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I've spent a few minutes trying to figure out who Life Corporation and Walter Monk are. Walter Monk may be an "entrepreneur" in Texas, but that isn't clear to me. What is clear is that "Life Corporation" has been incorporated since 1995 and has no internet presence as far as I can tell.
This is shady as fuck before you even get to the illegal stuff.
https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/arlington/profile/advertising-agencies/life-corporation-0825-95110149
https://www.linkedin.com/in/waltmonk?
Oh that's interesting. Not sure how that didn't show up in my search. I had to log in to my ancient LinkedIn account to read it, but I'm glad I did, because...
Thank you.
Edit: I should have hilighted this part too, because again, SKETCHY AS FUCK.
We would amuse ourselves by dressing like ghosts with pointy heads, and burning spare lumber after nailing it together in an X
1527 S Cooper St is something called TextToSurvey. I'm guessing Life Corporation, if it ever actually existed, is dead in all but name.
All things considered, that's a pretty quick setup for a long-running operation on foreign territory. Couldn't have been easy when it's only been about four years since the collapse of the USSR.
See my full paste from the LinkedIn page @DrQuickbeam found, but here's the key part:
He never says who they are. Very suspicious.
Good find by Quickbeam, thanks for copying it over. Kinda sounds like some of the language used in MLM pitches.
https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/
Search for "Entity Name" of "Life Corporation". From there, you can get a list of corporate leadership. CEO (when searched on linkedin) shows the CEO is also a CEO of:
It seems to be all surrounding a call-center. It all fits.