210-960-4688

I was thinking that her last name might be "Bialystock".  That whole "one-time fee to become a 50% partner in a company" statement sounds like something right out of "The Producers".

Same scenario - Mr. Parks found you on Linkedin and this is an amazing opportunity for only $12,500 up front.  I informed Natalie that I was not willing to invest $12,500, as I too did not find much  information on the web about Park Technologies.  She replied, "Mr. Park is  not about the  money".  So I explained I would be happy to talk to him about an alternative arrangement, one which would truly be mutually beneficial.  She then started grinding me on how much I could invest, I told her it would be best if I spoke to Mr. Parks.  At this point, Natalie https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-jean-29b2b3b4  insulted me and said Mr. Parks doesn't want to waste his time with people who are "flat broke".  I told her this was very insulting, presumptuous and ended the call.

Repeated calls to my work phone, I suspect having got it via LinkedIn.  Call says they are a representative of "Corey Park" from "Park Technologies" and it is regarding an opportunity with their company.  I have received email contacts from a different representative of the same outfit about 6 months ago.  Feels pretty scammish to me.  Ext 115, caller identified themselves as "Kathleen."

Interested in hearing from those who have had a positive experience with Mr. Park - and what they learned. Both those who have worked with him (them - Park Technologies) and what's happened with projects underway. Thanks so much

Same here...sends all these links but first never mentioned anything about the 12.5K to become a partner. Nice way to scam innocent people of 12.5K...Sorry, not interested

Of course they didn't mention 12.5k up front. It's the standard warm em up till they feel you're legit deal. Was contacted several times a few months back by different people claiming to work for a Mr. Park, or sometimes Mr. Parks. First person was some obviously fake profile out of the Philippines. I mean what does someone claiming to have a masters degree hope to get out of life by randomly contacting people over LinkedIn? My guess is whoever is running this thing is contracting out disposable $2-3 dollar an hour lead gens overseas. Figured I'd waste the girls time and bite to see what the catch was. Next was some lackey calling from some number here in the US that I didn't have the foresight to write down. Gave me this big pitch on all these cutting edge techs Mr. Park was involved in and offered to send more information via email with the hope I'd be interested in getting a call from another person higher up the food chain. The websites for these "technologies" that Mr. Park is supposed to own looked like he paid some stoner 100 bucks to set up over the course of a weekend. I told the guy when he called back a week or so later that I wasn't interested right now and he "kindly" offered to call me back in 6 months to see if I'd be interested then. I figured hell why not, in 6 months I might feel like wasting more of their time. Well sure as hell the same guy called back. I wasted as much of his time with as many questions as I could think of then asked for more information on the company to see if they had gotten any further in their acquiring new technologies and marketing them to consumers. He sent the same exact email with the same exact "company" websites minus 2 that were in the original email it was an exact copy paste.  What sort of legitimate technology company is in the business of acquiring zero new technologies to market while losing 2 in a 6 month period? So I started digging a bit more. All the company websites are hosted by godaddy, all addresses listed for these companies are for either houses, apartments complexes, and one YMCA in Arizona. That is except for Mr. Park's crowning achievement of taking pennyauctionsolutions.com public. A company that if you check out the FCC's EDGAR lookup online has zero income, 2.1 million dollars in debt and is currently paying it's CEO in stock options for a non public company with no revenue that's trying to go public. I have no idea what the hell this Mr. Park guy is doing but none of it looks like something I want to be involved in.

Scan. Don't return the call.

They all seem nice enough... but the $12,500 to be a partner is kinda funny...   like has anyone even talked to Corey???  That is the question.  Nice attempt though.  Look like someone went through a lot of trouble to have a strong online presence but it's not organic and looks off after digging deeper.

it is park technology  not park methodology

While the premise of Park Technologies seems sound up front, I also recognize the underlying business model as slightly shady. It would seem that Park Technologies makes a bulk of their revenue managing a technology database in which they charge a $12,500 fee for accessing. This comes in the form of an equity share in such a company from that database, whereby Mr. Corey Park seeks to sell off or make an ROI within a year.

Effectively speaking, the business model comes across as a manner by which to convince other entities to pay the bulk of the commercialization process with a 50% equity from the initial "finders fee" access. Turn key tech innovations access whereby others pay to play.

Fortunately, I deal with Angel Investors and Venture Capital on a regular basis, high technology companies private and public sector (defense and aerospace), have direct access to universities as a published researcher (Association of Computing Machinery and IGI Global), and also understand that top talent to put on those projects for commercialization comes at a price whereby other forms of equity are prevalent: Intellectual Property, Industry Expertise, and what is known as Sweat Equity.

So my personal assessment of Park Technologies is simply a company which has the main business model whereby they make the bulk of their revenue on database access, which they solicit professionals to pay for access, and those professionals are expected to pick the tech that will work best for the ROI, then do the legwork involved to bring it to market while Park Technologies receives an equity share of that success plus the various cumulative "finder's fees" from professionals paying to access that list.

If Park Technologies were interested in bringing technology to market, they'd be seeking out talent in their respective expertise to add to working teams for those products, or exploring new tech ventures to compose those teams.

Which in turn brings us to the underlying point: Any multimillionaire who owns many companies that are successful and looking to capitalize on new ventures would be scouting talent to *hire* properly. Time is money, and quite often the sort of professionals they contact come at a price. Our insight and experience makes the idea of paying *them* to work on their projects a laughable affair.

Anyone who is actually experienced and capable in various industries would be paying attention if/when such a company wishes to hire them to their teams proper. If they don't come to the table with a serious offer, thank them for their time and walk away.

To paraphrase Corey Park: I have high expectations, but also believe in making sure they have the resources to attain them.

I have high expectations for my involvement in any project, and I expect anyone who touts being a millionaire from his successes to have the resources up front to accomplish those goals - including the ability to hire the team of experts and their time.

Lesson: Don't call an internationally known expert in the field and ask them to pay you for the privilege of working for you. We'll bust you in a heartbeat and laugh.

Progress of interaction:

1. Cold call from Park Technologies stating a Mr. Park has requested that the caller (Elizabeth) set up an interview with me. When pressed for information concerning this, was told no information was in her notes, but a follow up with Mr Park would answer that. Was informed that Mr. Park had spoken with me prior, but I have recollection of that interaction and no details were offered to clarify.

A list of websites came via email complete with passwords to access them. This in itself seemed fishy since if the goal of Park Technologies was to commercialize products, it makes no sense to put the company websites behind a password. In short, they aren't really trying to hard to make their innovations public knowledge.

Park Technologies itself is also behind a password, which raises a red flag.

2. Asked for the password to Park Technologies in order to do my due diligence.

Interview was set up for a follow-up call with Mr. Park.

3. At the agreed upon time I was called on the phone, but it was another woman named Natalie and not Mr Corey Park. A second conversation ensued whereby direct questions were met with changing the subject or vague responses. When asked to what I owe the pleasure if this conversation, I was met with a vague description of equity partnership, details about their database and how I would be a valuable asset to help vet those technologies for rapid commercialization.

It was at this point I decided to cut to the chase, and directly cited that I already was aware of their upcoming appeal to involve me in an equity payment of $12,500 for 50% for access to their database and to bring something to market.

I politely informed her that such would not be happening, and if Mr. Corey Park wished to involve me on his team for any project that my time and insight alone are worth millions, as demonstrated in a prior email outlining (in a few sentences) that their 20/20 technology is best marketed as a component in virtual reality type headsets for automatic adjustment. They admittedly did not think of that market approach, thus proving my point.

I further outlined that if Mr Park wanted my involvement on any of his projects or in the company as an asset, then he can hire me properly like any other CEO in my industry. I continued by politely informing them that a technology database is all but worthless to me as I have both NASA and Boeing on speed dial (among many others, including universities worldwide). I have no need to pay for access to that database, and in effect he may choose to hire me properly as an equity asset or choose not to ask for my time any further. I do not expect Mr Park or his associates to be contacting me again.

In short, having me involved with their projects is worth far more than the project itself, and I expect to be compensated properly for my time, not the other way around.

Will Burns
Vice Chair: IEEE Virtual Worlds Standard group

ie: I wrote the modern definition for Metaverse, published research used worldwide, cited on Wikipedia on the subject, quoted for Solipsis Decentralized Metaverse (INRIA), helped write the textbook for the subject (IGI Global) and contributed material for the Virtual Worlds Certification course at Washington State, and regularly do academic presentations for universities on the subject. In short, they called the wrong guy for this song and dance.

All of these posts sound similar to a call I just got from 210-910-6668

Received a call for "Park Innovations" -- again, regarding Corey C. Park and asking for $12,500.  Got my name from Linked In.  The Company, "Park Innovations, Inc" is registered in Delaware as of May 2016 but no other info in any business databases.  My gut tells me it is a scam.

Yes - got the same "stuff" from that number....from "Natalie" and was told $12,500 up front was the cost.

The scam is explained here: http://www.bbb.org/pittsburgh/news-events/bbb ... and-get-scammed  The "back story" can be made more plausible by copying parts of a legitimate website, then editing the copy to add the $12k partner proposition. Which of the following web sites could require careful due diligence? (1) http://academictechventures.com and (2) http://parkinnovations.com (password: tech)

Same as above, MULTIPLE calls with same pitch.

Got a call from Jaime with the same nonsense script about Corey Parks and I was already in communication with his assistant. Blah blah.  I always let things go to voice mail unless it is a person in my contacts. When I saw from an earlier post this company is dba Park Technologies and Advanced Technology Ventures I was only able to find the Advanced technology ventures on LinkedIN.  Very interesting when perusing through the LinkedIn profiles of those who "work" for this company.  Two people do not have any info on their profiles at all and some of the other staff members look like they were posing for a modeling agency. SCAM ALERT!!!!!

I suggest you stop lying in your voicemail messages stating that you have previously spoken to the person via LinkedIn or via phone.  Pretty despicable way to start a partnership.

I received a similar call and did not speak with anyone.  A polite female keeps calling and leaving messages as if she knows me to return her call.  I blocked one number and are now calling from another.

Thanks for this forum. I found it upon doing the research. I was reached out via my Linkedin by a Bernadette Borton about a lucrative opportunity.  It appears to be the best fishing/MLM scam Ive seen yet.

Got the same voicemail and call today.