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Wikipedia says Psystar is a corporation in Florida. Florida says Psystar is this. The sole listed director in Psystar's corporate filings before Florida pursuant to state law is one Rodolfo Pedraza.

According to The Guardian, Psystar was originally located in a row of suburban houses until sometime in April 2008 according to Psystar's own website at the time (screenshot in the linked article). To confirm this, see my Sunbiz link above, which reveals in Psystar's Articles of Incorporation that its principal place of business is this house or one by it.

It looks like Psystar was just some guy wanting to make some money selling Hackintoshes.

And note that if any of the AoI were forged, it's likely a felony (I don't know Florida law).

Well, according to Florida's corporate registry, they only issued one thousand shares.... probably to the two brothers.

Anyone else want to dig further?

"Stu Sjouwerman (FSM, $5000 donation to the IAS, WISE 2001 directory) is also known as Warm Regards Stu was vice-president of PSS, Inc (now defunct) and is Chief Operating Officer of Sunbelt Software Distribution (view corporate information), a Clearwater-based software distributor listed in the WISE 1999 list with Stu as contact. Stu also has the Clearwater-based company 3A Data and is the author of the book Make Money On The Internet. Watch him searching for witnesses for Scientology without mentioning it."

For example, let's search Google for "london hotels", a common search phrase. The first return is LondonNights.com. "Whois" returns "Worldview Ltd, 16 Marine Road West, Morecambe, LA3 1BS, Lancs, GREAT BRITAIN (UK)."

That's a UK company, so we look it up at Companies House., where we find "WORLDVIEW LIMITED, 16 MARINE ROAD WEST, MORECAMBE, LANCASHIRE LA3 1BS, Company No. 04588973". So we have a match on a registered company.

We check further with Dun and Bradstreet, which has a worldwide database of companies. We find "WORLDVIEW LTD 16 MARINE RD WEST MORECAMBE , UK Type of Location: single"

So they pass company validation, and we can get financial information about them.

Now let's try a domain that just appeared in a spam: "fleagroups.com". "Whois" gives us "Flea Market Groups. 126 73rd Ave N., Coral Springs, Florida 34992. US" So we go to Sunbiz, the Florida State Division of Corporations, and search. No "Flea Market Groups" under fictitions names. No match on address under anything beginning with "Flea". No "Flea Market Groups" under corporations, and no "Flea Market *" address matches.

Looking in Dun and Bradstreet, there are "Flea Market *" hits, but no exact match and no address match.

So they fail company validation. Add to probable spammer list, drop search engine ranking.

This is a reasonable test for any site that appears to be selling something.

A Florida-based computer security vendor, Sunbelt Software, said yesterday that it had been part owner of anti-spyware technology developed by Giant Company Software Inc., the company that Microsoft had acquired a day before. Microsoft knew about the relationship between the companies but didn't contact Sunbelt about the Giant deal before announcing it earlier this week...At the same time, Eckelberry declined to comment on reports that Sunbelt continues to hold some related rights to the Giant anti-spyware technology, including exclusive rights to offer software development kits related to the technology.

Sunbelt Software Distribution, Inc (Scientologists in the management: Stu Sjouwerman, Alexander Eckelberry, Sam Licciardi (married to Denise Licciardi, the sister of Scientology boss David Miscavige!), Greg Kras). It is unknown if the parent company Sunbelt International Group is run by Scientologists - I have no information that J.M. is a Scientologist.Corporate Information.

• WEBPOWER, INC.
• 
  3918 VIA POINCIANA
  SUITE 5
  LAKE WORTH FL 33467
  

  MAILING ADDRESS
  7765 LAKE WORTH ROAD
  SUITE 341
  LAKE WORTH FL 33467
  

  Officer/Director Detail
  HADHAZY, ALLAN E
  7765 LAKE WORTH ROAD
  LAKE WORTH FL 33467
  

Their primary business is porno video chat. Beyond that, Hadhazy had once owned "exclusive rights" to the first Internet-enabled dildo, but that product line was apparently unsuccessful.

No Moore Computer Consultants or MCCI in Florida:

http://www.sunbiz.org/corpweb/inquiry/corinam.html

Search for "MCCI" or "Moore Computer". Also no "John Moore" as a corporate officer in a computer business:

http://www.sunbiz.org/corpweb/inquiry/corioff.html

If you claim you are operating an incorporated business in Florida and are not registered, you just got a ticket to jail. Sounds like someone is lying about something...

DIE SCO, DIE!!!

No Moore Computer Consultants or MCCI in Florida:

http://www.sunbiz.org/corpweb/inquiry/corinam.html

Search for "MCCI" or "Moore Computer". Also no "John Moore" as a corporate officer in a computer business:

http://www.sunbiz.org/corpweb/inquiry/corioff.html

If you claim you are operating an incorporated business in Florida and are not registered, you just got a ticket to jail. Sounds like someone is lying about something...

DIE SCO, DIE!!!

Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations

Ya, lets file a lawsuit in Florida, that'll work... now spamhaus just needs to make a request for production of their list of membmers and we got all the bastards.

sunbiz

help yourself:

BETTERLY, LAURA A
717 WEATHERSFIELD DRIVE
DUNEDIN FL 34698

See:

sunbiz.com

Maybe somebody should sign her up for all sorts of neat stuf...

hmm..

She doesn't like pr0n, huh..

hmm..

heh..

t_t_b

sunbiz.org file for her company. As someone mentioned she's doing biz at home, there seems no problem with this, check here. At least she tries to work legal, however...

sunbiz.org file for her company. As someone mentioned she's doing biz at home, there seems no problem with this, check here. At least she tries to work legal, however...

Florida's Sunbiz site is a good example of how not to do it. I have a heck of a time searching for information.

Some things that I like in a site... organize data so that you can find information no more than 2 or 3 categories deep. (2 preferred) Also, make a navigation bar that lets you get back to the different parts of the site, without having to back track. Sun Microsystems isn't a government site, but has lots of information that is fairly well organized in the manner I mentioned above.