This web page should provide enough proof to discredit Jeffrey A. Williams. He is a strange character who posts to email lists relentlessly making all sorts of unbeleiveable claims.
Let's start with his sig file [September 2002]:
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup - (Over 127k members/stakeholders strong!)
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com
Contact Number: 214-244-4827 or 972-244-3801
Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
It won't take long before we discover even the SIG file is a fraud.
Ask yourself,
Q.Why is there no web site for INEG Group, an organization with 127,000 people?
A.Because it doesn't exist.
A phone number he lists in his sig file, 972-244-3801, is "out of order". (Try phoning it!)
Grapevine, TX Chamber of Commerce has no record of INEG Group
(The original author of this FAQ telephoned them).
http://www.grapevinechamber.org/members.cfm?charpass=I
The State of Texas Corporation Search for INEG Group fails
Remember, the Sig file claims an incorporated company, INEG Inc.
http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/coaStart.html
NEW: Take a look at where INEG is supposedly located
NEW: I made a few inquiries to the city of Grapevine Texas
See what they had to say:
First Email
Second Email
Please find below some of the most recent claims
and their URLS [July 2002]regarding his exploits:
1. worked at CMA (an IT consulting firm) developing management
prinicpals (his spelling not mine)
2. worked for the United States government on a program called Krypto
(must be top secret because a Google search reveals only that it was
the dog companion of Superboy)
3. worked for Systems Administration, Networking, and Security
Institute (sans.org) on BIND security
4. worked for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI)
5. worked for the Vietnam Veterans Association
6. worked for the Dallas Businessmen's Association (a Google search
revealed no such organization)
7. worked for the United States Department of Defense as a project
coordinator on the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
8. worked for the World Trade Organization on General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
9. worked on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
10. attended the Economic Summit meeting held by President George. W.
Bush in Waco, TX, in August, 2002.
The above 10 items are from these sources:
http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/0207/msg00457.html
http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/0208/msg00619.html
An Interesting German Article about Jeff Williams
http://www.fichtner.net/outlook/1999-01.html
Here is the English Translation via Babelfish:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fichtner.net%2Foutlook%2F1999-01.html&lp=de_en&tt=url
Backup Mirrorof English translation
Jeff Williams claimed to be an Millionaire Investor
Article written by a person looking for investment money.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000111062951/http://robin.fcn.net/mr99jeff.html
Backup Mirror of the article
Jeff Williams claims to host INEG Conference at Texas Stadium
The post where the 'conference' was announced:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000312195858/www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg04047.html
The completely bogus INEG report from the conference
Local fileMirror
http://web.archive.org/web/19991128051656/robin.fcn.net/mr99inegreport.html
The existence of the conference is throughoughly DEBUNKED!
Local file Mirror
http://web.archive.org/web/19991128042939/robin.fcn.net/mr99ronydebunk.html
Jeff Williams' FAQ. (January 1999)
1. Who is Jeff Williams?
Jeffrey A. Williams,
-- to be the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-Founder of the 4.8
billion dollar privately held employee owned INEG. INC
-- to be the Director of Internet Network Engineering and Senior
Java/CORBA Engineer for the Information Network Engineering Group,
INEG INC.
-- to be an ex-IBM Fellow,
-- to have to have graduated from UTD and to have a law degree from
SMU Law School
-- to have three degrees, MBA, Masters in Computer Science and
Engineering, and Law
-- to have served as a judge for 7 years
-- to be a member of the IETF
-- to serve on several medium sized business boards and on the boards
of several banks
-- to be the author of two books and is working on a third
-- to own 3 ISPs, including Frisco net, Deltanet and Wiltel, with 1.6
million users
-- to have been a fighter pilot with USMC, flying missions in Chile
and for the DEA, as a reserve pilot in the USMC, stationed out of
Grand Prairie air station just south of Dallas
-- to have been acting squadron commander of the Marine combat F4
squadron VMF214 (Black Sheep) at Tan Son Nhut during the Viet Nam war
-- to have spent several years in NIS (Naval Investigative Service)
-- Graduate of Naval Staff & War College
-- Retired Colonel, United States Marine Corps
-- to own 8% of eBay
However,
--Jeff's 'INEG. INC' does not exist except as a fantasy in Jeff
Williams' mind.
--Jeff changed the name of the company in his .sig, in Jan 1998,
from 'Information Eng. Group' to Information Network Eng. Group.
INEG. INC., when the real Information Engineering Group
--SMU Law School Registrar's office, (214) 768-2618, disclaims all
knowledge of Jeff.
Jeffrey A. Williams is a fake and an imposter.
--
2. Why should I take care in sending private email to Jeff Williams?
He may post it to the list. Ironically, in his postings of others'
private email so far the content has been counter-productive to his
reputation and credibility. You should presume any email to him will
posted to the list.
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3. Is there other material available on Jeff Williams?
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/03504.html
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/05347.html
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/05398.html
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/05525.html
http://www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08015.html
Jeffrey A. Williams Claims to 1998
Local file
Mirror
http://web.archive.org/web/20000304075629/www.gtld-mou.org/gtld-discuss/mail-archive/08000.html
Claims to have 3 degrees 'hanging in his office'
http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-guidelines/msg00071.html
