Arvind Upadhyay
Arvind Upadhyay is a center-right Fraudster and Imposter and Web Developer who is a citizen of India, and has been associated with the following entities as either a significant contributor, participant, promoter, or beneficiary, according to our OSINT research:
Brands: GPL Times, HashTagIt, Next Webguru Techno Services, Webgear, Webgear Techno Services, XYZ Times
Groups: 100 Worst Hucksters (India), B2B Scammers (India)
Domains: gpltimes.com, webgts.com
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https://web.archive.org/web/20200513163111/https://festingerbhw.com/faqs/
You may call me Festinger, and I’ll be your go-to guy for all things WordPress you may imagine. I have a great collection of paid WordPress themes and plugins, all 100% legal. I believe in the open source community and believe that WordPress should be available and affordable to all. Unfortunately premium products authors refuse to decouple support from the code, they won’t set regional price differences and they rarely offer discounts to students, low waged or the young. We are providing a third way by redistributing the code without any unneeded extras and I don’t sell premium products to make money, I make money to bring more premium products to The Vault.
wpdepo.com oldest occurance
woocreo.com also
gpltimes.com also
https://search.dnslytics.com/domain/wpdepo.com
Turkish registrar, DigitalOcean IP in Netherlands
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arvindupadhyay007_wordpress-wordpressdeveloper-plugins-activity-7042569277425467392-gJMr/?trk=public_profile_like_view
https://forum.itshqip.com/threads/a-eshte-legale-kjo-faqe.59606/
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https://www.zaubacorp.com/director/ARVIND-UPADHYAY/07676488
https://www.easyleadz.com/people/webgear-techno-2366427
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https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Webgear-Techno-Services-EI_IE3013698.11,34.htm
https://www.naukri.com/job-listings-writer-webgear-techno-services-dehradun-2-to-4-years-080420500514?src=jobsearchDesk&sid=16074602965012044&xp=9&px=30
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pPnMaAp-CRUJ:https://securitytrails.com/list/ip/2606:4700:20::ac43:44c4+&cd=36&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
https://www.facebook.com/webgearindia/
https://www.justdial.com/Haldwani/Webgear-Techno-Services-LLP/9999P5946-5946-170803123351-N7B4_BZDET
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6jMHcs47LFgJ:https://siterankdata.com/gpltimes.com+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
https://archive.is/hIkG0
https://www.findglocal.com/IN/Dehra-Dun/466029717191953/Webgear
https://web.archive.org/web/20200920101729/https://www.gpltimes.com/privacy-policy/
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pretends to be based in New York City in their site footer
their client?
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Arvind tries extremely hard to hide his association with GPL Times, using a registrar in Iceland and a server in Japan, but it was still fairly easy to track him down. He blatantly lies on the gpltimes.com website claiming to be based in New York, even though Americans can see though his obviously poor English grammar throughout the website.
If you want to resell GPL plugins for WordPress, just do it… it is legal. But don’t lie about it. And you better be ready for all the anger that comes you way for “stealing” the work of thousands of small businesses around the world.
He also falsely claims on LinkedIn to be the former Director of A&A Group of Companies (India) which is not true. He also claims to be the current director of another Indian company called “A Globals” which doesn’t even exist. He also shut down the website of Webgear Techno Services (webgts.com) apparently after his GPL Times website got popular but he still claims to be running that company… so I’m guessing he is laundering profits from GPL Times through that corporate entity.
The real directors of A&A are listed here:
https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/A-A-GROUP-OF-COMPANIES-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U74999MH2017PTC296938