SEO blog host was his new company. When his old offers started having merchanting problems we scrambled to build seobloghost. I built the first revision of the cPanel hosting platform management helper tool. I thought we were working on a legitimate hosting product like bluehost or hostgator. I also got merchanting for Alma for seobloghost (Something I would not have done had I not been lied to about the risks). I shut down that merchant account in November. It was being misuesed (billing *2promote sites). After repeated requests to Steve Bullpit to stop billing the old sites with my account it became clear that it was going to continue to be misused. In december Alma tried to manipulate me into believing I had done him some great wrong in shutting off the merchant account that he had never paid me a dime for (I was supposed to get 1% for the use of my name and credibility). It was at this time that it became clear that I was dealing with a dishonest person. He really had kept me blind to the fact for a long time.

Seobloghost went south in February. In march the Conexm account at Rackspace got shut down (I assume for non payment). That account had the only up to day copy of the Conexm database (that I know of) with all the credit card transactions.

I’m taking a risk by posting this as Alma already claims that I have ruined him by tarnishing his reputation. However, I feel that the truth about this last year should be told. It was 12 months ago when Amla contacted me for doing his system administration work. Conexm owes me just under $10k and I have not been going after them because I have been warned that Alma is willing to use new investment money to fight old legal problems.

I have seen mention of Jayson Linford here as being one of his goons. While it is true that he did work for conexm that isn’t the whole truth. As early as May of last year he was looking at the numbers trying to figure out how to make the finances work. He was the one trying to make the math work out for sustainable profitability. He eventually left when Alma kept referring creditors and investors to him for answers. In the end Jayson didn’t want to be the one cleaning up Alma’s messes he couldn’t stop Alma from creating. At least two of Jayson’s neighbors were negatively impacted by Alma and Conexm. One as a developer and the other as an investor. Jayson is just one more person to feel the ruin that comes from working with Alma.

To everyone who didn’t receive what they thought they were signing up for. I’m sorry that I supported this by keeping the servers running. I’m sorry that I fell for it. I started working for Conexm after I lost my job last year. I thought it was a great opportunity to get my career going again. It turns out that wanting something doesn’t make it so. It just makes you more likely to get taken advantage of.

I just want to give out a warning about a company called SLR Canada, they have two locations:

55 Town Centre Court Suite # 407
Scarborough, Ontario M1P 4X4

And

133 Richmond St West Suite # 407
Toronto, Ontario M5H 2L3

The company will offer you an employment referral service…they call themselves head hunters. They promise to help you find a job and charge you an up front fee of $125.13, another $125.13 in 30 days and another 125.13 in 60 days. This is a total of $375.39. They make you sign a binding contract and do not deliver any service. They tell you that once you have a job you pay them 3% of you earnings after 1 year and this is how they make their money.

SLR post fake positions and then will set up an interview with you over the phone pretending to be the company.

Please be very cautous and clear from SLR Canada it is a scam. The company use to be called Stafflocater(Part of Clearview Management). Stay clear of the owner Paul Joseph and his staff. One in particular Nir Kronenblat. They lie to you to scam your money.

Before joining any money making schemes do research on the company and try to check on how long the company has been in the business.

Do not fall prey on these work at home scams. Keep an eye out for these signs, and if you detect one, report it to the proper authorities right away. You not only need to protect yourself, you need to protect others as well.

Scammers make me crazy

I have written a more comprehensive article on the same topic on a new blog:

http://blogbuildingu.com/articles/blog-scam

So far bloggers have been seen as trustable, grass-roots type. I think a lot of people read us for this reason.

There should be a tool or blog that functions similarly to a neighborhood-watch that bloggers can use to report blog scams too… any takers :)?

Ciao for now,
Lilly