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Old 02-17-2007, 08:45 AM
josefho josefho is offline
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Default starmindusa.com (Star Mind, Star Trainer, Top Brain SCAMS)

Beware and be informed that, as is typical of any Scam, 'Star Trainer' (www.startrainer.org) has been changed to 'Star Mind' (www.starmindusa.com), though it may still retain the parent company name of 'Top Brain' (www.topbrain.net) which is the originator of the Employment Scam.

Also note that Timothy Koh Ming Kwang has been changed to 'Huna'. Therefore Huna = Timothy Koh, in person.


For more information regarding TopBrain & StarTrainer scams, go to the following forums :

http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=12353

http://db.aa419.org/fakebanksview.php?key=11135

http://forum.aa419.org/viewtopic.php?t=8155

http://fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3672

There are principally 7 ways in which the Con-Artist Timothy Koh @ Huna will try to con your money, in exchange for an offered salary that may be 'Too Good to be True !' :

1) (starting off with a small amount) Processing fee for employment (US$30 -- $60)

2) (Fake) Charity in Thailand or whatever country (US$70 -- $200)

3) Pledge money to 'activate' TopBrain's 'international account' -- US$2000

4) (Hidden) Payment for Memory Training -- US$2000

5) (Non-existent) Payment for Expenses to and in Hawaii -- US$2000.

I will quote from StarMind's contract to Keaney in 419Legal :
"The appointee is expected to pay a subsidized rate USD 2000 for the initial expenses which would include food, accommodation , materials, books, entertainment, education trips around Hawaii, and transportation for the first month. This also includes the flight expenses from Malaysia to USA, and everything else above USD2000 is borne by the company. The 2000USD should be directed to only to Starmind Corporation corporate bank account :

Bank: Central Pacific Bank
Account Name: Starmind Corporation
Central Pacific Bank Account No.: 4000 348 100
Swift Code: CEPBUS77
Bank Address: Central Pacific Bank, Main Branch, 220 South King Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, United States of America
Bank Info Line : +1 808 5222222, Routing No: 121 301578"


6) Star Mind membership -- USD$5000 per year

7) Invest in his virtual company StarMind Corporation -- US$ XXX millions.

I will quote from starmindusa.com website :
"There are 100 000 000 shares in Starmind Corporation and they are paid at USD 1 per share. Majority of these shares are owed by Great Grandmaster Huna and Ms. Jennifer Gaul the CEO. The other investors and shareholders make up the rest of the minority shares."

Drawing inference from the account of 'RubbishCollector' in FraudWatchers.org :
http://fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3672,

we believe that 'Ms. Jennifer Gaul the CEO' is probably a fake character whom Timothy Koh @ Huna just simply snapped a picture of without permission on Waikiki beach !


Please note that starmindusa.com website is only set up very recently on 15th Jan 2007 ! Its unprofessional design & style closely matches startrainer.org & topbrain.net.

I copied from Whois.net the following information :

Domain: starmindusa.com
Status: Protected

DNS:
ns27.mschosting.com
ns28.mschosting.com

Created: 2007-01-15
Expires: 2009-01-15
Last Modified: 2007-01-16 21:39:32

Registrant Contact:

starmindusa.com
Koh Ming Kwang (drkohmingkwang@yahoo.com)
1720 ala moana blvd ste c-201
honolulu, hawaii, US 96815
P: +60.172184872 F: +60.356310195

Administrative Contact:

Starmind Corporation
Koh Ming Kwang (drkohmingkwang@yahoo.com)
1720 ala moana blvd ste c-201
honolulu, hawaii, US 96815
P: +60.172184872 F: +60.356310195

Technical Contact:

Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd
Chan Kee Siak (support@exabytes.com)
1-2-28 Mayang Mall Jalan Mayang Pasir 1
Bayan Lepas, Penang, MY 11950
P: +604.6308283 F: +604.6308288

Billing Contact:

Starmind Corporation
Koh Ming Kwang (drkohmingkwang@yahoo.com)
1720 ala moana blvd ste c-201
honolulu, hawaii, US 96815
P: +60.172184872 F: +60.356310195


Since Timothy Koh Ming Kwang is now based in Hawaii to launch his Scam operations in America (after Singapore & Hong Kong), I hope that Americans will alert their Law Enforcement authorities in Hawaii & mainland America of the risk posed by this full-time career Con-Artist called 'Huna', who will take on various guises (including different company names) in order to deceive people that he is a financially-secure corporate President or Vice-President with the additional title of 'Great GrandMaster of World Memory'.

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Old 02-17-2007, 10:19 AM
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Default brightedu.org (BrightEdu, Star Mind SCAMS)

Please be informed that, as is typical of Timothy Koh Ming Kwang's SCAM, 'Star Mind' (www.starmindusa.com) has once again been changed to 'BrightEdu' (www.brightedu.org).

Also note that 'Huna' has been changed to 'Roger K.'. Therefore Roger K.= Timothy Koh, in person.



For more information regarding StarMind, TopBrain & StarTrainer scams, please refer to the forums links in the first posting above.

The ways in which this Con-Artist Timothy Koh will try to con your money remain about the same. He is running out of ideas in his imagination to promote his scam, and of course, he is not as intelligent as he claimed since he is no 'Dr', MBA or BA !

I quote from 'ashbecker' in http://forum.aa419.org/viewtopic.php?t=8155, submitted on Wed Feb 14, 2007 :

Quote:
Hi everyone,

This is written in Feb 14, 2007.

This Starmind/Top Brain is now working under the name of brightedu.org (www.brightedu.org). And this Dr. Timophy Koh has changed his name to Roger K.

Recently, he is recruiting people for his so called company in Hong Kong.

The way he try to con people's money is about the same. But instead of asking you to pay for training, he now ask you to pay for deposit for his 'friends' in Hawaii for accomodation.

Please be advised and do not fall for his scheme. And thank you for you guys posting it on the site, so I know this is indeed a scam.

I also quote from post #18 in http://fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3672 :

Quote:
Hi everyone,

Just to let everyone know, this Dr. Timophy Koh Ming Kwang is now operating in Hong Kong, under the name of Dr. Roger K.

My father recently received a reply to his job application and met with this "Dr" person. He is now using brightedu.org as his cover up. And instead of asking my father to pay money up front, he told my father that he has to pay for the deposit of housing over in Hawaii once he relocate there.

It aroused his suspicious, so we went online to check him out and found this post.

Please note that brightedu.org website is only set up very recently on 8th Feb 2007 ! The design and contents are almost exactly the same as starmindusa.com !

I copied from Whois.net the following information :

Domain: BrightEdu.org

DNS:
ns27.mschosting.com
ns28.mschosting.com

Created On: 08-Feb-2007
Expiration Date: 08-Feb-2008

Sponsoring Registrar:Web Commerce Communications Limited (R140-LROR)

Registrant ID:wn-r1283502212
Registrant Name:BrightEdu Organization
720 ala moana blvd
ste c 201
honolulu, hawaii, 96815, US

+017.2184872
general@brightedu.org

Tech ID:wn-t1283502212
Tech Name:Chan Kee Siak
Exa Bytes Network Sdn Bhd
1-2-28 Mayang Mall
Jalan Mayang Pasir 1
Bayan Lepas, Penang, 11950, MY

+604.6308283
support@exabytes.com


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Old 02-20-2007, 08:01 PM
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Default Thanks josefho

Thanks for keeping an eye on this josefho. Good work.

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Old 04-14-2007, 12:51 PM
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Default is this a scam?

Dear Participants,
Thanks for your mail. Having the believe that you must have gone through the informations sent to you by the registrar/ programmer overseer, We are implementing on the instructions set by the head office in the US. To obtain an application reference file number here in the African-Asian-American Administration, You will need to form a group of 4-6 persons and forward us the names and passport numbers of the applicants in your group for this programme . As you may have read from the information concerning the date of the Employment recruitment, the time now is runing very short. We will need to open your group application file here in the African-Asian-American office before it will be approved by the head office.The required numbers of persons for a group is 4 to 6 persons and the group can be of both sexes.

You should send to us your group names,passport numbers together with the Country of your origin , name of resident country by e-mail or by fax through the following numbers +225-243873215 or through our Asian Subsidiary office in Hong Kong +852-301-06028
When forwarding your names and others, you should indicate to us your country of interest for the employment and resettlement programmes. You also include the name and e-mail address of a AAWPEP staff that recommended this programme to you.With the forwarded names and passport numbers, we will open application file and forward your file details to the head office for approval. As soon as it is approved by the head office, other files will be opened for your group at the head office in the US and at our office in your chosen country for the programme. Your group will also have a file at the office of the North American organization migration( NOM) for the advance booking for your flight reservations .Also files will be opened for your group with the ministry of Justice and Bureau of Immigrant Affairs for onward processing of your group travelling documents. Applicants without travelling passports should send their names , date of birth, and scanned passport photograph of each participants requiring the emergency certificate to us by e-mail attachment along with names and passport numbers of other members of the group who already have their passports. To open the file, we will need the requested datas of your group as soon as possible to avoid delay.I will give you more directive as soon as your names and passport numbers reach us for the opening of your application files.Remember to include the name and e-mail address of AAWPEP staff that recommended you for this programme for more clarification about you from him or her.

Thanks
Yours in Humanitarian service
Dr Rasheed Kerekou
Secretary to George McBride
The African-Asian-American continental zonal office
Hi This is leilani mendoza from Philippines.Can you pls check this application?


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Old 04-20-2007, 12:35 AM
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Its a scam- generally anything of this nature is a scam.

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Old 05-14-2007, 07:17 AM
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Default Koh Ming Kwang

This guy is back in Malaysia. He turned up in my church a few days ago. I could discern that something was not right with this guy. So, I did a Google search and found this site amongst many others.

If anyone is looking for him, I know where he is.

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Old 05-28-2007, 03:10 PM
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grace... i know who u are, don't pretend. your pretensions sucksss...if u think u can cover yourself up with such falsehood, u r wrong, vry wrong. be very careful

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Old 07-14-2007, 10:06 AM
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Default Re: kohmingkwang.org

Beware that Koh Ming Kwang, the career Con-Artist from Malaysia, has recently launched his SCAM website again, www.kohmingkwang.org. This new domain webpage looks about the same as his previous ones (Brightedu, Starmind, StarTrainer, TopBrain) and as before, it is unprofessionally designed by himself.

As expected of any seasoned Scammer and Con-artist, 'Dr' Timothy Koh has to regularly change and re-launch his websites with different domain names but basically still using the same contents as before. However this fake 'Dr' is really running out of ideas to carry out his new Scam campaigns ! Hence he has no much choice but to try to attack the existing bad publicity surrounding him, and to continue his feeble attempts to uphold his false (fake) image of a 'good' guy with a 'big heart' trying to help the disadvantaged kids in Asia. Quoted from this website, "He (Koh Ming Kwang) was involved in things like feeding the hungry and homeless orphans and showed love to these young children who live in the streets. He even stood for the rights of these children against obnoxious officers who tried to bully them." What obnoxious Bullsh*t ! He can write as much of these fake testimonials as he wants, but it is really obnoxious trying to wring as much sympathy money$$ from the unsuspecting public who may donate into his personal pockets.

Did you notice that the photographs taken of the kids from the Charity webpage are of coarse and poor quality ? Based on our previous experiences with him, he will take opportunity to snap pictures of persons in public places, or download them from the Internet, and then paste them onto his websites to pass as his own !! Did you also notice that some of the testimonial letters (after clicking the hyperlinks on kids' pictures) are of the same duplicate repeats ? Incredible but true. Well, this is not surprising to us as we had encountered before.

But please do not be fooled by his big sheepish smile and 'kind' bespectacled look ! He was called the inventor of "Ming Memory Method" 'Memory Doctor', the President of World Memory and Intelligence Body in Melbourne, Australia and (previously) the Champion of Super Memory Championship in Melbourne. Now he claimed that it was his team who won the World Super Memory Youth Championship in Melbourne. But if you do a thorough search on the Net, there is no record of he or his team winning any championship at all in any country !! Which means that the newpapers citations or quotations about him are most probably fake, or that they had been deceived into believing that he was the genuine 'Dr' Koh in Memory Championship.

What is his ultimate purpose ? He just wants to Con your money $$$. Plain and simple. I really hope that the Law enforcement authorities in the respective country that he visits will take legal actions against him.

The following information is extracted from Whois Domain lookup service. You can refer to his previous Scam websites www.brightedu.org, www.starmindusa.com for continuing his 'StarMind Corporation'. Also do a comparison in the design & contents between StarMind & kohmingkwang.org. He is just a Wolf in Sheep's skin by making some superficial changes !

Domain Name: KOHMINGKWANG.ORG

Created On: 02-Jul-2007

Last Updated On: 02-Jul-2007 02:34:19 UTC
Expiration Date: 02-Jul-2009 02:22:01 UTC

Name: Koh Ming Kwang
Organization: Starmind Corporation
Street1: 1720 ala moana blvd, ste c-201
Honolulu, HI, 96815
Country: US
Phone: +1.172184872
Email: drkohmingkwang@yahoo.com

Name Server: NS79.MSCHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS80.MSCHOSTING.COM

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Old 07-24-2007, 01:40 PM
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Thumbs down Gt. Grandmaster Dr Koh Ming Kwang

Today i met this guy, eager for a connection within australia,
My feelings were mutual in the begginnning, just heard out his life and expreiences...
" the typical, how he didnt know school or passed and then all of a sudden with his technique, he got an acceptance into a university and ya da yada yada, if your reading this you probably already know the whole story....
so anyways i just thought it was strange that he pulls out this photocopy of an article of memory people that was from the sun post in melbourne, and even his knowledge of the area was pretty darn good... ( well he knew he was meeting us the next day... to prepare... ha
so i kinda got suckked in.. and well anyways he wanted us to deposit this money for his trip to australia to teach this technique... probably $1200... and yeah, i just didnt htink it was right... spiritually i asked my guides in life if this guy is for real.... then the fire alarm goes off... ha , good sign to not join in.... .. he does this memory test and... yeah it seems logical... thoughts can be used ni ways to obtain memory but humoour and well anyways he did improve my memory with this one technique,,,, but then his confidence in me and my friends were just overrrrrrrrrrrrr the top. i checked out his socks under the table.. they were kinda old for a millionaire...who is retired by 29 - oh and its his birthday tomorrow...? anywayssss.... today was scattered... he asked for me to sign his paper for the fan club? hmmmmm i dont think he is that famous..but anyways i signed mine with a fake signature..
I just get a bad vibe from this guy... and i asked if i could attend his semniar in september here in hong kong... " This is where he is... " but it wouldnt be flexible for him... I think he is jumping countries... well BAD karma for this fella if anything happens... oh and he even conned me into paying his lunch.... ha DONT PAY HIS LUNCH!!!! i say, even if he wins the bet...
PEACE to Y'all ...

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Wow what a coincidence. Hey I just met him during a group dinner last night he is in Rome. If you need to find him contact me ok gracehotbabe+hotmail.com
Scams can never hide for ever. grace is time to show you mercy and you are banned for ever.

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