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Thursday, December 23, 2004

VejaSeek Investigation Update

Many of you remember the VejaSeek scandal which broke out a few weeks ago. We were there with all the news and if you aren't aware of our previous coverage of the issue, Click Here to see the post that started our investigation. After being left with many leads, but no sound evidence on who the owner really is, the Search Engine Review team set about investigating every lead.

We emailed two of the advertising sites found on this page from the search engine that the owner of VejaSeek planned to launch in the near future. If you remember correctly, after announcing the end of VejaSeek, it was established that the owner intended on opening another search engine, Lazer-Search. This engine had the exact same design as VejaSeek and even had links to the former VejaSeek website.

We emailed both advertisers, namely Link Buddies and AllFeeds with the following email:

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

As you may or may not know, one of your members with the username"vejaseek" owes me and many others tens of thousands of dollars. He recently announced that his website, formerly Vejaseek.com, would not be able to pay its members whom rightfully earned thousands of dollars. Upon further investigation into the matter, it has been established that the owner of the website did infact plan the senario before hand and he planned on scamming more people through another website of the same nature.

On behalf of the hundreds of people that have been cheated by this greedy webmaster, I ask if you could provide any information on the registrant of the account at All Feeds, in particular the payment information would be of great use in tracking this person down. Your help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Search Engine Review.


I was then invited to an MSN interview with highly ranked official of AllFeeds who revealed some startling information. Since it is against their terms of service to release any information, he wished to remain anonymous. During his time using AllFeeds as a feed and advertisment provider, the owner of VejaSeek, now confirmed to be Amin Hassanpour, received hundreds of dollars in payments. The payments were sent out via cheque to his Canadian address.

The home phone number and address of Mr Hassanpour has been confirmed but we can not publish this information. The details we found was last updated in October 2004, so it is most likely the case that it has not changed. Now with his name, address and telephone number confirmed, we sought out legal advice in the matter. We were informed that by not paying members the money they had righfully earned, Amin Hassanpour was in breech of the contract set out by VejaSeek. We continued our investigation and what we discovered was exremely startling.

The Search Engine Review then went about trying to contact CoolWebSearch, the feed that Amin Hassanpour claimed to have cheated him. For many weeks we did not get a reply from CoolWebSearch. I went back and looked over all the information once again and somewhere amongst all the clutter of documents I had accumulated I found several email addresses, one of which used Hotmail. I decided to add this person to my MSN messenger contact list, hoping that we could have a talk.

Several days later to my suprise, the person I had added to my contact list was online. I quickly pondered what would be the best way to go about getting information off this person I hadn't even spoken to before hand. What I found out next was the break I had been looking for. The most startling information of the investigation. Here is some of the conversation between myself and the unidentified person:

Search Engine Review:
Hi there. Are you Amin's friend?
Unidentified Individual:
Yeh, I am friends with Amin. Are you one of his friends too?
Search Engine Review:
Yes I met him before he started VejaSeek, we're pretty close friends now. How do you know him?
Unidentified Individual:
I was the "silent" partner in VejaSeek. Me and him are school friends.

At this stage I became very exicited and felt that if I played my cards correctly I could get a lot of information. The conversation continued for some time as I tried to make myself out to be very good friends with Mr. Hassanpour. I noticed that by the language used in the conversation and the incorrect grammar, this person could very well be a juvenile. I also remembered the name of the person that was unaccounted for in our previous investigations, Nima Mohammadi and wondered whether it was he who I was talking to. Among other things I discovered that:

  • Amin Hassanpour and this unidentified individual were school age students probably no older than 19 years of age.
  • They both went to school together.
  • They both owned VejaSeek and Hassanpour was in charge of public relations while this unidentified individual delt with the technological side.
  • The unidentified person was indeed the person behind Lazer-Search with Amin Hassanpour

After some conversation on unrelated topics, I decided to ask some questions about VejaSeek, acting as though I was opening an engine myself. Here's where it got interesting:

Search Engine Review:
I was having troubles picking feeds, did you have any experience with CoolWebSearch at VejaSeek.
Unidentified Individual:
Yeh, we used them as our "main" feed. They're an awesome feed. You should use them, we got paid many times.
Search Engine Review:
How much did they pay you?
Unidentified Individual:
Since we started veja, they paid us around 20 grand
Search Engine Review:
But I'm worried about their cheques. They might bounce and then I would be in debt to members.
Unidentified Individual:
The cheques never bounced for us, we got some serious cash from them. Just try them out, I can give you my ref link LOL
Search Engine Review:
I thought the cheque bounced for VejaSeek and you couldn't pay members?
Unidentified Individual:
LOL I thought that you were like good friends with Amin? The cheque didn't bounce man! ****!

At this stage my heart thumped loudly against my chest, the cheque that supposedly bounced never did? Was Amin Hassanpour spending the money that he claimed not to have received? This urged me to continue looking for more evidence. Trying not to let this unidentified person become suspicious of my motivation I ceased the conversation with this startling news.

So the whole VejaSeek scandal was planned and of course Amin Hassanpour was most likely spending the money that we rightfully earned. I planned on getting more information from the unidentified person in the near future, but since I last spoke to him he has not come online or even replied to my emails. I believe that he may have spoken to Amin who may have warned him about our investigation after I made a posting in the Get Paid Forums. He may have also asked Amin if he knew me and got a negative response. Either way I had enough evidence to consider legal action.

AllFeeds was happy to give any information necessary to force Amin by any means to pay back his debts. AllFeeds has his bank details on record and will happily release it if warranted. I thanks AllFeeds for their support throughout the investigation.

This is where you can play a part in punishing scammers like Amin Hassanpour. The Search Engine Review has now gathered much details about the incident and we will continue to do so. But we need your help.

If you are owed money by VejaSeek, know any information about the owner or would like to help in the investigation, your help is greatly needed. Please use the "comments" feature on this website to state your name/alias and the details of your position and how you stand on the matter. If you would like to be contacted, then send me an email by clickling the link in my signature.

This appeal will only work if you tell everyone you know who has any involvement in the Search Engine Industry to come here, read the article and make a comment. I will post some more detailed legal information later this month, so stay tuned.
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