this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
296 points (98.7% liked)

News

22876 readers
3816 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 134 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've spent a few minutes trying to figure out who Life Corporation and Walter Monk are. Walter Monk may be an "entrepreneur" in Texas, but that isn't clear to me. What is clear is that "Life Corporation" has been incorporated since 1995 and has no internet presence as far as I can tell.

This is shady as fuck before you even get to the illegal stuff.

https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/arlington/profile/advertising-agencies/life-corporation-0825-95110149

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Oh that's interesting. Not sure how that didn't show up in my search. I had to log in to my ancient LinkedIn account to read it, but I'm glad I did, because...

I really like starting businesses. You might say I am obsessed (or is it possessed? ) by this activity. I love helping others start businesses. I am a member of the Entrepreneurs Organization of Fort Worth, and I highly recommend this worldwide organization for any entrepreneur.

In college majored in Wildlife Management, and soon discovered that the life of starting businesses was more fun than going to school. Some of the businesses that I started include gas stations, lobster trapping, a chain of nightclubs and bars, selling bait, a beef jerky plant, a dating service, credit card processing center, condom machine routes, and selling pool cues. Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders that have made some of my ideas into very long lasting businesses. Together our team has done billions of phone calls, texts and and done a lot of political polling, nonprofit These all made at least some money except the lobster trapping...I never caught one lobster. I may go back to Hawaii and try that again, it still bothers me :-)

Thank you.

Edit: I should have hilighted this part too, because again, SKETCHY AS FUCK.

Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders

We would amuse ourselves by dressing like ghosts with pointy heads, and burning spare lumber after nailing it together in an X

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

1527 S Cooper St is something called TextToSurvey. I'm guessing Life Corporation, if it ever actually existed, is dead in all but name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I’m guessing Life Corporation, if it ever actually existed, is dead in all but name.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All things considered, that's a pretty quick setup for a long-running operation on foreign territory. Couldn't have been easy when it's only been about four years since the collapse of the USSR.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

See my full paste from the LinkedIn page @DrQuickbeam found, but here's the key part:

Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders

He never says who they are. Very suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Good find by Quickbeam, thanks for copying it over. Kinda sounds like some of the language used in MLM pitches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/

Search for "Entity Name" of "Life Corporation". From there, you can get a list of corporate leadership. CEO (when searched on linkedin) shows the CEO is also a CEO of:

  • Poll Makers,
  • Text to Survey
  • Voice Broadcasting

It seems to be all surrounding a call-center. It all fits.