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Beware the Lawyers
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You will notice should you look closely that the link posted about FBI investigations is actually on Brad Haskins very pretty site.
But, on the main "ask a lawyer" page it says it will charge $10 up front for any family law questions............
Ok, so... we have a guy that runs a very pretty webpage, and in the "who we are" page it brags Google lists it first...
Mainly because persons 6-8 on the list are top gun Internet Technology specialists... Nothing to do with law services quality.
He also has a "Lawyers click here" button on his main page that goes to this:
"Lawyers - Affiliate Program
WORLD Law Direct is the leading provider of U.S. and international legal solutions on the Internet. Every day, thousands of individuals, small businesses and large corporations come to us for information to help solve legal problems.
Join our team! Our affiliate program includes attorneys with the highest standards and demonstrated commitment to client service; we’d like to hear from you. We’ll help direct individuals and businesses to you and give you a terrific platform from which to meet and develop relationships with clients who will value an attorney like you.
We are the only site on the Internet that guarantees you will work for new clients provided by us.
Please contact us by email with your name and/or firm name, address and telephone number (and any other information you would like to include). One of our representatives will contact you to discuss a plan that fits exactly what you’re looking for--we would enjoy having you as part of the team here on the world’s premier legal solutions website.
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TIP: Outsource your international law matters to WORLD Law Direct and serve your clients' needs in 26 countries--24 hours a day!"
So, basically a referral service for lawyers... Do not even imagine that Mr. Haskins will touch this case even in passing.... it will go nowhere near his desk.
Notice, Sue Miller/ for Brad Haskins ???
GO TO THE SITE!!! REALLY THROUGHLY READ IT. MR. HASKINS MAY IN FACT BE THE BEST THING SINCE WHITE BREAD BUT IT IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE LAWYER YOU ACTUALLY GET FROM HIS SITE WILL BE WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN LOW GRADE FERTILIZER.
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How about this folks...
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Hi greenmile,
I never post in forums, but this time I've decided to brake my rule.
It's about Brad Haskins. I found him about three and a half years ago in a situation very similar to one we are having now with SI. I can tell you that I am still waiting for his help. Yes, he called me couple times but the most valuable his advice was to show the money I lost with scammers as my business loss when filing taxes.
He told me exactly the same things about General Attorney and FBI getting involved, and about how slow it was going to be because of the International matter of the case, blah, bluh, bluh...
I paid them and what I've got for my money was a few two-line emails from his associates telling me how difficult it was to track that company.
I wouldn't rely too much on his help now.
I believe that SI has some links to Russia. I hate to admit it because I am originally from Russia even though I live in US for almost 10 years by now. Do you remeber a lot of confusion with different e-gold account numbers in old e-currencyforum.com? Back then Sosa told us that those were his partners accounts and that the money had been returned right back. I highly doubt that. By the way, most of the owner's names on those accounts were Russian. Maybe that means nothing or maybe not...
Anyways, good luck to you and to all former SI members
Kolobok
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Look carefully at Brad Haskins site and all you see is a electronic ambulance chaser...
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I do not by any means say that consulting a lawyer about possible actions is a bad thing. Should this all drag out too long I may consult one myself.
What I do say is this Haskins fellows web site smells to high heaven. Seems he was the only one posting about the FBI's intent to inquire into anything... even the FBI hadn't posted it yet amazingly enough. In the news services this is called making a story instead of reporting it.
I think if you all seek council you should do it based on bar association recomendations... not on who has the highest score on Google.
Haskins record is impressive on the face of it all, but I doubt he would handle the case himself unless it looked extremely profitable to HIM.
He is looking to recover our initial investment capital, but what if the available moneys exceed out initial investments? What if there are profits? Would WE get those, or would they be "held in trust" for "un-named investors". In other words, were there profits to be had, would we be intitled to recover those too?
Just some things to think about...
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As I said in previous posts, all you can expect to get back is a portion of your origional investment, less fees if you use these lawyers.
Should there be profits, you will see NONE.
That, and you have to give them power of attourney to act in your behalf. Is is revokable? Does giving them this power allow them to accept any deal without your aproval (answer is yes)?
So, question really is, as it always was... do you want to take a chance and actually see profits... or do you just want at best 66% of your origional investment back.
My profits are 20+ times my origional investment. I think that makes it quite obvious what I am currently doing.
You let these lawyers have their way and all SI has to do to satisfy your debt (even if they completely pay out the rest of us) is settle for sending back your origional investment to these lawyers. The lawyers will be able to claim complete success, and then send you the origional investment less their cut. SI will then have extra funds with which they can pay a tidy bonus to all investors who did not get lawyer induced settlements.
In my opinion, though it may sound harsh, that is what you have comming. If you could not stand to lose the money in what is obviously a high risk investment you should have kept it in the bank. Takes balls to win, and none to lose.
Read carefully below how you sign away your personal rights to profit and abillity to represent yourself and THINK before you do business this way.
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Many of you have given us information regarding your anticipated profit payments from Solid Investment, calculated based on their promised rate of return. You should understand that the promised interest rates were merely an enticement to lure you into making an “investment,” and that the Solid Investment operation did not generate and was not capable of generating these kinds of returns. (Indeed, we believe the operators simply diverted the bulk of the investors’ funds to their own pockets.) Therefore, although we will work hard to locate and recover as many assets as possible, you should not expect to recover any “profits.” If you have not done so already, however, we do need you to calculate your total net loss, that is, the total amount you invested, less any payments you actually received. (If you have already sent us that information, you do not need to do so again.)
Finally, we will send you, by separate e-mail, our Power of Attorney agreement that authorizes us to represent you in your claims against Solid Investment. If you have any questions regarding this e-mail or the Power of Attorney, please feel free to send them by reply e-mail. We will do our best to respond as quickly as possible, keeping in mind the high volume of such e-mails we are receiving.
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More past postings
==========================fifth post
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PCsByBob wrote:
If SI shows up and proves to the court that they are legit (I believe they had 30 days) the lawyers will get nothing!
Whether SI shows up or not will be a good barometer of if they are coming back.
Are the 30 days up yet?
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Unfortunately not true Bob. Those poor folks who sign over a power of attourney to a lawfirm give them power to settle cases for them. That means that the lawyers can take any offer SI makes, take a cut, then call it a day.
This would make SI's obligation to that account holder legally paid in full without recourse.
Were I SI, I would call the lawyers, settle the suits, and ask for the account names in a itemized manner. I would then bar those account holders, and pay out all the other members with a % bonus based on what I didn't have to pay out to the members who sued and just got back their initial investment. It would be a good lesson for them.
As a Belize registered corporation, I seriously doubt they would have to respond to a US Federal Judge's order in any case. I doubt they would respond unless actual funds were somehow frozen within US borders.
We have heard here that their e-gold accounts are empty (as they should be, since to invest you have to actually transfer the cash), so the only US accessab,e funds (as we saw from last Decembers raid of e-gold) are not available.
So, if as also alleged, they have russian/russian federation banking accounts or some other like St. Kits which the US cannot leverage.... these lawyers may as well be shouting into the wind for all the good it will do.
Lawyers like to think they are all powerful, and also prefer we all believe it is true. Fact is they are not even close, especially internationally, otherwise KNOWN african, asian, and old soviet block frauds would be shut down by legal branches of all the major credit card companies and jailed. This isn't happening. At best the credit card companies have issued warnings, or partially blocked access from these countries to minimize their exposure.
Uniclear is a great example. They were scammed out of lots of e-gold by asian buyers who after the non-reversable transaction occured then challenged the charges through Visa. The crooks got the e-gold, and uniclear had to eat the chargebacks. So, now they have refused to sell e-gold. E-gold for them is now a one way street, they only allow funding from e-gold. This was their only viable recourse because it was international, even through the names of the perpetrators was well known through Visa records.
Shoot, Amnesty International with all their resources can't even get you sprung from jail overseas for a traffic violation unless the international press raises a stink about the case, and then only if the country you are jailed in actually cares about bad press. Most could care less.
It is worse with business. These countries make considerable money from international business sheltering within their legal borders. They register ships to avoid safety and insurance issues. They set up tax haven bank rules and corporate structures to lure money into their banks. They do this not to be the US governments friend, but to survive in a US government international welfare state with some dignity and independence. So, the thought of them giving a rat's butt about some US courts decision is laughable. If they allowed US courts any jurisdiction, a large chunk of their international business would just evaporate.
So, more food for throught on the lawyer front.
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Quote from 1intheknow:
Schadow43,
touche'. great work and you saved me a lot of time. i just recieved a copy of the power of attorney agreement last night and i thought it was comical.
i spent 12 years in a civil action suit, so i am very familiar with the documentation and this is garbage.
Just think about how they will feel when the posts start coming of payments recieved for 'ACTIVE" MEMBERS of SI and their accounts are closed.
sweet will be the feeling while we will still be earning and they will be yelling scam or bannering every forum trying to get 200 bucks together to get taken again.
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Those poor folks who sign over a power of attourney to a lawfirm give them power to settle cases for them. That means that the lawyers can take any offer SI makes, take a cut, then call it a day.
This would make SI's obligation to that account holder legally paid in full without recourse.
Were I SI, I would call the lawyers, settle the suits, and ask for the account names in a itemized manner. I would then bar those account holders, and pay out all the other members with a % bonus based on what I didn't have to pay out to the members who sued and just got back their initial investment. It would be a good lesson for them.
As a Belize registered corporation, I seriously doubt they would have to respond to a US Federal Judge's order in any case. I doubt they would respond unless actual funds were somehow frozen within US borders.
We have heard here that their e-gold accounts are empty (as they should be, since to invest you have to actually transfer the cash), so the only US accessab,e funds (as we saw from last Decembers raid of e-gold) are not available.
So, if as also alleged, they have russian/russian federation banking accounts or some other like St. Kits which the US cannot leverage.... these lawyers may as well be shouting into the wind for all the good it will do.
Lawyers like to think they are all powerful, and also prefer we all believe it is true. Fact is they are not even close, especially internationally, otherwise KNOWN african, asian, and old soviet block frauds would be shut down by legal branches of all the major credit card companies and jailed. This isn't happening. At best the credit card companies have issued warnings, or partially blocked access from these countries to minimize their exposure.
Uniclear is a great example. They were scammed out of lots of e-gold by asian buyers who after the non-reversable transaction occured then challenged the charges through Visa. The crooks got the e-gold, and uniclear had to eat the chargebacks. So, now they have refused to sell e-gold. E-gold for them is now a one way street, they only allow funding from e-gold. This was their only viable recourse because it was international, even through the names of the perpetrators was well known through Visa records.
Shoot, Amnesty International with all their resources can't even get you sprung from jail overseas for a traffic violation unless the international press raises a stink about the case, and then only if the country you are jailed in actually cares about bad press. Most could care less.
It is worse with business. These countries make considerable money from international business sheltering within their legal borders. They register ships to avoid safety and insurance issues. They set up tax haven bank rules and corporate structures to lure money into their banks. They do this not to be the US governments friend, but to survive in a US government international welfare state with some dignity and independence. So, the thought of them giving a rat's butt about some US courts decision is laughable. If they allowed US courts any jurisdiction, a large chunk of their international business would just evaporate.
So, more food for throught on the lawyer front.
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Re: Beware the Lawyers
I unfortunately invested in Architects of Wine as well--you can google that fiasco.
World Law Direct lawyers took about two years, and I thought it would never end, but I did get the invested funds back. And new arrests of culprits involved were made even this month in that fraud. Now i wait for SI funds to come back. World law said on the site that e-gold would be indicted months before they were, and named e-gold as accomplices. And now it has happened. Have to hope and believe that that is a first good step to eventually tracking them down as well. Also remember you are not paying for the legal services against the solid investment crooks, and it is a public service of World Law Direct, so I have to be thankful for that. I am on retirement and certainly could not be paying out big legal fees.
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Re: Beware the Lawyers
I would like to know who was arrested in the Arch of Wine fraud and how you got your money back?
Since I too was ripped off by those scam artists and after 4 years, Mr Haskins has been unsuccessful in retrieving any of my money. He has chased Middlemiss half way around the world, but the guy is broke or has all the assets well hidden.
Thanks, grass
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