'Halvarez' at Snapnames auctions uncovered

WebInceptions said:

I've read the thread and his posts on both forums. He doesn't know what he's talking about.

Right "Rob", "Nelson", "Kjel", or whatever your name is?

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"Everyone involved in this knows halvarez did not stop in 2007" where is Robs Quote regarding this?

jagusa said:

My pre-November 2007 snapnames history is gone too. I have records of my payments, but not the individual auction bidders.

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This is most alarming; how are we supposed to validate Rust's "accounting" when all I can see is the money I spent, not who it was that I bid against to spend all of that money with a company that was working against me all along?

I raised an alert about this to Kjel from SnapNames some time ago (2006) (Portions publicly and in this forum: http://www.namepros.com/190684-snap-thread-o-week-favorite-com-2.html#post1219267 ), and yet nothing other than threats of defamation, etc.

More ironic (now) posts:
http://www.namepros.com/831912-post18.html

Kjel said:

SnapNames Inc. does not participate in the auctions that we run. To do so would be both very illegal and wildly unethical. Further, we have a strict, well policed policy against SnapNames employees or agents of employees bidding in auctions we facilitate. It does not happen.

Shill bidding is an issue we are well aware of. Without elaborating, I will say that we watch for shills, fraudulent bidders, and other bad actors and thwart them on a regular basis, and that we work harder than anyone else in this business to run clean, transparent auctions.

I'm sure that no one here meant to claim that SnapNames is intentionally complicit in any wrong-doing, or to accuse SnapNames (and by extension, me personally) of any crime or ethical lapse. We've apparently made a mistake or two recently when determining how to best close an auction when payment is suspect, but any mistakes made were made in good faith. Our bad. We'll try to do better next time, that's the most I can promise.

Best,

Kjel Holmberg
SnapNames

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We collectively alerted him that a winning bidder was selling the exact same name a very short time later for much less money, and yet that is the response. Snapnames employees have created a pretty damning case against themselves on public forums, already.

IAmAllanShore said:

This is most alarming; how are we supposed to validate Rust's "accounting" when all I can see is the money I spent, not who it was that I bid against to spend all of that money with a company that was working against me all along?

I raised an alert about this to Kjel from SnapNames some time ago (2006) (Portions publicly and in this forum: http://www.namepros.com/190684-snap-thread-o-week-favorite-com-2.html#post1219267 ), and yet nothing other than threats of defamation, etc.

More ironic (now) posts:
http://www.namepros.com/831912-post18.html


We collectively alerted him that a winning bidder was selling the exact same name a very short time later for much less money, and yet that is the response. Snapnames employees have created a pretty damning case against themselves on public forums, already.

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Rob as someone suggested earlier Yahoo Jobs might be appropriate at this stage....Fabulous.com is Fabulous imo

If this is going to get any bigger and you probably know...Now is probably a good time to Jump Ship.

Sounds like about a US$20-40m payout can snapnames survive? The Owners have deep pockets and are Smart Pro Active industry Leading Investors.

Snapnames is so much better than namejet.com and any serious domainer knows the Value and Importance of Snapnames service to their business.:hearts:

But they owe me about US$40,000 because of this

Beachie said:

Waaaait.. if you ever sleep how can you be a 24HourDomainer?

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Easy -- it's just not 24 hours in a row...

Here we have been taking calls all night from authorities, And we also have people going out west to confront and speak to some of the players involved. The Agent we have been working closely with strongly believe's that the RICO laws will apply in this situation thus underscoring the depth of this investigation.

Nelson IMHO will roll over and become a federal witness as from what we have been able to gather from our conversations is this fraud is much bigger than having 1 person involved. It's looking alot like there were several deals in place to not only aquire domains in the dropping area from and via NETSOL where they were paid to turn a blind eye for $$$$$$. Once at Snapnames the domains that had interested (Legitimate buyers ) were the targets especially those that would entrust proxies with snapnames.

Its funny to see that whenever people brought up red flags to Kjel on forums regarding schill bidding he would emphatically state

12-18-2006, 04:17 PM #1 (permalink)
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why is halvarez on snapnames always not the high bidder?

for example I am in 6 auctions with only me and halvarez, we both have a $60 bid.
Yet I am listed as the high bidder in everyone??

I am not saying this is a bad thing, but how does it figure out who is the high bidder when it is at $60???

thanks
jude.

12-19-2006, 09:25 AM #10 (permalink)
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Halvarez likes to gamble. Usually he loses. But he also "bluffs". Had a $xxx bid go north to $x,xxx because of his contributions to the auction. Finally got the name but at a much higher price. Some have speculated Halvarez is Snapnames, which I don't believe. I think it's the Devil.

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This comes up every once in a while where certain prodigious customers at SnapNames are accused of being actually SnapNames itself. This is not the case. SnapNames has not and will not ever participate in an auction it itself is running as an anonymous bidder. We have never done any shill bidding or granted any auction participant any sort of discount or rebate. The price displayed is the price paid, for everyone, Halvarez included. Please email me direct (kjel-at-snapnames.com) with any questions.
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Anyone is free to put order(s) in at any time before an auction starts. I'm not sure why we would ban or even be concerned about a known, high-volume buyer who likes to place last minute bids. Halvarez gets no special access or assistance from SnapNames in placing his orders, and does nothing that any other SnapNames customer can't also do.
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I can only assume Kjel and Monte have been instructed to remain silent prior to charges being laid, heres hoping they dont get bail and have to sit in a cell until trial

And here come OverseeRob this is getting way too familiar ( remember registerfly?) It was Kevin blah blah, We are good please trust us we would never allow you to get scammed again - At the very least you could only get screwed for 5-7yrs as our security team is top notch because we caught Nelson and that only took us 5 years.

FACE IT ROB Your going to be looking for a new gig snapnames is finished, and who knows who else will be collateral damage by partnerring with criminals

I know that the lawyers we have sent out west will be filing property liens on all the players within snapnames and Oversee.net I know I am going to see my money back one way or another, I understand under the RICO act the gov will sieze all properties obtained by crime.

WebInceptions said:

Everyone involved in this knows halvarez did not stop in 2007, and anyone working for Oversee would know that and not be posting such nonsense here.

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Absolutely -- just looking at my recent Snapnames order history, he was involved in an auction that I was in as recently as July 2009.

Im Lawyering up....this aint looking good

I would hate to lose snapnames...i guess some other "Nelson" will buy it....the cycle will continue....and in 10-12 years time history will repeat....more news on the way about how big this is...Hold On...

Nelson Brady "Rolling Over" may be a Good thing in court (Not so good in jail) regarding the Parking Industry....

I have 3000+ domains parked with Oversee.net lets see what Dirt comes out regarding Fraudulent Parking/PPC practices

More awesomeness:

Nelson emails bidders in Jennifer Lopez domain name auction about potential TM issues:
http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/177994-jeniferlopez-com-snapnames-mail-you-must.html
And then wins it himself:
Halvarez Was A Cybersquatter As Well! DotWeekly.com Domain Name Blog

Oversee.net - no more worries about damaging our precious bandwidth, please grant access to our complete bidding history immediately rather than giving us all time to see just how bad this is.

The really interesting thing will be when everyone starts comparing notes and the same registrant phone number or address appears on the whois data from names won by different SnapNames accounts. (This time I'm not taking the tin-foil hat off.)

Brady knows...

As they like to say in the movies...

Brady likely knows where the bodies are buried (in the PPC and domain dropping industry). I'm sure some people will not be sleeping well right now or they're already on a plane headed south.

Sounds like Frank S is going to have Guests....

I have this suspicion that Brady will be very co-operative with federal authorities and that this is REALLY going to come back to destroy SnapNames and Oversee. Once someone like Brady is caught in such a situation, they will rat on everything that may have gone on within the organization. TT's post above and my new thoughts on the situation really have me considering my portfolio with Moniker.

What is chapter 11 in America and could snapnames/oversee file...Bankruptcy?

We might get 10-15c on the dollar? Is that good or bad?

It may not be applicable here im not sure...any thoughts? (i know about the criminal angle)

Food for thought...

deb said:

What is chapter 11 in America and could snapnames/oversee file...Bankruptcy?

We might get 10-15c on the dollar? Is that good or bad?

It may not be applicable here im not sure...any thoughts? (i know about the criminal angle)

Food for thought...

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OK, this would only apply to shareholders in the event of a bankruptcy, at this stage, the company is solvent and has $. This scenario is not valid at this point in time.

IAmAllanShore

Esse Quam Videri

This is/was my High School Motto

Oversee Rob said:

Regarding the order history, I have confirmed that SnapNames order history has been truncated to a rolling 2 years since June 2005. This is why everyone's history stops at November 2007. This change was not made recently or in connection with the issue announced yesterday. Now, we are looking at providing it beyond the standard 2 years cut-off. We haven't done that for more than 4 years so it's something we need to look into and we're doing that.

Rob
Oversee Support

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I think I like your username. Goes well with the whole story.

OK, this whole debacle is now becoming so wide ranging it is truly scary IMO. I would now describe this whole episode as a cross between Bernie Madoff and Nick Leeson (Barings bank).

Bernie Madoff in comparison to the blatant fraud of thousands of people, and the suspicions and warnings going unanswered, and Nick Leeson in comparison to an employee, having a secret account and overseeing the operation, not to mention bankrupting the company (which i am predicting will happen here).

The most common thing between Bernie and Nick is that they both got jail time, one for 6.5 years and Bernie got 140 years.

I would think 10 years jail would not be out of the question here IMO, due to the premeditated nature of the crime/s, and i think many millions in fines for both Havarez and the company.

WOW, This thread has me convinced to spend more time here on NamePros.... BTW Halvarez cost me a bunch of money, but also thinking of all the name "He" and I were the only two friggin bidders and I always got the domain... WTF?

I also filed complaints with Snap and never ever got a reply one way or the wrong way....

Shill bidding (artificially driving up the end price of an auction) doesn't benefit an individual working for an auction company. It benefits the auction company only. It is very difficult to believe that "Halvarez" was working on his own for his own benefit. He did win (and seems to have later sold) some domains, but shill bidding (and not actually winning)is what seems to be the major issue...

I tried to sleep, but can't do it.... every time I close my eyes, the words of this thread haunt me. Will I ever sleep again?

24HourDomainer said:

I tried to sleep, but can't do it.... every time I close my eyes, the words of this thread haunt me. Will I ever sleep again?

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Have a chat to Mary Jane she might help

RICO laws could easily be used here. That means big time investigation. Those that will be investigated are Nelson and other employees, the company SnapNames, and present owners Oversee.

Then comes the interesting bit

What will these people admit to so as to strike a deal? Will some become Federal Witnesses? In which case it is tell all or get the time. Telling all would leave companies presently not impuned directly by this to start shaking in their corporate boots. All of a sudden the house of cards is about to come tumbling down.

So Oversee claims that the bulk of the auctions Halvarez participated in were during the 2005 - 2007 period, when Snapnames was not an Oversee.net property.

Speaking to other domainers who are/were active on Snapnames though, I would like to see a clear situation on his activity level.

Bidding in the 2005-2007 period might be understandable as he was a shareholder, but after that, it makes no sense to me. I guess we will find out a lot more on this subject.

Is Halvarez's email [email protected] as I read in this thread? That is interesting, that email is associated with over 3000 domains on Domaintools currently, and with over 5000 historical domains.

This is absolutely bad, but I think it's getting blown out of proportion.

People should step back, take a breath, and just calm down for a minute. There is no point in getting riled up until more is known, the independent accounting firm, oversee.net, and I'm sure the police are all doing there respective work now and it will take time.

Go back to work, buy your names, then sell them, or do whatever it is that you normally do. When it is time to action this further, then get back to it, no need to piss away your time now going around in circles.

Alex said:

So Oversee claims that the bulk of the auctions Halvarez participated in were during the 2005 - 2007 period, when Snapnames was not an Oversee.net property.

Speaking to other domainers who are/were active on Snapnames though, I would like to see a clear situation on his activity level.

Bidding in the 2005-2007 period might be understandable as he was a shareholder, but after that, it makes no sense to me. I guess we will find out a lot more on this subject.

Is Halvarez's email [email protected] as I read in this thread? That is interesting, that email is associated with over 3000 domains on Domaintools currently, and with over 5000 historical domains.

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Ha!

Halvarez has participated in some of my auctions as late as September 9 (for an auction that ended on September 12).

So keep your eyes open for him because the "bot" may still be active.


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maxeaus said:

Nelson brady - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Halvarez/Nelson Brady must have some buds over at Wikipedia.

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