2 posts tagged “mobileprivacyservice.com”

You've gotta love the interweb and folk like del hombre 'El Gringo' over at The Scream's forums.  He not only dug deep, but presented the evidence well.

I thoroughly recommend checking it out: Mobile Privacy Service: £1.50 con to use TPS - That's the service run by scammers who themselves send out unsolicited crap (mostly of an 'adult' nature and often without any indication it's a premium message from a company, not a person).

David Geoffrey Shepard (BA, BA hons) was born on the 20th of February 1970 in what was then a troubled Johannesburg.  At some stage of his life 'G' (as he liked to be called by his chums) left South Africa, possibly when apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela took over.  It was after he graduated from St Benedict's College in the affluent town of Bedfordview in 1987 anyway.  No one knows for certain as it all happened in the last century - a time before computers and filling cabinets.

Update: Long lost documents have surfaced that can shed some light on those missing early years...

He went to a couple of universities in South Africa (1990-1998) before moving to the UK and continuing his studies at a community college in Oxford (2000-2001)

For more than a decade G has lived in the historic English city of Oxford.  Whilst there he has philosophised, created art, designed webs and sent out (and charged for) a whole host of unsolicited adult content to those British folk silly enough to use mobile telephonical devices.

While David isn't building a vast business empire spanning numerous websites, online shops, ventures and logo designing, he has been busy giving back to the community with his tireless work for Oxford Brookes University (where he uses a computer or something).

As well as the good times, there have been hard times for David.  But all throughout his friends and colleagues have been there to help him, to support him.  One such fellow was Mark Henstone, he once worked with David at Spread Media but moved on to mBlox (where he is now a Strategic Account Man-jester or something) Unfortunately all the help in the world couldn't save huge swathes of G's online portfolio, with recent casualties including Spread Media, M-Pimp Limited (clearly pimping ain't easy) and Szassy Mobile.

No matter what ups and downs David has, he never loses sight of his true gift to the world, that being his art...

His work is reminiscent of what Claire, the chick on Six Feet Under slung together created whilst trying to impress her talentless peers and that creepy professor guy.  One picture even reminds me of Mika Miro's later works (nah, just kidding - Joan Miro was talented!)

More will be written on David in the future, he is the man of the moment and there's still plenty to be said.  In the meantime, sit back check out his art (click images for the full size) and finally David, it's over to you...

Philosopher, Artist, Web Designer, Silver Plaque Installer...  A versatile copywriter and creative marketer accomplished in both print and web publishing... with wide-ranging experience in positions demanding high levels of interpersonal and verbal communication skills.