I have posted a new entry about the status of the situation. The company refunded my money, and so I now consider the matter to have been resolved. Please click here to read about it.<\/a><\/p>\n Now that I look more closely, the signs are all there. Pretty much all the people who, on their web sites, claim to be listed in the Sterling Who\u2019s Who<\/a> either signed up around 1994-1995 (when a company with the same name was sued) or very recently. If you check the internet archive, their web site is pretty much brand new<\/a>. When I sent e-mails to all those listed on their web page, that to the webmaster bounced back (indicating they have the address but no institutional infrastructure is associated with it) and some of the e-mail addresses are with Hotmail.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t be duped! I\u2019m using this opportunity to post this public warning, since I wish someone else had done the same before I was tricked.<\/p>\n UPDATE: I have received information suggesting that the currently-existing company Sterling Who\u2019s Who is different from the one prosecuted in 1995. I personally have no way of verifying whether any of the same individuals are or are not involved in the company, but my assumption that this was a continuous company was based on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-5398254655869081325?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")