Lt. Columbo Investigates Solid Investment
Let's investigate Solid Investment as Peter Falk would as Lt. Columbo. He enters, stage right, in his dirty raincoat, smoking his usual smelly cigar.
"Oh, by the way..." he says as he asks his customary questions.
NOTE: Here is the new server route Solid Investment set up, according to http://dns-tools.domaintools.com. 66.249.16.130 is DNSCloud.com, SI's hosting support, the first in the chain from their server in Belize. The last chain is 66.228.113.170 at server4sale.com, SI's DDoS proxy server. There are 16 steps in this route chain, a very complicated and expensive one. This new system must have cost them at least a million dollars. John, at Future4Me, stated that, when he checked this earlier, only about half of these chains had been set up. Now, they all are, indicating that SI is serious about initializing their new computer server route.
66.249.16.130
216.145.11.145
216.145.30.166
19b2.sea.fibercloud.net
sea-2-0.sprintlink.net
sea-9-2.sprintlink.net
chi-5-0.sprintlink.net
kc-2-0.sprintlink.net
kc-15-0.sprintlink.net
fw-13-0.sprintlink.net
fw-15-0.sprintlink.net
dal-13-0.sprintlink.net
internap-137-0.sprintlink.net
border2.ge2-1-bbnet2.ext1a.dal.pnap.net
softlayer-1.border2.ext1a.dal.pnap.net
66.228.113.170-reverse.server4sale.com
LT. COLUMBO: Why would Solid Investment go to such time, pains, and cost if they were going to run away with the money, the same point raised by John at Future4Me.com? By setting up this system, it is obvious they are not going to go away and have plans to stay around for something. But, what?
NOTE: This is information obtained from Solid Investment's own web site.
Solid Investment has funds in various banks around the world totaling more than 67 million dollars. These are funds that are loaned out for such tasks as private placement programs (PPP), debentures, short term venture capitalization, real estate purchases, and special programs, such as medical and scientific invention investments.
These loans are made to some of the most prestigious and respected institutions and private parties in the world. But just because they are prestigious and respected doesn't mean they will sit still for being scammed or robbed. Just like skipping on a bail bonding company, they will send bounty hunters to find the individual and either take them into custody or extract the funds from them, as organized crime does with people who do not pay off loan sharks. And sometimes, the bounty hunters are not too gentle about it.
All it would take is a request by Interpol to freeze the funds in these banks. The private individuals, and institutions, borrowing the funds would be cut off from their financing and probably would be unable to continue their projects. Law suits and criminal charges would probably be filed. A big, dangerous mess for all concerned. Solid Investment is not a small Internet surfing operation, where one, or two, individuals can skip with the funds without large repercussions.
In addition, Roger Sholanki, a Director of the board, of The Sea Green Capital Corp., a mining company in Canada, put a million dollars of the original nine million into Solid Investment.
LT. COLUMBO: Is Roger Sholanki, and other large investors, going to place their whole financial empires, and personal reputations, on the line so Solid Investment can take a powder with the funds?
NOTE: Sam Colins was reported, by a Microsoft engineer, to be in Plano, Texas on July 10, 2006, working on SI's server changeover.
LT. COLUMBO: If Sam Colins had run off with Solid Investment funds, why would he be in Texas working on a computer problem? Wouldn't he, instead, by hiding in a private, secure, safe haven somewhere in the world?
NOTE: Solid Investment spent many hours, and many dollars, developing a computer program that would make automatic payouts to subscribers.
LT. COLUMBO: If Solid Investment was going to disappear with the money, why would they go to the trouble and expense of developing a computer program that they knew would never be used?
NOTE: The 100,000 subscriber limit and the SI computer July 3 computer crash happened about the same time.
LT. COLUMBO: Is it possible that Solid Investment decided to take care of both computer problems at the same time and took its servers off line on July 7?
NOTE: Changing server routing and server programming is a laborious and challenging process.
LT. COLUMBO: Is it possible that this may take a week or more to accomplish?
NOTE: Having 100,000 subscribers trying to access SI's servers on July 3 may be compared to a friendly DDoS attack.
LT. COLUMBO: Is it possible that this event was of frightening and grave concern to Solid Investment management and that they make the decision to correct it, so the company would be more effective and survive, by revamping their computer operations? Is is possible that they had other dangerous, and upsetting, server attacks and failures that we do not know about?
NOTE: E-Bullion locked Solid Investment out of its operations due to lax computer security and hacking.
LT. COLUMBO: Why would E-Bullion let Solid Investment back in if it had not provided substantial due diligence as to its good intentions?
NOTE: No Email messages were sent to subscribers keeping the abreast of what was happening with SI's server problems.
LT. COLUMBO: Is it possible that no Email messages were sent out because they did not have a computer system that was functioning?
NOTE: Lt. Columbo has not made any arrests, as yet. I hope he never does.
Only reporting information to consider. Please do not shoot the messenger
