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    The players lottery.

    Thomas Craig Brodie is counting on Third Time Lucky as he prepares to launch lottery company number three.The first venture Virtual World Direct which claimed to offer a 3600% better chance of a win over the official National Lottery went belly up in 2011 after being declared illegal and was closed down as “a fraudulent scheme”by a High Court Judge .Originally mooted as “The Smarter Way To Play” it clearly wasnt.Launched in partnership with Leonard Gary Fitzgerald,co director, on 13.12.2005 from a small IT company base called Information Technology Systems Limited located in Wales in the UK and owned by Leonard,VWD was launched. Ray st Clair soon promoted himself on board by offering his web design expertise and marketing skills from his base which was then in Spain where he ran several dodgy enterprises.(All since folded up)Following from clever marketing and top flight web prescence together with agressive affiliate recruitment the company VWD grew rapidly,eventually leading to 100,000 members each paying £5 per week as lottery players.VWD later also launched a games platform heralded with loads of hype,under the VWD umbrella called UVME (U versus Me) an online games company they claimed was "growing faster than the internet". (You wont find it anywhere now).
    Virtual World Direct had a short but very lucrative history,name changes kept it one step ahead of licensing and legislation.Well versed in such matters Ray st Clair was on hand to dispense suitable advice.It was important to create an illusion of success and professionalism from the very beginning so the company was formed as Virtual World Group PLC and Virtual World Management S.A.
    Sounds impressive but a true Public Limited Company (PLC) is open to public scrutiny so it quickly became Virtual World Direct Limited registered at Companies House in the UK .However from the very start it was and remained a “dormant,non trading company”! I find it difficult to believe that non of the membership of 100,000 carried out due diligence and find out this important fact as it meant from the very outset VWD was not an ethical company.After trading on illegaly for some further time the name was changed yet again this time to Virtual World Direct Member Support Limited,though it still continued as a “dormant” company.No accounts have been submitted at any time from any of these shell companies nor details of where the half million pounds generated every week by its members has gone.Along the way Thomas Brodie and Leonard Fitzgerald also ran and registered E.Lotbidder Member Support Limited and UVME Member Support Limitedaso “dormant”,though the only thing they supported where the pockets of Tom,Len,and Ray st Clair.All these companies are now dissolved for failure to submit accounts.
    In the course of carrying out this scam which ran from 2005 till 2011,VWD was moved to the Isle of Man in order to be further away from prying eyes,but even there accounts are necessary as is gaming licencing.Therefore in order to keep the whole scam afloat a while longer a further move was made,this time to Panama as an offshore company,this time operating from a PO box.
    Ray st Clair during these years was a very active participant of VWDs activities,being involved from the very beginning.He helped launch many of their promotions and website designs,and represented them in Spain until his business activities caught up with him and he fled back to the UK leaving a massive trail of debt.
    Despite VWDs relocation abroad,the UK authorities had already begun investigations into their activities not helped by all the adverse publicity surrounding Ray st Clair on the internet brought about by his numerous other sales and marketing scams..
    The whole VWD enterprise was forced to close down on 29th March 2011 by a High Court ruling by
    compulsory liquidation. A short announcement was made online briefly by VWD but even that disappeared rather smartly. A bit like all that money. £2000,000 a month!


    The Daily Mirror,a British newspaper takes up the story:-
    http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigat...rmation-t.html

    Fraud lotto firm Information Technology Systems axed

    By Andrew Penman on March 30, 2011 11:00 PM in Prize draws



    A pair of lotto syndicate organisers which promised members a better chance of winning the National Lottery and Euro Millions have put out of business yesterday.

    Around 100,000 people paid £5 a week to join Information Technology Systems Ltd and Virtual World Direct, run by Leonard Fitzgerald of Colwyn Bay, north Wales, and Thomas Brodie of Onchan, Isle of Man.

    But the companies offered nothing that you can't do for free by joining any ordinary syndicate.

    The High Court yesterday put the "fraudulent scheme" into compulsory liquidation.

    Mark Mullen, counsel for the Department for Business, told Companies Court Registrar Christine Derrett: "Subscribers were enticed to subscribe by misrepresentation."

    He added that there was "rather shadowy network of offshore companies behind the UK front."

    UPDATE: The Insolvency Service has explained in greater detail why these companies were shut down. The misrepresentation referred to above meant lying about customer's chances of winning.

    "The companies claimed that by using their 'unique number selection system', your chances of winning would increase by 733 per cent and 3,600 per cent respectively," says the Insolvency Service.

    "The Court agreed with the investigation findings that syndicate tickets purchased using the Virtual World Direct number selection method had no better chance of being selected for a jackpot prize than the same number of tickets purchased with numbers selected at random.

    "The scheme also falsely claimed that the unique number selection system had been worked on 'with a university Professor of Mathematics to make sure the figures stacked up'.

    "In addition to which, under the scheme only a fraction of members' subscriptions was actually spent on purchasing lottery tickets; in the case of the UK National Lottery draw this was 36 per cent, and 24 per cent in relation to the EuroMillions draw - for example, for the UK National Lottery, Virtual World Direct agreed to buy 44 tickets per 49-strong syndicate group per draw, so each week the cost to Virtual World Direct of purchasing 88 tickets for a syndicate was £88 whereas the 49 syndicate members paid £245 to the company."

    Commenting on the case Company Investigations Supervisor Chris Mayhew said:
    "Virtual World Direct created the illusion that by participating in one of its syndicates at a cost of £5 a week substantially increased your chances of scooping a jackpot prize. Whilst people were led to believe they were gaining an advantage over buying lottery tickets in the normal way, the reality was they suffered inevitable loss because they were paying significantly more for tickets which had no better chance of winning the jackpot (respectively 2.8 times and 4 times the normal price of tickets).

    "Companies that use unscrupulous methods to mislead people should be aware that we can and will investigate and where appropriate, take action to shut them down".




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    WHERE DID THE £2000,000 A MONTH DISAPPEAR TO?

    After overheads and pay-outs an estimated 27% of income from VirtualWorldDirect is unaccounted for,thats around £540,000 a month. As the company had never audited their accounts from 2005 till its forced closure in 2011 and their books had remained hidden in Panama and the Virgin Islands,we will never know for sure just where this money went.But I think its fairly obvious as to who got the benefit. Thomas Craig Brodie and Leonard Gary Fitzgerald.
    VWD left in its wake a great many disgruntled affiliates and members,100,000 of them. Just how many lost money is difficult to judge as so far few have come forward to say. Hopefully some will come forward and post on this thread.
    It has to be said,like all good scams,this operation was very slick,using high end promotional tools, a number of VWD videos still appear on You-tube.
    Raymond st Clair a non director but personal friend,was “utilised” by Thomas Brodie and Leonard Fitzgerald in various roles at VWD.He appeared at many conferences and meetings where he was introduced as a “senior affiliate”,while behind the scenes he was heavily involved in “back office” activities.Not one for missing any opportunity Ray embarked on many sideline activities of his own that would net him considerable profits unknown to Tom and Len.On one such promotion,an original idea of Rays, to promote the VWD Lottery to captive audiences,initially short haul passengers on Easy-Jet and Ryanair.The seat pocket flyers were to contain VWD ads,that would be read in-flight.Affiliates were targeted by Ray to pay fees for their own affiliate number to appear on the flyers in order to generate referals for their downlines.However in Ray st Clairs inimitable fashion £50,000 was paid over to him,but no advertising took place and Ray simply pocketed the money.(The £50,000 is an estimate gathered by the police,but the true figure may be higher). Tom Brodie and Len Fitzgerald turned a blind eye to Ray st Clairs activities,legal and otherwise,as Ray was a valuable tool in other ways.They visited him on many occasions in Spain where Ray and his wife Tracy Amanda st Clair where involved in a number of other dodgy enterprises. (To read about the st Clairs refer to my other thread on this forum.)


    But this is only the beginning of the story---





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    Re: The players lottery.

    Ray Beaver St Clairs' version of events (and, yes, that IS clerical garb he's wearing)




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    Oh look !!!!

    I think I'll send a few hundred bucks off to some fake lottery company in Malta.

    What's the risk ????


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    Quote Originally Posted by littleroundman View Post
    Oh look !!!!

    I think I'll send a few hundred bucks off to some fake lottery company in Malta.

    What's the risk ????


    Goodness,I'll have to look into that! Lol.
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    Re: The players lottery.

    VirtualWorldDirect were well aware of Raymond st Clairs conman background,it fitted in well with the scheme of things at VWD. Ray had posed as an Archbishop Gary Martin Beaver at one point in his dodgy past,running several bogus churches accepting donations via Paypal,naturally these all went directly into Rays back pocket! Hence the clerical garb in the preceding post
    You can read all about Ray and his wife Tracy Amanda st Clair and their scamming ways on this forum:-

    http://www.realscam.com/f11/ray-st-clair-real-story-49/

    This pair are really a seperate issue but also heavily entwined in this grand scam at the same time.Further information is available on this “dynamic duo”all over the internet and here on this link,a particularly interesting thread.

    Following in Hubbards Footsteps.


    Following the untimely demise of VWD,closed down by a High Court ruling in the UK for fraud,Tom Brodie immediately put steps in place to structure yet another lottery company to take VWDs place.There were 100,000 ex VWD affiliates left out there and despite the fact it would be breaching the Data Protection Act he intended to contact them all in the hope of re-recruiting a good proportion of them.Bulk e.mails were duly sent out.Amazingly a small number of them signed up for lottery scam number two!

    Bigfatlotteries.com

    The bulk of the ex affiliates though were unsurprisingly less than happy.A thread was started on scam.com,a rival and inferior forum to this one exposing Bigfatlotteries.Unfortunately the owner of that forum buckled under threats issued by Tom Brodie and the thread was hurriedly closed down by their Admin. However,the important question,knowing Tom Brodies past history, is should you gamble on Bigfatlotteries?

    Heres what The Daily Mirror had to say

    Should you gamble on Big Fat Lotteries? - Mirror Online
    Should you gamble on Big Fat Lotteries?

    UPDATE on our story last week about the compulsory liquidation of Information Technology Systems and Virtual World Direct.
    They were branded fraudulent in the High Court after promising lottery syndicate subscribers a better chance of winning in return for £5 a week.
    Virtual World Direct was part of what the court heard was a "shadowy network of offshore companies behind the UK front".
    It claimed a head office in Panama but the website was registered in the Virgin Islands and syndicate members were given a contact address in Douglas, Isle of Man.
    Which brings us to another online lotto syndicate firm, bigfatlotteries.com, which also wants £5 weekly.
    Big Fat Lotteries is a trading name of uVme Ltd, which uses the very same Isle of Man and Virgin Islands addresses once used by Virtual World Direct.
    The website's details of the owners of bigfatlotteries.com are now hidden behind a privacy wall but it was previously registered to Thomas Brodie, 40, a director of the two liquidated companies.
    We've asked him why anyone should trust Big Fat Lotteries, given his track record, but have yet to have a reply.
    P.S. uVme is also behind the website Euro Millions Lottery Results | Euro Millions Lottery Winning Numbers | EuroMillions Syndicate System.
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    Quite a few inaccuracies in this story. You need to re-check some of your facts like names, dates, websites and places

    You probably never heard from any affiliates or players because they were in general a happy lot until the bureaucrats closed them down.

    But the companies offered nothing that you can't do for free by joining any ordinary syndicate.
    Why do it yourself when you can afford to pay others to do it for you?

    The Court agreed with the investigation findings that syndicate tickets purchased using the Virtual World Direct number selection method had no better chance of being selected for a jackpot prize than the same number of tickets purchased with numbers selected at random.
    Virtual World Direct created the illusion that by participating in one of its syndicates at a cost of £5 a week substantially increased your chances of scooping a jackpot prize.
    You would only get to play 5 lines for £5, correct? How many tickets would you have to buy to have the same combination of numbers as you would by playing in a VWD syndicate? That would be 49 tickets at £1 each! OK so your chance of winning the full jackpot amount will never happen but a 49th share would satisfy those that chose voluntarily to play, and the chance of winning a smaller prize is increased. So, I am am now playing in multiple syndicates, all with different numbers for £5, have had multiple wins since 2001 (not 2005) plus always been paid on time, but you can't understand why hundreds of thousands people the world over had joined?



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    After numerous delays,while certain "escape routes" were being put into place,(well you have to look ahead,dont you).Our man Tom Brodie finally got the Players Lottery up and running.As you will see its NOT a MLM or Pyramid scheme at all,its a REFERAL BUSINESS/AFFILIATE PROGRAMME Theres a fine difference let me tell you. Ones legal and the other isnt,but just which one is rather confusing.
    Rather nice website design creates quite a dazzling display to "would be" punters.I say,I wonder if Ray st Clair had a hand in that,after all hes disappeared off the radar completely at the moment,wonder if he will pop up in sunny Malta,he has an array of different passports to use,quite handy really.He cant really use his old handle of Gary Martin Beaver anymore,but was using the name Gary Beavoir at one point,hmmm,perhaps a new Lordship title would give the Players Lottery more of a boost.We will have to wait and see wont we---.

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    Hmmnn,

    Malta, eh ???

    Good luck getting any "winnings" from Malta.

    If there are any "winnings" that is.

    Does Malta even HAVE a "Lotteries and Gaming Commission" ???
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    Well----yawn----The Players Lottery lasted simply ages didnt it? It was an absolute success story of the highest order.A role model for others to follow.An accolade to Tom Brodies business acumen even. In fact its set a new WORLD RECORD!!!

    Yep---its been suspended by the legal authorities ALREADY AND IN RECORD TIME!-----Well done Tom,your third lottery failure in quick succession.(sounds of rapturous applause.)

    Oh dear,I guess we can rest easier in our beds now.Do send my regards to Ray st Clair for me Tom.Many thanks.

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