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vansau

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Sassafrass said:
vansau said:
Just a heads-up, that link I sent you might be someone trolling for the sake of it. If it is, that's my bad.
It looks legit. If it turns out to be fake, I'll update accordingly.
 

TheGuy(wantstobe)

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vansau said:
cursedseishi said:
drakythe said:
Yeah, the Kotaku article is relevant to this. Also his Twitter handle was not
vansau said:
Examiner points out that Christoforo changed his twitter handle from <a href=https://twitter.com/#!/OceanMarketting>@oceanmarketing
but was instead @oceanmarketting (which I see in you have correct in the the html, just not visibly)
to be fair, its hard to misspell some words consciously, so I can see why someone would have trouble typing out "marketting" when any basic spell check would smack you in the testes just for trying it.
Fixed! Thanks, folks. And, yes, it's hard to consciously misspell stuff sometimes.
Other things that he's done:

His website has been stolen from various others
The about us [http://www.oceanmarketinginc.com/Aboutus.php] page came from here [http://www.seop.com/about-seop/]
The services [http://oceanmarketinginc.com/services.php] page from here [http://www.virtualsocialmedia.com/social-media-marketing-optimization-services/]
The Social networking [http://oceanmarketinginc.com/Socialnetworking.php] page from here [http://www.virtualsocialmedia.com/social-media-a-la-carte-services/social-networking-management-services/]
The search engine optimisation page [http://oceanmarketinginc.com/Search-Engine-Optimization.php] from here [http://www.whiteinkstudio.com/orange_county_seo.shtml]

Openly posted links to pirated cds using the company twitter


Lots more in the thread in gaming.
 

TheGuy(wantstobe)

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
And they've swapped twitters again to @oceanstretagy. Can this guy spell?

@JDawgMadden It's a god sturdy product that works. It lets you rule at pew pew shooters.
@DarkMorgado Black list? I'm not black. Look at my picture idiot.
Yeah....
That's one of the fake ones that's popped up. They're still at @oceanstratagy
 

Jack and Calumon

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I have got to say, despite everything that's happened, this is my favourite story this year. This fucker got what's coming to him and Mike managed to scare the fuck out of me while I agree with him completely. Seriously, I just love this far too much than I should.

Calumon: Is this a happy ending? I can't tell. :S
 
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TheGuy(wantstobe) said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
And they've swapped twitters again to @oceanstretagy. Can this guy spell?

@JDawgMadden It's a god sturdy product that works. It lets you rule at pew pew shooters.
@DarkMorgado Black list? I'm not black. Look at my picture idiot.
Yeah....
That's one of the fake ones that's popped up. They're still at @oceanstratagy
Damn...they've got a good impersonator then. Stratagy hasn't posted for hours now. Are we sure it's not him?

(And the original thread is locked from overuse I think? Can't get into it.)
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
TheGuy(wantstobe) said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
And they've swapped twitters again to @oceanstretagy. Can this guy spell?

@JDawgMadden It's a god sturdy product that works. It lets you rule at pew pew shooters.
@DarkMorgado Black list? I'm not black. Look at my picture idiot.
Yeah....
That's one of the fake ones that's popped up. They're still at @oceanstratagy
Damn...they've got a good impersonator then. Stratagy hasn't posted for hours now. Are we sure it's not him?
Pretty sure. If only because that account has 0 followers and none of the tweet history of stratagy. The fact that there is no space between the punctuation marks in that new twitter also gives it away as being a fake; see the fraudulent Brandon email and all of paul's emails from before to see what I mean.
 
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TheGuy(wantstobe) said:
Pretty sure. If only because that account has 0 followers and none of the tweet history of stratagy. The fact that there is no space between the punctuation marks in that new twitter also gives it away as being a fake; see the fraudulent Brandon email and all of paul's emails from before to see what I mean.
Still say to give the Oceanmaketting (Mark Ett Ocean) dude and him a cookie though for maximum lulz.

Jove said:
So let me get this straight...

1. Terrible PR
2. Plagiarizing and copyright infringement
3. Steroids
4. Piracy
5. Lied about these "big connections" he had.
6. Failure to send products to the promised date and illegally charging the customers FULL before product is even shipped.

Have I got it down pretty much?
I think you missed slander and murder of the English language.
 

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Eh... it's a slow news day and Mike Krahulik is projecting like crazy in that follow up piece. Time to be the bigger man.

The guy sent some rude emails so now the vengeful internet will destroy his business and his life. Hopefully they'll back off before he ends up swinging from a ceiling beam somewhere, although I'm sure there are people out there who've blown this enough out of proportion that they'd think it was deserved.

The GoDaddy thing? That was good. That was the internet being a channel for a popular movement to take meaningful action directed at a big company that should have known better. This? This is just some poor schmuck being persecuted because the internet was bored and he is an easy target.
 

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Been following this for quite a while...and it is simply beautiful, it's a marvel too read everything he's done wrong. It's like watching a train wreck gone horribly, horribly wrong. So horrible and bad that you can't look away.
 

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this is one of the oddest, funniest and if I wer'nt drunk I'd never believe it....
what it's real?!?!
 

vansau

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Sixcess said:
Eh... it's a slow news day and Mike Krahulik is projecting like crazy in that follow up piece. Time to be the bigger man.

The guy sent some rude emails so now the vengeful internet will destroy his business and his life. Hopefully they'll back off before he ends up swinging from a ceiling beam somewhere, although I'm sure there are people out there who've blown this enough out of proportion that they'd think it was deserved.

The GoDaddy thing? That was good. That was the internet being a channel for a popular movement to take meaningful action directed at a big company that should have known better. This? This is just some poor schmuck being persecuted because the internet was bored and he is an easy target.
No, I beg to differ. This is not "just some poor schmuck being persecuted because the internet was bored." This is a guy who was took people's money and then was verbally abusive to them when asked for updates after he failed to deliver when he promised he would. Further investigation shows that he's a thief who would have continued to operate this way if he hadn't been caught.

This would have been news any day of the year.
 
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Sixcess said:
This is just some poor schmuck being persecuted because the internet was bored and he is an easy target.
A poor schmuck that committed multiple felonies; while GoDaddy is just supporting a criminally unconstitutional (and unenforcable) bill for their own corrupt agenda.

Perhaps you didn't read the multiple accounts of this guy breaking credit card legal requirements?
 

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
TheGuy(wantstobe) said:
The_root_of_all_evil said:
And they've swapped twitters again to @oceanstretagy. Can this guy spell?

@JDawgMadden It's a god sturdy product that works. It lets you rule at pew pew shooters.
@DarkMorgado Black list? I'm not black. Look at my picture idiot.
Yeah....
That's one of the fake ones that's popped up. They're still at @oceanstratagy
Damn...they've got a good impersonator then. Stratagy hasn't posted for hours now. Are we sure it's not him?

(And the original thread is locked from overuse I think? Can't get into it.)
I honestly don't know of this other account is a fake or not. Honestly, from the tweets coming out of it I can't tell of the writer is acting like too much of a raging jackass for it to be real or like enough of a jackass that someone jut can't make this kind of idiocy up.

Either way, LordKat has contacted that account offering to hear his side of the story on his show. Also, he's claiming that Pete Hines of Bethesda is one of his "bros" and "has his back". Take that for what you will.

I'm... I'm just going to sit back, bask in the afterglow of how absurd all of this is and just see how it all plays out...
 

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This actually makes me wish LULSEC was still around, I think they could have some fun with this douche's website.
 

Formica Archonis

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JenSeven said:
This actually makes me wish LULSEC was still around, I think they could have some fun with this douche's website.
His website's been revealed to be heavily plagiarized from other websites. Lulzsec couldn't possibly improve on such a testament to hubris.