Obtained my Debit/Credit Card Info from other site
Complaint
Olga
Country: United States
Has withdrawn over $100 from my account under other assumed names. The phone numbers are just recordings of which they do not respond to messages I've left or the phone number is not activated.The withdrawals have been from SEOB, CONEXM, SEO2Prompts, and WEB PROS 6. I have tried looking up an address but have not been successful. How can they get away with this. How can the government allow this. Someone told me that once a co. gets your card info they sell the information to others. Everyone makes out accept the card holder.
Comments
There is no point in trying to track down the "companies" hiding behind the acronyms. They intended to make fraudulent charges, they got your account information illegally, possibly buying it from some crooked merchant but also possibly through hacking merchant or payment processor computers, and as you have observed they use multiple names to work around attempts to block them. They will keep taking your money until you make that no longer possible.
I searched on the acronyms as well, with no results. None of them appear to be connected with any actual business that might have created such charges. You are dealing with credit card or EFT fraud.
This is a typical "micro-fraud". They break the charges up into small charges to slip them by consumers, knowing that many banks will do no real investigation on charges under around $50, maybe even paying back their customer with no repercussions to the scammers. They use multiple names to hide the scope of the fraudulent operation and fly under the radar.
The alleged "businesses" are often claimed to deliver intangible "ebooks", "web templates" or other "products" of no actual cost, but there isn't really any product for sale anyway. In many cases, such systematic payment system fraud involving small charges funnels the money out of the country. A non-working phone number, or one already stuffed with voice-mail is typical, since the phone number only existed to maintain enough appearance of a business to get the merchant account needed to get access to the payment processing system.
One large operation has been operating for years, with connections to the eastern block and Russia.
File complaints with FTC, OCC, and IC3.
It does help to post the phone numbers associated with each name, as others can find related reports tied to the same phone numbers.
www.occ.gov
www.ic3.gov
I've seen a few of these adds but I dont know anything about this Tuck guy thats what lead me to this thread. Is the business going under and they laid you off or something. Sounds more like a disgruntled former employee to me. If they are going down "hard" publish some more info about their opperations on this thread so when people Google "Conexm" or "Alma Tuck" or "seobloghost.com" they will be able to know that the deal really is with them.
SEO blog host was his new company. When his old offers started having merchanting problems we scrambled to build seobloghost. I built the first revision of the cPanel hosting platform management helper tool. I thought we were working on a legitimate hosting product like bluehost or hostgator. I also got merchanting for Alma for seobloghost (Something I would not have done had I not been lied to about the risks). I shut down that merchant account in November. It was being misuesed (billing *2promote sites). After repeated requests to Steve Bullpit to stop billing the old sites with my account it became clear that it was going to continue to be misused. In december Alma tried to manipulate me into believing I had done him some great wrong in shutting off the merchant account that he had never paid me a dime for (I was supposed to get 1% for the use of my name and credibility). It was at this time that it became clear that I was dealing with a dishonest person. He really had kept me blind to the fact for a long time.
Seobloghost went south in February. In march the Conexm account at Rackspace got shut down (I assume for non payment). That account had the only up to day copy of the Conexm database (that I know of) with all the credit card transactions.
I'm taking a risk by posting this as Alma already claims that I have ruined him by tarnishing his reputation. However, I feel that the truth about this last year should be told. It was 12 months ago when Amla contacted me for doing his system administration work. Conexm owes me just under $10k and I have not been going after them because I have been warned that Alma is willing to use new investment money to fight old legal problems.
I have seen mention of Jayson Linford here as being one of his goons. While it is true that he did work for conexm that isn't the whole truth. As early as May of last year he was looking at the numbers trying to figure out how to make the finances work. He was the one trying to make the math work out for sustainable profitability. He eventually left when Alma kept referring creditors and investors to him for answers. In the end Jayson didn't want to be the one cleaning up Alma's messes he couldn't stop Alma from creating. At least two of Jayson's neighbors were negatively impacted by Alma and Conexm. One as a developer and the other as an investor. Jayson is just one more person to feel the ruin that comes from working with Alma.
To everyone who didn't receive what they thought they were signing up for. I'm sorry that I supported this by keeping the servers running. I'm sorry that I fell for it. I started working for Conexm after I lost my job last year. I thought it was a great opportunity to get my career going again. It turns out that wanting something doesn't make it so. It just makes you more likely to get taken advantage of.
You won't find any valid addresses. The original office at 772 Utah Valley Dr was abdicated in the fall. The new office that shows up in the Utah business entity search for seo blog hosting was left in March. I don't even know where to find Alma any more.
My number is 801-505-0541 if you are trying to dig up more information. Though, I've pretty much said everything here.