I pinged http://www.ultimate-giveaway.com, http://www.juggernaut-giveaway.com and http://www.olympic-giveaway.com and they all link to the following IP address, so anything coming from that is Micheal Pinder (or should I say Richard Hulston).

The IP address is 67.19.219.242, I encourage all of you to ping the three sites I just mentioned and also to google the search phrase “Micheal Pinder” to see that he’s using fake co-hosts for his illegal giveaways (which I also believe he’s split-testing fake co-hosts on the Juggernaut giveaway since I saw two almost identical pages listed that would be considered duplicate content if not for the different names listed for the fake co-hosts).

I will also be posting the IP address I just mentioned in my forum, where I have been giving updates on the story.

Ben

PS
Thank you Scott for sending the alert, Richard Hulston (aka Micheal Pinder) is a ruthless person. A member of my forum confronted him on his blog with a pseudonym to illustrate how easy it is to fake co-hosts, therefore exposing Richard Hulstun and he basically said “where’s the proof” implying that there is none. He also demanded an apology in a very ruthless manner, I will do my best to get the alerts out as soon as I get them, I will even put this blog entry in my rss feeds so I can be updated on the new comments that are posted here, and therefore, future alerts on Richard Scumbag

A response would be great, you can post it on here or send a email to me,

Regards
Micheal

You need to contact 1 Shopping Cart about this, and let them know that their security process sucks.

He did the same for one of my sites through PAY DOT COM, and I alerted them to it — and they now say that they’ve fixed it.

It seems that if there is anything that CAN be broken, then I’d have to give him the credit and say he’s doing a fantastic job being able to break into the script and get past the security.

So I guess he’s a professional hacker. But is he doing anything wrong other than showing us all that we shouldn’t trust our own digital systems ?

Of course if he’s profiting from our products then we should teach him a lesson.

Oh, his new name is MICHAEL PINDER and he has been running the latest giveaway events with GWM 2.

I’ve canceled his GWM 2 licence, and this is starting to filter out to the forums now.

But he’s arise with another identity, for sure. Not too much to worry about it, I think he’d get enjoyment seeing people upset about what he does. My enjoyment is publicly exposing him each time he re-appears

That’s why I recommend reading The Death of JV Giveaways.

Have fun !

Brad

Thought I would mention that this person, using John Smith as an alias and [email protected] as an e-mail address, is still”at large”. He continues to use different IP addresses although the same name and e-mail address (probably — rightly — figuring I’m a dummy and haven’t noticed).

He has stolen almost 100 products from me in the last month. Yeah, I know I should have be more aware!

I am using 1ShoppingCart for payments and enabled the use of PayPal as a payment menthod.

1ShoppingCart said it is a pending payment from PayPal but I go to my PayPal account and and don’t see the transactions.

I tried the technique explained above and the flaw is in the 1ShoppingCart code also (I’m a bit surprised and very shocked by that actually).

Anyway, if this is still being investigated then I am happy to provide what little information I can to help.

David

His profile is here:
http://www.myspace.com/rhulston

and

http://www.bebo.com/rhulston

You can view his family and other aliases here which all seem to correlate quite well with the names he is using as posted in the main post:
http://www.bebo.com/FriendList.jsp?MemberId=4793923

No doubt he’ll want to start making himself a little more invisible after this posting goes live …

BRAD SMITH

Got this message from another subscriber, and it confirms that this bloke is quite ruthless, and has no shame admitting it:

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date Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:02 PM
subject Re: Shawn, Stolen Copy of Giveaway Manager 2 Tracked Down

Hi Brad,

I ran into this Debney character tonight. He stole my offer at http://www.wackywednesdaydeals.com.

He apparently changed the paypal information so he could pay himself from one account to another. Then he refunded the money. Then he had the nerve to contact me and say it is illegal to sell one of the products in my offer. I’ll check that out shortly.

He was on my mailing list as Ant ([email protected]). He clicked on my payment button which actually leads to a script. The script does a few checks and then generates the payment information and does an auto submit. He probably stopped that page while loading by hitting escape and copied the payment input statements.

After my script accepted the payment it reported the payment had went to me; but it actually went to another one of his PayPal accounts. He signed up as Dan Dan (jdebney@gmail). He downloaded his products and also did quite a bit of looking around. Evidence shows that he tried getting into product folders before and after he made the purchase. Also he tried to tamper with the download folder. Security measures seemed to keep him out.

My script is a seriously modified copy of the original Motivated Marketing System MMS v1.05. Internal reports generated revealed the following:

Txn ID: 1RE48313FJ146840T
IP: 86.157.71.32
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Amount: $ 7.00
Item name: All In One Place (wwd9-052108)

He also contacted me afterwards as A Debney ([email protected]).

I blocked his IP on my website. But I’m sure that won’t slow him down very much. Also deleted his original account and deactivated the newest account. Not much else I can do for now. I guess next step is to redesign the payment processing part of my script.

I remembered reading about him stealing your Giveaway Manager 2 program. I thought you may want to know about his latest activities.

If there is anything else I can do, please let me know. Maybe we can work together in finding a way of defeating this guy.

Best regards,

Shawn Davis

he doesnt deserve the traffic..

If the guy DID steal the software it seems reasonable enough to capitalize on the controversy to sell more of the software he stole.

Thanks for all your comments, both positive and negative.

I’d ask that you no longer bag the hell out of this bloke, as he’s got his fair share coming…

About Scott Cases software, I’ve already got a reply from Scott, and once I show him the entries on this blog I’m sure other things will happen from that end, too.

Someone mentioned SPAM and so I looked through a few more of my emails and found the following one below.

Now this is actually a deceptive email notification, perhaps a class of SPAM all by itself.

He claimed that he purchased the domain name http://WWW.EBOOKSGALORE.CO.UK and took over the list from that domain.

Now in good marketing practises, this is a no-no. But further to that, do you think he actually got these emails from some place ?

I think this is a PHISHING Email, and all you had to do to “continue” to sign up was to reply to the first email.

At rock bottom, this is against CAN-SPAM regulations.

So … I looked for where I had previously subscribed to this domain.

Guess what ?

Checked my whole email for this domain (this is easy to do with Gmail), and the domain never appeared.

Funny that.

But we know of this bloke’s deception already, so it’s not surprising that this shady behaviour can now be added to the list of already questionable activities.

Brad Smith

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