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It's time to speak out about one of the worst online extortion rackets - OZRIPOFF!! from www.ozripoff.com They claim to expose Aussie ripoffs, but nothing could be further from the truth. Instead they post defamatory information about loads of Australian companies and then if you want to lodge a complaint to them about those posts - they want thousands of...

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www.ozripoff.com OzRipoff Shut Down

Oz Ripoff Shut Down

After years of hiding behind a domain with fraudulent website registration information, Ozripoff.com has finally been shut down. Ozripoff, a well known Gold Coast extortion racket has done everything in its power to destroy innocent Companies reputation online. They have taken on well known institutions such as Commonwealth bank and ANZ all the way up to Internet powerhouses such as facebook and even Google.

They operated a system whereby they put up nonsensical articles about legitimate organizations in an attempt to discredit their reputation online. Once the Company contacted them they informed them that they had a “verification” process in order to ascertain whether the claims against the Company were true or not. They conducted this process by referring them to a 3rd party “legal’ organization known as Consumer Advocacy Corp (Sometimes Consumer Advocate Corp). FYI to use the name Consumer you must be a Govt agency, which ozRipoff is not. It doesn’t even have an ABN/ACN tax file number, website or address! So, this “Company” will review your situation for a nominated fee (this is where the extortion comes in!) and once you are verified they remove the posts(s). We all know now that Consumer Advocate Corp and OzRipoff are one and the same.

The sad thing is literally hundreds of ethical businesses have lost out in revenues and have had their clients doubt their credibility, all because of OzRipoff. This article has been purposefully written so anybody who has been damaged by Ozripoff can show their clients that OzRipoff is the real and scam operation and the claims made were nothing but an attempt to steal from reputable organizations.

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zed1000
Surry Hills, AU
May 12, 2010 1:08 am EDT

...oh and they're also from ACT, Australia (as well as Italy and the USA).

So the original poster who calls themselves, Oz Ripoff Scam, is for some reason on the run in a number of countries...Australia, Italy, USA...or simply falsely representing themselves on this site.

And they expect us to believe their claims or statements on this site are credible?

Nice try, scammer!

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zed1000
Surry Hills, AU
May 11, 2010 11:12 pm EDT

I also just noticed this same poster lists his or her location, alternately as 'Italy' or 'United States'. So, who then, is the liar / scammer?

Be up front about who you are and where you are from.

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zed1000
Surry Hills, AU
May 11, 2010 11:01 pm EDT

I have seen many legitimate complaints on ozripoff. Okay, some may be competitor gripes, but ozripoff never pretends to be judge or jury. They offer a forum for [redacted]s. Sure, some of the posts are poorly written but it's usually the poorly educated that get ripped off and have nowhere to go, can't afford a lawyer etc. Sites like Ozripoff do expose scams and ripoffs. It's a shame that those scammers reported on ozripoff, then have to malign and try to discredit ozripoff on other posts like this, and then refer potential future rip-off clients of theirs to this site to try to get more victims. But a good scammer will always know how to scam naive victims. Go, ozripoff, keep exposing the fraudsters, scammers and cons.

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Mar 14, 2010 10:55 pm EDT

No its not true...that site was not a fake on the contrary it unveiled scams!

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www.ozripoff.com Gold Coast Extortion Racket

Gold Coast Extortion Racket: www.ozripoff.com
Quite possibly the most blatant extortion Company ever to operate from Australia, Ozripoff.com has shown us that it is possible to defy the law and regularly extort the Australian public without revealing any information on the people behind this outlandish scam and managing to remain free to continue to harass innocent victims.
If you visit their website and take the time to read just a few of the articles that they cover you will see that the “masterminds’ behind this criminal venture are certainly not journalists of any sort like they claim they are in their multitude of falsified reports. In fact, quite the opposite! They struggle with grammar and spelling, are extremely vulgar in their descriptions of these many victims and are extremely repetitive in their reports! (Actually let’s call them what they really are: Fairy Tales not reports!).
The repetition of the same slanderous accusations and threats shows that they really don’t have many subscribers and simply have the same person using various aliases having conversations with himself (very badly!) If you take a look at one of their blogs below you can see that this person is not even sure of where he is. One minute he’s talking as if in New Zealand, however according to his account he is in Australia.
The more you read through Ozripoff.com the more apparent it gets that this person is clearly spending all his time piecing together little bits of information and doing his best to use scare tactics to motivate the victim to get in contact and then be told that their problems can disappear if they pay a nominal fee!
So, this is where it gets serious... Even though a lot of their “Fairy Tales” are quite amusing as they are so over-the-top and amateurish, we have to remember this con has brought nothing but misery and distraught to the vast amounts of businesses, individuals and families which it has humiliated publicly! These victims have been terrorised and left in a situation where they have to try to explain to their loved ones that the information found on the internet is false and was only fabricated by an evil person who just wanted to profit from somebody who they had never even met.
They have no shortage of material either and have no qualms in saying; even some of the most respected organizations out there are nothing but a con! Have a look at everybody who is on their “hit list”:
http://www.ozripoff.com/select-company/
The harsh reality we are faced with is that this website is still live today. Feel free to visit their site. They are still active and they are still continuing to break the law and cause havoc amongst the Australian public. Like I said earlier, they are as blatant as it gets! Imagine a thief robbing a bank and recording himself and then broadcasting his crime on YouTube. Then to top it off he sends a link to the local police department. Well, Ozripoff.com is as close as it gets to that. They commit crimes everyday in front of us! The only way they will be stopped if we congregate together and apply pressure to the Police to investigate and find out who is behind this scam!
If you have any thoughts on how to stop these criminals from causing further misery feel free to contact me at: [protected]@gmail.com

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May 26, 2011 3:12 am EDT

Ok everyone this is to let everyone know that OZRIPOFF is being run by Larry Pickering and Wayne Evans and we have just had confirmation of this with the Queensland fraud squad who traced there IP addresses and it turns out that they were all traced back to a registered IP address in the name of Antoinette Mead who is the acting director of Cohen Strachan Investment Pty Ltd so from now everyone do not make any complaints to OZRIPOFF as it is being run by Larry Pickering and Wayne Evans.

Also for anyone who is having trouble trying to get more information about IAS HK and Nominee Traders then all of you can take a look at this

Domain Name: IASHK.COM.HK
Contract Version: HKDNR latest version
Registrant Contact Information:
SUBLIME TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Company Chinese name:
Address: FLAT/RM 211 WELLBORNE COMM CTR 8 JAVA RD HONGKONG 00000 NORTH POINT
Country: HK
Email: domains@asiaregistry.com
Domain Name Commencement Date: 04-08-2008
Expiry Date: 08-08-2013
Re-registration Status: Complete
Name of Registrar: HKDNR
Administrative Contact Information:
Given name: TONY
Family name: LENTINO
Company name: SUBLIME TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Address: FLAT/RM 211 WELLBORNE COMM CTR 8 JAVA RD HONGKONG 00000 NORTH POINT
Country: HK
Phone: +613--[protected]
Fax: +613--[protected]
Email: domains@asiaregistry.com
Technical Contact Information:Family name: LENTINO
Company name: SUBLIME TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
Address: FLAT/RM 211 WELLBORNE COMM CTR 8 JAVA RD HONGKONG 00000 NORTH POINT
Country: HK
Phone: +613--[protected]
Fax: +613--[protected]
Email: domains@asiaregistry.com

YEP THATS RIGHT this great company called Nominee Traders that apparently is supposed to be trading all of your money that you invested with them by professional traders is actually registered to a flat in Hong Kong where we have just found out that an old Chinese lady lives there.

So this is where all of your money was going and yet Larry Pickering oopps sorry I mean toppods oops sorry I mean Paul Perry oh ### sorry Larry which name are you under today you just make it so confusing well I will tell you where all of your money has gone to LARRY PICKERING HAS TRANSFERED ALL OF YOUR MONEY TO THE CAYMEN ISLANDS OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNTS

So all Larry does is set up a business with his ###wit mate Wayne Evans and he gets a 3rd party who has never been convicted before of fraud to be the acting director then he runs the show and instructs them as to what to do in regards to how the scam operation is to be run and when the law finally catches up with them they basically let the acting director take the wrap and they do a small jail sentence while nothing is ever traced or tied back to them leaving them free to set up another business and try again and thats how they have been getting away with it for so long.

Also during my CTTT court proceedings Larry was using the name of Paul Perry and through some investigation it turns out that there is a Horse Trainer in Newcastle by the name of Paul Perry of whom both he and Larry Pickering were training horses together in the mid 80's and are still best of friends till this day but as to whether or not the real Paul Perry knows that Larry is using his name to scam people out of around 30 million dollars Australia wide is another story but if anyone wants to get in contact with the real Paul Perry then here is his details and you can ask him yourself as to whether or not he knows that Larry is using his name to scam people out of there hard earned money.

Paul Perry Racing
P O Box 624
The Junction
Newcastle NSW 2291
Email: p_cperry@bigpond.net.au
Phone: [protected] begin_of_the_skype_highlighting [protected] end_of_the_skype_highlighting

So once again please do not make complaints to the OZRIPOFF website as it is being run by Larry Pickering and his ###wit mate Wayne Evans and if also anyone wants to contact Wayne Evans to find out where all of your money is then you can reach Wayne on his web site which is

http://www.mobileweddingbells.com.au/

Gold Coast
Head Office - Gold Coast
License Enquiries
Mob: [protected]
Address PO Box 7367
GCMC Bundall
QLD 9726
Email:licences@mobileweddingbells.com.au
Wedding Enquiries
Mobile:[protected]
Email:weddings@mobileweddingbells.com.au
Byron Bay
Licensee:Marc & Wendy Browne
Mob:[protected]
AddressO Box 55
Byron Bay
NSW 2481
Email:
byronbay@mobileweddingbells.com.au
Cranbourne, Victoria
Licenseeeter Light
Mob:[protected] 9BELLS)
Address:28 Jacinta Drive
Cranbourne
VIC, 3977
Email:cranbourne@mobileweddingbells.com.au

So give Wayne a call and maybe he might be able to shed some light on just exactly how he spent all of your hard earned money on buying gifts for himself and his family.

Also Larry Pickering plays golf at the Grand Golf Course in Brisbane and I have been speaking to a Michelle Bowers and apparently Larry has been bragging to his friends that he plays golf with that he paid for his $60k membership with The Grand Golf Course with money that he scammed from people from the Carbona software and thats how he paid for his membership and I have been in contact with Michelle Bowers about this and she to has also confirmed this and she has asked me to help her with this allegations with the police as she has stated that they do not wish to be accepting money from Larry Pickering if it is stolen money or has been fraudulently obtained and they are about to send a letter to Larry asking him to come to a meeting to speak to them about it so in my opinion its only a matter of time before the golf club kicks him out and if anyone wants to make any enquiries with the golf club then here are there details.

Contact The Grand Golf Club
364 Gilston Road
Gilston, Queensland
PO Box 440
Nerang QLD 4211
Australia
T: [protected]
F: [protected]
E: info@grandgolf.com.au
Michelle Bowers, General Manager
michelle@grandgolf.com.au

Also I have been speaking to a Bill Thomson from delphia solutions accountants and it was him and Larry Pickering who first started Cohen Strachan Investment in the first place but it turns out that Larry scammed Bill Thomsons wife out a quarter of a mill but Bill Thomson cant dob Larry in for this because Larry has stuff on Bill that would incriminate him even more but Bill Thomson is now on our side and he is now co operating with the police with there enquiries as to where he thinks all of the money that was stolen has gone to and he will be also appearing at the Gosford Courthouse in order give testimony that Paul Perry is Larry Pickering so this will also be a big help to the case. If anyone wants to get in contact with Bill Thomson and ask him where all of your money is then here is his details.

Delphia Accountants
Phone: [protected]
Fax: [protected]
P.O. Box 439
Mudgeeraba Qld 4213
bill@delphiaccounting.com.au
admin@delphiaccounting.com.au

As for where little Larry lives well I can let you all know that he lives in a Penthouse in the Crown Towers on the gold coast thats right check out the web site and see how luxurious Larry and his ###wit son live on the money that we worked for and look at how he lives it up and enjoys our money that he stole from us.

So there you go everyone now if you want to start putting some pressure on Larry Pickering oopps i mean topodds oopps ### I mean Paul Perry ooopss sorry I mean Larry then go ahead and give the Crown Tower's a call or email them and start putting pressure on them to evict Larry out of the Crown Towers and dont worry about where he might go after this as we have people who are following him day and night.

Ph: [protected]
Email: info@crowntowersresort.com.au

http://www.crowntowersresort.com.au/

Also for anyone who wants to also contact Antoinette Mead to find out also as to where your money is that you worked hard for then here is Anoinettes details so for everyone who got scammed give her a call on her mobile and ask her as to where your money is.

Antoinette Mead
9/152 Palm Meadows Road
Carrara QLD 4211

Or the white pages has her listed at

150 Palm Meadows Road
Carrara QLD 4211
Fax Number [protected]
Mobile number: [protected]

Also for anyone who might be able to help the Australian Taxation office in regards to Larry's tax evasion that he has been committing for several year's and has managed to get away with then you may contact

Jasmine Edwards
ATO Locked Bag 96 Southport QLD 4215
jasmine.edwards@ato.gov.au

as she has been appointed to personally oversee anything that is related to any type of tax evasion of fraud that has been committed by Larry Pickering so please forward her an email and she will be more then greatfull for any assistance or information that you can give her in regards to Larry Pickering.

Also if anyone wants to contact the business expo organisers that are allowing Larry Pickering to present his scam software at there expos then please get in contact with

John Perry
Expo Event Co Ordinator
Ph: [protected]
Email: kasey@eventmi.com.au
Email: jperry@divexhibitions.com.au

http://www.franchisingexpo.com.au/

and make a complaint in regards to Cohen Strachan Investment selling fraudulent software and scamming people out of millions of dollars and they are trying there best to make sure that they are kicked out.

Also here is the details of the Queensland Fraud Squad and the officer who is handling the case for Cohen Strachan Investment is Senior Constable Debbie Nicholson and you can reach her on

Brisbane Fraud Squad
Senior Constable Nicholson
Email: fraud@police.qld.gov.au
Email: SportsArbitrageCCIU@bigpond.com
Ph: [protected]

Also if anyone wants to make a complaint to the HSBC bank and let them know of the fraud that is happening through there bank then please contact

HSBC
Ph: [protected]
johnaesteban@hsbc.com.au
HSBC SWIFT CODE HSBCHKHHHKH
HSBC account number : [protected]

and let him know that Larry Pickering is using this bank to launder money through when he encourages people to invest there money in N

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SMJH
Broadbeach, AU
Oct 29, 2010 6:37 am EDT

OZRIPOFF posted me and then I received emails offering for $16, 000 they could remove my name. I never paid and I am still posted with a host of rubbish I suggest is written by the owners of ozripoff. They are damaging peoples family, social and business life since others who are less informed could think the postings are true. I hope one day soon they are caught and the website is shut down.

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zed1000
Surry Hills, AU
May 12, 2010 1:14 am EDT

The same poster, Oz Ripoff Scame also claims to be in 'Australia' as well as the 'USA' and 'Italy'.

So what's the real story? Are they for some reason on the run in a number of countries...Australia, Italy, USA...or simply falsely representing themselves on this site.

And they expect us to believe their claims or statements on this site are credible?

Nice try, scammer!

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zed1000
Surry Hills, AU
May 11, 2010 11:17 pm EDT

I posted this also on other compplaints by the same poster who seems to have been exposed by ozripoff as a fraudster or scammer. Seems to have a bee in his bonet about something. I have seen many legitimate complaints on ozripoff. Okay, some may be competitor gripes, but ozripoff never pretends to be judge or jury. They offer a forum for [redacted]s. Sure, some of the posts are poorly written but it's usually the poorly educated that get ripped off and have nowhere to go, can't afford a lawyer etc. Sites like ozripoff do expose scams and ripoffs. It's a shame that those scammers reported on ozripoff, then have to malign and try to discredit ozripoff on other posts like this, and then refer potential future rip-off clients of theirs to this site to try to get more victims. But a good scammer will always know how to scam naive victims. Go, ozripoff, keep exposing the fraudsters, scammers and cons.

I also just noticed this same poster lists his or her location, alternatley as 'Italy' or 'United States'. So, who then, is the liar / scammer?

Be up front about who you are and where you are from.

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zed1000
Surry Hills, AU
May 11, 2010 11:11 pm EDT

I posted this also on other compplaints by the same poster who seems to have been exposed by ozripoff as a fraudster or scammer. Seems to have a bee in his bonet about something. I have seen many legitimate complaints on ozripoff. Okay, some may be competitor gripes, but ozripoff never pretends to be judge or jury. They offer a forum for [redacted]s. Sure, some of the posts are poorly written but it's usually the poorly educated that get ripped off and have nowhere to go, can't afford a lawyer etc. Sites like ozripoff do expose scams and ripoffs. It's a shame that those scammers reported on ozripoff, then have to malign and try to discredit ozripoff on other posts like this, and then refer potential future rip-off clients of theirs to this site to try to get more victims. But a good scammer will always know how to scam naive victims. Go, ozripoff, keep exposing the fraudsters, scammers and cons.

I also just noticed this same poster lists his or her location, alternatley as 'Italy' or 'United States'. So, who then, is the liar / scammer?

Be up front about who you are and where you are from.

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Gold Coast, AU
Jan 28, 2010 3:29 pm EST

the only way is to put stuff on anything but www.ozripoff.com as it will be gooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeee ! Its a scam company on the gold coast doing it...

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F U oz rip off scam
Gold Coast, AU
Jan 28, 2010 3:28 pm EST

told you that they would remove anything true about them ! there has been numerous things as it reveals the true motive, , but thats bad for them so they remove it and allow all the other crap...

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