[ I have written a series of posts about the "pay the storm" bugaboos. I call it "The Stormpuke--Stormpay Story: Getting to the Heart of the Matter in Posts" . You can get it here. This nightmare is ongoing with no end in site. ]
Let me start off by posting the following amusing comment I got from a reader that sums up the nightmare so far:
"This whole StormScam thing is getting to be like one of those bad dreams we've all had, where you can't wake up. The longer this goes on, the more absurd it becomes, and the more ridiculous SP and Mr. personsky are looking. I'm just hoping that the Truth will prevail in the end, and SP's little (?) house of cards comes tumbling down BIG TIME!!!"
Well, it looks like maybe more than cards will tumble, as I am hearing reports from those claiming that paypal is involved in this nightmare as well. No surprised reaction from me, as I know how to connect the dots.
Someone is claiming that ABC news reported Stormpay admitting to holding $50 million dollars that belong to the 300,000+ (and growing) members of the 12dailypro site. I can't say if that statement is true or not, as I don't watch much tv these days. I have dust mites to prove it, LOL.
I already have a part of "part 5", as things are getting interesting in nightmareland. I will have that up in a little bit. Meanwhile I leave you with an angry letter to TPTB [the powers that be] in tennessee I found on 12dailypro's forum about stormpay:
Letter to Consumer Affairs in TN
I wish to lodge a complaint against Stormpay - an online money processor located in TN...
Their unsavory and what seems to be illegal practices, is affecting Thousands of consumers. As a member of 12dailypro, which is an advertising/surfing site that has been up front and honest with all it's members, has paid on or before time, ALL the time...was suddenly given an ultimatum to use ONLY Stormpay as their processor, or lose all the accounts. (Talk about monopolies...that is like Coke going into a store and telling them they can only sell Coke, or nothing at all!!)
Since 12dailypro had 75% of it's members using Stormpay for funding, 12dp was left with NO choice but to comply, and had to get rid of EMO...another choice for us to use as a processor (and this AFTER Stormpay put out a 'deal' for it's members to 'join' a so-called 'third party verification system' (NetIBA), and we paid $19.95 to join that to obtain reduced fees, only to find out there was NO 'third party' but that NetIBA is indeed owned by Stormpay! That is deceit...lying to it's customers for 'gain'...) You can see on the bottom of this mail that I had joined in order to save on the exorbitant fees charged by Stormpay (was 6.9% of any monies earned - joining reduced it to 2.9% - so Thousands of us 'joined' NetIBA - I can only imagine the millions Mr. Girsky made off that little deal!)
Shortly after the deal for lower fees, Mr. Girsky 'decided' to freeze 12dailypro's accounts, once they had changed under duress, to 'only use Stormpay' and had their members join NetIBA...claiming he didn't know what the 'business plan' was!! That is pure BUNK! He knew from the get-go what the business plan was! The Lies, and deceit boils down to what appears to be a Money Grab on the part of Stormpay using false pretenses to get the monies put into their account! (If anyone wants to see the Due Diligence done on 12dailypro, they can go to www.future4me.com and read the extensive research done on this surfing program! Listed under 'Already Verified programs'.)
12dailypro is not the only advertising/surfing business to be caught in this trap...many are affected, and this was done with NO prior communication, consent, or warning! How can this be 'legal'?? Then Stormpay commenced to do 'chargebacks' without telling anyone of that intent, and so the businesses involved have no way of knowing who had monies returned, or whose funds were put into the 'frozen accounts' etc...
This is a dastardly and deceitful dealing not only with the businesses involved, but also to all the members who have lost monies...I tried to get into my Stormpay account to delete it, and after getting rid of my Credit Card information, which I managed to delete the CC info, but could not delete my banking information! The next thing I knew, Stormpay was pilfering people's personal bank accounts! Taking funds with NO warning, or communication of intent! Adding insult to injury!
One can try to label 12dailypro and some of the other honest sites out there (and YES, many ARE scams, but not ALL are...a few really are on the up and up...and we all KNOW that one does not use funds they need to pay rent, or buy bread and milk!...There is tons of information out there telling folks not to invest any more than they are willing to possibly lose! However, one did not expect to lose their funds to Stormpay!)
12dp did not rely on people joining to fund their program...but had other means besides gaining members to operate their business - yet all the lies and inuendos flying via the press etc., are in essence trying to blame the programs for their apparent money grab, to cover their own tracks of what surely appears to be a rip-off of innocent members funds, via any method they can use to grab them!
I also noticed that even though I left approximately $40 in my Stormpay account, that they arbitrarily zeroed my account out, as they had thousands and thousands of others! So much for Trusting that outfit! Everything was operating smoothly until Stormpay pulled this stunt. 12dp didn't rob us of our monies...STORMPAY DID!!! And still is! Pilfering our accounts and even reaching into personal bank accounts without our knowledge...GADS...how blind can people be???
Since when is it legal for a payment processor (that is NOT even a bank or other Federal organization etc.) arbitrarily take it upon themselves to do this to their customers, behind their backs, without giving any reason whatsoever??? And after asking us all to pay to join a 'front' called NetIBA, claiming it is a 'third party' verification company, only to find out Stormpay's owner is also the owner of NetIBA...take all our 'membership' monies, THEN...out of the blue, freeze and delete all accounts?Huh
Surely there are thousands upon thousands of us all wondering what is going on here...something definitely is not 'right'...people are being pilfered and robbed, it seems, by a payment processor we had trusted!
So I am lodging this complaint, for myself, and in sympathy with all those who have inexplicably had their funds 'vanish' without warning or reason...
Sincerely,
sugarplum
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