Paula Fellingham, CEO and founder of The Women’s Information Network (“The WIN”) represented her company as haviing a mission: to elevate the women of the world through several different programs designed to improve women physically, financially, spiritually, etc. The programs would include humanitarian projects in third world countries. I joined dozens and perhaps hundreds of other women in buying a membership and promoting The WIN and its programs, which were to include hundreds of teleseminars every week in seven different areas of personal and financial development. Paula continually promised that investors were lining up to invest in The WIN, that funds would be arriving shortly to pay employees who had put in hundreds and even thousand of hours building and promiting the company, including outside vendors. She boasted of having put on hundreds of global women summits involving hundreds of thousands of attendees, and committed to putting on 175 future summits in the next year. She claimed the company website was receiving a million unique visitors. The truth was far less than the claims. There were no investors except a handful of people she persuaded to purchase “stock” in her worthless company. Most of them have joined a lawsuit against Paula, along with many employees who were never paid, and vendors who were not paid. She attended some global womens summits where she talked about her own programs and books and touted The WIN. These were attended by at most 50-100 women – not hundreds of thousands. The hits on The WIN website turned out to be fake – she had hired a company to artificially create the hits. I understand she has not paid them either. What little money came into The WIN through membership and program sales was used by Paula to travel to other parts of the world to tout her own programs and books, or to solicit “investors” with promises of future remuneration. This included several expensive trips to Las Vegas, California, India, and other countries. She continues to “hire” (but not pay) new vendors and employees to replace those who have quit in disgust and/or frustration. Her allegedly new and improved website is the “Paula Fellingham Show,” full of photos and videos of Paula – many of them years old. In short, The WIN dream has turned into a nightmare for many, many people who placed their trust and their time and money with a woman who used them to promote only herself. I strongly urge people to avoid this company.
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Scam investor
This person pretended to be a Japanese invester. Dr Shuji Endo. Fake IDs. This happened before I just add my scam as well. I wasn’t.
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Scammers, never return security deposit
I was scammed by this company for $1,478.68 on a security deposit that was supposed to be returned after car drop off. That never.
Fraud. Did not refund my Web hosting money.
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Item not as described; Refusing refund
This is a followup to a previous complaint that had been closed by the BBB because the company lied and said they would give me a refund
Aweful
AVOID AVOID AVOID never ever been treated in this manner and received such a poor quality service from a dentist. Received a refund but
Work bully
No one dared to approach the office bully Jacqueline Stabach. Jacqueline Stabach believes she is being followed everywhere, and she might
Deceitful FMO
URGENT FMO FRAUD AND SCAMOK agentsI have to give my fellow agents a heads up!!! We as insurance agents need to protect our business and
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They said you would learn real estate
They said you would learn real estate and stock in their seminars. They actually bump you up to buy the “inside” “premium” training for
What Paula Fellingham and her Women Information
What Paula Fellingham and her Women Information Network promotes verbally and in writing is false. Although I doubt malicious intent, it has harmed a great many more than she states she has helped. I believe Paula is actually too foolish to be deliberately malicious but in terms of investing in Paula or her company RUN RUN RUN!!! Do not spend a dime on the 100
I was drawn to The Women's Information
I was drawn to The Women’s Information Network “The WIN” because of its mission and vision to strengthen women and families worldwide. I knew this was a company I wanted to be a part of. I was hired by founder and CEO Paula Fellingham with the promise to be paid “as soon as the money comes in.” I was honored to be part of such an organization and if I had to work without pay short term I could do that. I trusted Paula’s word to pay me along with the rest of the team “as soon as the money came in.” Weeks turned into many many months of not being paid. She met with investor after investor…knowing this kept us (the WIN team) hanging in there, working without pay, waiting and hoping the money would come soon so we could get paid and The WIN could move forward in a more efficient way. As time went on, I began to question things being promised, stats being reported etc…. Several of us on the WIN team began to do our due diligence and discovered that pretty much everything about the WIN is fabricated from the number of hits on the website to the number of “Live Events” to the number of countries the WIN is “in”. Paula has the analytics to prove the boisterous 500,000 – 1 million “unique” hits per month on the website, but it was discovered that she hired a company (promising to pay them “as soon as the money comes in”) to defer traffic to the website so the high numbers would attract investors. It just doesn’t sound ethical to me. When I questioned the legality of the hits, her response was “well they are people”. Technically “they are people”…the hits are deferred “people” from China and other Asian countries, but they are not looking for The Women’s Information Network. They are what is called “garbage or dirty traffic”. Paula calls them “unique” hits. I have no doubt that Paula Fellingham started with a pure heart with real intent to make a difference for good in the world, but somewhere along the line the number of “hits on the website” and “the number of countries The WIN is in” and how big The WIN could look, became more important then growing a business with integrity. When I resigned from The WIN and tried to warn other people about the fabricated WIN facts, she accused me of being slanderous and threatened me with legal action. I was told from others that left The WIN before me that they too received threatening emails and phone messages accusing them of being slanderous and trying to personally hurt her and The WIN, when in reality, we are trying to warn others of the untruths being publisized on the website, emails and documents. Too many have been hurt. Paula continues to move The WIN forward. She is currently promoting a huge event in LA called “The WIN Big Event”, advertising WIN programs that do not exhist, and humanitarian projects that are not happening. See theWINonline.com. I recommend that if you are considering investing in The WIN or being part of The WIN in any capacity you do due diligence. Snoop. Dig, and or talk to any of the large number of WIN team members that have come and gone since 2009. On the surface the WIN looks amazing, but if you look behind the curtain you will see there is nothing there.
I'm curious about this. Any chance you'd
I’m curious about this. Any chance you’d be willing to talk more? If so, I could send you my number or email.
The Women's Information Network, The WIN, Paula
The Women’s Information Network, The WIN, Paula Fellingham, Dr. Paula Fellingham, Global Women’s Summits, Fraud, Scam, Frabricated Facts, Mislead, unkept promises, Saratoga Springs Utah I was drawn to The Women’s Information Network “The WIN” because of its mission and vision to strengthen women and families worldwide. I knew this was a company I wanted to be a part of. I was hired by founder and CEO Paula Fellingham with the promise to be paid “as soon as the money comes in.” I was honored to be part of such an organization and if I had to work without pay short term I could do that. I trusted Paula’s word to pay me along with the rest of the team “as soon as the money came in.” Weeks turned into many many months of not being paid. She met with investor after investor…knowing this kept us (the WIN team) hanging in there, working without pay, waiting and hoping the money would come soon so we could get paid and The WIN could move forward in a more efficient way. As time went on, I began to question things being promised, stats being reported etc…. Several of us on the WIN team began to do our due diligence and discovered that pretty much everything about the WIN is fabricated from the number of hits on the website to the number of “Live Events” to the number of countries the WIN is “in”. Paula has the analytics to prove the boisterous 500,000 – 1 million “unique” hits per month on the website, but it was discovered that she hired a company (promising to pay them “as soon as the money comes in”) to defer traffic to the website so the high numbers would attract investors. It just doesn’t sound ethical to me. When I questioned the legality of the hits, her response was “well they are people”. Technically “they are people”…the hits are deferred “people” from China and other Asian countries, but they are not looking for The Women’s Information Network. They are what is called “garbage or dirty traffic”. Paula calls them “unique” hits. I have no doubt that Paula Fellingham started with a pure heart with real intent to make a difference for good in the world, but somewhere along the line the number of “hits on the website” and “the number of countries The WIN is in” and how big The WIN could look, became more important then growing a business with integrity. When I resigned from The WIN and tried to warn other people about the fabricated WIN facts, she accused me of being slanderous and threatened me with legal action. I was told from others that left The WIN before me that they too received threatening emails and phone messages accusing them of being slanderous and trying to personally hurt her and The WIN, when in reality, we are trying to warn others of the untruths being publisized on the website, emails and documents. Too many have been hurt. Paula continues to move The WIN forward. She is currently promoting a huge event in LA called “The WIN Big Event”, advertising WIN programs that do not exhist, and humanitarian projects that are not happening. See theWINonline.com. I recommend that if you are considering investing in The WIN or being part of The WIN in any capacity you do due diligence. Snoop. Dig, and or talk to any of the large number of WIN team members that have come and gone since 2009. On the surface the WIN looks amazing, but if you look behind the curtain you will see there is nothing there.