We’ll Be Sure To Show This To Our Lawyers When They’re Out Of Class (UPDATED)
From: Aleksey Vayner <aleksey.vayner@gmail.com>
To: ivygate@gmail.com, ron706@aol.com
Date: Oct 9, 2006 12:04 AM
Subject: Cease and Disist NotificationDear editor, writer, owner of IvyGateBlog,It has been brought to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my video, my photographs, have made public disclosure of private facts, and have slandered me in your articles on IvyGateBlog.com. I have reserved all rights to the video you have uploaded onto YouTube.com, and have made available on your site. I have also reserved all rights to the photos you have used in your articles about me. Furthermore, you have made an illegal public disclosure of private facts by posting my cover letter, resume, and my article on hedge fund selling beta as alpha, online on ivygateblog.com. Finally you have extensively slandered me in your articles.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use copyrighted video and photographs for your articles, you have willfully infringed my rights. You have also illegally made my private information public.
I demand that you immediately cease and desist. You must remove the illegal copy of my video from your youtube.com account and any other site, cease any use and the distribution of my property and information, remove my private information that are my cover letter, resume, and the research paper on “hedge funds selling alpha as beta,” the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the materials mentioned above. I ask that you destroy such copies immediately, and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. Kindly provide proof within 10 days that you have complied with my request dated October 8th 2006.
Very truly yours,
Aleksey Vayner
p.s. Due effort has been made to obtain your company’s physical contact information. If you kindly provide me with a physical address, a copy of this notification will be sent to you by registered mail.
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October 9th, 2006 at 10:40 am
As an imaginaary lawyer with no credentials, I believe I would be well-suited to represent IvyGate in this case. We’re going to go with the twinkie defense. Or maybe the “we ignored your email because the misspelling in the subject line sent it straight to our junkmail filter” defense.
Or maybe this make-believe person and his make-believe identity can stop sending make-believe threats where he pretends to know what he’s talking about.
October 9th, 2006 at 11:58 am
sadly he’s not a make believe person, even though everything about him is. i know him and his douchy-ness is beyond belief.
October 9th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Have you called your Attorney at lol?
October 9th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Today In Aleksey Vayner: He’s Very Popular!
The Aleksey Vayner story continued to erupt today, splattering its hot flow all over the internets and even onto a real, inky fingers newspaper. Here’s a quick rundown of all the latest news on Aleksey Vayner. • Under the name…
October 9th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
You didn’t slander him, that would be spoken mistruths. This was in writing, so it’d be libel. But it’s not libel if it’s true, right? Ha!
October 9th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
You know, Aleksey, I ain’t got the sharpest eyes, but I didn’t see any “terms of use” or other copyright notice on any of your works. i’d reckon you don’t have a case, you ballroom-dancin’ weight-liftin’ stone-breakin’ book-copyin’ charity-scammin’ buckaroo.
October 9th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Nate, you sound like our man. Want to represent us?
October 9th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Interesting to note his attorney who he kindly CCed.
A quick google search for ron706@aol.com leads links it with attorney Ron Bar-Nadav.
But he’s likely too busy reforming marijuana laws to sue IvyGate into obilvion.
Sigh….some people just don’t know when to stop.
October 9th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Won’t poor Aleksey be too busy with the NASD and SEC investigations into ‘hedge fund’ to come after you? I mean, we have multiple typos, false advertising, he’s not registered, no SIPC information, and if we are to believe that he has 10 years of experience, he’s been one of Tom Wolfe’s Masters of The Universe since he was of an age when most kids were still watching He-Man.
If he threatens to shoot death beams at you from his Nipples of Titanium, duck and call 911.
October 9th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Has IvyGate tried to contact the Yale admissions office yet? Would love to hear what they have to say.
October 9th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
OK, but my legal training is limited to a media law class at Temple U. Got a C-. You can pay me in cheesesteaks.
October 9th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Yo, anyone get the number for his dance instructor? She was kinda cute.
October 9th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
But Thom413 is now my new idol for legitimately dropping a he man reference into a comment.
October 9th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
For the record, you don’t actually need to put a terms of use or a copyright notice in order to have your work copyrighted.
In any case, Aleksey obviously has some issues when it comes to reality. I know him though, and he’s a nice guy. No one deserves all of this public ridicule.
October 9th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
His attorney Ron Bar-Nadav also seems to be affiliated with http://www.dwilawyers.com. Hmmm… wonder where Aleksey knows him from?
October 9th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
That’s funny – given the rest of his resume, e.g. the Dalia Lama references, I thought he’d say his lawyer was somebody a bit more illustrious, like Clarence Darrow, William Blackstone, or the Emperor Justinian
October 10th, 2006 at 9:05 am
I heard Learned Hand was busy but Olly Holmes was looking for clients for his post-judiciary practice.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Just curious but does surrendering his materials to the ibanks as part of his application terminate the copyright arguements he may have over his “material”… If i recall correctly many of the submissions for banks have their own fine print, saying that they can do with it as they please. And well if a recruiter felt like making fun of him and giving it to a fine site like ivygate…. hmmmm
October 10th, 2006 at 10:30 am
and of course the disclaimer, i was just asking a question. Im not qualified to answer the above statement of course…
October 10th, 2006 at 11:02 am
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one – big hitter, the Lama – long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
October 10th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
October 10 round-up
David Lat has much more detail on the $46 meal-skipping criminal case; and the St. Petersburg Times reports Ralph Paul was acquitted because his defense attorney misrepresented to the jury the legal standard, and the…
October 10th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
the carl spackler quote just made my day. Could Alexsey and Carl possibly be one in the same? I guess only the Lama could confirm that either way. I rec’d the initial directely from Aleksey back on Sept 20th. I had to retrieve it out of my trash folder once I started reading all the news about this guy. Nice to see my little investment firm is on the same level as UBS!!!
October 10th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
He Starts Monday as a GS-10 at HHS
The Aleksey Vayner saga just gets richer. From the IvyGate blog:A member of the Yale tennis team wrote in to…
October 10th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
He can sue for unauthorized display or reproduction of his copyrighted materials, but he’d have to register his copyrights with the Copyright Office first. Even so, IvyGate should have a decent shot at a fair use defense. That’s never certain, though.
Bottom line, if he got an actual lawyer, you might want to think about taking this stuff down and having your good friend Sven in Kerblekistan post it on his server instead.
As to the “slander,” which really should be libel, truth is a defense. There may be an action for invasion of privacy as well, which would be interesting. I’d take this case if I were a lawyer; since I’m not, I’d sit in court and laugh at him.
On the other hand, I really think he needs professional help, so from that point of view it’s not right to laugh.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
OMG, this is awesome… I had never seen anything so pathetic! I’m a broker in NY and one of my friends from Dartmouth told me about this guy… unbelievable.
I want to counter Caps’ comment by saying: no one deserves unwarranted ridicule, granted. But this is not the case. You reap what you sow.
Not to be outdone by his pathetic egotistical Adonis-wannabe resume, video, comments, lies, etc, he goes and makes a googled “cease and desist” letter as the icing of the cake… Brilliant.
October 10th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Caps, scam artists are typically nice. It’s what allows them to get where they’re going …hell. When the man stealing money from 79 year old women goes door to door he isn’t cussing them out now is he?
October 10th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Odd – is it “hedge funds selling alpha as beta” or “hedge funds selling beta as alpha”?
Al needs to make up his mind. If he can find it, that is.
October 11th, 2006 at 12:04 am
John didn’t you look closely? It wasn’t even a “cease and desist” letter, but rather a demand that IvyGate “cease and disist” publication of his video…..don’t most ibanking jobs require candidates with “excellent verbal and WRITTEN communications skills”?
Oh and I’ve taken one term of Constitutional law, and I’m fairly certain that you need some sort of mark to copyright material and I don’t remember seeing that on the site or in the video, so there’s no reason why IvyGate should have to take that stuff down. Furthermore, unless he can prove that IvyGate’s accusation that his credentials are faked is untrue, he’s got no grounds on the libel thing either
October 11th, 2006 at 12:21 am
I reckon our man Aleksay is on to make a bundle from this. If UBS did indeed start sharing this, then they’ll have opened themselves up to some serious negligence. Whilst any material submitted proberbly does become the property of UBS, Aleksay was still owed a duty of care and a resonable expectation no to have his crazyness shared. I’d take on his case, be a big day for all involved.
October 11th, 2006 at 1:13 am
Is this for real?
October 11th, 2006 at 1:24 am
You don’t need to register a work with the Copyright Office for copyrights to attach. You gain copyrights in your work as soon as it is completed, whether registered or not. Nor does the work need to be marked or otherwise bear an indication that the creator has copyrights to it.
I’m just saying, thats all. Good luck to douchey-boy on a succesful suit, though. I heard he was a member of the Supreme Court Bar, so he must be pretty good at practicing law too. Yeah, thats it, he argued Booker back when he was a freshman.
You Yalies never cease to impriss.
October 11th, 2006 at 3:08 am
The story has just made it accross the pond – in this morning’s free newspaper the metro! Aleksay, now the whole knows you are a complete muppet!
October 11th, 2006 at 3:49 am
Just to let everyone know that this story was printed in London’s METRO free paper this morning (page 3) and so has been read by at least a few million commuters this morning. It certainly cheered me up this morning : )
October 11th, 2006 at 4:56 am
Isn’t George Bush a Yalie?
October 11th, 2006 at 7:12 am
This is superb. I haven’t found a single person all day who has not witnessed this timeless classic, and I suspect it is doing the rounds further afield than the USA & UK. If it had been intended to be a spoof it would be worthy of comparison the legendary Borat. At least Aleksey has a range of proficiencies in other fields if his application is unsuccessful.
Vayner has proven that impossible is bluffing.
October 11th, 2006 at 7:25 am
I’m come from a poor part of south London, England. Everything I’ve got I’ve had to work for and that isn’t a lot. My family did the best they could for me but sadly I didn’t have the luck to go to a great school and get a brilliant education. But how happy am I that I’m not Aleksey Vayner……….Top Wanker
October 11th, 2006 at 7:56 am
P.s it should be ‘I’m from’ but like i said No education
October 11th, 2006 at 8:07 am
About the Author
Aleksey Vayner is a scholar of Eastern European Studies at Yale University. Several years into his academic career at Yale, Aleksey met a woman with a horrifying and compelling story of her survival in concentration camps. Her female perspective painted the horrors of the Holocaust a new light, different from what has already been published in mainstream texts on the topic. Revealing aspects of history that would otherwise remain overlooked due to a lack of focus on gender-specific studies on the Holocaust, Aleksey Vayner wrote Women’s Silent Tears to help preserve the horrors of Jewish history that seem so quickly forgotten.
Aleksey Vayner, a first-generation immigrant from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is an entrepreneur, professional athlete, philanthropist, and a writer.
Mr. Vayner’s passions include the study of psychology that underlies peak performance and helping children of immigrant families overcome personal struggles. To do this, he launched a non profit organization, Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!). All proceeds from the sales of this book are donated to YES. Aleksey Vayner resides in NYC; he is an investment advisor at Vayner Capital Management LLC.
October 11th, 2006 at 9:10 am
i like the p.s.
its like his mother was writing to him and saying p.s. don’t forget to wear your hat
muppet
October 11th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Greeting all the way from the United Kingdom.
This guy is absolutely amazing what was he thinking. You will all be happy to know that the news of his antics have reached our shores and we are all having a good laugh at his expense. To tell little white lies on your CV is one thing but to create such ludicrous rubbish is another, do you think he actually believes the things he is on about in his video or is it just a joke?
What a JOKE!!!
October 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Guys,
This whole story would be funny if it wasn’t scary. This guy is psycho and need professional attention ASAP. I have bad feelings about him…
P.S. Please keep us posted on Admissions Office reply
October 11th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
“Aleksey Vayner resides in NYC; he is an investment advisor at Vayner Capital Management LLC.”
If he’s not registered, I think he has more to worry about than what takes place on ivygate, like jail.
October 11th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
What a scam artist. I wonder whether the other people in the video were involved or used.
October 11th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
On the subject of copyright, I wonder whether Hans Zimmer gave permission for this nutter to use his music?
October 11th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
He sounds like a real high quality guy, maybe you could hook him up with this chick
http://jacquelinepassey.blogs.com/blog/2006/08/dating_tip_qual.html
October 11th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
UBS cannot be held liable for defamation since our little karate champ decided to post the video on his web site for display instead of attaching the video with the resume. IvyGate is correct in claiming that this video has become “fair use”. I would recommend that karate boy use this publicity for “maximum success” (you have only to imagine it passionately, and it will come to be) to begin a career in Clown college or show business. Get an agent and you’re on your way.
October 11th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
He’s not a reincarnation of L Ron Hubbard, perchance?
October 11th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Am I the only one who has been say allday masturbating over this video……
look at them pecks
WOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRR!!!!
October 11th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I will crush you all!!!! I am going to dance all over your faces!!
I am going to bench press you into next week!!
I am going to use powers taught to me by Mohammed and Moses and known only to me and 3 other people in Conneticut to beat you up..!
I am going to stack your cars ontop of each other and throw poopy at you!!
And I am going to have an office one day and PROUDLY DISPLAY A YALE DIPLOMA ON THE FRIGGIN WALL BEHIND MY DESK!!
October 11th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
This guy should meet up with Kim Jong Il; they could talk about how they both shot 35 under par the first time they played golf and how new stars appeared in the heavens when they were born.
October 11th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
re: “aleksey vayner” post–
Duly noted. Someone in Yale admissions should seriously evaluate this situation… how embarrasing for a school to admit someone with this kind of reputation.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Another narcissistic existence out there….
http://www.benbolger.com/
October 12th, 2006 at 2:08 am
Hello from Australia,
This hit our shores yesterday 11th October. This guy is a bloody clown, there is nowhere he can hide. The only job this drongo will be able to get from now on involves mustachioed men, ferrets and KY.
The amount of people who have heard of this over here is astonishing. Well, you can’t get away with much these days can you Aleksey, you sad, sad, sad little gimp.
October 12th, 2006 at 3:18 am
I checked out the Ben Bolger site, very funny indeed. But if this Bolger person is for real, I’m both grudgingly impressed with his ability to get so many pictures with so many people and very creeped out by the fact that he has accumulated them. There is a fine line between self-promotion and narcissism, and it is now routinely crossed. By the way, go to my website at…
October 12th, 2006 at 3:34 am
Also, Aleksey Vayner’s video reminds me of Dirk Diggler’s video profile in Boogie Nights. Does Aleksey sing too? Feel, feel, feel, feel, feel…feel my heeeat.
October 12th, 2006 at 4:23 am
Well, it got to Sweden as well. How did he get into Yale?
October 12th, 2006 at 4:38 am
Hey from Belgium,
I just read about Aleksey today in the paper. What’s wrong with this guy? Did he really think his video wouldn’t end up on the internet? If you’re interested and if you can read dutch…
http://www.hln.be/hlns/cache/det/art_275324.html?wt.bron=kanaalArt5
October 12th, 2006 at 6:27 am
will he usurp Amir Tofangsazan of the “broken laptop I sold on eBay” fame?
And I don’t think he’ll be getting the job ;-)
October 12th, 2006 at 7:20 am
Greetings from London – this story featured in a London newspaper yesterday and I’ve just sent it round my office near Westminster. Excellent quality fun
October 12th, 2006 at 7:44 am
Holy heck – story has made it to NZ and the whole nation is in fits. only in America huh? I am sure there is a defence of fair comment as well as a defence of truth, so post what you will, I think you’re covered. does anyone else feel like our children wont be telling chuck norris jokes in a decades time, they will be telling aleksey vayner jokes instead:
aleksey vayner’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
Macgyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but aleksey vayner can kill him and take it.
aleksey vayner only masturbates to pictures of aleksey vayner.
aleksey vayner lost his virginity before his dad did.
October 12th, 2006 at 7:57 am
Best self destruction video we’ve ever seen here in Amsterdam. It’s all over the net. Hilarious!
October 12th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
The Ben Bolger site is for real – I know half of the stories of how he got the pics with all of the celebrities. He actually got in trouble with a few security teams (including that of former President Clinton). The really hard ones he got by actually forging a press pass and getting into secured areas with a camera. The only one I didn’t hear about and can’t figure out is how he got his picture in front of Air Force One. It’s also kind of disturbing that he somehow got that close to it…
M&M’s melt in Aleksy Vayner’s hands…
October 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
At least Bolger is real. I don’t think Vayner could do half the things he has. And who cares if Bolger has a ridiculously impressive collection of photos. He obviously works hard even though he has a learning disability. It is amazing how his photos go from David Rockefeller to MC Hammer…hah.
October 12th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Looks like Aleksey decided to slum it by using the University of Texas System’s free information. I guess he paid for a Yale education to learn how to find free information from public universities.
October 13th, 2006 at 1:47 am
Bwahahaha!!….. All of us here in Hong Kong are in fits. This is freakin’ rib-ripping hilarious!
October 13th, 2006 at 1:50 am
Bwahahaha!!….. All of us here in Hong Kong are in fits. This is freakin’ rib-ripping hilarious!
October 13th, 2006 at 3:45 am
Good lord. This is the best since Gary Brolsma. By the way, I’m Norwegian. This is pretty international by now. Roflmao’s aaaaaal over the world.
October 13th, 2006 at 6:40 am
man! the M&A crew are laughing our ass off with this guy! he is becoming famous all over Europe
October 13th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Congratulations, it arrived in Switzerland.
October 13th, 2006 at 7:43 am
and in italy as well :)
October 13th, 2006 at 8:25 am
it’s big in the english speaking part of russia as well
October 13th, 2006 at 8:45 am
That’s two Yale graduates I’ve heard about if you include Dubya too!!
October 13th, 2006 at 8:57 am
break.com just removed all the content..the video..comments…everything…lets begin a campange to bring it back…the comment section was wild
October 13th, 2006 at 9:04 am
I will crush you all!!!! I am going to dance all over your faces!!
I am going to bench press you into next week!!
I am going to use powers taught to me by Mohammed and Moses and known only to me and 3 other people in Conneticut to beat you up..!
I am going to stack your cars ontop of each other and throw poopy at you!!
And I am going to have an office one day and PROUDLY DISPLAY A YALE DIPLOMA ON THE FRIGGIN WALL BEHIND MY DESK!!
October 13th, 2006 at 9:12 am
all my life… all my life…
all the rest of my life with just 1 big regret… I’m not a lawyer… just a musician…
by the way, I put it emule shared folder… can you meke me remove it, BIG AL? :D
October 13th, 2006 at 9:13 am
ehm… watch… italian best selling newspaper…
http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/10_Ottobre/12/yale.shtml
October 13th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
it’s quite easy. The case is simple: There is no libel if what you say is truth (even any part of it).
So don’t sweat and take a moron head-on. He seem to be a real joke; actually, think of it- some of these types actually make it to Wall Street and advise us!!! LOL!!!!!!!!
October 13th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Oh, boy!!
One of our readers left a comment late Friday pointing to a 2002 article in a Yale magazine called “Rumpus” that profiled Aleksey Vayner, investment banker wannabe, and Lucy Gao’s new viral email successor. But his name was different back then. It was Aleksey Garber. And boy is the story bizarre. Vayner / Garber claims an extremely colorful past including: His education at a Tibetan monastery in Uzbekistan. His father’s job with the German mafia. Connections to the Russian mafia. The CIA. Martial Arts instructor extraordinaire. Tennis instructor to the stars. Columbia freshman. It goes on and on. He’s even claimed to have worked at Goldman Sachs — everyone took lessons from him at the Roosevelt Island Tennis club including a Goldman President who got him a job:
So did one of the presidents of Goldman Sachs, a shadowy figure whom, Garber describes as owning something like 40% of the seats at the New York Stock Exchange and who also found a position for Garber within the firm. [which isn't mentioned on his resume]
http://wallstfolly.typepad.com/wallstfolly/2006/10/aleksey_vayner_.html
October 13th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
if you are seriously concerned about the case, try EFF the great defenders of internet freedom of speech, online journalism, etc. however, it is manned largely by yale lawyers.
October 14th, 2006 at 6:14 am
Hello from Germany. Vaynorism has arrived here yesterday. Real funny how someone makes a fool of himself with just one video.
I was very amused when reading about his “career” in german mafia, never knew there was a german mafia…
Additionally, I never knew that shaolin kungfu knows Dans (and we got a shaolin temple here in Kaiserslautern). I also know a little about martial arts (I´ve learned Taekwondo for about 7 years) and I never saw someone breaking bricks this way, without breaking his hand or wrist.
ps: sorry for the poor english
October 15th, 2006 at 12:36 am
Oh… Breaking the bricks were the highlight of the experience!.. Clean cut, mighty hand… :-D Absolutly hilarious! Seriously, man, sick professional help… I hope Yale was the only place that allowed this rubbish to fall through (think about letting this guy into a bank… a hospital… politics… yikes!!)
October 16th, 2006 at 12:54 am
well its called the freedom of information act.
its what keeps people finding your cc numbers on the net but untill they use them they didnt break the law. so who ever wrote this go to hell and that act will bring you to your knees.
October 16th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Finally, a guy who is a bigger jerk than me. Maybe this will take the heat off me and I can date again. Anyone want to go out to dinner?
October 17th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
I feel a little sorry for this guy. The only thing that I think he can really complain about is the fact that UBS did not block out his address and phone number before they forwarded his resume to everyone. I wouldn’t appreciate my personal contact information being displayed for the whole world to see.
October 17th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Thom413 = officially MY Hero for dropping a Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities reference as well!!!
October 18th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Finally you have extensively slandered me in your articles.
no alex, slander is the spoken word, libel is what you’re accusing them of–the printed word.
October 18th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Yeah, this has gone entirely too far.
It would be one thing if this poor zhlub had actually hurt someone–then I might understand how this story became an occasion for everyone to leap into this dogpile of mirthful self-approval–but this is just a dumb, hapless kid.
Did you guys think you were nipping a young Stalin or a Dubya in the bud by making Vayner/Garber’s idiocy a media sensation?
It isn’t even that funny. It’s sad from the outset. Self-deluded immigrant kid desperate to be admired as a superman–how many nerdy, ivy league kids can’t, in thier heart of hearts, identify with that longing?
You know what keeps this story going: schadenrelief (patent pending on this coinage). Schadenrelief is the deep sense of self-approbation that comes from watching some other poor schmuck do something retarded, and saying, “whew! I’m glad it wasn’t me!”
Vayner might be shameless, but since all you snarky guys know so much better, you really should be ashamed.
October 18th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Let the WITCH HUNT begin!
This is venomous, in its purest form!
While you looser are out attacking a person for the things he said, I have not heard one word about if he has ever hurt, injured, or damaged somebody, or anybody, or anything.
Sounds like your dada and mama have spent lots of money sending you to an Ivy League school to be a real Republican!
All of you should be ashamed of yourselves! You should all go home and be decent to better the human race!
October 18th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
If his fake credentials had gotten him a job that someone else actually deserved, both the employer and the other candidate would be victims of his dishonesty. That his scam didn’t work is not a defense to his behavior. Aleksey deserves this public scorn. And don’t feel too bad for him because if he plays his cards right he’ll probabyl benefit from this publicity. And he went to Yale for crissake… he’ll get a job somewhere, don’t worry.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
hey gizmo,
sounds like you are really into hate crime!
October 20th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
This guy deserves everything he is getting. He is a pathological liar and its about time he is outted. Looks like he has spent his whole life lying about stuff. What a effing douche bag. He should be ashamed of himself and all the plagerizing he has done.
October 20th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
you know something, in one way i agree with previous comments about him not hurting anyone or him being malicious………………………………………………………however………………………………………… when you lie and deceive people the way this dude has, then he is hurting people. He tried to make fools out of people… claiming to write educated publications when he clearly stole paragraphs from books. claiming to own a charity organization… i mean how low can you get here. Biggest loser of all time. KARMA IS A MOTHER FUCKIN BITCH ALEKSEY!
October 23rd, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Dear Sirs:
I am a Connecticut lawyer who serves as co-counsel for Bullshido.net and therefore has some background in internet defamation matters. It looks like he was bluffing in terms of pursuing a legal action however if I can still be of assistance please contact me at the e-mail address provided above. To confirm my professional status I will provide my juris# which is 417779.
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October 24th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Just wanted to say hello from Norway. Aleksey Vayner is famous here too!
October 24th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
This has been published in Kazakstan this morning.
Is he representative for the average Yale student ?
October 25th, 2006 at 5:02 am
I just love the guy. He’s now getting famous in Denmark too. I can’t wait to follow this fantastic person. What’s next? There must be a movie and a gameshow waiting for his adventures.
Bush might want him to track down Osama? His the man for that job…..
October 25th, 2006 at 5:02 am
I just love the guy. He’s now getting famous in Denmark too. I can’t wait to follow this fantastic person. What’s next? There must be a movie and a gameshow waiting for his adventures.
Bush might want him to track down Osama? His the man for that job…..
October 26th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
He has made it to Finland now. Soon the world will be his.
October 28th, 2006 at 1:38 am
To me this pathetic thing sounds too much like that lunatic British quasi-actor Sasha guy who impersonates a Kazakh.
I imagine it must be a publicity stunt. Nobody is THAT stupid as this alleged Lyosha thing
October 28th, 2006 at 6:11 am
Funny stuff. The story is all over the place over here in Europe. What an ego! Fantastic! He could actually put “certified biggest ego known to man” on his resume. Hope he learns from this and sees that he needs to change his ways and perhaps … possibly … he will in the end turn out a humble and wise human being. We can only hope.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I’m surprises no one else remarked that… should the term be “cease and desist” (he spelled it “disist”)!! Also came across this really funny spoof on the video: http://www.vlogolution.com/vlog/archives/43-Aleksey-Vayner-Impossible-is-Nothing-Spoof.html?vid=flv&moMONEY
November 8th, 2006 at 8:52 am
This has reached the African continent. I am in Lesotho to be exact (a small country in the middle of the Republic of South Africa)
I almost fee sorry the poor guy. He is truly famous! Ag shame.