Koptalk Mug Shots

by Rupert Insider

Duncan Oldham hid from the camera for years. Even when he appeared he wore a hat, dark glasses, a wig or a woman’s dress.

But in March and April 2007 he was desperate enough to believe that videos and podcasts might save his dying website. But they didn’t. In fact they put off some who were previously willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

A picture is worth a thousand words and a moving picture is worth a million.

How he’d like you to see him

How he really is

How he would like to be

How his Ma sees him: his current avatar with hand hiding chin

Laughing/crying/trying to move his bowels.

In Love

Greeting a new £30 member from Asia

Listening to his Insider voices

Raffling his Ma in the street for charity

With hitman – “£500 for the bloggers to push up daisies”.

Spreading his arse on the only two cushions in Canada

At the USA Bone Idol audition with his backing vocalist

Caught on cam denying he has the same DNA as a hippo.

Aunty Dunk feeling a bit frisky.

Designated penalty-taker scores for Newcastle UFC

Clare auctions her knickers to military cadets

Clare again, dogging in the snow, meets a fit young lad.

Dunk Driver in Scarborough (just outside Wallsend)

Missing Warren terribly

Peasant boy with biggest Guppy fish he’s ever caught

In character for sick benefits – “depression-anxiety disability”.

D.I.S Fraudster of the Decade – Wallsend and Scarborough branches

Does this make me look (a) fat or (b) stupid?

KT Moderators on 24 x 7 watch for bloggers.

100% pure blood English and No. 1 purveyor of porn to the Royal Family

Clare drinking blood of her latest victim

” I could’ve been a contender, could’ve been a somebody!!

Favourite role-models

Favourite members of the Koptalk Kult

Obsessive masturbatory fantasy

Del Boy with suits, big cheese & Insiders -Wallet, Horse & Anfield Mole

“Katie wants to live abroad with me, don’t you Katie?”

Studying to be a messiah

After 17 Woodpecker Ciders

The Morning After the Night Before

Hello Sailor, its Clare again, remember me?

The S*N always shines at Koptalk – 24 x 7

* This is the first draft of the sticky MUG Shots found in the tool bar at the top of the page. Better ideas welcome!

“I finally left Koptalk” – Warren

by Rupert Insider

In the innermost recesses of der bunker Oldham daily grows more paranoid. He thinks paying members are spies from the outside world – even from the blog. That’s more or less what he said about “Warren” – who took him on in a debate last week.

Eventually his paranoia got the better of him. He locked-out Warren at 10 am on Thursday April 26th, 2006.

Warren explained it all in a post on the Koptalk thread on Est 1892.

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“Dunk locked me out when I responded to a post where he had claimed that he knew Robbie Fowler had been signed purely as a PR stunt. Rafa didn’t want to sign him, he said, but was told to do so by Parry and Moores.

I responded something along the lines of, I can’t see that Rafa would sign a player he actually doesn’t want. Do you know your claims are true or are you just saying you think they are?

Why not ask your mate Parry or your other mate, the gateman at Melwood?

10 seconds later I was locked out.”

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Warren then gives an account of the correspondence that followed. It ended with his letter of resignation. Here are some quotes from that:

“Most members quickly discover that Koptalk is a site about the owner and his family, his prejudices and his money-making projects – oh and the small facts that the owner isn’t and never has been a LFC fan and has no contacts within the club or even remotely connected to the club, who uses pictures from an agency and claims to have had a photographer of his own at training sessions, who claims to have the ear of the new owners yet when he posted a video it was quite clear Hicks had no idea who you were. I could go on and on but I am growing rapidly bored.

Koptalk survives only because of your cult-like control and censorship over your few remaining members. Your wild claims of hundreds of new members joining every week are obviously not true and are nearly as laughable as the Chelsea-ticket thread with all of the fake members with no post history. Classic Koptalk that one!

When questions are asked and points made that would be considered normal on every other site, you cancel memberships on a whim.

I am pleased with the fact that I drew you into open debate, probably the first time a Koptalk member has done so in the last 2 or 3 years and was able to show the poverty of your reasoning and your prejudices. I was able to show that you were unable to tolerate even the mild, even-tempered debate I gave you. In the end you had to ban me to avoid looking dumb. I am now satisfied that I gave you a chance and you kindly demonstrated that what so many of your critics say about you is actually true”.
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Blog Note: Oldham was very upset when Rafa signed Robbie Fowler. After all, in his delusion of grandeur, it was Oldham who drove Robbie out of LFC in the first place.

See our treatment of that sorry episode in Koptalk’s history HERE and HERE

How to get your money back from Koptalk

by Homer Insider*

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Step 1

Check your entire PayPal account history and determine whether you have been charged twice in any year or charged for both the Gold Club and Silver and Insider at the same time.

If so, note the amounts involved and the dates when money was debited. Total the money owed to you. If you have any letters or e-mails from Koptalk or Oldham asking for payment related to any subscription, dig these out.
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Step 2

Ask for a refund.

Past experience shows that Oldham will prefer to settle directly, rather than risk court proceedings. And he knows he is being monitored by a Trading Standards Officer in North Tyneside. So it may save you a lot of hassle if you simply demand your money back from him. You can do this by email to Oldham dunk2007@koptalk.com or by opening a support ticket, if you are a current member.

State what he owes you and ask for a full refund to your PayPal account within three days.

The weakness of this approach is that he can string you out to delay you and then fail to pay. And you may have no record of your request.

If you are successful with this approach, please let us know.
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Step 3

If you use the courts it is important that you can demonstrate that you first requested a refund from Oldham and warned him that if he did not pay you will commence legal proceedings. Its normal to give 14 days notice.

So, if you have followed Step 3 and he has not paid you within three days, its best to make a new demand by letter.

I have prepared a model letter for you, below, Template 1. You can modify it to reflect your unique situation.

You should send one copy of your letter to Oldham and keep one for yourself. It is good to be able to prove to the court that the letter was delivered. You can do that by sending it recorded delivery. This should cost under £1 within the UK. It will prevent Oldham from delaying matters by pretending not to have received it. Retain your proof of postage, in case it is needed later

You might also cut and paste your letter into an email format and send that to Oldham. You should guard the “sent” copy and all headings.

Hopefully, he will offer to pay up immediately so that legal proceedings would not be necessary. But he may ask you to correspond by e-mail or MSN Messenger or, if you are a current member, by inviting you to open a support ticket.

This may be a delaying tactic and you do not have to respond to it. However, it is best that you are seen to have given him an opportunity to explain himself and to settle with you.

If you do correspond with him, keep copies of everything you send and receive including transcripts of any online communications.

If he agrees to pay insist that he refunds directly to your PayPal account, in full, and within 3 working days. Reiterate clearly that if he does not do so, you intend to commence legal proceedings immediately after the original period of 14 days notice expires.

Whether you are successful or unsuccessful with this approach, please let us know.
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Step 4

Should Oldham fail to respond, or refuse to pay, or go back on a promise to do so, you should start legal proceedings. To do this you have to obtain the claim form.

By far the simplest way to issue a claim is through the government site: www.moneyclaim.gov.uk

Or you can download a form from: http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/claims/howclaim/forms.htm

Alternatively, you can call at your local county court and pick up a form there.

The online method is the quickest and simplest and the one I would recommend.

To access it you need a credit or debit card to pay the court fee. But I assume this isn’t a problem for you, since you probably used one to pay into PayPal for Koptalk in the first place.

Court fees typically vary from £30 to £120, but I expect them to be £30 in your case because the sums at stake are relatively small. (But note that you can claim for sums up to £5,000 in the small claims court).

The court refunds your fees in full when you win your case. The court may also order Oldham to pay certain other expenses you may have.

And don’t worry too much about being forced to pay Oldham’s legal costs if you lose.

First, your claim is about as open-and-shut a claim as you can imagine. You will win.

Second, it is very unusual in the small claims court that losing claimants are ordered to pay the defendant’s costs and then only where the claimant has not acted in good faith such as when he has sued the wrong person or lied about evidence. So going the small claims route is very low risk.
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Step 5

The law permits you to claim Oldham-Koptalk overcharges dating back 6 years in England and Wales and 5 years in Scotland.

So depending in which country you file your claim, your should adjust it to reflect these limits.

In the proceedings you are the “Claimant” and Oldham is the “Defendant”. Your claim should be against “Duncan Oldham” but you may also wish to add “carrying on business as Koptalk.com”

Below, I have prepared a template that you can use to enter the particulars of your claim. Template 2

On the form, it is important to be brief. At this stage you are not in a trial. You are not being asked to present hard evidence.

You can, however, attach to your initial claim printouts of statements from PayPal that show the double-dipping. It would be helpful for the court if you were to highlight the PayPal payments so that they stood out from the other items.

If your claim does eventually go to trial then you will be asked to present your evidence in court. But hopefully Oldham will pay before it ever comes to that.

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Step 6

When you have completed the form follow the instructions on how to submit it.

It takes 5 days for the claim to be ‘serviced’. After this time, Oldham has 14 days to acknowledge it.

If he doesn’t respond within the 14 days you can ask the court to give you judgment by default.

If you submitted the claim online, you can make this request as soon as the 14 days deadline passes. That would automatically be a victory for you.

But Oldham may acknowledge the claim, giving himself another 14 days to enter a defence. But if he fails to enter a defence in that time, you can apply for another judgment by default – that would be 28 days after Oldham was originally served with the claim.

Oldham also has the option of settling your claim in full. If he does you would be notified by the court. This is quicker and easier if you have filed the claim online. You can file your response to the court online.

Oldham also has the right to contest the claim and defend himself. This is very unlikely, as your evidence should be ample proof of his wrongdoing and he would know that he is certain to lose, risking another judgment on his record. But if he insists on a trial, the case would be heard in the small claims section of the country court.

You would need to prepare evidence, which would consist of full PayPal statements proving the double-dipping, including all dates and amounts, and copies of all correspondence between you and him, including any demands for payment you may have.

You can find official guidance on the process here:
http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/claims/admission/fixed/index.htm
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Step 7

Check your PayPal account to see if it has an automated renewal order for Koptalk. Cancel it now.

Even if you intend to renew your membership in Koptalk you do not need the automated renewal mechanism on your account. You can pay when you receive notice from Koptalk or when you discover you membership has expired. If and when you buy another membership make sure that at that time Oldham has not caused yet placed yet another annual renewal notice on your account.

To check for the automated renewal order and cancel it now, use the blog’s step-by-step guide, HERE.
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Claimants Not Resident in the UK

Everything said above applies to you.

As a non-resident you can use the UK small claims court but you must inform the court of an address in the UK where it can serve you with papers. This could be the address of a solicitor, a company or friend.

(Those wishing to help overseas claimants can notify the blog – watch the Comments below).

When you send Oldham Letter 1 you will have to use a delivery service in your country which will provide you with proof of delivery. Alternatively, you can get your UK contact to send it for you by UK recorded delivery.

If your claim goes to trial you can bring a solicitor or friend to help you. But it may be that you, yourself will have to attend. I am seeking advice on that point. It may also be that if you win a judgment the court will order Oldham to pay your travel expenses to the court and the cost of your accommodations. This is another point on which I am seeking guidance.

Irish and other European claimants can use their own small claims system. But it may be that Oldham will not respond because he is not a resident of your country, although he is obliged by European law. I suggest that you research that point in your own countries.

If you decide to use the UK courts it may be an idea to select a location which is most convenient for you e.g. Liverpool for Irish residents.
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Template 1

Subject: Formal Demand to Oldham with Notice of Legal Proceedings in 14 days if he does not. To be sent by recorded delivery and email.
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[Insert your name and address and date ][State method of delivery such as “By RECORDED DELIVERY and Email”]
Duncan Oldham,
5 Swan Avenue,
Off Bede Crescent,
Wallsend,
Tyne and Wear,
NE28 7JH

Email: dunk2007@koptalk.com

Dear Mr. Oldham,

Demand for repayment of your overcharges for access to Koptalk.com

I refer you to payments you caused to be debited from my PayPal account when you submitted double invoices for the annual fee for membership or access to your website, Koptalk.com.

My user name on the Koptalk.com website is/was [Insert User Name or Names]
My PayPal account name and number is: [Insert your PayPal account name and number]

As you know, my PayPal account had an automated payment mechanism that was designed to respond to your automated invoice for the annual membership fee when it became due.

But approximately one month before the membership fee was due you sent me an email invoice and a demand for payment. I responded with prompt payment from my PayPal account. I assumed in good faith that you would not submit a duplicate invoice to the automatic payment system one month later. But you did.

Without my being aware, the automated renewal mechanism on my PayPal account responded to your duplicate invoice by making the payment again. You did not inform me that you had demanded and received double payments nor did you repay them, nor did you change your practice of double invoicing after the first instance.

You overcharged on the following occasions: [Insert the dates and individual amounts]

I demand that you refund immediately the total amount [insert the total claimed] to my above-referenced PayPal account.

I hereby give you notice that if I do not receive payment in fourteen calendar days from today’s date, I intend to commence legal proceedings through a country court to seek a judgment against you, personally, for the full amount, together with interest up to the date of judgment, court fees and any other expenses and costs the court will allow.

If you do not repay promptly and in full, I must conclude that your practice of overcharging in this way is systemic to your business and, as such, should be reported to Trading Standards in your region.

Govern yourself accordingly.

I am attaching a schedule of my claims. [Include a list of Paypal overcharges with dates and amounts. Be sure to include any charges made after you had quit Koptalk, or any charges for the Insider and Silver Club after you had transferred to the Gold Club. If you have copies of his email invoices, include them].

Yours sincerely,
[Your signature]
[Your printed name]
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Template 2

This is part of the claim form that you will download. It is intended to help you complete it correctly. It refers to the section of the form that asks for “Particulars of the Claim”

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Particulars of the Claim

1. Between [insert date of first overcharge] and [insert date of last overcharge] , the Defendant caused double charges to be debited from the Claimant’s PayPal account in relation to the annual membership or access fee to the Koptalk.com website of which the Defendant is the sole owner.

2. The Defendant submitted to the Claimant an email invoice one month before the membership was due which the Claimant paid by PayPal. The Defendant sent a duplicate invoice designed to activate the automatic renewal mechanism on the Claimant’s PayPal account and by that means the Defendant obtained double payment from the Claimant.

3. The Defendant did not inform the Claimant that he had double-billed, or that he received double payment, and did not repay the overcharge but repeated the procedure.

4. Under the County Courts Act, the Claimant is entitled to interest of 8% per annum from the date he was deprived of the money. The interest on each of the overcharges is [insert amount of interest levied at 8% per annum on each overcharge] accruing at the daily rate of 0.21% until judgment or payment.

4. The Claimant asks the court to enter judgment in his favour for [insert total of overcharges] plus interest for a total of [insert total charges plus interest]
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NOTES

For a general overview of the whole process, see http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/your_rights/legal_system/small_claims.htm

If you have never brought a legal claim before it might be scary for you. But the ‘small claims track’ differs from normal court proceedings. It is designed to be simple, quick and easy.

You can check in on the blog and ask questions in the Comments section. However, this post has already been copied to the stickie on the tool bar KT-PayPal Fraud. So you can continue to use the Comments there after the post is no longer current.

If you are in the UK and want some free independent advice you might want to consult a Citizens’ Advice Bureau representative.

You can get details of your nearest branch, including those with e-mail support from here:
http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice

However, I would stress again that you should relax, follow the simple instructions I have given here and don’t get too complicated.
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Trading Standards

In the last year, Oldham has been investigated for illegal trading activities by a Trading Standard Officer who interviewed him formally. That officer continues to monitor the situation.

The blog will be making a presentation to him to alert him to Oldham’s practice of double-dipping in PayPal accounts. It will help if Oldhams’ victims report to the blog so that we can support the points we make.

The threat of a renewed investigation that might result in criminal charges might motivate Oldham to settle with claimants. Claimants, especially those not resident in the UK , are encouraged to warn Oldham that they will report directly to the appropriate officer if Oldham does not pay promptly. To be effective any such complaints to Trading Standards must provide the claimants proper name and address, wherever it is.

Alan Burnett
Senior Trading Standards Officer
Environment, Regeneration and Housing
The Killingworth Site
PO Box 113
Killingworth
NE12 6WJ

Tel: 0191 2192634

Fax: 0191 2192642

e-mail : alan at northtyneside (dot) gov (dot) uk
(replace (dot) with periods)
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Why bother?

Many contributors to the blog have complained about Koptalk’s custom of ‘double dipping’. Those members who subscribed to Koptalk through PayPal were subject to an automated renewal mechanism on their account that paid their subscription fee annually.

However, in many cases, Koptalk also billed members a month before their next annual fee was due. If you received one of these demands and paid up as a result, it is very likely that you have also paid through the automated renewal order on your account – in effect paying twice for your membership. And this might be the case for however many years you were a member of Koptalk.

Oldham knows this, but has made no attempt to inform customers who were charged twice or to refund the monies he collected.

And others have reported that they were charged for membership in the Insider and Silver Club even after they had upgraded to the Gold Club. They were charged for both simultaneously and charged twice each time.

Other contributors to the blog have reported how they were charged by Koptalk even after they allowed their membership to lapse.

Assuming this has occurred for scores or even hundreds of members every year, then that is a large sum of money that does not belong to Oldham which he has pocketed.

If you are a current or former member of Koptalk we urge you to check your PayPal records as soon as possible to determine whether you have been overcharged.

By joining with others to collect from him you will be helping to hold him to account and weakening his financial ability to continue the practice against other LFC supporters.

Even if you don’t need the money yourself, there are many causes far more worthy than Oldham to whom you could donate it. Might I suggest the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC) or perhaps even the Alder Hey Childrens Hospital? At least by donating directly to the hospital, rather than through Koptalk, you can be sure this time that it has reached them.
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* Homer Insider is a new writer on the blog although he has been following it for some time. He has offered to amend, expand and generally refine this guide as information comes in. It will become a stickie in KT-PayPal Fraud which can be accessed from the blog’s tool bar at the top of the page.

 

 

 

Steve MacNeish of Koptalk – Fool or Fraud?

by Rupert Insider

At 16 years of age, if not earlier, slowly and carefully, with his tongue sticking out, he used a broad nibbed marker to sign fake certificates of authenticity for fake LFC memorabilia.

He’d had lots of practice because he also forged the signatures of Liverpool players on the fake memorabilia – on the footballs and shirts.

He knew it was fraud because he helped promote the sale at prices that ranged up to £500 for shirts and £110 for footballs.

He packed the fake merchandise and took it to the parcel-post and sometimes delivered it personally by Koptalk vehicle. And when the suspicious recipients sent emails and opened support tickets asking where were the “independent certificates of authenticity” that were part of the deal, it was Steve MacNeish who strung them along, sometimes for months, ignoring their enquiries, postponing responses, making empty promises, and finally, only when cornered, issuing his own fake certificates of authenticity. (The spelling of his name on the certificates seems to be “Macneish” but elsewhere it is “McNeish”).

He’s the guy who also dodged inquiries from members whose PayPal accounts had been double dipped – charged twice for membership. Again, when taken by surprise by telephone, he had his smooth, well-practised patter ready – “well why don’t we just let the double charge stand so that you will have paid two years in advance, instead of one”.

Its a year this week since Steve MacNeish ran away from home and his so-called life with his so-called half-brother Duncan Oldham.

Oldham was devastated. He wailed for a week or more on the Koptalk forum. There was nobody to fetch his hot dogs and Woodpecker cider, nobody to act as a listening-post as he boasted about how clever his latest scam was or ranted about his enemies, nobody to act as straight man in his never-ending Punch and Judy show, nobody to repeat his every word approvingly and laugh at his jokes and nobody to deal with the unwashed hordes of Koptalk members complaining about their membership, passwords, double-dipping, fake memorabilia,or deleted posts and threads – and nobody to scratch his arse.

If Steve, (“bless “im”) did not come back, Oldham vowed he would give it all up – he would give up Koptalk. Without Steve it was all too much for him.

There were times when he sounded more like an abandoned lover than an exploitative employer.

And when Steve did come back Oldham brought out the fatted calf he had prepared for the prodigal. He declared that his porn and footy web empire would be Steve’s one day, lock stock and barrel.

And to show he was serious he appointed him Director of the Community and Editor of Koptalk.

One of the perks of being a VIP at Koptalk is you get to change your name, as in this notice.

* From 1st Aug your KOPTALK.COM Editor is Steve Oldham

So a kind of marriage, then?

To make room for the rising young star, Oldham kicked himself upstairs, appointing himself Executive Editor. But Steve would be the main man – or main boy – from now on.

It would be Steve (MacNeish) Oldham, for example who would travel to London to interview candidates for the job of Editor of Oldham’s proposed “sister” site for Tottenham Hotspurs and who would liaise with Oldham’s Newcastle United site.

But Steve’s appointment to senior management in the one-man-and-a-boy site left a gap at the operational level.

Oldham solved the problem by allowing Steve carry on as both chief cook and bottle-washer. He may have become Prince Regent but he could still carry out the duties of 3rd footman.

In fact Oldham commented on it several times on Koptalk that Steve worked 18-20 hour days without a wage.

He slept in the Koptalk shed and his only reward, said Oldham, was unlimited access to porn on the Koptalk computers.

But if anyone was concerned about a 16 year old simpleton in this situation – not to worry, Oldham assured us – because from his bed he kept a closed circuit TV camera trained on Steve all night.

(Lest anyone object to the word “simpleton” – let me remind you that it was Oldham who repeatedly referred to how thick Steve is).

It was all a bit confusing for us. Should the blog report Oldham to the Anti-Child Slavery Society or the both of them to the fraud unit of DSS?

As the blog started to kick in, Oldham found more uses for Steve (MacNeish) Oldham. He would be the new, fresh face of Koptalk.

Whenever an appearance was called for as between Oldham and members or an outside group – he would send Steve. When we warned Alder Hey Children’s Hospital of Oldham’s history and they decided not to let him anywhere near the children in their care, Oldham sent Steve.

If there was one thing Steve could do very well it was look harmless – as in the photo with the prolific RichT at a free Goodison Park dinner in December 2006.

He was 17 by then and as you can see feasting on the fatted calf had put on a few pounds. But he’d lost some of it by March 2007, as in the next photo taken in a motel somewhere in the USA with the ever-present Oldham camera searching out the beloved Steve – even in the intimacy of their shared bedroom.

So is he fool or fraud? Is a member of a cult responsible for the cult? Does someone of his young age and low intelligence have diminished responsibility?

His running away and his fluctuating weight indicates stress. But I doubt its stress from a bad conscience. He seems to enjoy the fruits of his and Oldham’s scams. It beats working for a living.

But something is going on.

Oldham took back from Steve the title of Editor recently, quietly and without explanation (as though he had ever actually given it up).

Cousin Katie seems to have assumed most of Steve former duties for keeping the site ticking over with empty-headed posts. In fact, Steve (MacNeish) Oldham has not been prominent on the site for a few months except in the videos of the jolly folly and in excruciating podcasts in which he is almost unintelligible when he speaks.

Oldham is back to musing in public again whether he will take his footman with him to his foreign bolt-hole or use him as a stooge to be the front man in the UK while Oldham pulls the strings from somewhere at a safer distance from the UK courts.

In fact, just how would the courts sort out the degree of culpability as between the organ grinder and his monkey if they were eventually faced with that problem?

Will Oldham object to Steve’s probable defence – that he was only obeying orders?

And will Oldham claim that he had no idea what his stupid relative was doing in his name?

Hmmmm. Tough one to call.

(All photos in USA and Canada courtesy of fat_boy_fat)

Blog Brain-storming – Small Claims Court

by Rupert Insider

Blog participants are working on a number of remedies to Oldham’s frauds – some of which we cannot publicly discuss at the moment.

We can discuss our step-by-step guide on how to use the UK small claims court to recover money Oldham-Koptalk took through (1) double dipping (2) the sale of fake memorablia (3) or other false claims and misrepresentations.

Hopefully, that guide will be posted as an article within the week and made into a stickie and then become the focal point of a campaign which will be promoted on other sites – a campaign to make Oldham pay it all back.

To make it simple, I think it would be best if we concentrated at first on his double-dipping in PayPal accounts and overcharging going back 5 or 6 years. Everyone involved should have documentary evidence of that in the form of their PayPal or other account. But the sale of fake memorabilia would be a close second if a claimant has evidence.

We realise that there are grounds to sue Oldham for other matters, but we rather think those grounds will be very much stronger after the blog has completed some other projects on which we are working.

We are making good progress but need your help on one important aspect, namely, the procedure for non-residents of the UK.

As you know, many, if not most of Oldham’s recent victims are from overseas. There is a procedure they can use – through Trading Standards – to persuade Oldham to pay and we will be dealing with that. But it would be better if they could access the UK small claims court.

“Non-residents” would include UK citizens currently non-resident. It would include the Irish – who do have their own small claims procedure, citizens of the Commonwealth, Europe and everyone else including Asia, Africa, South America and North America.

At the moment we are working on the assumption that Duncan Oldham carrying on business as “Koptalk.com” and various other aliases, is subject to UK law for all his transactions to date. He may also be subject to the law of other countries. If he has done or will do a bunk to a foreign jurisdiction we will deal with that when we have confirmation.

I’d be grateful if anyone can give us authoritative information – with links. If you don’t have such information but are willing to help us – perhaps you could call someone who knows, or even pop into your local small claims court and ask, or visit your university or municipal library research department and ask for help. If you are a lawyer, even better.

To some extent petty fraud and malpractice on the net is new territory for the UK Small Claims Court- hence the need to do some research.

At this stage my own working assumption, subject to correction, is that all can use the UK Small Claims court wherever they are resident, but they will have to satisfy the court that they have an address in England and Wales to which court papers can be served (the procedure for Scotland is different). Claimants would also be responsible for having their case adequately represented at any hearing in court.

If Oldham runs true to form he will settle before it goes to trial.

But the risk for a claimant is that if they are not represented in court and Oldham is, the claimant would be responsible for Oldham’s costs.

But there is a provision in the rules that would allow a claimant to be represented by a lawyer or even a friend.

If that could be used, without the claimant being present, the blog could then see about organising a lawyer or a friend for overseas claimants.

Perhaps the blog could also help arrange an address in England – such as that of a solicitor – where papers can be served.

Please send in your findings as soon as possible either to my email or in the Comments section.   My email is:  rupert.insider  At gmail.com (Don’t send in links to general guides or articles or ideas – we have those already. We are asking people to share the burden of reading such things and coming up with the answers).

If you are of the opinion that the UK Small Claims Court cannot be used by non-residents perhaps you could suggest how they can use their own courts to collect from Oldham-Koptalk. Let’s be thorough.

We want to concentrate on getting authoritative answers to the question about non-resident claimants. And thanks, in advance.

Jolly or Folly? Koptalk’s Dallas Stunt Backfires

by Rupert Insider

Photo: Oldham planning the Dallas fiasco with his Head of Security, Smoove

(thanks to fat_boy_fat for the four photos)

Oldham’s bizzare “jolly” to Canada and the USA was intended to convince the new owners that he should be an Insider. Instead it convinced them that he should be a pariah with respect to their two organisations as he already was at LFC, where he has never been allowed to cross the threshold or have a telephone conversation in all of his eight years involvement with Koptalk.

The new owners did not like the way he misrepresented himself to them or themselves to others. Nor did they like the tacky site he has set up since he got back to the UK. It tarnishes the name of their bright new venture – Kop Football Ltd.

The blog has shown how Oldham was chased off the internet under his false name of Del Johnson by the police, Trading Standards, and numerous victims of his criminal frauds . He’s now going to be chased away from LFC under his true name, Duncan Oldham.

He is, should be and will be a pariah at LFC – an outcast.

He spends a lot of his member’s money on gambling. He gambles most days on horses, dogs and various other events. He encourages his members to gamble with him, too, because he gets a commission on all their bets. In March he gambled more than ₤5,000 on the booze-filled, month-long “jolly”. That’s money his members sent him to improve Koptalk and to contribute to so-called charities. The gamble was that a road show to Montreal would save his dying site.

So how did he get it so wrong?

We’ve dealt with much of it already in the blog post The Truth About the Koptalk Konman’s Montreal Kaper.

Oldham was the most avid reader of that post. He read it over and over in upper New York State at the home of someone he describes emotively as his “best friend in the whole wide world” – a guy he met on X-boy two years ago – Smoove.

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The Koptalk Nightclub Owner/Tesco Branch Manager supervises the training of his two bouncers in an exercise which simulates the culling of customers who ask awkward questions. (Click enlarge)

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When he is in one of his manic phases, Oldham suffers from grandiosity. In those episodes he really believes he is a somebody. So it stung when the blog ridiculed his infantile behaviour and thuggish appearance on the first “jolly” videos which showed his outward journey in airports and taxis and in the Montreal night club chatting up “prozzies”. He replied that was not really him, just a character he was playing for our amusement.

But his royal dignity was restored when he blagged two free seats for the Montreal v Toronto game. They were the only seats with loose cushions in the entire Bell Centre, he assured us breathlessly. So blog that! “We” was a somebody after all! And those seats – those cushioned seats – were all the justification he would need for the trip and its heavy cost.

It was a crushing blow, therefore, when at Smoove’s house, just before he was due to return to Montreal for his triumphant return flight to the UK, he read that the blog had been in conversation with George Gillett in Denver and had provided a true account of what had happened. He saw the number and contents of the Comments after that post. He knew the game was up. Grim reality beckoned.

But he wasn’t ready. He wanted to linger a little longer in the cocoon of hangers-on he had brought with him. They told him repeatedly what he wanted to hear. It was like a travelling mini-cult. He didn’t want to return to the UK and the blog.

So, with the predictability of a gambling addict, he decided to play the same hand again. Maybe this time it would work. He would rent a budget car and drive thousands of miles to Dallas.

He had already decided to start a new site about the new stadium. It was a subject of intense interest to LFC fans and could expect heavy traffic that would generate much advertising revenue. I suggested publicly that some of the authentic LFC sites should look at doing something similar – if not a separate site – at least a section in their existing sites. Indeed, some of them were already moving in that direction.

But Oldham thinks like a con man. He is always looking for the competitive advantage that misrepresentation or outright lying provides. That’s how he had run Koptalk – years of lying about how he was an Insider with special access to exclusive information from LFC. And he knew that despite all the years of contradictions and wave after wave of mass exoduses from his site by disgusted readers, there were always enough fresh “suckers” on the net willing to believe what they wanted to believe – that shareholders, directors, future investors, executives, manager and players would risk their careers and reputations to provide inside information to anonymous members of Koptalk who had paid a scruffy conman from Wallsend for the privilege of being a user of his website.

So it wasn’t surprising that he would claim that his new stadium site had a special relationship with the owners, especially Tom Hicks. Not surprising that he would steal the domain name of their UK company, Kop Football Ltd as he had stolen the domain name of LFC’s Official Site in the past. Not surprising that he claimed that he would introduce those who visited his site to his two new personal friends, Tom and George. They valued his site, he said, because it gave them more authentic access to fans than their own LFC Official Site or any of the other 60 LFC sites in the world. Anyone familiar with Oldham’s lies could have written the script for him – as I did in a prior warning to George Gillett – although I must admit, I overlooked the fact that he would make all these claims while pretending to be his 12 year old daughter.

So when Oldham was in Smoove’s house he figured that a trip to Dallas would add a little credibility to his site. He would make a video of the stadium in Dallas. If it got no further than that it would be sufficient. But he would also visit the JR ranch of the “Dallas” soap opera. At the very least the trip would postpone reality for another week.

But he hoped for more. While in Dallas, after he had done the stadium, he would try to beg tickets, just as he had in Montreal. And there was always the outside chance that he might be able to snatch a photo opportunity with Tom Hicks. After all, a call to his office would cost only a dime. And the number and address was in the Dallas Yellow Pages under – guess what? – Tom Hicks Holdings.

He could hardly believe his luck, therefore, when the nice lady who answered the phone said “come on over, y’all”.

Like thousands of people who have been conned by Oldham on Koptalk she would never have believed that someone who claimed to be a “die hard Red” intended to exploit her. And when she heard him say that he was a personal friend of George Gillett and his recent guest in Montreal as well as being the owner of a major media outlet in the UK and the No.1 LFC supporters site she had no reason to believe that he was lying.

So over he went. And when he was ushered forward we heard Tom Hicks – the man Oldham would later claim had invited him to Dallas from New York – say, “what’s your name?”.

The nice lady who took his call could not see the crudeness of his manner and appearance on the phone. But face-to-face Tom Hicks could. The meeting was short and sweet. It amounted to a few routine remarks about LFC already made in numerous press interviews, a forced smile for the camera, and Oldham was sent waddling on his way out of the office.

There’s a phrase in Shakespear’s Macbeth.

“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the’other side.”

Oldham made a strategic error when he went to Dallas in reaction to our exposure of his Montreal trip. It was vault too far. And now he has fallen on the other side.

Since his return he has made references to his need to liquidate assets, and he is testing the waters for another fake charity appeal that he can skim and he talks incessantly of finding a foreign bolt-hole. All this suggests to me that he may already have sniffed something about the heat that will be brought bear for the embarrassment he has caused the two owners and genuine LFC supporters all over the world.

The blog will play its part in sending him packing. We will work with seasoned professionals.

But we need the testimony of anyone who has been overcharged, or who was sent fake memorabilia, or who knows the details of his ticket-scalping or who is willing to testify that they joined Koptalk because of his claim to have a special relationship with the club or exclusive insider information.

We need the facts and any proof you can offer. We will fully respect your confidentiality.

Oldham’s trip to Dallas has backfired. It has opened up an opportunity to nail him. Now is the time for a concerted effort from everyone who shares the blog’s aims. We’ll let you know what we need, in further detail.

Stay tuned.

Get rid of the Koptalk Trojan Horse from your PayPal account.

by Rupert Insider

Image: Thanks to Outside Insider

When you enter into a contract with Double-Dipping Dunkin Oldham its like inviting a Trojan Horse  to live in your PayPal account.

- If you have cancelled your membership in Koptalk check now that you are still not paying.

- If you intend to cancel your membership when your current membership expires, cancel your automatic renewal now, because Oldham will activate it even after you think you have left.

I’ll go further.

- Even if you intend to renew your membership in Koptalk – cancel the automatic renewal on your PayPal account now. Oldham will send you a letter demanding renewal of the membership fee one month before its due. That gives you plenty of time to decide whether you want to go ahead with the renewal. In the meantime you will have denied him the opportunity to double-dip when you aren’t looking.

This is how you chase Double-Dipping Dunkin’s Trojan Horse from your PayPal account.

Go to your PayPal account and log in.

Go to My Account

Go to History

Go to Show Menu

Go to Subscriptions

Go to Transaction Details

Select Cancel

Following the cancellation you should receive a confirmation email from PayPal.

It will look something like this:

Dear *******

You have successfully cancelled your subscription to Gold Club Renewal – 1 year.

You will not be invoiced for this Subscription again.

Cancellation Details
Cancellation Date: 6th September 2006
Subscription Name: Gold Club Renewal – 1 year
Subscription number: ***************

Contact Information
If you have any questions about this subscription, please contact KOPTALK.COM Business name: KOPTALK.COM
Contact email: support@koptalk.com
Contact Phone: +449050280723

Thank you for using PayPal

The PayPal team.

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BANK STANDING ORDERS

Anyone who paid by a direct deposit from their bank account, should check that they have not left a standing annual order. Cancel any standing order NOW. Its a Trojan Horse, too.

CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS

Despite Oldham’s recent drunken claim that George Gillett paid by credit card, it is unlikely that Oldham has a merchant’s account that would enable such a transaction. He probably would not pass the credit and banking checks to qualify for a merchant’s account. Also, he likes to avoid the kind of independent records a merchant account would provide. They would be invaluable to Inland Revenue, the police and the courts. However, we don’t know for certain if he does.

If you ever did pay Oldham for membership by credit card (as opposed to paying PayPal by credit card) it is possible that any original invoice from Koptalk would have sought your authorization for annual automatic renewal. So it is possible that you may still be paying him without realizing. Check your credit card records. Cancel any authorization you gave for automatic renewal

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KT-PAYPAL FRAUD

It’s still under construction, especially the last part, and your ideas and input are welcome.