QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th December 2009, 9:04am)
I called up Britishmonomarks, and the very nice woman there confirmed that all of these were the same people using different names, although she obviously couldn't confirm who exactly they were. It's only a mail-forwarding service and they're extremely upfront about that, if you ask them directly.
Thank you very much. Though I very much suspect that Fushion-UK uses Britishmonomarks, I can't prove it. There ARE apparently other honest-to-god business presenses in this old office building, and it's possible (though not likely) that Fushion Pukka Bosh (and Lee Dennison Associates) are among them. The problem is identifying some non-virtual business in the building (other than Britishmonomarks itself, of course!) and calling somebody there who could tell us.
Zounds, we need to call our London Agents and put them onto this! The place is only a 5 minute walk from the British Museum-- I wish I could go and check it out myself (then go have another look at the Elgin marbles and the Rosetta Stone; The last time I was at the museum, you could see Karl Marx's old favorite fixed chair he used for writing at the museum-- a quiet place he could hang out away from home. It's probably under glass by now.)
QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th December 2009, 9:04am)
Hmm, are we absolutely certain that there are not multiple Mark Binmore's, one of whom runs a Bed and Breakfast and the other who works for Foundation66 in London? It would seem that a Mark Binmore does indeed work for foundation66 in London, but I can't quite make out how he could be running a B and B in Béziers at the same time...
As has been pointed out, he doesn't have to be both places all the time, especially if it's Ben Humble who is in Béziers and speaks passable French (enough to write complaints about the phone companies-- perhaps, despite the name, Humble is French himself, and that's why his written English is so poor). Humble himself seems real enough to advertise as a hypnotherapist and have a publicity photo at Fushion (wish I had that), both things which are hard (not impossible) to do if you want to remain virtual (try to find me a photo of "Lee Dennison" for example; there's a 2002 ad for Fushion in which it says you can "talk" to Lee Dennison and I wonder if Binmore does/did an accent impression for that. The cockney, maybe?).
I can't imagine mark@qualiwork.com (a 12 year old shell company we know exists, with Mark a director) taking actual cash reservations (50% non-refundable) for a B & B that doesn't exist. This would be clear fraud and get him (and his real UK company) into real trouble soon (and we'd hear complaints on the web even sooner; you can find them for businesses running though Britishmonomarks, for example, though not for Fushion-UK). Say, who are the OTHER directors of Qualitiwork? Is Humble one of them?
I missed how the IP was identified to Foundation66. It's the same one that has a web tech address that is something else in the UK. What do we know about Foundation66, now that we know Binmore really works for them?