Whitetail Woods: Guest Post - "The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles"

Friday, July 3, 2009

Guest Post - "The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles"

A Thief by any Other Name is… Mark Osterholt!

After finding at least a dozen different OBS Blogger’s plagiarized material posted on Duck Hunting Arkansas and Bow Hunting Supplies, I started to do a little digging. Let me tell you, at the rate I’m going, between HSUS, PeTA, and now this, I am going to need a full-fledged excavator with work crew, and an internet connection in China.

At first, as I have said a few times already, I wasn't too concerned. All my posts have links, copyrights, and stuff that just points to me. But as I found more and more posts from people I knew, without any links back to them, I became enraged. I know three or four of my fellow bloggers personally or over the phone. But the other two hundred and fifty that I haven't spoken to are my friends too. And nobody messes with my friends. If there is one thing I can't abide is folks getting taken advantage of by someone out to make a buck.

Fortunately, word of my discovery got out quickly thanks to so many of you posting and linking to the first post. (And by the way, I am going to ask you to do it again with this post so we can get the word out even further.) As it turns out, Jesse at Jesse’s Outdoor & Hunting has been dealing with this plagiarizer, Mark Osterholt for quite some time now. As far back as June 2002 Osterholt was ripping peoples pictures off and posting them on his own website. Spammer Who Owned Hunting Pictures.com Back At It. A few years later, Jesse started getting phone calls from clients that Internet Concepts, a company owned by Mark Osterholt, was claiming to be the designers of Jesse’s Outdoor & Hunting! Jesse quickly clarified that he had nothing to do with Osterholt or Hubbard. Spammer Mark Osterholt Claiming JHO Contract Work.

Worse yet is the story of Scott Croner Owner, CEO, and Outfitter of Nebraska Hunting Company. Scott is a hard working honest outfitter and guide on the flyways of Nebraska. He had hired Osterholt ostensibly to assist him with e-marketing and web-site design. When it was all said and done Mark Osterholt would not fulfill his contract with Scott Croner. Not only that but Osterholt then put up a sham web-site to discredit Croner with an aerial map to Scott Croner's son's home. Several other outdoor businesses where also raked over the coals by Osterholt. More details to follow.

By all accounts Mark Osterholt has great skills in e-marketing, mass emailing, and web design, but he does not have a single shred of ethical propriety.

To top it all off Mark Osterholt has a criminal record involving wildlife! Back in 1995 he allowed well over 700 freshwater turtles to die in a parked van and in a storage unit he had rented. Some where even frozen to death by his callus disregard for their welfare. Osterholt was trying to get them off his hands by illegally selling them to Asian markets and restaurants after illegally importing them into California. He was ultimately incarcerated for sixty days, with 30 days of road crew duty. You can find the details, as reported by, the San Fransisco Chronicle here and here.

This man is obviously a career scammer and scofflaw. He is talented but unfortunately he has decided to use his impressive intellect and skills to no good.

Now I have managed to track down these servers, including other websites he may be affiliated with:

Hosting ISP : THEPLANET.COM INTERNET SERVICES

Server Ip : 70.84.75.18
Server Location :
Houston, Texas, 77002, United States
Latitude: 29.7523002625
Longitude: -95.3669967651
Other sites on IP 70.84.75.18

1. anglerschat.com
2. hunt101.com
3. myfishingpictures.com
4. cupidfish.com

anglerss.com
ENOM, INC.

arkansastroutfishing.com
GODADDY.COM, INC.

bowhuntingsupplies.com
GODADDY.COM, INC.

duckhuntingarkansas.com
GODADDY.COM, INC.

huntreport.com
GODADDY.COM, INC.

myhuntingsite.com
GODADDY.COM, INC.

nebraskahuntingscam.com
DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM

I would be interested in hearing from anyone that has dealt with him and has had either good or bad experiences with him. I would also like to hear from anyone that is currently negotiating with him on any kind of project.

Mark,
If you happen to read this post, let it be a reminder to you that it is very, very, very naughty to steal from hunters. Get a clue, tracking information down is what we do in our sleep! It would be best if you just did the right thing. AAR

My friends,

Many of your posts have been stolen from you by this lowlife scammer Mark Osterholt. Please help me track this clown down and run him into the ground.

You guys all work hard at and for your content, don’t this sleezeball steal it without a fight. We all know each other through the medium of Blogging and specifically through the Outdoor Bloggers Summit. Let’s help each others out.

All I am asking right now is for everyone to link to these to posts so that anyone dealing with this lowlife will have second thoughts. I have researched the information and it is solid.

Let’s Get This Plagiarizer!
Mark Osterholt is Stealing Your Content

I will be spending the day tomorrow tracking down the owners of each and every post on those websites to let them know their material is hijacked. Many of you will be getting emails or comments on your blog. If you don’t get one, don’t be complacent, I may just not have gotten to it.

Please link and let me know so I can link back to you too!

Happy Hunting,
Albert

Hot to Stop the Scam Artist Mark Osterholt
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