Initial Research Confirms Ormita Report’s Findings

After publishing the interview with Dennis about Ormita, and reading the reply that Daniel posted in the comments, I felt compelled to do just a little bit of research myself, as Daniel invited us all to do in the comments on the original article.

I first checked out www.selinamarkham.com to see if Dennis’ claims that Daniel/Ormita used a stolen identity in Selena Markham were true. After all, I have had personal correspondence from this person for some years. We’ve been connected on LinkedIn since 2012.

I was very surprised to see, and confirm, that the image associated with Selina on all of “her” social media profiles is actually the picture of the UK musician from my conversation with Dennis.

I think we can call this a smoking gun. Identity theft is fraud. I have had my own identity stolen, back in 2007, and it is not fun, to say the least. If Jane Booth (the musician whose picture is used for Selina all over the internet) ever decides to press charges, she’ll have plenty of proof.

On www.selinamarkham.com Dennis says that he’ll update the website the moment Daniel takes the picture down and tries to cover up the crime. In the mean time, it’s out there, waiting for anyone to see.

Daniel seems to have gone to great lengths to perpetrate a fraud.

I then took to Google Maps and street view to check the physical locations that Ormita claimed to have. Dennis said that they were all serviced offices with VOIP numbers or all closed down. Daniel said that they were a large company, so I popped over to OrmitaTrading.com, pulled up the list of offices, and copied some of the addresses of recently opened branches: Israel, Australia, Cyprus, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. I took them over to Google Maps and pulled up a street view. It seemed again that Dennis was on the right track; I couldn’t find any evidence of any Ormita offices at any of the addresses I checked out. There are no signs, no pins, and some of the addresses, for example in Missouri, are the addresses of open fields. There may be some legitimate offices of Ormita, but I didn’t find any.

Not knowing how to check 3.4 billion dollars in volume Daniel claimed, I instead followed through on his invitation to check out the members.

I signed up for Ormita under an assumed name (I, too, use assumed names, don’t we all?) and went in to the business directory. Each directory listing is available to see, and there is a nice social feed of what members are supposed to be doing on the site, but the details are not readily available on any of the members. The only way to see the details of a member business is to create a “connection”, so you can’t access the whole membership unless you are connected to them individually. So in some ways the Ormita system is quite transparent by listing some of the members’ information but not really as much as Daniel made it sound.

I wanted to connect to the members directly, but I didn’t want to set up a “connection” since I was operating under an assumed name. I didn’t want to upset the Ormita system at all, I just wanted to take a quick poll from the members. Since I couldn’t get their information directly, I put my typing skills to work. You see, while I might not have had access to their phone numbers or email addresses, I did have access to two things that make it easy to find a business: their address and their business name. From there, I found a number of Ormita members and sent them emails asking them only one question: Are you accepting Ormita barter right now?

Here are some of the replies:

“NEVER HEARD OF IT”

“What is Ormita barter?”

I could go on, but it seems that every “member” I contacted directly had no idea who Ormita was.

Now, while it could be that there are employees who are responding to email from websites that haven’t been informed about the relationship with Ormita, a pattern certainly emerged.

The real rub for Ormita was that I deliberately picked the businesses with the most human-sounding activity in the social feed. These businesses were ones that had a feed showing logins, changing of directory listings, updating contact information, etc which are all the signs of an active member who was participating in a service that they knew and understood. I consciously picked businesses with human activity, and any business with only one entry on that social feed I skipped.

Well, none of the businesses that had human activity in the social feed had any knowledge of Ormita!

From my quick research it seems to me that Daniel has a lot of questions to answer and the claims of the Ormita Report may very well be true.