[fahid11]

FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!
FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!

VOIP THIEVES - PREMIERVOICE.NET - BE CAREFUL OR YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!!! THEY ALSO GO WITH UNION DATACOM

JASON WATTS
BRIAN WATTS
MICHAEL FAULKNER
BILL HANEY

ALL THE ABOVE NAMES PEOPLE ARE VOIP THIEVES FROM PREMIERVOICE.NET. THEY ARE THESAME CROOKS WHO STARTED THE NOW DEFUNT COLO4VOIP.COM AND RIPPED PEOPLE OFF. THEY SHUT DOWN THAT OPERATION AND ARE NOW STEALING UNDER A NEW NAME. THEY THINK THEY RAN OFF WITH OUR MONEY, BUT BE ASSURED WE WILL DEAL THEM A BLOW THAT WILL MAKE THE MONEY NOT WORTH IT. THEY ARE CRIMINALS WHO SHOULD BELONG TO PRISON CELLS AND NOT FREE ON THE STREETS. THEY SCAMMED US OFF OF $5000,


GOD ALONE KNOWS WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO OTHER PEOPLE. BUT I WILL PERSONALL MAKE SURE I PUT AN END TO THIS OPERATION.

HERE IS THEIR CONTACT DETAILS BELOW. I AM DOING A PERSONAL BACKGROUND CHECK ON ALL 4 OF THEM AND WILL POST ALL THEIR PERSONAL DETAILS ONLINE AS SOON AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE.


WEBSITE: http://www.premiervoice.net
OWNER: Michael Faulkner
Co Thieves: William Watts, Bill Haney and Jason Watts

MORE ARTICLES ABOUT THIS BASTARDS:
http://jgoenar.blogspot.com/2007/07/...-customer.html

Read the above article...its funny how the idiots threaten others with legal actions for none payment, whereas what they did to us is outright theft. What a bunch of dweebs. I think someone has to teach these needle heads a lesson and we will be that someone.

FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!
FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!FRAUD ALERT!!!

[mpowervoip]

Here is the link:

http://jgoenar.blogspot.com/search?q=premiervoice

[PremierVoice1]

At Premier Voice we take great pride in the level of support we provide to our customers and we consistently strive to be a good customer to our vendors as well. But despite our best efforts, the company has recently incurred a series of extremely unfortunate events. These events were not only entirely beyond our control, but were impossible to have predicted in advance even with the most imaginative worst case scenario planning. Since this disaster, we have been diligently working to stabilize the company. Sadly, our best efforts have not been good enough and we have come up short.

The recent events have led to a board decision to shut down general operations in order to reduce expenses to the absolute minimum possible. While our staff works through these issue, our executive management team is doing everything in our power to secure funding to offset the severe impact these events have had on our cash flow.

We can assure you, nothing is more important to our company than maintaining our relationships with our vendors and we are working night and day to make this possible sooner rather than later, with great commitment from our staff and a select group of supporting vendors.

I’d like to extend my sincerest apologies and I speak for our full staff when I say that nowhere in our ”worst case scenario” planning did we ever consider such a disaster to be possible. Be assured that we will go to great lengths to make sure this set of circumstances can never occur again.

That being said, I fully understand that in spite of our many problems as a company, that doesn’t change the fact that we owe you money that we have not paid. And I say that with no idea who you are, or what we may owe you for what, so let this apply to anyone that we owe a dime to for anything. If you extended our company you accepted a certain level of risk, as we do when we extend credit to our customers. In addition to other problems, we made a bad credit approval decision, a few select clients took advantage of holes in our billing system, and we were taken for a ride. We did not have the cash reserves or the margins to cover our losses, so we have been unable to cover our vendor invoices thus far. Combined with a colossal credit card processor meltdown, and endless series of technical problems, we’ve just had a lot of bad luck in a very short period of time.

We’ve ran the company for several years, we’ve had many happy clients and vendors in that length of time. We are by no means a fly-by-night operation, but I understand it certainly seems appropriate to scream fraud anytime you don’t get paid. It’s no doubt cheaper than hiring a collection agency. However, as we try to get funding to get you guys paid, as we try to get our processing limit raised by our processor, and get them, to release funds they are holding in a surprise “security deposit”, can you logically see how self defeating it is to scream fraud in a public forum? Do you think that is going to somehow help us get you paid? Is getting that off your chest really worth $5,000?

Additionally, mpowervoip is an ex-employee with a whole separate reason for being pissed off and yet an entirely different flavor of self-defeating behavior both personally and professionally. You can all say whatever you want, but I did the best I could with not a whole hell of a lot to work with; we can’t find good technicians, we can’t find engineers, we’ve been ripped off by vendors coming and going, and frankly I personally think this is the absolute worst industry in existence.

I’m not looking for a shoulder to cry on, and I am not here to blow sunshine up your ass, and you can glue your caps lock key down and type till the cows come home. It doesn’t change the fact that if we owe you money I am the only one that stands a chance in hell of getting this ship sailing again until it can at least get our vendors paid off. And if I pull that off, I am certain I won’t get a medal or even a thank you, in spite of the fact that bigger companies sink every day owing millions. Instead you have singled out the employees of a corporation to personally persecute for fraud, when we in fact are only in this situation because we got ripped off to begin with. And that gentlemen is the vicious circle that makes this industry what it is today, and why the big telco have no fear of the little VoIP companies.

Mike Faulkner, CEO
Premier Voice - Better Business VoIP

[fahid11]

Faulkner:

You are the most ridiculous bastard I have seen or heard in my life!!!!! Do you really thing the BS you put up here is for 1st graders??? YOu are such pin headed moron. YOo "experienced a series of unfortunate events"!!! And those events caused you to steal from others too? Well, you think we forgot about you. You will be hearing from the courts in Texas very very soon. Hang on and put on your seat belts for the beautiful ride. You will be seeing a lot of us soon.


[quote=PremierVoice1;110938]At Premier Voice we take great pride in the level of support we provide to our customers and we consistently strive to be a good customer to our vendors as well. But despite our best efforts, the company has recently incurred a series of extremely unfortunate events. These events were not only entirely beyond our control, but were impossible to have predicted in advance even with the most imaginative worst case scenario planning. Since this disaster, we have been diligently working to stabilize the company. Sadly, our best efforts have not been good enough and we have come up short.

The recent events have led to a board decision to shut down general operations in order to reduce expenses to the absolute minimum possible. While our staff works through these issue, our executive management team is doing everything in our power to secure funding to offset the severe impact these events have had on our cash flow.

[fahid11]

The idot says he has been ripped off by others and whines about how bad the industry is. Well, dude, some one rips you off does not mean you go out there and rip other innocent hard working people. If you dont have the brains to make this business work for you, then get the F**** out of it and go sell used cars or flip burger. Your level of reasoning so out of this world it make me just want to roll over lauging . You are such a **** head.

[fahid11]

Man:

Were do I start with this idiot. You are the moron who I saw on one blog literally INSULTING a customer!!!! What happened to customer service? How old are you dude? 13, 14? You ask whether going public will ever get us paid? No, when we drag your pale asses to court, then you will pay up. What will get us paid? You fake employees Brian Haney and the rest claiming on IM they know nothing about the bill? So what should we have done that we did not do? Leave message number 200 on your phone system that is s tied to voicemail 100% of the time?

Dude drop the crack cocaine and clear your brains before coming out here and posting garbage for the world to see how much of a dumb ass you are. Its plain and simple. You and your gang in Dallas are a bunch of thieves. Simple as that. You try to pass yourself off her as some victim, but then claim you are not looking for a shoulder to cry on. Its plain and simple, you are no different that the little pick pocketer on the streets. You are a little thieve. Simple as that. So quite all the crying. I am not done with you.

[voip200934]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/200...ta-centers-ra/


Premier Voice and Michael Faulkner the CEO was raided for fraud!

The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses.

The raids were part of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T and Verizon about unpaid bills allegedly owed by some data center customers, according to court records. One data center owner charges that the telecoms are using the FBI to collect debts that should be resolved in civil court. But on Tuesday, an FBI spokesman disputed that charge.

"We wouldn’t be looking at it if it was a civil matter," says Mark White, spokesman for the FBI’s Dallas office. "And a judge wouldn’t sign a federal search warrant if there wasn’t probable cause to believe that a fraud took place and that the equipment we asked to seize had evidence pertaining to the criminal violation."

In interviews with Threat Level, companies affected by the raids say they’ve lost millions of dollars in equipment and business after the FBI hauled off gear belonging to phone and VoIP providers, a credit card processing company and other businesses that housed equipment at the centers. Nobody has been charged in the FBI’s investigation.

According to the owner of one co-location facility, Crydon Technology, which was raided on March 12, FBI agents seized about 220 servers belonging to him and his customers, as well as routers, switches, cabinets for storing servers and even power strips. Authorities also raided his home, where they seized eight iPods, some belonging to his three children, five XBoxes, a PlayStation3 system and a Wii gaming console, among other equipment. Agents also seized about $200,000 from the owner’s business accounts, $1,000 from his teenage daughter’s account and more than $10,000 in a personal bank account belonging to the elderly mother of his former comptroller.

Mike Faulkner, owner of Crydon, says the seizure has resulted in him losing millions of dollars in revenue. It’s also put many of his customers out of business or at risk of closure.

The raids are the result of complaints filed by AT&T and Verizon about small VoIP service providers whom the telecoms say owe them money for connectivity services. But instead of focusing the raid on those companies, Faulkner and others say the FBI vacuumed up equipment and data belonging to hundreds of unrelated businesses.

"If you run a data center, please be aware that in our great country, the FBI can come into your place of business at any time and take whatever they want, with no reason," Simpson wrote.

Faulkner and others say that the FBI agent who led the raid, Special Agent Allyn Lynd from the Dallas field office, warned them not to discuss the raid with each other or with the press.

But a 39-page affidavit (.pdf) related to the Crydon raid provides a convoluted account of the investigation. It alleges that a number of conspirators, some of who may have connections to Faulkner, conspired to obtain agreements from AT&T and Verizon to purchase connectivity services with the telecoms. Several documents used to provide proof of business ownership and financial stability were forged, according to the affidavit. For example, the affidavit claims that one of the conspirators named Ronald Northern sent AT&T a bill from Verizon to show that he had a history of paying for services on time. The bill was allegedly forged with Verizon’s logo — which the company is claiming is a trademark infringement — and that the corporation number the conspirator used actually belonged to a different Verizon customer.

Northern could not be reached for comment.

The affidavit claims that Faulkner, Northern and others committed mail and wire fraud, criminal e-mail abuse (stemming from separate allegations of spamming), criminal copyright infringement and criminal use of fraudulent documents. The affidavit mentions several companies that Faulkner has been connected to including, Crydon, Premier Voice and Union Datacom.

But mixed in with these allegations is a separate tale that hints at the larger story behind the raid. AT&T and Verizon say they’re owed about $6 million in fees from VoIP service providers who used servers that were co-located at Crydon and the other data centers. The telecoms claim that these VoIP providers used up more than 120 million "physical connectivity minutes" without paying for them, and that attempts by AT&T and Verizon to collect on the debts proved fruitless.

"Based on my investigation and that of AT&T and Verizon," writes Special Agent Lynd in the affidavit, "I believe individuals associated with Lonestar Power and Premier Voice defrauded AT&T and Verizon out of hundreds of millions of minutes of physical connectivity service and significant revenue by means of the submission of false/fraudulent credit information and other false representations."

Faulkner, who was a part owner of Premier Voice before selling it about a year ago, acknowledges that Premier owed money to AT&T at one time — though he says he’s not certain it was for interconnection. He says that debt was assumed by the new owner when he sold the company. Either way, he says, this would be categorized as corporate debt, not fraud.

"There’s a big difference between stealing money and owing money," he says.

He says he often invests in troubled companies that are carrying debt when he buys them.

"Usually you settle the debt," he says. "But AT&T never contacted me about owing money. Verizon never contacted me."

Faulkner says the two telecoms have used the FBI to seize equipment to obtain evidence through a criminal investigation instead of pursuing the companies through civil litigation and the discovery process. And instead of targeting the investigation specifically at the VoIP companies, he says the FBI swept in everyone who had servers in the same place where the VoIP servers were located. As a result, all of Crydon Technology’s equipment was seized, as was the equipment of numerous businesses that had the bad luck to own servers running out of Crydon’s facility.

"They’re destroying more and more customers and it just doesn’t seem to make sense," Faulkner says. "They’ve done a horrible amount of damage and have been so barbaric in the way they’ve shut things down. If they just picked some random guy off the street to do this investigation, he could have done a better job than the FBI did."

Among more than 300 businesses affected by the raid on Crydon were Intelmate, which provides inmate calling services for prisons and jails and had about $100,000 in equipment seized in the raid; a credit card processing company that had just become PCI compliant and was in the process of signing on its first customers; Primary Target, a video game company that makes first-person shooters; a mortgage brokerage; and a number of VoIP companies and international telecoms that provided customers with service to the U.S. through servers belonging to a separate company Faulkner ran called Intelivox. These customers essentially lost connectivity to the U.S. after the raid, Faulkner says.

Faulkner says the FBI appears to have assumed that all the servers located at Crydon’s address belonged to him, and didn’t seem to understand the concept of co-location.

The seized data included transactional records for companies, which means the companies won’t be able to bill customers for services already rendered before the raid.

"All of our clients will have to refund their customers, and we’re in the hole now to refund our customers," says Faulkner. "I could tell the FBI agent had never even considered that. He just said, ‘Well, that’s your problem.’"

The owner of a credit card processing company who had servers at Crydon says he lost about $35,000 in equipment in the seizure, and that the survival of his company is at risk until he secures a new location. He asked that he and his company not be named because the company is in the process of securing business partners to launch its processing service. He fears that news about the disruption to his business operation could lead potential partners to avoid contracting with him. To keep his launch on track, he’s had to purchase about $32,000 in new equipment.

He said when he tried to explain to an FBI agent that some of the servers that were seized belonged to him and not to Faulkner, the FBI agent implied he was lying.

"We were treated like we were criminals," he said. "They assumed there was no legitimate business in there."

In addition to the transaction servers taken from Crydon’s facility, he also lost telephone service for his company after the FBI raided Core IP, which housed a business that was providing his company with VoIP.

FBI spokesman White says the equipment seizures were necessary.

"My understanding is that the way these things are hooked up is that they’re interconnected to each other," he says. "Company A may be involved in some criminal activity and because of the interconnectivity of all these things, the information of what company A is doing may be sitting on company B or C or D’s equipment."

White says the FBI is working with affected companies to provide them with copies of seized data they need to run their businesses.

"It’s not that we’re doing nothing to assist them," White says. "We’ve repeatedly asked the companies to call and provide us with the information we need so we can get the info they need back to them. It is a time-consuming process."

The owner of the card-processing company, however, says the FBI has been "completely unresponsive" to the needs of Crydon customers caught up in the raid. An agent gave him a fax number to send the FBI details about the equipment that belongs to him, but the fax number didn’t work. Then, he says, the agent in charge took a vacation.

"They were all unavailable after they effectively seized all of our equipment," he says.

An agent told the customer that no equipment would be released until agents could determine if it was used in criminal activity. And if it was used for criminal activity, it wouldn’t be released until after a trial.

"Our equipment could be there indefinitely," the customer said. "There’s been no due process…. I consider this to be an issue for anyone owning a data center right now. That they have this much power and can take anyone just because your equipment is inside a facility…. They’re supposed to limit their search and seizure to the owner of the equipment."

Faulkner says he’s managed to replicate mail servers and some functionality for some customers and is building up new business resources elsewhere — this time offshore in Panama, Mexico and Canada, where the FBI would have trouble seizing servers in the future. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has contacted him to investigate the FBI’s possible violation of due process.

Faulkner says when he visited the FBI’s office after the raid, he found numerous cubicles stacked full of servers seized in other raids that were waiting for someone to examine them. The irony, he says, is that in the case of his servers the data was all hardware encrypted.

"It would take a lot of NSA time to crack just one of them," Faulkner says.

Many of the allegations against Faulkner are based on claims from an unidentified informant who told the FBI that he used to work for Faulkner, and witnessed many criminal acts Faulkner committed. The witness told authorities he was "unaware of any legitimate business being run by Faulkner and that as far as he/she knew all of his income was derived from his illegal activities." The informant also claimed Faulkner used crack cocaine and methamphetamine and engaged in commercial spamming.