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Ooh Calamity! It looks as if the Kameroon Kops have a Daffy Disaster Double Today, playmates. (Original Post) non sociopath skin Sep 2012 OP
And don't forget howtopickupwomennow.com muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #1
I thought this was from Newsthump or Newsbiscuit at first LeftishBrit Sep 2012 #2
Labour letter to DPP on Grant Shapps’ alter ego muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #3

muriel_volestrangler

(101,392 posts)
1. And don't forget howtopickupwomennow.com
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 07:47 PM
Sep 2012
During that incident I became aware of Grant Shapp’s wider use of alter egos, including ‘Michael Green’ of howtocorp.com (and howtobouncebackfromrecession.com, howtostartaforum.com, howtomarketwithtwitter.com, etc.) but today I’d really like to know more about his relationship with ‘Chuck Champion’ of howtopickupwomennow.com:



Perhaps Grant Shapps will inform us that the connection is ‘merely’ that howtopickupwomennow.com was one of the advertisers on the site savemysurgery.com, but the design, code and marketing and copy styles are identical to his* other ‘get results quickly without really trying’ scams, and his past behaviour (re: sock-puppetry denials) will count against him.

(*Yes, yes, yes. The paperwork shows the business is now in his wife’s name. But the advertising sales copy still live on many sites declares products to be the work of ‘Michael Green’, a “Member of Parliament”.)

Further, even if Grant Shapps can put a convincing amount of distance between himself and ‘Chuck Champion’, he has some serious questions to answer about site reputations he builds as an MP and then goes on to ‘cash in’ so it can be used as a patch on a two-bit ‘content’ farm where keyword-weighted links are sold for money. Shapps cannot pretend not to know what an online reputation is worth; too many of his products rely on teaching people how to falsify one.

http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2012/09/grant-shapps/

LeftishBrit

(41,212 posts)
2. I thought this was from Newsthump or Newsbiscuit at first
Sat Sep 22, 2012, 05:18 AM
Sep 2012

It's getting harder and harder to distinguish satire from reality.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,392 posts)
3. Labour letter to DPP on Grant Shapps’ alter ego
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 01:22 PM
Sep 2012
The Labour Party is calling for an investigation into a business founded by Tory chairman Grant Shapps for possible fraud and copyright violations.

Steve McCabe MP has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Metropolitan police asking for an investigation of How To Corp, an internet marketing firm set up by Shapps and his wife in 2005.

They allege that it plagiarised information. Earlier this month The Guardian revealed that Shapps founded the company selling software that breaches Google code. Google has since announced it would blacklist sites created by TrafficPaymaster.

McCabe DPP Letter

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/09/24/exclusive-labour-letter-to-dpp-on-grant-shapps-michael-green/


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