Hi ,
I'm not here so much as active Bitcoin user. The main motivation is that you guys may meet some of spammers and fraudsters I have seen around. One of the topics on this board I found by looking in Google with following search line:
11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA fraud 2012
I found, among others, a posting here (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=96774.0), referring to someone suspecting a scam operation being operated from that same address.
That address seems to pop up on several Whois-searches when I checked some spam mail distributors and other suspicious companies.
I have also found, that several companies mask the actual contact names in Whois-enquiries, supposedly for protecting them from harvesting addresses for spamming. They use a company WhoisGuard.com as an intermediate. Quite a "coincidence" that the address of that company "WhoisGuard.com" is -surprise- 11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90064 !
You guys here should be very aware of that particular fraudster. They seem to run all kinds of weird and likely illegal operations. Just look Google results for the same search I used!
Also - I happen to live outside U.S. and it is rather difficult to initiate investigations or file complaints from afar, especially because I have personally managed (at least until now!) avoiding of being actually defrauded by them. Maybe somebody here has not been so lucky? If you have documented loss due to any of the "companies" residing in that address, please file an official complaint! I have found at least one official complaint-site:
http://www.ic3.gov/faq/default.aspxI would love to see those guys put out of business and maybe even behind bars!
-poohbear