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The Fake Detectors Fraud THE FAKE DETECTORS FRAUD - HOW NOT TO BE FOOLED! How Not To Be Fooled! To James Randi, Techowiz, Andres Tonini, Bob Couttie, and many other sources too many to mention but referenced on and in the links. An end to madness! http://ade651gt200scamfraud.blogspot.com/ 2011 Copyright: Peter Robinson and The Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign. Permissions avalable from Techowiz or Peter Robisnon at [email protected] 1 2 Contents ADE651 AND GT200 WARNING 7 SUE US PLEASE 7 WANTED FOR FRAUD 7 WHICH LIE? 8 DETECT THIS MR. BOLTON 8 SNIFF, SNIFF - WE'RE STILL ON YOUR TAILS! 9 SNIFFEX STILL SNIFFY -AGREES TO TEST?? 10 MORE HUGE DOLLOPS OF DOO DOO 11 WOOF WOOF! 12 OOOOOHHHHH. YOU NAUGHTY FIBBERS! 12 PROMISES or GUARANTEES? 13 DODGY JIM McCORMICK - THE ROMANIAN CONNECTION 14 TO JIM, GARY AND YOUR FELLOW FRAUDSTERS 15 PARALLEL LINES 15 NQR JIM, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT 15 I'M SO EXCITED 16 GET THAT SINKING FEELING JIM? 17 A CALL TO ARMS... 17 FAKE DETECTORS 18 DOS MIO! OH DEAR! 18 ROGUES GALLERY 19 ROT IN PRISON 20 SLAP ME BABY ONE MORE TIME! 20 SORRY FOLKS 21 3 THE SCUM, THE SCAM AND THE SLIME 22 I'M SO EXCITED, I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT 23 APOLOGY!! 24 FAKE DETECTORS NEWSNIGHT LINK 24 THE LEBANESE CONNECTION 25 MORE GOOD NEWS! - CHALK AND CHEESE 25 SHOW US THE MONEY HONEY! 26 WAFFLE AND STAGGERED! 27 MEDIA STORM 27 DEMOLISHING UNIVAL BRICK BY BRICK 28 QUICK HELLO TO STELIAN ILIE AT MIRA TELECOM 29 THE POSSE AND THE PUSSIES 30 RAT BAITING 31 DUMB AND DUMBER 31 JOHN WYATT 'TWERP' MBE - SDS UK LTD 33 OVER THE MOON - HALFWAY TO THE STARS. 33 OH DEAR! 34 FATAL ERROR 34 MOST WANTED 35 A FATAL DOSE OF THE TRUTH 38 IMPOTENT ANNOUNCEMENT! 39 DOOLALLY AL-6D FROM DIODEBELL 40 MESSAGE TO CHUCKY AT H3TEC 42 CHUCK E'S IN LOVE 43 CALLING ALL SKUNKS, WEASELS, AND BOTTOM FEEDERS 47 SHRIVELLED, SNIVELLING, SWINDLING SWIVELLERS 49 4 THERE MAY BE TROUBLE AHEAD 50 MESSAGE TO MEXICO - MENSAJE A MÉXICO 52 APOLOGY TO RATS! 55 TO JAPAN AND ALL SUFFERING EVERYWHERE... 57 BACKHANDERS AND BACKSLIDERS AND THEIR CATACLYSM 57 LMAO....... 60 FART IN A SPACESUIT 65 EXCUSES EXCUSES 69 INSIDE KNOWLEDGE 70 A COUPLE OF SMALL VICTORIES 71 PLOD 72 NOT SO SUPER SUPERINJUNCTION - A Right Pigs Ear 73 SECRET MESSAGE 74 MESSAGE TO THE AVON AND SOMERSET POLICE 74 BOLTIN' BOLTON - And other merrye olde tales of merrye death 75 SOME FURTHER QUESTIONS 76 I CONFESS 77 CONFESSION NUMBER 2 78 FOR CLARITY 79 MIRA TELECOM ADDENDUM 80 ADVENTURES 82 WHEN IS A CONTRACT NOT A CONTRACT? 82 DID I MENTION? 84 R.E.S.P.E.C.T. 84 SORRY! 86 5 WHO IS THE JOKER? 86 HERGES ADVENTURES OF McTAVISH a.k.a James McCormick 87 VIVE LA DIFFERENCE - SPOT THE DIFFERENCE 88 HELLO GAZZA, HELLO CARLY... 89 WOKE UP THIS MORNING...da dum da dum. 90 THE WITHDRAWAL METHOD 95 GRIMM TALES OF VOLLMAR 96 DAVEY AND FRANKIE COME OUT TO PLAY - THE UNIVAL GANG! 98 DECONSTRUCTING HEDD1 100 THE LAST POST? 102 AN OPEN INVITATION TO MAJOR GENERAL ALAN SHARMAN (retd.) 104 I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL (retd!) 106 DOES THE COMPANY A MAN KEEPS 108 6 ADE651 AND GT200 WARNING Thursday, November 20, 2008 THE ADE 651 FROM ATSC UK AND THE GT200 FROM GLOBAL TECHNICAL ARE FRAUDS. THEY CAN NOT DETECT ANYTHING! PLEASE CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING SITES FOR MORE INFORMATION: http://explosivedetectorfrauds.blogspot.com/ http://sniffexquestions.blogspot.com/ YOU WILL FIND ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED ON THESE SITES TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS IF YOU ARE APPROACHED TO BUY THIS EQUIPMENT. YOUR LIFE IS AT SERIOUS RISK IF YOU RELY ON THESE PRODUCTS!!! Posted by Peter at 12:12PM (UTC) SUE US PLEASE Thursday, November 20, 2008 Dear Jim McCormick and Gary Bolton, I am calling you liars cheats and thieves for selling the ADE651 and GT200 ranges of so called detectors. I am saying quite openly that these pieces of equipment do not and cannot work to detect anything but gullible or corrupt buyers. I am saying that the fact that neither of you are prepared to have your equipment tested independently, using proper scientific protocols, just proves what conmen you are. So, I am inviting you to sue me. PLEASE! Oh do, I just cannot wait to meet you face to face in Court! It'll be such fun! If you post a reply to this I promise I will publish it, especially if it is Jim with his usual command of the English language and amazingly rational, well constructed arguments! Yeah. Sorry, I am being sarcastic, but what do you expect when dealing with scuzzers who are prepared to put peoples lives at risk with their useless bits of radio aerial attached to plastic! Posted by Peter at 11:16PM (UTC) WANTED FOR FRAUD Friday, November 21, 2008 Some people have suggested that Jim McCormick, Managing Director of Fraud and Cons at ATSC UK may want to remain anonymous with all the grief he is getting from us. On the other hand why would a man who says his ADE651 equipment is so good (even though he won't have it independently tested) want to stay in the shadows. So, for those of you who appreciate beauty and grace I give you a picture of BIG Jim McCormick. A man who is living at the trough of greed and corruption by selling equipment that DOES NOT WORK. I expect he would be more reliable if you wanted to sniff out a good steak and chips than the ADE651 would for finding explosives. Posted by Peter at 12:42PM (UTC) THE FAKE DETECTORS FRAUD - HOW NOT TO BE FOOLED! 7 WHICH LIE? Thursday, November 27, 2008 These fraudsters can really get their knickers in a twist sometimes. I mean, here is a direct quote from the blag, sorry blog, of Mr. Jim McCormick of ATSC: "The equipment does NOT rely on smell and there are MANY 'other-types' of equipment that function on principals other than this alone." That'll be 'principles' Jim! Well, apart from the last bit of the sentence not making much sense (when does he ever!), here's a quote from ProSec in the Lebanon, who sell the ADE (Advanced Dung Equipment) for him: "ADE–651 PORTABLE EXPLOSIVE DETECTOR. This equipment detects traces of both particulates and vapors......". Now, despite appearances to the contrary, I am no Einstein, but blow me down if Jim isn't saying it doesn't work by smell, and Prosec say it does. Shome mishtake shurely? Oh, and just to make sure we really understand, we have this brilliant contradiction as well: Jim, he say: 'electrostatic ion attraction' PROSEC, they say: 'The working principal is based on electrochemical (Thermo-Redox) detection' I say shit, you say shite, let's call the whole thing off! Posted by Peter at 01:06AM (UTC) DETECT THIS MR. BOLTON Wednesday, December 03, 2008 This is what we say to your legal threats. Yes. A nice big juicy raspberry to you! Do you think we take your posturing any more seriously than we take the GT200? Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Bolton? No. We think you would not want to go near a Court of Law in this Country if you can help 8 THE FAKE DETECTORS FRAUD - HOW NOT TO BE FOOLED! it. Too much chance of having to put the old GT200 to a real test, possibly? No I'll lay a pound to a punnet that the GT200 couldn't even sniff one of Jim McCormicks famous farts, let alone my champion raspberry! Ho! Ho! Tell you what though. How about the great ADE651 versus the GT200 challenge. We could program them to find each other. Now that would be fun! Come on Jim and Gary, give it a go, for charity? Posted by Peter at 10:46PM (UTC) SNIFF, SNIFF - WE'RE STILL ON YOUR TAILS! Monday, January 12, 2009 Just so you guys, sorry, for anyone who does not know who I mean please let me introduce three of the finest, sorry, biggest scam artists in the Umited Kingdom: Jim McCormick - Head of the amazing moving company, ATSC Ltd. Records suggest that Jim has changed address for the company at least three times in the past year or so. Hiding from what we wonder? Gary Bolton - Head of Global Technical. Wielder of worthless legal threats. Silent otherwise on the issue. Wonder why when his product is supposedly so damn great? Simon Sherrard - Head of Coms Trac and an as yet unknown quantity, but don't worry Simon, we will get to you. What a fine threesome they make. All so desperate to tell us that their crap works, and yet not willing to take some simple tests to prove it, and thereby become World famous and almost certainly billionaires i.e if they took a straightforward double blind test, which is well recognised as the only valid method, and they won, imagine the impact. You see gents, yes I am talking to you, Fat Jim, Lawman Gary, and Shezza Sherrard, that is why avoiding the Million Dollar Challenge proves you are frauds because you would have nothing at all to fear if you are right, and everything to gain. Whereas, making up ludicrous excuses, such as "standard testing does not work" with your kit, and "it is well tested" without a shred of credible evidence, and "we will be testing in the future", all fail the real GET ON WITH IT TEST or GOWIT.
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