After researchig pornkings.com (MarVad Corp.) I have decided to post my results:
(Ian Eisenberg, A. Joel Eisenberg, Roger Vadocz, and Brian Marchlewicz are responsible for the following domains in which they conduct business and illegitimate business under several different company names. The following are links found from google of information pertaining to these individuals and companies, lawsuits, and of course scams they have participated in: ----------------------------
wired
news article
The moguls of audiotext are a small and rather contentious
bunch, all but unknown outside their industry: Ian Eisenberg, a young Seattle
businessman whose father, Joel Eisenberg, was one of the pioneers of phone sex
in the '80s "Phone sex was the first leap into interactivity," says Steffani
Martin of Albamar Inc., a New York Web-sex firm that owns the Babes4U site and
is also in the phone-sex business with Eisenberg. Though they like to present
themselves as a multibillion-dollar industry as deserving of respect as any
other, they still glory in tales of past scams - like the legendary
"Here Comes Santa" infomercial, often attributed to Joel Eisenberg, which ran on
a Seattle television station in December 1989. The setup was worthy of the most
devilish phone phreak: put a guy in a Santa suit on TV and have him tell the
kiddies they can talk to Santa personally if they hold their telephone receivers
up to the set - just as it emits a tone that connects them, for a hefty toll.
The television station knocked Santa off the air 10 minutes into the show when
its switchboard lit up with calls from enraged parents, but still ... Warshavsky
joined this bunch in 1990, when he was 17 - too young, he admits, to make a
phone-sex call himself.
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dateline
nbc transcript
This article is from a Dateline NBC transcript I found on
phonelosers.org. It talks about victimization of the Ian Eisenberg's of the
world, how they falsely advertise the chatlines, the contracts for profit, and
how they get young overweight teens addicted to these chatlines, destroying
families in the process!
Teen-agers and Their Families Are Victims of
Telephone Chat Lines:
Dateline NBC Friday Dec2, 1994
BRYANT GUMBEL reporting: Good evening. It's a fact of life that kids,
especially teen-agers, spend a lot of time on the phone. So it should come as no
surprise that so-called 'chat lines' have become the latest craze of some young
people. The lines seem innocent enough, but there is a downside. We found
teen-agers who became obsessed--in one case even running away to live with
strangers from the chat line. Here's Lea Thompson with part three of our
DATELINE investigation. DIALING FOR DOLLAR$ [<-they think they're eleet]
Offscreen Voice: (From telephone) What's up? You've reached the rap
line.
ALEXIS: It really gets you addicted because you want to keep calling
these people.
LEA THOMPSON reporting: (voiceover) It's a totally teen
phenomenon.
Ms. KYLE BURGER: I got hooked on it, and I kept calling it.
Offscreen Voice: (From telephone) Welcome to the line with you in mind.
ALEXIS: I spent almost 24 hours a day on that line.
THOMPSON: Anyone can
join this party line of the young and the restless; half a dozen can share
conversation on one line. It's advertised as free but it can be very expensive
and dangerous.
ALEXIS: I never thought it would lead to this. This never
crosses your mind when you pick up a phone. I mean, it's a phone. Who would know
it could tear your family apart so much?
THOMPSON: What did you talk about?
ALEXIS: Anything. There was--you could say anything and everything.
THOMPSON: But you talked for hours at a time?
ALEXIS: Oh, god. I talked
for days at a time!
THOMPSON: Alexis says she got addicted to chat lines
after she changed schools and started having a lot of trouble fitting in. What
did the chat line do for you that you couldn't get from your friends?
ALEXIS: I guess more acceptance, you know. I was always a very insecure
person.
THOMPSON: For Alexis, the cost of this long-distance belonging was
very high, higher than anyone could imagine.
ALEXIS: I admit I was totally
hooked on that line.
THOMPSON: Every time things heated up at home over the
phone bills, the 14 year old would take off across the country to live with
adults, men and women she'd met on the chat line.
ALEXIS: There was, ranging
from 19 years old to--I think the oldest I was with was twenty-five.
THOMPSON: And she did it not once or twice but six times. You just blindly
went off and met these people without a second thought? ALEXIS: Oh yeah, no
thought at all. It was just, you know, I'm getting away from my problems.
I'm--it's always in the TV or newspapers that yes, you know, this person's been
raped and killed or so and so; but it never occurred to me that it could
actually happen to me.
THOMPSON: But it occurred to her father, Bill, who
was desperately trying to find her.
BILL: Yes, we were worried every time
she was gone.
THOMPSON: And Alexis had run up more than $4,000 in long
distance bills. When her father couldn't pay, the phone was disconnected. But
that isn't supposed to happen. Two years ago, Congress wrote a law to protect
families from phone nightmares like this. The law says that services like chat
lines are supposed to be on 900 numbers, numbers parents can have blocked. It
says you can dispute a 900-call charge without being disconnected. To get around
the law, chat lines have moved their services onto regular long-distance lines,
and that strips parents of the power to protect themselves and their kids. As a
result, Bill had no recourse when Pacific Bell disconnected his service, and he
was reduced to calling Alexis' chat-line friends to try to find her.
Offscreen Voice: (from telephone) A place to talk to girls and guys from all
over the hood...
BILL: We spent hours at pay phones calling people on the
chat line.
THOMPSON: It worked and he brought her home. But then he almost
lost her for good. Alexis says her life was a disaster, and the bills and the
anger and the guilt were too much.
ALEXIS: And I attempted suicide and ended
up in intensive care on my birthday. And that was, like, one of the worst times
in my life.
BILL: It's been a pure hell. Nothing mattered to her as much as
being on the phone.
Offscreen Voice: (from telephone) Hey, everyone, thanks
for calling. You've reached the most raging party line in the country.
THOMPSON: Seventeen-year-old Kyle Burger was also lured into the chat-line
scene, much to the dismay of her mother.
Ms. MARY BURGER: It makes me angry
because the kids don't know any better.
KYLE BURGER: My friend gave me the
phone number. That because my new set of friends.
THOMPSON: Mary Burger says
kids often get started after reading the dozens of chat-line adds in magazines
like Rolling Stone or Spin. The ads say it is 'hip' and 'hot' and 'sexy' and
'free'--free.
THOMPSON: Did you think it was free?
KYLE BURGER: The
introduction to the party line was misleading.
THOMPSON: With her mother's
permission, Kyle showed us how to get to her favorite chat line. It's a 515 area
code.
Offscreen Voice: (from telephone) This is...(unintelligible)...the one
and only, your personal connection to the hottest free party lines around.
THOMPSON: It said 'free.'
KYLE BURGER: It did.
THOMPSON: Do you
believe you were doing enough to try to cut her off?
Ms. MARY BURGER: I was
locking up the telephones. I would lock them in the trunk of my car. And you
have to understand, too, that by the time I had my first bill, we were halfway
into another billing cycle, so, you know, probably $3-$400 worth of charges
already in place before I found out about it for the very first time.
THOMPSON: Mary also found out that Kyle was hearing more that just idle chat
on these lines.
KYLE BURGER: Hello? Do I have any daughters? No.
THOMPSON: When we heard the man on the other end of this call tell Kyle he
was watching a child porn film, we cut it off. Kyle's mother went on a crusade
to track down who was behind all of this. It turned out to be a complicated
trail, full of surprises. You might think her search would take her to Las
Vagas, New York, LA, but that 515 area code on her telephone bills led her to
this small town of Jefferson, Iowa. It's become the unlikely crossroads for
hundreds of chat and sex lines. This area may be known as the home of corn and
cattle, but now chat lines are a major cash crop. According to public records,
in the two years since the small Jefferson Telephone Company hooked up with the
chat and sex line operator, its profits have jumped from $352,000 a year to
$2,216,000 a year.
BILL: It's amazing. I mean, obviously they've latched
on a gold mine.
THOMPSON: The Jefferson Telephone Company first told us it
had severed its relationship with the company that actually programs the chat
lines. Jefferson Telephone refused to be interviewed on camera, but in a letter
to Dateline said, 'because some people find parts of the programming
objectionable, we did the right thing in terminating the contract.' But Kyle
Burger had no trouble getting Jefferson's 515 party line. Jefferson admits the
contract with the company requires it to keep the lines open for up to one year
after giving notice. And who is that contract with?
Ms. MARY BURGER: His
name's Ian Eisenberg.
THOMPSON: When Mary Burger complained to the
Jefferson Telephone Company, she was sent to Ian and Joel Eisenberg.
Ms. MARY BURGER: And I said, 'I'm not going to go away. I want you to know
that I'm going to be your worst nightmare.'
THOMPSON: The man in the
Rolls Royce is Joel Eisenberg. Eisenberg's business took in more than $63
million a year, according to documents filed in court in 1991 by the IRS. He
then was running 72 separate corporations, almost all in the phone-entertainment
business. Eisenberg gained national attention in the late '80s when he ran a TV
ad encouraging kids to call Santa Claus on a 900 pay line. It instructed
children to hold up the phone to the TV. Then the commercial played the
telephone tones and the call was automatically connected.
The IRS has
investigated whather Joel Eisenberg underreported his income. The agency raided
his Seattle offices in 1991. No charges have been filed. Mean- while, the elder
Eisenberg has passed the chat-line business off to his son, Ian. We wanted to
talk to Joel and Ian Eisenberg. They wouldn't respond to our request for an
interview, so we tried in person.
(Thompson waiting by car as man leaves
car)
THOMPSON: Mr. Eisenberg?
JOEL EISENBERG: Yes.
THOMPSON: How do
you do? I'm Lea Thompson from DATELINE NBC.
JOEL EISENBERG: Hi. How are you?
THOMPSON: I wonder if I could talk to you a little bit about your business.
JOEL EISENBERG: I'm afraid not.
THOMPSON: (seconds later, Ian showed up
for work) Are you Mr. Eisenberg?
IAN EISENBERG: You are?
THOMPSON: Lea
Thompson from DATELINE NBC. I wonder if I could talk to you a little bit about
you and your father's business. We'd like to talk to you about the chat lines.
People say that you're running ads that say the chat lines are free, and then
they get these huge bills, and they want to know how you can call your chat
lines 'free'?
While Ian Eisenberg didn't answer, industry insiders say the
chat is free because you only pay the long-distance charges. So how do people
like the Eisenbergs make so much money? Well, Jefferson Telephone says it gives
the Eisenbergs a cut of what it collects. We went to the Federal Communications
Commission to ask if it was legal for a phone company to do that. Now the FCC is
asking questions, too.
KATHLEEN WALLMAN (FCC): We've commenced an
investigation of the Jefferson Company, including an audit of its books, and
that compensation arrangement is one of the things we're looking at.
THOMPSON: People like Mary Burger never heard about chat lines until eight
months ago. Now she says they represent expense and exploitation that never
seems to end.
MARY BURGER: I felt victimized by the Ian Eisenbergs of the
world, and I felt victimized by the phone companies, and I felt victimized
by my own daughter.
THOMPSON: What did it do to your family?
MARY
BURGER: It made enemies out of us. I'm sorry.
THOMPSON: It tore your family
apart.
MARY BURGER: It put my daughter in touch with people that--that I
felt weren't good for her. It brought a lot of hatred and animosity into my
home. It's not been easy to deal with.
GUMBEL: If you feel that your child
is spending too much time on chat lines, try calling your local phone company.
They can't help too much, but there are a few that will block the number for
you.
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Lets continue with Cyberspace/Nocharge: -cyberspace.com (Now known as
nocharge.com provider of free internet dialup access in the great Northwest and
New England areas. The name change obviously due to lawsuits such as the one in
the Western District of Washington where cyberspace.com was sued by the FTC in
which the owner Ian Eisenberg and his affiliates engaged in an illegal scheme to
deceive consumers by mailing $3.50 "rebate" checks to millions of small
businesses and consumers.
Links about Cyberspace/NoCharge/Ian Eisenberg:
Law
Enforcers Target "Top 10" Online Scams Consumer Protection Cops From 9
Countries, 5 U.S. Agencies, And 23 States Tackle Internet Fraud
Related Documents:
FTC v. Cyberspace.com, LLC; French Dreams; Coto
Settlement; Electronic Publishing Ventures, LLC; Olympic Telecommunications,
Inc.; Ian Eisenberg; and Chris Hebard (Western District of Washington). 10.
Defendant Ian Eisenberg is the President of defendant Olympic
Telecommunications, Inc., and is a principal of defendant French Dreams. At all
times material to this complaint, acting alone or in concert with others, he has
formulated, directed, controlled, or participated in the acts and practices set
forth in this complaint. He transacts or has transacted business in the Western
District of Washington.
Court documents of the permanent injunction [1]
& [2]
Bogus "Rebate" Offers With Hidden ISP Requirements Violate Federal Law
insiderreports.com
article
consumeraffairs.com
article
Last year, the Federal Trade Commission charged that defendants Ian Eisenberg, Chris Hebard, Olympic Telecommunications, French Dream Investments, Coto Settlement, and their affiliates engaged in an illegal scheme to deceive consumers by mailing $3.50 "rebate" checks to millions of small businesses and consumers.
Full Review
epinions.com review of
nocharge.com
I've been using nocharge since the beginning when they
called themselves "cyberspace". They seem to go in and out of periods of
reliability and unreliability. The other comments reflect that fairly well. When
they are working properly they are great. When they don't work you will need to
have a backup plan, don't waste too much time trying to figure out if the
problem is on your end, if your time has any value you'd be better off paying
for an isp, Just check their site and messageboard, then move to a backup. They
charge $10/call for techsupport, some suspect them of lowering the quality of
their service to generate revenue from support calls. If you want some
background on the company: Another review mentioned their parent company,
"Mirage marketing", surprisingly (or not) this company runs phone sex lines and
online porn sites. The owner of this company(Ian Eisenberg) is the son of the
owner of the company that manages their dialup phone lines "internationl
telecom" (Joel Eisenberg). They have been responsible for numerous scandals,
scams, and whatnot in the past, you can find the info about this using a search
engine and a little searching skill(really interesting stuff). Nocharge
obviously doesn't want its customers to know about this, and censors their
messageboard accordingly, The support presence on their messageboard as well as
their service has improved since this info (and the speculation that goes along
with it) was brought to their (and other) messageboards ;-) . The voicemail and
fax services that they push are run by International Telecom. If you are going
to use nocharge I don't think it is worth the bother to download their software,
it is faster and easier just to set the connection up manually, then you also
don't have to worry about having to uninstall the software later, I don't know
if they have fixed it but people used to have problems getting rid of it, and
software rarely uninstalls cleanly in any case. It is nice that they have the no
software option at all unlike other free isp. As others have mentioned, they
block smpt(port 25) so you can't send regular email, you either have to use
webmail, hotmail through outlook, or a pop mail service that uses a nonstandard
smtp port like softhome.net or runbox.com.
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-ncplus.net
-ncplusdsl.net
Another name for nocharge.com ISP just
pushing DSL service b/c of a qwest contract. Here is the lame explaination on
their website: NCPLUS is an authorized provider of Qwest DSL services. Think of
Qwest providing the pipe or DSL circuit and NCPLUS providing the water or ISP
services, like the connection to the Internet and e-mail services!
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-featurefon.com
-kallback.com
-faxaway.com
-kallcents.com
-kall8.com
-laservoicemail.com
-itltd.net
These
are all telecomm. related services and sites offered under the company name
International Telcom, A. Joel Eisenberg is the Chairman and Founder. Apparently
Ian is involved with these sites and the company as well. Most of these site you
can find very poor layouts and lame graphics.
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-hookuptoday.com
They also run chat/date lines which they receive a very
minimal amount of money (< 1cents) for every call that comes into their
platform. From my research I have found they have contracts with the telcos to
receive payment for each call. They use this for advertising other services they
offer with telecomm involvement such as erotic chat via text messages. I called
one named the Oasis that I had noticed on nocharge.com in an advertisement and
the first caller I heard was discussing things about underage children and
incest in his recorded greeting.
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-aerowebb.com
-marvad.com
-pornkings.com -> MarVad Corp
This is where Roger Vadocz comes
into play. Now Roger is the one who posts on here under the name "pornkings".
Supposedly he is President of MarVad but uses Brian Marchlewicz's email
at brian@usnetwork.com on his whois info. His phone # is listed to Mirage
Marketing Inc in Seattle.
IANEISENBERG.COM -> MarVad Corp
usnetwork.com -> MarVad
Corp
do-me-live.com -> MarVad Corp
erotica.com -> MarVad
Corp
thehotlist.com -> MarVad Corp
perfectiongirls.com -> MarVad
Corp
amateurholic.com -> MarVad Corp
realitykings.com -> MarVad
Corp
perfectiongirls.com -> MarVad Corp
prefectioncash.com -> MarVad
Corp
Update: MarVad backs these sites with money and what is funny they
failed to pay on cc rebills and got busted out. Another lil scam. pfft play
pimpin again!
sexbrat.com -> MarVad Corp -> Brian Marchlewicz is the president of
sexbrat supposedly.
Brian
Marchlewicz Marvad, LLC. (formerly Aeroweb) Direct Line: 206-505-5570
Google MarVad Corp/611 hits on it
Paris Hilton Video -> MarVad
The third and fourth pending lawsuits
involve Solomon, a friend of his who alleges he was authorized to sell the tape,
and the Seattle-based pornography company to which Don Thrasher, the friend,
originally sold the marketing rights to the tape.
Shortly after filing the
Hilton lawsuit, Salomon, also filed a second $10 million copyright infringement
and invasion of privacy lawsuit against adult entertainment provider Marvad
Corp. In the lawsuit Salomon claims that the tape was stolen from his possession
by Thrasher and that he never authorized sale of the tape.
In response,
Marvad sued Thrasher, who sold it the tape to Marvad in return for a $50,000
advance against 30% of the gross revenues collected from the tape, for $10
million. In its suit Marvad claims that Thrasher misled them into believing that
he owned the tape.
For his part, Thrasher continues to insist that he was
given the tape by Salomon and was merely acting as Salomon's agent. "We had an
agreement to sell the tape, He gave me the tape. Period." Thrasher stated at the
time. Thrasher also contends that he cashed the $50,000 advance check that he
received from Marvad and gave half to Salomon.
Contract-
link1
link2
Links-
http://www.parishilton.tv/paris_hilton2.htm
http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/modules.php?file=index&name=News&op=modload&topic=59
http://www.sexcia.com/paris_hilton_sex_tape/paris_hilton_news4.html
http://www.ksexradio.com/press/viewpress.cgi?id=1090616032&titletop=Kevin%20Blatt%20visits%20Dee
http://www.uselessjunk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=458
MarVad publicist KB talks with
Howard Stern.
Conclusion: Ok so MarVad buys a tape for $50 grand they intend to sell copies of. This purchase was made by MarVad from the roommate of Rick Saloman, Mr. Thrasher! MarVad actually thinks its going to be perfectly legal. Even though Thrasher doesn't appear in the tape, its not Thrasher's tape, and they didn't have permission from Paris Hilton OR Rick Saloman (husband of actress Shannen Doherty) who actually appear in the tape. After all this they can't even post the Paris Hilton Vid on sexbrat.com just like the bosley tape/pics! WOW! Seems to me MarVad enjoys the attention, gloats about how they are all about 1st amendment rights, and wastes money on legal fees when they accomplish nothing!
Cathering Bosley -> MarVad
SexBrat.Com
Has First Amendment Right to Broadcast Controversial Video of Naked News Anchor,
Rules United States Appeals Court
Links-
http://www.sexbrat.com/firstamend.html
http://www.sexbrat.com/bosleycase.html
http://www.sexbrat.com/cathy2.php
http://www.sexbrat.com/answer.pdf
http://www.sexbrat.com/download.pdf
http://www.sexbrat.com/download2.pdf
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Temporary
Restraining Order Issued On March 08, 2004 a Temporary Restraining Order has
been issued against SexBrat.Com on behalf of Catherine Bosley, as a result we
have been forced to temporarily remove the footage and accompanying images. Stay
Tuned for complete details.
Conclusion:
All this nonsense with Bosley and lawsuits they don't even
have the video or pics on the site but yet claim they are so elite in defending
1st amendment rights.
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Aerowebb/Aerotel:
AEROTEL
COMMUNICATIONS, LLC, Petition for Registration as a Telecommunications
Company
Aerotel is a Delaware limited liability company, headquartered
in Seattle, Washington, and is owned by Ian Eisenberg. Rates, terms, and
conditions set forth in the proposed price list are structured similarly to
rates filed by other interexchange carriers for calls placed in the relevant
market.
Aerotel
Communications To Cease Business in WA State
Company: Aerotel
Communications, LLC
Docket #: UT-001056 Status: Closed
Summary: Request to
cease business in the state of Washington.
Docket
Sheet Summary
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International Telcom, Ltd & Eastland of Orlando Telephone Corp:
Mr.
Ian Eisenberg, as Owner or President and/or Officer of Eastland of Orlando
Telephone Corp. with known address at Metro Office Park, Guaynabo, PR. Granted
only for the limited purpose of conducting discovery of Ian Eisenberg, Eastland
and Tel-Net. Dateline for completion of said discovery May 31, 2001
The above is a portion of a lawsuit filing between International Telcom, Ltd vs Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Inc. where IT sued for a breach of contract.
You can view the file at:
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:ttsTP-_yJMwJ:www.jrtpr.gobierno.pr/Archivo/QUERELLAS/2000/JRT-2000-Q-0111%2520y%25200114%2520International%2520vs.%2520PRTC/20010502%2520RO%2520II.pdf+International+Telcom+LTD+%2B+ian&hl=en
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:8FOVzY2p3MIJ:www.jrtpr.gobierno.pr/dynamic/respuesta_busqueda.asp%3FST%3DCE%26valor%3D837+International+Telcom+LTD+%2B+ian&hl=en
Eastland of Orlando Telephone:
Mr. Ian Eisenberg, as Owner or President
and/or Officer of Eastland of Orlando Telephone Corp, with known address at
Metro Office Park, Guaynabo, PR.
Eastland of Orlando Telephone Corporation 1015152-Pic Code Phone: 1-888-909-7283
Related Documents:
1)THIS AGREEMENT is made by and between BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.,(.BellSouth.),a Georgia corporation, and Eastland of Orlando Telephone Corp. ... Agreement with Bellsouth
2) Bellsouth Interconnection Services
3)Negotiated
Agreement Rates
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Misc. Links:
1)Ian
Eisenberg Association of Telecommunications Professionals in Higher
Education.
P A R T I C I P A N T S PAY-PER-CALL WORKSHOP ANTHONY TANZI,
IAN EISENBERG, Association of Telecommunications Professionals in Higher
Education.
2)FTC->Eisenberg ftc search results on "Eisenberg"
3)pornkings.com -> MarVad Corp. gofuckyourself