bodester413
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I went down a rabbit hole here trying to find an online presence for Geeks Online in Utah. I’m not a tech expert, but I do know how to identify scam websites and the one linked in that BBB report has the telltale signs. However, noting that the date on the BBB complaints are from a few years ago and AA just registered his company on May 2019, it’s probably not the same company.
There are a lot of questionable websites that use variations of the Geeks Online name. Most of them are registered through a hosting agency (GoDaddy) that keeps the registration details hidden. Meaning you can’t see who actually owns the sites. This is common among scam sites.
Continuing on this train of thought, AA could be running online scams.
Posting some links to show the trail:
The BBB report that started this line of discussion: Geeks Online, LLC | Better Business Bureau® Profile. Note that the complaints were made before AA created his business in Utah. Entity Details: GEEKS ONLINE LLC - Utah Business Search - Utah.gov
The company in the BBB is located in Dallas, Texas but one of the phone numbers traces to Missouri. Tried checking business registration in Dallas, Texas, no Geeks Online registered there.
Here are some of the suspected related scam sites (spaces added to deactivate links)
Geeks- Online- expert.com
Geeks online.com
Geeksconnect. us
Info- tectsolutions. com
There are many more. Notice the grammar used on the websites is similar and sounds like they were written from someone whose first language is not English. Such as:
Geeks Online, leading online technical support companies, ensures customer satisfaction for every IT related support.
Definitely very shady using the GoDaddy site to make it near impossible to connect them to a real name. A lot of people would see Geeks in the title and think it was the legitimate site that has a similar name. I was afraid to even click on some of the things that popped up when I was looking around...lol.... I've got all the usual malware/antivirus software on my computer, but sometimes I wonder about things that can get past that and end up left on the hard drive.
I totally agree with you. AA could have been running scams. When that article about the rape accusation mentioned he worked at a financial company I thought yikes that's not someone you would want to have access to peoples financial information.