mBlox and Zamano still stealing; Phonepayplus still letting them get away with it

[mike99]

Recent adjudications and reviews

The Tribunal did not impose an additional fine in respect of the service provider's breach history, in view of the service provider's current compliance activity.

You could not make this up.

[silentgenius]

Amazing - even though mblox accounted for 75% of the published adjudications! The spirit of Andrew Budd lives on....

[El Gringo]

Information Provider IMS Limited

Service Provider Zamano Limited

Summary

PhonepayPlus received over 130 consumer complainants in respect of a service, which provided a facility to make phone calls or send text messages, for a 'bundled' fee of £12 per month for calls and £3 a week for texts.
The majority of complaints related to unsolicited messages sent by the information provider to numbers purchased from a third party supplier. The subscription element of the service appeared to be unclear in the promotional messages received on the complainants' handset.

IMS Limited ?
http://smstcs.com/

The Service is promoted by Rubberduck Consulting Limited (“RDC”) who are the owners of all data relating to the Service.

http://markets.ft.com/ft/tearsheets/...e.asp?s=UK:NPT
COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Netplay TV Plc, formerly Stream Group plc, provides interactive gaming, gambling and mobile telephony services to its customers. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it operated two principal classes of business, interactive gaming & competitions, and mobile telephony services. Its subsidiaries include NetPlay TV Services Limited, NetPlay TV (UK) Limited, NetPlay TV Broadcasting Limited, Abstract Games Limited, NetPlay TV Mobile Limited, Mobileworkflow Limited, NetPlay TV Trustees Limited, MChex Holdings Limited, GB Promotions Limited, Stream Telecommunications Limited, NetPlay TV Leisure Limited and NetPlay TV Gaming Limited. In March 2008, the Company acquired 7,600 mobile quiz game subscribers from Rubberduck Consulting Limited. In April 2008, Netplay TV Plc completed the acquisition of Bingos.com.
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http://www.bingos.co.uk/?sourceid=501106
So don’t delay, join bingos.co.uk and enjoy our great online bingo games

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...s_/ai_n8706423
"We are excited to be one of the first online games to cater to the three million people that regularly play Bingo in the United Kingdom," said Enrique Dubois, representing Global Gaming Entertainment of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4397308.stm
no thanks!!!
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so why doesn't PhonepayPlus refer these cases to the ICO ?

[Hamlet]

Bingos.com is sold to Monstermob?
Oh my God.
Mr Gavin Roger Whyte
http://www.netplaytv.plc.uk/netplayt...pe=news&ref=78

"Mr. Whyte is currently a director of the following companies:
...
Rubberduck Consulting Limited"

see
http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/s...uck#post207548

we are moving in circles, knowing too much. They are doing business as usual. Nobody cares.

Who sold Bingos.com to Netplay?

Bingos.com is owned and operated by Global Gaming Entertainment, a registered company located in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

whois bingos.com

Quantum Factory SL domains@peweb.com +34.971439800
Centre Empresarial Son Espanyol
Palma de Mallorca,Islas Baleares,
ES 07121

Ctra. Valldemossa KM. 0007,4, 07120 SON SARDINA
(That's north of Palma de Mallorca)


.: Denominación: NETPLAY TV SPAIN SL
.: Domicilio Social: CALLE PARC-ED ESTEL CENTRE EMPRESARIAL SO,
.: Localidad: 07014 PALMA ( BALEARES )
.: Teléfono: 971439800
.: Fax: 971439800
.: Forma Jurídica: SOCIEDAD LIMITADA


it's really true... I can't get it...
a circle is complete.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS5...08+RNS20080317

About Bingos.com

The business is owned by Global Gaming Entertainment N.V. and Euro Gaming Ltd
and operated by Quantum Factory S.L.

???
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/386/467

Jesper Mortensen

Newbiz Media Koch, Matthias
Newbiz Media Mortensen, Jesper

Newbiz Media -->
http://archiv.mopo.de/archiv/2004/20...818388366.html
(German)

This is about a police raid in Hamburg, Germany related to a case with 170,000 vistims in Germany. The said mastermind of that case doesn't want to be mentioned here. It's the danish Godfather of Dialler Fraud, former Telecom-One director from Hong Kong.

I am quite sure that Jesper was - for a short time - the director of KDJ - Media GmbH in Hamburg (Germany). KDJ are the names of the people behind the company.

TMS GmbH D***, Richard (director of Solidus Media, Vision Communication, earlier with IBC Danmark)
TMS GmbH D***, Georg (The D in KDJ?) (said to have been a close friend of Matthias M* who was sentenced on parole and was one of the targtes of the Hamburg police raid)
TMS GmbH H*, M* (related to Georg D)
TMS GmbH Spr*, Bodo M. (coowner of Solidus, see The Premium Rates Old Boys Group)
TMS GmbH Th*, D* (coowner of solidus)


In those old days TMS used a domain that was registered to a certain Worldwide Venture Ltd in Hong Kong.
Director: Bertrand Folliet.

I still have no words.
Maybe Penman could find some. He knows Alex Robson

[Hamlet]

The acquisition is being funded by way of a conditional equity placing of
40,000,000 new ordinary shares at 15 pence each. Martin Higginson, Executive
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NetPlay, has conditionally invested
£1,987,500, taking his total interest to 25.64 per cent.* of the enlarged share
capital. In addition, Zed Worldwide (Zed), the Spanish mobile entertainment
company, has conditionally invested £1,987,500 giving them an interest in 11.2
per cent. of the enlarged share capital. Furthermore, conditional investments
have been made by Gartmore Investment Limited and Schroder Investment Management
Limited of £1,425,000 and £600,000 respectively. After the issuing of the
placing shares, Gartmore is expected to hold 8 per cent., and Schroders 10.6 per
cent., of the enlarged share capital.



do you remember this?
http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/s...548#post207548

There is an answer out there. I still don't have it. I possibly never will. But the answer could be found. Mirror investigative could find it. Or BBC. Or the NHTCU. Or the district attorney of Bonn, Germany. The last is still looking for an answer, as far as I know. Not in the UK, not in BVI. Only in Duesseldorf. What a pity.

[El Gringo]

"mBlox and Zamano still stealing; Phonepayplus still letting them get away with it"
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/consu...udications.asp

The following cases were heard at a meeting of the PhonepayPlus Tribunal on 6 November 2008. The full adjudications will be published on the PhonepayPlus adjudication database in due course.

so ok
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Information Provider IMS Limited>>>>>>Zed/Monstermob

Service Provider Zamano Limited

The Tribunal considered the case to be significant and issued a formal reprimand and a fine of £25,000
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Service Provider mBlox Limited
Information Provider Info-Download Limited>>>>>Zed/Monstermob

The Tribunal considered the case to be serious, issued a formal reprimand and imposed a fine of £40,000.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...html?t=1293307
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http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigat...ripl.html#more

[Hamlet]

There have been anonymous reports in Germany that Lanetra/Zed was billing people illegally, but the story never had an update. It was buried.

Monstermob... So it seems as if we are talking about the same network that was involved when the Tortola companies have sent their illegal texts about "prizes" that have been won? And they have bought bingos.com from the other gang?
Mob = Mafia.
It's a mobile mafia? A mobmob?

[AnthonyC]

Amazing - even though mblox accounted for 75% of the published adjudications! The spirit of Andrew Budd lives on....

Originally Posted by silentgenius

75%?!? Three quarters?!? Crikey! Someone's not vetting the companies they deal with very well. How much does that add up to in fines? Probably a drop in the ocean for them, I'd wager!

I'm still waiting for their bloggers relations event their PR promised was in the works (back in September). Not holding my breath though...

[Hamlet]

75% of what? I think silentgenius does not mean all adjudications. MBlox is in the Top Ten of adjudications in 2008, for sure.

[Hamlet]

[offtopic - Netplay TV/Quantum Factory]

Netplay TV Spain SL = Quantum Factory SL

they have a website
www.qquantum.com

The whois is funny

Registrant:
Quantum SL +34.971438377

1. Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca [=Mallorca Railway]
Ctra. Valldemossa S/N, 07120 SON SARDINA
Telefon: 971438377

Quantum is a marketing and technology company, pioneer in the electronic commerce sector, offering profitable solutions to advertisers and marketing departments in order to obtain a higher return on their investments.

And their phone office is in a railway station???


And another interesting whois: bingo.de

http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossi...rue&go1=Submit

German domains need an admin in Germany.

Here it is:
Lidia P*
c/o visium Medien GmbH
Willy Brandt Allee 31b
23554 Lübeck

Lidia P* is possibly a relative to Theo P* from peweb.com in the Netherlands.

That's one of the reasons why you find that name in the domains of other companies, too

for example

Middleton Holdings, Don Road St Helier Channel Islands on hipp-pc.com where one could find lovely rogue diallers from the Danish Dialler Mafia.
Jokomo Media
Digital Web Media (--> Hamburg court case, run by M*S*P* from Mallorca - the smiling flyer)
Comet Media Ltd

Of course this could be coincidence. But it isn't.

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I KNEW IT

Quantum Factory SL is now known as NETPLAY TV SPAIN SL and was formerly known as...

B-57161366

=

PREMIUM MEDIA COMMUNICATION

This is unbelievable...
http://www.parliament.the-stationery...t/51219w12.htm

Rogue Dialling

Mr. Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make representations to British Telecom on not holding consumers responsible for telephone charges due to rogue dialling; if he will introduce legislation to protect consumers from the effects of rogue dialling; and if he will ask the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information to re-open an investigation of the role of premium media communication and other companies in rogue dialling. [33181]

Alun Michael: The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS) has put in place a prior permission scheme for Premium Rate diallers. This makes it possible to assess the dialler software to be used for proposed services, and if appropriate to prohibit their release. The independent regulator for electronic communications, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), is currently consulting on extending this scheme to enable ICSTIS to take action against any rogue dialler irrespective of the telephone number or call charge used. Implementing a recommendation from Ofcom's Report into the Regulation of Premium Rate Services, this Department has just increased the maximum fine for breaches of the ICSTIS Code, and ICSTIS intends to review its sanctions policy early in 2006. ICSTIS has also put in place a key recommendation from the report to slow the money-flow to those that abuse the premium rate services charging mechanism. This obliges telecoms companies not to make payments to premium rate service providers for at least 30 days after calls have been made. This gives ICSTIS more time to identify breaches of its Code and enables ICSTIS to direct telecoms companies to withhold funds pending the outcome of investigations.

As ICSTIS has not had any complaints since May, Premium Media Communications may have withdrawn from the UK dialler market. However ICSTIS plans to write to this company shortly to give it notice of the withdrawal of its licence to operate diallers. This means that no phone company can give Premium Media Communications premium rate numbers for dialler services.

The Office of the Telecommunications Ombudsman (Otelo) is the appropriate body to make representations to BT on consumer disputes about telephone charges due to rogue dialling, and regularly contacts BT about specific cases.

I'm amused.

[Hamlet]

It's history... but...
if any UK victims of dialler fraud wants to see the guys that made the sites with the fraudulent diallers

here we go... (W* O* V* B*, of spanish/dutch nationality is still with Quantum, he was also responsible for domain management - this may explain the fact that most of the danish-spanisch domains are registered in the Netherlands)

http://www.linkedin.com/in/waldito
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/...onlinecvs.html
http://www.mola.com/backup/onlinecvs.html#

On his mola.com he says that he is renting the domain

Can I use mola.com for anything?
Please avoid Porn, Spam, or Phishing. Think that if you don't use it forever, others will. And an obscure past makes the domain less attractive.

The attractiveness of an obscure past - strange that he gives a damn f* about it...
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another one... What is "International lines management"?
http://www.linkedin.com/in/auroramerinosalas

[AnthonyC]

I'm amazed these guys boast about working for/running/owning those companies on LinkedIn.