Rhiannon Leetham and the mouth of madness

Well, I surely know what I want Santa to bring me. A nice Learn to be Psychic course! Oh the thinks I could think!!

Sign me up, Rhiannon!

I believe in you. I trust you. I know you would never part a little old lady from the hard earned savings from my war widow’s pension. You have such a cute, innocent, sweet little face.

I have never gambled in my life, but I’m sure I’ll be good at it after I get my hands on all your wonderful hints and tips and mystic goodies.

That way I’ll be able to stop the bank from foreclosing on the family home that I settled in with my late husband nearly sixty years ago, before he died in the war. This is my last chance, and I’m desperate!

Cheers Skid. I thought it all seemed a little too advanced for an 12 year old but too basic for a real flash marketer. What a warped way to instill values in a kid.

and on their own sites, they promote “fighting back”. i have lost money on the stock exchange. my super shows neg growth. I am not running a website saying fight back – help me pay my isp via a donation. I just work a little harder in my now 2 jobs. these people need to suck it up, this begging from the population is as bad as a dole rorter.

I am sending emails out for people to support my mo.

BerraBoy, its all boilerplate from the original site, who they are reselling\pyramiding for. A man by the name of Bradley Thompson, who also tells people all kinds of useless crap, but here’s his catalogue:
http://www.selfhelpstreet.com/selfhelp/
So no, it wasn’t written by a twelve year old, or a woman, or even an Australian.

But doing some cross-matching on dates across the few blogs, young Rhiannon started taking an interest in, and selling psychic powers roughly a) nine months after her parents realised they were broke, but soon after her mother b) told Rhiannon that she had psychic powers and c) the week before her mother openly admitted on DTAlpha that she had been encouraging her innocent\gullible children to invade forums and in true pyramid scheme style, sell crap to the more gullible people (roughly half way down, post #47).

This media release seems to be an even more desperate attempt to boost sales, and keep the parents’ debtors at bay, by getting income in the children’s names.

Call ACA?

I agree with JB. The parents put this kid in the public domain and they have to wear whatever comes of that… the good, the bad, and the ugly. I spent some 10 minutes of my life (that I’ll never get back) looking at her website last night and it obviously wasn’t written by a 12 year old. In fact, I thought the use of a stereotypical fortune teller lurking behind a crystal ball in the header showed a real lack of marketing/advertising smarts. It screams SCAM.

Lets face it, if anyone in the family had done the course and it really works, they’d know there would be negative vibes coming her way over this vid.

If your seriously concerned, call the authorities;)

The poor little girl will happily take your USD$99.95, MWF. The ‘Bindi’ thing is no joke. Her target audience is children, many of whom are young enough to be taken in by this con and old enough to have access to the money.

Also, show me where the child has been ‘vilified’. That’s extremely strong language. Can you substantiate that claim?

Really MWF?

Charly(tan) would know that her little possum is being ridiculed on these pages and yet she does nothing about deleting the video? Shame on the mother.

johnboy said :

MWF, the video was linked to from the mother’s media release. They’re the ones who’ve put it out there.

It’s staying.

I think it is pretty mean to magnify the villificaion a child in such a small community as Canberra. A child who has no say in it, at all. The child’s parents may not care that their kid is “out there” and being ridiculued. However, I do. Poor little girl.

MWF, the video was linked to from the mother’s media release. They’re the ones who’ve put it out there.

It’s staying.

As distatseful the parent’s online scams are and, as distateful and horrid the fact that the parent is using her children to spruike her pryramid schemes may be, let’s not forget that the victim here on this site is this 12 year old child. It is her image in the original post and she had no legal say in it. Is it possible for the editor to remove the video of the child in order to maintain her privacy? Her parent may not give a toss, however, all children have rights to privacy even when their parents ignore this right.

It may well be that we worked for the same company (especially after the ‘teaming up’, if you get my drift).

Say no to Polygamy. Just no.

It could become the new family business.

Mr Evil was referring to mum

No, I meant at one of those ‘no-questions-asked-about-your-age’ kind of establishments. 🙁

Mr Evil said :

If she got a job out at Fyshwick she’d pay the family debt off in no time.

Evil, seeing as she’s only 12, I’m hoping you’re talking about ‘bob-a-job’ type arrangement at say, Frisco or Bunnings?!

If she got a job out at Fyshwick she’d pay the family debt off in no time.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

It seems, from reading the linked blog, that their businesses didn’t make enough $$ to cover the costs, and by the time they extricated themselves they were significantly in the red.

one of the donation numbers is $666. number of the beast anyone?

Perhaps someone should notify child services. Surely this is a form of abuse?

Great… Canberra’s own Bindi Irwin.

Be a good girl Rhiannon and go and chase that ball onto that very busy highway.

And at 40% commision, why wouldn’t you do it?

http://www.be-psychic.com/psychic/affiliate.aspx

By the way, its not her idea, she’s just reseller.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22unique+EIGHT-STEP+FORMULA+for+unleashing+your+intuition+%22&hl=en&filter=0

They would appear to be in a pyramid scheme for psychic powers.

Good grief…can someone PLEASE silence her?!

Ha! Glad I left that place. It was amazing how you could get such a disparate bunch of people in the one organisation.

Indeed I do.. hehe.

@RAGD. That’s interesting, as she was always nice to me, although the company I worked for did have a culture of people being selectively nice, depending on which team you were in.

It may well be that we worked for the same company (especially after the ‘teaming up’, if you get my drift).

@VYBerlinaV8_the_on , I have also worked with Charly before. I don’t think she is as “dodgy” as some people here have put it. However I didn’t think she was particularly “cluey” either… and to be honest she was never seemed like a nice person.. she was never nice to me anyway.

So, how much tax does a child pay when supporting her parents’ debt?

You would have to be a very gullible schmuck to hire the services of this woman (or women if you want the other personalities) and her kin.

Like I said previously, I worked with Charly a few years ago at a fairly well known IT company. Seriously, she is actually pretty cluey, I’m surprised she has gotten herself into this much bother.

I-filed said :

Most hilarious: among this family’s little shonky ventures listed on Shonky Stewy’s website is a ‘stationary’ (sic) business!

The business may well be “stationary” given the quality of their work evidenced on the interwebs.

From the mumsies website:

“I’m Charly Leetham. I’m a business women who works from home and I have two children. I have a passion for anything IT related and I love to help people overcome their technology challenges. Some of the work I do include developing websites, writing sales copy and marketing online businesses. I hold a MBA specializing in Internet Marketing.”

Judging from the Americanised spelling (specialiZing) and the use of women instead of woman (unless there is a multiple personality disorder) and technology challenges as opposed to technological challenges (it’s called an adjective lady), I’d be inclined to think the MBA came from a degree mill; possibly purchased from the University of Costa Rica for a few hundred dollars. Or perhaps issued from a university in some imaginary city like Atlantis, Brigadoon or Hobart.

You would have to be a very gullible schmuck to hire the services of this woman (or women if you want the other personalities) and her kin.

*sorry – that should have read “I can’t HELP feel sorry for the kid” not ‘ehlp’. Damned lazy morning fingers….

I can’t ehlp but feel sorry for this kid. She either beleives she has a psychic ability due to her parents telling her she does or she’s ‘tuned in’ to how to part fools from their money.

If she’s after a quick win financially and can actually demonstrate what she’s preaching perhaps she should head out the next ACT Skeptics meeting. I believe they have a standing offer of $50,000 for anybody that can prove psychic ability.

Go on Rhiannon, I double dare you….

Ogh! ogh!

Charly:

askcharlyleetam.com
avroreentreaures.com
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/arvoreentreasures
http://www.naymz.com/search/charly/leetham/2203625

and it goes on.

Being a child entrepreneur apparently runs in the family! Charlene claims to have worked in IT for 20 years before she became an Ezy DVD franchisee in 2003 – and claims to be 38 years old. So she started out in IT at the age of 13, in 1983! She claims to have gained an MBA in 2000 – but from which Ivy League Institution, she is very coy indeed!

Interestingly for someone with a 20 year track record in IT, elsewhere on the internet her cv mentions only part-time administration (albeit with a more jazzed-up title!) for a dog breeding club!

Most hilarious: among this family’s little shonky ventures listed on Shonky Stewy’s website is a ‘stationary’ (sic) business!

Watch in the next day or so for online attempts to rapidly flush this family’s internet presence down the cyber sewers!

I’d be interested to see if anyone buys something from the website whether they actually get the product, my guess is probably not.

Having just googled mummy, she seems to be the typical wannabe entrepreneur the has a lot of so called qualifications, websites and does a lot of things, but none are really successful. Notably she mentioned her EzyDVD franchises going broke, though I don’t think they went much better after she sold them, I noticed the one at Woden has closed.

It is noticeable that she’s had to try and drag her kids into the family “business” to try and make some quick cash, I feel sorry for those kids.

Suarts wife is in to Internet Marketing! And Stuart wants you to contribute to erase his debt!

OMG! the whole family are relatede to Charly(tans)!

It seems, from reading the linked blog, that their businesses didn’t make enough $$ to cover the costs, and by the time they extricated themselves they were significantly in the red.

you’d hit what shiny flu??!

eq2 said :

The family is 300,000 in debt. That would help explain this desperate business idea.

http://stuartleetham.com/blog/

ummmm… most people with a recent mortgage are $300,000 in debt.

The family is 300,000 in debt. That would help explain this desperate business idea.

http://stuartleetham.com/blog/

Rhiannon’s brother- also a child – is flogging Warcraft products on the ‘net! Surprise surprise!

Pandy said :

Will she be able to cure all those men with erectile dysfunction?

ew

I’d hit it.

Although I think she would charge me for it.

I used to work with Charly (a number of years ago), and she was nice lady with a very good business mind. I wonder if maybe she’s encouraged her daughter to try this simply as a learning experience. I mean, really, if someone gives the kid money, who’s the real fool?

It might not hurt to stick a little closer to the topics at hand though.

mutley said :

Overheard, I’m grateful for your evident enthusiasm for original local music etc, and have attended and enjoyed a number of them on the advice from here, but please, please, please can you lay off the excruciating puns and extended stories of what you had for lunch, where you are at the moment, what you did on the weekend?

Fark. Four days without posting and I get flamed for a bit of mild sharing.

Sorry to offend your delicate little sensibilities, mutley. You do have the option of not reading anything I write. Keerist knows I employ that tactic with many who have their two lira to say here.

Overheard, I’m grateful for your evident enthusiasm for original local music etc, and have attended and enjoyed a number of them on the advice from here, but please, please, please can you lay off the excruciating puns and extended stories of what you had for lunch, where you are at the moment, what you did on the weekend?

Naughty girl. This is why parents are more frequently pushing for “values” teaching in schools. Immoral, exploitative, greedy Mummies breed immoral, exploitative, greedy daughters.

Poor little petal probably actually believes she’s a psychic too.

I-filed said :

No surprise – the mum is morbidly obese, hiding online, and living vicariously through her child.

No, I can’t agree with the link between body shape/genetic make-up and, well, anything else about the story.

A tenuous link at best. Not to be confused with the golf course by the sea on the coast of Spain which is the ‘Tenuas Links’.

Ok, I worked a bit hard for that one.

No surprise – the mum is morbidly obese, hiding online, and living vicariously through her child.

Man, I was having such a good weekend and now I feel quite physically (as opposed to psychically ill, which is when you know in advance you’re going to have a sick day — which NEVER happens).

Personally, I blame the parents.

Actually, that might be a trifle hypocritical as opposed to a dessert that campaigns against the over-use of sugar, which of course is a ‘hypocritical trifle’.

Where was I? Yeah, I’m grooming my 11 year old son for MC-ing and public-speaking, and my 12 year old daughter’s doing the livery for my business web-site (again, public speaking, not ‘Gormless Desperados R Us’).

Meh!

I wonder if her mother’s fancy MBA taught her how to handle the backlash of anonymous strangers on the internet!

I also wonder if these articles (At least the ones that aren’t blatantly stolen from other websites) are written by an 11 year old girl on the internet, or a 45 year old women pretending to be an 11 year old girl on the internet in order to make money.

http://www.thatpsychicgirl.com/blog/psychic-experiences/my-own-psychic-experiences#more-7

Either way this SUCKS. I wonder if these kids are home-schooled.

I’m half-tempted to buy the movie rights to this girls story. At least google will come up with this forum whenever some gullible fool wants to see if she’s legit.

I have this bridge I’d like to sell…

Dammit someone is already doing it!
http://www.immigrationbridge.com.au/

You’re not a cash smart kid. You’re a crook! And nuts.

Ours is not to reason why. Ours is just to cough up the USD$99.95.

*chuckle*

Thinking just gets in the way of our psychic abilities. You can never have a good PsyQ if you think too much about stuff.

So the mother is a reseller for http://www.be-psychic.com/ and is using the kid as a shill?

How lovely.

It’s not scary Thumper, it’s completely safe!

Charly(tan) by nature?

Pandy said :

Will she be able to cure all those men with erectile dysfunction?

I don’t know, but if you asked her she would be able to tell you.

*hehehe*

Mum has her own website [http://charlyleetham.com/] her pitch?

That would be her MBA in internet marketing!

Will she be able to cure all those men with erectile dysfunction?

..can she at least finish primary school first?!?

Would you buy a used car from this girl?

Seriously, well when you’re spending other people’s money you can afford to blow it all on uniforms or give some of it away to a worthy charity here and there.

I admire the entrepreneurial spirit, but have grave concerns regarding the exploitative nature of the product.

I’m sold! Soon I’ll be healing sick animals at the races. Everyone can enjoy the fruits of power, but it’ll cost you.

Hey, psychicing don’t come cheap, man.

god dodgy as!! should be a law against this bollocks. some people have no shame.