Published on Breaking News | January 15, 2008, 7:53 am | by James Wood, Soft32Rating:
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The search for Mr. or Ms. Right will soon become safer thanks to the passage of new legislation in New Jersey.
The “Internet Dating Safety Act,” sponsored by Senate President Richard J. Codey and Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein was signed by Governor Jon Corzine yesterday.
The legislation (S1977) arms consumers with valuable information by requiring Internet dating companies to disclose the extent of their safety measures, such as if they do or do not conduct background screenings on members who are seeking to date each other. Doing so allows consumers to make more informed decisions regarding the online dating provider they choose to use.
“People who turn to the Internet to build new friendships and relationships deserve peace of mind that the person with whom they wish to form a connection is who they claim to be,” said Assemblywoman Greenstein (Middlesex/Mercer). “This legislation is a needed step toward protecting the public from the violent offenders who have found access to countless new potential victims online.”
The need for this legislation is clear: Online dating consumers often mistakenly believe that because they are paying for a service, their online dating company provides some form of background screening or other safety precautions. This mistaken belief can have disastrous results. The new law gives consumers information they need to better make decisions on their safety.
“Millions of Americans look to online dating services everyday as a quick, easy and what they believe to be a safe way to meet new friends or find a partner,” said Laura A. Ahearn, Executive Director of Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center. “Without regulation, sexual predators are using the profiles in these sites as shopping lists to target single women with children. The Internet Dating Safety Act provides the one crucial element to minimize victimization — information. New Jersey lawmakers are to be commended for keeping our most vulnerable safe, and every state in the nation should follow their lead.”
Although some online dating sites have already posted minimal safety information in obscure areas on their websites only True.com, one of the largest online dating service providers, and a founding member of SODA, conducts background screenings of its members before allowing them to reach out to others on their site.
Lawmakers in several other states, including New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida have also expressed interest in pursuing similar legislation. New Jersey’s historic first step to improving the safety of its citizens will likely encourage more lawmakers and concerned consumers to seek similar protections in their states.
The bill passed in the Senate by a vote of 37-0 and the Assembly by a vote of 77-0. The law takes effect 120 days after enactment, but online dating companies can choose to comply prior to the effective date.
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Comment by EXPOSED | January 15, 2008 | #1
Another sleazy stunt by True.com and Herb Vest. Issuing a Press Release to get attention for the web site.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/micro_stories.pl?ACCT=919610&TICK=TR UE&STORY=/www/story/01-14-2008/0004736110&EDATE=Jan+14,+2008
Here is a Press Release that Herb Vest doesn’t want seen:
The affiliates that True.com and Herb Vest owe money to may need to filed a class action lawsuit. They better file it pretty quick too! There is another lawsuit against Herb Vest and the detective business he started and used to stalk the ex-fiancee. Teresa Koehlar vs Herb Vest and H.D. Vest Investigations,LLC, the 192nd District Court, Dallas Texas. Case# 07-10005. I wonder if all the legal problems and bills are behind the reason True.com won’t/can’t paid their bills? Vest’s 2 sons that bailed him out of trouble with 7.5 millions have tried for several years to get their money back, but Vest refuses and basically disowned them. My investigations have discovered Vest and his wife chartering a yacht that cost around $250,000 a week for as long as a month at a time. Yet can’t paid his bills! The IRS should check True.com’s taxes for personal travel, personal legal fees and personal employees to start with on the company dime.
Vest has stalked his ex-fiancee for years and there are documents, photos, videos, bills, invoices, and depositions to prove it. Beginning in July 2001. The documents show over 5 years of Vest stalking her even after Vest got married. The lead detective goes on in the depo to say Vest loved her and not his now wife. Vest has had as many as 7 people following at one time and as long as 3 months. Vest’s personal history of womanizing, threesomes with lesbians, and hookers are reflected in his ads. Can’t hide your spots!
Vest and his attorney have flat out lied to the courts and sent a letter to the court that it was “untrue.” Vest and his attorney claimed in the courts that Vest gave the fiancee 2 million beginning in 1996. Now Vest can decide who he lied and defrauded the IRS and SEC or the fiancee and the courts? Something tells me either way Vest is going to having more and bigger legal fees. I also suspect by the end of the year Vest will be in prison. He has to decide if it will be Federal or State prison now.
Vest’s two sons loaned Vest 7.5 million when he was in financial trouble. Now Vest has disowned his sons and refused to repay. Vest has even gone as far as telling them to “prove it” and “sue me” Vest was the trustee on his oldest son’s account and without permission or knowledge that account was cleaned out by Vest. Vest’s own mother accused him of fraud and forgery by signing her name to a note issued to her when she helped her son start his business. More tax fraud on a publicly traded company?
If Vest does this to the people that love him and he claimed to love. Is it that hard to believe that he would lie and deceive his customers and affiliates?
Vest is living large in Dallas with a new 300K+ Maybanc car and new home in the works of millions. He hasn’t paid a dime to his sons and in fact left one holding the bag for his current home. They are broke and he is riding around in a 300K car. I wonder if the car is titled to True.com or Vest
There is a class action lawsuit against True.com filed in Dallas. If you have been ripped off by True.com contact: filed by Washington D.C. based Tycko & Zavareei LLP along with Dallas, Texas based Crews, Shepherd & McCarty LLP. District Court of Dallas County, Texas, and is titled “Wong v. True Beginnings, LLC.” True Beginnings, LLC. Vest also goes by HDVE.
It is time for the FBI, IRS, SEC, DTP, Dallas DA and Texas DA to investigate Mr. Vest.
Posted by Mark from Russia of from Russia pm December. Pricey cars, clothes and homes owned by CEOs motivate workers, says Herb Vest, founder and CEO of dating site True.