Interesting info on Chuck's new site...

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WHOIS info from arcadeinvestigations.com:
Registrant:
NONE
PO BOX 871069
Canton, MI 48187
US

Registrar: NAMESDIRECT
Domain Name: ARCADEINVESTIGATIONS.COM
Created on: 02-DEC-11
Expires on: 02-DEC-12
Last Updated on: 02-DEC-11

Administrative, Technical Contact:
OBLIVIOUS, NEXUS [email protected]
NONE
PO BOX 871069
Canton, MI 48187
US
734-555-1299


Domain servers in listed order:
NS1271.HOSTGATOR.COM
NS1272.HOSTGATOR.COM
Notice the email address used to register then read the following article:
http://www.freep.com/article/20080907/NEWS01/80907045/Mayor-s-team-says-fund-raising-site-fake

Could Chuck be the same guy who tried to run the above fund raising scam and others listed in that article?

Excerpt from the 2008 article published by the Detroit Free Press:
The Web site is registered to a "Dave Bing" with a post office box in Canton and an e-mail address of [email protected]. The phone number listed for maxelll3752 is out of service.

Detroit entrepreneur Dave Bing, who urged the mayor to resign and is considering running for mayor himself, isn't believed to be involved. He couldn't be reached Sunday for comment.

A page of the Web site contains links to other Web sites registered to maxelll3752, including a get rich Internet marketing scheme, a gasoline raffle and a $69.99 build-it-yourself gizmo to reduce gasoline consumption. The gizmo appears to be built out of PVC pipe.

Other Web sites registered by maxelll3752 offer programs to teach people how to pick locks and trick vending machines into giving back change. Another Web site, www-detroitbikinicarwash-com [mclemore turned off link so it doesn't help his search engine rankings], offers to provide women in scanty swimsuits and high heels to work at carwash events.
Interesting indeed...

WHOIS info for michiganclassicarcade.com
Registrant:
Chuck Fitch
PO BOX 871069
Westland, MI 48185
US

Registrar: NAMESDIRECT
Domain Name: MICHIGANCLASSICARCADE.COM
Created on: 29-DEC-09
Expires on: 30-DEC-12
Last Updated on: 02-DEC-11

Administrative, Technical Contact:
Fitch, Chuck [email protected]
PO BOX 871069
Westland, MI 48185
US
734-483-7619


Domain servers in listed order:
NS2325.HOSTGATOR.COM
NS2326.HOSTGATOR.COM
Same P.O. Box as the [email protected] scam sites

Also the original Mayoral scam site that has since been taken down:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080911001748/http://kwamekilpatrick2014.org/

Notice the email address at the bottom "Interested in advertising" link

I think the scams go a lot deeper than arcade dealings...
 
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Michigan Classic Arcade - Donation Scam - Chuck Fitch

Deleting links Chuck Fitch's site is fine, but URL's like this one in the previous post should stay and be annotated properly. The link text helps get the articles linked for searches on keywords such as Chuck Fitch,Michigan Classic Arcade, and scammers

This is good too:
Michigan Classic Arcade - Donation Scam - Chuck Fitch

As for this comment; The Web site's owner said the site didn't receive any donations and said he has PayPal records to prove it. I would add that there would be no necessity to prove anything if the links weren't to *actual* paypal donation pages. And the fact that they were live paypal links tells you the real intent. Straight up fraud...
 
I can't believe the Detroit police chose not to pursue charges against this guy. Maybe they thought it was an isolated "joke" rather than the true scam he intended it to be.
Perhaps someone should call up their cyber crimes division and point them to the plethora of eBay/Paypal scam tutorial videos and numerous questionable websites he has since created...
 
I can't believe the Detroit police chose not to pursue charges against this guy.

My guess is that they didn't press charges because without any money changing hands proving fraud would be difficult. i.e. Chucky dodged a bullet...
 
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