Tuesday 19 May 2009

Re: The VenomFangX "thing"

About a week or so ago I speculated (rather long-windedly)on the reasons VFX may have quit YouTube suggesting he was getting out of there before the water got to hot around his "donations" dealings. Had I investigated a bit more thoroughly at the time I may have come across this series of videos by a YouTuber previously unknown to me by the name of lordhathor. This guy took a more active role in investigating the nature of the VFX donation scam, he even went as far as reporting VFX to the charity he claimed he was donating to. The charity seemed to have no knowledge of VFX and pledged to take legal action against him as he was essentially using their charity to trick people into giving him money and attaching stipulations that would enable him to keep the vast majority if not the entirety of the money donated. lordhathor even discovered that VFX had been distributing standard letters to many donators to be returned to him with their own information substituted in various key fields that would waive VFX of any obligation to donate any portion of their donation to him to the actual charity - very underhanded one might agree. So it looks like I was close - i.e. it was scam related - but missed how serious the matter had gotten. This really rather suggests to me that the internet has seen the last of VenomFangX, and honestly I think the www is better off without the kind of ignorance he spreads and the lies he tells. Every turd has to be flushed eventually. freedoms_stain, out.

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