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Topic: Virtual Mining Corporation SCAM REFUNDS NOT BEING SENT (Read 4885 times)

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Do the thing and you'll have the power.
3 years later. If I wasn't scammed by this degenerate I would be bit rich.  Angry
sr. member
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Do the thing and you'll have the power.
For those that are not aware, Wood Law Firm is investigating VMC and AMC. They want to hear from those who have been negatively affected. If enough people contact them, then there is a chance a class-action could be brought forth.

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If you have paid Virtual Mining Corporation for equipment, yet failed to receive your order, or purchased shares in Active Mining Corporation, please contact our office...

Link to the thread in Securities:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/re-activemining-lawsuit-discussion-596740

I've attempted to contact woodlaw but they seem to be as mute as Ken.
Nvm that they were busy with all the people they've been contacted by regarding this.
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For those that are not aware, Wood Law Firm is investigating VMC and AMC. They want to hear from those who have been negatively affected. If enough people contact them, then there is a chance a class-action could be brought forth.

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If you have paid Virtual Mining Corporation for equipment, yet failed to receive your order, or purchased shares in Active Mining Corporation, please contact our office...

Link to the thread in Securities:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/re-activemining-lawsuit-discussion-596740
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Ok
I did it .

I have also just filed a complaint with the attorney general's office.
newbie
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I'm also outside the US but I still filed a complaint with the attorney generals office and they sent me an actual letter - not that it did much but add another complaint to the list.
If anything it will galvanise the criminal fraud investigation into VMC and Ken and make it a better case.

I agree. When they have 17 complaints against them for fraud, the attorney general has to notice and do something.
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Yeah,
But I'm outside U.S. so I think I can't do this that way
but like I read :
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Complaints found: 3
Complaints resolved successfully: 0

NOTE: "Complaints resolved successfully" means the consumer was offered something of value, such as a refund, services performed, a product or credit toward future purchases.

In the remaining complaints, negotiations are continuing or the business and the consumer were unable to reach agreement.
 
Complaint Category   Date Filed
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 27, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 26, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 4, 2014

Complaints found: 4
Complaints resolved successfully: 0

NOTE: "Complaints resolved successfully" means the consumer was offered something of value, such as a refund, services performed, a product or credit toward future purchases.

In the remaining complaints, negotiations are continuing or the business and the consumer were unable to reach agreement.
 
Complaint Category   Date Filed
Online General Merchandise Sales   Apr 10, 2014
Online General Merchandise Sales   Apr 2, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 10, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Dec 24, 2013

Complaints found: 3
Complaints resolved successfully: 0

NOTE: "Complaints resolved successfully" means the consumer was offered something of value, such as a refund, services performed, a product or credit toward future purchases.

In the remaining complaints, negotiations are continuing or the business and the consumer were unable to reach agreement.
 
Complaint Category   Date Filed
Online General Merchandise Sales   Mar 14, 2014
Online General Merchandise Sales   Mar 7, 2014
Online General Merchandise Sales   Mar 5, 2014"
 and other I didn't found any compliants resolved successfully ,
so it is what as I suspected


I'm also outside the US but I still filed a complaint with the attorney generals office and they sent me an actual letter - not that it did much but add another complaint to the list.
If anything it will galvanise the criminal fraud investigation into VMC and Ken and make it a better case.

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Yeah,
But I'm outside U.S. so I think I can't do this that way
but like I read :
"
Complaints found: 3
Complaints resolved successfully: 0

NOTE: "Complaints resolved successfully" means the consumer was offered something of value, such as a refund, services performed, a product or credit toward future purchases.

In the remaining complaints, negotiations are continuing or the business and the consumer were unable to reach agreement.
 
Complaint Category   Date Filed
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 27, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 26, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 4, 2014

Complaints found: 4
Complaints resolved successfully: 0

NOTE: "Complaints resolved successfully" means the consumer was offered something of value, such as a refund, services performed, a product or credit toward future purchases.

In the remaining complaints, negotiations are continuing or the business and the consumer were unable to reach agreement.
 
Complaint Category   Date Filed
Online General Merchandise Sales   Apr 10, 2014
Online General Merchandise Sales   Apr 2, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Feb 10, 2014
Miscellaneous Goods and Services   Dec 24, 2013

Complaints found: 3
Complaints resolved successfully: 0

NOTE: "Complaints resolved successfully" means the consumer was offered something of value, such as a refund, services performed, a product or credit toward future purchases.

In the remaining complaints, negotiations are continuing or the business and the consumer were unable to reach agreement.
 
Complaint Category   Date Filed
Online General Merchandise Sales   Mar 14, 2014
Online General Merchandise Sales   Mar 7, 2014
Online General Merchandise Sales   Mar 5, 2014"
 and other I didn't found any compliants resolved successfully ,
so it is what as I suspected
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You can also look up Virtual Mining at http://www.consumer.ago.mo.gov/search/complaintSearch.cgi

They have about 17 complaints with the attorney general's office.


Hi,
I'm from Poland and I want start a list who order from VMC , who Cancel order and did refund request with dates, nr of order and date of cancel and amount of $ .
I start from myself :

Order Reference VOAEWDKKJ -- placed on 2013-11-24 . I send on first by my mistake $9,039.60 and I should 9239.60 (Shipping Cost $200.00) so payment was accepted 3 weeks later. rest is clear.

2014-02-18 08:38:51   Refund
2013-12-13 09:52:13   Payment accepted
2013-11-24 12:39:41   Awaiting bank wire payment
2013-11-24 12:39:41   Pre-Ordered

details:
Fast-Hash One Platinum Edition Bitcoin Mining
Machine - 256 GH/s Expansion Modules : No
256GH/s Expansion Modules, Fast-Hash
Expansion Case : No Expansion Case, Fast-Hash
ONE Platinum 256 GH/s Module :
1.536TH-1,400 Watts

maybe someone do it in some excel or google docs will be nice.
If we do something with big list and big amount we can start group lawsuite or something,
but as u see we're only talking about and no one get any invested money  .
With checks I see what would be a lot of mistakes (from VMC), a lot of errors (spelling or adress from VMC) on check so we can wait to the death.
please we should do something because I thing a lot of us are pissed off (or everybody)
Regards
sorry for my english Smiley


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Hi,
I'm from Poland and I want start a list who order from VMC , who Cancel order and did refund request with dates, nr of order and date of cancel and amount of $ .
I start from myself :

Order Reference VOAEWDKKJ -- placed on 2013-11-24 . I send on first by my mistake $9,039.60 and I should 9239.60 (Shipping Cost $200.00) so payment was accepted 3 weeks later. rest is clear.

2014-02-18 08:38:51   Refund
2013-12-13 09:52:13   Payment accepted
2013-11-24 12:39:41   Awaiting bank wire payment
2013-11-24 12:39:41   Pre-Ordered

details:
Fast-Hash One Platinum Edition Bitcoin Mining
Machine - 256 GH/s Expansion Modules : No
256GH/s Expansion Modules, Fast-Hash
Expansion Case : No Expansion Case, Fast-Hash
ONE Platinum 256 GH/s Module :
1.536TH-1,400 Watts

maybe someone do it in some excel or google docs will be nice.
If we do something with big list and big amount we can start group lawsuite or something,
but as u see we're only talking about and no one get any invested money  .
With checks I see what would be a lot of mistakes (from VMC), a lot of errors (spelling or adress from VMC) on check so we can wait to the death.
please we should do something because I thing a lot of us are pissed off (or everybody)
Regards
sorry for my english Smiley

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Did anyone get their units delivered ?

some did i've updated it on my unofficial thread - tl;dr it's a mess

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It's back

BTW refund check was sent in Feb and it only just arrived but it's been cancelled.
sr. member
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Do the thing and you'll have the power.
Looks like their site is gone http://virtualminingcorp.com Never mind its up
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A long list of excuses on refunds from Ken - but all refunds have been sent (unless they haven't)

January 30, 2014, 02:25:51 AM
We have a back log in refunds and are processing those as fast as we can.  If you have requested a refund from customer support then it is being worked on.

February 05, 2014, 01:11:34 AM »
That should have been processed, please contact customer service and tell them it has been 7 weeks.

February 05, 2014, 11:04:02 PM »
We had a little problem in December with BTC processing, so all Bitcoin refunds have to be checked, so that may be the hold up.  I will look into why you refund has not be sent.

February 27, 2014, 07:13:29 PM »
Virtual Mining is currently processing and confirming pre-order refund requests.

March 10, 2014, 12:10:40 AM »
Refund to you ASAP.

March 11, 2014, 01:28:16 AM »
I have just hired a new customer service rep.

March 17, 2014, 03:57:11 PM »
Refunds will be processed in 2-4 weeks.

April 01, 2014, 07:29:34 PM »
Me:Ken, Given that refunds will never be processed, I'll take this deal to accept product from you instead of a refund.
Ken: I don't think so, we will just send you a refund.

April 07, 2014, 02:26:10 PM »
We will be issuing you a check soon.

April 22, 2014, 05:49:22 PM »
We are sending out your check today.

April 22, 2014, 06:05:53 PM »
@Magzy We are starting today to issue refunds including your check today.

Edit:  @Magzy  In getting your check ready, we found in our records that we have already issued our check number 123 on 2/17/14 to you.  That check has not cleared our bank, so we are put a stop payment on that check and re-issuing another check to you.

from me: April 23, 2014, 12:07:29 AM
No more false promises please.
This needs to be sent with a tracking number and a signature - I am happy to pay for this additional cost. Deduct it from the $769
OR the BTC address above I will then go through my post history and clean up any posts accusing VMC of scams et-al

April 23, 2014, 12:09:40 AM »
It has already been mailed today.

Sent to: kslaughter on: April 23, 2014, 12:12:52 AM »
So Given that I am at the bottom of the list as per your post 2 weeks ago, all refunds have been given now?

No Response fron Ken
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4-22 refund still not received after a jan 12th  cancel.  As it turns out Ken has shipped 2 dozen or so re branded incomplete hashfast reject boards.  He still refuses to have someone answer the phone and answer pissed off customers questions.  The fact that VMC has any traction in the community is a testament to how full of scamming con artist the bitcoin community really is giving everyone a bad name.  Money and greed does crazy things to people.  I do believe that Ken will end up in jail as he is stealing money and lying to alleged customers about refunding their money furthering the charges mounting up against him.  It is really sad in many  ways that poor old man will get raped hard in prison even if its federal.   
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Ouch Sad
I had no idea VMC managed to have a decent number of customers.

Per chance, did any of you buy from VMC because someone told you it was going to ship? If so, who?
I personally bought because VMC themselves promised a shipping date of Nov2013
And at that time i did not see anything indicating a scam.

Edit: I ordered at July2013
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I myself have lost over $4k with these scammers.
I have asked for a refund on January 21st and still there is not even a single reply from them!
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These sorts of scams are kept going to make them appear legitimate.

they will even send out products to one or 2 people that will pretend to be customers.

Those poor shareholders on Active Mining who parted with their money - I am sorry for their loss of money  that they will never see again.
newbie
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I ordered last december.

Asked for a refund 1 day later (after discovering december delivery date wasn't coming)

4 months later and around 100 messages to Kenneth slauther I have yet to get that refund.

I contacted the office of the attourney general in jefferson county MO - got a letter back from them and the are actively pursuing / investigating him.

https://i.imgur.com/3cWHind.png

Do not buy anything from them.

I have also just filed a complaint with the attorney general's office. Wonder how long Mr. Slaughter thinks he can keep this charade going.
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Pretty obvious from the start that this was going to be a scam.
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The Skin GURU/We all love the abused trust system
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Is there any info on refunds that weren't transferred to product? I've seen the user magzy on the forum talking about how much of a bad experience was had with VMC. Are there many refund requests? Negative feedback from customers hurts much worse when a company is new and trying to get a footing in the industry.


Ken has promised that the refunds will arrive next week. Make sure you get yours

However, I've been in contact with ken on PM's over the last 3 months after getting nothing from CS and he has replied to most of my requests with the following recurring theme:

January 30, 2014, 02:25:51 AM
We have a back log in refunds and are processing those as fast as we can.  If you have requested a refund from customer support then it is being worked on.

February 05, 2014, 01:11:34 AM »
That should have been processed, please contact customer service and tell them it has been 7 weeks.

February 05, 2014, 11:04:02 PM »
We had a little problem in December with BTC processing, so all Bitcoin refunds have to be checked, so that may be the hold up.  I will look into why you refund has not be sent.

February 27, 2014, 07:13:29 PM »
Virtual Mining is currently processing and confirming pre-order refund requests.

March 10, 2014, 12:10:40 AM »
Refund to you ASAP.

March 11, 2014, 01:28:16 AM »
I have just hired a new customer service rep.

March 17, 2014, 03:57:11 PM »
Refunds will be processed in 2-4 weeks.

April 01, 2014, 07:29:34 PM »
Me:Ken, Given that refunds will never be processed, I'll take this deal to accept product from you instead of a refund.
Ken: I don't think so, we will just send you a refund.

April 07, 2014, 02:26:10 PM »
We will be issuing you a check soon.

...next week. Lets see if he continues to take the piss.
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I have had about 34 posts deleted pertaining to questions about the missing refunds.

Something's not quite right.
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I have had a similar experience as all of you. They took my 1900 and some odd dollars in December, I asked for a refund in February and have been fighting with them ever since. It's either "refunds are only sent out on Friday" or "your refund is being processed and will take 2-4 weeks". I will be notifying the attorney generals office as well. Someone needs to take their site down. 
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Sir if you would like to do this website justice, please contact me I can make sure they never scam again Smiley
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Here's my attempted interaction with VMC.

(Read from bottom up)

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I ordered last december.

Asked for a refund 1 day later (after discovering december delivery date wasn't coming)

4 months later and around 100 messages to Kenneth slauther I have yet to get that refund.

I contacted the office of the attourney general in jefferson county MO - got a letter back from them and the are actively pursuing / investigating him.



Do not buy anything from them.
sr. member
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so has anyone contacted law enforcement?
ar9
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Roughly one year ago, I called Ken Slaughter a scammer and received flak by other members.
I stand here today with my same convictions as I did one year ago, except stronger.

VMC / Ken Slaughter / ActiveMining.
It's all a scam.
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hi i order and pay in December 2013 ..and i still wait..29/03/2014


Order Reference YWPZKDLQF -- placed on 2013-12-15
Date    Status
2013-12-23 09:16:14    Payment accepted
2013-12-15 05:44:34    Awaiting bank wire payment
2013-12-15 05:44:34    Pre-Ordered

Reference    Product    Quantity    Unit price    Total price
Total products (tax excl.) $699.00
Total products (tax incl.): $699.00
Total shipping (tax incl.): $70.00
Total $769.00
FH-64GHS-MODULE    Fast-Hash-One Silver 64 GH/s PCI-E Module    1    $699.00    $699.00

i sent too many emails without answers. i want my money back i pay 780 dollars.
the VIRTUAL MINING CORP is  thief.

DON'T BUY FROM  VIRTUAL MINING CORP .
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They have $3500 of my money and are refusing to pay. Probably because they spent it.
sr. member
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Cleary they have used customers money to buy avalons to mine for them selfs.

The old guy is beyond belief the way he presents him self, i am sure he is going to prison.

I have to admit when i first saw http://virtualminingcorp.com when it was first noticed,i was skepitical of the call us online button and after there was indeed the photoshopped pci-e card images which now apear to have been removed,i knew something wasnt right from the first time i saw this site,always be aware of desperation for your hard earned money.
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I paid with a check.

Out of curiosity, how did you pay?
legendary
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Out of curiosity, how did you pay?
newbie
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Scammed me. Waiting for pre-order since 12-15-2013. Disconnected email accounts so they cant get emails. Called customer service, no answer, no return call. Private messaged Mr. Slaughter asking for a refund before I report VMC. His response was, "Do what you need to do.  Customers reporting us go to the bottom of the list."

Do we have a class action lawsuit open as of yet?

newbie
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I personally NEVER pay for anything I have to WAIT for. IF they can prove they have it in hand then i MIGHT use escrow if i cant get to them.
sr. member
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Do the thing and you'll have the power.
I am also waiting for a refund, for like 10grand. Ken slaughter is hurting his reputation if you ask me. I been waiting for almost 2 months. I can't believe how they are. Things came up and I now need the money for a surgery and they are taking their time and likely not going to send me back my money. Why because I honestly think they are crooks and I'm the idiot for trusting them.
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THIS THREAD IS DEDICATED TO KEN SLAUGHTER. God rest his con!
WHO has actively in a felonious manner stolen $1970.00 USD from me and my family in a fraudulent transaction selling non-existent ASIC mining equipment from this website;
http://virtualminingcorp.com/shop1/index.php?id_category=15&controller=category

Most recent rip off report
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/specific_search/Virtual+Mining+Corp

Alleged video of Ken with a few Avalons and some klondikes in the background mis-stating MH/s instead of GH/s like the ameture con he is!
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20140302/BUSINESS04/303020022/Bitcoin-Springfield-mining-machines-Slaughter
Does that man appear to be capable of negotiating a multi-million dollar chip deal with engineers and manufactures he can't even complete a full sentence!( and not with that tie on for sure)!

Feel free to comment away but be warned that legal threats have no precedent in this topic. 
Anyone threatening legal recourse, which is a complete joke in 2014 on an anonymous VPN hosted forum, will be clowned upon and thrown out for running diversion tactics as a PR move on behalf of VMC so the scam/con can CONTINUE that is the only reason to cover up this truth!
The only individuals who have cause for legal action, and rightly so I might add, are the families and victims of this con artist.

If you are newly scammed please speak up. 

As of this topic creation there is no record of a refund being received by any customer of VMC for orders Ken has stated totaled $6,000,000 at one point. 

Here is the State of MO attorney general case filing website for anyone scammed to file a legitimate claim against VMC.
http://ago.mo.gov/consumercomplaint.htm

Complaints against VMC
http://www.consumer.ago.mo.gov/search/complaintSearch.cgi 

First charge-Class C Felony Theft in MO; Theft is considered a class C felony under the following circumstances:
the value of the property or services stolen is $500 or more, but less than $25,000. 

Second charge-A theft is also a class D felony if, within the previous 10 years, the offender has two or more convictions for theft-related offenses that occurred on separate occasions. (§ 570.040.)
I AM PRETTY SURE THERE IS MORE THAN ONE ORDER!

Refunds are not being sent do not be tricked a final time in this con, the time to take action is now, time is of the utmost importance!




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