W O O F ! W O O F !
HAVE YOU BEEN SCAMMED BY ONE OF THE SITES BELOW?
WE WILL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THE DOG TRAINING INSTITUTE
AND TRAINPETDOG.COM BY NANCY RICHARDS
AND NABANIPA AND SUMANTRA ROY
DO NOT BUY FROM THE SITES BELOW
THERE ARE GOOD SITES ON THE INTENET
NANCY RICHARDS, NATHALIE ROBERTS, RUFF SITWELL,
AND SUMANTRA AND NABANIPA ROY ARE A SCAM
THE SCAMS BY "NANCY RICHARDS"
Some of the tactics by the sites below are common internet practices.
They "walk the edges" - "push everyone's buttons" and "make eyes roll"
They do not add to the credibility of a site, and at its best can be seen as annoying marketing strategies,
such as listing 2000 types of medications on a non-functional parrot forum.
What we object to is the selling access to membership sites for a one time or
a recurring fee (membership sites are the newest hottest thing on the internet)
and then never sending pasword information to the buyer, not responding to emails
or refund requests, and customers having to discover the "terms of use"
which state that you need to write a letter to India in order to get a refund.
THATis the scam by the sites below. And then there are the many details....
These are all marketing tactics rather than real businesses or services.
And that's why Dog Training Institute aka Trainpetdog
has an F rating with the Better Business Buro.
 Nancy Richards? Nathalie Roberts? Ruff Sitwell? Nabanipa Roy! |
| THE LATEST NEWS.... |
| ____________________ 09/09/09: We have moved our section "latest news" to our new blog. Click here for updates on the scam by Nancy Richards, and leave your comments. |
| _________________ 09/04/09: Here is a new way to get your money back from Trainpetdog. Trainpetdog.com claims to donate $25,000 to dogs in need. Nabanipa (Nipa) Roy self-published an article on PRNews, a website alluring to be a third-party news site, but in reality a self-promotional site. She explains the need for funding for dog rescues under the misleading header "puppy training". Better hurry: the offer, as it says at the bottom of the application page, is valid for only 15 days (the article was posted on June 25, 2009). What more can there be to a scam?? |
| _________________ 08/13/09: As scams on the internet are getting bolder, Nancy Richards is not lagging behind with unauthorized charges to credit card accounts and inaccessibility per phone or email: "I bought a book for $19.95 that was never delivered but they took the money out of my account. Then a month later they took another $99. When I have tried to contact them there is no response, no working phone, and no way to get into the web site. They email me garbage everyday but say they don't recognize my email address in their system. They are a rip off." Read the original post here. |
| _________________ 07/04/09: The new owners of Bigpawsonly (the Roys) may want to update myspace |
| _________________ 07/04/09: Parrotsecrets is a good business model?? Why is it not sending the ebook that people buy? |
| ____________________ 06/24/09: Laughable customer service questions and answers on pet-parrots.com such as "I have been trying for days to get the training e-book but I keep getting error messages stating that the site is either unavailable or cannot be found. How do I report such a site error?" One suggested solution: "refresh your screen a few times..." |
| ____________________ 06/24/09: Sumantra Roy anonymized ownership of several domains like trainpetdog.com and parrotsecrets.com and pet-parrots.com. Why would an owner of an honest business want to hide their name? Wouldn't they be proud to be Nancy Richards or Nathalie Roberts? Carnax.com didnt'.... And he didn't with etrendsetters.com |
| ____________________ 06/16/09: Has anyone wondered yet why Nabanipa Roy introduced herself on her new BigPawsOnly as Nipa Roy instead of as Nabanipa Roy or as Nancy Richards, President of the Dog Training Institute? Here is why... |
| ____________________ 06/16/09: Backlinkwatch for Trainpetdog. ""Search Engine Optimization now revolves around link building. Inbound Links make your website stand out prominent in the SERPs. In today's SEO world, more than 95% of the focus is on building quality backlinks." See here where trainpetdog has placed links to its site. |
| ____________________ 06/15/09: The Dogtraining Institute has been reported to the fraud department of Thawte, a leading global Certification Authority, for falsely copying a security image on the selling pages of the membership sites. Thawte replies: "The Thawte Trusted Site Seal is a dynamic image appearing on a website that allows visitors to tell at a glance that they can trust you, that your online site is validated and that they can transact safely and securely with you. A valid seal would be clickable, and show the SSL Certificate details in the pop up box. We will report this seal to our fraud department, as it is invalid." We are talking about the image in the lower left corner. Update 6/24: image was removed |
| ____________________ 06/14/09: On parrotsecrets one can read how Sumantra and Nabanipa Roy (Nathalie Roberts) think they can build a membership site: "As this site develops it will become a monthly payment subscription site, but if you purchase now, we will give you a FREE "early bird" membership for life, as an early contributor that adds value to this important Parrot resource site." That's a LOT of work asked for free. Read it all here, the page you get after signing up for the newsletter. And here is the order form. |
| ____________________ 06/14/09: Some folks think that parrotsecrets.com - ran by "Nathalie Roberts" - is a good business model, or doubt it is a scam. How about a peek into their forums...? |
| ____________________ 06/14/09: Blog discusses value of businesses like trainpetdog and parrotsecrets by Sumantra Roy |
| ____________________ 06/13/09: Community of dog lovers falls apart. All 6 moderators of bigpawsonly.com who volunteered 4-5 years leave in response to Sumantra and Nabanipa Roy buying the site (critical posts have been removed). |
| ____________________ 06/13/09: NRO starts a blog where visitors can leave comments. Please go there add your two cents. |
| ____________________ 06/13/09: Senior ex-employee of Sumantra Roy, Aparna Ganguly, says most of Roy's products are failures. |
| ____________________ 06/12/09: Nabanipa Roy claims our site has many inaccurate statements. That's very possible, depending on how you look at it, but how about a Better Business Buro Report on her Dog Training Institute? BBB Company Rating F: Our opinion of what this rating means: We strongly question the company’s reliability for reasons such as that they have failed to respond to complaints, their advertising is grossly misleading, they are not in compliance with the law’s licensing or registration requirements, their complaints contain especially serious allegations, or the company’s industry is known for its fraudulent business practices. |
| ____________________ 06/11/09: Another reported scam superdog.com is a dog site with beautiful pictures and soothing music but NO information and VERY bad reviews |
| ____________________ 06/11/09: THE ROYS BUY EXISTING DOG SITE: Site users upset about the purchase of bigpawsonly.com by Nabanipa and Sumantra Roy. Nancy Richards introduces herself as Nipa Roy. |
| _________________ 04/19/09: Trainpetdog joined social networking tool TWITTER: twitter.com/trainpetdog |
| _________________ 03/16/09: Buyer beware about parrot training. Tips on recognizing scams and on where to complain. |
| _________________ 03/16/09: Some information about the reputation of Cringely.... |
| _________________ 03/16/09: CRINGELY CALLS PARROT SECRETS a BUSINESS MODEL. NRO makes the news thanks to an article by Rob Cringely We had 2000 visitors in the last two days. Cringely uses parrotsecrets.com as a model for a succesful internet business. The article led to another article stating that truth is out of style. |
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| _________________ 01/07/09: The most succesful way TrainPetDog lures visitors into buying is by promising breed-specific information. It makes the potential customer feel special and on the right track. The sitemap of trainpetdog gives a good idea of how involved this scam is. Check out all dog breeds, for example. |
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| _________________ 12/03/08: Reports of scamming by Nancy Richards on ripoff reports have doubled this year, from 6 in 2007 to 13 in 2008. Not a whole lot, but traffic to our site is increasing as well and eventually this will pay off. |
| _________________ 11/13/08: New complaint site complaintsboard.com lists a complaint about the Nancy Richards Dog Training Institute. |
| _________________ 11/09/08: Webreviewone is a sponsor of trainpetdog.com on irazoo.com, indicating another scam. |
| _________________ 11/09/08: Please take a minute and rate the "Ruff Sitwell" ebook that is sold by the dogtraininginstitute here No sign up needed. |
| _________________ 10/22/08: Copyscape.com lets you check for copies/plagiarism of websites. Enter trainpetdog.com or the dogtrainininstitute.com and click on one of the results. |
| _________________ 10/19/08: Sumantra Roy is bad business. If you think of doing Search Engine Optimization business with him, or use his latest Conversion Multiplier tool, you may want to think twice |
| _________________ 10/18/08: Needless to say that trainpetdog offers an "affiliate program." Trainpetdog tells the prospective affiliate that sales are good and that they have very low refund rates (so now you know why they want you to write a letter to India!) Here's a two click action: click here and choose poor to give your lowest rating to trainpetdog as an affiliate program. |
| _________________ 10/18/08: iRazoo is a people-powered, points-earning search engine launched in 2007. Guess who we can find there? Thanks to our comment the site was immediately removed from the recommendation section. Now go and recommend our site (link #6 as of today) |
| _________________ 10/18/08: Trainpetdog.com is listed on Wikipedia's "Wikiproject Spam" and suspected to be a "concerted effort to undermine Wikipedia" and a criminal scam stating: "When you look at the pattern by which the links are added - a different IP address each time, registered to India, this just reinforces the suspicion that this is nothing but a scam." |
THE SITES.... |
trainpetdog.com dogtraininginstitute.org dogtraininginstitute.com dogpottytrain.com bigpawsonly.com parrotsecrets.com pet-parrots.com parrottrainers.com OR THE puginstitute.com akitainstitute.com corgiinstitute.com poodleinstitute.com shihtzuinstitute.com papilloninstitute.com chihuahuainstitute.com dachshundinstitute.com bordercollieinstitute.com pomeranianinstitute.com siberianhuskyinstitute.com goldenretrieverinstitute.com germanshephardinstitute.com |
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| Monthly visitors of trainpetdog.com (live feed from quantcast.com)  |
THE SCAM.... |
If you already have been scammed, or if you are doing research before you buy, you have come to the right place. We are here to let you know that NANCY RICHARDS and her dog training sites, and NATHALIE ROBERTS and her parrot training sites and SUMANTRA ROY and his Nancy Richards/Nathalie Roberts sites are scams. |
In a nutshell... |
On trainpetdog.com you can subscribe |
This is the email you receive after you paid for access to the membership site And after you complain that you didn't receive a password, they'll send you this |
Below is an example of the latest report on ripoffreport.com
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As their traffic on trainpetdog.com is going down, the Roy pair in a recent move purchased bigpawsonly.com This site has dogbreed-specific forums and 65.000 visitors per month. The new owners say that they won't make any changes to the site, they will only add some advertisements and leave the rest of the site alone. In the meantime they have already been removing forum posts that are questioning or critical of the changes taking place. The Roys discovered that there is a huge market for dogbreed specific information. We suspect that the site will just become a tool for marketing their pet imperium. The reason they may have purchased this site is that it actually has the breed specific forums that they are scamming about on trainpetdog.com. Users of the site, a tight community of dog lovers, wonder why the new owners admittedly don't even have a dog of their own. But whether they have a dog or not, the fact that business owners conduct legitimate businesses doesn't justify that they are spamming and scamming at the same time!! It is unknown for what amount the Roy's purchased the site. |
The longer story... The dog and parrot sites were created around 2004/2005 by Sumantra Roy, a well-known Search Engine Optimization and marketing specialist from West Bengal, India. He started his internetbusinesses and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company "1stsearchranking.net" in 2001. He published MANY articles on the internet and was quickly seen as an expert in the field by other renowned specialists such as Allan Gardyne and Ralph Wilson. But within a year users were disappointed by his programs, software and his marketing strategies (such as spamming). |
Sumantra Roy and his sister/business partner Nabanipa Roy must like dogs and parrots, and in 2004 they took a different course. The parrot site parrotsecrets.com was purchased in April of 2004. In July of that year Sumantra Roy bought "sumantraroy.com" and in August he registered "sumantraroysucks.com." Then in October he bought the DogTrainingInstitute.com and .org sites, to be followed in the spring of 2005 by the many other "dogbreed"institute.com domain names. Right off the bat, since 2005, scamming by Nancy Richards has been reported on ripoffreports.com. The DogTrainingInstitute offers access to a membership site for a one time fee of $67. Click here to see the sign up form |
Sumantra Roy is the owner of: trainpetdog.com dogtraininginstitute.com dogtraininginstitute.org parrotsecrets.com securewebbilling.com etrendsetters.com 1stsearchranking.com linkexplore.com conversionmultiplier.com (and many other related sites) |
Sumantra Roy was a well respected Search Engine Optimization specialist in 2002. In 2008 Sumantra Roy is selling a "conversion multiplier" tool. But what else is Sumantra Roy doing today....? The dog and parrot sites apparently are full of useful information. But what happens when you purchase a product with a 120 day money back guarantee? |
The product never arrives!! The user ID and password won't get into your mailbox!! You will keep getting daily emails urging you to buy products for your pets! |
What is Sumantra Roy getting out of all these links to other sites? It's called Affiliate Programs! Sumantra Roy picks up money from promoting other people's sites and from having other people promote his sites through affiliate programs. Yes, Sumantra Roy is in the business of promoting website rankings and the Dog Training Institute is his PLAY PEN. |
What to think about FALSE ADVERTISING? A dog training CD was posted on CD baby - a musical site - song #2 for example being called "the birth of the golden retriever." Sure! The Dog Training Institute & Co. sites are SPAM because once you subscribe to the newsletter, there is no way to STOP it from coming to your mailbox. An unsubscribe option is not provided, so you end up having to mark the sender as spam. |
HERE is an overview of domain ownership by Sumantra Roy |
Nancy Richards is based in California: How then is it possible that according to the Terms Of Use |
You have a 120 day money back guarantee no questions asked. But HOW do you get your money back? You need to send a letter to: Nabanipa Roy 49/2 Purna Das Road Kolkata – 700029 West Bengal, India and EXPLAIN why you want your money back. You think the refund will come? We're not sure. Sometimes it does, but not unless you write a letter to India, maybe! (Your giving up on getting you money back may be another little web marketing research project by Sumantra Roy!!!) |
However silly it seems in this era of digital communication, we DO recommend that you write a letter to Nabanipa Roy in India. They may be trying to hide or collect evidence of requests, whatever it is, it is the only chance that you may get your money back. We DID get our money back, after writing the letter and raising a fuss per email and through paypal. Requesting a refund through Paypal alone did not work. "Search Engine Ranking System Consultants Pvt. Ltd." - the recipient of your money, lets you know "they will try to send you the link again." |
Will someone pick up the phone and help you out? We've heard that a man with Indian accent may answer and tell you that no staff is available right now. You think you'll get a reply to your emails? Forget it! You think PayPal will reply to your complaint? So far not. Will the BBB does anything for you? So far not. Does RipOffReports help you out? So far not. See here: ripoffreports bbb report THAT IS WHY WE CREATED THIS SITE |
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LINKS SHOWING SCAMMING |
| ripoff reports complaint.tv complaintsboard.com overview domain ownership of Sumantra Roy Did Sumantra Roy fled the country? Sumantra Roy disappoints Sumantra Roy's PPC disappoints Dog Training Institute? SEO forum accuses Sumantra Roy of spamming Sumantra Roy sleazy spamming Stay away from that bird site Promoting dog grooming |
| SUMANTRA ROY BUSINESSES |
| Conversion Multiplier Secure Web billing Etrendsetters 1stsearchranking LinkExplore |
| SUMANTRA ROY AS SEO |
| SR as SEO on landing pages Ralph Wilson on Sumantra's KEI Sumantra Roy until 2005 (after which he got too busy with scams) |
| COPIES OF THE DOGTRAININGINSTITUTE SITE OFFERING ACCESS TO A DOG BREED SPECIFIC MEMBERSHIP SITE |
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| THE SCAM SITES SIGN UP FOR A MEMBERSHIP TO "THE DOG LOVERS" MEMBERSHIP SITE OR ANY OF THE "OTHER DOG BREED LOVERS" MEMBERSHIP SITES (please NOT for REAL it's a SCAM!!!) |
dogtraininginstitute |
| Click here to see the emails that you will receive after signing up |
| OTHER DOG SITES |
| Victoria Stilwell Dogsecrets Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan Adam Katz Dogproblems.com Rena Murray Pawpersuasion.com |
[disclaimer: these sites have not been evaluated for spam/scam practices] |
| OLDER NEWS |
| _________________ 09/29/08: MORE SCAM by the ROY team REVEALED: Ruff Sitwell is another scam by Sumantra and Nabanipa Roy and the Dog Training Institute. As we were looking into the dubious author of a book at Nabanipa Roy's storefront at LuLu.com, we found that the name Ruff Sitwell, the claimed author of the book she has in her store, is also associated with the Dog Training Institute in Los Angeles. Click here to see Ruff Sitwell's page - claiming his ebook was "published" by the Dog Training Institute. Ruff Sitwell's business is hosted at dogpottytrain.com which is simply another site maintained by Sumantra Roy, purchased in 2007. View the original record of ownership at whois.com |
| _________________ 09/14/08: How The Conversion Multiplier increased revenues from a Dog Training site's email campaign by 226%. That is: how Sumantra Roy uses the Dog Training Institute as his play pen. |
| _________________ 09/05/08: Nabanipa Roy tries to erase history and changed her name into Nancy Richards on Author's Den website. Google cache proofs the truth. But she forgot to change her ID on Published.com. (Don't bother to update, NR, we've got your screen captured) |
| _________________ 07/10/08: Want your money back without writing a letter to India? Call Sumantra Roy directly at his latest business "Conversion Multiplier" at 1-213-814-2918 |
| _________________ 06/28/08: More people than ever before are reporting Nancy Richard's dog training site to Rip-Off Reports |
| _________________ 06/19/08: new ripoff reports are still being added |
| _________________ 06/19/08: Sumantra Roy is paying for sponsored links in an effort to uphold credibility: see ads see link information of ad |
