Beware MediaBlip sro/Briana Investments

Beware of this company...MediaBlip sro.


MediaBlip
Rybná 14
Prague 1
110 00
Czech Republic


http://www.mediablip.com


Zodpovedny reditel:
Tim Smith, PhD


in US tel.: (312) 235 2231
tel./fax: +420 227 316 029


Now Mr. Smith is supposedly on the faculty of DePaul University and has a front that looks legit.


First off, they are not a legally registered company here in the CR, but are under the austices of this shady off shore firm called:


Briana Capital Investment sro
Rybna 682/14
Praha 1 110 00
ico: 27395171
dici: CZ 273395171


Problem is they advertise themselves as a e-marketing comany that has ben very successful in the US and ar now branching out into the EU. That is a lie.
They provide on-line gambling, hazzard, and if you run "online gambling" through Google, you will find that mosty of these compnaies are under close scrutiny by justice organs in the US for tax evation.


They run sites such as


http://www.touchstonepoker.com
http://www.rockmywallet.com


So, this mediablip is operating against the laws of the CR.


No one there, except for the few CZ workers have legal working staus in the CR. Even Mr. director, Will mith does not have a residency permit, nor legal working papers.
And they pay cash under the table...can you say tax-evation.
Immigration police have been informed.


Also, they force their employees to use pirated software from Microsoft, Adobe and Macromedia.
The Business Software Alliance
http://www.bsa.cz


has been informed, as well as Microsoft, Roman Cuk, czcmadm@microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.cz
Reditel pece o zakazniky, and they have promised legal action.


Who also claims to be a professor at Depaul University and publishes this sily news letter called,
"The Wiglaf Journal".
http://www.wiglafjournal.com.com
Tim Smith, PhD
tsmith@wiglafjournal.com
773 395 2983


They also have this site:


http://www.123capture.com
Capture Canada
Capture Inc.
607-130 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2L4


(p) 647.438.0103
(f) 416.849.1208

Tim Smith, PhD
http://www.wiglafjournal.com
tsmith@wiglafjournal.com
773 395 2983



jednatel: Mgr. Martin ÎiÏka, r.ã. 700315/0429
Praha 4, Modfiany, Koláfiova 902/28, PSâ 143 00


den vzniku funkce: 24.listopadu 2005
den zániku funkce: 8.prosince 2005
Zapsáno: 24.listopadu 2005 Vymazáno: 27.února 2006


jednatel: Paul Weinstock,dat. nar. 31.08.1961
Tortola, Road Town PO BOX 993-461
Britské Panenské ostrovy
den vzniku funkce: 8.prosince 2005Zapsáno: 27.února 2006


jednatel: Brian Gavin Woods,dat. nar. 16.01.1968
Oakville, Ontario, Raymar Place 54
Kanada
MZ consulting s.r.o.
Praha 1, Na Pfiíkopû 583/15, PSâ 110 00
Identifikaãní ãíslo: 271 63 342


Companies.cz s.r.o.
Praha 1, Na Pfiíkopû 583/15, PSâ 110 00
Identifikaãní ãíslo: 271 30 363


Paul Weinstock,dat. nar. 31.08.1961
Tortola, Road Town PO BOX 993-461
Britské Panenské ostrovy


Brian Gavin Woods,dat. nar. 16.01.1968
Oakville, Ontario, Raymar Place 54
Kanada


Crosslisted with badclientscz.blogspot.com

Fraud article in praha's Provokateur Magazine

Disconnected: The Flight of O'Hsin Limited PDF Print E-mail
ImageNow you see it, now you don't…Becka McFadden gives a first-hand account of a Prague-based Canadian company's disappearance that has left ex-employees with nothing but questions and unpaid salaries.

Last December, I found myself starting to panic. It was my first month post-TEFL and as my dollars dwindled, the days shortened and my teaching schedule started requiring pre-dawn schleps to places like Luka and Skalka, I began to dream of the very thing I thought I’d never want: an office job.


Enter Canadian company O'Hsin Technology, whose offer of a position as a “media broker” seemed to be the voice of God, speaking to me through the employment listings of expats.cz. The premise was simple: O’Hsin would broadcast highlights of this summer’s FIFA World Cup on screens in cities across Europe. We, the media brokers, would sell ad space on these screens. We’d receive a take-home salary of 18.000kc per month, a 10% commission on all deals we made and visa assistance. We got to hang out in a nice office on Krakovska, instead of schlepping to Skalka.

My doubts began as soon as I arrived for training with the Canadian staff and found myself doing what was essentially upscale telemarketing. I told myself that as an actor, I should welcome the chance to try different personas on the phone, but even the knowledge that Johnny Depp once sold pens by phone failed to improve my spirits as I got more and more depressed. I quit just before Valentine’s Day, but my colleagues soldiered on, holding onto the dream of the one great deal that would allow them to leave.

Until Monday, April 3rd, when they arrived at the office to find the Canadian staff gone, the computer hard drives missing and the contents of their desks, including personal documents and labor contracts shredded. They were owed payment for six weeks of work, and no one had received commissions.

Image when a former colleague texted me with the news, I was shocked. Even more shocking, perhaps, was how easy it was for O’Hsin to set up here. O’Hsin’s Toronto headquarters had a Polish colleague acquire and rename an existing company. A Czech company jumped on board for the process of becoming an s.r.o. and was quickly bought out by O’Hsin. When business didn’t proceed as smoothly as O’Hsin had hoped, employees were sacked and there was talk of salaries being lowered. When employees complained and asked for more transparency, the company responded by leaving, completely unannounced.

Since O’Hsin’s flight, the employees have organized, visiting the Canadian Embassy, the Foreign Police, the American of Chamber of Commerce, Interpol and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Labor. TV Prima has covered the story and major newspapers in C.R. and abroad have been contracted. “They broke labor, commercial and tax laws of the E.U.,” says one of the victims, a former O’Hsin employee. “They made this business in the Czech Republic, against Czech law, and the government doesn’t do anything about it. We are trying to push the situation so this doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

Dimitri Kuptsov is quick to point out that he’s not looking for pity, just satisfaction. “I spent three months of my life [doing this job] and the whole time they were looking me in the eye and shaking my hand. I would like them to pay us and get out of our lives.” Jan Los adds that the majority of the affected staff is Czech: “People think the staff was just foreign and they should go back to their own countries, but it wasn’t.”

Some staff remain hopeful that O’Hsin will make things right. “How they left is disgusting, but the law says they have until the end of next month to pay us,” Pica, another former employee, told me. “Until we receive documents ending the contracts, we are still employees of O’Hsin Technology.” That may be true, but they are unpaid and unhappy ones. “Of course we will concentrate on new lives, but now we are without money. They have put us in a position where we don’t have money to live,” One of the victims explains. Teodora, who moved from Bulgaria to accept the job with O’Hsin, is going home: “What can I do - there’s no job, no money, no nothing.”

Image:The whole experience with O’Hsin has left a bad taste in my mouth. The havoc their leaving has wreaked in the lives of an international staff that is predominantly young and financially unstable feels exploitive. I understand the economic attractiveness of the Czech Republic for international companies, but something needs to be done to protect employees, both Czech and foreign, from businesses like O’Hsin Technology. Perhaps their presence in Prague will lead to increased aware and tighter controls - something far more valuable than a 10% commission.

Even Con-Artists get ripped off

Hello, This is a message from Izak - The Ohsin Canadian staff.... against Ron....Jarka


Hello Jarka,

Nice to hear from you. Please tell everyone there that we are trying to take action against Ron in the court system. We have banned together and are suing him for more than $100.000.00 and we also put a stoppage from his leaving this country.

Please keep in touch.

Keep healthy,
Izak

More Places for info

-I got some good sites where to post both in regard to the wC, but to the Olympics as well:

na strance
http://darkprague.blogspot.com/2006/05/letter-to-toronto-police-department.html
jsem se docetl, ze se snazite o kauze O'Hsin informovat i kanadske urady.
Drzim palce.

Mozna by bylo zajimave vyvinout tlak na O'Hsin prostrednictvim public
relations -- existuji servery, kde muzete zdarma vystavovat tiskove zpravy:
http://www.webmastereyes.com/index.php?url=http://del.icio.us/otaria/freepr

http://www.webmastereyes.com/index.php?url=http://del.icio.us/otaria/freepr?page=2
(odkazy az v dolni casti stranek, cislicka znaci Google Toolbar PageRank,
cim vyssi, tim lepsi)

Zkouseli jste take kontaktovat kanadska media?

Dle
http://ohsintechnology.blogspot.com/2006/05/uncanny-resemblancecoincidence-or-pure.html
se O'Hsin snazi pusobit v Australii a v Cine -- zkouseli jste kontaktovat
cinskou ambasadu?


Pokud firma O'Hsin tvrdila neco o FIFA, treba by to zajimalo jednu pravnickou firmu:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/03/hideous_company_send.html