this was posted in the newbies forum - in case an yone doesnt look there i reposted here
I apologize in advance for such a long post but I think it will explain a few things. I would have posted in your main forum but I discovered I am limited to posting only here in the novice section.
On Thursday morning I started getting bombarded with lots of Facebook messages and friend request from a quite a few people that I didn't know. Like most people would do I ran an antivirus software scan thinking I had an FB virus or something. The next day I received three very strange rambling calls at my place of work and on the fourth time what sounded like a middle aged man made some statement about messing with people's money and that I probably shouldn't start my car from too close a distance. After the previous third call I activated our system's record function and the entire fourth call was captured. The SF police upon hearing the playback dispatched a bomb squad and determined the call to be a hoax after spending an hour examining my car, nonetheless a Felony Terroristic Threat charge is being investigated. All the detectives will tell me is that the phone number was positively identified to a person in another state and they are moving forward with charges via the FBI. That same person apparently acquired what they thought was my cell phone number but reached my 11 year old daughter instead. The things he said to her are beyond deviant especially when said to an 11 year old. A different police jurisdiction is handling that issue but it appears to be the same individual.
Earlier this morning Friday I accepted a friend request from one of the many received since Thursday and the person explained to me what was going on, pointed me to this forum and I have spent most of the day trying to grasp what a cryptocurrency program is and catching up on the history of this. After doing a little digging on the persona known here as BCX or Bitcoin Express and claiming to be a woman named Kaley Wu I possibly can shed a little light on this and hopefully convince you people that you have the wrong person and will voluntarily stop terrorizing me, my family and quit harassing my co-workers. My name is Dan Maddox, I am from San Francisco and I have two children, an 11 year old daughter whose mother died when she was 1 year old from an aggressive form Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and 3 year old son with my current wife.
Ten years ago before we were married my current wife, an Asian woman was stalked to the extremes by a guy she never met but had corresponded with a few times via email when she still lived in the Philippines. After this guy completely turned bizarre in his emails my wife stopped responding to him and he didn't take well to it. He sent more than 100 unanswered emails, but eventually he stopped. She didn't hear from him at all for almost two years till she started corresponding with me as apparently he was monitoring her emails because he had her password. This guy cyber terrorized us both after we were married from early 2005 to mid 2009. His name name is Paul Holcomb and he is from Punta Gorda, Florida originally. I have no idea where he lives now. This guy is a highly skilled network and security engineer so faking IP's, VPN and cracking security isn't an issue for him. He has a fixation with Asian women and has setup numerous Asian women profiles in the past to harass us. He has numerous times cracked our emails, Facebook and many other online accounts.
Mr. Holcomb's preferred method of terrorization is using the internet as a weapon. In 2009 only after legal action against his hosting provider was I able to get a blog taken down that was being penned in my wife's name and persona. Just like here on Bitcointalk Forum, it was a drawn out personal war against a passionate group of people that drew a retaliatory response in a very big way. He set everything up in mine and her name so it could be tracked back to us. This person has also posted on numerous anti-semantic and hate group boards as me and has triggered retaliatory responses from other groups in the past. It is happening again. In all cases above the police are unable to conclusively tie anything concrete to him so nothing ever happens. He was arrested in Los Angeles in 2009 but never charged.
Kaley Wu is a fake persona. Kaley Wu has mimicked my educational history as I did attend Baylor earning a Business Degree and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford. I am an Online Marketer, Adwords Specialist and I know squat about programming. I don't have the expertise to engage in crypto anything much less your program here.
This person as Kaley Wu has tried numerous times over the past year to get me to accept a friend request and I still had one pending, so I accepted it which allowed me to look around their account. I was able to see and screen shot this person's whole account. It is entirely mind boggling to the level this person has created a fake account with more than 80 friends that are indeed real people and seem to interact with her from time to time. Close examination of the wall history shows that no one knows her too well but chats with her quite often about the kind of things you would in a public social setting with nothing really too personal. I spent a lot of the day looking up all 85 of "her" friends and found 3 that I could tie back to this forum definitely and three others possibly. I will be contacting the three I identified via the private message function of this forum.
As someone who has an analytical eye and an outsider looking in, I am amazed that people as smart as you all are were so fooled by this person. Kaley Wu claims to have been one of the earliest coin miners but only registered on this forum in June 2011. Internet research easily shows bitcoins and mining have been around since 2009. Why a first time appearance in 2011 on the main forum? I spent all day literally, the last 14 hours of my life sifting through this trying to understand it all. None of it makes sense as to why this person is a pseudo celebrity here. Since Mr. Holcomb is indeed a highly skilled technical person I do believe that he has an interest in this, but when the relationship turned combative, he stoked it to the explosion point so he could further use it to harass me and my family. Paul Holcomb might have attacked your coins, but Kaley Wu sure as heck didn't. I have no idea where the several photos of the very pretty woman in her FB came from but I doubt her name is Kaley Wu. I certainly don't think this girl even knows about it.
I am asking you people to please stop terrorizing me and my family. One person is definitely going to jail. I can assure you that when a major city's police department responds with a bomb squad they're not going to drop it. When someone calls an 11 year old girl sitting in a public school summer program and threatens to rape her in the most violent way possible because supposedly her father was messing up there online program and the teacher listened in, that isn't going to be dropped either.
Of the three I have positively identified from Kaley Wu's Facebook, one of you lives in Miami and works for a Twitter Vendor, One of you works as an IT Sys Admin in Los Angeles and one of you works for Google. Two of the three possible identified lives in Melbourne, Austraila and one in Phoenix, Arizona.
Personally I would like for this to end right here. Please remove my personal information from the forum and quit harassing me, I did nothing to you. As a professional marketing executive with an MBA and a person that has quite a successful history with startups and major online companies I can assure you that this type of behavior being so well documented and Google indexed in a publicly accessible forum is powerfully devastating to your startup venture and will make serious investors run. Please don’t allow Mr. Holcomb to damage your program any further by tricking what I think is a good group of people into making silly mistakes in the heat of passion. Your anger is wrongfully misdirected and causing real world pain to innocent people.
I suspect since Mr. Holcomb's game has now been played and he has been exposed both to me and the community here, he will simply evaporate. That is his usual modus operandi. Once again I ask that this community here on the Bitcointalk Forum please leave and my family alone.
Sincerely,
Dan Maddox
San Francisco, California
daniel.maddox560@gmail.com
