Did This Low Life Have to Resort to [problem]ming For a Living? [PROBLEM If It looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck IT'S A DUCK] DUKERIES MAN NETS A FORTUNE Published on the 06 February 2001 00:00 A FORMER pupil of the Dukeries Centre at Ollerton has raked in £8m from the sale of his internet firm. Geoff Laffoley-Lane (33) set up web-hosting company FDD with business partner Joe Kelly in 1997. The company hosts a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which allow companies and individuals to run websites. Its customers include the Daily Telegraph, Eastman-Kodak and Siemens and last week it was sold in an all-cash deal to pan-European giant ISP Netscalibur, which has already acquired ISP providers in Italy and Germany. Geoff, originally from Wellow and whose parents still live in the area, said FDD would eventually lose its name under the ownership of Netscalibur. But he recalled how his time at the Dukeries saw the start of his interest in information technology. I remember doing computer studies there when we first got the old BBC computers, he said. The sale was quite exciting. It’s not just the fact that we sold it, but that we sold it to a pan-European company. Geoff s story could act as inspiration for other would-be entrepreneurs, as he believes it was the quality of service alone which saw the company grow. We started three years ago with absolutely nothing, he added. We only had 500 and we couldn’t t get bank finance either. We didn’t t have any investment. Geoff, who attended university in Portsmouth, now lives on the South Coast but also spends time in Oxfordshire, where FDD is based, as well as London and Nottinghamshire.

Google David Davies MP and Copycat Websites, Extract:- COMMENT: Shame on Google for turning a blind eye Copycat Government websites are not illegal – but they exist to dupe consumers into thinking they are official. The result, as our special report confirms, is that thousands of people every month are paying over the odds for a range of Government services. In most cases they are unable to get redress once they realise they’ve used a fee-charging unofficial website rather than the official Government agency. Action is necessary on many fronts to curb the antics of these copycat websites. It’s heartening that the Advertising Standards Authority is looking at how consumers can be made better aware of the difference between commercial and Government agency websites. And it’s great that Conservative MP David Davis will be raising the issue in the House of Commons. But more needs to be done, especially by internet search engines. It’s frankly unacceptable that the likes of Google are allowing copycat websites to pay for the privilege of appearing before the official websites, in the process earning the search engines lucrative – and undisclosed – amounts of income. The internet is a consumer- empowering tool. But it’s also full of traps. Copycat websites need to be policed more vigilantly.

Unfortunately I was caught with the same [problem] earlier this month unfortunately there appears to be very little anyone can do to recoup their loss it’s time the Government stepped up to the plate and took some serious action! Action Fraud, ASA, and Trading Standards and the Banks simply don’t want to know. As a last resort I have sent the following to my MP. If someone was to knock at my door and show me an official looking ID from the “Water Company”, and I allowed him into the house and was subsequently robbed would a crime have been committed? Geoffrey Laffoley-Lane was fined £175,000 back in 2009 when he was operating Plaza Telecom a premium rate phone [problem]. He is currently ripping people off (operating IQ Channels LTD who are trading as passport-uk. and estavisas.org). The Advertising Standards Authority adjudicated on both trading companies on the 4th and 18th December 2013 and all the complaints were upheld. Why has this LOW LIFE been able to get away with these [problem]s for so long? IQ Channels latest accounts: - Net Worth £3,047,671, Cash £315,340, Assets £405,463, Liabilities £357,792. When a company can accumulate a Net Worth of over Three Million Pounds in such a short timescale (2011 - 2012) some sort of crime must have been committed. Perhaps a “Distraction Burglary” of my Bank Account!

Unfortunately I was caught with the same [problem] earlier this month unfortunately there appears to be very little anyone can do to recoup their loss it’s time the Government stepped up to the plate and took some serious action! Action Fraud, ASA, and Trading Standards and the Banks simply don’t want to know. As a last resort I have sent the following to my MP. If someone was to knock at my door and show me an official looking ID from the “Water Company”, a nd I allowed him into the house and was subsequently robbed would a crime have been committed? Geoffrey Laffoley-Lane was fined £175,000 back in 2009 when he was operating Plaza Telecom a premium rate phone [problem]. He is currently diddling people (operating IQ Channels LTD who are trading as passport-uk and estavisas. The Advertising Standards Authority adjudicated on both trading companies on the 4th and 18th December 2013 and all the complaints were upheld. Why has this LOW LIFE been able to get away with these [problem]s for so long? IQ Channels latest accounts: - Net Worth £3,047,671, Cash £315,340, Assets £405,463, Liabilities £357,792. When a company can accumulate a Net Worth of over Three Million Pounds in such a short timescale some sort of crime must have been committed. Perhaps a “Distraction Burglary” of my bank account!