Smsgov.com is a SCAM!!!
12/03/2008
The website smsgov.com is designed to look very authentic, but if you look beneath the surface you’ll find that the whole thing is a total fraud in almost every way. Take a look at the facts:
1. They claim to be the home of the Toll free Advisory Committee (TAC) which Google doesn’t have a single occurrence of anywhere except outside of their website.
2. Someone is working hard to make this site look like a government site with an official looking seal and gov name, yet they say at the bottom of one page that they are not affiliated or endorsed by the United States Government.
3. Despite the SMS in their name, they are NOT related to the SMS/800 database in any way. They are not a resporg or have any visible connection to any. Although they do appear connected to TollFreeNumber.org.
4. This toll free organization not only doesn’t have a toll free number but doesn’t even have a valid phone number anywhere. They only list 800-X00-0000 on their website!
5. The PO Boxes on their Contact Us page are equally fake. The post office in NY doesn’t issue boxes with 5 digits (very few go beyond 4 digits because they can’t use the zip+4) and the ZIP CODE of the PO Box in California, doesn’t even exist!
6. When you look at the whois information this site about US toll free numbers goes to a made up name and address in the Netherlands.
7. They claim to certify and decertify organizations with no reason, no explanation or details whatsoever.
8. They were recently Blacklisted by Wikipedia for repeatedly trying to put themselves into the Toll Free Number page as a resporg resource.
9. The FCC is reviewing numerous false claims they make about things that the FCC has said or done
10. Homeland Security has also taken it under review because despite a disclaimer in the fine print, they are potentially owned by a foreign entity and are attempting to look and sound like an official US government site with no authority or standing.
I’m sure they will retaliate and say things about me and my business but this is the truth. And anyone willing to do all of this will certainly say almost anything about us. But SMSGOV.com is clearly a scam of some kind and a fraud and they need to be stopped.
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Bill Quimby (613 comments.) says:
December 4, 2008 at 10:42 am
About the same time I wrote this, they of course wrote something attacking me and warning people about me. There are two differences. Their article like all the rest of their articles has no facts, it just states that I’m bad.
Secondly nobody sees their website. I tried to do a comparison on Alexa and Compete and they don’t seem to have enough traffic to register anywhere. So to Marshall Logan and the people behind smsgov.com, the cat’s out of the bag! Do a search on your made up TAC name or smsgov and what do you see?!?
Jody says:
December 4, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I found a better one, look at this site name: thewhitehouse.net They are selling car alarms. Can you believe that? A car alarm company is running this domain trying to trick people that are looking for thewhitehouse.gov. I can only imagine how many people are trying to goto thewhitehouse and end up being suckered into buying a car alarm OR worse. Who knows what this car alarm company is actually doing underneath the surface of their nefarious dealings.
Jody says:
December 4, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I am looking at the smsgov site mentioned above. it looks like a news site of sorts, kinda like yours with the pictures and all. OH and it’s not a .gov like a government site would be. Did you know that ONLY government entities can register .GOV’s? this site is a .COM, which anyone can register. I don’t know if you knew that or not, so I wanted to trow it in.
Bill Quimby (613 comments.) says:
December 4, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I don’t think that is as bad unless the people at TheWhitehouse.net tried to make it look like they were an official government agency when they were really owned by someone in another part of the world. It’s not that smsgov is showing people something they didn’t want or expect, smsgov is pretending to be something official which they’re NOT.
Bill