Alien Trust....
This news is from Alien Trust's CEO from 2/4/2006. We may get our money back soon enough:
Our Final Request From StormPay
4. February 2006 @ 16:40
Good Afternoon.
In reading through some of the posts on the StormPay's Response article several members thought it wise to go ahead even at this late point, and submit our business model to StormPay so that we would indeed have proof that we submitted that information.
That seemed like a smart thing to do so I have sent that to them in an offical post on the support system there so there would be a record of it. It seems that they may have actually stopped taking support tickets there as there was no confirmation sent to me as per the norm with their system.
In any event I have kept a copy of the letter here on my PC just for future reference.
I still fail to understand why so many of you thought that we were simply going to lay down and take this without fighting back, we have no intention of letting them get away with this without a fight. I thought I made that pretty clear.
It's simply not my way to go acting like an idiot and start ranting and raving about something I have no control over. I'm not a lawyer, so obviously I have no idea what is the best way to fight them, but I do have a meeting on Monday with an attorney to figure it out.
You'll notice we deleted all the comments on the older articles, they were getting completely out of control with people cussing each other and attacking us personally as if WE took the money. Apparently StormPay has a history of poor performance that we weren't aware of.
We've been members at StormPay for several years and have never had a single problem there ever. We had no way of knowing this would happen and no foresight to see it coming.
In any event, below is the Final Request we submitted to StormPay to implore them to release our account, and as of yet have heard nothing from them.
We'll update you on events as they unfold, we made a promise early on when our back office got hacked and money was stolen from e-gold members that we would take care of them, and we did. Every last penny was restore to those members accounts and we keep our promises.
As we as a company move forward in our next venture, those that choose to remain with us will be compensated for what they lost with StormPay. I'm not sure how right now, or in what regard, and I know it will take a good deal of time to accomplish, but we keep our promises. Just like when we promised to provide a program that would allow you to earn a living online, we did.
I have to say I'm a little disheartened by all the personal attacks, funny how AT was the greatest thing since peanut butter a few days ago, but now that StormPay is trying to steal our money we're scammers and crooks, not to mention all the other horrible things I was called in some of those posts. Thick skin is one thing but man, some people are really a**holes.
From day one we have always honored every request for a refund, never once have a made any attempt to fight a claim or deny a refund. As I said we even re-imbursed members for over 6000.00 that was blatantly stolen by e-gold. The only reason AT is offline is because of this StormPay nonsense. Any if they had done some homework, or actually contacted us we'd probably still be up and running. For anyone to say that we are scammers is bullsh*t. We paid out more money, faster than any ASC site in history. We were taking in over 2000 new members per day - why?
Because we did what we said we were going to do. We paid people every Friday like clockwork with the exception of those who gave us wrong info about their payout details. If you requested cashout you got paid on Friday afternoon, Monday at the latest, so I don't want to hear anymore crap about us being a scam - we never scammed anyone! It's StormPay who scammed you, NOT US!
As many of you have seen they aren't honoring your Claims, doesn't that tell you something? They're trying to steal the money! They won't give it us - they won't give it to you - what's the only other alternative? They're keeping it - probably to build a new house or racetrack. Regardless of what you think of autosurf, HYIP, or anything else - wouldn't you agree that if StormPay decided to no longer accept a certain type of business model that all the members who paid money to that site should get their money back? Then why are they denying your claims? Simple - they are lying to you and trying to convince you that we're to blame, as if we had any control over them freezing our account?
It's a snatch and grab folks, plain and simple - they see all this money coming in to AT and 12DP and all the others and they said, "Man, how can we go about keeping all this money?" So, they change their terms of service and freeze our accounts. You'll notice that their investigation took a complete 2 days so that they would be past the window were they had to return any fees on any of these transactions. Funny how that turned out huh?
Anyway, let's keep the comments contructive so we can leave them online, we'd like to see some real information and ideas exchanged here and knock off all the flaming and personal attacks.
Here's the Final Request we submitted to SP:
Vince Kronlein
Executive Director
North Shore Media
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To: StormPay Inc.
From: North Shore Media
Subj: Requested Information On Our Company
Dear Sirs,
Recently as part of your response to the monumental business we've brought to your company and incredible profits you've received directly from us our account has been suspended for what you say is a lack of response to your repeated inquiries on the nature of our business model.
You know full well that you never requested any information from us concerning our business model, and you currently refuse to answer our repeated requests for information.
But nevertheless, I will detail for you here as an official record what our business model entails and this will serve as a legal document in court as our notification to you in response to any alleged request you made to us for a business model outline.
We will pursue legal action against StormPay Inc. for not only the 6.9 Million dollars you have stolen from us, but potential lost revenue for the future, and punitive damages as well.
Business Model Details:
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North Shore Media is, has, and always will be an advertising firm located in Wichita Falls, TX that provides advertising services for individuals and companies in the home business arena.
Our company was launched in May of 2005 and has provided these services through many different domains and programs since that time to include marathonproject.net, quikscope.com, quikhits.com, quikhitspro.com, 2X200.com, and of course alientrust.com.
The program in question (alientrust.com) has a business model quite different from the traditional autosurf models of other sites, whereas we provide advertising packages completely separate from any potential earnings that a member might make.
Once an ad buy is placed for a specific amount and is approved, the member is issued credits to promote their ad, and those credits are issued immediately to their account for use in this regard.
Members are then allowed to earn a commission for viewing the advertising of our other members.
Members understand and agree upon joining Alien Trust that they are purchasing advertising, and they have received no guarantee whatsoever of any earnings potential based on the purchase of this product. Earnings for viewing ads is accomplished completely separate from any advertising purchase.
We then allow members to view the ads of other members to earn money, based on their current active ad buy. Many members do this to earn money, some choose not to.
We also allow members to earn a single level 6% commission on the purchase of ad buys by their personally sponsored referrals. There is NO multi-level affiliate earnings whatsoever at Alien Trust.
You have recently stated that our business is a ponzi scheme. I will remind you what constitutes a ponzi scheme just so we can compare the two business models side by side.
In order to qualify as a ponzi scheme the business would need to have no product or service, no scenario to re-buy goods or services and must be predicated on the constant referral of new members/money into it in order to redistribute that money to those at the top. This is what causes the eventual collapse of the model and precisely why it's illegal.
Number 1: We do offer a complete product and service, we sell advertising products to our members that last for a specific time frame. This disqualifies us as a ponzi scheme.
Number 2: Members must re-buy more advertising once their ad buy is completed. They cannot simply advertise for free, they must pay for advertising services, this means that new money is always coming into the business. This disqualifies us as a ponzi scheme.
Number 3: Our business DOES NOT depend on new members constantly coming into the business. As a matter of fact you would see if you bothered to even read the website, we limit our business to 100,000 members and no more. Constantly re-purchased advertising packages fuels the commission process, NOT new money coming in from referrals. Granted new money from new advertisers is certainly part of the picture, but in no way is the company dependent on new advertisers to support the commissions generated through the system. This disqualifies us as a ponzi scheme.
Simply stated, you don't understand what constitutes a ponzi scheme, and you've not taken the time to review our program to make a valid determination.
I've received word that you are now arbitrarily selecting which members will receive refunds and which won't and I suggest that you cease this action as it will only cause you more harm in the long run. We will be in contact with the FBI, FTC, Secret Service and the FDIC as well as filing legal action against you if you meddle with the funds in our account.
I hereby formally urge you to reconsider your stance here as it will only serve to destroy what little reputation StormPay has left at this point.
If I do not receive a formal response to this ticket within the hour legal action and telephone calls to the above listed agencies along with all the major media companies will begin.
Understand this is NOT a threat, we will recover what you've stolen from us.
Vince Kronlein
Executive Director
North Shore Media