Computer Scams and Internet Stalking
Computer Scams and Internet Stalking
There is an Englishman in Luxor operating a computer scam that appears to start innocently and then leads to blackmail, extortion and acts of intimidation carried out by his henchmen.
It works like this. First he plays the part of your friend and will send you endless emails professing to be delighted to be working with you (up to 23 in one day) and offers to complete a wonderful website for you in record time at a large discount. Remember the old saying, “if it seems too good to be true then it is too good to be true”. It is easy to fall for such tricks. We can assure you that you will live to regret it.
The scam is to get the new website to host a parasitic one that advertises services that would be frowned upon by the authorities and which would ruin the genuine site if it was known. If the site is discovered his screams of innocence will be heard all the way to Rome and land at the feet of the Pope where he will prostrate himself and deny all wrong-doing. This will continue even if you have hard copy of the crime. Scammers are little bothered by truth even when they are caught with their ‘fingers in the till’.
Next is a demand for more money, coupled with threats to destroy the site. He will already have boasted to you that he is a hacker who can bring a site down so that it can never be restored. Should you pay up? You have two choices. Pay and expect to keep paying forever or refuse to pay and see the sites destroyed and all your hard work along with it. Plus, of course, the scammer is hardly likely to give you a refund of what you have paid him. It is a difficult choice.
Without extra payment, the site is not only taken down but the scammer and his cohorts will do everything he can to ruin you and your business. If you complain rather than accepting the destruction of your business, he will set up another site with an almost identical name and will write hundreds of pages of personal abuse about you and your friends; all fictitious of course but truth matters little to the scammer. Is that the end of it? No it is just the beginning.
Next, e-mails are sent under a variety of false names to all your business contacts saying that your business is illegal and that you are a criminal with disgusting habits. Fortunately your friends and business associates know you and will wonder why a stranger is so interested in your personal life, as will the authorities.
It is endless. Next is intimidation. You could become afraid of passing dark alleys so what do you do? You go to the police. First you remember that all you wanted was a website and that it is not your fault if the webmaster is an insane stalker who was out to make money at any cost and at your expense. Then you tell everyone concerned. If you do not tell them then they will not know.
Internet Stalking is as much a crime as any other. If you find yourself hounded and stalked the best way is to let it be like water off a duck’s back. It is not going to go away but you can refuse to let it bother you. Why should anything screamed by a lunatic stranger affect you? Why should something muttered by a maniac for whom you have no respect, affect you? When the village whore calls you a slut or a pervert are you upset? When the village idiot calls you daft would it crush you? So stand back and let the authorities deal with it. They will listen.
This scam will happen time and time again unless you are vigilant. This is a computer age and identity theft and domain theft is rife. Do you really want obscene e-mails sent in your name because your e-mail has been hacked or have key-loggers appear on your PC to steal your identity and possible raid your bank account.
At present this man is working his way through charities. He is advertising that he will complete websites for charities without payment. Do not fall for it. Do not let it be your charity or your business. Through his lies and threats, he has deliberately and shamelessly caused problems for all of Luxor’s legitimate charities. He has no soul only a dark pit of bile and obsessive vengeance. Unfortunately he does not work alone but has henchmen who do the same thing.
If you want a website go to someone you have known for a long while and trust completely or go to someone whose business is registered, not to someone who is working without a license and is conning the Egyptian government out of its taxes. If he is conning them, then he will con you. If you have had a site completed by these con artists then get it checked out to make sure that nothing is attached to it and that you are not the unwilling host of a porn site or a pseudo psychic site that could ruin your business.
He is a proven liar, a known thief and a fraud who uses a false name.
He is totally obsessive and a dangerous psychopath
Warning - Stay away from him at all costs.
This is not a fictitious Pink Piggy Tale, it is a genuine warning.
