ePerks, the brand and company that exposed the world to Ben Behrouzi and his unethical business practices and inability to deliver services as promised has been hacked. The ePerks brand had all but been abandoned in embarrassment when Ben Behrouzi and company lost their failed bid to take down blogger Vlad Zablotkyy’s blog, GoBeyondMLS. When [...]

Wow! Yesterday was quite the blowout for Ben Behrouzi and DotNext Inc. First, TechCrunch stated the obvious and sad truth about LeapFish, then Ben and his employees were then caught red handed calling themselves “geniuses” in the comments section of the same article by IP address tracking and finally, Ben Behrouzi was reduced to name [...]

Ben Behrouzi has hit an all time low for himself and his new startup LeapFish in front of Silicon Valley and the world. After Techcrunch declared LeapFish as “another meta search engine no one will ever use” his employees were caught red handed making shill comments praising LeapFish and calling it “genius”. Classic. This puts [...]

On October 22nd, 2008, Ben Behrouzi / Eperks /LeapFish’s atorney, Ronald J. Cook filed for dismissal of their complaint against Vlad Zablotzkyy. This is yet one more embarrassment for Ben Behrouzi in addition to the public humiliation and ridicule that has already befallen him and his dieing brand ePerks, at the hands of the Real [...]

1) Learn the ePerks Basics with the Seminal Piece on ePerks: ePerks.com: A Case Study in Greed and Self-Imposed Brand Destruction 2) Read the Blog Post / Comments That Started It All: ePerks- A Scam or A Gem? 3) Read the Cease & Desist Letter, Threats and Lawsuit from ePerks CEO Ben Behrouzi: Cease & [...]

Glenn Roberts Jr. at Inman has written a great article about Vlad’s plight and ePerks in which we were interviewed. It is worth noting that the exposure this article brings to ePerks is yet another clear defeat for ePerks and CEO Ben Behrouzi. Even if they had a possibility of a courtroom win, they and [...]

Leapfish / Ben Behrouzi Bombshell Since BrokerScience first began covering LeapFish and ePerks CEO Ben Behrouzi, we have received a lot of reader submitted information in the form of: stories of first hand experiences with LeapFish / ePerks / Ben Behrouzi (as employees and customers), emails, voice mails, and other miscellaneous information and data relating [...]

When BrokerScience published our analysis of ePerk’s brand destruction ( ePerks.com: A Case Study in Greed and Self-Imposed Brand Destruction ) on May 30th, we did not know that just nine days later, Vlad Zablotzkyy would be served with a lawsuit from ePerks/ CEO Ben Behrouzi. Quite frankly, in light of the growing attention and [...]

In yet another blow to embattled ePerks and Brabus Ventures Corporation CEO, Ben Behrouzi, BrokerScience has acquired exclusive ownership of the following internet domain names: BenBehrouzi.com BenBehrouzi.net BehzadBehrouzi.com BrabusVentures.net BrabusVentures.org BrabusVentures.biz Internet domain name case law provides that these names can be used in a capacity that does not create confusion in the market place. [...]

When ePerks.com CEO Ben Behrouzi originally hired blogger Vlad Zablotzkyy of Go-Beyond-MLS.com to write a paid review of ePerks.com, he never expected the barrage of user complaints that were posted in the comment section of Vlad’s blog and he never expected the fallout that would occur when he threatened Vlad and sent him a Cease [...]

Brabus Ventures (BrabusVentures.com), owned by embattled CEO Ben Behrouzi and parent company of ePerks.com, LeapFish and DotNextInc has updated it’s website and added new “Values” and “Culture” pages to combat the barrage of negative publicity their business practices have earned them. There is only one problem: the pages are STOLEN virtually verbatim from Chevron.com and [...]

BrokerScience Response to LeapFish CEO, Ben Behrouzi: In the transcript below, we asked you to provide us proof of any factual inaccuracies we have published, you failed to do so. You state that what we are publishing is “completely false and now damaging the company“, yet failed to list even one “false item” or “fabrication” [...]

When Vlad Zablotskyy of Go-Beyond-MLS.com received a Cease & Desist letter from ePerks.com (which was shortly followed up by the threat of a lawsuit form ePerks CEO, Ben Behrouzi) he had cause to be concerned. In addition to the threat of litigation, somebody was also libeling Vlad has a child molester. (You will find a [...]

Due to the interest generated by our coverage of ePerks and the apparent abandonment of its users by CEO Ben Behrouzi, we’ve decided to bring you some pre-launch coverage of Ben Behrouzi’s newest startup which is launching tomorow, iHype.com. Not surprisingly, one day before launch, the 800 number goes to what sounds like a cell [...]

As the demand for transparency in business continues to grow in the brave new web two point something world of today, maintaining your company’s brand has never been more important. For this reason it has never been as crucial for companies to not only engage and interact with their customers in new online mediums and [...]