How to recognize scammers...
Taking the example of
Jamie Hunt & Col Bayes
February 25, 2015 - the animal rights movement is made up - mostly - of good people with kind hearts and the best of intentions. A growing number of activists spend every free minute of their time to raise awareness about all kind of issues and social injustices, and by educating others about a better and more compassionate lifestyle. Others organise demonstrations, write protest letters, set up petitions, and lobby our decision makers to have better animal protection laws implemented. Others, again, rescue animals from shelters and the streets and find them good homes... and many kind people are willing to open their wallet and to donate generously to causes that they believe to be worthwhile of being supported.
And then there are those who - without any scruple - take advantage of the suffering of our animal friends that we are all working so hard to help to alleviate, and of the kind-hearted people by trying to rid them of their donations, stealing not only from these good people, but also from those that the donated money was meant to go to - from the animals in need.
These are the SCAMMERS, the parasites among us - the lowest and one of the most disgusting forms of a human being. They suck our blood (our money), they rid us of our energy because they distract from the really worthwhile causes and if not stopped as soon as possible, the get stronger and meaner...
Some are so smart and professional that they might never get uncovered and exposed, but others are so downright stupid... with their facade so cheap and creaky and full of holes, that it is almost embarrassing to our movement as a whole that people believe them and give them money.
As it seems, a few days ago - by pure coincidence - we have stumbled over two such despicable individuals that go by the names of Jamie Hunt and Col Bayes and who run the FB-group 'Col & Jamies Pet Rescue and Feeding 10+ Countries".
We are NOT a group that (usually) spends its time on exposing little disgusting individuals, but in this case here, we had to, because we, too, are one of their victims as they are using our materials to make them look as if they were well educated, informed individuals and busy working activists, while, in fact, all they do is stealing other people's work and pictures, and using respected activists' names by claiming that they are working in close cooperation with them.
So here they are. Please meet 'Jamie Hunt' & 'Col Bayes'...
This is their group...
What they are claiming to do...
The following text has been copied from their group-page (see previous screenshot):
"Non-Profit Status (Pending) Please read our Wall Post for more information
Col Bayes & Jamie Hunt is travelling around Europe, Feeding, Rescue and assisting Stray's on the streets of Europe.
We have a Van and started out with 2-ton of cat & dog food, stocking up where we can, seeking local businesses to show their support (While many are not obliging) we are starting to generate wide local interest.
Starting in Spain & Portugal, back into Spain, then France via the coastal areas, onto Italy and across to Bulgaria, Romania via other countries.
Our aim is to directly feed, and rescue those in need, Dogs - Cats - Horses, Donkeys, Sheep, Goats and the list is endless. (Remember, they have NO VOICE) you can see from the images we have posted, we do have a large task.
However, our main aim is to directly feed Cats & Dogs, nurture those in ill-health, taking them directly to local Vets.
We are talking to locals who do feed their Strays, gathering information on ways to address the massive Stray issues.
Our long-term aim is to produce a documented report to be sent to the European Union in our efforts and to seek more By-Laws and a Global EU Law for those Countries within the EU, to take more notice and reduce the massive numbers of Strays on the Streets.
Friends have suggested we make this page, to let all know of our journey, we will both give updates when Internet is available.
This is Day 16, as we write, we are in Algarve Portugal, and we have directly assisted (As of Today) 330 strays, most of those are Dogs & Cats. We have reunited one lost K9 with its worried owner, plus assist two large litter of pups by taking them to local Vet’s
Please invite your friends? Without your support, we will face an even harder up-hill task.
Thankyou"
"Non-Profit Status (Pending) Please read our Wall Post for more information
Col Bayes & Jamie Hunt is travelling around Europe, Feeding, Rescue and assisting Stray's on the streets of Europe.
We have a Van and started out with 2-ton of cat & dog food, stocking up where we can, seeking local businesses to show their support (While many are not obliging) we are starting to generate wide local interest.
Starting in Spain & Portugal, back into Spain, then France via the coastal areas, onto Italy and across to Bulgaria, Romania via other countries.
Our aim is to directly feed, and rescue those in need, Dogs - Cats - Horses, Donkeys, Sheep, Goats and the list is endless. (Remember, they have NO VOICE) you can see from the images we have posted, we do have a large task.
However, our main aim is to directly feed Cats & Dogs, nurture those in ill-health, taking them directly to local Vets.
We are talking to locals who do feed their Strays, gathering information on ways to address the massive Stray issues.
Our long-term aim is to produce a documented report to be sent to the European Union in our efforts and to seek more By-Laws and a Global EU Law for those Countries within the EU, to take more notice and reduce the massive numbers of Strays on the Streets.
Friends have suggested we make this page, to let all know of our journey, we will both give updates when Internet is available.
This is Day 16, as we write, we are in Algarve Portugal, and we have directly assisted (As of Today) 330 strays, most of those are Dogs & Cats. We have reunited one lost K9 with its worried owner, plus assist two large litter of pups by taking them to local Vet’s
Please invite your friends? Without your support, we will face an even harder up-hill task.
Thankyou"
And this is how they fool people....
A simple search on GOOGLE IMAGES reveals that this
picture dates back to 2005
We will explain and expose their tactics more in detail below, but let's take it from the beginning...
How did we come across these shady figures?
It all started a few days ago when we were about to make our two registered petitions to the EU regarding the new Animal Health Law, ready to be sent. In an attempt to quickly collect some more signatures, Bianca remembered that she had seen a group that was collecting signatures for a petition about precisely the same topic.
You might ask: "Why start a petition about the same topic if there is one - and one that has even been officially registered - already?"
The answer is: because this is part of their strategy. They are searching for the topic that is "hottest" at the moment within their claimed working domain, then simply copy this work and run it as their own, claiming credit for it, and which should make them look "busy and well informed".
But our Bianca did not yet know this when she contacted this group, asking politely if they would please share our petitions and ask their members to sign it?
At her great surprise, her request had to be validated by an admin... and got deleted after a few minutes without them mentioning any reason.
You might ask: "Why start a petition about the same topic if there is one - and one that has even been officially registered - already?"
The answer is: because this is part of their strategy. They are searching for the topic that is "hottest" at the moment within their claimed working domain, then simply copy this work and run it as their own, claiming credit for it, and which should make them look "busy and well informed".
But our Bianca did not yet know this when she contacted this group, asking politely if they would please share our petitions and ask their members to sign it?
At her great surprise, her request had to be validated by an admin... and got deleted after a few minutes without them mentioning any reason.
Our Bianca - stubborn as she is - did not let loose and asked what this all was about...
That was already too much for them and they deleted Bianca from their group and blocked her on their two profiles. Bianca, furious, asked Pia to intervene...
Pia posted in their group, but same scenario again, the post was pending and needed approval from an admin (1), so she decided to post a comment under their posts with the text that they had sourced from our petition (2).
After that, Pia received the following email...
She could not respond to this message because Col Bayes blocked her, and - of course - also deleted her from their group.
Then they posted THIS....
Then they posted THIS....
Lynne commented on this post, but - of course - got quickly deleted from their group and she, too, got blocked.
"Poor" Taija did the mistake to LIKE Lynne's comment and she, too, received the same treatment: kicked out and blocked.
Mmmh :-/
We found that all very bizarre... and our alarm bells began to ring. So we decided to have a closer look at these two shady figures, starting with the pictures that they have been posting. And guess what we found?
C O R R E C T !!!
All pictures are sourced from the net. None are their own...
Let's have a closer look and start with their fundraiser at GOFUNDME.COM
And here you see the source of their picture which, according to,
GOOGLE IMAGES, has been sourced from www.escolovar.org
They even claimed that they could not save the dog in the picture because he had "pavo" - which is "not nice" - and therefore they had to sent him to "doggie heaven".
More pictures taken from their fundraiser at GOFUNDME.com
More pictures and their correct sources
On the left, you see the scammers' posts, and on the right, the correct source of the pictures
(please click on the pictures to enlarge them, or to be re-directed to the original source)
The next picture is probably one of the "hardest works" that they have ever done:
they needed an incredible TWO pictures to compile this one!
A true masterpiece when coming from such amateurish scammers!
Please click on the pictures to get redirected to the original picture sources
And some more...
(please click on the pictures to enlarge them, or to be re-directed to original source)
The picture is sourced from a Taiwanese website and its entry dates back to 2009
"Their" fact sheet about Spay & Neuter
"Their" TOP TEN REASONS
"Why can (wet) food and not dry hard food? It's cheaper..."
And this is their petition that will probably never be delivered and which has not been registered at the EU (at least not to date)
So what do we have here?
What we have are two rather shady individuals who have appeared here, apparently totally out of the blue, since no-one in Europe has ever heard of them until now.
They claim to be travelling across Europe, feeding a few strays here and a few strays there and also finding homes for those that they come across.... unless they have "pavo" and need to be "sent to doggie heaven". They also believe that "spay & neuter" is the only solution to the problem, which is correct, but they do not even know how to spell "spay & neuter". They seem to be traveling with lightning speed from Spain, to Portugal, to Italy, to France, then Bulgaria and Romania, and "other countries" to deliver a "one time meal" to strays... And once they are gone, the strays (we call them homeless animals) can starve again.
Isn't that a very inefficient way of using resources and time? Would it not be more logical to send the money to local rescuers?
They claim also having a meeting with Mr Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament, yet Mr Schulz is not only not competent for what they are claiming to be meeting with him, Mr Schultz is also a very busy man, and is probably booked out until 2017/2018, besides that he would not meet with single individuals that do not even represent a European organisation - as we have seen it in the description of their ABOUT- page of their group, their non-for-profit status "is pending".
And why would Mr Schulz accept to meet with two nobodies - one from Sidney, the other from New York - who have both studied at "Love Animals", the "School of Hard Knocks" and the "University of Life"... who have started a petition that has not even been submitted for official registration and has collected only a few thousand signatures?
There is also no mention of a "Jamie Hunt" in the Transparency Register of the EU. And without being registered there, you are not allowed to set a foot in an EU-Building - in fact, you can not even ask for a meeting.
Only reading what they are claiming to be doing, everybody with a little common sense would need to ask him-, or herself, the following questions before donating a single cent to these people:
and looking at the evidence that we have collected it seems justified to ask:
We think that the answer to these questions is quite obvious: that these are dishonest people, and that we don't need to give any further explanations.
So what we have here are two disgusting, lazy, scrupulous individuals, sitting behind their computer screens, just like you and I at the moment. They are too lazy to even go out on the street, regardless of where they are at the moment, and to take their own pictures of dogs and cats so that they can claim that they have been taken while feeding the strays in Italy, France, Portugal, or Timbuktu.
Had they been smart enough to take their own pictures, regardless of wherever in the world they are now sitting behind their screens, it would have been difficult, if not even impossible, to find out so quickly that these are dishonest people who only want one thing: the money that is actually meant to go to those in need: to the animals on the streets.
Their amateurish approach is also deeply offending to the animal rights movement as a whole because they seem to believe that we are all nothing but a bunch of tree-hugging imbeciles with an IQ of 72, which is slightly below their own, and that we would thus NEVER EVER find out that they are trying to fool us with manipulated pictures that they have sourced from the internet - some having been taken in Taiwan and India and some being ten years old.
Well... one thing is certain: they have fooled quite a few people and collected 657 € so far. That's 657 € too many and we would suggest that everybody who has donated to their fund contacts GOFUNDME.com, reports these criminals and demands that their money is being returned to them.
Those who have signed their petition should please take a moment to sign OFA's petitions here and here on the same topic (the new EU Animal Health Law) which have both been officially registered at the European Parliament, because the one from these "Col & Jamies Rescue and Feeding +10 countries" will very likely never be submitted.
They claim to be travelling across Europe, feeding a few strays here and a few strays there and also finding homes for those that they come across.... unless they have "pavo" and need to be "sent to doggie heaven". They also believe that "spay & neuter" is the only solution to the problem, which is correct, but they do not even know how to spell "spay & neuter". They seem to be traveling with lightning speed from Spain, to Portugal, to Italy, to France, then Bulgaria and Romania, and "other countries" to deliver a "one time meal" to strays... And once they are gone, the strays (we call them homeless animals) can starve again.
Isn't that a very inefficient way of using resources and time? Would it not be more logical to send the money to local rescuers?
They claim also having a meeting with Mr Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament, yet Mr Schulz is not only not competent for what they are claiming to be meeting with him, Mr Schultz is also a very busy man, and is probably booked out until 2017/2018, besides that he would not meet with single individuals that do not even represent a European organisation - as we have seen it in the description of their ABOUT- page of their group, their non-for-profit status "is pending".
And why would Mr Schulz accept to meet with two nobodies - one from Sidney, the other from New York - who have both studied at "Love Animals", the "School of Hard Knocks" and the "University of Life"... who have started a petition that has not even been submitted for official registration and has collected only a few thousand signatures?
There is also no mention of a "Jamie Hunt" in the Transparency Register of the EU. And without being registered there, you are not allowed to set a foot in an EU-Building - in fact, you can not even ask for a meeting.
Only reading what they are claiming to be doing, everybody with a little common sense would need to ask him-, or herself, the following questions before donating a single cent to these people:
- Why are they travelling around Europe to feed strays ONE SINGLE TIME and bring them to the vet? Why don't they simply send the money to local rescuers?
- How the heck do these people manage to send "strays" to forever homes from one day to the next, while there are certain procedures to respect that take time? When adopters need to be found, transports to be arranged, passports to be made, including vaccines and a certain time-frame to respect? And all this while being on the road, feeding strays, with little internet access, no FB-page, and no website?
and looking at the evidence that we have collected it seems justified to ask:
- Why don't they post their own pictures of the animals that they have fed? In their mail to Pia they claim "having assisted some 1,300 strays in Portugal and Spain" (in a matter of days) so why don't they post pictures of their work? Every rescuer and activist would be proud to show them to his or her supporters. So why do they use pictures that they have stolen from the net?
We think that the answer to these questions is quite obvious: that these are dishonest people, and that we don't need to give any further explanations.
So what we have here are two disgusting, lazy, scrupulous individuals, sitting behind their computer screens, just like you and I at the moment. They are too lazy to even go out on the street, regardless of where they are at the moment, and to take their own pictures of dogs and cats so that they can claim that they have been taken while feeding the strays in Italy, France, Portugal, or Timbuktu.
Had they been smart enough to take their own pictures, regardless of wherever in the world they are now sitting behind their screens, it would have been difficult, if not even impossible, to find out so quickly that these are dishonest people who only want one thing: the money that is actually meant to go to those in need: to the animals on the streets.
Their amateurish approach is also deeply offending to the animal rights movement as a whole because they seem to believe that we are all nothing but a bunch of tree-hugging imbeciles with an IQ of 72, which is slightly below their own, and that we would thus NEVER EVER find out that they are trying to fool us with manipulated pictures that they have sourced from the internet - some having been taken in Taiwan and India and some being ten years old.
Well... one thing is certain: they have fooled quite a few people and collected 657 € so far. That's 657 € too many and we would suggest that everybody who has donated to their fund contacts GOFUNDME.com, reports these criminals and demands that their money is being returned to them.
Those who have signed their petition should please take a moment to sign OFA's petitions here and here on the same topic (the new EU Animal Health Law) which have both been officially registered at the European Parliament, because the one from these "Col & Jamies Rescue and Feeding +10 countries" will very likely never be submitted.
UPDATE
26/02/2015 - 21.00 CET
After we made a post on our FB-page, members of Jamie & Col's group asked for explanations about the manipulated pictures... and they got all deleted, one by one.
But at some point, it probably became too much for them to handle, so they took all their courage together and said, basically, that... yes, they had used some generic pictures for their posts. Of course... because they are simply too busy to take own pictures.
HEY: they have strays to feed. ALL OVER EUROPE! Wherever you look, there are strays, strays, strays... all hungry. They have no time to take pictures! No really! What are these OFA-people thinking? Taking pictures? Whilst feeding strays ALL over Europe? As if they had nothing better to do!
Their task is difficult enough already... with "all these strays to feed" and "many hotels in Europe, in the 21st century, that do not even have telephone!".... And these OFA-guys want them to take pictures? No, really!
In the screenshots below, you can read their posts in their group...
But at some point, it probably became too much for them to handle, so they took all their courage together and said, basically, that... yes, they had used some generic pictures for their posts. Of course... because they are simply too busy to take own pictures.
HEY: they have strays to feed. ALL OVER EUROPE! Wherever you look, there are strays, strays, strays... all hungry. They have no time to take pictures! No really! What are these OFA-people thinking? Taking pictures? Whilst feeding strays ALL over Europe? As if they had nothing better to do!
Their task is difficult enough already... with "all these strays to feed" and "many hotels in Europe, in the 21st century, that do not even have telephone!".... And these OFA-guys want them to take pictures? No, really!
In the screenshots below, you can read their posts in their group...
So... these two individuals believe that it is totally okay to simply use generic pictures from the net -- because they have no time to take their own as they have strays to feed, all over Europe, of course - and so to give people the impression as if they had been taken by them at places where they are claiming to be?
Like the one with "Jamie's chicken that the cats had eaten all up" in "their hotel room full of strays" somewhere in Spain? Or the one with the cats that suggests that they "are in Pisa seeking a hotel for the night whilst the cats play, sharping their claws"? Or the one with the cute puppy drinking or eating out of bucket and where they claim it as been "taken on the streets of Spain", while in fact it was taken in India?
Or taking the example of the next picture: so they think it is totally okay to simply take a picture from the net, more precisely from Flickr, and then to claim that they are "Off to the vets again this poor guy need URGENT work on his teeth...."? The picture also states that they "will PAY to have his teeth fixed!!!!!" NOT any dog's teeth, but THIS poor dog's teeth!
Or like in the example of the poor dog below, the one who had "pavo" - which is "not nice" - and who had to be "sent to doggie heaven" and where they clearly state that "his image is attached" while, in fact, they have sourced the picture from www.escolovar.org?
So they think that's legitimate and that there is nothing wrong with that?
So they think that's legitimate and that there is nothing wrong with that?
So they think this is not FRAUD and the fact that we have exposed their dishonest tactics is considered SLANDER and would damage their reputation, in addition that they have "lost so many valuable time during which they could have fed strays".
Well... they are WRONG! This is indeed considered FRAUD, or more precisely FRAUDULENT REPRESENTATION.
And we would have thought that at the "School of Hard Knocks" they would have taught them the correct definition of FRAUD, or FRAUDULENT REPRESENTATION, but maybe Jamie & Col were absent on the day they had this lesson, so let us help them out a bit:
Definition of 'Fraud'
A false representation of a matter of fact—whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of what should have been disclosed - that deceives and is intended to deceive another so that the individual will act upon it to her or his legal injury.
Source: The Free Dictionary
Source: The Free Dictionary
'Fraudulent Representation' - Law & Legal Definition
Fraudulent representation means making of a false statement about a material fact, with the knowledge that such statement is false, to another person with an intention that such other person to whom that statement is made must believe it as true and must act upon it resulting in an injury to the person to whom such false representation is made.
In order to constitute a fraudulent representation the following elements need to be proved:
Source: USLEGAL.com
In order to constitute a fraudulent representation the following elements need to be proved:
- (1) that the party making the statement was aware that it is false or disregards the possibility of it being false;
- (2) the party making the statement does so to induce another party to enter into a contract; and
- (3) the other party enters the contract as a result of the statement and consequently suffers injury.
Source: USLEGAL.com
'Slander' - Legal definition
slander
n. oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth will harm the reputation of the person defamed.
Slander is a civil wrong (tort) and can be the basis for a lawsuit. Damages (payoff forworth) for slander may be limited to actual (special) damages unless there is malicious intent, since such damages are usually difficult to specify and harder to prove.
Some statements such as an untrue accusation of having committed a crime, having a loathsome disease, or being unable to perform one's occupation are treated as slander per se since the harm and malice are obvious, and therefore usually result in general and even punitive damage recovery by the person harmed.
Words spoken over the air on television or radio are treated as libel (written defamation) and not slander on the theory that broadcasting reaches a large audience as much if not more than printed publications. (See: defamation, fair comment)
Copyright © 1981-2005 by Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill. All Right reserved.
Source: The Free Dictionary
n. oral defamation, in which someone tells one or more persons an untruth about another which untruth will harm the reputation of the person defamed.
Slander is a civil wrong (tort) and can be the basis for a lawsuit. Damages (payoff forworth) for slander may be limited to actual (special) damages unless there is malicious intent, since such damages are usually difficult to specify and harder to prove.
Some statements such as an untrue accusation of having committed a crime, having a loathsome disease, or being unable to perform one's occupation are treated as slander per se since the harm and malice are obvious, and therefore usually result in general and even punitive damage recovery by the person harmed.
Words spoken over the air on television or radio are treated as libel (written defamation) and not slander on the theory that broadcasting reaches a large audience as much if not more than printed publications. (See: defamation, fair comment)
Copyright © 1981-2005 by Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill. All Right reserved.
Source: The Free Dictionary
And NO! We are not upset or angry because they have used our material! ALL our materials are free to use for everyone with good intentions, as stated at the bottom of our website. What we will NEVER accept, though, is that little, stupid crooks like those two, can simply join our movement and mislead kind people with good hearts in order to get their money...
We have stumbled over them rather by coincidence and we believed it to be our duty to inform others about what we have found out. The full information is now here, on our website, and everybody who would take the time to go the few additional clicks to find information about the two shady figures that go by the names of Jamie Hunt & Col Bayes, before donating to them, would find enough information that should suffice to warn them to stay away from them, and other such individuals.
Jamie and Col have emptied their fund and informed their group members that they won't be much on FB anymore... because they have strays to feed, of course. So you can bet that they will soon disappear and reappear under a new FB profile.
They have said that their "solicitors / lawyers" would now "make the next steps to have them vindicated", and we are really eager to discuss this matter with their "solicitors / lawyers" who can freely contact OUR lawyer at any time. They can get in touch with us via our contact form and we will gladly let them have the full contact details of our Lawyer.
We have stumbled over them rather by coincidence and we believed it to be our duty to inform others about what we have found out. The full information is now here, on our website, and everybody who would take the time to go the few additional clicks to find information about the two shady figures that go by the names of Jamie Hunt & Col Bayes, before donating to them, would find enough information that should suffice to warn them to stay away from them, and other such individuals.
Jamie and Col have emptied their fund and informed their group members that they won't be much on FB anymore... because they have strays to feed, of course. So you can bet that they will soon disappear and reappear under a new FB profile.
They have said that their "solicitors / lawyers" would now "make the next steps to have them vindicated", and we are really eager to discuss this matter with their "solicitors / lawyers" who can freely contact OUR lawyer at any time. They can get in touch with us via our contact form and we will gladly let them have the full contact details of our Lawyer.
"Every network gets the scammers that it deserves.
And tolerates!"
Jamie & Col Scam have appeared on FB somewhen end of last year and infiltrated our networks early this year (2015) by "befriending" animal loving people - including respected activists and even politicians. Only recently, they have added more than 5.000 members to their group in a matter of weeks - again, including respected activists and even politicians - without most of them actually knowing it, and which makes it look as if everything was okay with them....
By researching "their" pictures one by one, we have found out and demonstrated that these two individuals are SCAMMERS... little crooks. We cannot even call them parasites because a parasite is a smart creatures. These two here are dumber than dumb.
But the REAL BIG problem here are those that are even dumber than Jamie & Col, and who refuse to accept the evidence that we have presented here... Those who say that "the pictures are NOT faked", while we have clearly demonstrated that they are indeed faked, and who praise these two criminals as the new saviors.
These are the ones that provide little criminals, like these two, with the necessary ground that they need to strive.
Would they be a bit smarter - which is not difficult in the age of internet - and would they go the few additional clicks to check who they are actually supporting here, or simply open their eyes, get their brain in gear, and accept the evidence that we have presented to them, then leave their group, kick these two out of their friends list... well then these two disgusting parasites would inevitably dry out and disappear by themselves.
But because we have such naive imbeciles within our network, the animal rights activists' network becomes an easy target for such little criminals who scam a few hundred euro here, and a few hundred euro there, which ends all up in the end and which seems to be making it worth to be risking a prosecution and even jail time.
"Every network gets the scammers that it deserves, and tolerates" we would say. Please think about it.
To keep our networks as clean as possible and to stop such beggars since the beginning, we must all learn to check for the correct origin of the often heartbreaking pictures that they are using to get us to open our wallets, before donating a cent to people that we do not know. Google Images is a wonderful tool and very easy to handle. Simply:
and you will get the list of all the entries on the net that are using this picture.
And please do a friend a favor and pass this post on to others because many of your friends are probably being used by these criminals to make them look as if they were well known and respected activists.
Thank you, in advance.
By researching "their" pictures one by one, we have found out and demonstrated that these two individuals are SCAMMERS... little crooks. We cannot even call them parasites because a parasite is a smart creatures. These two here are dumber than dumb.
But the REAL BIG problem here are those that are even dumber than Jamie & Col, and who refuse to accept the evidence that we have presented here... Those who say that "the pictures are NOT faked", while we have clearly demonstrated that they are indeed faked, and who praise these two criminals as the new saviors.
These are the ones that provide little criminals, like these two, with the necessary ground that they need to strive.
Would they be a bit smarter - which is not difficult in the age of internet - and would they go the few additional clicks to check who they are actually supporting here, or simply open their eyes, get their brain in gear, and accept the evidence that we have presented to them, then leave their group, kick these two out of their friends list... well then these two disgusting parasites would inevitably dry out and disappear by themselves.
But because we have such naive imbeciles within our network, the animal rights activists' network becomes an easy target for such little criminals who scam a few hundred euro here, and a few hundred euro there, which ends all up in the end and which seems to be making it worth to be risking a prosecution and even jail time.
"Every network gets the scammers that it deserves, and tolerates" we would say. Please think about it.
To keep our networks as clean as possible and to stop such beggars since the beginning, we must all learn to check for the correct origin of the often heartbreaking pictures that they are using to get us to open our wallets, before donating a cent to people that we do not know. Google Images is a wonderful tool and very easy to handle. Simply:
- drag the picture that you want to check onto your desktop (or download it)
- go to Google Images
- click on the little camera in their search bar
- select "upload an image"
- select the picture that you want to check and click the search button
and you will get the list of all the entries on the net that are using this picture.
And please do a friend a favor and pass this post on to others because many of your friends are probably being used by these criminals to make them look as if they were well known and respected activists.
Thank you, in advance.
Just for the fun...
...and almost two hours later
Jamie has had enough and left FB.
He couldn't take it anymore :(
OUTRAGEOUS!
The Spanish Police issued a warning against Jamie & Col because they were feeding stray cats in... SYRIA!
Please click on the picture for the full story (see picture nr 5)!
Col has started a new fundraiser...
and as it seems, they are now feeding strays in Taiwan!
If we were to believe the picture that Col has used for his new fundraiser, they must now be feeding strays in TAIWAN! ...because that is where the picture was taken. But wait a minute: this picture was taken August 25, 2009!?
There can only be TWO explanations to this:
a) they have a freaking TIME-MACHINE!
b) they have simply used a picture that they have found on the net!
We believe answer b) is the most likely.
But why oh why aren't they using their own pictures? They can't be that busy "feeding strays" after all since they are all day on FB. So why aren't they using own pictures in their group, or for their fundraiser?
Mmmh :-/
Even if they aren't "touring Europe feeding strays", they could still go out on the streets and take pictures of dogs and cats. Dogs and cats are not so hard to find... Unless you are locked up somewhere in an asylum, with internet access, but no permission to leave the site... Or maybe they are even in prison because of a previous scam, and are now scamming a few bucks to prepare their comeback to society? This would explain why they can't take own pictures of dogs and cats...
a few hours later
Col, too, is near the end...
'Hate crime' - definition
noun
1. a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability
noun
2. a crime, esp of violence, in which the victim is targeted because of his or her race, religion, sexuality, etc
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1. a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability
noun
2. a crime, esp of violence, in which the victim is targeted because of his or her race, religion, sexuality, etc
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The case is solved!
Here's the criminal connection....
Jamie Hunt does not exist. It's a fake profile that Col uses to make it look as if they were actually two. Poor Jamie always takes the blame when something goes wrong, like in the case of the manipulated pictures. "It was all Jamie's fault".
Col & Jamie, or "Dr Jackass and Mr Hide" - the 21st century FB-version of the known classic.
Jamie Hunt's profile, a few weeks ago, stated he was from Australia, a few days ago the profile stated he was from New York, USA. Given that all his profile pictures were stolen from the net (see below) and based on the writing, grammar, spelling and punctuation, we believe that Jamie and Col are the same person. On a funny note: we have many screenshots that show that Col liked his own comments addressed to Jamie in his group, probably because he got confused between his two profiles.
Col also uses Jamie's profile to satisfy his gambling addiction...
One of the profile picture used for the profile of "Jamie Hunt" (see first picture below) actually shows Mr Adam Thomson, holding the assistance dog Bob, provided by 'Young Diggers' - an Australian not for profit group providing assistance dogs for ex military.
One of the photos on their Facebook page shows Bob, the dog, curled up on someone's lap. Behind, you can see that the person is wearing the same t-shirt that is worn in the image that we have of 'Jamie Hunt' (first picture). Despite extensive searching we could not locate the original of the image used in 'Jamie Hunt's profile, which suggests that it has been deleted since Col Bayes stole it. Mr. Thomson - the man in the picture - has probably no idea the image of him is being used by Col Bayes. Neither the names 'Jamie Hunt' nor 'Colin Bayes' (or any forms of those names) appear amongst Mr. Thomson's friends list.
In another profile picture that we found on Jamie's profile, he states: "All in a days job, my role as RSPCA Officer in Sydney, NSW Australia" (see next picture). But this picture is in fact a screenshot taken from a RSPCA documentary from 2013 - here's the full lSost of all the entries on the net.
In another profile picture that we found on Jamie's profile, he states: "All in a days job, my role as RSPCA Officer in Sydney, NSW Australia" (see next picture). But this picture is in fact a screenshot taken from a RSPCA documentary from 2013 - here's the full lSost of all the entries on the net.
So, according to the pictures that Col has served us as being his buddy Jamie, Jamie would have been in his twenties at the time the RSPCA-documentary was produced (2013) and in his fifties when he became "Mr Adam Thomson".
Looking at the next pictures, you see that he would have aged considerably in a matter of only one or two years...
Looking at the next pictures, you see that he would have aged considerably in a matter of only one or two years...
Who is Col Bayes?
We have reasons to believe that Col Bayes' real name is actually Colin Philip Bayes, an Australian criminal born 1957, just like stated on Col's FB profile and which seems to be the only correct information that he provides.
Colin Philip Bayes has written a 'Handbook for Gamblers', which is interestingly funny but not a crime. And Colin Philip Bayes was also the founding director of the Australian charity 'PC for Kids', and who served a prison sentence in 2001/2002.
Colin Bayes had embezzled $42,090.83 from 'PCs for Kids' in 45 separate transactions from July 12, 2000, to August 29, 2001. The court was told that Bayes, a former bankrupt who had 51 prior convictions in four states for offences including stealing and obtaining property by deception, had used the money to fund his gambling habit.
Please see the following links for the full story:
Colin Philip Bayes has written a 'Handbook for Gamblers', which is interestingly funny but not a crime. And Colin Philip Bayes was also the founding director of the Australian charity 'PC for Kids', and who served a prison sentence in 2001/2002.
Colin Bayes had embezzled $42,090.83 from 'PCs for Kids' in 45 separate transactions from July 12, 2000, to August 29, 2001. The court was told that Bayes, a former bankrupt who had 51 prior convictions in four states for offences including stealing and obtaining property by deception, had used the money to fund his gambling habit.
Please see the following links for the full story:
Who has seen this man?
We have got confirmation that the man in the picture below is indeed "Col Bayes". He was last seen in Portugal - not to feed strays , though - but to rid good people of their money by selling that all kind of things that he never delivered. Some of these people are also after him now...
Please share the photo below and warn others. If you have seen or heard from this man, please contact us either via our contact form, or by sending your message to [email protected]
He may try to sell you computer parts, ask for money to feed or medicate stray animals, repair your computer, sell you other items. He may offer to assist you to emigrate to Australia. He may try to open a new Facebook group to con people.
Also known as Col Bayes, Jamie Hunt, Rey Sap and other identities. In all cases he will take anything he can get from you.