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So, rather few of you guessed in our reader poll of last night. It is the snake oil salesman and all round charlatan Darren Winters who has send me a bully boy lawyer’s letter. Why he has sent it and what follows will truly shock you. The letter is marked “Not for Publication” but…
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Comments
Colin
Good luck!
MrMoto
Well, you surprised us all I think with who it was. But as battles go, this looks a good one. Pretty shocking these kind of overpriced training schemes.
Just make sure you mention “Win Investing” in your article titles and writings, should all rank nicely to his curent SEO rankings and searches. JSK google rankings as a perfect example.
CPPH
Brilliant. We need a bit of drama round here. things have quietened down a bit after QPP and all the multiple identity / criminal past stuff.
And if that is true (which i have no doubt it is) then he is the lowest form of pond life who deserves whats coming.
Godspeed
turbograndad
All par for the course hey Tom, shyster lawyer letters trying to intimidate the Sheriff, typical charlatan behaviour, see you in court, I doubt it somehow..
Sherlock
The timing of this letter makes it clear what this is all about. Good luck again and let’s see these guys taken down.
MrContrarian
Tom,
How are you going to back up your claim that he has “made millions from mug hunters”, to quote Hamlin’s letter? Is Darren Winters the Franklin Mint of coffee receptacles?
Or is Hamlins just pucking incompetent?
drunken sailor
Wow DW must be really desperate for cash to go down this line. Send the story to BBC Watchdog – I know Anne Robinson gets on everyone’s tits, but the show does give fantastic publicity to these things, which should put DW out of business in the UK for good.
I was pretty convinced that only Market Abuser Chris Oil would have been stupid enough to pay a lawyer to write this sort of nonsense, but DW proved me wrong. Perhaps when his “business” ripping off people like Mr xxx is completely destroyed he can apply to join Chris and his bank robber mate in their “business”.
Peter
Stick it to them Tom!!
I look forward to hearing about this in the weeks/months to come.
I won’t say “Good luck!” since truth doesn’t need luck, only the bright light of publicity and which I’m sure you’ll provide.
Peter
wildrides
Ah………… I see your fighting the good fight again ………. well done and good luck ……. not that you will need it with your skills and experience in this department . Still it will perhaps be stressful at times . On that note here is a Chillin Toon for a Sunday afternoon unwind . The Mrs might like it to :-
Tasha Zappala singing live in the Australian Bush , Northern Territory , accompanied by authentic insect and bird noise . Reminded me of your Greek Hovel Casts with the insects chirping along . Listen to the end if you can ,as it builds in a very pleasing way .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=x3vJHye4XN4
Chill.
ST AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
“The truth is like a lion. It does not need me to defend it, if I set it free it will defend itself.”
Malcolm Stacey
I’m going to enjoy this. Though sadly I doubt it will go any further than the solicitor’s first letter.
Tom Gilbert
That lawyer’s letter is hilarious. I hope this does get to court just to embarrass the amateurish lawyers who couldn’t even be bothered to proof read their own letter. The sentence very late on that starts “We are therefore instructed that unless….“just peters out with no action threatened if you don’t do what they want. I don’t think you have anything to fear from this bunch of goons.
Peter Foran
A once great wealthy business man said “ to be successful in making money is to know something that nobody else
knows and to make sure they don’t find out” nuff said about someone who’s made sixteen million quid and wants to tell everyone, ‘ thieving git’.
J P Spaghetti
Nice one Tom – seriously. And the very best of luck (not that I think you’ll need it). Effin’ weasels!
J P Spaghetti
(Sorry if this is duplicated)
Nice one Tom – seriously. And the very best of luck (not that I think you’ll need it). What do they mean by “On our instructions, the content of your articles are blatantly and utterly false and unjustified”? Skipping the clear grammatical error, how can it be or not be so ON THEIR INSTRUCTIONS? Were it not for the interests of the innocent third party here I’d tell them to fuck off. With big hairy gonads!
Oh, and the language is so rubishly (if that isn’t a word it ought to be) emotive I strongly suspect Mr Winters had a direct hand in drafting it.