Right, because the photo of fluffygrrl and erin pavlina so totally don't look at all alike ;-) And you so totally didn't own the domain name for the book spam or any of the other websites ;-)

I'm posting this here to support ongoing investigations into Martha Mcculler.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=77268.msg862174#msg862174

The first thing to know about this person is that she is psychotic. Or psychic. However you spell the word:

http://www.cigarsmokers.com/threads/9195-PM-SPAMMER-Erin-Pavlina
http://www.erinpavlina.com/about-erin-pavlina/

As Martha McCuller she owns about a dozen domain names each with different addresses. But based on the above page (look at the photo; it's her, hell yeah): https://www.google.ca/search?q=erin+pavlina&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ZTXDUJnmFZCamQX9jICwBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CD0QsAQ&biw=1440&bih=771

Who would have guessed that this asshole who accuses people of scamming is herself not only scamming people out of their assets on MPEX, but is a professional scammer (oops.. I mean, psychic).

No, really -- the more I look the more real scamming I see. I quote:
http://andrewlynch.net/2009/08/07/update-on-erin-pavlina-and-why-i-disagree-with-what-she-does-so-much/
"...Erin has $500 of my money and I am still wincing from the pain of being ripped-off by paying for one of her psychic readings. I wish I had done more research before I went through with it – the problem is that people paying psychics are vulnerable and really want to believe in this bs. Usually I am a rational person but I got totally duped by the false promises on her website. So I would be grateful if you would please publish this comment as a big warning to anyone thinking of buying a reading from this lady – DON’T DO IT!! It feels like rape."

and

"Erin uses cold-reading techniques to give the outward appearance of being a psychic medium, and all the content on her website and her blog is carefully constructed to uphold this appearance, as people will come to her already believing she is psychic, making her job much easier as a result, as they will mould what she says into something that fits their reality."

I do hope you're not serious. People sent you bitcoins and if you don't honor those shares you deserve a lot more than a scammer tag. The worst part is how you blame others for stealing/scamming in the same breath you state your intent to steal and scam yourself.

There are a LOT of investors on the lists I've recently gotten from GLBSE. If I have to tell people that they won't be getting X amount of bitcoins because of you, how do you think that's going to make them feel?

Oh, I notice Mircea changed his OTC rating for me from -10 to -1 and removed his libelous statements. Smart. Now don't fuck this up and you might actually get some good PR in the community for a change.

It almost certainly was a scam. Ian lied to his investors and misled them regarding his financial position with BAKEWELL and the fact he couldn't get his rigs working for more than a week. During that time he said he was mining, and he wasn't. BMF owns 423 shares of BAKEWELL -- we are one of the largest shareholders, owning 15% of the company IIRC. Ian is extremely hostile towards us. I've put his name on a scammer accusation which mods have said they will ignore. So the only other step is to sue him. He's posted his address and picture so serving him won't be an issue. I'm actually in contact with an Ontario Lawyer right now over an unrelated issue, I'll see if there's something he can do or if there's someone he can recommend.

Never forget that he bought property (computers) in Canadian Dollars and we can go after him and get the money back. The worst that would happen is that we show he owes us money in small claims court (anyone in Ontario can take him to small claims court) and they will put a lien on his car, property, etc. if he doesn't pay. They may even garnishee his wages at work. That slimy fuck won't get away with this.

When the time comes in just a week or two to go over the holdings of NYAN on MPEX such as satoshidice, bitvps and so forth, if you do not honor your claim you can bet your bottom dollar I will ensure every shareholder is aware of the fact you stole their money. You are going to have to honor your committments whether you like it or not.

During the investigation, LIMITED contact details should be posted, so that we can contact him and confirm what is going on. This will help a lot of people, including me, when it comes time to disperse BMF's 600+ shares of FPGAMINING. I have a claim on it which is worth over $3,000 US even at his reduced prices, and that's a shitload of money. I am not abandoning that claim and I am going to go after him big time, when the time comes. That time isn't here yet but I know a lot of people are in the same boat as I am. So let's pool our resources, find out WTF is going on, and THEN figure out what we are going to do (probably sue, since I think we know who he is).

Hi guys. Update time!

Tril has backed out of purchasing the guitar. It is a sad day.

In response I have sent the following letter to Butterfly Labs:

Dear Butterfly Labs;

Thanks for the previous update re: my order no. ####.

I still have order numbers ####, ####, and ####, the first two for {...} and the third for a {...}.

It's been a long time and while I realize there is a huge demand for these units, I no longer wish to purchase them due to what amounts to an act of god regarding my financial position. So I will make the following request, sil vous plais;

Please let me know if I can cancel those three orders and get a refund in bitcoins (I will provide an address), or please give me an approximate date when my units can be shipped. Thank you very much!

-----

I await a response. In addition I am now mulling the sale of the following equipment now:
- an as-new (refurbished due to a defective fan) 6950 video card (~330mh/s iirc)
- CoolerMaster Elite case & motherboard rig, decked to the max with red led fans ("mars" unit)
- CoolerMaster Elite case & motherboard rig, decked to the max with blue led fans ("mercury" unit)
- Vox VT15 2nd revision amp (had it checked at the factory, is in nearly-new condition)

I hate scrambling like this but it's pretty much my only option unless I get a quick response from butterfly labs.

C'mon guys someone take the guitar

Are you aware that misrepresenting yourself as an agent of Coinabul opened you up to being sued by them?

Are you aware that misrepresenting yourself as a Financial Services Professional is illegal in Australia? For example of what happens to even registered financial services professionals in Australia who engage in misleading and deceptive conduct please see:
https://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byHeadline/12-296MR%20ASIC%20bans%20financial%20adviser%20for%20failing%20to%20comply%20with%20financial%20services%20laws?opendocument

Look, don't you think this crap has gotten way, way out of hand? Why don't you just apologize to me for what you've said against me?

I didn't say I know more about bitcoin global than I do. That was your mistake -- you said I claimed to have access to the logs. I did not claim any such thing. I said I had access to the financial records, and I also explained to you how I got them -- from Theymos, as a bidder.

How so? BitcoinOZ started attacking me on the forums. His intent MAY have been to get out of returning shares to me, yes, but that's not my fault.

I don't suppose it helps to point out that random people walking in here and posting only serves to illustrate why I cannot ignore this and I have to fight it. Some people who should have known better have said some very irresponsible things recently...

Further to this, you are starting to show extreme hypocrisy. How dare you sit there and accuse me of blackmail, when you have black and white evidence that Ian Bakewell attempted to blackmail me in PM, for the sole purpose of defrauding CPA and it's customers? Why don't you go do something about that instead? I even made a post on the Scam Accusation forum about it. You said yourself that it has to involve financial damages. Well it does, and provable ones, from Ian's own mouth. Blackmail has specific provisions for this exact purpose in many countries (let's quote the flavor of the month; Australia this time): "a threat to publish attacks on a company calculated to lower the value of its shares" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail#Victoria.2C_Australia).

Do you realize what you have done here? The least of my complaints against you is that you are a poor moderator, and that you are.

You have shown bias, malice, and you have accused me of a crime. I would very much like an apology for the things you've said here.

"In common usage, blackmail is a crime involving unjustified threats to make a gain or cause loss to another unless a demand is met."

You just accused me of committing a crime. I therefore request a formal apology. Do you see how this works? It is not blackmail. Look it up. You accuse me of a crime... I ask for an apology... and so on. This is how it's done. That isn't blackmail. Please see (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_threat) specifically the following (which of course is just a non-official opinion, but is still interesting in light of the general level of legal knowledge you've presented here):


Effect of legal threat

For the most part a legal threat is of no legal significance other than a matter of negotiation tactics; however, in certain instances a legal threat does have some legal significance. Among other things a legal threat may do the following:

-- Establish notice - the party receiving the threat, and the party making the threat, are "on notice" of the circumstances and cannot later claim they were unaware.
-- Constitute extortion, blackmail, or some other crime or tort involving improper threats of harm: for example, it is considered unethical, and in some cases a crime, to threaten to report criminal conduct to the police unless a settlement is reached.
-- In some circumstances, a claim (veiled or not) that a party will take action based on alleged violation of the law gives rise to a right by the receiving party to bring an action for declaratory judgment that it has not broken the law: for example, if the holder of a trademark claims that a party is infringing a trademark, that party may bring suit asking a court to declare that there is in fact no infringement.


In particular to the above, (1) I have asked people to stop. (2) I have not threatened to report any criminal conduct. I assure you that all criminal conduct I am aware of is, will be, or has been disclosed to the proper authorities. There is no condition on this; Some people here are in serious hot water right now. Don't doubt that for a second Mr. Bear. (3) In line with what Deprived said; I am now free to bring suit against anyone to show that I am not, in fact, insolvent. Among other charges laid against me in these forums.

However, I have not said I will do so. No legal threat has been made -- not even a veiled legal threat such as mentioning a referral to council, or a cease and desist letter, for example. I've said nothing. Feel free to quote me on this. And yes I realize I am going up against a global moderator here. Which is what makes this case particularly important for both parties; you should quote me and explain why you believe I resorted to blackmail, or you should apologize. That is nothing but a personal request at this stage -- and I hope you do not treat it as irreverently as you have done my previous requests for you to stop making such statements. Do you see how this works now? You accuse me of something, I'm going to have to first ask you to apologize. You are being notified that what you are doing is not proper.

In addition to their legal significance, legal threats may create a number of practical results:

-- Intimidating a party into acquiescing to the demand, whether or not there is a legal basis for it, out of fear of litigation expense, negative publicity, loss of entitlement (e.g. losing a business license), or other negative consequence
-- Alerting a party to illegal conduct it was unaware of, or that it did not realize was illegal or objectionable
-- Risking public disclosure of the threat, thereby portraying the party making the threat in a bad light (see the Streisand effect)


I particularly note item #2, that if you were not aware that (accusing me of blackmail) was illegal, YOU HAVE NOW BEEN MADE FULLY AWARE. And, all I'm asking for is an apology. Get it?

"Burden of proof refers most generally to the obligation of a party to prove its allegations at trial." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_burden_of_proof

If BitcoinOZ has evidence of a crime, he should probably go to the police.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-hollis/3b/6a3/880

So you didn't claim to be a Marketing Executive at Coinabul? That's odd.


In the post above you said I had the wrong linkedin profile. So that's not you then? David A. Hollis? Of Victoria, Australia? Who is a member of the bitcoin community? And has worked for Coinabul?

Why would Coinabul sue me because you misrepresented yourself as a Marketing Executive who is still working for them, and who is a Financial Services Professional, when the truth is you were an unpaid intern for around a month last year, and you currently work in a restaurant? They're not going to sue me.

Please. Just apologize for what you have said about me and leave me alone. Do it in PM if you won't do it in public, then leave me alone.

Huh?

Repentance, your bias is showing.

I did not claim I had access to any shareholder meeting logs in that chat. Read the chat he posted more carefully. I said I had access to the financial records. Why did I have access to the financial records? Because everyone did. Theymos sent them to everyone who bid on his shares.

I don't really care, I just want an apology and I want the smear campaign to stop. If you admit that you don't actually have any evidence that (for example):

a) CPA is/was ever insolvent *(do you have the financial records?),
b) I have created preferential shares of CPA / I have scammed shareholders of CPA or BMF by selling a single *(do you have proof that BMF or CPA had clear ownership that single, or do you have material evidence disputing the statement it was personally owned?)
c) any other instance such as where you called the existance of the CPA liquidity loans into question

If you can just give me an apology for what you said and then stop, I won't have any complaint here, I will forgive you, and will not pursue this matter any further in any regard. I really do not want to be in this thread right now so let's just close it okay?

http://www.animalnoises.com.au/animal-noises-articles/1992/11/28/unstable-killer-jailed/
"David Albain Hollis, 20, allegedly roamed around Meadowbank in August last year, making animal noises as he stabbed people. According to medical evidence, his mind was abnormal."

FWIW. Yes, I did things in my life I was not proud of. I've even lied about my age, as you appear to have just done. And yes, my past follows me, as you yourself have attempted to shove down my throat.

But I wish to make a statement, sir. In my past, I stood up for what I believed in. I said what I felt was right. Okay, maybe I was wrong. I grew up a little and I can admit that now. But if now, 10-15 years after the fact, I have to put up with anonymous tormail garbage saying things like 'usagi also used the name renli in the past therefore he is a scammer', then I am willing to live with that because I had good intentions and I didn't actually wrong anyone. And hey, the truth is, I paid my dues in the martial arts community. When someone puts in the time, be it piano playing, martial arts, chess, an olympic sport, whatever -- I believe one should "respect the uniform if not the man". So why don't you just let it be?

It's a sad comment that some people are so mentally deranged they would take something like the tormail letter or whatever, and try to use it as evidence in a smear campaign against me. Or something like that catchy song you keep posting. But that is life. I accept my past. Do you accept your past?

Tell you what. If you apologize to me about what you have said, if you admit that you were making mere accusations, that you had no evidence, etc. then I will forgive you. Immediately. I give you my word and stake my reputation on that promise.

Please stop lying about me. I said, as you quoted:
<usagi> I have access to the financial documents of bitcoin global from that time.
<usagi> I don't see anything about a laptop.

As a matter of fact the financial records were sent to me by Theymos in PM. Why? Because they were sent to all people who were bidding on Theymos's shares. When I saw the financial records from GLBSE that he sent me, and GLBSE shut down, I pulled my bid. So that is how I got the financial records from that time. That makes what I said very very easily provable because so many people outside Bitcoin Global have access to that information. Out of respect for Theymos I will not publish the documents.

Second, this is not helping you. Are you really:

a) telling us where the evidence of your wrongdoing is (in the bitcoin meeting logs, which I had never mentioned as the source of my information)
b) accusing me of having that information?

I mean what? How does that help your case here at all?

The entire point of this thread is a witness to your character. Why? Because as I have shown I believe you are falsely accusing me of committing several crimes, you have denied or ignored requests to stop, and the forum mods here are not willing to perform what has become a clear obligation out of what appears to be six of malice and a half dozen of apathy.

I cannot stand idly by and allow you to accuse me of committing a crime (which is in and of itself a serious offense). Do you understand now why it has become relevant if you are a convicted murderer or not?

Unfortunately for you, you are not an anonymous jerk on tormail who says illogical things like "usagi is also known as renli, therefore SCAMMER". We have to live in a world where people may hate us for our past. On rec.martial-arts I stood up for what I believed in. I wasn't always right but I had good intentions and I believe I was unique in my field because I was one of a very few people who put the work in to try and figure out what tai chi was about. I considered myself a sort of scientist or explorer, testing old claims. Let's just say, I believe I was able to inform my final conclusions regarding Tai Chi. I doubt you would be interested in the story. I merely mention it to say that if your past is going to haunt you... make it for something you believed in and something you wanted to stand up for. In that sense, in a way, I don't mind the trolls. Even the anonymous tormail trolls who lie about me.

But I didn't get drunk, take a knife, and make animal noises while stabbing and killing innocent people.

In 1992, the Sunday Morning Herald published a quote by David A. Hollis in an article entitled "Unstable Killer Jailed":

"I know it is hard to believe, but to all those people I hurt, I just want to say I am sorry. It really was such a terrible thing to do."

I am one of the few people who can actually have empathy for someone who was in such a position. So please. Don't make this any worse. Please just admit what you did, if you did it, and leave me alone -- stop lying about me, stop accusing me of committing crimes, in short order change your character, because the developing story is that your character stinks.

Sir;

I could not resist pointing out that literally the very post you made before contains the sort of mistake you are now criticizing Augstocroppo for. It's kind of funny that you would criticize someone for a simple and obvious spelling mistake, right after you had made one yourself...