It would seem we could not even trust petition sites anymore either. Rumours have been floating around that Yousign(dot)org, YouSignAnimals(Dot)Org are all ran by the same individual located in Romania. We did some investigative research into these rumours to make sure it was all true before we placed a warning here.
Unfortunately, we found that the rumours are not rumours it is facts.
Unfortunately, we found that the rumours are not rumours it is facts.
Quoting from the Original poster-
Dear friends, i have decided to post NO MORE petitions fromyousign.org, petitionhub.org and yousignanimals.org.
Yousign.org is registered on a Romanian businessman, he is NOT an animal lover. The other two sites have the same layout and there are also the same petitions posted as on yousign.org. These two sites are registered to an address of the companydomainsbyproxy.com.
domainsbyproxy.com offers a website registry on its own company address, if the website operator wants to hide his private data and doesn’t want to publish it on the internet. So the two domains are registred on a fake address! We are convinced, that this Romanian businessman is earning big money with animal suffering. For every click on these sites/petitions the website operator gets money from advertising partners. We will not support this anymore! Please spread this information and don’t let yourself get influenced by the cruel animal images posted on these pages. If you want to reconstruct our information. Click on ‘http://www.internic.net/whois.html’ and put in the website name, eg ‘yousign.org’, then click ‘Submit’.
You can see now on which person the website is registrated. On ‘domainsbyproxy.com’ you can read, which services the company is offering.
The warning came from here:
http://www.care2.com/news/member/861862799/3824599
http://www.care2.com/news/member/861862799/3824599
Since this warning was sent to us, we reconstructed their investigation. Just to make sure there were no mistakes.
They are affiliated with ‘GoDaddy’ many advocates know of Ex-CEO Bob Parsons, who killed an elephant and proudly boasted about this on his twitter account! Of course, this was all done in 2011 however; we will not be affiliated with supporting their company or those who are ‘hosted’ on their servers. Even if a new CEO is in place of Mr. Parsons, that company to us is barred in our eyes. Many other host or server sites are available to use and are inexpensive, for those who wish to save monies or create petition sites. If yousign truly cared, they would have searched for other options.
Please see below the following screen grabs.
From other sources of information, the petitions go nowhere and they are mainly used for advertising revenue. They use your details for spamming and mailing lists. Unfortunate as this sounds because most of the petitions on there are well written and stated and although these petition creators work hard on their petitions. Some become unnoticed or others never become sent out… We are not attacking the “petition creators” we are warning against the CEO and founder of Yousign and yousignanimal. It is always up to the petition creator to have these petitions sent out. Although, from our understanding even if the petition creator hit send to target, the petition would never arrive, some have even tried to download the signatures however, to no avail. When they contacted the sites to fix this issue they never received a response back. We will be cautious from this point on and stay with Care2, Causes, Avaaz, and moveon.org.
From other sources of information, the petitions go nowhere and they are mainly used for advertising revenue. They use your details for spamming and mailing lists. Unfortunate as this sounds because most of the petitions on there are well written and stated and although these petition creators work hard on their petitions. Some become unnoticed or others never become sent out… We are not attacking the “petition creators” we are warning against the CEO and founder of Yousign and yousignanimal. It is always up to the petition creator to have these petitions sent out. Although, from our understanding even if the petition creator hit send to target, the petition would never arrive, some have even tried to download the signatures however, to no avail. When they contacted the sites to fix this issue they never received a response back. We will be cautious from this point on and stay with Care2, Causes, Avaaz, and moveon.org.
We have also found that Dragos Vana is on Facebook, admitting to owning both petitions sites. We also noticed he takes a great many trips around the world, no doubt on the revenue he is making off the petition sites.
This is not right in the least. Profiting off the animals suffering is animal abuse. Especially when those monies could be going to funding rescues, medications or food. As of now, we will no longer allow YouSign petitions on our Facebook pages, blogs or groups. We 100% denounce these sites.
If any more details come forward about these sites, we will update everyone. Please be careful of what you sign.
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