After the recent spate of scams run on the popular South African broadband news and discussion forum called http://www.mybroadband.co.za / http://www.myadsl.co.za, I have decided to keep a list of the top scammers that make their rounds. I honestly believe these people will strike again, so I have decided to keep a permanent record for history and googles sake.

Scammer/Fraudster #1:

Alias: celemasiko
Real Name: Peter Lauer

Scam(s): Pretends to be sick, either with something terminal or amputation. Tries to get sympathy money out of people by praying on his victims emotions or pity and compassion. He took a lot of people for a ride on the Mybroadband/Myadsl forums, and a lot of people fell for his lies. During the investigations a forumite from another german forum made a couple of posts, on how he had pulled the same scam there, and how he had got people to give him money there. He also has a habit of pretending to post as his daughter, often saying that "her" "father" is dying, and willing to accept money on their behalf.

Known email address's: nadjalauer2710@web.de ; Celemasiko@gmx.de
Known Website(s): http://www.celemasiko.za.net/Celemasiko%20englisch/index.htm :D ; http://www.celemasiko.za.net
RPM's last words: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=26608&highlight=celemasiko

Scammer/Fraudster #2:

Alias(s): slimothy / smint
Real Name: Warren Smith

Scam(s): The term "Slimothy", is a widely used term in the South African online community. It is often used in the context of, "to pull a slimothy", which means to commit an illegal act of fraud and/or theft.

It was first started on the popular www.myadsl.co.za (MyADSL) forum, where a forumite by the alias "Slimothy" used to frequent often. The name of this forumite was the notorious Warren Smith, from Johannesburg, South Africa. Warren, a PHP developer, developed a commercial system of the PHP torrent client known at Torrenflux, and renamed his version to Torrentbox.

In the bandwidth starved country of South Africa, users were eager to adopt this bandwidth saving technology, and many users from the MyADSL forum eagerly sent their money to Warren, with many users paying for a whole year in advance! Warren then took the money, and emigrated to another country and disappeared for a while, thereby committing fraud and stealing every ones money.

Known Email Address: smith(y?)inc@gmail.com
Known MSN: nimbleslimbo@hotmail.com
Known Contact numbers: (to come soon)
Known Address:(coming soon)
MyAdsl thread: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=30506&highlight=slimothy+warren+smith

Scammer/Fraudster #3:

Alias(s): Person ; DOT.IT ; [*]NE1Per_son
Real Name: Brian Gibello

Scam(s): Lies through his teeth for profit. Will do a couple of small deals to look legit, then frauduntly rip off a large group of people at the same time. Most often by pretending to be an "on-the-level" hardware dealer. His only one person, though he may pretend to be many. Lives with his mom, pretends to leave the country when the heat is on.

Known Contact Number(s): +27 21 761 2344 ; 082 839 3223
Known Address(s):5 Greenfields, 36 Greenfield Road
Kenilworth 7708 Cape Town
South Africa
Known Website(s): http://www.dotcomputers.co.za
Known Email Address(s): Sales@dotcomputers.co.za ; Brian@dotcomputers.co.za
ID Number ?: 8702235032086
Known Companies(s): DOT Information Technology ; Dot Co Computers

First MyAdsl Thread: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=45257&highlight=person
Second MyAdsl Thread: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=45535&highlight=person
PC Buyersguide Thread: http://www.pcbuyersguide.co.za/showthread.php?t=3611&page=2
The Prophecy : http://forums.prophecy.co.za/member.php?u=990
Other: http://www.thermaltake.com/2005/news/lanpartyZone/0804c.htm

PLEASE NOTE. UPDATES ON BRIAN GIBELLO.:

I get a couple of emails every couple of months about people worried about him. I don't blame them, from my correspondence with them it appears Brian is still up to his old tricks.

At the end of 2006 an company in Germany contact me in regards to Brian Gibello. They informed me that he claimed to be the CEO of Tigerdirect.com ( A large brand ). Brian also claimed that he was wanting to purchase 4 Bentley GTC for 220.000 EUR each. The elite German car dealership contacted me and confirmed it was the same person. Brian also claimed he was going to fly in with his "body guards" to pick up the vehicles. Luckily the car dealership in Germany was able to prevent any possible fraud.

I keep getting updated reports from people who have caught him out lying. Just the other day I had another car dealership contact me informing me that Brian Gibello had walked into their shop and claimed to be an executive from Google as well as a student at MIT. The salesman was suspicious and he also confirmed it was the same Brian Gibello.

I often get updates about Brian Gibello and my latest sources inform me Brian Gibello's current address is (address removed due for privacy reasons)

UPDATE 29th of June 2007

I received the following email from a concerned US citizen in regards to Brian Gibello;

"Hi, I recently encountered Brian Gibello here in MA. I had a 10-15 minute exchange with him on the MBTA commuter rail. He was taking the train from South Station in Boston to Southborough Station. He told me he lives in Marlborough, which could confirm the address you have listed on your site.

He told me works for facebook on platform (which they just released) in facebook's Boston office (which doesn't exist) with Mark Zuckerberg (facebook's founder and CEO who actually works in San Francisco). He's claiming to be a Facebook engineer (I'm not yet sure to what end) and has a fake Facebook Administrator account http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=545246176 he was able to get through facebook's filters by making two Os in the terms special characters: Facebọok Administratọr . Not sure what he actually does in Boston. I've also read on his facebook 'wall' that he has a
Bentley (stolen?). "

It appears he has a different lie for every person he meets.

Feel free to contact Brian Gibello on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=10080&id=529805304

The latest phone number we have for Brian is +15085050022

The latest confirmed place that Brian was working at is Chikita, however I was informed he was let go very quickly when Chikita realized something was not right.

Please email any other information you may have on any of these criminals to stop-scammers@pickledbushman.com

PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS FOR BRIANS RESPONSE

Update: 21/08/2007

I received this fax from a company that had a run in with Brian Gibello. With permission I am posting it here so you can get an idea of what we are talking about:

Update: 13/12/2007

I have being informed that Brian has being arrested and is currently serving a sentence at Norfolk County Correctional Facility. Once he has finished there he will be deported back to South Africa. Anyone with any more information on, or who would like more information can please contact Fraud investigator Jack Kelly 1-800-879-1731 x 2554

Brian's incarceration has being confirmed in Norfolk County House of Corrections, feel free to call him on +17813293705

Update: 16 July 2009

Brian is in South Africa (Cape Town from the email I get) and is up to old tricks again.

Update: 07 April 2010

Any reports of Brian being arrested and in Pollsmoor Prison are fake and spread by Brian himself.

I came across this article the other day ( http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,71076-0.html?tw=rss.index ) on Wired News, about how the WTO is threatning to pull the plug on talks with Russia, over a cruddy little mp3 site. Oooooh you poor Hollywood artists.... cant get that like R5 out of the song you made 10 years ago? Shame, cry me a river.

I mean come on!, out of all the bullsh!t things to argue about and pick a fight about this has to be as shameful as our current arguments over religion and imaginary lines in the ground we like to call "borders". The United States has got you so well brainwashed, and so well trained that you dont even notice it anymore. First, lets look at this thing you call "Copyright". Its mostly bullsh!t. Complete and utter mamilian faeces.

A couple of years ago, some not-so-forward-thinking asswipe, thought it would be a good idea to attach a price to everything. Including ideas and innovations. Thereby making the interests of the indervidual greater than those of the collective. Thats the sad things with us humans at the moment. We cant see past our own greed and debaseness, we think things like copyright and patents are "good" and "fair". Well you are wrong. Imagine if Thomas Edison had gone... "Okay, to use my light bulb, everyone has to pay 10 bucks"... imagine how much more backwards we would have been!

An idea or innovation is not one inderviduals property. It should be for humanity as a whole. A good example of what I am talking about here, would be if say.... Sipho Mashilile invented a cheap, eco-friendly, completely substainable source of energy. Something that could help the WHOLE world, and lift countries out of 3rd world poverty. A end to pain, hunger and hardship as we know it. Now imagine if Sipho approached Microsoft with the idea, and got them to patent and distribute the energy source. Now you as, the other human who was not involved in the invention or distribution of this energy source would now have to pay R10 000 a day for usage of this system.

Not many people are going to be lifted out of poverty under that system ne? Just the rich will get richer, and the poor we get more pwnage.

There should be no price on human innovation and invention, and while I believe in a limited type of copyright (max 5 years on _anything_), I do not believe in this retarded anti-humanity system of PURE AND UTTER GREED Captain Copyright in the US is trying to force on the rest of the world.

YOU DONT OWN AN IDEA, HUMANTIY OWNS IT. You did not suddently pop into existance... in fact for you to be here, over several trillion life forms had to evolve and come together so that you could be here today. You are a cog in the wheel of life, and until you wake up to that fact your own selfish desires will make sure that the several trillian life forms that came before you, were a complete and utter waste of time.

Stop putting prices on everything, stop trying to fill your own pockets, with this wierd type of commercilization thats been thumped into you. Start thinking indepenintly, and start making choices and commiting actions that will help all of life, and not just you.

Sometimes human bloody well disgust me. Shame on you!

Ever wondered how many babies are being pushed out every day, or how many people are dying every minute? Well this is the place for you then! This meter currently records those tpes of things, and with a population of 6.5 billion, there are lots of interesting stats for you to check out.

Today I wake up with a rather mild hangover, and Im mostly grateful that tha pain aint that bad cause there was some disturbing news in my inbox. The South African government had decided to censor a documentry about (soon to be X) President, Thabo Mbeki.

The documentry is mostly about the life and growing up of Mbeki, and the part that they think was censored was the bit where it explores the power struggles in the ANC among leaders such as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Chris Hani and Cyril Ramaphosa.

The FXI (Freedom of Expression institute), and other public free speach organizations have voiced their dissaproval at these drakonian measures the ANC led government is imposing on its people. Common! We havent had censor ships since the religious oppression censorship regarding those daft Mohammed cartoons that the religious fanatics went all dilly about.... oh, and then there was also the time the Mail & Guardian got censored by that retard in the Oilgate scandal.

Whats wierd about this current order and is that the presenters and producers of the show even have gag orders on the content that was in the Mbeki video. This is unaceptable to a new democracy, and certain government officials are seriously abusing their power. I have made a public post on a popular forum, requesting that the movie get "leaked" to me, in which case I will distribute it online with zeal.

Our government needs to know, that the voice of the people can not be oppressed, and anyone who is anyone, should be fighting this verdit tooth and nail, wether you agree to it or not. Remember, the most important type of free speach to allow the most, is the free speech you can handle the least!

Viva le freedom!

Haha, these poor lil bunnies. A bunch of pictures of bunnies trying to come up with imaginitive ways to kill themselves.

So its my version of a saturday night. What am I doing? Well, I am parking off in bed with my gf (nicely naked and looking very appealing ) lying next to me. Other than the midly perverted thoughts caused by her presence next to me, Im busy typing out this blog post, and watching Start Trek, The Next Generation.

I managed to score every episode of Star Trek, The Next Generation. This one chap at work snaked it off this oke who looked like a cross between an ancient spaniard and lucifer. One of those creepy okes who think they have skills but actually dont.

As you can see by the terrible spelling, punctuation and grammer, I am smoking a joint. A nice big fat one the gf rolled. I will do a post sometime about the stupidity and hypocracy of ours (and most likely yours), legal system in regards to this blessed `erb.

For those of you who dont know, I am South African. Im a born and bred white native african, and damb proud of it. However, I will often use words that you may not understand, local slag u wont pick up on. Click on this link to learn a little more about South African slang, aka, Safrikan!

Well, its about time I started something like this. Somewhere to keep my personal idea, experiences and other bull well documented for someone else with way to much time on his or her hands to painfully read the drivel I will put down into "print".

This site is open source, my web site is open source, my operating system is open source (kubuntu biatches!), over the next couple of months or years hopefully I will be able to explain to you my belief structure and my warped mentality, and sometimes some of the reasons for the mad antic or philosophies I may be involved in.

Right now the content it pretty bare, so theres not much here to grab anybodies attention, so Im going to post away into nothingness, until one day I am responded to.

Leetest form of linux there is. The primary OS I now use. Kubuntu, Dapper Drake, 6.06 LTS. I really think people should use this as their default OS