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This is the outline of a website, http://www.coralseastudios.com , which has
the strong taint of fraud. The sole owner of this website is Brian L.
McCarty. McCarty grew up in Illinois, served some time in the U.S. Army in
Germany, and gravitated to LA to work in the movie biz as a sound mixer. His
formative years are not well known, meaning we don't really know how he
became fucked up.
The year is 1994. Brian L. McCarty has a fresh new idea for jazz radio on
the web. Brian works on this in his spare time, while working under the
tutelage of outstanding sound mixer Jeff Wexler. The two bond, and become
friends.
1997 Brian sells the worldjazz project, which consists essentially of a
collection of jazz recordings, to BET. With a reasonable wad of cash, he no
longer feels the need to drop his boom into camera shots, or knock people on
the head with his zeppelin.
1998. Brian leaves LA for Cairns, Australia. I've been tipped he was under
pressure to leave, but cannot confirm it. I am open to any leads in this
area.
1999 Brian establishes himself in Cairns, Australia, where Jeff Wexler also
resides for a time. Jeff introduces him to Peter Young, ABN Amro's
Australian vice-chairman, who in turn connects them with Stan Howard,
brother of Australian PM John Howard, who becomes a member of the board.
2000 Coral Sea Sea Studios, http://www.coralseastudios.com, seems headed
for a sunny future.
2001 Sensing mismanagement, ABN Amro pulls funding on the studio project,
leaving it in solvent condition. But under McCarty's bad hand, Coral Seas
augers in to collapse. Employees are owed $265,000 in wages, leaving some in
tears. Once again, John Howard's brother is embarassed by the prospect of a
bailout of the employees wages by the Australian National Government. It
briefly becomes an election issue.
Desperate to revive Coral Seas, Brian turns to scamming. He no longer owns
the rights to the jazz recordings, but he figures, what the hell. Inspired
by the allegations against Joseph Gutnick, he decides to sell what he does
not own. The site http://www.worldjazz.com is adorned with false
endorsements, false front men, everything but a set of falsies. Brian, do
you have a set of falsies in your closet? Registered under a false name,
few know that he even owns it, leaving him free to do the same with Coral
Seas. Relying on the deep trust of Jeff Wexler, Jeff even allows him to
place his name on the website as codirector. Jeff never checks to see
thatthe endorsements aren't true.
But Brian has a little SIDESHOW, and it spoils everything: For some reason,
he wants to be the Audio God of an extremely minor domain, a backwater of
the Internet called rec.audio.marketplace. He wages Brian's war against
sellers. He labels a handful of bad guys, and hurts a lot of good ones. All
this is accompanied by a barrage of anonymous phone calls smearing sellers,
misquotes from the Orion Bluebook, or sheer fabrications of quoted values,
calls to police and zoning authorities, anything to hurt people he has
nevermet or done business with.
November, 2003. Brian's personality deteriorates. He abandons posting in his
own name, except for occasional denials that he posts on usenet. Now he uses
an ever changing variety of sockpuppets, though one of them, "OFFICIAL RAM
BLUEBOOK VALUATION", is consistently used to harass honest sellers on
rec.audio.marketplace.
Some people notice. They become curious about who Brian really is. To their
amazement, Brian is himself a scammer, waging this war to feel that at least
he's better than somebody. Brian is investigated by a three letter
government agency, confirming, at least in one instance, the use of a
fictitious identity for an illicit purpose. Internet law is unfortunately
too primitive at the time to justify prosecution.
The victims decide to retaliate. Brian lives in a Glass House, but continues
to throw stones at rec.audio.marketplace, while those affected plot their
response. Computer time is donated. "Bot" scripts running on a Sparc Sun
Fire Supercluster monitor Brian's financial activity, registrations, public
appearances, "society pages", etc. His web pages are automatically collected
and archived.
Late 2004: Jeff Wexler splits with Brian. He finally understands that his
old friend is not the same person he knew. Now Brian is alone,
terriblyalone.
The moral of this story is: If you want to scam, don't make everyone in the
World your enemy. Sooner or later, they'll bring you down. The "bot" scripts
continue to run, 24 hours a day, on the Sparc Supercluster. If McCarty ever
succeeed in taking someone's money under false pretenses, the Hammer of the
Law will come down hard.
Currently, McCarty makes a pest out of himself, posting to
rec.audio.marketplace as "OFFICIAL RAM BLUEBOOK VALUATION" , where he
accuses innocent sellers of various misdeeds. He appears to be a
pathological liar, with unknown motivations.
He currently owns the Baskin-Robbins ice cream franchise located at
Shop G6, 59 The Esplanade
Cairns QLD 4870
07 4051 4034
McCarty lives in the Coral Sands apartment complex at 65 Vasey Esplanade,
Trinity beach, a bit north of metropolitan Cairns.
Baskin-Robbins Australia may be contacted at
http://www.baskinrobbins.com.au/home/contactus.asp
Sick is as sick does:
"Soundhaspriority" <n...@n...org> wrote in message
news:XPCdnbe79YASxhbYnZ2dnUVZ_vShnZ2d@giganews.com
> This is the outline of a website,
> http://www.coralseastudios.com , which has the strong
> taint of fraud. The sole owner of this website is Brian
> L. McCarty. McCarty grew up in Illinois, served some time
> in the U.S. Army in Germany, and gravitated to LA to work
> in the movie biz as a sound mixer. His formative years
> are not well known, meaning we don't really know how he
> became fucked up.
> The year is 1994. Brian L. McCarty has a fresh new idea
> for jazz radio on the web. Brian works on this in his
> spare time, while working under the tutelage of
> outstanding sound mixer Jeff Wexler. The two bond, and
> become friends.
> 1997 Brian sells the worldjazz project, which consists
> essentially of a collection of jazz recordings, to BET.
> With a reasonable wad of cash, he no longer feels the
> need to drop his boom into camera shots, or knock people
> on the head with his zeppelin.
> 1998. Brian leaves LA for Cairns, Australia. I've been
> tipped he was under pressure to leave, but cannot confirm
> it. I am open to any leads in this area.
>
> 1999 Brian establishes himself in Cairns, Australia,
> where Jeff Wexler also resides for a time. Jeff introduces him to Peter
> Young, ABN Amro's Australian
> vice-chairman, who in turn connects them with Stan
> Howard, brother of Australian PM John Howard, who becomes
> a member of the board.
> 2000 Coral Sea Sea Studios,
> http://www.coralseastudios.com, seems headed for a sunny
> future.
> 2001 Sensing mismanagement, ABN Amro pulls funding on the
> studio project, leaving it in solvent condition. But
> under McCarty's bad hand, Coral Seas augers in to
> collapse. Employees are owed $265,000 in wages, leaving
> some in tears. Once again, John Howard's brother is
> embarassed by the prospect of a bailout of the employees
> wages by the Australian National Government. It briefly
> becomes an election issue.
> Desperate to revive Coral Seas, Brian turns to scamming.
> He no longer owns the rights to the jazz recordings, but
> he figures, what the hell. Inspired by the allegations
> against Joseph Gutnick, he decides to sell what he does
> not own. The site http://www.worldjazz.com is adorned
> with false endorsements, false front men, everything but
> a set of falsies. Brian, do you have a set of falsies in your closet?
> Registered under a false name, few know that
> he even owns it, leaving him free to do the same with
> Coral Seas. Relying on the deep trust of Jeff Wexler,
> Jeff even allows him to place his name on the website as
> codirector. Jeff never checks to see thatthe endorsements
> aren't true.
> But Brian has a little SIDESHOW, and it spoils
> everything: For some reason, he wants to be the Audio God
> of an extremely minor domain, a backwater of the Internet
> called rec.audio.marketplace. He wages Brian's war
> against sellers. He labels a handful of bad guys, and
> hurts a lot of good ones. All this is accompanied by a
> barrage of anonymous phone calls smearing sellers,
> misquotes from the Orion Bluebook, or sheer fabrications
> of quoted values, calls to police and zoning authorities,
> anything to hurt people he has nevermet or done business
> with.
> November, 2003. Brian's personality deteriorates. He
> abandons posting in his own name, except for occasional
> denials that he posts on usenet. Now he uses an ever
> changing variety of sockpuppets, though one of them,
> "OFFICIAL RAM BLUEBOOK VALUATION", is consistently used
> to harass honest sellers on rec.audio.marketplace.
> Some people notice. They become curious about who Brian
> really is. To their amazement, Brian is himself a
> scammer, waging this war to feel that at least he's
> better than somebody. Brian is investigated by a three
> letter government agency, confirming, at least in one
> instance, the use of a fictitious identity for an illicit
> purpose. Internet law is unfortunately too primitive at
> the time to justify prosecution.
> The victims decide to retaliate. Brian lives in a Glass
> House, but continues to throw stones at
> rec.audio.marketplace, while those affected plot their
> response. Computer time is donated. "Bot" scripts
> running on a Sparc Sun Fire Supercluster monitor Brian's
> financial activity, registrations, public appearances,
> "society pages", etc. His web pages are automatically
> collected and archived.
> Late 2004: Jeff Wexler splits with Brian. He finally
> understands that his old friend is not the same person he
> knew. Now Brian is alone, terriblyalone.
>
> The moral of this story is: If you want to scam, don't
> make everyone in the World your enemy. Sooner or later,
> they'll bring you down. The "bot" scripts continue to
> run, 24 hours a day, on the Sparc Supercluster. If
> McCarty ever succeeed in taking someone's money under
> false pretenses, the Hammer of the Law will come down
> hard.
> Currently, McCarty makes a pest out of himself, posting to
> rec.audio.marketplace as "OFFICIAL RAM BLUEBOOK
> VALUATION" , where he accuses innocent sellers of various
> misdeeds. He appears to be a pathological liar, with
> unknown motivations.
> He currently owns the Baskin-Robbins ice cream franchise
> located at Shop G6, 59 The Esplanade
> Cairns QLD 4870
> 07 4051 4034
>
> McCarty lives in the Coral Sands apartment complex at 65
> Vasey Esplanade, Trinity beach, a bit north of
> metropolitan Cairns.
> Baskin-Robbins Australia may be contacted at
> http://www.baskinrobbins.com.au/home/contactus.asp
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