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Concord Technologies
Removal recording: "You have reached the fax
number removal line. Starting with the area code, please dial your 10 digit fax
number."
Header format: 05/04/04 13:31 16505551212 HealthCare PAGE 1"
I've been hit by Concord! So now what are my options?
Please see I've been faxed. What are my options?
FCC citations
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2004/DA-04-3832A1.html
More information
www.concordfax.com
Concord Technologies
Resident Agent
Concord III, LLC
c/o Walter J. Schefter, Jr.
1415 College Street SE
Lacey, WA 98503
formerly Concord Technologies, Inc.
Christopher Moore
2025 First Ave Ste 800
Seattle, WA 98121
Business Address
Concord III, LLC (formerly Concord Technologies, Inc.)
101 Stewart Street Suite 1000
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-441-3346
Fax: 206-441-7965
They also call themselves:
Morel Tel LLC
426 West Ottawa St
Lansing MI 48933
Contact: Thomas E. Woods
Phone: 206-441-3346
See ConcordSubpoenaResults.PDF
Known Removes
888 217 8253
888 211 4656
888 211 8371
888 214 3821
888 214 3823
888 217 8249
888 326 7280
888 523 8092
888 635 9431
Not working anymore:
800-863-5589
866-580-4548
877-203-9795
877-834-8585
877-834-8600 2003 Magical Memory Vacation
877-836-8600
888-211-4409 Travel Center Florida & Bahamas Cruise)
888-249-1169 Orlando Promos
888-329-0778
888-329-0785
888-338-1228
888-341-0482
888-576-8963
888-792-4170
888-792-6168
888-792-6285
888-813-9192
888-813-9237
800-863-5589 Red Rose International aka Blue Jay, Inc
800-507-2008 Mortgage finance (response number)
800-863-5589 Red Rose International aka Blue Jay, Inc
866-580-4548
866-681-7773 New Health Plan (response number)
877-834-8600
877-836-8600
888-211-4409 Travel Center (Florida & Bahamas Cruise)
888-211-8371 removal for affordablehealthcare
888-211-9430 Mortgage Finance
888-214-3822
888-249-1169
888-276-3159
888-329-0778
888-329-0785
888-341-0482
888-477-2377 (regarding www.eaglesmortgage.com)
888-491-5897 New Health Plan $89.95/mo (removal number )
888-520-7616 (regarding vacations in Orlando, FL, invitation #310, no company
name listed)
888-792-4170
888-792-4244 Mortgage Lending Bureau
888-792-6168
888-813-9192
888-813-9237
800-795-2403 Mortgage Lending Bureau (response number)
PeteGould@intervalegroup.com
wrote:
Dear Secretary of State Reed:
I am sending you this email to initiate an inquiry into the activities of
some corporations, all owned by a single individual in your state who may be
misusing Washington’s corporate laws in an unlawful way. I have sent a similar
inquiry to the Office of the Attorney General in your state, and I am
additionally copying them in on this email. My name is Peter Jay Gould and I
live in and own a television production company in the State of Connecticut.
The individual about whom I am writing is one Christopher L. Moore, age 39,
currently (on information and belief) of 1212 3rd Avenue West, Seattle,
Washington. Mr. Moore owns a Seattle-based company of which he is also
president, which may be found on the web at www.concordfax.com.
If you inspect your business registry, you will find it listed as Concord III,
LLC.
Concord markets itself as a service company that sends out “fax broadcasts”
for hire by third-party companies. That is, they are hired by businesses to send
out unsolicited advertising materials to the fax machines of other people and
businesses.
The first problem is that this entire business endeavor is unlawful: pursuant
to 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq: no person or businesses may send an unsolicited
commercial fax advertisement to another. The remedy prescribed in the law is a
private lawsuit pursued by the recipient in the small claims session of the
state court in which the unwelcome fax was received, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. §
227(b)(3). The law provides for statutory damages of $500 per violation, and
treble damages if the court finds that the violation was “knowing” or “willful.”
Additional violations occur when the transmitting company fails to include its
name and fax number in the ‘header line’ at the top of the fax, which are
additional violations that Concord commits in order to try to escape detection
by the recipient of the unwelcome fax (it also suppresses its Caller ID
information for the same reason). Thus, each fax sent by Concord results in
statutory damage liability of, at a minimum, $1,500 per fax, which may be
trebled by the court to $4,500 per fax.
The second problem is that Mr. Moore seems to have found a way around his
company’s statutory liability by misusing your corporate law system: he simply
dissolves his corporation and re-forms under different names. A search of your
database reveals that Mr. Moore has dissolved and re-formed his company many
times. It has been called Concord Technology, Inc.; Concord Fax, LLC; Concord
III, LLC; and (most currently) Concord Technologies, LLC. Sometimes he lists
himself as the statutory contact; sometimes he lists his attorney, Walter L.
Schefter, Esq.
On each occasion, the physical embodiment of the company does not change: it
apparently maintains the same address, the same website, the same offering of
services, the same people and the same appearance to the public. In fact, I
suspect that Concord’s customers probably never know just what the company is
called at any given time, and probably just keep calling it Concord Technologies
(since that is what the website calls it).
As you have no doubt guessed by now, I am the recipient of a number of
unwelcome faxes from Concord on behalf of one of its customers (for what it’s
worth, the faxes in question were the sort of thing that is intended to make one
believe they have “qualified” for a Disney World vacation at an “amazingly
low price” and is in fact an effort to sell timeshares in the Orlando area). A
number of these faxes came into my home telephone line, some at two o’clock in
the morning, waking myself and my family from sleep. The faxes continued after I
called Concord’s so-called “fax removal line” and submitted my telephone
number to be removed. I am therefore pursuing some $14,000 in statutory damages
against Concord in four different cases in the small claims session of the
Superior Court here in Connecticut.
However, what I am finding is that by the time the case reaches a conclusion,
the judgment will be uncollectible. The entity that I have to name in the
lawsuit is Concord III, LLC, which is the entity that actually sent the faxes in
question (which were sent from July through November, 2003). But it will take
several months for the case to go through the court process, for a judgment to
be issued, and for the matter to qualify for an execution when Concord does not
pay (which is what I anticipate). Meanwhile, Mr. Moore has just created Concord
Technologies LLC to succeed Concord III LLC. By the time we have an execution, I
can reasonably anticipate that Concord III, LLC will no longer exist and/or will
no longer have assets, and Concord Technologies LLC will be immune because it is
not a party to the case.
If this was a case for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and an attorney was
involved, one could probably pierce the corporate veils by declaring all these
companies as alter egos for Mr. Moore. Unfortunately, the amount of statutory
damages in these cases is not large enough to involve an attorney. Also, in the
Connecticut Small Claims session, one cannot name an out-of-state natural person
as a party. Both foreign and domestic corporations may be named, but as to
individuals, only Connecticut residents may be named as defendants. Thus,
without elevating the case to the regular session of the Superior Court, I
cannot directly pursue litigation against Mr. Moore.
It does appear that misusing your state’s corporate laws so that he can
continue to violate federal law and escape liability has been of great financial
benefit to Mr. Moore. A search of the web shows that in 2000, he qualified for a
million dollar mortgage on his home (see http://www.pnwt.com/pdfs/Oct26-Nov1.pdf
and search within it for “Moore”). If you would like to see the case that we
have filed (to ensure that this is no prank or hoax), it may be found on the
Connecticut Judicial System’s website at the following
link
The entire Complaint in the matter, inclusive of all legal cites and
references, may be found on a reserved page of my company’s website at: http://www.intervalegroup.com/MiscLaw
-- the document is called ConcordComplaint1-Complete.pdf.
I must assume that there are laws in your state, and people to enforce those
laws, that are intended to prevent someone from purposefully dissolving and
re-forming one corporate name after another, while maintaining the same address,
infrastructure and “presence” in a given area of your state, in order to
avoid liability for their unlawful conduct. I would be most grateful for any
guidance you could offer in that regard. Very truly yours,
Peter Jay Gould
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First, I have filed a small claims suit here in Connecticut against a junk
faxer in Seattle, Washington (they’re at www.concordfax.com). Here in
Connecticut, you CAN file a small claim against an out-of-state business; you
just can’t file against an out-of-state private individual.
If you’re interested in seeing the complaint in the case (it incorporates
much of the model Complaint featured on your website), I’ve put it online at
www.intervalegroup.com/MiscLaw (it’s the only document in that folder, called
ConcordComplaint1-Complete.pdf).
Here’s the trouble. Unlike the case of fax.com, which (from the sound of
it) is a single entity, the slimeball who runs Concord keeps dissolving and
reforming his company under different entity names. Based on searches of the
Washington Secretary of State’s website, the company was originally called
Concord Technologies, Inc. In 2001, it re-formed as Concord III, LLC, but
continued to use the same business address, the same website (which still says
“Concord Technologies”), and the same corporate appearance. In other words,
exactly the same company (and the same owner, Christopher Moore), just a
different corporate entity. Then, a month ago, Moore did it again: he just
created a NEW entity called Concord Technologies LLC. Although Concord III, LLC,
is still listed on the state website as a valid corporation, I’m gonna go out
on a limb here and guess that it no longer has any assets, and that they’ve
all be transferred to Concord Technologies, LLC.
That means that I have to sue Concord III, LLC, because THEY are the entity
that sent the junk faxes I received, Concord Technologies Inc no longer being in
existence and Concord Technologies LLC not having come into being yet; but by
the time I get a judgment in the case, Concord III, LLC will no longer exist
and/or won’t have any assets, Concord Technologies LLC won’t have any
liability in the case because THEY didn’t send the faxes, and Moore laughs all
the way to the bank.
Any suggestions on dealing with companies that do this? I can’t sue Moore
personally because you can’t file against an out-of-state individual in the
small claims session.
Currently, Chris C. Moore (a.k.a. Christopher L. Moore ) resides at
1212 3rd Ave. W in Seattle. He is 39 yrs old, being born 1/27/65. He bounces
around between Portland, Or., Ann Arbor, Mi., Chicago, Il. and Seattle, Wa. This
dates back to 1986 and as recent as of Feb. of this yr. ( He does not stay in
one spot very long )
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