Confirmation!

Cheyne Jonstone has in-fact confirmed that he was formerly known as Shane Kenneth Craig.

In looking at his response however, I do find a few points he's made which stand out.

Such as:

I'm not alone in the history books of failed internet businesses, but the difference between me and some of those other people is that I didn't go about trying to do the wrong thing. My intentions were always honest and noble, I just didn't have the experience, or the right advisers, to help me through it. There are some people, who still own ISP's and web hosting companies today, who have done a lot worse then I was ever accused of.

It's been noticed the he has a habit of trying to make his own shortcomings look good by pushing the blame onto other companies. Looking at a rough timeline, it appears he have been heavily involved in 3 different companies which are publicly known. The first two having either fallen into the ground, or sold off. What is there to say that this new venture will be different?

I regret not accepting a high six-figure cash offer to walk away and hand my former clients over to what is now a very high profile ISP.

If he was ever offered this amount. Why would he have not taken it, and saved the stress of his customers? Instead, it appears that he showed little to no remourse as to leaving hundreds of people in the lurch, and causing them to losing their hard earned money, and lose access to the internet for a substantial amount of time.

I regret not telling my side of the story at the time and attempting to clear my name, but when you're faced with legal threats from large companies with more money then sense, you keep your mouth shut.

He seems to state this, and also attack the authors of this blog for using anonymity. When he himself has gone and done the exact same thing numerous times, threatening other companies, and individuals and using the money he has garnered either through his parents, or his business gains (how legitimate, is unknown). We would rather not be threatened by person(s) with more money then sense, just for raising the truth, and getting it out there to be known.

And I regret trusting certain people, who are most likely the same gutless wonders behind this whole campaign, who even tried to blackmail me for large sums of cash in recent months.

This part of the post was obviously fabricated in order to discredit the contents of this blog. We are neither involved in any type of Blackmail, nor have had any interaction with the Shane in recent months. Our only aim was to release the truth, so that those who have been damaged can seek retribution. Unfortunately, it may be a little too late for this, but at least those who have burnt will now know, and be able to steer clear from being burnt again.

The Truth

So, if you have managed to stumble across this blog, then you have been searching for information behind Shane Craig, and his failure / scam of a company called XiS IT, after a little digging, It has been discovered that this person behind it, has changed his name to Cheyne Jonstone, Director of Webhosting company which has been called COVE, IntraIP, and VentraIP.

XiS IT is currently in Liquidation after the company failed, and many people had lost money to their scam. You can find the ABN for the Liquidated Company HERE.

A quick search on Whirlpool, which is where they gained a fair amount of their customers will show many of the different things which happened with XiS, including a fair number of customers who lost all their money, without receiving anything in return.

A few ones of Interest can be found HERE, HERE, and you can find a message from the Owner of Whirlpool HERE.

Upon searching through for the companies details, it has come out that the name of both of these persons Shane Kenneth Craig, and Cheyne Jonstone are linked on the ABN, however Shane Kenneth Craig has not been seen or heard of for a fair few years.

You can find the ABN information HERE.

When this information was unearthed, a search was done via ASIC, which has unearthed the following birth information.

SHANE KENNETH , CRAIG
Born: 06 Apr 1982 - NEWCASTLE , NSW
Appointed Date: 06 Sep 2001
Ceased Date: 19 Dec 2004

Alone, it does little to show you any correlation between the two people, apart from how their names sound the same when said aloud, and that the name Ceased within months of XiS going into Liquidation. However, once you see Cheyne Jonstones information, it becomes clear.

CHEYNE JONSTONE
Born: 06/04/1982 - NEWCASTLE NSW
Appointment Date: 24/09/2007

These two names, which both appear to have identical birthdates, and location of birth, not to mention appear on the ABN information for the same company makes a fairly clinchable link to eachother. Not to mention, you also can find ABN 28 478 738 765 Is currently under "Cheyne Jonstones" name, and it contains both his previous persona, and the company entity name.

Then of course, comes the other link between VentraIP, COVE and XiS.

A search via ASIC shows that a common Director/Shareholder of all 3 companies happens to also exist.

XiS Director

KENNETH RONALD , DOBSON
Born:     27 Apr 1952 - PORT MACQUARIE , NSW
Appointed Date:     13 Nov 2001
Ceased Date:     17 Apr 2002

COVE Previous Directors

KENNETH RONALD DOBSON
Born: 27/04/1952 - PORT MACQUARIE NSW
Appointment Date: 13/05/2008 Cease Date: 19/05/2008 

VentraIP Shareholder

Class : ORDINARY
Number Held : 1000
Beneficially Held : YES
Paid : FULLY
Member Name : KENNETH RONALD DOBSON
Joint Holding : NO

This information has been obtained via ASIC searches. Unfortunately some information has had to be stripped due to the fact this medium doesn't allow Adresses to be posted.

An independant ASIC search can be done by interested parties to obtain more information or verify this further.

If anyone has any more information to add, or comments, please feel free to comment on this post and add your input.