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| Xicon Technologies 522 South Independence Blvd.
Virginia Beach, Virginia United States of America |
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Xicon Technologies Xicon Technologies, Inc, Xicon Tech, Xicon, A division of GlobeComm Inc, Elizabeth Alexanderia Yates, Jeremy Jai Howard SCAM SAFETY COMPANY, SCAM FIRE SAFETY COMPANY, SCAM TECHNOLOGY COMPANY ELIZABETH ALEXANDERIA YATES 6FOOT FAT SCAMMER, WITH JEREMY JAI HOWARD AFRICAN AMERICAN SCAMMER Virginia Beach, Virginia
*UPDATE EX-employee responds: now in orlando
*General Comment: Feel for it too
*UPDATE Employee: liars
*UPDATE Employee: Liars, Liars, Liars
*UPDATE Employee: operating in NC still
*UPDATE Employee: Please HELP
*UPDATE EX-employee responds: I may be able to help.
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IF YOU ARE ASKED TO INTERVIEW OR APPLY TO FOR XICON AT 522 S. INDEPENDENCE BLVD., SUITE 200, VA BEACH VA, 23452...............IT IS A SCAM.
COMPANY HAS A HORRIBLE WEBSITE WITH TYPOS:WWW.XICONTECHNOLOGIES.COM
YOU WILL BE CHARGED A FEE TO JOIN A MANAGEMENT POSITION...175.32, OR ANY OTHER CHANGED AMOUNT THEY MAY USE TO NOT BE 175.32 TO TRY TO LOOK DIFFERENT AND NOT GET CAUGHT.
ELIZABETH ALEXANDERIA YATES IS A 6FOOT OH SORRY 5'11 FAT COUNTRY GIRL. SHE WAS BORN IN ANGIER, NC AND LIVED AT 969 JAMES NORRIS RD IN ANGIER, NC
SHE USED TO WORK FOR GLOBECOMM SECURITIES, INC.
SHE HAS ELOPED WITH JEREMY JAI HOWARD OWNER OF GLOBECOMM, AND IS WORKING AS OWNER OF XICON AND PRETENDS TO BE MANAGER.
SHE CHANGED HER HAIR TO BLONDE RECENTLY AND SHE DRESSES SUPER NASTY..INDECENT..TRYING TO GET MEN TO PAY THE FEE TO JOIN.
SHE ALSO SAYS SHE WILL TRY TO TEMPT LESBIANS...
SHE IS ONLY 19 BORN IN 1991. SHE IS A SCAMMER, TRYING TO MAKE MONEY AFTER LEAVING NC FROM BEING A BROKE WAITRESS.
SHE DRIVES A 2002-2005 FORD THUNDERBIRD SILVER WITH BLACK INTERIOR AND BLACK TOP CONVERTIBLE...SHE IS BROKE I PROMISE YOU. HER LISCENCE PLATE SAYS "TAGURIT".
IF YOU SEE THIS DO NOT JOIN THE COMPANY.
DO NOT PAY FEES FOR A JOB..THEY WILL KEEP UR MONEY, TRAIN YOU WELL, AND U HAVE TO HIT RETAIL GOALS TO PASS, AND GO THROUGH EVALUATIONS.. IN ORDER TO BECOME A MANAGER OR WHATVER TITLE THEY ARE USING NOW!!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT BECOME ALL MANAGERS!!!!!! THEY WILL LET ALOT OF YOU GO, SAYING YOU DIDNT PASS EVALUALTIONS AND KEEP YOUR MONEY, AND THEY WILL ALSO SAY TO LOOK HONEST "THEY WILL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THEM". THEY MAY VERY WELL RETURN YOUR MONEY, BUT ONLY TO HOPE YOU DO NOT GO TO THE NEWS AND THE NEWSPAPER THEY ADVERTISE IN!!!!!!!
DO NOT PAY FOR A JOB!!!!!!!!
THEY HAVE INITIAL TRAINING AND ELIZABETH IS AWFUL AT IT SO JEREMY JAI HOWARD USUALLY DOES IT.
YOU CAN FIND ELIZABETH ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000166860539 OR ELIZYATES09@AOL.COM, OR ELIZABETH ALEXANDERIA YATES
She is a pure scam!!!!!!!
The business is a pure scam!!!!!!!!
do not pay.....
if you want to know more about how they run their business, they are not with Mark Mingolo, but, they do what he does.
They will claim they ship product, they will claim they pay taxes, they will claim they have business liscence, all to convince you to not call the news.
They will act calmn, Jeremy Jai will be the one to address you all as well as Elizabeth. They will give excuses, and make it make perfect sense to your mind on why they are no scam.
And they will use company names to show u that even Wal-mart gets scam reports. All they do is schedule interviews, train, and ask you to sell product.
I know the "opportunity" sounds great with great pay and they will treat u like gold.
They leave cities because of scam reports and ARE afraid that u will call the news.
Drill Elizabeth Yates she is a rookie and will break with the toughest questions. If you think she answered them well, ask her to show company income records, under "Xicon". She cannot she just opened it, because they constantly change names.
GlobeComm is not in business. They just say it is.
Melissa Painter Reporter for the news in winston salem, NC and greensboro, nc did a report on this. Look her up and call her.
I will post her info, and be contacting her as well.
Please make complaints to BBB as well as Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Corporation Commission.
PLEASE LOOKUP MARK MINGOLO ON GOOGLE, AND SEE HIS TRACK RECORD,VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THEY DO, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THEY WILL MAKE TWEAKS TO MAKE THEMSELVES LOOK DIFFERENT.
DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!
ELIZABETH IS AWFUL AT SCAMMING, BUT FOR AN UN-INFORMED INDIVIDUAL SHE WILL TRY HER BEST!!!!!!
AND ALTHOUGH SHES TERRIBLE AT IT, SHE WILL TRY AND GET U SOMEWHERE EMOTIONAL...
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY.
SCAAAAM!!!! ALERT!!!
THERE IS MORE TO COME!!!!!!
Melissa Painter : mailto:mpainter@wghp.com in myfox8.com
COMPANY HAS A HORRIBLE WEBSITE WITH TYPOS:WWW.XICONTECHNOLOGIES.COM
YOU WILL BE CHARGED A FEE TO JOIN A MANAGEMENT POSITION...175.32, OR ANY OTHER CHANGED AMOUNT THEY MAY USE TO NOT BE 175.32 TO TRY TO LOOK DIFFERENT AND NOT GET CAUGHT.
ELIZABETH ALEXANDERIA YATES IS A 6FOOT OH SORRY 5'11 FAT COUNTRY GIRL. SHE WAS BORN IN ANGIER, NC AND LIVED AT 969 JAMES NORRIS RD IN ANGIER, NC
SHE USED TO WORK FOR GLOBECOMM SECURITIES, INC.
SHE HAS ELOPED WITH JEREMY JAI HOWARD OWNER OF GLOBECOMM, AND IS WORKING AS OWNER OF XICON AND PRETENDS TO BE MANAGER.
SHE CHANGED HER HAIR TO BLONDE RECENTLY AND SHE DRESSES SUPER NASTY..INDECENT..TRYING TO GET MEN TO PAY THE FEE TO JOIN.
SHE ALSO SAYS SHE WILL TRY TO TEMPT LESBIANS...
SHE IS ONLY 19 BORN IN 1991. SHE IS A SCAMMER, TRYING TO MAKE MONEY AFTER LEAVING NC FROM BEING A BROKE WAITRESS.
SHE DRIVES A 2002-2005 FORD THUNDERBIRD SILVER WITH BLACK INTERIOR AND BLACK TOP CONVERTIBLE...SHE IS BROKE I PROMISE YOU. HER LISCENCE PLATE SAYS "TAGURIT".
IF YOU SEE THIS DO NOT JOIN THE COMPANY.
DO NOT PAY FEES FOR A JOB..THEY WILL KEEP UR MONEY, TRAIN YOU WELL, AND U HAVE TO HIT RETAIL GOALS TO PASS, AND GO THROUGH EVALUATIONS.. IN ORDER TO BECOME A MANAGER OR WHATVER TITLE THEY ARE USING NOW!!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT BECOME ALL MANAGERS!!!!!! THEY WILL LET ALOT OF YOU GO, SAYING YOU DIDNT PASS EVALUALTIONS AND KEEP YOUR MONEY, AND THEY WILL ALSO SAY TO LOOK HONEST "THEY WILL GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THEM". THEY MAY VERY WELL RETURN YOUR MONEY, BUT ONLY TO HOPE YOU DO NOT GO TO THE NEWS AND THE NEWSPAPER THEY ADVERTISE IN!!!!!!!
DO NOT PAY FOR A JOB!!!!!!!!
THEY HAVE INITIAL TRAINING AND ELIZABETH IS AWFUL AT IT SO JEREMY JAI HOWARD USUALLY DOES IT.
YOU CAN FIND ELIZABETH ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000166860539 OR ELIZYATES09@AOL.COM, OR ELIZABETH ALEXANDERIA YATES
She is a pure scam!!!!!!!
The business is a pure scam!!!!!!!!
do not pay.....
if you want to know more about how they run their business, they are not with Mark Mingolo, but, they do what he does.
They will claim they ship product, they will claim they pay taxes, they will claim they have business liscence, all to convince you to not call the news.
They will act calmn, Jeremy Jai will be the one to address you all as well as Elizabeth. They will give excuses, and make it make perfect sense to your mind on why they are no scam.
And they will use company names to show u that even Wal-mart gets scam reports. All they do is schedule interviews, train, and ask you to sell product.
I know the "opportunity" sounds great with great pay and they will treat u like gold.
They leave cities because of scam reports and ARE afraid that u will call the news.
Drill Elizabeth Yates she is a rookie and will break with the toughest questions. If you think she answered them well, ask her to show company income records, under "Xicon". She cannot she just opened it, because they constantly change names.
GlobeComm is not in business. They just say it is.
Melissa Painter Reporter for the news in winston salem, NC and greensboro, nc did a report on this. Look her up and call her.
I will post her info, and be contacting her as well.
Please make complaints to BBB as well as Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Corporation Commission.
PLEASE LOOKUP MARK MINGOLO ON GOOGLE, AND SEE HIS TRACK RECORD,VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THEY DO, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THEY WILL MAKE TWEAKS TO MAKE THEMSELVES LOOK DIFFERENT.
DO NOT BE FOOLED!!!
ELIZABETH IS AWFUL AT SCAMMING, BUT FOR AN UN-INFORMED INDIVIDUAL SHE WILL TRY HER BEST!!!!!!
AND ALTHOUGH SHES TERRIBLE AT IT, SHE WILL TRY AND GET U SOMEWHERE EMOTIONAL...
DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY.
SCAAAAM!!!! ALERT!!!
THERE IS MORE TO COME!!!!!!
Melissa Painter : mailto:mpainter@wghp.com in myfox8.com
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now in orlando
AUTHOR: stopthesecons - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, January 18, 2013
they are now operating out of orlandoo florida. the office is located at 37 north orange. they are still conning people and getting away with it. they are now going by the business name HSEC and he's going by J.J. and her name is Lisa. They drive a silver impala, it's a rental. they need to be stopped before they take off again and scam more people in another area. She has cut her hair, layered it and it's light in color. These people are nasty and they need to be stopped!!!
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What's this? #2 General Comment
Feel for it too
AUTHOR: kimmyco710 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, September 02, 2012
I was also employed by the above company. they went under All Safe. I was so blinded by what they said and the hopes of getting money for my family I didn't allow the true feeling of scam to settle on till my class was there for 7 weeks because they kepted putting new hires in our class. I cut it as a lose and hope never to see them again. but also know one day soon it is all going to catch up to them. Beth is a horrible speaker and did slip a few times but it was already towards the end of my run with them. I just wated to get out and wash my hand of it totally. I am happy that this wasn't my only hope for income because if it was I would have been homeless. Hopefully the new people they try to scam find this and don't continue forward.
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What's this? #3 UPDATE Employee
liars
AUTHOR: acarrington - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 01, 2011
SO I have been employed with these two for about 3 weeks now. It sound like a really great ideal but when i seen the ppl in the interview i was still a little skeptic.. I gave them my 77.32 for registration and then my 98$ kit deposited only to find out that my kit that i paid 98$ for was a freakin flimsy book that was printed at office max. So everything was ok until the rumors came out about JAY... BETH (ELIZABETH)... AND HIS NOW SUPPOSE TO BE EX WIFE YOLI.... when the news broke at the office which is located at 603 country club drive in Fayetteville NC.... everyone was kind of pissed but trying to stay positive because the money sound really good... Like everyone is saying Jay is really good at speaking.. Beth just acts super helpless and she desperately wants to be pregnant.... ANYWAYS so many ppl have dropped away from this scam because of what they seen other ppl said ONLINE AND HER SAY... Some are obtaining lawyers and others are just taking a lost.... we have two ppl actually in offices and its funny because they spend more time in the "REGINAL CENTER" THEN IN THER NEW OFFICES AND THEY EVEN THINK ITS SOMETHING FISHY THEY JUST DONT HAVE THEY HEART TO SAY..... So they claim to have all this money but JAY wears the same pants but a diff shirt every day... this is crazy how they took advantage of us and not even given a crap to think about us... and our families.. We have had 3 meeting in the past 2 days.. with them explain how there not affiliated with MARK MINGULO... but he had the same ideals, same concept, SAME EVERYTHING... its only a matter of time before they get caught as soon as i finish gathering up information then Im going to the police... also its funny now that all this stuff comes up... Elizabeth changed her plates on her car from tagurit to something totally diff and now there no longer a division OF VITEQ (WHICH YOU CANT FIND ANY INFORMATION ON.. THEY ALWAYS SAY... (JAY- WELL ITS ALWAYS UPLOADING FROM THE DIFFERENT OFFICE THAT OPEN UP NATIONALLY) BUT THIS IS EVEN FUNNIER... THE ONLY OFFICES THAT ARE KNOWN ARE ALL KNOWN FOR SCAMMING PPL.. AND IF YOU LOOK UP VITEQ. HIS FREAKIN FAMILY COMES UP... THEY ARE SOME really nice people but cold hearted jay had they nerve to say if I was scamming you would I have changed my name would I have opened up 2 offices.. come on guys I genuinely care for everyone.. some people are talking about moving with their families the greens borrow, south Carolina, Florida, and even Georgia. This is just sad I hope the girl that did get a lawyer sew them and win.. deformation of character lol WTF DUDE..... LOL BUT HEY YOU WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME..... THIS WILL ALL COME BACK AROUND...
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What's this? #4 UPDATE Employee
Liars, Liars, Liars
AUTHOR: acarrington - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, September 01, 2011
SO I have been employed with these two for about 3 weeks now. It sound like a really great ideal but when i seen the ppl in the interview i was still a little skeptic.. I gave them my 77.32 for registration and then my 98$ kit deposited only to find out that my kit that i paid 98$ for was a freakin flimsy book that was printed at office max. So everything was ok until the rumors came out about JAY... BETH (ELIZABETH)... AND HIS NOW SUPPOSE TO BE EX WIFE YOLI.... when the news broke at the office which is located at 603 country club drive in Fayetteville NC.... everyone was kind of pissed but trying to stay positive because the money sound really good... Like everyone is saying Jay is really good at speaking.. Beth just acts super helpless and she desperately wants to be pregnant.... ANYWAYS so many ppl have dropped away from this scam because of what they seen other ppl said ONLINE AND HER SAY... Some are obtaining lawyers and others are just taking a lost.... we have two ppl actually in offices and its funny because they spend more time in the "REGINAL CENTER" THEN IN THER NEW OFFICES AND THEY EVEN THINK ITS SOMETHING FISHY THEY JUST DONT HAVE THEY HEART TO SAY..... So they claim to have all this money but JAY wears the same pants but a diff shirt every day... this is crazy how they took advantage of us and not even given a crap to think about us... and our families.. We have had 3 meeting in the past 2 days.. with them explain how there not affiliated with MARK MINGULO... but he had the same ideals, same concept, SAME EVERYTHING... its only a matter of time before they get caught as soon as i finish gathering up information then Im going to the police... also its funny now that all this stuff comes up... Elizabeth changed her plates on her car from tagurit to something totally diff and now there no longer a division OF VITEQ (WHICH YOU CANT FIND ANY INFORMATION ON.. THEY ALWAYS SAY... (JAY- WELL ITS ALWAYS UPLOADING FROM THE DIFFERENT OFFICE THAT OPEN UP NATIONALLY) BUT THIS IS EVEN FUNNIER... THE ONLY OFFICES THAT ARE KNOWN ARE ALL KNOWN FOR SCAMMING PPL.. AND IF YOU LOOK UP VITEQ. HIS FREAKIN FAMILY COMES UP... THEY ARE SOME really nice people but cold hearted jay had they nerve to say if I was scamming you would I have changed my name would I have opened up 2 offices.. come on guys I genuinely care for everyone.. some people are talking about moving with their families the greens borrow, south Carolina, Florida, and even Georgia. This is just sad I hope the girl that did get a lawyer sew them and win.. deformation of character lol WTF DUDE..... LOL BUT HEY YOU WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME..... THIS WILL ALL COME BACK AROUND...
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What's this? #5 UPDATE Employee
operating in NC still
AUTHOR: anonymous - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, August 12, 2011
I saw the add on criagslist and wanting office managers and that i would be making 625/week or about 2000 dollars a month. So i thought that was and sounded great so i called the next day or so they called and said I would like to set up an interview and wanted to know if I could meet the next day. So Aug. 3 I went in for an interview, and when I walked in there were three people in there taking an aptitude test in which I was given also. Next Mr. Howard as he was called came in and discussed what all we will be doing and the process of getting hired and the training we will be going through which will last about 2 weeks. All this was ok, and seemed legit, so I went with it. I was interviewed by Beth which now i know as (elizabeth yates) and Jeremy Howard. There were also two other in there who were in training, which i guess they already got suckered in because they had only been there a week and were training to be so called Managers. After this, I was hired and told i had to pay money, which i did not have at the time. So i was told that my position would be held until i could come back on Saturday for the training. So i drive all the way to the training and ends up it gets canceled and i am told to come back. Which i do, I go back on monday and they said they would like to hold off on training me since i had been emailing and asking them questions about the company so i guess they figured i was concerned about taking on this job. So they say they will call me back later on and start the training.
I know the lady two above me said that she had some more info on this company, I would like to get that if i can I would like to pursue some kind of legal action against this so called company. So if you could contact me please.
Again now the company is called Allsafe and they even have a website now allsafeonline.org but with no contact information and if you notice all the information is copied from other websites.
I know the lady two above me said that she had some more info on this company, I would like to get that if i can I would like to pursue some kind of legal action against this so called company. So if you could contact me please.
Again now the company is called Allsafe and they even have a website now allsafeonline.org but with no contact information and if you notice all the information is copied from other websites.
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What's this? #6 UPDATE Employee
Please HELP
AUTHOR: anonymous heart - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, April 15, 2011
I am a current employee and I knew something was up with this company which is now called "Vyza Enterprises"
We are in the sales part of training and Elizabeth is trying to push us to get our sales done so we can finish our training and get into our own offices. There are 10 of us in the virginia beach office in trining. I already made up my mind on how I feel about all this.
I want to take action NOW... police, fbi, any government authorities please contact me, reply to this posting. I dont want to be a victim of this Multi-Level-Marketing scam and I am trying to prevent others from being sucked in too.
We are in the sales part of training and Elizabeth is trying to push us to get our sales done so we can finish our training and get into our own offices. There are 10 of us in the virginia beach office in trining. I already made up my mind on how I feel about all this.
I want to take action NOW... police, fbi, any government authorities please contact me, reply to this posting. I dont want to be a victim of this Multi-Level-Marketing scam and I am trying to prevent others from being sucked in too.
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What's this? #7 UPDATE EX-employee responds
I may be able to help.
AUTHOR: anonymous - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Sunday, April 03, 2011
I can confirm that what you say is true. I worked for these individuals when they were in Raleigh NC, under the names Globecomm Securities Inc, and Tri-tech Securities LLC. Elizabeth started here when the office was named Tri-tech and worked for/with Jeremy Jai Howard and his wife Yoli A. Howard (I am curious that she seems to be absent in your account. Wonder where she is now). I was hired by Elizabeth and worked for them for nearly three weeks. Though something about it felt off I couldn't nail down anything concrete, because as you said they have a semi-convincing answer for everything. My father showed me the Mark Mingolo information, after which I made the connection. I spent the next two days covertly gathering information at the office and blowing peoples interviews when possible to keep them from hooking new people. Everything you have claimed about the way they operate is accurate. As I dug deeper into it I found information tying Jai to Mingolo, but my repeated attempts to get the authorities involved were met with dismal failure. After going to the AG and DA and getting nowhere, I went to the Raleigh PD (which ironically enough was located just a quarter mile from the office) I actually had a police officer at the station say "Well what do you want us to do about it?". I can see you are very interested in putting a stop to this based on the amount of information you dug up. I gathered a great deal of evidence and confronted them in person (as a last resort) and they packed up the office 5 days later. I have a great deal of information about their activities, movement, and past, as well as physical evidence (much of which they know nothing about) that confirms their illegal activity, which may help you and law enforcement if you decide to pursue this further and can find law enforcement willing to listen (this will be the difficult part which is how they keep getting away with this). I don't know Virginia law that well but here in NC what they were doing qualified as a felony under GS 14-291.2, so if you do wish to pursue this, I am ready and willing to help put them away for good. Just message me or respond to this post and I will get you my contact information.
For anyone else looking for an in depth description of how this con goes, this article covers it to a T:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/liars/mr-m-mark-mingolo-a/mr-m-mark-mingolo-a-k-a-397zc.htm
This is the exact scam (down to minute details) they ran in Raleigh and from what I can tell its the same one they are running in Virginia. So if you run into this kind of company anywhere else, it is a scam as well. Don't give them your money or trust, and report them immediately. The faster you run them off the less people they can harm.
For anyone else looking for an in depth description of how this con goes, this article covers it to a T:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/liars/mr-m-mark-mingolo-a/mr-m-mark-mingolo-a-k-a-397zc.htm
This is the exact scam (down to minute details) they ran in Raleigh and from what I can tell its the same one they are running in Virginia. So if you run into this kind of company anywhere else, it is a scam as well. Don't give them your money or trust, and report them immediately. The faster you run them off the less people they can harm.
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