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A tip left by "GUEST" on pastebin:
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Main LibertyReserve Founder:
Name: Arthur Budovsky
Corperations: B-To-B Marketplace, Liberty Reserve, Gold Age, ECSN, MonsterEscrow
Addresses: 3053 Ave U #143, 50 Brighton Beach, 1961 28th Street, 2106 Bath Ave #115
City: Brooklyn
State: New York (NY)
ZIP: 11229
Phones: 718-288-3300, 718-265-9354, 718-382-5319, 917-690-8126
Emails:
xss5@mindspring.com,
seelen@neurophonic.net
Main LibertyReserve Co-Founder:
Name: Vladimir Kats
Corperations: B-To-B Marketplace, Gold Age , Liberty Reserve
Address: 3053 Ave U #143
City: Brooklyn
State: New York (NY)
ZIP: 11229
Email:
vkats@ultinet.net
Arthurs Roommate was a founder of LibertyReserve:
Name: James Bell
Corperations: Liberty Reserve, MonsterEscrow
Addresses: 773 East 73 Street, PO BOX 940538
City: Brooklyn
State: New York (NY)
ZIP: 11220
Phone: 718-468-9391
Email:
xss7@yahoo.com
Another roomate of Arthurs had a relationship in Liberty Reserve:
Name: Anthony Hawkins
Address: PO BOX 940538
City: Rockaway Park
State: New York (NY)
ZIP: 11694
Email:
seelen@f-m.fm
LibertyReserves Costa Rica Failover Puppet:
Name: Ahmed Yassine
Alajuela, Costa Rica
Phone: 506 8462868
Email:
business@libertyreserve.cr
Another Costa Rician Puppet:
Name: Allan Garcia
Santa Ana, Costa Rica
Emails:
business@libertyreserve.cr,
xrayboy777@yahoo.com
Budovsky was also behind gdcaonline.org, EXCHANGEZONE.INFO, EXCHANGEZONE.com
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I disagree on Bell and Hawkins, I believe both names been used by Budowsky himself in various registrations.
most places contact information of those points to Budovsky himself.
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Bell was apparently a separate person, but he ran Gold-Age for a while. Apparently he's Budovsky's figurehead
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James Bell, who is he? The search has returned us to the far 2002 when Ragnar Danneskjold has interviewed James Bell who appeared to be new CEO of Gold-Age.com who had bought that business from its former owner Parker Bradley. (
http://www.planetgold.com/interview.asp?SPID=91334475). However it is impossible to view this page at the moment as the link is dead.
Here is just a part of the interview:
The sale and re-birth of Gold-Age
Monday, April 22, 2002 Interview with Gold-Age.com new CEO, James Bell, and former CEO, Parker Bradley, conducted by Ragnar Danneskjold, editor - Planetgold.com.
planetgold: Today, Planetgold is pleased to interview James Bell, of Gold-Age (
www.Gold-Age.net)
planetgold: The three of us are sitting here, in Albany. This is a closing for the sale of Gold-Age. Welcome, James and Parker. Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed.
James: It's my pleasure!
Parker: Same here.
planetgold: So what's the deal here with Gold-Age?
James: I am acquiring Gold-Age from Parker Bradley. Thank you for bringing us together and brokering the arrange
One more interesting finding: the AboutUs.com wiki also contains the same Liberty Reserve/Gold-Age.net contact number for Asianagold (
http://www.asianagold.com/ ) with Anthony Hawkins as a contact person. Asianagold is an exchanger exchanging e-gold, Pecunix, Liberty Reserve, e-Bullion, 1mdc, and WebMoney. Don’t you find this list a little bit familiar?
Libertyreserve. Scam Or What? Whom Do You Trust You Money?
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I still insist it's still Budovsky,
about Interview, would not it look strange if CEOs of 2 different companies giving interview to the same guy just 1 month apart used the same name ? :)
look here: p l a n e t g o l d
http://www.realscam.com/attachments/...rview_2003.jpg
There was never any Bell or Hawkins in court documents in connection to GoldAge, their address are PO boxes, but phones and emails always of Budovsky
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Oh, this gets better. Apparently Vladimir Kats goes by alias of Ragnar Danneskjöld (a character from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged), who is also the owner of PlanetGold! (the same source suggests this, offered little if any proof)
WOW, the same source also alleges that GDCA, the exchange association, was merely a front setup by Kats and Budovsky to lend credibility to themselves.
donotlink.com/lrscam.blogspot.com
Which seem to be copied news and posts from dreamoneyteam forum and various news items.
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NikSam
I still insist it's still Budovsky,
about Interview, would not it look strange if CEOs of 2 different companies giving interview to the same guy just 1 month apart used the same name ? :)
If the allegations (see above) is true, the interview is fiction and there are indeed no Hawkins and Bell. Which means Budovsky will be charged with identity theft plus various other crimes.
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kschang
Oh, this gets better. Apparently Vladimir Kats goes by alias of Ragnar Danneskjöld (a character from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged), who is also the owner of PlanetGold! (the same source suggests this, offered little if any proof)
WOW, the same source also alleges that GDCA, the exchange association, was merely a front setup by Kats and Budovsky to lend credibility to themselves.
donotlink.com/lrscam.blogspot.com
Which seem to be copied news and posts from dreamoneyteam forum and various news items.
Indeed its is funny.
2 scammers using different names and interviewing each other multiple times as different persons :)
About gdcaonline.org i already said it is Budovsky's as well as EXCHANGEZONE.info
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And this is just freaking interesting,
guess who was the first original owner of EXCHANGEZONE.com ?
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and guess who was first owner of perfectmoney.com ?
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exchangezone.com was confirmed to be run by Budovsky and was also shutdown together with LR
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Around the same time Liberty Reserve’s website went offline, so did the sites for several other digital currency exchanges, Krebs added. They include asianagold.com, exchangezone.com, milenia-finance.com, moneycentralmarket.com and swiftexchanger.com.
Would not it be funny that Liberty Reserve is Budovsky's and Perfect Money is Kats's ? ;)
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That doesn't necessarily mean anything. Eurobox apparently is well known in the Internet world as a "domain kiter" (i.e. they register expired domains then ransoms them back to the original owners for a fee)
Is this some kind of a joke or what ? - NamePros.com
They also act as domain proxy registrar.
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This is claimed CEO/Founder of Perfect Money - "Andrew Draper"
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URL: Andrew Draper, Perfect Money: "
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Absolutely hilarious comment found on TG forum.
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"It would be great time for Club Asteria to launch an e-currency. Everybody needs reassurance, and presence of a former World Bank executive at the board would just do that."
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Neither Google Image Search nor TinEye brought up any relevant details. That's the ONLY picture any one has on him. And it appears to be in a bar, not an office.
I enlarged the picture and played with gamma a bit. The picture is way too dark, and brighten it up revealed they are indeed in a bar or cafe of some sort. I don't recognize the object to the left of him.
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I think it's looks like a restaurant car of a train.
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some of Budovsky's exchangers sites which were also blocked together with LR
can still be reached by IP (means actual servers are not seized)
AsianaGold - e-Gold
MoneyCentralMarket - Money Central Market
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NikSam
I think it's looks like a restaurant car of a train.
That's what I thought. That's someones shoulder in a black shirt, and appears to be a coat hanger and jackets hanging behind that person.
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Always great to see the crooks get caught!!
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More their sites:
unitedlc.com
goldstores.com
autocambist.com
libertyimpact.com
xss5.org
tritongroupcr.com
xsgts.com
Looks like those guys cornered the market before LR became big, and that let them make money out of thin air, by selling first non-backed LR "credits" on all their exchanges.
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NikSam
I think it's looks like a restaurant car of a train.
Good point. But it's not a luxury train, as those usually have curtains on the windows, and it's not a super-modern train, as those usually have white or beige interiors.
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TicoTimes has an updated article:
Budovsky is in Europe negotiating with European banks and server farms to move the stuff out of PR. He can't open accounts in PR or Panama because he can't get certified by SUGEF, the PR financial regulatory agency.
And everybody at the top of LR used aliases.
Liberty Reserve: A cyberweb of intrigue / News Briefs / More news / Costa Rica Newspaper, The Tico Times
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Originally Posted by
kschang
TicoTimes has an updated article: ...
I have a feeling that they read our thread over here :)
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Originally Posted by
NikSam
More their sites:
unitedlc.com
goldstores.com
autocambist.com
libertyimpact.com
xss5.org
tritongroupcr.com
xsgts.com
Looks like those guys cornered the market before LR became big, and that let them make money out of thin air, by selling first non-backed LR "credits" on all their exchanges.
Cyberfuel.com
grupolulu.com
websa.cr
SMARTWEBCREATIONS.COM
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If they are all pimped by PlanetGold, and if PlanetGold was really run by Kats, then yes, definitely.
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kschang
Good point. But it's not a luxury train, as those usually have curtains on the windows, and it's not a super-modern train, as those usually have white or beige interiors.
River boat? Not that it matters (does it?).