Les Henderson

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Les Henderson is a Canadian consumer fraud investigating author and creator of consumer-fraud awareness site Crimes Of Persuasion (COP)[1].

Les Henderson wrote two books, "Crimes Of Persuasion" and "Under Investigation". His first book "Crimes Of Persuasion" describes a large variety of 'schemes, scams and frauds'. Les Henderson's second book "Under Investigation" is about the way the Florida AG Charlie Crist's office handled the Wilhelmina Scouting Network (WSN) affair. [2] , [3], [4].

Both Henderson's site and first book are acknowledged to be valuable and reliable sources of information and the site is linked to by a large number of renown other sites (a.o. governmental, municipal, law enforcement, corporate, consumer rights, educational and private). [5]

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

  • "Crimes of Persuasion: Schemes, Scams, Frauds - How con artists will steal your savings and inheritance through telemarketing fraud, investment schemes and consumer scams" 2000, ISBN 978-0-9687133-0-3 (paperback) (Amazon entry)
  • "Under Investigation: The Inside Story of the Florida Attorney General's Investigation of Wilhelmina Scouting Network, the Largest Model and Talent Scam in America", 2006, ISBN 978-0-9687133-3-4 (paperback) (Amazon entry)

[edit] Crimes-Of-Persuasion.com

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Crimes of Persuasion states as its mission: "To inform the public, along with law enforcement personnel, justice officials and victim support groups on the workings and scope of telemarketing and investment fraud so that efforts can effectively be taken to minimize the impact on its victims and ensure that adequate penalties are in place to deter the perpetrators. "

COP extensively describes the methods used by criminal perpetrators, like deception and deceptive persuasion.

[edit] Legal harassment and other nuisances

Writing/publishing about scammers and revealing their tricks has at least one disadvantage, namely the chance of getting harassed by them. Les Henderson has been subject to a few legal attacks and other kinds of nuisance.

In 2002 a Forex operation took legal action against Henderson, forcing the closure of his site in November 2002 pending a multi-million dollar lawsuit against him for defamation.[6].[7] Crimes of Persuasion was resurrected in March 2003. There are no references to the outcome of the case on COP or anywhere else.

June 2004 Henderson was served with a lawsuit by Fashion Rock, LLC (aka Talent Rock, a Florida company owned by Lou Pearlman, a talent scouter) alleging "violation of the federal and Florida versions of the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act, tortious interference with business relationships, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, misappropriation of trade secrets and civil conspiracy". [8] No further specifications of these allegations were given. February 19, 2007: finally (after two and half years and having to spend nearly $20.000 on legal expenses) the clearly frivolous case against Henderson was dismissed.

Also in June 2004 about a dozen identical sites have been erected by Pearlman "to attack critics", a.o. Les Henderson. [9] , [10]. Allegations from Pearlman's sites have been copied and published on some other sites. Since then a flood of anonymous writings appeared on Internet message boards, blogs, press releases and mock sites, containing similar and other unsourced offensive allegations about Henderson.

Mr. Henderson in return has filed a libel suit against Pearlman and 15 other corporations and individuals. [11] The suit is in progress.

November 2004 the web site was hacked and defaced by an unknown entity. Consequently the site's Forum was brought down several times by massive enduring DDOS attacks. The Forum has not been re-installed since then.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Crimes-Of-Persuasion.com Whois info Schemes, Scams, Frauds.
  2. ^ "Under Investigation" 2006, ISBN 978-0-9687133-3-4 (paperback) (Amazon entry)
  3. ^ New York Post September 24, 2006 LOUIE WASN'T 'N SYNC / LAWSUIT BACKFIRES "LOU Pearlman picked the wrong guy to sue"
  4. ^ The Gainsville Sun (October 3, 2006) Book: Crist tried to "whitewash" probe"
  5. ^ Alexa results Sites linked to crimes-of-persuasion.com
  6. ^ UnjustIS www.unjustis.co.uk 14 December 2002, Paul Bantock: Abuse of Power.
  7. ^ Frauds and Scams - Bill E. Branscum.
  8. ^ Image:FR2ndAmmended.pdf Fashion Rock, LLC vs Frank Torelli et al. Second amended complaint (marked: received 24 September 2004) . Circuit Court Orange County Florida. Case number 48-2004-CA-004844-O.
  9. ^ Orlando Weekly: Pearlman's jihad
  10. ^ internethatesites.com
  11. ^ Ontario Superior Court of Justice Court File No. C-8937-05 - Henderson vs Pearlman, Tolner, El-Difrawi a.o.
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