Tennessee State agency investigating StormPay complaints

[Kristijntje]

The Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs said Wednesday it is investigating complaints involving StormPay.com, an Internet-based company in Clarksville embroiled in controversy over frozen customer accounts.

Consumer Affairs Director Mary Clement said her office has received a "large volume of complaints involving StormPay." She said once Consumer Affairs completes its investigation, law enforcement would be involved if it is determined "wrongdoing has taken place."

[StormPay owner] Girsky also denied allegations that checks issued to StormPay customers have bounced and StormPay has canceled customer's ATM cards connected with their accounts...

full article: http://www.theleafchronicle.com/apps/pbc...90308/1002

Most of the StormPay complaints center around customer funds that StormPay froze as a result of an ongoing investigation of autosurf site 12dailyPro.com.  See the following topic for more info on that investigation:

related topic: Autosurf sites stir fear of Internet Ponzi scheme fraud http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...625.0.html

[mandy]

A related article: http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/180200670

An online payment processor's Web site has recovered from a two-day denial-of-service (DoS) attack that knocked it out of commission, a U.K.-based Internet performance measuring company said over the weekend.

StormPay.com's site was unavailable for several hours late Thursday and most of Friday, said Netcraft, when it was overwhelmed by a DoS that aimed as much as 6 gigabytes of data a second at the URL.

[StormPay said in a statement] "Federal authorities are investigating the origination of the attacks and have confirmed that they are very close to making arrests."