We are looking for other people that feel they have been SCAMMED by the “American” company called Wazzum also known as Michael Pennington. We are filing a Multi Plantiff Federal lawsuit against them for running what we believe to be the largest marriage SCAM in U.S. history. We are wanting to file this this month and there will be NO charge for the Attorney. You can call me direct if you have any information.
This number I see on the Wazzum site (1-503-616-2206) is a Skype number, and leads to Thailand, just checked it. Michael Pennington’s Wazzum is a one-actor show. He is living in Thailand for almost 8 years already. Is this software good? Do not know, you can try this link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&ei=f3ZPSp6IPNKetwfs5YisAQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=wazzum+vulnerability&spell=1
Does he provide any support? Do not know, for me he did not, moreover, I was blocked in the support system.
Can I get any refund? Do not know, he says I can not, and I can not afford going to Thailand to get it.
You can read this man’s personal blog about his love for MCDonalds and more important things here:
http://www.mythailife.com/ (he has just closed the blog 07/05/2009 trying to hide all the tracks, but you still can enjoy it here http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mythailife.com Why he would close the blog if he were not hiding?) Also he used to find it pleasant to praise his own buggy script at his own blog: http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/3703/screenshot2b20.jpg
He is hiding the fact that he lives 7 years in Thailand, although all his postings online have this geo info: http://www.topix.com/forum/who/scam/T8ULF77K0D9ELFCAL
Should you trust a person who is lying from the very beginning? I did. I am sorry for this now. They are not located in America so your money might be gone too.
He has another merry blog, http://www.datingscripts.biz/dating-software-reviews/ where he reviews dating software. If you look at the “objective” reviews and the ads on the site, you will understand what I am talking about. Long live Wazzum.com!!! 
The first version of the software appeared this year only, that is why Michael has blocked the site from recording the history: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wazzum.com
Everyone who has been scammed by this person, Michael Pennington, you can apply to www.BBB.org and Royal Thai Police http://www.royalthaipolice.go.th/ Here is his photo: http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8670/highpoint.jpg This man has scammed more than 800 people in the USA and after this he emigrated to Thailand, not to be caught by the US police.
He has sold A LOT of this script copies, so you will not be scammed alone: http://www.google.com/search?q=wazzum+testimonials&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&newwindow=1&start=10&sa=N
Here you can see the sites using this engine, just browse google.
There in Thailand he stole the source code of WordPress (here is a screenshot of the code of Wazzum script: http://datingsoftwarereviewer.com/images/wazzum6.jpg, here is himself asking for help at Wordpress, and from them he will steal the code, a nice job http://wordpress.org/support/profile/1226652) and amuses himself by selling some inexistent software from the site www.Wazzum.com I have already applied to the Royal Thai Police, they replied to me that will be trying to find this person. Also he is known by an aggressive advertizing campaing, he takes a dating software provider, pours dirt on it and later writes in coclusion: the most reliable software is Wazzum. Only together we will put an end to the scam practices of Michael Pennington and his merry “Wazzum” “software”.
This post was submitted by David.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I will tell about my experience with Wazzum.
I bought this script May 2009. At first Michael (supposedly this is Michael Pennington) who has developed this script replied to all the calls, emails, I also sent him a bug list in order to correct it. He thanked me and said he would do it soon. Then I called him again, and now he seemed not to be inclined to speak with me. And the script was unusable due to numerous bugs.
After 2 weeks, I decided to get a refund. I called him to hear, that i was an idiot, that the corrections can not be done this fast, and that the refund can not be issued.
Ok, I contacted PayPal and they started the case. And I lost the case, becaue PayPal gives refunds on digital goods VERY seldom.
Well what can I say. I checked the ip s of Michael’s emails, they are 202.57.128.68 which is Thailand. All emails from Thailand, so no slightest possibility to have the US law involved.
I do not want to hire a programmer to correct the bugs, because the script itself after using it a bit seems rather poor in features and not interesting for the users. So we can say that I was robbed, I do not care about the WordPress thing mentioned above, if it worked. And it did not. This is the problem: it is not functioning, no money back. All the rest is ok
July 31st, 2009 at 8:53 pm
When i first start contact whith Michael he was werry open, answare fast on skype and show werry god service, as he also promes me the best service. I did pay him 200 USD and he did watt we agree. Then i pay 100 USD moore, that was part of our agreement. But it was moore to do on the page, and it was stil not working. Then he sendt me the bill iss 400 USD. I did lukkely only pay the 200 again, becose after that he newer do anything moore for me and the page. The hole page a shame. After weeks and weeks and weeks he just send me a few words on email that he gonne do the jobb, but he newer do it. He dont answare my email, he dont answare the skype.
Then suddenly sending me a mail, claim that he alredy done watt i payd for, but the page like chit, just crap, stil not working.
Thats my experience.
Michael send me last mail 12 July:
“Software was 300 dollars and you only paid 200 dollars so you owed me 100 more. You just paid 200 more. 100 that you owed me and 100 for the WORK that I did on your site. Was NOT a scam. You got a problem with that then you go get a lawyer. I’m not going to play games with you. I know what you paid and I know what work was done.”
This just bullshit. He newer make my page work, he just suddenly stopp responding after last payment on 200 usd. Wassum is a scam.
Hes program i see fore sale at 50 USD, just seach the nett and you see it 50 USD. When i told Michel he was laughing. He say my 200 USD was fore the best costomer service.
August 10th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
i hear that he is selling under different names. everything he says is a lie. don’t believe anything about his company or software. save your money.
October 12th, 2009 at 7:10 am
wazzum sucks!
Their script doen’st work, it’s full of bugs and they do not going to fix it!
They don’t give your money back either!
Stay away from these people.
Scamers.
Pretty soon Michael Pennington end up living in some slum!
DON’T BUY IT!
October 18th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
For those of you that are considering purchasing anything from michael at wazzum.com or any wazzum software please consider this before purchasing, things have changed for the worse.
I was his first customer, back then he convinced me that he would have so much to offer me regarding the wazzum software and that it was still in the building stage, i admired his energy and his commitment to customer service back then. But things have obviously changed since that day, when i purchased the service i was told about all the features that would come with the package i was buying and two of those features were the Instant Messenger Feature as well as the Chat Feature. I recieved an email today (after he turned off those two services i might add) that he was no longer going to include those two items in the package and that we had to pay $99 for them now. So i kindly sent him a message asking him why, he replied with the original email that i never received, no formal note nothing just an cold email, so i sent him another email asking him to give me what i paid for out of respect, he replied that it was his decision to restructure as he calls it, i call it ripping people off. he basically blew me off and then took my support away from me, and threaten to call the cops for harrassment. He cannot be trusted… I paid for the software and now the software is free! He wants another $99.00 from me and yet i already paid him for that service as it was supposed to be included. When he has money issues he changes the rules to fill his pockets to fly back and forth to taiwan where he hides out much of the time i guess, he supposedly lives in Oregon but i doubt he spends much time there, its a ripoff… Im not sure whats going on with him lately but he has changed, no longer does he take care of those that are not constantly giving him money, and when you do pay, he just changes the contract as he sees fit and charges you again, i can tell you that if i did not keep my promise to my customers they would leave me, hint hint… I had a feeling the day would come when i maybe should have gone with a different company other than him, but i trusted him to take care of those that took care of him in his hour of need when he was trying to get sales when he first started… I can see now that he is no longer willing to stand behind what he says… he is a worthless spinless weasle Its ok michael and its ok wazzum, im looking elsewhere for other choices as we speak and ill keep you posted when i no longer require you to be associated with me, my good name, or my site any further… Dave Owner Goldwingsingles.com
October 18th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
further more how do i and some other current customers of his join this lawsuit, we are are filing our own but we would be interested in joining others to put his weasel out of business permanently
October 19th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
UPDATE AFTER MY MESSAGE LAST NIGHT – After discussing the issue michael of wazzum had decided to reinstate my features and the other members as well and he is currently working on that, i expect to have that completed soon, im assuming he will be a trooper now and do the right thing for his customers.. Thanks
October 21st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
who is to say that he wont reload with a bug or that the company wont go down tomorrow or today. get new software and be done