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You wouldn't be the first person being skeptical of this whole thing:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/robert-himler/internet-fraud/rob...

http://vecinuca.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/robert-himler-and-a...

http://vecinuca.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/robert-himler-and-a...

Now I don't know about either of them until you mentioned your post but all I know is that https://www.google.com/search?q=drew+houston+scam or https://www.google.com/search?q=alexis+ohanian+scam do not return nearly as many dedicated blog posts as https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+himler+scam or https://www.google.com/search?q=amy+sangster+scam

A couple more clicks and I came across https://twitter.com/socialmediatwip defending http://amysangsterscam.com/ and promoting http://forex-ultrasonic-robot.blogspot.com/

yeah, I discovered all those links, + some more regarding their forex company, and a couple of other partners in crime who'se names I won't mention.

I particular enjoyed the ripoffreport one, where a random internet dude got on and defended Mr Himler with huge walls of text including bold and italic formatting. They seemed to take a lot of care for someone who had no connection at all! Colour me skeptical!

It made for a great Friday afternoon of reading, all that was missing was a beer in hand, but I have since taken care of that missing beer problem.

oh damn, I actually followed those links to Drew Houston and Alexis Ohanian expecting even more exciting scammer reads, but received a history lesson on the founders of dropbox and reddit instead!

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