YoNaturals Vending Scammers!!! Solana Beach California

YoNaturals is trying to trick the system! There is NO reason to have hundreds of blogs other than to SPAM the net!

Also, It looks like they're changing their name to healthyvending - (((Redacted)))
Nick Yates & Mark Trotter can't hide from the TRUTH! As long as they run a vending business its suspect!

Thank You Rip-Off Report for helping expose corporate criminals and shady businesses!


CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

YoNaturals is trying to trick the system! There is NO reason to have hundreds of blogs other than to SPAM the net!

Also, It looks like they're changing their name to healthyvending - (((Redacted)))
Nick Yates & Mark Trotter can't hide from the TRUTH! As long as they run a vending business its suspect!

Thank You Rip-Off Report for helping expose corporate criminals and shady businesses!


CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

YoNaturals is trying to trick the system! There is NO reason to have hundreds of blogs other than to SPAM the net!

Also, It looks like they're changing their name to healthyvending - (((Redacted)))
Nick Yates & Mark Trotter can't hide from the TRUTH! As long as they run a vending business its suspect!

Thank You Rip-Off Report for helping expose corporate criminals and shady businesses!


CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.

I was faced with dealing with Nick Yates AKA Nicholas Yates from Yo Naturals healthy vending machines in Solana Beach, CA on a regular basis.

I found him extremely unprofessional, impulsive, disrespectful and overwhelmed by the specifics of managing a business.

Based on this and the information on this page, I categorize Nick Yates as the absolute worst person I have ever had to deal with and highly recommend that you refrain from doing business with him.

Its not surprising that he would have some skeletons in the closet, but this stuff seems pretty serious.

I would even go so far as to speculate that one day we'll be hearing about YoNaturals on CNN or Fox News for some "White Collar Crime" or the equivalent scam. I hope I'm wrong, enough Americans have been hurt by executive criminals, with all the info here you never know.

Moe

About YoNaturals ( http://www.yonaturals.com ):
San Diego Based Healthy Vending Machine Franchise YoNaturals website is
www.yonaturals.com. Its a franchise type business, requiring $50,000 up front to become a 'location' or 'vendor.'

On first glance, everything seems legit from a simple google search on the company name. With 40,000 links deep of information about statistical analysis of childhood obesity and the benefits of organic snacks in schools, yonaturals dominates the internet with peripheral search terms.

You'll see links that describe YoNaturals franchise as a booming growth industry and that everyone is jumping on the organic healthy vending bandwagon like BMW and Stanford, etc. You'll see blog entries from a plethora of writers who promise that owning your own organic vending business is the next 'big thing.'

While the concept is a good one, a google search on the YoNaturals owners (google: mark trotter, spam AND nick yates, scam names brings up several articles which cause great concern to anyone considering investing in a healthy vending machine franchise with YoNaturals.

About YoNaturals' Owners:
YoNaturals is owned by two convicted criminals*, Nick Yates and Mark Trotter. Their history involves a long road of scams, rip-offs and unethical practices. In his home country of Australia, Nicholas Yates was convicted alongside by the AAAC or Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and ordered to pay $3,538,243.94 for his part in a vending machine scam. In the court's ruling, Justice Gyles found that Nick Yates: "authorised the initial representations made by advertisements in each case and knew that there was then no proper or reasonable basis for those representations. He could not have believed them to be true. Further he very quickly became actually aware of all of the serious deficiencies that occurred in relation to the successful operation of each of the Vending Machines and the Swisscom cards and of all the difficulties and deficiencies complained of by the distributors in relation to the conduct of the distributorships" According to the ITWire, Yates has yet to pay the court ordered fine.

CEO Mark Trotter is one of the original 'spam kings,' and has been convicted repeatedly before setting his sites on yonaturals healthy vending. Mark Trotter was sued by Microsoft and subsequently fined 10 million in a prosecution stemming from his involvementin a separate case which violated the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solictied Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM)"by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.

How, you may ask are they still in business??? Answer: by creating thousands of search engine entries in the form of websites, posts, social networking, blogging and other tricks, their reputation management campaign has all but masked the truth about their shady past. Its the equivalent taking any peripheral search that could contain the words; scam, fraud, etc and writing hundreds of faux articles that hide the original context of the words.


*Sources & References:
Yo Naturals Complaints
YoNaturals Vending Scammers!!! Solana Beach California:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/329/RipOff0329225.htm
YoNaturals - Health Products Scam:
http://www.scamshield.com/Sighting.asp?country=none&state=Hawaii&article=14

Owner Nick Yates Articles
YoNaturals' Owner Nick Yates & $3.5m compensation ordered after ACCC stops phone card vending machine scams:
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/725920/fromItemId/621932
AAAC wins $3.5M compensation to YoNaturals' Owner Nicholas Yates's vending machine scam
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/3464/2/
AAAC battle to recover legal fees from YoNaturals' Owner Nicholas Yates:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22864336-15306,00.html

Mark Trotter Spam Conviction Articles
Attorney General Abbott Cracks Down On Spammer Who Hijacked Consumers' Personal Computers
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagnews/release.php?print=1&id=2058
Attorney General Abbott Files First Texas Lawsuit for Violation of Spam Laws
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/92785
Abbott Spanks Spammers
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A375844
Microsoft, Texas AG, Take Down Two of World's Top Spammers
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-texas-ag-take-down-two-of-worlds-top-spammers
Big Spam Bust, Texas Style
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3459591
Texas spammer fined 10 million dollars
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200606/ai_n16465507
Texas Sues Spammers
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/tx_spammers.html
Texas Sues Spam Operation:
http://www.spambutcher.com/press5/910212/
Duo Nailed For Mortgage Spam Operation
http://originatortimes.com/content/templates/standard.aspx?articleid=804&zoneid=5
A den of rattlesnakes: YoNaturals CEO Mark Trotter Fined 10 Million:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/MYSA061106_01A_spammer_82ce315_html13609.html

Healthy Vending Franchise 'Yo Naturals' based in Solana Beach, California is owned by two convicted criminals*, Australian National & current La Jolla, Ca resident Nick Yates (aka Nicholas Yates / ) & Encinitas, Ca resident Mark Trotter.

In 2007 Nicholas Yates was convicted of fraud involving vending machines by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and fined 3.5 million dollars.

In 2007 Mark Trotter was a 'spam king' who in addition to being sued by Microsoft for breaking the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solictied Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM)" was ordered to pay 10 million in Texas for "Hijacking Consumers' Personal Computers" with 'botnet' by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.

Yo Naturals is also known as 'Healthy Student Vending,' 'Health Club Vending,' & 'School Healthy Vending'

*Sources:

1) YoNaturals' Owner Nick Yates & $3.5m compensation ordered after ACCC stops phone card vending machine scams:

http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/725920/fromItemId/621932

2) Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (AAAC) wins $3.5M compensation to Yo Naturals' Owner Nicholas Yates's vending machine scam

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3) Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (AAAC) battle to recover legal fees from Yo Naturals' Owner Nicholas Yates:

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22864336-15306,00.html

4) Attorney General Abbott Cracks Down On Spammer Who Hijacked Consumers' Personal Computers:

http://www.oag.state.tx.us/oagNews/release.php?id=2058

5) A den of rattlesnakes: Yo Naturals CEO Mark Trotter Fined 10 Million:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/MYSA061106_01A_spammer_82ce315_html13609.html

YoNaturals Scam and cheating!

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