So Ian created a Warrior Forum WSO to get the word out to other Warrior Forum members who wanted to make gobs of cash for doing almost nothing. Mr. Simpson called it the "Proven and Lazy Way to Make Money Online".
According to Ian Simpson here's how it works in a nutshell:
"All you have to do is give us your keywords and our software finds which keywords will be profitable, then in 2 minutes our software builds great looking Customizsed(sic) and Monitized(sic) websites."
Yes, your keywords and oh yeah, some of your money. But don't worry, Ian has a "100% Money Back GUARANTEE". Just shell out $125, or is it $150, or is it $420 plus $60 per month? Oh it's all so confusing, but folks want that extra $13,000 a month!
There was only one little problem. Like the majority of WSOs offered on the Warrior Forum, Ian Simpson's WSO didn't work----AT ALL!
But wait, Ian assured all his customers there's just a few glitches to fix, then everyone can start making $13,000 a month! Trust him, he says and oh yeah send him more money so he can make the appropriate adjustments. Many folks do just that.
Here's a letter I received from one of Ian Simpson's customers:
Basically what he did after he took an initial payment was say he needed to improve his system and needed more money. It was almost blackmail. Said if we didn’t invest more the sites were dead ducks in the water as they weren’t ranking like they should.
A lot people paid him more money and got no results with it. One of the things was add backlinks. They were never done. I’m in contact with another couple of people on the thread and I’m sure they will back up what I say.
I lost appox $300-$400 all in. I’m sure there are people that lost more, even thousands.
He has now moved on to forex. He is ignoring emails from members and refusing refunds despite offering them in his sales copy.
You can read the entire ten page sorry Warrior Forum Ian Simpson thread. It's still up there although Warrior Forum Fraud Enabler Paul Myers will probably take it down after he reads this article.
The "100% Money Back GUARANTEE"? Ian Simpson didn't honor it. He refused to refund the thousands of dollars he stole from Warrior Forum members. Plus Warrior Forum moderator Paul Myers did nothing about Simpson's WSO scam. In fact, Paul Myers still has Ian Simpson listed as a Warrior Forum member in good standing. Here's Ian Simpson's Warrior Forum profile.
I wrote to Ian Simpson to get his side of the story. You see, I discovered there was an Ian Simpson, same name, same age, same home town in England, Hailsham, East Sussex, who had been convicted and jailed for two and a half years in 2001. His crime was perpetuating a huge fraud on England's Value Added Tax system.
This Ian Simpson ran 'seminars' that revealed how to defraud the UK's VAT collection authorities. It was a big deal, in fact one of this Ian Simpson's seminar students, Kenneth Young, admitted defrauding the VAT collection authorities of 2.4million pounds over seven months, obtaining 224,000 pounds from customer companies and stealing a further 290,000 pounds! Kenneth Young was jailed for five years.
Here's a BBC story about the Ian Simpson Kenneth Young Fraud.
Here's another article by Jack Mathieson about the same scam.
So, along with Ian Simpson's explanation about the Warrior Forum WSO scam, I wanted to know if Ian was the same Ian Simpson who defrauded the UK government. He never denied it. He did keep closing and changing email accounts to avoid me but I had current, active email accounts for him, so I know he received my letters.
Like all his Warrior Forum WSO scam victims, all I got from Ian Simpson was silence. What a swell guy.
UPDATE: My interview with Ian Simpson where he explains his actions, newsletters and attorney advice.
