TITULIA CITY (TNC News) | President TJ Norton announced that Admin and the co-founders of Titulia, Barzika Corporation are frauds. They have been apparently been trying to use the tollar system to generate revenue from citizens for personal use. The President has encouraged anyone who paid for Titulian Services to contact him immediately at tj@darkunity.net and to contact Police immediately.
Pres. Norton is preparing legal action against “Admin” and the Barzika Corporation.
The President also unveiled some info courtesy of Barzika Corp.’s website:
I thought they were tired .. run down .. or something important. It turns out it's more than that.
titulia.com was allegedly registered to a company called the "Barzika Corporation", registered in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Through a good legal network a number of facts have been uncovered and I advise any and all citizens to think about calling their international law enforcement agency.
According to barzika.com - their "company website" - their details are:
Barzika Corporation
E-mail: i n f o @ b a r z i k a . c o m
Phone: +1 (419) 419 4320
Fax: +1 (419) 715 7207
Head office:
Mill Mall Tower, 2nd Floor, Wickhams Cay 1, Road Town, Tortola
P.O. Box 4406, VG1110, British Virgin Islands
Now here's the problems:
1. "Barzika Corporation" isn't registered anywhere in the British Virgin Islands, the US Virgin Islands or any state in the United States.
2. The phone details trace back to Bowling Green, Ohio, USA - not Tortola or anywhere IN the BVI.
3. Companies based in Mill Mall Tower in Tortola, British Virgin Islands - including "Barzika's" PO Box - are on the Australian Securities and Investment's Commission ScamWatch list!
4. The registration number of the "company" provided on Titulia's ToS page has been checked through Dun and Bradstreet Credibility and it's not registered to any of the details provided for BVI or the United States.
5. It's against the Terms of Service of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to provide false details on a domain registration made through an ICANN-accredited provider.
So what have they done?
Correct - it's not fraud to pay someone money and dream up expectations.
What IS fraudulent is getting people to pay money by providing false identity details and I cite the allegedly fake "Barzika Corporation" that isn't registered either in the United States or the British Virgin Islands. The fraud links to the PayPal account being registered to Barzika as proven by PayPal's payment confirmation as follows:
Hello -,
You sent a payment of $- USD to Barzika (info@barzika.com)
Charge will appear on your credit card statement as 'PAYPAL *BARZIKA'
Payment sent to info@barzika.com
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Merchant
Barzika
info@barzika.com
It appears we have been swindled – considering Admin has not been seen since the new site was introduced last Summer.
Mr. Norton ended the letter with the following statement:
“I can handle tools and morons but I won't cop being deceived. If anyone's else has paid money to these frauds - I welcome each and every user to contact me by e-mail at tj@darkunity.net and we'll take up an international class action (some of our citizens are lawyers who uncovered this to begin with).
Alternatively .. contact your local police agency and lodge a complaint.
It goes without saying .. I resign this fraudulent website and I hope all involved get used to soap and a short rope.
Adios!”
IS THIS THE END OF TITULIA? We certainly hope not. Perhaps we can continue using the site since tollars are essentially worthless.
OR…We could establish our own legitimate website. It would take a lot of work, but Titulia should not die this way.
UPDATE: President Norton has effectively resigned through his blog post here.
