After the mess with curtisg's offer thread, and the discovery that he was also related to the Exira Systems scam, I've been talking to Curtis Gervais to set a few things straight. I've made a few things clear towards Curtis about the consequences of his actions, and I've set a few demands, one of which was that he wrote a post explaining what exactly had happened, and the honest story behind it. Below, I've included his post as he sent it to me, unedited.
I do want to request that everyone take this letter seriously. I've made it clear that I expect his letter to be honest and that this is his final chance, and judging from the conversation we have had, I have no reason to assume that there is any dishonesty in the below letter. I'll also be making sure that everyone is refunded as soon as possible, although I can't give a solid ETA. If you have a pending refund, please let me know via PM so that I have an idea of the current state of things.
And guys, really. Try to treat this situation like an adult. I believe Curtis really does have issues in coping with his 'disability', for lack of a better word, and something like this isn't easy.
Dear Lowendtalk Members,
I openly admit to multi accounting on lowendtalk multiple times under the usernames: CurtisG, ajones, datafrogs, Robert_es.
What I have done is wrong and I understand that you guys will hate me from now on, which I do not blame you.I've had a rough life all my life, I thought computers were the best thing for years, however I always liked money.
I'd do what ever I had to, to have money (then again, doesn't most people now-a-days). Now I know I did fuck up in the past,
this is why I joined as CurtisG, I thought if I be honest for once and try to do it for real this time, that I would not be hated, so I released items I have
created, I still got hate, so I got angry with the community, I had over 5 warnings from Liam already, even though he was one-sided most of the times.I've had a dream of being good at something in life, I was hoping that dream would come true finally, however it didn't (as usual...). Even since 2010 I have been having these issues.
I have a mental issue also(like none of you care anyways), so its really more challenging me for me do things.
Remember all the hate that was given to a kid who had a disorder and people didn't know about it? Then they found out about it and were like "oh shit" (basically).I'd like to finish this off by saying sorry, joepie and me have agreed that the money will be refunded when I can do it(since I have no balance right now). it should automatically be refunded within 10 days if I did not reply to it (connorl made me reply to his). I did however
send a email to PayPal asking them to refund and close all disputes.I also like'd to request you leave me and my friends/family alone, I have quit the hosting business and I am sticking to what I like, programming. You can find me on github: https://github.com/unknownself/ where I will be posting some projects I am working on / have done.
I hope you can forgive me at one point, because this will negativly affect my efforts to get a job in programming later on(as joepie stated to me).
I really didn't intend for this to happen, I was hoping it would go smooth as I planned it(I actually had a business plan), but the plan to keep it smooth failed, so I resorted to lying, now look where that got me?Well, I know most won't forgive, thats fine. I won't be returning, I will just be programming and pushing it to github, so if you do have an interest, you can check out my github.
Thanks.