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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

By Cho Jin-seo

Google, the world’s third largest Web site by the number of visitors, may go head-to-head against a 24,592nd-ranked South Korean site in a tiny but potentially damaging lawsuit.

The U.S. Internet giant was accused by Humor University (Utkin Taehak), www.humoruniv.com, a popular Internet community site which mainly carries humorous articles, of not paying the Korean site for having Google’s advertisements on its Web site for two months.

"Don’t trust Google," says a banner on the Web site posted by Lee Jung-min, operator of Humor University, which claims to have some 400,000 visitors everyday. Lee said he will file a lawsuit against Google, supported by the rising anti-Google sentiment in Korea’s Internet society.

"First, I planned to sue Google’s Korean office, not Google’s headquarters, because of the financial matters of going through an international lawsuit," Lee said. "But I have changed my mind after talking with reporters here since yesterday. They all encouraged me to sue Google U.S.A., and I will do so as soon as possible. Money is not a problem here."

Google’s AdSense program allows Web site owners to enroll and have Google’s advertisements on their sites. The owners receive a service fee on a per-click basis. According to Lee, Humor University signed up for the program on Oct. 12 but was never paid. It was notified of the termination of its contract on Dec. 16.

Lee said that he was supposed to receive a check of around 20 million won, but only received an e-mail from Google saying that it terminated the contract because it spotted unnatural behavior in the Humor University’s Web site which seemed to raise the number of clicks.

Lee also revealed the e-mail correspondences between him and Google’s advertising department in the United States, in which Google refused to give evidence of the violation of the contract, saying it is its "corporate policy to keep secret how the detecting system works."

The Humor University’s Web site has been flooded with negative comments about Google from its viewers. Also, there are a few claims that there are other Web sites, which were treated in the same way by Google, deserted after running Google’s advertisements.

Google couldn’t be contacted Wednesday, but its public relations representative in Seoul said that it is waiting for action by headquarters.

"AdSense is operated by a computer algorithm, not by humans," said Kim Ji-sun, a manager at Hoffman Agency. "Google’s Korean office has nothing to do with the case as it is only a sales branch. We are currently waiting for answers from the advertising department in the United States.

AdSense’s contract states that it may suspend or terminate the program at any time at its sole discretion when subcontractors violate the program’s rules. However, Humor University’s Lee insists that there was no such violation, such as use of an automated clicking tool, or encouraging its members to click on the advertisement.

"We never used such attempts to raise the number of clicks on the advertisement. So I suggested Google look into the matter with us and show us the evidence, but they simply refused to do so," Lee said. "I tried my best to solve the problem, but they never tried theirs. I think they are just waiting for everything to calm down, thinking it is just a surprise event or something like that."

Google has been preparing to expand in South Korea beginning last year, and has been interviewing candidates for the chief of its Korean affiliate since the summer.

The company is also hiring high-ranking managers who will operate Google Korea. Currently, it has only a few sales representatives in its liaison office in Samsong-dong in southern Seoul, while most of its Korean services such as the search engine, e-mail and advertisement are all developed and managed at its headquarters in the United States.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/retail/instantcheckmatecom.html

For 248 complaints against checkmate.com click on the above link.

If you've ever wondered who exactly is behind those obviously scammy flashing ads that pollute so many Internet pages, check out this lengthy, well-written, piece in the Atlantic profiling the career of “Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet.”

Here's the super-short capsule summary: turns out it's very easy to get very rich very fast, if you combine cleverness with a complete lack of qualms about deceiving people. That said, as the Atlantic pointed out: though Willms has been successfully sued multiple times and forced to pay multiple massive fines, he's never been charged with any actual crime.

At first glance Willms appears to be an entrepreneurial genius; He dropped out of high school (with his mother's reluctant permission) because classes distracted him from his part-time online business selling used Microsoft software, which was netting him vastly more money than most successful adult professionals make.

Willms became a Lamborghini-driving multimillionaire before his former classmates even finished high school — and by the time he turned 18, Microsoft slapped him with a massive lawsuit, charging that the “used” software he sold was actually pirated.

So Willms lost his first fortune, but quickly made another via tacky Internet ads selling alleged “weight-loss pills” and the like. However, the bulk of his profits came not from the initial sale of various products, but through sleazy billing schemes.

"Risk-free"

According to a lawsuit the Federal Trade Commission eventually filed against him, between 2007 and 2011 Willms made over $460 million by offering “risk free” trials of various products — with massive charges hidden in the fine print. Customers who thought they were getting a free sample of something-or-other wound up paying hundreds of dollars in subscription fees, and the process to cancel them was so difficult, many customers had to resort to canceling their credit cards altogether.

So how in the world has Willms never been charged with any criminal violations? Basically, by revealing his true intentions in the fine print. As the Atlantic noted:

It’s hard to counter Willms’s attorneys when they point out that his terms were right there for consumers to peruse. Screen captures from the FTC’s files show that Willms often placed the details of his offers next to where customers entered their credit-card information. If people neglected to read up on what they were buying and simply clicked through—just as we all do every day, when Apple or Microsoft presents us with a new novel-length list of terms and conditions—was this Willms’s fault or the customers’?

So far, this argument has proven effective at protecting Willms fron criminal charges. Besides, criminal charges are rarely brought in consumer cases, which tend to be treated as civil matters.

Even if you never buy things advertised through Internet ads, it's worth reading the entire Atlantic piece in order to educate yourself about various tricks Willms used to keep his scams going as long as he did. For example, the secret subscription fees he added to customer's credit cards were usually in small, irregular and ever-changing amounts, the better to escape notice:

Adding to the challenge was Willms’s practice of charging random dollar amounts for the hidden extras—$7.22, $2.97, $3.34—that would look like legitimate purchases. According to the FTC, these irregularly denominated charges were some of Willms’s biggest moneymakers, because consumers either assumed they were genuine or didn’t know to be wary of them.

We know, you've heard this a thousand times already, but we're going to repeat it anyway: you have to be scrupulous every month when checking your credit card bill, and make sure every single line item listed is one you recognize as legitimate.

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Chapter 3

Mom and Son have a heart to heart talk

Madam Chessman stood up from behind her desk to greet her 13 year old son, Sid.

--Hi Sid, pull up a chair to my desk.
--Hi Mom. What's, up?
--It looks like some of your old tricks are up again.
--What are you talking about?
--You know what I'm talking about. Detective Thompson just paid me a visit to tell me how you and your friends are busting into people's houses when they are away on holidays and looting their stuff.
--Does he have any proof of that?
--One of your boys got caught shoplifting and they asked him where he got his bike. That opened up a whole can of worms. If you know what I mean.
--He told them about our old shed behind the house where your Crime, Inc. kept their loot. I took him back to the shed and opened the door for him. There it all was, all the junk on his list of stolen items. We lucked out because Thompson is such a good customer of mine. He said if you made a complete list of all the guys in your gang along with personal details about each one of them he would go easy on you.
--When do I start writing the list, replies Sid.

Thus we have the beginnings of CHECKMATE.COM

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Sid Chessman age 5

Chen's notes on Sid Chessman continued:

Chessman grew up in the shadow of his mother's Las Vegas brothel. From the ages of 5 to 12 he ran errands for its clientele, mostly buying many rolls of paper towels and later beer and cigarettes.

His mother boasted to him that his father was a chessmaster and had made many checkmates. The word "checkmate" was to stick in little Chessman's brain till he was 45 when in the prime of his life he formed his nebulous internet company, "checkmate.com." The second word in his internet company probably came from hearing his mother shouting to her customer's, "Why haven't you come yet?"

At the age of 13, Sid Chessman formed his first non-internet company, "Crime, Inc." Along with his other young cohorts, Sid would study the comings and goings of his more reputable neighbors. Since the temperatures soar up to 3 digits in the summer, many Las Vegans head for cooler parts, thus leaving their homes unattended for weeks at a time. By hook and crook Sid Chessman with his other Crime, Inc. members acquired bicycles, TV sets, watches, jewelry, and even cash in their nightly forays.

In the halcyon days of the early seventies, the shed which stood behind Mother Chessman's brothel swelled with the ill gotten gains of Crime, Inc. But the progress of that shed was soon to be "arrested" by the one lone rat who was to turn in Crime. Inc by squealing to the authorities, none other than Sid Chessman who performed the first checkmate of his criminal career.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Just Answer!
Who is Sid Chessman?

From a Chinese informant to the FBI:

Sid Chessman is God's only mistake. Some say a Freak of Nature. He has criminal record long as Orangutang arm. He is Owner and President of InstantCheckmate.
He is only one who work there.

Some people call Las Vegas Sin City. I think he live there. His mother had a bad house since vice is okay in that city. Some say Sid was bully in school. Other say he was bullied.

Some say Sid is very, very ugly man. Girls throw up when they see him. As matter of fact Sid is idiot. He never play chess let alone make checkmate. He hardly knows how to play checkers. Sometimes people see him in homeless shelters trying to play dominoes. He always ends up throwing dominoes at people.

Sid inherit mother's fortune. He use money to buy Google Ads. Adsense people love Sid Chessman. They get lots and lots of money from him.

Some people say he uses his billions of ill-earned money (Me get that phrase from FBI Handler) to embarrass and Humiliate. We in China are experts at humiliating people because we are not Christians. Our friend in North Korea just kill honored uncle. We still honor memory of Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tsung. Sid Chessman stay up nights still reading the Little
Red Book.

Many, many people complain about Instantcheckmate.
Thank you for letting me tell you little bits about Sid Chessman.

Mr. Jordan, I glad to write for you more entertaining stories about Sid Chessman.

Sid Chen

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Comments on checkmate.com

Enrique Escalante

2 days ago

DONT USE THIS SITE ITS A TOTAL SCAM. yes they do have a nice website, very convincing i must say. However they do not provide more than you could find on yellow pages, and it seems that when you try to reach customer service its always busy (i think they have monkeys running it). Also the payments go through your credit card without your consent, meaning that you will get charged 30-50 dollars a month without even signing up for it. Dont do the trial since thats where they get you. All of the comments that are giving this site good REP are users made by this company as well as the guy in this video. Their latest scam is posting jobs on craigslist and asking to bring a printed copy of your bg check to their interview, an interview that doesnt exist,

Brian Craig

1 week ago

PLEASE NOTE: SCAM / AVOID
This site is a scam. I researched and found many complaints: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/retail/instantcheckmatecom.html
Mostly over billing and not getting refunds properly. Please avoid. Don't be fooled by their Ad. I read most reviews, people have found the information they received from Instant Checkmate are not accurate and more hidden charges as you try to download the reports. These are not listed on their terms and conditions. SCAM / AVOID SCAM, AVOID

Lbfent2

1 week ago

I used this service to get more details about someone that I KNOW had been incarcerated for months two different times in the last couple of years. This service only had very general details about smaller crimes that were over ten years old and NOTHING about his recent activity. It didn't even register his two year old marriage. Wasted money.

munchkin10014

3 weeks ago

I searched my name there and it had a red exclamation mark next to my name. What's that supposed to mean? I'm not a criminal. It seems like misleading hogwash to me.

Josias Quintero

1 month ago

How much do I need to pay for this website and is this website false?

Angelmods

1 month ago

BULLLSHIT DON'T PAY FOR IT, IT'S A TOTAL SCAM AND THEY CHARGE YOU 22.00 AND A 1.99 FOR A PDF FILE AND THEY GIVE YOU NOTHING AT ALL BUT THE PERSONS DOB AND ADDRESS.

Jeseabell

2 months ago

Instant checkmate is a total scam do not pay for it. I paid for it cause it said the person I was looking up specifically had graphic and shocking information and the report had no information. It is a scam

Faenxsanct

2 months ago

in reply to Instant Checkmate

fuck off! glad i read the comments on this video before trusting you website.

popocatel007

8 months ago

Excellent.Deserves a 5/5!

Xantheus07

7 months ago

Instant checkmate is BS, they are a rip off my brother got it cause he was filing for his permanent firearms license but he needed to know his criminal history. So he subscribe to them and paid the 22$ did the search and nothing turns up he was in jail 3 years ago for misdemeanor possession. He also has a few DUI chrages but NOTHING shows up. Dont waste your money these guys are con artist all the ask for is your first last name age and address.

Xantheus07

7 months ago

in reply to Xantheus07

Do yourself a favor and just go to your local police station and get your history report.

That's extremely odd that he had some false claims... maybe someone with the same name and the system got mixed up??

It wasn't false claims. He had been arrested before but the site said he was clean.

ntploan0016789

8 months ago

just better then me fucking awsome

realQ007

8 months ago

Thank you, Ive got a debt of favour at you ( i dunno i spelled it correctly but im from Singapore).

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