OffshoreCorpTalk exposed: from CClogic scam front to fake forum accounts

[JohnnyDoe]

So here we go, another layer of the onion peeled back and surprise surprise: it stinks.

Turns out OCT owner @JohnLocke isn’t just the benevolent shepherd of lost offshore lambs, but the same guy behind CClogic, one of those bottom-tier, reselling-other-people’s-services kind of companies. The smoking gun? The forum itself was never about “community” or “knowledge sharing.” It was born as nothing more than a marketing funnel for his little resale shop. Proof right here in this vintage gem: Offshore Company in Hong Kong, Belize, Seychelles, Panama or BVI - Read Here!

And since shady ventures have a short shelf life, they didn’t even last long before the BVI FSC caught them running unauthorized services and slapped them with a public warning: CC Logic LLC - Advisory Warning No. 15 of 2009 | British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission

Now for the cherry on this clown sundae: the self-promotional thread where a supposed happy customer cheers for CClogic’s brilliance… posted on the same forum that just happens to belong to them.
Keep the good work guys @ cclogic!

Dig a little and you see it’s nothing but fake accounts clapping for themselves. Take @EliasIT: just another alias for @JohnLocke. The avatar, the join date, the consecutive registration number, the nationality (Danish, what a coincidence), all line up too neatly. Just another sock puppet in a sock drawer already overflowing.

So, next time someone tells you OffshoreCorpTalk is a legitimate space for offshore wisdom, remember: it started life as a cheap marketing gimmick for a service provider that regulators had to shut down, and evolved into a full scale scam. The emperor has no clothes, but he sure has a lot of fake usernames.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

CClogic Ltd didn't last long, as it was dissolved on 08/02/2012
But nothing stopped him from continuing the business and offering a high value e-book

 

[Rick]

I thought cclogic was ~ 2 owners ago of OCT, but yes they are (or at least have) definitely been linked.

 

[Rick]

Btw besides EliasIT there are several of other fake members, maybe we can create a list of them? 😜 I am 99.9999% sure Ally (woman PF, new lifetime member who suddenly is active all the time) is another one.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I thought cclogic was ~ 2 owners ago of OCT, but yes they are (or at least have) definitely been linked.

That's the story they have built. It's always been the same owner behind different entities. Nobody ever really bought the forum.

 

[Rick]

Given that I cannot edit my own posts here is another one.
The name attached to CCLogic is Brian Larsson, but I believe that the new owner's name is Nicos Andersen. But given that both names sound Scandinavian they could be working together or smth.

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Btw besides EliasIT there are several of other fake members, maybe we can create a list of them? 😜 I am 99.9999% sure Ally (woman PF, new lifetime member who suddenly is active all the time) is another one.

Bingo! It's plenty of fake members. Funny to see such old accounts suddenly coming back to life and rushing to buy the lifetime membership 🤣
And the avatars... embarassing

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Given that I cannot edit my own posts here is another one.
The name attached to CCLogic is Brian Larsson, but I believe that the new owner's name is Nicos Andersen. But given that both names sound Scandinavian they could be working together or smth.

we stick to what is reported in public sources. Let's not engage in doxxing. We don't really care about the rl names of those people.

 

[marioIT]

told you it's almost, even now, one man show with avatars made with the same ai generator... all those crazy looking faces 🤣
I saw a few new ones, now he started generating pictures with a different tool.

nice you linked some old posts from 2011.
it was very evident then.
Years ago there were just a few users pushing services (maybe he banned everyone but himself).
At a point he was too lazy to create new fake users, he was just editing the usernames when people complained about scams....
but he forgot the user-id on the links, quotes and profile page stayed the same, as the join date etc 🤣
now if you check he redirected the member list page at /members to a white page with: "The site is currently being upgraded. Please check back later."
if one gave a look at the members list the scam was very very obvious.
but one could still play with it with the right url 😉

there were like the usual 3-4 users pushing hard to sell the services... once people started complaining about scams, he renamed the user and after some time he started posting again... but the link pointed at a crazy low "one digit" user ID created the same day as the admin one 🤣
@clemens @bizman @Theoldman @sebastian etc... pretty much any account old enough ( early 2009) on business angel badge or lifetime membership and/or has a signature advertising some posts behind the mentor group paywall 😉
if you go back enough with messages (2009 or thereabout) you'll find entire pages of the guy talking and congratulating himself, and he is reusing those accounts now.🤣
even admitting "this is a test of anonymous post, nice it's working", and the admin after "congrats to you" 🤣
then something happened around Apr 29, 2020 as there are PLENTY of old users that stopped appearing at exactly that date.

IIRC one time he even had to ban himself to prove to the community that the place was safe and scammers were not accepted, @Spinat user maybe IIRC? that guy was mad! I still remember tons of people complaining about being scammed hard! 🤣

 

[Rick]

Ah okay I am only reading what is available online here: BLACKWATER INTERNATIONAL LTD persons with significant control - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

PSCs are public info so it should be fine right? If they dont want people to talk about this they shouldnt have registered in the UK lol. I mean this is just even more ironic given that they host a forum which is supposedly a proponent of business privacy

 

[JohnnyDoe]

IIRC one time he even had to ban himself

I'm dying 🤣

 

[JohnnyDoe]

Ah okay I am only reading what is available online here: BLACKWATER INTERNATIONAL LTD persons with significant control - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

PSCs are public info so it should be fine right? If they dont want people to talk about this they shouldnt have registered in the UK lol. I mean this is just even more ironic given that they host a forum which is supposedly a proponent of business privacy

He (or TurnerLittle) could have used NOMINEES! 🤣
But most likely these name are real, as they have been used also in the Hamilton Reserve lawsuit.
Google: "peter larsson offshorecorptalk"

 

[marioIT]

IF he's the same guy as this then he was well experienced before offshorecorptalk
found a thread talking about a payment processor in 2005... Paytox.com Or Forcetronix.com
and one of the names above...

"They said have not charged the card of my client while really they have charged the card"

Page 3 | Let's talk about www.paytox.com | Web Hosting Talk

Let's talk about www.paytox.com - Hi, I just heard one exciting news from a forum member that Forcetronix has a processor can support most countries worldwide, I guess it must be [u

www.webhostingtalk.com

and found horror stories on very old websites, not online anymore, but they are on wayback machine 😱

another:

paytox

anyone used them? they are based out of netherlands. I have limited options when it comes to acepting credit cards. they are very similar to the way paypal works. 8)

support.jodohost.com

quoted from the above link:
WARNING ABOUT PAYTOX & forcetronix

this is a scam company they will let you setup your account and take your customers money but you will never get it they will keep it they have $4.000.00 of my and $1700.00 of a good friends we both setup our accounts at the same time in july and at the end of june we done a withdraw and have not got our money yet and they will not reply to our emails and when we call them they hang up on us when they find our that were not new clients so be warned don't use them there a rip off S.O.B.SX

 

[CEO]

Good investigation.

 

[marioIT]

I don't like to dox people, so will not post the info here...
but since it's on public registers as you wrote above, if you dig down in the psc register of that ltd that rick posted above, check the first filing application on HMRC website... you'll find the danish address in clear, and from that name + that address you'll find all the old danish companies he had...
and it adds up to the info I posted above.

weird that he or his nominee provider posted his address and everything in clear in the PSC register and on application forms...
for being an offshore expert, that's embarrassing!

I would be curious about the other name, the one of the lawsuit, if it's real or not, and trace the whole cyprus thing.
As it seems offshorecorptalk started offering cyprus services pretty much at the time there should be traces online about that.
If there are really two guys or it's just one + the fake alias...

but now i have better things to do than that 😀

 

[JohnnyDoe]

I don't like to dox people, so will not post the info here...
but since it's on public registers as you wrote above, if you dig down in the psc register of that ltd that rick posted above, check the first filing application on HMRC website... you'll find the danish address in clear, and from that name + that address you'll find all the old danish companies he had...
and it adds up to the info I posted above.

weird that he or his nominee provider posted his address and everything in clear in the PSC register and on application forms...
for being an offshore expert, that's embarrassing!

I hope that’s not his real address. At the time you didn’t have to provide any proof of address to HMRC.
I also hope that’s he has found some peace in Switzerland, if @EliasIT story is real. The country is quite a safe refuge for scammers.

 

[marioIT]

yeah maybe you're right.
he filed that company and declared that, albeit danish, he was residing in Germany... you can see on the director details of that HMRC paper.
IIRC @EliasIT posted a thread about moving from Germany to CH time ago...
also @clemens ( userid #8 on OCT) posted about a car bought in germany that wanted to import in switzerland, asking how to.
then after some months, here it comes this @EliasIT guy, german, that bought a car there and wanted to relocate to switzerland etc etc etc
it is the same guy 🤣

 

[JohnnyDoe]

yeah maybe you're right.
he filed that company and declared that, albeit danish, he was residing in Germany... you can see on the director details of that HMRC paper.
IIRC @EliasIT posted a thread about moving from Germany to CH time ago...
also @clemens ( userid #8 on OCT) posted about a car bought in germany that wanted to import in switzerland, asking how to.
then after some months, here it comes this @EliasIT guy, german, that bought a car there and wanted to relocate to switzerland etc etc etc
it is the same guy 🤣

Damn, he must have very busy days managing all those users! 🤣
Not to mention editing the posts of the few real users that are (were) still active… true, @NewHorizonsParaguay?

 

[Columbus]

Daaamn 😆. No waaay. It makes a lot of sense now.

 

[Fiscal]

I've said this several times before but it never ceases to amaze me how truly insane it is how many accounts end up being JohnLocke. It's like he has a personality disorder and talks to himself with dozens of profiles. As a disaster tourist, I still check the forum every now and then, and lately he's been really sloppy with it. Suddenly dozens of Mentor Group Lifetime profiles with the same sort of AI profile pictures appear out of nowhere, asking/posting something once a month. Totally unrealistic anymore; even a passerby would recognize this pattern by now.

By the way, it's hilarious to learn that EliasT also turns out to be Johnlocke. There are many creative angles to his fraudulent charades, I'll give him that.

All of this is probably more out of desperation these days. Because his source of income is proving to be finite after removing everyone who had useful things to say. But even back when this weird strategy was working it seems to me like an unnecessary amount of work to do for some money (considering all of his companies go bust every few years I'm assuming he's not earning millions whatsoever).