QUOTE(ladymac @ Feb 11 2006, 07:04 PM) 
Do you ACTUALLY charge people that are underage? I've always wondered.
**hands Edward a beer**
Haha, no - Edward simply gives a referral of the offender's registered email address to some of the older soompi members (such as myself) that happen to hold professional positions with some kind of government entity - whether it be in city, county, or state government. Then that member - let's just say me, for example - use whatever networking connections that we have to open up an investigative file on that offending member. In my case, I could rely upon contacts in local law enforcement, IT specialists, or other sources within the governmental network to do background checks or investigative analysis based on one registered email address alone. You'd be amazed what kind of information you could retrieve by just submitting an address to one entity such as the registrar of voters. You automatically know where the person lives. In one instance, I just Google Earth'd one offender's home address and by satellite imagery, I was able to see a parked 1988 yellow Kia Sportage sitting on the driveway - and not said Midnight blue Lexus this member claimed to drive in the Car section.
Anyway once this kind of determination can be made, any number of punitive actions can enacted. One particular modus operandi is to file a tax intercept claim through the Franchise Tax Board to recoup whatever outstanding debt that has been deemed uncollectable through customary collections practice. This is a popular way of getting back money owed from deadbeat debtors: have the IRS intercept any possible tax refunds and then have those monies routed to the requesting agency. So anyway - long story short - Ed makes the warning, refers me the data; I use the data to consult with connections in doing the investigative work; and then, we typically file a tax intercept claim via the FTB to recoup anywhere's between $2.99 on up - which is typically claimed directly off of reported income tax refunds due to the offender themselves - or perhaps their parents or guardians, if the soompier in question does not work. Given that the tax season is coming fast upon us, Jung and myself at one time had audited the soompi books and estimated a revenue-generating windfall of about $125,000 in Edward-issued warnings alone during this past fiscal year. We expect that this not only will help keep the Soompi operational fund up and in good standing for the next decade, but the excess proceeds in itself will help pay for part of Sung's upcoming wedding reception bill for the 1980's retrospective band that he will have for entertainment.
(On a side note, I can't believe how only one big can of Foster's lager can make me BS so much)
Posted 13 February 2006 - 05:55 AM
