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GuruJanitor
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To anyone who uses KillerPings as a Host
Posted: Jan 1, 2008, 23:28:54
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Word has it, they have shutdown. One of the leaders in my clan has a friend on the inside of KillerPings, and he said that they have shut down, took all the money and ran. If you have killerpings as a server host, and your server has been down since yesterday, theres your answer...time to find a new host company...

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Posted: Jan 2, 2008, 18:18:55
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I saw this coming, there uptime was never very good. Can they get in some sort of trouble for this? I'm sure a lot of people are going to try to get these people in trouble. Is there any update on this now?

-eDiT

GuruJanitor
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Posted: Jan 2, 2008, 20:56:07
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Yes they can, its consumer fraud...if you payed for their service, write to the attorney general in Illinois, and if they get enough letters, they will investigate. There were no refunds. You could class-action lawsuit, but that would take too long and the killerpings people would be long gone...so best bet is to write to the attorney general in Illinois.

Rosh93
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Posted: Jan 3, 2008, 02:56:50
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Why the attorney general in Illinois, is that where the company was based?

GuruJanitor
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Posted: Jan 4, 2008, 01:46:13
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Yes, their HQ was in Chicago as well as one of their Databases. What they did was against the law, and he can take care of it. They commited consumer fraud or something like that, and if we get enough people to write to the attorney general, we can get an investigation launched and eventually get KillerPings in HUGE truble.

LineOut
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Posted: Jan 4, 2008, 21:22:55
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hello and FYI -

I contacted AmericanExpress to get my auto payment stopped. they had the balls to charge my account the last day of the year.....the first day of the year they shut down their web page and closed shop.


There is a Fraud investigation by American Express on Killerpings.com

i doubt anything will come of it but i do know that Amex Takes this stuff VERY seriously.

MrCCTV
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Posted: Jan 5, 2008, 04:45:16
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Thanks GuruJanitor for the early heads up. We just made our payment and were fortunate enough that PayPal refunded the money after filing a dispute.

You may also want to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission at Federal Trade Commission - Home.

stronvol
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Posted: Jan 6, 2008, 15:43:35
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i have filed a dispute with paypal , i am going to file a complaint with fcc and the attorney general in Illinois.if we can do anything else please let us know.we had a website a cod1,coduo and a cod4 server with them and they have screwed us all its not cool.:mad:

dudenell
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Posted: Jan 6, 2008, 20:56:40
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I dont know most of you guys but I do know stronvol... I thought I would try and help out. this is from KillerPings.com - AboutUs Wiki Page


948 Bugle Ct
Round Lake Beach IL 60073 US

edit Payment Address

1661 Ottawa
Wheeling, IL 60090

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Chuck Lowney
+1 602 548 6984


also this is what I got from a whois search of the site....

Registrant:
Steadfast Networks

350 E. Cermak Rd.
Suite 240
Chicago, Illinois 60616
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: KILLERPINGS.COM
Created on: 11-Jun-04
Expires on: 11-Jun-08
Last Updated on: 11-Jun-07

Administrative Contact:
Administrator, Server billing@steadfast.net
Steadfast Networks
350 E. Cermak Rd.
Suite 240
Chicago, Illinois 60616
United States
8882819449

Technical Contact:
Administrator, Server billing@steadfast.net
Steadfast Networks
350 E. Cermak Rd.
Suite 240
Chicago, Illinois 60616
United States
8882819449

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.KILLERPINGS.COM
NS2.KILLERPINGS.COM

I hope that helps...

~Dan~
Ice Man

stronvol
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Posted: Jan 7, 2008, 02:11:19
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thankyou for the info ICE !!!! also a friend of mine lance that owns Velocity Game Servers - Game Server Hosting and Game Server Systems can hook anyone up that is looking for a new host just mention stronvol and razor sent ya.

oldsniper
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Posted: Jan 8, 2008, 17:51:05
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Mr CCTV

How did you file the dispute with Paypal. What options did you select...I tried and got my dispute rejected.
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