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I am furious with Comcast.
I have many reasons, but this post will deal with their new policy of “redirecting” your searches.
Comcast has decided to redirect your searches if you type in something wrong or land on a not found page.
This is completely different then Google, Bing, MSN, or Yahoo Search,
which will show you a list of choices that may be close to what you were looking for or correcting your spelling.
Comcast actually hijacks your results and takes you straight to whatever site their little hijacking redirect DNS set up finds.
Which is how I ended up on a very ugly full blown PORN website.
Today I was working on a clients website and mistyped his name in,
it is a business site, and suddenly this horrible really ugly porn site takes over my browser!
I was shocked and totally angry when I realized Comcast was yet again redirecting my searches!
( I had opted out last week when they force launched this so called service on everyone.)
They sent out a notice telling customers they were “adding” this new service,
which is not a service at all, it is them taking over your search results!
I opted out that same day, but I have had problems with my
Comcast Internet Service now 18 days out of 30 in the last 5 weeks,
so every a phone tech tries to “reset me” guess what, I have to go and opt out again!!
“In the latest blow to DNS neutrality, Comcast is starting to redirect users to an ad-laden holding page when
they try to connect to nonexistent domains. I have just received an email from them to that effect, tried it, and lo and behold, indeed there is the ugly DNS hijack page
I have an 11 year old who practically lives on the computer. Him and I sit right next to each other while he is on it, but at his Dad’s house he takes a laptop into his room and goes on it. His Dad has Comcast and is not tech savvy at all. There is no way his Dad would even know to opt out of this DNS search hijacking scheme from Comcast.
Thanks Comcast for now making sure my 11 year and other kids accidentally find PORN sites when they are doing their homework or other activities online.
I called Comcast to tell them what happened and see what they have to say, but of course no one that works there has any idea what I am talking about. They passed me to 4 departments and everyone was clueless. The CS rep was asking me where I got the email from and how I heard of this and each one of them did not even listen to what I was trying to say and they told me it was just spam, for goodness sake get a clue.
Nice job Comcast, your own company does not even know what you did. Unbelievable, the 5th person and final person I ended up talking to said she was a Supervisor of the Internet dept and her name is Lana, number 30805, (little hint, always ask for their name and number, they all have a number.)
She told me I was being spammed, she has absolutely no idea what I was talking about, she talked to me like I was 3 years old and told me that they don’t have DNS redirecting and I was just getting spam and where did I get that email anyway!
Even when I gave them the opt-out Comcast url address, https://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/ she said it was not them!
Yipes. She then told me no one could help me, period, end of story. I said, there is not one person at Comcast who can help me? She said no, and then she said what is your account number, and it was nasty. I said goodbye on that note, who knows what they could do to mess me up further. My service is already a mess.
Wow, more great customer service by Comcast.
I speak at local schools about internet safety and keeping our kids safe online is such a problem, and now Comcast has completely compounded the problem in a huge way. Parents BEWARE of this DNS Redirect Service, (I choke on those words)
Please be sure to opt out of this so called “service”. This is not a “service” at all. The reason companies do this is so they can control where you are going and send you to their own ad pages and other sites, (yipes like PORN SITES). It is always all about money, not service, this entire section of Comcast has no where you can complain or contact anyone, and of course you have all seen how successful I was trying to talk to anyone who works in the Customer Service dept for Comcast.
Here are my step by step directions for making sure that you don’t let Comcast hijack your search results.
2. Find and write down your MAC address off your router somewhere so if Comcast resets you at any point you have it handy to opt out yet again.
Also if they ever change your modem , you will need to do this again.
Your MAC address is on the back of your modem ( not the wireless router if you have one) and looks like this:
Opt of Comcast Hijacking your DNS results!
3. Fill in the form
And please feel free to copy and paste this post anywhere you want.
I am sending letters to all the local papers so people who do not use the Internet like I do, will understand and be alerted to what Comcast is doing.
BYW- UPDATE- All day I kept getting hijacked and I kept trying to “opt out” again, and it kept telling me I already was, but I was not.
I discovered, (on my own of course because who am I going to call now?, No one even has the slightest idea what I am talking about at Comcast.) that I had to use a different email to opt out , since they changed my modem when they could not think of what else to do last week. If you get a new modem, you will have to redo the opt out. Also they 5 weeks and counting and Comcast still has not figured out why my entire neighbor keeps losing the Internet. Way to go Comcast!
I have been working online since 1999. I got started by doing public speaking on how to not get “scammed” online.
I have a special loathing for online scammers.
Online anyone can say they are an “expert”, they can make all kinds of claims of what they have done, and what they earn, and how do you know the difference?
I am going to give you a few tips and tools you can use to find out if the person you are considering hiring to help you is for real.
Recently I have had several clients who paid for SEO services from so called “experts” and they got burned.
If they had just done a little checking first, this would not have happened.
The first thing to check with any SEO expert or anyone promising you high traffic and instant profits, is to check their websites page ranking.
If they are a ZERO, then you just saved yourself from being scammed. If the site is a zero-3 and they say they are an expert, they obviously are not.
Here is a page rank checker you can bookmark and use. http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
Next find out what other websites they run.
Here you will often discover much interesting information about your potential scammer.
Things like fake testimonials and the same faces and same lies on all their scammy sites.
To find this information out,
All you need to do is go to Yahoo search and enter this:
linkdomain:abc.com -site:abc.com
of course changing the abc.com to whatever persons website you are researching.
This will show you all the domains associated with that persons business and IP, and you will also pull up any comments they left on blogs using that IP, and it really gives you a overview of the person you are considering investing your money with. They may have some things on a different IP, but you will still learn a huge amount about the person by doing this.
Be sure to start clicking on websites that you see listed, and you will soon spot the fakes and the scammers as you will start to see the same sales pitch and the same fake testimonials on various websites. You may see the same website design used over and over for various sites.
As you do this be sure to check the page ranking for some of the sites the so called SEO or Web Expert has worked on, and you will see if they can deliver the goods for you. Especially check out their own domain and page ranking that they have given you as their main business website. Also check their traffic, if it is a ZERO, you know they are scamming.
Don’t forget to Google their name! I suggest when you Google you add the words ,scam, rip off , fake, fraud after their name, why?, because anyone who has complained about them online will pop up for you in the results.
This itself can be a real eye opener.
I learned this the hard way after I bought a scooter online,(X-Treme Scooters) I checked out reviews, I checked out the manufacturer, and I thought I did due diligence, then when the scooter fell apart in the box and the company refused to refund me, I did a new search using the words “scam, fake, rip off and fraud” with the scooter name and there were hundreds of people who got ripped of just like me! I learned my lesson.
Look for the negative words first when checking something out online.
I actually helped other people not get ripped off by writing about this long and horrible scooter story ( it turned into a 4 month battle with the company.)
I wrote about it on eBay guides and a few other places online. Finally my credit card refunded me under the fraud category for this purchase.
Lesson learned.
Taking 30 minutes to do some checking can save you lots of heartache and the loss of your money down the road.
Finally I suggest you download a great tool I use called SEO toolbar. It has all the things built in I have mentioned above and you can just click the various things like page rank, traffic and whois and the yahoo link domain and see it all there.
You can download this tool here http://tools.seobook.com/seo-toolbar/
Also SEOBOOK is a great blog, packed with very helpful information.
Don’t forget to ask for “proof” from the experts.
Honest people have honest testimonials with people you can actually contact, not made up people or friends that you will see on all thier scammy websites over and over.
Honest people have real websites with real numbers and proof that you can check out for yourself.
These days everyone and their brother has decided to become an “Internet” expert, either Seo or Social Media or something else. Buyer beware, don’t get scammed and taken in by the rip off artists and frauds.
I hope I have stopped some of you from getting burned online.
Jessica Logan’s nude cell-phone photo – meant for her boyfriend’s eyes only – was sent to hundreds of teenagers last year in at least seven Greater Cincinnati high schools.
The 18-year-old Sycamore High School senior was then bombarded with taunts: slut, porn queen, whore.
On July 3, Jessie hanged herself in her bedroom.
She was Albert and Cynthia Logan’s only child.
“My only baby that I will never be able to touch again,” Cynthia Logan said through tears. “I will never have grandchildren. I will never be able to hand down my heirlooms. I’m just devastated by these parents that allow their children to do and say anything they want.”
Now, Jessie’s parents are attempting to launch a national campaign seeking laws to address “sexting” – the practice of forwarding and posting sexually explicit cell-phone photos online. The Logans also want to warn teens of the harassment, humiliation and bullying that can occur when that photo gets forwarded.
Cynthia Logan and Parry Aftab, an attorney and one of the leading authorities on Internet security and cyberbullying, plan to attach Jessie’s name to a national campaign to educate teens about the dangers of sexting.
Aftab, based in New York, is the catalyst for a network of volunteers working to stop cyberbullying. She operates two Web sites: wiredsafety.org, the world’s largest and oldest cyber safety organization, and stopcyberbullying.org.
“Schools need to understand our kids are targeting each other and how technology is being used as a weapon,” Aftab said. “None of them (the schools) know what to do. Many of them … think it’s not their problem. They want to close their eyes and put fingers in their ears, saying it’s a home issue.”
Compassionate and carefree
Jessie’s friends and family described her as an artistic, bubbly, compassionate carefree spirit who had many friends in several schools. She was also a “tiger,” who would relentlessly stand up for someone.
“But she couldn’t stand up for herself,” Albert Logan said.
“I think when you’re constantly knocked down, you lose your self-esteem,” his wife added.
Jessie was not alone in sending nude cell-phone photos. Her friends point to the increasing pressure on teenage girls to send nude photos to their boyfriends.
A national study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy revealed that 1 in 5 teen girls or 22 percent say they have electronically sent or posted nude or semi-nude images online of themselves.
Some area school resource officers and principals estimate that at least half of the students have an inappropriate photo on their cell phone.
After the cell-phone photo was disseminated, Jessie’s outgoing personality turned inward.
The Logans blame a circle of five friends from three other high schools for forwarding the photo.
According to Cynthia Logan, Jessie took the photo and sent it to the boy she had been dating for one to two months. He, in turn, forwarded it to four girls, she said. Efforts to reach the former boyfriend were unsuccessful.
Lauren Taylor, a friend since childhood and a Sycamore senior last year, discovered the photo had been forwarded when two girls in her class showed it off. She broke the news to Jessie.
“Her head just dropped, and she started crying,” Lauren said. “And then, we went straight up to the counselor’s office. And after that, she did not want to go back out in the hallway.
“She just totally changed. She wasn’t as outgoing and kind of kept to herself, where she would normally be like jumping around. Instead her head was just down, and she would always be crying,” Lauren said. “I remember her constantly calling my phone crying.”
When the taunting started at school, Jessie skipped classes, sometimes slipping out a door to sleep in her car in the parking lot. When truancy notices showed up, her mother started dropping her off at school, but Jessie hid crying in the school bathroom.
“I watched her get kicked out of maybe three or four parties over the summer just for having ‘a reputation,’ ” said Steven Arnett, a friend of hers who graduated last year from Moeller High School.
After seeing what Jessie went through, he said, “There’s no reason to send pictures like that, no matter what a guy asks for. I don’t think that’s an acceptable thing to do.”
She couldn’t even escape when she went home, her close friends said.
“I’d be with her and she’d get numbers that weren’t even in her contacts, random numbers that she didn’t know, texting her, ‘You’re a whore, you’re a slut,’ ” Lauren said.
“Or, she’d get on MySpace and get messages from people calling her those names, or Facebook would be the same way. It was constant. She’d go home thinking, ‘Oh I’m going to get away from this,’ but she never could get away from it.”
The Logans said Sycamore High School and the school resource officer didn’t do enough to help Jessie. Sycamore sent truancy notices, Cynthia Logan said, but no calls or letters about what was happening to her daughter in school and no notices to other parents about explicit cell-phone photos. And no charges were filed by the resource officer, she said.
Sycamore Superintendent Adrienne James said she couldn’t discuss specifics of Jessie’s situation. The perils of technology was a topic at a parent information night, she said.
“It is a form of bullying, and that is something we cannot tolerate. The difficulty is stopping it. … That’s why we stress with our kids that the moment you push ’send,’ the damage is done.”
Educators and parents must be involved, James said, in talking to teens about making good choices, positive self-imaging and avoiding risky behaviors.
Montgomery Officer Paul Payne, the school resource officer, said he confronted some of the girls who forwarded Jessie’s photo, even though they attend another school. He asked them to delete the photo from their phones.
“Could she have pressed charges? No, because she’s 18,” Payne said, adding that there were some areas that could have been explored. “The investigation stopped at her wish, because she basically didn’t want this to go any further. … You respect the wishes of an 18-year-old. In the eyes of the law, she can make her own decision.”
Payne said he supports the Logans’ efforts to change laws. “Let’s face it. The law hasn’t caught up to what the original law was designed for.”
Jessie expressed regrets about taking and sending the photo, her mother said. She wanted to warn other kids. At Payne’s suggestion, she did an anonymous television interview.
“My little girl wanted to get the message out to other children not to make the same mistake she did,” Albert Logan said.
Despite missing so much school, Jessie graduated. She began making plans for a new job and college at the University of Cincinnati, where she would major in graphic design.
Then, a 16-year-old Sycamore student hanged himself last June 27. Cynthia Logan put her arms around her daughter, who was sobbing when she heard. Against her parents’ wishes, Jessie went to his visitation and funeral, because a friend needed a ride.
‘She snapped all of a sudden’
After the boy’s funeral, Jessie went to Lauren’s house and ranted about why the boy had committed suicide.
“She just kept crying,” Lauren said. “Basically, what she kept saying was, ‘How could he do this to his family? How could he put his family through so much pain, and his friends? … I never thought that she would go and do the same thing.”
Later that day, Jessie’s mother suggested that she just stay home and chill out.
Jessie complained that she was 18 and planned to go out.
Jessie took a shower before getting ready. Her dad was home. Cynthia Logan was on the phone with her brother, walking in the hallway, when Jessie came out of the bathroom and went into her bedroom.
“That is the last time I saw my daughter alive,” Cynthia Logan said, her voice lowering to a whisper.
Her mother discovered Jessie hanging in her bedroom.
“There sat her phone. Her straightener was hot. She was ready to go out. I don’t know what happened,” she said, choking back tears. “It was impulsive, like she snapped all of a sudden. You have all this weight, and it was just one more thing.”
The Logans may never have closure. She did not leave a note.
Jessie placed five phone calls before she died.
The Logans wonder if something that was said in a cell-phone conversation set her off during the last moments of her life.
Albert and Cynthia Logan have gone public with Jessie’s story, hoping to change vague state laws that don’t hold anyone accountable for sexting. They also want to warn kids about what can happen when nude cell-phone photos are shared.
“We want a bill passed,” Cynthia Logan said.
“It’s a national epidemic. Nobody is doing anything – no schools, no police officers, no adults, no attorneys, no one.”
I despise scams. I get phone calls from people who know me asking me how to make money online.
Some of them are so sweet and innocent. They are struggling right now and want to work from home and they get bombarded with these scammy emails and now on T.V with this atrocity “Jeff Paul’s Shortcut to Internet Millions.”
OMG! What the heck is this trash? This bozo promises you riches with no computer knowledge, and no computer?
( how you gonna make millions on the internet with no computer?) Please people run like the wind. This is a fraud, a MLM scheme.
The only guy getting really rich is Jeff Paul, ( I seriously doubt that is his real name even.) I will check on that.
There are various versions of what you pay and get but it all involves buying or paying more. At the end of the day you end up with this kind of money out of pocket. This is from ripoffreports.com
On the 28th of January I purchased the Millions With Memberships program on offer by these gentlemen, Jim Fleck, Jeff Paul and Shawn Casey's because it looked like a good offer. The payment was for just 5 easy payments of $899 = $4.495 plus $75.00 for orders outside the United States, making a total payment of $4,570 which equates to $5,918.12 Australian, or I could go for 1 payment of $3,999 plus $75 shipping =$4074US which equates to $5,276.95 Australian! So to save a few dollars, I plunked for the single payment plan!
Yipes, here is another guys payment situation. ( click here to read his entire story, it is quite informative.)
"You start with a small purchase price of the initial material, $54.95 with shipping included. What you receive in the mail is useless and they give you a number to call so they can upsell a larger package based on what 'you' want to make per month. Of course, what you 'invest' is related to how much you can sink into it. They try to upsell anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000."
Please do not fall for this so called "Internet Millions Program". I have been online since 1999. I have had success on Ebay, I use Yelp, Amazon, Craigslist, Clickbank and Social Networking sites and I write ebooks. ( You can do this too and actually have your own product to sell online)
It is just like any other business, there is no fast way to make money online. Certainly no fast way to "millions."
You need a website and a computer for sure. There are many ways to make money online but
you have to get started with the basics.
Don't fall for these schemes where they throw you into their network and
they control the websites and keep taking money from you? How do you make money? You don't, they do!
I help people set up new websites and blogs, I teach people how to go from step one to actually having a legitimate website with something to either sell or something to offer where people will visit your website and you can make some money off of ads. I am a real person with real Whois information and a phone number. If you hire me, we actually talk about what you want and need on the phone. Wow how much more legit can you get then that?
Jeff Paul's product page offers you basic ebooks and cd's that you can find for 99 cents on ebay or even free all over the Internet. I can direct you to much better and real products that will actually help you succeed online.
I am very picky and you don't see many ads or products on my websites because I check everything out first.
If you happen to buy any of these from Jeff Paul, hello spam for life! They will bombard you with "upsell" emails.
The internet world is loaded with these guys.
It is like the black hole once you have anything to do with this kind of organization. In my 10 years I have seen so many scammers rise and fall. Some actually ended up in jail, but it took a very long time.
When you get scammed online, there is no police dept to run to, there is no one there to get your money back.
You are alone and you are out of pocket. Before you drop up to 5-15k on this ridiculous program, contact me and I will discuss some honest and real life opportunities for you where you can use your own talent, your own interests and create something you can be proud of for a fraction of the price you are looking at with this scam.
Who is behind those ugly disgusting fat stomach ads?
These “flat stomach rule” weight loss ads are making me furious!
I decided to do a little sleuthing and find out.
I hate these ads, they are so ugly and they are on every website I visit!
I am not kidding, websites I have previously found easy to use and on the more
shall we say classy side are being ruined by these ads. While I am reading world news
there on the side is a big horrible distorted photo of stomachs and it is gross!
Really gross.
Just a catalog model who does not own the rights to her photo.
Here is another FAKE MODEL who is on http://beverlysdietblog.com/?p=8&cpage=7#comment-317
About Me
Just a catalog model who does not own the rights to her photo.
My name is Beverly Long and I was born and raised in California. I tried every diet out there before finally finding the perfect one!
My FAKE Struggle- Nice job of ad writing by scammers!
Hi! I’m Beverly Long ( fake unknown model photos) from California (NOT) and I am a full-time mom with 2 amazing kids. If I would have known how hard two kids were, I may have stopped at 1!! I love my kids, but miss the body I used to have before them. I don’t have much time for myself, but the time I do have, I eat I am always on the move so eating healthy is difficult. I try to organize my life around my health, but you know as well as I how hard this can be. Needless to say I don’t have any time to work out. I have a gym membership that I use about twice a month, (who am I kidding, im lucky to go once) what a waste of money. bla bla bla, fake fake fake. If you google any part of this fake testiimony ad, you will pull up all the fake “Sue, Karen, Jenny, Becky and more FAKE blogs.”
Then they say “as seen on Rachel Ray” . Oh really when was this on Rachel Ray?
You mean you bought a spot on her T.V show? I somehow seriously doubt Rachael Ray endorses this
disgusting ad. Of course I still have no idea who owns this company and what exactly do they sell?
Since I never click the ad, and I try not to look at it.
After being assaulted by these ads for months now I am furious.
I use an ad blocker, but these are not pop up’s so they are still there.
When I googled “I hate these fat stomach ads” I got an interesting assortment of results.
Many diet forums had people complaining that these ads upset them.
I had not even considered that possibility. Various forms of the ads say ” ARE YOU FAT?”
Which is rude and offensive. Then to have to stare at that butt ugly photo while you are in
a support forum could be upsetting.
For me these photos are like a day at Great America, where I
avert my eyes from the women that should never be wearing crop tops and stretch pants,
who have their rolls hanging over their pants.
This is something I have never understood. First it looks so uncomfortable and second
do they really think this is attractive?
I digress. These ads also make me lose my appetite. (maybe that would could be a diet aid?)
I won’t even watch plastic surgery on the T.V, it makes me sick.
I think society today reveals way too much.
What happened to the mystery of the human body?
I don’t want to see all this, really I don’t.
Now I see this company (who may behind all of these ads, since FL is listed as the place in many whois)
Is also behind these gross “removemystretchmarks.com” product.
I looked up who owned that website and it was a guy in Canada
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT INFO
Credit-Assist
Drew Marcin
1285 Northgate st.
Oshawa
Ontario
L1G 7M7
CA
Phone: +1.9054553235
Email Address: andrew_x_@hotmail.com
He is just another shill for this companies MLM scheme.
Do not buy these products! Nothing but plastic surgery can get rid of stretched and damage skin. I hate seeing so many people falling for all these scams. This product cosmetyn is no good.
It should be illegal for companies that buy a crappy ad is the BACK of major magazines to be able to say
“see us in Lucky or Glamor or Redbook” yeah see them in the back in the paid classifieds.
So I looked up MonicasDietBlog.com. on whois and of course it has paid privacy settings.
Administrative Contact [1625376]:
Moniker, Privacy Services MONICASDIETBLOG.COM@domainservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Phone: +1.9549848445
Fax: +1.9549699155
Then I noticed that is says Monica Conrad under one place and Monica Coyle right next to that!!
Hello, get your name right, but no why do that since it is FAKE anyway!
Next I did a search on some images and guess what I found, why I found Monica Coyle/Conrad turned into
Becky! Yes Becky Edwards and she has the exact same blog? Wow. Then Jenny Conrad, and then I found
http://danasdietdiary.com/, same set up, well you get the picture. Here is a sample for you.
Now it was getting interesting, guess what popped up next the same template for the blog but this one is called
megansdatingblog.com, now I am thinking who is running this entire thing, templates and multiple products?
This is driving me crazy now. I must find out who is behind these blog templates and more.
Anyone out there know?
http://www.namecheap.com/
Back to the acai scam….
I looked up the stuff they are trying to sell you which if you do not know by now is all a big scam! Avoid at all costs, this is just anoher MLM, (multi level marketing) scam.
It is a MLM scheme (as usual) and guess what when you click
the recommended products on “MonicasDietBlog” you get this www.life-cleanse.com,
who also seem to share the same whois privacy information!
Registrant [1571984]:
Moniker, Privacy Services LIFE-CLEANSE.COM@domainservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
And gee big surprise the Acai berry trial domain also has this…
Billing Contact [1433856]:
Moniker, Privacy Services ACAIBERRYDETOX.COM@domainservice.com
Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave.
Suite 201
Pompano Beach
FL
33069
US
Phone: +1.9549848445
Fax: +1.9549699155
Now interestingly as I continued to dig, I found on the terms and conditions page a web address buried in there where you could email to discontinue getting emails from them.
This looks like where they must manufacture the bogus scam product Acai Berry diet extract aid whatever they call it.
Yet again, you really can’t contact anyone or discover WHO OWNS THIS and who is running this scam.
Because when this much secretive cover goes into a product, you can bet it is a total SCAM!
I called one of the 800 numbers and got these guys, fwm.labs adn they are located in , you guessed it, FL!
fwmlabs.net fwmlabs.org
Administrative Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (032b8abdb93d4af89fb058aa5ce690e4.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US
trynaturesbestacai.com, more buried information
Registrant:
XStreamHost.com
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: TRYNATURESBESTACAI.COM
Anyway, it just got bigger and deeper so I found this guys blog about it and he has really got some great stuff on there,
all the fake photos, and names and it is great, go and check him out. http://wafflesatnoon.com/2009/01/29/acai-cleanse-scams-update/
He also compiled a fantastic “The Fake Diet Girls” photo album. I love it! The photos I posted have many other fake names.
Just to let you know, this is a huge scam, do not buy anything from these sites and these are not real people
they are paid models or actors and please please be careful out there. The internet is rife with criminals who have blossomed online.
Many of these scams are run from Russia and Nigeria and Belgium.
They aren’t even in the U.S and if you get taken the authorities here can’t do anything for you.
I will post more later after I do more investigation.
Read some more reports on people RIPPED off by this whole acai berry scam.
Here is a sample from all the complaints.
Nubodi Inc., Acai berry 500, and Wellness Watchers MD – all crooks.
The complaint I filed with the Better Business Bureau in Florida attempted to negotiate with Nubodi, and imagine this – Nubodi reported they had never done business with me, they say they did not share my information with Wellness Watchers MD, and if I would just ’send them my personal information and credit card numbers again’ then they will try to find me in their system. Ha! What a laugh!
The BBB should be ashamed to even negotiate such scandalous requests when they know what kind of people they’re dealing with (BBB gave this company a grade of ‘F’ on their website).
I also alerted the Chamber of Commerce in Davie, Florida to the scandalous activities of Nubodi and Wellness Watchers, and the Davie Chamber of Commerce was kind enough to call me. The gentleman there informed me that the telephone number for Nubodi: 801-208-7485 is NOT even a Florida telephone number, but the address they are using: 4650 SW 51st Street, Suite 711, Davie, Florida 33314 – IS an actual address.
Soon after my conversation with the helpful gentleman at the Davie Chamber of Commerce, a woman from Oregon called me to say that the she was given my number by the Davie Chamber of Commerce as another person who had been scammed by Nubodi’s Acai berry scam, and I told this lady to beware of Wellness Watchers MD too. Unfortunately for this lady in Oregon, she purchased the products with her debit card, so the money is gone from her bank account forever, and I doubt that she’ll see it back again. I encouraged her to close her account so that they can’t get at any more of her hard earned cash.
I sincerely wish that someone out there would go after these people – Nubodi and Wellness Watchers MD – and put them behind bars. They are getting rich off of a lot of unsuspecting health conscious people.
You would think Rachel Ray and Oprah Winfrey’s people would force them to stop using their names like this.
That has to be illigal, and they use their images too.
In my house we have had a Nintendo Wii for one year now. It is my 10 year old’s favorite electronic item. I have enjoyed it too. Him and I play Wii Sport, Mario Brothers, and some other games he has. I have always been a gamer and I started with video games back in the Frogger, Pacman Era!
I have played video games competitively with all my kids since they were little. ( Sonic, Mario Brothers, Star Wars, Zelda etc.) I am going to buy Wii fit after Christmas with hopes of helping me break from being on the computer all day. We have been playing Animal Crossing together for about 2 years now. So when Animal Crossing City Folk with WiiSpeak came out, I knew we were going to buy it, even though I have my reservations.
Nintendo’s group voice chat peripheral, WiiSpeak, was released in November for $29.99 or in a bundle with Animal Crossing: City Folk for $69.99. The chat function for City Folk is immediately accessible for any players that have registered one another as friends. Animal Crossing fans will be able to interact through voice with a whole room full of people. Wii Speak acts as a large microphone that players set down on a surface with no worries of microphones or headphones. Every new Wii Speak peripheral includes a code for the download of the new Wii Speak Channel that release by the end of the year. People will have the ability to chat worldwide with any registered Wii system friend. While users chat, they will see a Mii representation of themselves on the TV screen. (if they pick the Mii instead of their Animal Crossing character.)
Parents will also have the option to set controls on the device through the Wii, limiting their children’s access to Wii Speak. (I have not seen this yet and I don’t think most parents even know close to what I do about these games) I did an online search for explict directions on how to use this feature and I have not found them.
My son thew away the small manual before I realized it and so I will need to try this and see how effective it actually is. From what I gather it only allows you to set when they can play and those type of controls. I tried to call Nintendo but they were closed. I will update this section tomorrow.
When we set up the Wii speak, I was worried. There is something creepy to me about my 10 year old being able to talk to anyone from around the world while playing the beloved game Animal Crossings new version City Folk. My worries are well founded. I have been speaking on Internet safety for kids for 8 years now at schools. I cover how to stay safe while social networking online, like myspace and facebook. Now there are just so many more that it is hard to keep up. My son is also active on YouTube and uploads videos of Animal Crossing City Folk and a few other random videos, but never anything with his name or face. This is one of the places he meets other Animal Crossing players. Most of them have several websites they use online too. Such as the official animal crossing website here (Animal Community). I have trained all my children to be very careful online especially.
Your child connects the Wii speak and the wireless connection takes them out to the Internet. At this point they need a friend code to add other players into their friends list. Once they get into one town, other people can come and they all start to exchange friend codes which allow everyone go and visit each other in their towns. The way this works is they open their gates, and allow up to 3 other players into their town, or they can go and visit other peoples town. The maxium amount of players allowed in one town is 4, which includes the owner. Any of the players who have the Will Speak can just sit there and talk to each other. So far in the last two weeks my son has only met one other person his age. Everyone else has averaged about 15-19 years old and oddly enough only one lady. ( Even though the T.V commercial shows women playing this.) He is pretty savvy kid safety wise and has already blocked a few questionable people. After the first day of sitting with him while he played this, I told him he can only use the Wii Speak when I am with him in the room. The potential for this to go bad for your child is HUGE! Those parents who not pay attention to what thier kids are doing, I beg you to please sit with your children or be nearby where you can hear the conversations. Right now as I am writing this , my son is talking to 3 other teenagers and one of them has a brother in the background watching T.V and yelling like a idiot. ( typical teenage stuff)
Since I have been with my son each time he plays this, I actually know who these kids are and how they behave online ( for now at least.) One aspect that is kinda cool is they are from all over the country and that is interesting to a point. My son texts this message to each person as they come into his town, “No swearing or foul language .” So far most of them seem to be honoring that. One teenager started swearing and my son asked him not to and the kid said “whatever” and my son told him I am only 10 and my Mom is with me, and then took the guy off his friend list. The guy came back later and said he was sorry and actually apologized to me through the speaker system.
This is my advice to all parents with kids under high school age, pay attention to this system! There is no trace left of these conversations, if any type of predator or inappropriate person targets your child you can’t track it back online or through a phone bill.
As a person who is always warning about how to keep our children safe this sends a chill through me. As a game player , I find it really cool and fun. Some of the things player do in the town is play tag, serve each other food, trade items, give each other items, visit each others “houses” and show off crazy items and masks and all kinds of cool fun stuff. So where is the happy medium? This game has kept my son amused for long stretches of time and that can actually be a bad thing. I can see this affecting kids in the same way being online talking to other people has caused numerous problems for adults who would rather be online in an alternate reality, then dealing with their own life. I cannot emphasize how much I hope as a parent you will keep an eye on this. I feel the same way about YouTube. It is fun, I use it myself for training videos and work. But there is a dark side of ugly and scary videos that get posted and scary people with an agenda placing their kind of thinking out there for your child to watch. There is so much being thrown at our children right now and we need to stay aware and not ignore what they are doing. Since the Internet is my business, I am very aware of what is going on and my biggest concern are for that are playing unsupervised. We simply must pay attention to what exactly our kids are doing. Please teach your children to come to you when they are going to use WiiSpeak. I would not reccomend that you allow this game to be played in their bedrooms. Learn to play some of these games with them. It means the world to them and you may even find yourself having fun , I know I do. Safety online and in this new wireless world requires viglance from us as thier parents. It is our job to teach them how to stay safe.
I am always on the move so eating healthy is difficult. I try to organize my life around my health, but you know as well as I how hard this can be. Needless to say I don’t have any time to work out. I have a gym membership that I use about twice a month, (who am I kidding, im lucky to go once) what a waste of money. bla bla bla, fake fake fake. If you google any part of this fake testiimony ad, you will pull up all the fake “Sue, Karen, Jenny, Becky and more FAKE blogs.”
