1. Conspiracy theorist Dave Oneegs, a founder of “Aussie Helping Hands” is in court next month facing charges of alleged unlawful fundraising. So is Hayley Birtles-Eades, another person assoc w/ AHH. I’ve been looking into Hayley & uncovered some interesting information
2. According to a Whois search from March, website Aussie Helping Hands dot com dot au was originally registered to Hayley’s business “Beinc”. The Whois search says Beinc is a company. However the ABN listed is not for Beinc, it’s for a discretionary trading trust
3. A Whois search for the Beinc website lists a company called Love Jewellery Pty as the owner. However, that company was deregistered by ASIC in Feb 2020.
4. Beinc is actively trading according to their Facebook page & website
5. Hayley has a second business called “Love Lockets (actually she has MANY businesses but that’s a story for another day!). A Whois search says for the Love Lockets website lists a company called Born Brands Pty Ltd as the owner
6. Born Brands Pty Ltd was deregistered by ASIC in May 2016! The Love Lockets business still appears to be trading too.
7. There’s no business name registration for BEINC. There is one for BEINCS (with an “s”), but that has been cancelled and appears to have no association w/ Hayley. And Hayley’s own ABN was cancelled in November
8. When Aussie Helping Hands was first set up in early March, the website listed Dave Oneegs & Beinc/Hayley as co-founders.
9. The website was suddenly updated on 25 March to remove all references to Dave Oneegs, Beinc and Hayley!
10. That same day Dave suddenly started referring to himself as a “volunteer”. On March 27, Dave randomly made a post emphasising he was not a founder. “It’s not my account”.
11. Obviously something happened on March 25. It wasn’t until April 10 that Dave announced his own bank account had been frozen. He said Fair Trading froze it on 8 April. What happened on 25 March?
12. Dotty, the purported founder of AHH, also had her bank account frozen. She was raided by FT on suspected misappropriation of funds. Dotty says FT couldn’t find any evidence of funds misappropriation. However she was fined for not having a licence to fundraise
13. Dave’s first court appearance is on 20 Jan. Hayley also has two court appearances coming up in Jan (she’s had two already back in Sept & Nov). It’s not clear whether these are related to the Fair Trading investigation
14. Interesting- Hayley is looking to sell Love Lockets. With the website domain in the name of a deregistered company, she’s going to find it v difficult to transfer the domain name to a new owner!
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