William or Bill Thompson, TV Inc.

, Infomercial Scam, Fraud, Beverly Hills, Infomercial

complaint, Inside Edition, Business Week, Tea Party

Aka’s = Global Promise, Celeb-Direct, Muscle Flex Inc, Bravada

Infomercial Producer Scam, Professional Liar, Complete Fraud, Theft of Funds, Deceptive
Practices, Direct Marketing Scam, DRTV Scam

Infomercial

2465 Northside Drive, Apartment #1704

Clearwater, FL 33761-2228
727-474-5552
Fax: 727-474-5606
E-Mail: bt@TVInc.com

William Marvin Thompson, William M. Thompson, or Bill Thompson, infomercial producer dba
TV Inc, infomercial production company. This 64 year old man is a seasoned and experienced
con artist and very slick talker who represents that he will create a fantastic infomercial for
anyone. He claims that he will help you make millions of dollars. In reality, he will slap together
an incompetent, almost worthless shoddy “infomercial” that will be so poorly produced that is
will likely NEVER get any orders and never go on national TV. He will do this to you after
taking whatever amount of money you may have, be it $1,000 or $60,000 +++ of your life
savings from you, as I confirmed he did with other victims as well as me.
Thompsons’ history of FRAUD and deceiving unsuspecting Victims goes back some 20 years,
when, in May 15, 1990, the FTC charged him and his tiny, one-man company, TV Inc. with
Fraud:

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/predawn/F93/beepollen7.htm

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/predawn/F93/beepollen7 (DOT) htm

William Thompson and Ira Smolev, who was charged with mail fraud numerous times, are
evidently friends. Word is that Ira Smolev introduced Bill Thompson to a future client/victim.
Thompson then scammed his new client/victim out of tens of thousands of dollars with a
hideously incompetent cheap infomercial.  The 3 actual infomercials I found which he produced
were shoddy and of low quality, using antiquated technology from 15 years ago. No wonder the
products were total flops and Thompson's Clients lost TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars.

He [falsely] claims that he is a very rich TV producer, good friends with Sean Penn, famous
Hiphop artists, Sean Connery, and other celebs, that he hangs out at the Playboy Mansion with
Hugh Hefner (as seen on his facebook and Twiiter page,) and that he has done hundreds of
infomercials for clients. In fact, he cannot prove any of this. Oddly enough, this flashy, shady
character does not have a single picture of him hanging out with all his [imaginary] famous pals,
as anyone would have if they really knew celebs. He must be an “undercover rich” person, as he
lives in a $450.00 a month 45 year old rental apartment in Clearwater, FL, (similar to others from
which he was evicted for non-payment of rent.)

Although he has dozens of [alleged] “clients” listed at his website, oddly enough, he cannot
provide the names of happy, recent clients. This apparently is why you cannot find a single
example of his video production work at his website by this self-professed alleged "expert" in
DRTV (Direct Response TV). Two months ago, I spoke to several of his past clients, who he had
conned out of tens of thousands of dollars by slapping together a worthless "infomercial." Each
of them instantly labeled him as a "thief," "con man," and "absolute liar," etc.

Thompson's favorite false statement is that he “is the force behind the success of the Bose table
Radio and that he produced the commercials for Bose, and devised their marketing plan.” When
he was asked to provide any proof whatsoever of his most popular claim, he could not a shred of
proof of this, primarily because another company actually produced the Bose infomercials. He
tells people this "Bose" story like a mantra, yet cannot prove a single word of this story. In
reality, Thompson had nothing whatsoever to do with the Bose table radio success, commercials
or marketing plan. But since virtually everyone has seen the Bose commercials, he selected that
one to [falsely] claim as “his baby,” as a clever ruse to create the illusion of being competent and
credible.

Thompson is a master of deception, and tries to impress unsuspecting Victims with numerous
false credentials, including having lush offices all in 3 expensive areas, and phony credentials
that lead a prospect to believe he is a bona fide expert:

He [falsely] claims to have “offices in Beverly Hills, New York, and Sweden.” Again, upon
thorough investigation, none of these alleged office locations could be found in any database, or
verified. It is safe to assume this is also part of his stack of lies. His only confirmed "office" is
his tiny, 45 year old, $450.00 month rental apartment which he rents - similar to other units from
which he was evicted.

Another significant Thompson deceptive strategy and outright lie is this one: Thompson claims
he is “a member of the Associated Press, and that he pays AP dues of $3,000.00 a year.” Calls to
the Associated Press (AP) in NYC and Miami confirm that once again; Bill Thompson is a
complete liar. The AP never heard of him or TV Inc. The reason he [falsely] claims this AP
affiliation is so he can then deceive his Victims further with this lie: “because I am a member of
the Associated Press, if you hire me (for $50,000.00 +) to create an infomercial for your product,
I will easily get massive publicity for your product, which will make you rich very quickly.”

In order to further gain your confidence so as to rip you off, until recently, Thompson had other
phony credentials at his website, indicating that he was also a member of the Electronic Retailing
Association, and the Direct Marketing Association. On information and belief, the legal
departments of these two credible trade associations recently contacted Thompson and demanded
that he remove these false and misleading credentials from his site, or face legal consequences.
Only then did Thompson comply and remove the offending false credentials from his website.
Too bad for Thompson that in early October 2010, I took, then preserved, scores of evidentiary
screenshots of every page of every site on which he has fraudulently promoted himself and
broadcast tons of lies about himself.

One of Thompson’s favorite con jobs which he uses to gain the trust, confidence, and money of a
potential Client is his fabricated claim that he has “written a best-selling book” about
infomercials. He offers this “$199.00” book for free at his website. The truth is this: 1. It is not a
book, but rather a 45 page quickie pamphlet, 2. that has never been published or sold to a single
person, and 3. contains only plagiarized information which Thompson ripped off from others
who in fact DID write books about infomercials, such as DRTV bona fide expert Tim Hawthorne
of Hawthorne Direct. I bought Hawthorne’s book in September 2009, and read all 285 expertly
written pages of it. Clearly Thompson stole content from it and tells people he “wrote the book
on infomercials.”

Knowing that his years of fraud would catch up to him soon, recently Bill Thompson has tried to
[falsely] pitch himself as a member of the Tea Party, with an unknown little radio show which he
hosts. Thompson told me in August 2010 that he thought “the tea party are all a bunch of right
wing nut cases.” When I questioned why he was actively aligning himself with the Tea Party,
Bill Thompson said: “Networking and money! – The Tea Party will have me make commercials
for their candidates, which is very lucrative, and I can get valuable contacts from them. Who
cares if they are kooks?” Thompson is also a total hypocrite in every sense of the word.

Thompson’s career of lies, deception, scams, and con jobs is so extensive that he should call
himself the “Energizer LIAR,” (although he is nowhere near as cute as the Energizer Bunny!).

Perhaps Bill Thompson needs professional psychiatric care and long term treatment. He recently
conned his way onto 30 seconds on Inside Edition which ran a segment about “Secrets of People
Who Say They Never Get Sick.” He tries to convince viewers that he “has not been sick in 27
years”, because each morning he dips his face into a bowl of water with hydrogen Peroxide and
iodine, which “cleanses the area around his mouth and nose and eyes.” Of course simply wiping
ones’ face with alcohol will accomplish the same momentary and temporary benefits. Within an
hour, bacteria obviously will again become present and flourish on one’s skin. As always, this is
just another flim-flam attempt at publicity, based on wholly unsubstantiated, absurd claims. How
would Inside Edition ever verify how long it has been since someone has a cold?

BTW, in the 30 seconds featuring Thompson, one will notice it was filmed in his beat up 45 year
old rental kitchen with a 1960’s era stove where this self-proclaimed “millionaire” actually lives.
Interestingly enough, Thompson told me he was "fighting a cold" when I met with him this
summer. His Inside Edition appearance was just another absurd lie and desperate attempt at
publicity from veteran scammer Bill Thompson.

Too bad Inside Edition did not first check out the Pinellas County Court records on this con man:
William M. Thompson. Searching for the name William M. Thompson on the Pinellas County
Court records confirms that William M. Thompson (Jr.) has a long history of lawsuits against
him, evictions from $450.00 a month, very old rental apartments, divorce, and a DOMESTIC
VIOLENCE record, and Emergency Protective Orders issued against him, which should explain
his divorces:
Link to domestic violence record etc:

http://pubtitlet.co.pinellas.fl.us/servlet/pcg.wsclient.servlet.CivilDocketServlet?
CS__CASE=97004265FD&CS__RESULTS__KNT=10

http://pubtitlet (DOT) co.pinellas.fl.us/servlet/pcg.wsclient.servlet.CivilDocketServlet?

CS__CASE=97004265FD&CS__RESULTS__KNT=10

To view all the results of just those people who had to sue him (which does not count all of those
he has ripped off for the past 20 years), copy and paste this:

http://pubtitlet.co.pinellas.fl.us/servlet/justice.crosssystemnamelookup.GEVA

http://pubtitlet (DOT) co.pinellas.fl.us/servlet/justice.crosssystemnamelookup.GEVA

I am forwarding the overwhelming evidence of the criminal scam he perpetrated against me, in
which he ripped of thousands of dollars from me using a scheme involving false, deceptive
material representations over the telephone, etc. to the appropriate Law Enforcement agency in
only a few days for prosecution. He needs to be incarcerated so as to protect the public.

I have learned a lot about the infomercial production business and that there are many expert con
men like William Marvin Thompson in this business. However there are some professional and
honest producers out there, if you can find them. Rather than risk getting ripped off, and to save
tens of thousands of dollars, my advice is to actually create your own infomercial. Go to
http://www.productionhub.com/directory/ for list of people to hire for each part of the
production. (Beware - Thompson/TV Inc. is listed there also). In all cases: 1. VERIFY ALL
references by speaking directly with them, 2. insist on seeing verifiable examples of recent work,
3. get a contract, and 4. NEVER pay more than a part of the fee for each individual part of the
production in advance! In other words, pay for the editing part in part when it begins, then the
full amount after you are fully satisfied with the editing process etc.

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William or Bill Thompson, TV Inc. SCAM Continued

I stand by my factual and well documented report 100%. I strongly encourage any person who is
even considering spending/losing money to Bill Thompson/TV Inc, to research all the facts on
my report. Check the Pinellas County FL court records on Bill Thompson, the Domestic
Violence perpetrator who keep getting evicted from his $450.00 a month apartments. Call Bose
Corporation marketing department and ask if they have ever heard of Bill Thompson or his one
man, apartment-based shop called TV Inc. Ask the Electronic Retailing Association if Bill
Thompson or TV Inc. has ever been a member. Click the link to the FTC fraud charges the US
government filed v. Bill Thompson and TV Inc.

I fully anticipated that Bill Thompson, a lifelong con man and scammer is no different that any
other professional crook. They do not like to finally have the world know how they have spent
their entire career ripping people off and duping trusting people. Bill Thompson is no different. I
paid this criminal William Marvin Thompson $3,000.00 for marketing services that were to have
been performed in October 2010. Thompson did NOTHING to market my company. What Bill
Thompson did do is spend some eight hours over a five long month [conning and lying] period,
to commit multiple felonies by using numerous false and misleading statements in a scheme to
illegally obtain thousands of dollars from me. After I finally checked Bill Thompson out and
personally spoke with a few of his former Clients, a/k/a Victims, I contacted this liar and
demanded my money back, as I then knew what a total fraud he indeed is.

As with all experienced con artists, Thompson will attempt to distort the truth about him and try
to negate the irrefutable facts with a futile and desperate attack on a bona fide whistle-blower.
This timeless cover-up strategy is known as "killing the messenger."

Interestingly, Thompson states in his little rebuttal: "We have always found that it’s best not to
succumb to threats and liable." At least Thompson admits to having experience with many other
Victims who trusted him and whom he screwed, who he then falsely claims "threatened" him
after they also were totally defrauded out of thousands of dollars.

Since Thompson is totally broke, I know I will never get my $3,000.00 back from this EXPERT
CONMAN. The good news is that Thompson was ONLY able to steal $3,000.00 from me before
I found out what a liar and thief he truly is, as well as how utterly incompetent his "work
product" is." No wonder Thompson has failed to post a single video of his "infomercials" on his
own website. Thompson ripped off his other Victims for amounts ranging from $40,000.00
$60,000.00. In that respect, I am truly lucky.

Perhaps Thompson will one day seek long-term professional help for his chronic pathological
lying and delusions of grandeur. I do not know if William Thompson is an alcoholic, drug addict,
or simply criminally insane.

This factual report will prevent others from becoming Victims of just another professional con
man and crook, named Bill Thompson.

Bill Thompson is the extortionist here, as well as a criminal who committed Wire Fraud, Grand
Theft, Theft by Deception, and Fraud.