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Complaint Review: Gary Shawkey Gary Shawkey International Inc. BizOppAlliance Deer Valley Childrens Camp - Internet
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Gary Shawkey Gary Shawkey International Inc. BizOppAlliance Deer Valley Childrens Camp
17445 Huntley Rd. Windsor, Ohio 44099 Internet, U.S.A.
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Gary Shawkey, Gary Shawkey International Inc. BizOppAlliance, Deer Valley Childrens Camp ripoff, Internet Fraud, Misrepresentation, nonpayment of commissions and refunds Windsor Ohio
We are members of the above mentioned group who are
victims of Internet Fraud. The Internet Company involved
is Gary Shawkey International, Inc (GSI).. Mr. Shawkey would have people believe we are nothing other than malcontents but we are in fact, the people who started out with him, opened our check books and built his business. Some of us have supported him for over 4 years! We believe Mr. Shawkey owes us approximately $4,000,000.00 as an ROI on monies which we as a group have invested in his businesses over the past 4 years.
We are dedicated to the removal of Mr. Gary Shawkey from
the internet due to his actions in this matter, and hopefully put him in jail. This is global in nature and involves people from all over the world as investors. Many of the investors are elderly who are Retired, receiving Social Security, receiving Disability, and on fixed incomes, and for some their life savings. In the year 2000 Mr. Shawkey introduced and advertised a program called BizOppAlliance (BOA).
Within that company he offered a number of programs which
people could join, and invest in. He has approximately 1800 people who have paid into his various endeavors anywhere from $200 to $500,000 individually over the past four years. Some of these investors are outside the USA and believe they cannot get monies back because of that fact.
Other Internet schemes of Mr. Shawkey's included:
BizOpp4Kids, ProMoneyMLM, the .SAFE Portal, BizOppCD
and others. These are all programs that people could join free, or pay monthly or annual membership fees with the promises of quick riches to members. He also offered
Investment vehicles such as Stock, PPO's, #1 Co-Op
Shares and others as a means for us to take ownership
in the programs within his company and increase our
income. In mid 2003 he was going to introduce the
.SAFE Portal and BizOppCD to the internet globally as
a "No Scam- Kids Safe Network". He touted this new
ISP as eventually being bigger than AOL or Yahoo, so
with that in mind and the possible realization of a large
ROI members invested hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
One scheme, The BizOpp4Kids program, had members
paying monthly dues and was supposedly for handicapped
and underprivileged kids to send them on free trips to Disney World, Marine World etc. None of the trips offered ever came about even though the membership funded this program. This program was funded at an average $20/mo fee per paying member for over a period of 3-4 years.
Where did that money go? This has never been explained.
In mid August, 2003, he informed us that he was going to
buy a farm in Ohio to establish a camp for underprivileged and handicapped children. After purchase of the farm, Gary moved the corporate headquarters from Springhill, Florida to Windsor, Ohio and he named the farm Shalom Lake Camp.
In checking the tax records for the property we find that he used corporate funds to purchase the property and it is listed as a closed corp., (Gary Shawkey International, Inc.) with he and his wife as the owners. He also claims this is his personal residence. Both the BizOpp4Kids now named PowereKids program, and his personal residence have the same address, and it has non-profit status.
We were told in mid 2003, that he was merging with a publicalltraded company and because of that the Co-Op Shares would not be offered again. He then started a campaign for us to purchase the #2 Co-Op Shares and set a 4 day cut off for those purchases. During this time period we were also to be receiving commissions on the memberships to programs, and sale of products.
No merger ever took place. On September 15, 2003 he offered the membership an Opt-Out and a refund for Co-Op Shares Purchased. A number of the members chose this option. He then told us that he was reorganizing the company and BizOppAlliance was reduced to a shell with no assets or liablilities, and from that point everything would be done through Gary Shawkey International, Inc.. The name of the Ohio farm was then changed from Shalom Lake Camp to Deer Valley Camp.
Gary then aligned himself with Vartec/Excel and, in Dec, 2003, started promoting their product line and offered it to the membership. Members joined with the understanding that they would receive income from those signed up by them, and that along with that they would be elevated within the Excel program as those numbers grew. He made specific promises to give us our first 20 customer points, and our first 12 reps in our downline, as a payback for being his investors to whom he owed monies.
Mr. Shawkey broke Excel company policy by removing the sign ups from individual reps., and placing them in his own downline in a manner that would assure his quick progression to the top position in the company. During these promotions he progressed through, we estimate he earned immediate bonuses of around $80,000, which he had told us...as marketing group members, we would be paid 50% of, but thus far have never received a dollar. This was additional income besides the approximate $1200, we who joined the Excel opportunity under him were promised to receive within the first 60 days of joining Excel, by virtue of the promises he had made us regarding customers and reps. We wrote VarTec's compliance department and filed complaints, but nothing has been done to date. He is still promoting and selling their products.
By December 2003 all refunds were finalized for those in the Marketing Group that had filled out forms requesting refunds of monies paid in to him, and his agreement read that "the refunds would be paid from 50% of corporate profits on a monthly basis". We've had an attorney look over the agreement and are told it is not a legal document. We started making inquiries as to when the commissions and refunds due would be paid.
And we received nothing but snide arrogant replies from him.
One of our female members committed suicide over this.
She and her husband had maxed out their credit cards
and mortgaged their house in the amount of $500,000.00.
They at that time bought 25% of the (BOA) company.
When the reorganization occurred she went to Gary Shawkey
and begged him to honor his promises and agreements with
them. He sloughed her off as though he didn't know her, even though she was an integral part of the company. They had to sell their house due to not receiving promised returns on their investments, and commissions on products they sold for GSI. Her husband is a member of this group and can provide paperwork to that effect.
We have not been paid commissions since mid 2003, and he has not honored the refund agreement, or paid any of the refunds due. He has offered to double the investments for some members, which held large amounts of Co-Op Shares, ( though, not to all of the membership), if they did not take the refunds at that time. We are told by an attorney that this is fraud.
He states that he does not have the funds to honor the refund agreement or pay commissions. Yet he continues to bring new people into his programs, and is still promoting Vartec/Excel aDallas based company. He also continues to expand and rework all of his various businesses, and continues to buy new equipment and upgrade services to his current companies on the internet.
In June of this year, during a meeting when we were trying to problem solve these concerns with Mr. Shawkey, he finally made it clear to all of us that His Interpretation of the terms of paying us commissions were that we were entitled to "50% of the NET profits the company earned each month and that we were not getting paid because the company didn't have any NET profits". We have checked emails going back 4 years, and nowhere does he mention "NET Profits" so we in fact did not misunderstand.
He refused to continue meeting with us, and to show us his booksto verify the fiscal position of GSI.
As a result we have filed complaints with the FTC, the Internet Fraud Div. of the FBI, the SEC, the BBB, State agencies and ourCongressmen and Senators.
At this time investigations are under way. We have hundreds of pages of documentation, and other items to prove what we say.
Jude
Wylie, Texas
U.S.A.
victims of Internet Fraud. The Internet Company involved
is Gary Shawkey International, Inc (GSI).. Mr. Shawkey would have people believe we are nothing other than malcontents but we are in fact, the people who started out with him, opened our check books and built his business. Some of us have supported him for over 4 years! We believe Mr. Shawkey owes us approximately $4,000,000.00 as an ROI on monies which we as a group have invested in his businesses over the past 4 years.
We are dedicated to the removal of Mr. Gary Shawkey from
the internet due to his actions in this matter, and hopefully put him in jail. This is global in nature and involves people from all over the world as investors. Many of the investors are elderly who are Retired, receiving Social Security, receiving Disability, and on fixed incomes, and for some their life savings. In the year 2000 Mr. Shawkey introduced and advertised a program called BizOppAlliance (BOA).
Within that company he offered a number of programs which
people could join, and invest in. He has approximately 1800 people who have paid into his various endeavors anywhere from $200 to $500,000 individually over the past four years. Some of these investors are outside the USA and believe they cannot get monies back because of that fact.
Other Internet schemes of Mr. Shawkey's included:
BizOpp4Kids, ProMoneyMLM, the .SAFE Portal, BizOppCD
and others. These are all programs that people could join free, or pay monthly or annual membership fees with the promises of quick riches to members. He also offered
Investment vehicles such as Stock, PPO's, #1 Co-Op
Shares and others as a means for us to take ownership
in the programs within his company and increase our
income. In mid 2003 he was going to introduce the
.SAFE Portal and BizOppCD to the internet globally as
a "No Scam- Kids Safe Network". He touted this new
ISP as eventually being bigger than AOL or Yahoo, so
with that in mind and the possible realization of a large
ROI members invested hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
One scheme, The BizOpp4Kids program, had members
paying monthly dues and was supposedly for handicapped
and underprivileged kids to send them on free trips to Disney World, Marine World etc. None of the trips offered ever came about even though the membership funded this program. This program was funded at an average $20/mo fee per paying member for over a period of 3-4 years.
Where did that money go? This has never been explained.
In mid August, 2003, he informed us that he was going to
buy a farm in Ohio to establish a camp for underprivileged and handicapped children. After purchase of the farm, Gary moved the corporate headquarters from Springhill, Florida to Windsor, Ohio and he named the farm Shalom Lake Camp.
In checking the tax records for the property we find that he used corporate funds to purchase the property and it is listed as a closed corp., (Gary Shawkey International, Inc.) with he and his wife as the owners. He also claims this is his personal residence. Both the BizOpp4Kids now named PowereKids program, and his personal residence have the same address, and it has non-profit status.
We were told in mid 2003, that he was merging with a publicalltraded company and because of that the Co-Op Shares would not be offered again. He then started a campaign for us to purchase the #2 Co-Op Shares and set a 4 day cut off for those purchases. During this time period we were also to be receiving commissions on the memberships to programs, and sale of products.
No merger ever took place. On September 15, 2003 he offered the membership an Opt-Out and a refund for Co-Op Shares Purchased. A number of the members chose this option. He then told us that he was reorganizing the company and BizOppAlliance was reduced to a shell with no assets or liablilities, and from that point everything would be done through Gary Shawkey International, Inc.. The name of the Ohio farm was then changed from Shalom Lake Camp to Deer Valley Camp.
Gary then aligned himself with Vartec/Excel and, in Dec, 2003, started promoting their product line and offered it to the membership. Members joined with the understanding that they would receive income from those signed up by them, and that along with that they would be elevated within the Excel program as those numbers grew. He made specific promises to give us our first 20 customer points, and our first 12 reps in our downline, as a payback for being his investors to whom he owed monies.
Mr. Shawkey broke Excel company policy by removing the sign ups from individual reps., and placing them in his own downline in a manner that would assure his quick progression to the top position in the company. During these promotions he progressed through, we estimate he earned immediate bonuses of around $80,000, which he had told us...as marketing group members, we would be paid 50% of, but thus far have never received a dollar. This was additional income besides the approximate $1200, we who joined the Excel opportunity under him were promised to receive within the first 60 days of joining Excel, by virtue of the promises he had made us regarding customers and reps. We wrote VarTec's compliance department and filed complaints, but nothing has been done to date. He is still promoting and selling their products.
By December 2003 all refunds were finalized for those in the Marketing Group that had filled out forms requesting refunds of monies paid in to him, and his agreement read that "the refunds would be paid from 50% of corporate profits on a monthly basis". We've had an attorney look over the agreement and are told it is not a legal document. We started making inquiries as to when the commissions and refunds due would be paid.
And we received nothing but snide arrogant replies from him.
One of our female members committed suicide over this.
She and her husband had maxed out their credit cards
and mortgaged their house in the amount of $500,000.00.
They at that time bought 25% of the (BOA) company.
When the reorganization occurred she went to Gary Shawkey
and begged him to honor his promises and agreements with
them. He sloughed her off as though he didn't know her, even though she was an integral part of the company. They had to sell their house due to not receiving promised returns on their investments, and commissions on products they sold for GSI. Her husband is a member of this group and can provide paperwork to that effect.
We have not been paid commissions since mid 2003, and he has not honored the refund agreement, or paid any of the refunds due. He has offered to double the investments for some members, which held large amounts of Co-Op Shares, ( though, not to all of the membership), if they did not take the refunds at that time. We are told by an attorney that this is fraud.
He states that he does not have the funds to honor the refund agreement or pay commissions. Yet he continues to bring new people into his programs, and is still promoting Vartec/Excel aDallas based company. He also continues to expand and rework all of his various businesses, and continues to buy new equipment and upgrade services to his current companies on the internet.
In June of this year, during a meeting when we were trying to problem solve these concerns with Mr. Shawkey, he finally made it clear to all of us that His Interpretation of the terms of paying us commissions were that we were entitled to "50% of the NET profits the company earned each month and that we were not getting paid because the company didn't have any NET profits". We have checked emails going back 4 years, and nowhere does he mention "NET Profits" so we in fact did not misunderstand.
He refused to continue meeting with us, and to show us his booksto verify the fiscal position of GSI.
As a result we have filed complaints with the FTC, the Internet Fraud Div. of the FBI, the SEC, the BBB, State agencies and ourCongressmen and Senators.
At this time investigations are under way. We have hundreds of pages of documentation, and other items to prove what we say.
Jude
Wylie, Texas
U.S.A.
