Well, it seems so, and sadly, yet another so called Domainer. Chris Desouza seems to have recently lost his mind, though in all honesty from the evidence being presented on forums and blogs/sites around the web, it looks like his ship left the port years ago. Chris Desouza has been accused of threatening to burn peoples houses down, kill their kids, rape them and their family, including children, and these are things we’re able to list on a public blog, the list goes on and on and on. It’s shocking, one of the most shocking recent cases we’ve had to deal with.

So, you want to know what this ‘Chris Desouza’ has been up to, how he’s scamming people, how to avoid him and what we can do to stop him. First we would like to clarify something about his name, and his WhoIs information. It is believed, and we have received numerous emails regarding his fake identity, which is a little alarming, after all if he’s not Chris Desouza, then who is he? We’ll try and dig up a bit more dirt on that later on and have already contacted ICANN for some answers though we’re not sure how useful they’ll be.

Now the reason as to why this is a big issue for us, is simply because this ’scammer’ has gone a whole new route, a violent one. We’d also like to point out, that it’s, well, obviously illegal. Now, Chris Desouza has been called a scammer for years, first reported public outing was in 2005 it seems. You can read about how he went about tarnishing his shady reputation on one of the biggest domain communities online.

What makes this even more interesting is the reaction this ordeal has received from all over the internet. Members of the popular  Webmaster SEO Forum, Wickedfire started a thread Warning People of Chris Desouza, and working to rank that thread for his name in case victims happen to google his name etc. Nice of them to work together on that, although some of them seem to be having a little too much fun with it all. (go wickedfire!)

Let’s keep in mind how Chris Desouza is pulling these scams off, and then look at how to prevent him from doing so again. First off, he needs to be banned from these popular forums he constantly roams for victims, if Adam of DnForum gets enough of you contacting him then we can at least impose a temporary ban on someone who is OBVIOUSLY a shady character… We don’t want to label him as a ’scammer’, yet, you can, by all means, we’ll just refrain ourselves from using that particular term, for now. Who are we kidding, he’s obviously a scammer, a violent little thing at that.

Chris plays the trust game, we’ve seen this a million times before. He plays to gain your trust, makes promises and then once he has your money, makes you wait. He makes you wait to the point you start to question everything. After being outed publicly Chris sent ‘Scott’ one of what seems to be a list of victims, a rather chilling email  (also note this is one of the tones down emails Chris has sent Scott!):

“…I am not finished with you. I don’t play games and when I do, I play to win by making my opponent bleed. You will see. Be careful who you fuck with. I am not letting you off the hook easy. You asked for it. You wished you never did what you did. We shall see what happens”….. Source - http://www.chrisdsouzainfo.com/

We’re still compiling a whole lot of information, this is being typed and wont even be proofread right now as it’s important word gets out now. Domain scammers are a bad breed of scammers, while they cause a single industry problems, they can sometimes drag in several others into the mix, as is the case with Patty Similien who not only ended up scamming domainers, but writers, designers and developers (as well as her own hometown restaurant! yes, you read that right, she ate there twice and bailed without paying the bill, talk about shocking)

We promise to keep you updated as things progress, if you want to get in touch with us, as always, contact us via email at report[at]watshit[dot]com

UPDATE (’Chris’ replied to a particular public post against him online with the following):

Mallie, Thanks for your understanding. Hey Fearless, Juniper shove in down your Wazi. You lousy punks.

Scott,
I saw a newbie in you and tried to help us both mutually. I am an honest guy. To a fault. I laid it out all for you before I went ahead. I told you, I have names that I

am losing and the partnership funds will be used to save them as well as build a portfolio based on my expertise. I made it ample clear that I had no funds. It was my expertise, my pre owned domains plus some new ones plus your invetsment. You agreed.

I don’t bullshit. I make $100k plus in annual sales. So, I am in a slump and I lose my funds in the market. I say it like it is.

Now, I never saw this turnabout. And for reasons that is completely off the chart. Had I known this, I would have simply let my names expire. You chose to break the partnership. Not me. You accused me of wrong doing when the complete opposite is true. I told you, the forwarding of the site was an honest mistake. A day ols site get 0 traffic. Use common sense. What would I benefit form directing a day old site to my portal. I own thousands of names. The name got added when I was forwarding my names at Godaddy. So, you chose not to buy that reason. That is okay as well.

You had a casual question about an adult name you owned and you sought my opinion. I merely said, that I don’t do adult names. There was NEVER any such

agreement that I would not place adult names in the portfolio. So you found a good excuse to get out by pointing to the strippoker names. That was okay as well.

Now let me tell you what was not Okay….

So started this all genuinely trying to help a newbie. And you chose to break the partnership. That was not a problem. But then you started to harass me with

deadlines and threats and then with extortion and defamation. This was uncalled for. That was not okay.

Go seek some legal advise on what constitutes a partnership. You annulled it.

Right to the end, I stood by the deal in all honesty. You wanted out. I agreed to pay you your investment back. What he hell? You want out. So, you want out.

But, you knew the circumstances under which this partnership was formed. You know, I did not have funds in the first place and essentially, I approached you so

I could renew some of my name with an infusion of cash as well as help a newbie benefit from my portfolio. Then you have nerve to comment on the quality of the

names you son of a &^%&. Do you realize you got them for REG FEE?

First off, what you did was illegal by trying to extort $344 from the $300 you funded to the project. You threatened me with defamation by buying names of my

namesake as well as my fathers. You put a defamatory website at http://www.mauricedesouza.com not including your blackmails and extortion of funds I never

owed you. That was not okay.

I am PUBLICLY warning you to remove the site you put up with my fathers name. Hand over my fathers domain name to me. Or else you will see my wrath. I am not playing with you. You can take this to the authorities in Texas or the FBI. I truly do not care. My fathers self respect is more important to me unlike you Americans who sleep with hundred species and barerly know who your true dad or dads are.

I am once again at first politely asking you to remove the defamatory website on my fathers name and hand over the domain to me.

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You emailed with many time asking $300 and not a penny more - You extortionist blackmailer. See below.

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Below are the facts. Do not harass me anymore. If I take 6 months to return your funds, so be it. I will do so when I am able. I don’t need yo9u $300 you punk.

And like I said, I am a man of my word. What good is a man who fails to keep his word? I will come down to Tangle Bush Drive and hand deliver you the funds. And like I promised, i will pay you more than the $300 you wanted.

And to those punks who try to defame me with your vile comments, I don’t have the time to bull with your garbage mentality. Go on with your elder status at this

garbage dumb that is the DNF.

I chose not to respond to this forum again.

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Yes, we have reason to believe he’s high on crack cocaine also. (that’s a joke Chris, please don’t behead our beloved family members!). What a nutter.

The use of BlackHat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques is at an all-time high. More and more webmasters are practicing the dark arts of SEO. With Pay Per Click (PPC) being abused by blackhat SEOs, Pay Per Install (PPI) becoming more popular among BHers, and link dropping spreading like a plague, BlackHat SEO is very much alive and seems to be getting stronger. With every push from the Google spam team to stop these acts, more and more techniques come into play in an attempt to outsmart the Search Engines and the users.

Things like the Jessica Alba Sex Tape chain of fake sites trick users into clicking a download link, only to enter their email and make the site owners as much as $2 per lead. Sites like these get thousands of  unique hits a day. With BlackHats making this much money per site, it leads us to wonder what regular site and online business owners will do in the future. All that happens to these blackhats is they get de-ranked or banned from Google, but is that enough?

What’s stopping them from spreading on social networks and via email spam?

BlackHats, as we have mentioned before, really do come in many different shapes and sizes. Without knowing it, popular web figures arm blackhats with  potentially devastating knowledge. Do they care? Apparently not. ShoeMoney.com a popular SEO related website has in the past been a great aid for the Webmaster community. Then comes the post “How hackers areusing google to ‘pwn’ your site.” Sure, this is not a post telling people to go around and hack their competitors, but what it does, regardless of it’s intentions to spread awareness, is provide BlackHat SEOs/Hackers with another tool they may not have heard of or used. This, in our view, is a very irresponsible post and by showing off as many web figures do these days, Jeremy Schoemaker provided detailed links and the means for potentially troublesome individuals to use and take advantage of.

Not only has Jeremy Schoemaker been linked to a Cookie Stuffing scam executed by seofm.com as well as other related scams (including the ever so popular Fake Auction ads scam), but has, in the past, been accused of working for azoogle. All in all, what we’re trying to get at is BlackHat is a far greater issue than it is believed to be, even those who seem to denounce BlackHat ways seem to be involved some how.

Corruption is a way of life and there is no avoiding it, we just need to figure out a way to control it, and come up with effective measures that should be taken when it comes to penalizing these online criminals.