If you search for anything to do with structured settlements you are bound to end up on the webpage of freedom1stfunding, com. This company domain is registered in Nobby Beach Australia and the web site has no phone number or address an dasks you to enter and submit perosnal information. A business that is not up front about who it is and where it is does not deserve your business or mine;.
The Freedom1stfunding.com Re-Direct Scheme works like this'. You search for a term or name related to structured settlements. Within the resulting search results is a series of links to websites that have your search term embedded in the sub-domain! The search results for the re-direct scheme appear substantially in the following format
Need info about (search term) in Nebraska
More details about (search term) in Virginia
All about (search term) in New York
If you click on any of the links you won't find what you were searching
for but instead will be on the freedom1stfunding, com page".
Two lawsuits were filed in Maryland against David Springer of Mt. Airy, MD and his
company Sovereign Funding Group related to an almost identical
re-direct scheme involving a domain called webuypayments.net. The two lawsuits
were brought by JG Wentworth and Woodbridge Structured Funding
respectively. The webuypayments.net site disappeared for a few months
after October and then in mid- February freedom1stfunding.com
re-directs appeared with the same M.O.
The J.G. Wentworth suit, filed in a Maryland state court, was settled in March. It appears as the result of the suit the redirect are gone as to J.G. Wentworth along with scam and sucks websites that were alleged to be the work of the Springer and Sovereign.
As to the Woodbridge lawsuit against the same parties, after a hearing on June 19, on June 21 Maryland Federal Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled against the summary judgement motion filed by David Springer and Sovereign Funding and ruled in favor of Woodbridge Structured Funding stating that discovery may proceed.in addition to the re-direct scheme, Woodbridge allegation suggest a pattern and practice of competing using "scam" and "sucks" against competitors. You can follow the case with a subscription to www.pacer. Gov
After our John Darer broke the story about Freedom1stFunding.com on his blog Structured Settlements 4Real on this in February a series of defamatory websites against him began to appear.
Please note that FreedomFirstFunding.com is an entirely different company based in the Seattle area and not related to the re-direct scheme.
0 comments