric. Justin is real, and I suspect ‘Eric’ is just Lewis managing the transition.

ralf · January 23

@Calypso said:

@alexanderras said:

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business. I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

Yes, I remember. However, why also with the name of Eric? Just wondering. Not really time for detective things right now

It kind of pains me to admit it, but if Lewis is real and was trying to offload his exit scam onto someone else, there is a chance that Eric might be real, and they were just both trying to out-scam each other.

But regardless, if Lewis is real, then you can chargeback knowing that he's ultimately responsible for the contract no matter who Eric is.

alexanderras · January 23

@ralf said:

@Calypso said:

@alexanderras said:

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business. I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

Yes, I remember. However, why also with the name of Eric? Just wondering. Not really time for detective things right now

It kind of pains me to admit it, but if Lewis is real and was trying to offload his exit scam onto someone else, there is a chance that Eric might be real, and they were just both trying to out-scam each other.

But regardless, if Lewis is real, then you can chargeback knowing that he's ultimately responsible for the contract no matter who Eric is.

His counter part is Justin Morgan, who is also real. The new US entities are owned by other entities that are owned by Justin. There’s no Eric anywhere to be seen

rpqu · January 23

@alexanderras said:

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewis-edwards-ba030514a?originalSubdomain=uk

I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

https://clubtogether.caravanclub.co.uk/discussion/357339/beware-of-a-con

https://www.freelancer.com/contest/design-a-logo-1095433
https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/595701-voucher-code-missing-in-google-chrome/
https://www.prestashop.com/forums/profile/784824-amatory/
Bingo
https://web.archive.org/web/20201206010818/http://amatory.co.uk/

xvps · January 23

TL;DR
Everyone got an anal subscription.

deafcon · January 23

@ralf said:

@Calypso said:

@alexanderras said:

@Calypso said:
Still wondering what the thing is with caravanning - when this all started I did some searches on both Lewis and Eric and all these caravanning hits on Facebook popped up, although nowhere in the comments I saw them. Search engine mistake or something else?

Lewis had a LinkedIn profile (one of many) that he was the MD of that caravan business. I remember seeing posts about them running phone scams where they have an expensive support line and giving customers the runaround

Yes, I remember. However, why also with the name of Eric? Just wondering. Not really time for detective things right now

It kind of pains me to admit it, but if Lewis is real and was trying to offload his exit scam onto someone else, there is a chance that Eric might be real, and they were just both trying to out-scam each other.

But regardless, if Lewis is real, then you can chargeback knowing that he's ultimately responsible for the contract no matter who Eric is.

I've also grown to believe that Eric and Lewis might actually be different people, but "Eric" is such an asshat that it's hard to feel sorry for him.

ascicode · January 23

Caravan was a thing years ago like game server sites.
But good catches, they cant hide everything they wanted to hide.

Saragoldfarb · January 23

@VeloxMedia

I'm interested in buying your dildo company. Please get in touch.

tfgp99 · January 23

dildos and caravans....
sounds nice, right? RIGHT?

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