Knowledge Source
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I wouldn't of signed up if there wasnt the premise of full refund after 12 months. Its been 2 an a half years and for the past 5 months ive been emailing and commenting on fb page and sending dymphna personal messages on fb messenger, all with zero replies. I didnt earn a cent. I do have screenshots if you need proof. Just let me know which ones you need as there are to many to send all on this form

I enter the Walmart drop shipping course with Aidan Booth it suppose to be an easy for beginers one hour per day business, it was packed with BS then on online interview I was told that if I join 1% Club for 12000$ I will not have to do all this by myself the couch will do it for me all set up and ready to work and make profit in couple of weeks. After first meeting I knew that this is not going to happend, I had more to lern and do on my own! I explain before I purchase the course that I am working 7 days per week and have only 2 hours per day break. They assured me that it is plenty! I wanted to cancel I have send several emails and phone. This is scam I want refund

Knowledge Source is a mega scam artist run by a greek scammer that uses the name Jon Giaan (not his real name) he has jon Giann and his real name (i think) Jon Giannopoulos... "Jon the scam artists " have tons trouble with the law on a number of occasions over the past 10 years for providing false and misleading information, and extorting tens of thousands of dollars from gullible public that is hyped up Jon is partnered with a number of scammers one of them is the very dishonest Ms Dymphna Boholt who ####s and spins some very tall tales of wealth through real estate, and more recently through foreign property investing (a VERY dangerous strategy). And who is to stop them leading thousands of Australians down the garden path while fleecing them off thousands and thousands of dollars for the "BAD advice"?

I am a victim of this scam. Best that can be done is to provide public records relating to those two snake oil merchants read the links below and decide wether the sweet promise of wealth and the well layed out words are of any value other than to ensure your trust enough to transfer wealth from your bank account to theirs

on Jon Giaan or his real name jon Giannopoulos also jon giaan see articles below, this guy trades as Knowledge Source, use to trade under a variety of names including giann and Giann pty ltd and Break Free events amongst others... oh he now goes by Jon Giaan a play on the spelling of his name to fool people googling him from finding out about his history ;

he is referred to as Giannopoulos in this article by the Sydney Morning Herald;

HTTP://blogs.smh.com.au/radar/archives/2004/11/trust_me_im_a_w.html

he is referred to as Jon Giannopoulos in the ASIC Ruling against him as a scammer and referred to as a real estate sprooker ;

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and more;

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As for Dymphna well she was selling Real estate wealth advise since 2003. She sold it on the bases of having accumilated 60 properties in under 18 months (she's still claiming it, but now she probably does have it from all the poor souls she's ripped off), when questioned by the ACCC she had to sign an afidavit that contrary to her statement of holding 60 real estate properties she infact held NO property at all and very little assets of any kind.

See what Justice Steve Rares says about Dymphna's none existent assets in his ruling follow the link below;

HTTP://WWW.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/FedJSchol/2009/7.html

they are all still at it with new scam outfits coming to the mix including Honest education Giaan's other scammer friend Mark Rolton (notice how scammer use words like 'Honest', knowledge source, etc. wish they would call it what it is ' Giaan please rename it scams r us' more integrity that way. haha

These people are seasoned professional scam artists watch your wallet.

I wanted to try their program and paid for it. I asked for access to it as the password was not working. They said that they would send me an email with access to the program. However they did not allow me access to it after I repeatedly informed them, that I did not have access to it. Finally I had enough and decided that I wanted a refund and they refused to provide it.

I have sent at least four emails with the necessary details and pictures to be able to refund the course but since I have sent the email 26th august 2022 I have had no response whatsoever and have also called them twice on the phone too.

I have finished the whole entire course and have completed every little detail of the guarantee period. I also paid in full the money all at once. The additional pictures should support all that I have said and I am expecting an answer back on the email I have been constantly trying to contact knowledge source on.

I joined the amazon/kindle course in April. I'm only 22 years old and new to business.. but I joined cause I liked the way Sophie Howard was and had the idea that the course was fully run by her. The content in my opinion is really good. I have learnt a lot since starting. However the customer service is so unprofessional when it comes to how Knowledge source run their admin, payments and just the overall professionalism of the company... I'm really surprised they are still running.

The whole time I have been doing the course I have had errors and complications with paying the course. I also went with Sophie's course as there was an option to pay it off in instalments. The advertisement initially makes it sound like you pay the first payment on the day you sign up, then 30 days after, then 60 days, then 90 but really it's just a monthly payment. It's definitely taught me as a beginner business person that you have to read between the lines before signing up to anything. I'm based in New Zealand so conversion after $400 USD is like $700-800 a month. With the money you are spending, you aren't really getting the respect or customer service you deserve.

With any queries too I have only had one women respond to all my emails her name is Emma. I find that very odd that only one person responds to customer queries with such a big company. Sophie Howard has 100's of people doing the course adding to the other courses they have to offer it seems a bit dodgy.

My last payment was due end of August. I have been trying to pay my last two payments since the beginning of July and "Emma" has responded to me every time I've emailed her with "let us know when the money is in your account and we will charge it" all my other payments there has been an option where they have given a secure link where I have paid my bill. But now all of a sudden "the link is currently not working" It is now September and I am still waiting to pay. Nobody has responded to me and I am worried that they are going to [censored] up my credit and debt collectors will be on my case. When I have email evidence that I have been trying to pay in a secure way. I do not want to be sending nearly 2k to anyone and they tell me I haven't paid.

The contract is also very blasé. It's only one page long with very minimal information. And also when I've looked for a proper account to pay my bill the information they have provided is so cryptic. Another red flag. Account numbers do not have letters.

PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP TO ANY OF THEIR COURSES.

Sophie Howard's course is good but she has done a huge mistake selling her course to knowledge source. Her reputation does not stand good with a lot of people now cause of the treatment people are getting.

I paid $1500 for the LHS course in ecommerce sales in January 2022. The process did not work for me. Knowledge Source also emailed me and claimed I owed $994 for the course which I didn't and I sent them proof of payment. I requested a refund, sent multiple emails but Knowledge Source have not responded to my emails. I am a mother of two small children and need that money back.

Having gotten caught as the long term scammer and property spruiker he and dymphia B scammed thousands, and had alot of trouble with the law and ASIC . So Jon being the criminal he is joint forces with Adam Hudson of Reliable Education and is scamming low income earners in what is a DEAD AND BURIED business opportunity. Amazon sellers do well if they are asian because cost of goods etc is highly uncompetitive Australians- they are scamming Australians left right and centre.

Its a repeat of what Giaan and DB did to Australians in real estate. They literally sent thousands Broke.. DB told people to go and invest in areas, do your DD first she said. But when you have a 'guru' on stage saying this is what she has done, you get caught in the hype, and take her 'opinion' as advice. Then bang, everything caves in, and she does not even want to know you. This is when you find out what she is really made of. She is only after your money.

Reliable Education is another scam cycle by Giaan and Co. Be aware!

Knowedge Source is a Real estate scam artist outfit run by a filthy greek scam artyist that uses the name Jon Giaan (not his real name!...hummm) "Jon Giaan and his group of scam artists " have had alot of trouble with the law on a number of occassions over the past 10 years for providing false and misleading information, and extoriting tens of thousands of dollars from guilble public that is hyped up Jon is partnered with a number of scammers one of them is the very dishonest Ms Dymphna Boholt who ####s and spins some very tall tales of wealth through real estate, and more recently through foreign property investing (a VERY dangerous strategy). And who is to stop them leading thousands of Australiand down the garden path while fleecing them off thousands and thousands of dollars for the "advice"? no one.

I am a victim of this scam. Best that can be done is to provide public records relating to those two snake oil merchants read the links below and decide wether the sweet promise of wealth and the well layed out words are of any value other than to ensure your trust enough to transfer wealth from your bank account to theirs

on Jon Giaan or his real name jon Giannopoulos also jon giaan see articles below, this guy trades as Knowledge Source, use to trade under a variety of names including giann and Giann pty ltd and Break Free events amongst others... oh he now goes by Jon Giaan a play on the spelling of his name to fool people googling him from finding out about his history ;

he is referred to as Giannopoulos in this article by the Sydney Morning Herald;

HTTP://blogs.smh.com.au/radar/archives/2004/11/trust_me_im_a_w.html

he is referred to as Jon Giannopoulos in the ASIC Ruling against him as a scammer;

HTTP://WWW.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byheadline/04-339+ASIC+restrains+wealth+cre...⇄ />
he is referred to as Jon Giann in the age News paper article below;

HTTP://WWW.theage.com.au/opinion/mr-hotshot-shoots-himself-in-the-foot-20081204-...⇄ />
and more;

HTTP://WWW.jenman.com.au/news_item.php?id=400
HTTP://WWW.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2009/05/01/today-tonight-admits-stori...⇄ />

As for Dymphna well she was selling Real estate wealth advise since 2003. She sold it on the bases of
having accumilated 60 properties in under 18 months (she's still claiming it, but now she probably does have it from all the poor souls she's ripped off), when questioned by the ACCC she had to sign an afidavit that contrary to her statement of holding 60 real estate properties she infact held NO property at all and very little assets of any kind.

See what Justice Steve Rares says about Dymphna's none existent assets in his ruling follow the link below;

HTTP://WWW.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/FedJSchol/2009/7.html

These people are seasoned professional rip off artists people. watch your wallet.

Another spruiker introduced by Knowledge Source Events. Sean Shelton runs Income Education LLC, but your never find his name anywhere after the first seminar. It works like this. At the Knowledge Source Seminar Sean tells you how you can make millions from US Real Estate and Tax Liens, but in time here can't tell you much but if you pay 2100 for a weekend course he will teach you. The weekend course "introduces" some concepts but they tell you in the time they have they cant teach you fully so please sign up for another course that is either $20, 000, 40, 000 or 60, 000! and of course there are heaps of staff there to tell you to sign up. Sean is not actually at this weekend course (even though at the Knowledge Source Seminar he said he would be teaching at it) but we can meet him later if we sign up for the next course. The guy taking the course even says that you can have the 2100 back if the weekend is not what you expect, but he is sure we will want the next course and be happy. Well of course the inevitable happened and when people apply for money back, no answer from the company (who are based in USA so dont be fooled by their AUS address), 2100 down the drain.
Jim