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Hi all,
The world already know about our story at Epik, we had 4 accounts there (at Masterbucks) and they stole us a total of roughly US$1.5M (Ref. Domainnamewire.com) but I'm now bringing to your attention some new facts.
I think they're desperate now and nothing will save them from bankruptcy though Rob Monster had apparently converted several million dollars to cryptos and hidden such funds during the fake 'Maintenance stage' of Masterbucks started at the end of September.
Nobody was able to login so he gained time to steal everything and as Brian Royce admitted, we can now see our balance but it's just a virtual number considering there're no moe funds in the company account.
Now the situation is degrading and we're in presenc of serious criminal abuses here !
I heard some noises regarding premium domains stolen from the legitimate registrant accounts but I didn't believe that to be honestly ... till few days ago when something similar happened to us.
We had still two domains in escrow with them with a scheduled payment plan (buyers were paying under monthly installments).
Last October we asked our buyers to stop submitting payments and simultaneously in November asked to Tony Blessed (Epik project manager) to release both domains to the buyer accounts (at our own risk) and to consider both transactions successfully closed.
It's important clarifying Epik deducted its full escrow fee with the first payment.
Well, in a first moment they ignored our request and fraudolently charged one of our buyers for his monthly installment though he had previously asked to stop his monthly charges.
He asked for a chargeback (and it's important clarifying Epik is stealing all incoming payments so nothing has been withdrawn from us).
At this point Tony Blessed said to have received the order NOT to allow this domain to get transferred.
Yesterday we discovered they've posted it for sale in their marketplace. Wow, this's the top of their abuses, they're starting to sell their customer assets to recover a bit the company situation but such things won't lead for sure to a positive ends for these scammers !
That's not all ! What about the second domain in escrow ? The other buyer stopped paying for it as per our request but Epik refused to release the domain to him. Why ? Tony said he has no more access to the domain ...
what nonsense stories ! Every day a different version of facts ...
Ok, let's work all together to stop them once for all in the interest of the whole industry that they're seriously affecting and heavily damaging.
1. Let's start by reporting all domain abuses to Icann so they'll soon loose their accreditation:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/complaints-2013-03-22-en
We've already submitted a complaint of course.
2. For all Dot Com related issues, drop a further email to Verisign : abuse (at) verisign.com
Already done our part
3. Send a complaint to the competent entity for any other TLD for whom they're preventing you a transfer, a renewal or your freedom to manage them by seriously violating your rights.
4. Why not starting to contact their hosting providers to let them know how these scammers are taking advantage of the assigned IPs ? I know perfectly they're using their own servers but someone is allowing them to use the associated IPs and in presence of these criminal acts, there's no reason to refuse stopping them with immediate effect.
We should basically find any possible way to stop all their activities as quickly as possible because there're every days new innocent victims affected by their activities !
The world already know about our story at Epik, we had 4 accounts there (at Masterbucks) and they stole us a total of roughly US$1.5M (Ref. Domainnamewire.com) but I'm now bringing to your attention some new facts.
I think they're desperate now and nothing will save them from bankruptcy though Rob Monster had apparently converted several million dollars to cryptos and hidden such funds during the fake 'Maintenance stage' of Masterbucks started at the end of September.
Nobody was able to login so he gained time to steal everything and as Brian Royce admitted, we can now see our balance but it's just a virtual number considering there're no moe funds in the company account.
Now the situation is degrading and we're in presenc of serious criminal abuses here !
I heard some noises regarding premium domains stolen from the legitimate registrant accounts but I didn't believe that to be honestly ... till few days ago when something similar happened to us.
We had still two domains in escrow with them with a scheduled payment plan (buyers were paying under monthly installments).
Last October we asked our buyers to stop submitting payments and simultaneously in November asked to Tony Blessed (Epik project manager) to release both domains to the buyer accounts (at our own risk) and to consider both transactions successfully closed.
It's important clarifying Epik deducted its full escrow fee with the first payment.
Well, in a first moment they ignored our request and fraudolently charged one of our buyers for his monthly installment though he had previously asked to stop his monthly charges.
He asked for a chargeback (and it's important clarifying Epik is stealing all incoming payments so nothing has been withdrawn from us).
At this point Tony Blessed said to have received the order NOT to allow this domain to get transferred.
Yesterday we discovered they've posted it for sale in their marketplace. Wow, this's the top of their abuses, they're starting to sell their customer assets to recover a bit the company situation but such things won't lead for sure to a positive ends for these scammers !
That's not all ! What about the second domain in escrow ? The other buyer stopped paying for it as per our request but Epik refused to release the domain to him. Why ? Tony said he has no more access to the domain ...
what nonsense stories ! Every day a different version of facts ...
Ok, let's work all together to stop them once for all in the interest of the whole industry that they're seriously affecting and heavily damaging.
1. Let's start by reporting all domain abuses to Icann so they'll soon loose their accreditation:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/complaints-2013-03-22-en
We've already submitted a complaint of course.
2. For all Dot Com related issues, drop a further email to Verisign : abuse (at) verisign.com
Already done our part
3. Send a complaint to the competent entity for any other TLD for whom they're preventing you a transfer, a renewal or your freedom to manage them by seriously violating your rights.
4. Why not starting to contact their hosting providers to let them know how these scammers are taking advantage of the assigned IPs ? I know perfectly they're using their own servers but someone is allowing them to use the associated IPs and in presence of these criminal acts, there's no reason to refuse stopping them with immediate effect.
We should basically find any possible way to stop all their activities as quickly as possible because there're every days new innocent victims affected by their activities !