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September 20, 2005
Penance by a spam king
Now that spammer turned drug-telemarketer Creaghan Harry no longer has Chris Smith as a customer, he's apparently trying to drum up new business for his Dominican Republic-based callcenter operation.
A reader points out a press release issued earlier this month by the Dominican Republic Call Center Association. The PR says the DRCCA, with the help of a company called Americas Best Worldwide, will provide a toll-free number to take calls from Hurricane Katrina "victims, friends and family." The PR claims that operators will "look up information via the Internet, send brief emails, or even make phone calls on their behalf."
Creaghan's name has been scrubbed from the DRCCA site, but this link shows that he was once listed as the association's founder and senior adviser. According to the tipster, Harry is also behind several illegal pharmacies, including Americas Best Pharmacy.
I am reminded of the time in 2001 when Scott Richter organized a fund-raising effort for 9/11 victims. As I described in Spam Kings, lots of people assumed Richter was running a scam. My anonymous tipster seems to feel the same about Harry's effort: "Everything is a Scam. Try to spread the word," he writes.
Posted by brian at September 20, 2005 1:39 PM
Comments
I am a manager at Americas Best for 2 years now. We have a campaign as an affiliate of an online pharmacy. We are the ONLY company in the country that is an affiliate of a 100% legal and compliant online pharmacy that requires complete medical records, proof of being 21 years of age and then the MD spends 15 minutes on the phone with the patient. (more time than I have ever gotten with my doctor)
The contact center has nearly 300 employees and has three Fortune 1000 companies as loyal customers. We have seen bad press about Mr. Harry, but he does not run the company and we understand only has a small share of the company. Our experiences with him here has been very positive and he has been very fair to everyone. Additionally, the company has been a good employer, offering health benefits and respectful treatment to us.
Plus, the DRCCA has brought over a dozen companies, including telecom, infrastructure, customer service etc. to the DR and helped employ alot of people...so if Mr. Harry helped start that company, then he has done a good thing for alot of people here.
Americas Best has not taken a penny for the thousands of calls that we have taken for Katrina and has helped helped hundreds of families by answering all of the www.shareyourhome.org telephone calls for free.
There are always people out there that are bored or just "haters", but enough is enough.
Posted by: Javier at September 27, 2005 2:31 PM
I am a manager at Americas Best for 2 years now. We have a campaign as an affiliate of an online pharmacy. We are the ONLY company in the country that is an affiliate of a 100% legal and compliant online pharmacy that requires complete medical records, proof of being 21 years of age and then the MD spends 15 minutes on the phone with the patient. (more time than I have ever gotten with my doctor)
The contact center has nearly 300 employees and has three Fortune 1000 companies as loyal customers. We have seen bad press about Mr. Harry, but he does not run the company and we understand only has a small share of the company. Our experiences with him here has been very positive and he has been very fair to everyone. Additionally, the company has been a good employer, offering health benefits and respectful treatment to us.
Plus, the DRCCA has brought over a dozen companies, including telecom, infrastructure, customer service etc. to the DR and helped employ alot of people...so if Mr. Harry helped start that company, then he has done a good thing for alot of people here.
Americas Best has not taken a penny for the thousands of calls that we have taken for Katrina and has helped helped hundreds of families by answering all of the www.shareyourhome.org telephone calls for free.
There are always people out there that are bored or just "haters", but enough is enough.
Posted by: Javier at October 1, 2005 12:19 PM
I worked at americas best worldwide at one time and they have cheated me out of my hard woking moneie, i am talked to, that they changed the name of the pharmacy from americas best to just usa meds and es making a lot of money. They treat the employees like slaves, ask the people that work there and no managers. they are stealing from the europeyan and canadin stock market with NMD and canadinqest project. people be ware of this grooup in Santo Domingo,
Domincan Republic.
Sombodie pleas help my friends that work there please dont let this man and his friends hurt my friends. I am moving to the states so they caint hurt me now.
Americans are wooried about latins taking the jobs bot americans are stealing from americans and giving our conuty a bad name.
Posted by: carmen gonzalez at October 21, 2005 8:13 PM
