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BEWARE: Run By Serial Scammers
As a small business owner, you’ve probably received the robocall, “Hi, I’m Bob Hanson, a website builder in {your local area}, and I make websites for small businesses anywhere in {your state} on very small budgets…”
These illegal robocalls seem to roll-out about once a month, targeting small business operations. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, IT’S A SCAM.<br /> <br /> They provide a local-sounding call-back telephone number, but in fact that number is just a “gateway”… the calls get routed to Durham, North Carolina, where this scammer is located.<br /> <br /> There is no Bob Hanson. The person behind this is Robert William Selfors, and his wife Cana Wittenberg Selfors. Robert Selfors goes by a number of different names, including Bob Selfors, Bobby Selfors, and Rob Selfors. The two of them are documented SERIAL SCAMMERS.<br /> <br /> Beginning in 2001, Bob and Cana ran a “staffing company” scam called Dealer Staff Inc. They traveled the country claiming they could get anyone who attended one of their two-day “training” sessions a job at any car dealership. They even sent attendees out to “job interviews” with local dealerships. The problem was, the dealerships had never heard of Dealer Staff, and had no idea why people were showing up for nonexistent interviews. By the time people figured out that they had been ripped off, Bob and Cana had already packed up and left town.<br /> <br /> When the “staffing company” scam began to catch up to them, they transitioned into home improvement scams. Bob Selfors and partner Tyler Sheets ran an advance-fee scam called Kitchen Carolina (kitchen remodeling contractors)… the company went bust in 2009 amidst multiple lawsuits when they took and spent peoples’ money, but never provided and/or completed the contracted work. These two schmucks then went on to do the same thing with a scam company called American Kitchens Corp., which was shut down in 2014 when the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office filed suit against them, and ultimately banned them from offering home repair or home improvement services in North Carolina.<br /> <br /> Undeterred, Bobby and Cana Selfors came up with a new scam… since at least 2016, nationally telemarketing search engine optimization (SEO), and app and website development, services. They’ve been using the following brandings:<br /> <br /> - Simple Websites Inc<br /> - Simple Site Company<br /> - Simple Business<br /> - Simple.biz<br /> - Happy Panda Inc<br /> <br /> These “companies” in the past operated out of Selfors’ former home, and from a mail-drop at a UPS Store, in Durham, North Carolina. The “companies” are currently run from a mail-drop at a UPS Store in Raleigh, North Carolina (Happy Panda Inc, 8311 Brier Creek Parkway, Suite 105192, Raleigh, NC 27617-7328). <br /> <br /> Here’s the way Bob and Cana Selfors operate. They get you to give them a credit card number, essentially pay up front, for them to “design” a website for you. Then they do their best to talk you into a recurring charge on your credit card to provide ongoing SEO and website updating. The problem is, the websites are often never delivered, or if they are, they are amateurish and unusable. The promised “ongoing services” are often never provided, but a charge still shows up on your credit card month after month. And getting them to stop charging your card is a nearly impossible task. And lastly, if you already have a Web domain, you risk having them hijack it from you… and getting back control of your domain can be an extremely frustrating, time consuming, and even costly process. To put it bluntly, they are SCAMMERS whose only goal is to steal as much money from you as they can.<br /> <br /> But over and beyond the obvious scams, they are conducting interstate telemarketing in blatant violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The automated sales calls (robocalls) they use are expressly prohibited by federal law. Their use of “spoofed” Caller ID information is expressly prohibited by federal law. Disguising who they really are, and where they are located / operating from is expressly prohibited by federal law. To repeat myself, Robert and Cana Selfors are CRIMINAL SCAMMERS.<br /> <br /> And here’s the real twist… in 2014 “Rob” Selfors opened and became pastor of a new church in Raleigh, North Carolina (Brier Creek Fellowship: 9801 Brier Creek Parkway, Raleigh, NC 27617 (telephone 919-214-1461)). So, did Bobby finally find God and decide to redeem himself? HELL NO! The church is his latest scam. He and wife Cana (two people with the least understanding of true Christian values) are fleecing the flock to support his high-on-the hog lifestyle. And all that church income is tax-free. Plus, having control over a tax-exempt entity like a church is the perfect money laundering machine… a way to disguise and shelter the earnings from all of his other criminal scams [interestingly, the Brier Creek Fellowship’s “offices” are located in the same UPS Store as Selfors’ “company”, Happy Panda Inc]. Maybe his parishioners will eventually stop being dupes, open their eyes, and demand a forensic audit to see where all their donations have really gone.<br /> <br /> According Bob Selfors, he and Cana never have done anything wrong. He’s got an excuse or rationalization, or a fairy tale story, for every failure. It’s always someone else’s fault, or just a run of bad economic luck, when his scams blow-up in their faces. The truth is, they are pathological liars. And they’ve lived so many cons, and told so many lies, they don’t even recognize the truth any more. <br /> <br /> So, If you get a call from “Bob Hanson the website builder”, just remember it’s a scam… just one more in a very long line of Bob and Cana Selfors’ scams. If you want to help put this asshole (and his golddigger wife) in prison where they belong, report the call to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC; jurisdiction over TCPA violations), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC; jurisdiction over interstate calls that violate the TSR), and your state Attorney General’s Office.<br />
These illegal robocalls seem to roll-out about once a month, targeting small business operations. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, IT’S A SCAM.<br /> <br /> They provide a local-sounding call-back telephone number, but in fact that number is just a “gateway”… the calls get routed to Durham, North Carolina, where this scammer is located.<br /> <br /> There is no Bob Hanson. The person behind this is Robert William Selfors, and his wife Cana Wittenberg Selfors. Robert Selfors goes by a number of different names, including Bob Selfors, Bobby Selfors, and Rob Selfors. The two of them are documented SERIAL SCAMMERS.<br /> <br /> Beginning in 2001, Bob and Cana ran a “staffing company” scam called Dealer Staff Inc. They traveled the country claiming they could get anyone who attended one of their two-day “training” sessions a job at any car dealership. They even sent attendees out to “job interviews” with local dealerships. The problem was, the dealerships had never heard of Dealer Staff, and had no idea why people were showing up for nonexistent interviews. By the time people figured out that they had been ripped off, Bob and Cana had already packed up and left town.<br /> <br /> When the “staffing company” scam began to catch up to them, they transitioned into home improvement scams. Bob Selfors and partner Tyler Sheets ran an advance-fee scam called Kitchen Carolina (kitchen remodeling contractors)… the company went bust in 2009 amidst multiple lawsuits when they took and spent peoples’ money, but never provided and/or completed the contracted work. These two schmucks then went on to do the same thing with a scam company called American Kitchens Corp., which was shut down in 2014 when the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office filed suit against them, and ultimately banned them from offering home repair or home improvement services in North Carolina.<br /> <br /> Undeterred, Bobby and Cana Selfors came up with a new scam… since at least 2016, nationally telemarketing search engine optimization (SEO), and app and website development, services. They’ve been using the following brandings:<br /> <br /> - Simple Websites Inc<br /> - Simple Site Company<br /> - Simple Business<br /> - Simple.biz<br /> - Happy Panda Inc<br /> <br /> These “companies” in the past operated out of Selfors’ former home, and from a mail-drop at a UPS Store, in Durham, North Carolina. The “companies” are currently run from a mail-drop at a UPS Store in Raleigh, North Carolina (Happy Panda Inc, 8311 Brier Creek Parkway, Suite 105192, Raleigh, NC 27617-7328). <br /> <br /> Here’s the way Bob and Cana Selfors operate. They get you to give them a credit card number, essentially pay up front, for them to “design” a website for you. Then they do their best to talk you into a recurring charge on your credit card to provide ongoing SEO and website updating. The problem is, the websites are often never delivered, or if they are, they are amateurish and unusable. The promised “ongoing services” are often never provided, but a charge still shows up on your credit card month after month. And getting them to stop charging your card is a nearly impossible task. And lastly, if you already have a Web domain, you risk having them hijack it from you… and getting back control of your domain can be an extremely frustrating, time consuming, and even costly process. To put it bluntly, they are SCAMMERS whose only goal is to steal as much money from you as they can.<br /> <br /> But over and beyond the obvious scams, they are conducting interstate telemarketing in blatant violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The automated sales calls (robocalls) they use are expressly prohibited by federal law. Their use of “spoofed” Caller ID information is expressly prohibited by federal law. Disguising who they really are, and where they are located / operating from is expressly prohibited by federal law. To repeat myself, Robert and Cana Selfors are CRIMINAL SCAMMERS.<br /> <br /> And here’s the real twist… in 2014 “Rob” Selfors opened and became pastor of a new church in Raleigh, North Carolina (Brier Creek Fellowship: 9801 Brier Creek Parkway, Raleigh, NC 27617 (telephone 919-214-1461)). So, did Bobby finally find God and decide to redeem himself? HELL NO! The church is his latest scam. He and wife Cana (two people with the least understanding of true Christian values) are fleecing the flock to support his high-on-the hog lifestyle. And all that church income is tax-free. Plus, having control over a tax-exempt entity like a church is the perfect money laundering machine… a way to disguise and shelter the earnings from all of his other criminal scams [interestingly, the Brier Creek Fellowship’s “offices” are located in the same UPS Store as Selfors’ “company”, Happy Panda Inc]. Maybe his parishioners will eventually stop being dupes, open their eyes, and demand a forensic audit to see where all their donations have really gone.<br /> <br /> According Bob Selfors, he and Cana never have done anything wrong. He’s got an excuse or rationalization, or a fairy tale story, for every failure. It’s always someone else’s fault, or just a run of bad economic luck, when his scams blow-up in their faces. The truth is, they are pathological liars. And they’ve lived so many cons, and told so many lies, they don’t even recognize the truth any more. <br /> <br /> So, If you get a call from “Bob Hanson the website builder”, just remember it’s a scam… just one more in a very long line of Bob and Cana Selfors’ scams. If you want to help put this asshole (and his golddigger wife) in prison where they belong, report the call to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC; jurisdiction over TCPA violations), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC; jurisdiction over interstate calls that violate the TSR), and your state Attorney General’s Office.<br />
Review date 2023-07-29 09:41:33
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