Oracle Fraud Alert

I'm always getting e-mails from Oracle professionals asking about specific training and other services for Oracle professionals, and I am sad to report that there are dishonest people who have been reported for stealing from fellow members the Oracle community.

Last year I received numerous complaints about an Oracle professional who appeared to be offering training content and not delivering it, as-promised.  Sadly, I found out too-late and I also became a victim of unsavory business practices by this fellow Oracle professional.

oraknowledge.com

I was approached by an Oracle DBA named Ed Haskins last year to help create a series of training for his web domain www.oraknowledge.com.  Haskins never paid me for my services and I still have an uncollected court judgment against Ed Haskins.

Ed Haskins also publicly misrepresented that he was affiliated with me and I began to receive complaints from Oracle consumers who said that they were bilked out of thousands of dollars.  Here are some links about Ed Haskins and oraknowledge users:

http://www.examnotes.net/article1034781.html

http://www.orafaq.com/msgboard/marketplace/messages/3549.htm

http://www.lazydba.com/oracledba.pl?0::77253

I have yet to collect the money that Ed Haskins and oraknowledge owes me, and I had assumed that after all the wrongdoing was reported that this onerous practice would cease.  Sadly, I was wrong.  

databaseLearning.com 

I was alerted to this web site by a fellow Oracle professional, asking if I had ever heard of John Wallen:  http://www.databaselearning.com I did some quick checking and discovered:

• John Wallen has no industry articles of contact information and the photo appears to be a stock photo of a model.
   

• The address is a phony "suite" mail-forwarding service.
   

• If you do a whois, it's operated by Ed Haskins
   

orasecure.com

I recently got a spam e-mail with what appeared to me to be another case of attempted Oracle consumer fraud from www.orasecure.com:

This looked mighty fishy to me, and I checked whois and found that the site has a hidden administrative contact, a suspicious sign.  I also noted that an eLance user named EdHaskins paid $175 to create the "orasecure" project:

Upon further investigation I noted a phony photograph (a stock photo that can be purchased online, and a completely unverifiable biography of a Oracle "expert" that I have never heard of:

I don't live in New Jersey, but I find it hard to believe that these activities are legal, especially when fake credentials are offered.  While I'm not privy to any direct knowledge of consumer fraud, I can say that I have an unpaid court judgment against both Ed Haskins and OraKnowledge Inc. 

Please, don't become another victim.  Carefully check references on any Oracle training or CD offers.