Look everyone someone's planted some beans

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

Nigel Banks

Nigel Banks - IT Contractor - Contractor Base

So definitely nothing dodgy going on there then.

[Ticktock]

All I could find was this, for a different company name:

78 MEDIA LIMITED :: OpenCorporates

[northernladuk]

Nigel Banks

Nigel Banks - IT Contractor - Contractor Base

So definitely nothing dodgy going on there then.

Domain name:
contractorbenefits.co.uk

Registrant:
Hayley Cowin

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
Design House, Hills Meadow
Douglas
Isle Of Man
Isle of Man
IM1 5EB
United Kingdom


Interesting that..

Contractor Angels -0845 868 1305
Contractor Benefits - 0845 868 1306
And a third company - Contractor Base - 0845 868 1307

Domain name:
contractorbase.co.uk

Registrant:
Hayley Cowin

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
Design House, Hills Meadow
Douglas
Isle Of Man
Isle of Man
IM1 5EB
United Kingdom

3 companies, all IOM, all no information, different address of registration, no company information, nothing.

All three pages are utter garbage, no company info at all which I thought was illegal now?

[Ticktock]

Oh, and here's the property co-ordinates: 54.085671,-4.652199

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Page source has a reference to Bedouin Group apparently

[DaveB]

Interesting. IoM it seems...

Domain name:
contractorangels.co.uk

Registrant:
Simon Powell

Registrant type:
Unknown

Registrant's address:
East Lodge
Ballasalla
IM9 3DL
United Kingdom

Zoopla says 'This property is located at East Lodge, Billown, Ballasalla, Isle Of Man IM9 3DL. Billown has 7 houses and flats on it.'

Google maps shows a field at this postcode.

Judging by the dates below the 'been with them three years looks even less likely

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 06-Oct-2011
Expiry date: 06-Oct-2013
Last updated: 20-Jul-2012

Anyone else find anything?

Been doing some digging myself but it's hard to find anything on these guys. No registered company with that name, no company info on the website. Mr Powell does not seem to be associated with the name Contractor Angels anywhere other than the registration details.

Searching LinkedIn for Simon Powell Isle of Man gets no hits but googling it gives us quite a few references to 78Media.com

However...

Digging into the code of the website reveals a few things.

It was built with a drag and drop DIY web tool built by the Smarter Web Company.

<!-- WEBSITE CREATED AND HOSTED USING DRAG AND DROP DESIGNER -->
<!-- DEVELOPED BY THE SMARTER WEB COMPANY LIMITED -->
<!--CONTACT Web Design | Web Designer | Website Design | Cheap Web Design FOR MORE INFORMATION-->

So whoever is responsible for it didn't spend much money and probably did it themselves. More interestingly though, the Umbrella logo and tag line "More than just an umbrella company" appears to have been linked directly from another companies website, as does the angel logo.

That company is The Bedouin Group, who have previous on here for a variety of offshore/EBT related schemes.

http://www.bedouinlimited.co.uk

<p><img src="/bedouingroup1-com/_img/umbrella.jpg" alt="" width="552" height="268" /></p>

Now digging for Simon Powell and Bedouin turns up this guy.

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view...SkuR&trk=pbmap

Reading through his profile shows lots of IoM links ( and highlights how crap the search function on LinkedIn is). It also links him to 78Media.com and lots of contractor related entrepreneurial web shenanigans.

So I'm guessing from the limited info available that this is the right guy.

[northernladuk]

Oh and there is

locumbenefits.co.uk
0845 868 1308

execpay.co.uk
0845 868 1309
I like this one on their site..
All Taxes paid on your behalf
Keep 100% of your Income

How does that work?

They seem to spend more time setting up webpages and 0845 numbers than they do being an employer....

[northernladuk]

Nigel Banks

Nigel Banks - IT Contractor - Contractor Base

So definitely nothing dodgy going on there then.

Mr Nigel Banks also pops up in the Cache for Execpay but still references Contractor Angels so I think someone cocked up when they copied the site...

August | 2012 | Execpay

[northernladuk]

<good stuff>

You wanna grow and tache and call youself Magum PI. Great digging.

In Simons 'Also viewed list' is...

Alex Ward of the Bedouin Group.

[mudskipper]

Just out of interest I chucked in £500 a day as a rate into the calculator, apparently my estimated retention is £150,000 a year!

WooHoo!

Caption underneath:

Estimated retention =
day rate x 300 days per annum