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After telling the advocate to be prepared for lots of laughter at the courthouse, there was a bit of quiet time, followed by a call from one of their execs and free flights to San Diego and back to look at their operations, and see if I perhaps wanted to come onboard. While they fixed the bulk of my complaints, and as a courtesy I took the reviews down, I never really found the time to get back to them or look at their dev platform. (The internets were still booming with bad rap all over.)

Look see more them up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS.ac --> and you see that they have since received a rating F from BBB, along with a £250,000 fine and a ban in UK for misleading business practices. Their site has now been rebranded (or taken over, it redirects to a new site with a new business model).

# Summa summarum, * if you are thinking about making money by creating fraudulent profiles, think again *. In my world, business models like this need to go down with Pyramid Schemes and HYIP "opportunities", and be likewise categorically banned by hosting service providers.