Click here to return to the Ministrywarning web site regarding convicted criminal and fugitive Ken Parks of Duluth, GA.  Parks runs a fraudulent "ministry" and "charity," that he calls ETC Ministries, last known to be operated from his residence in Duluth, as well as unlicensed businesses AtlantaMAXPhoto, Fotos by Ken and Ansisoft.  Since 2000, Parks has been consumed with stalking, harassing, and threatening numerous people, including those in his own family, via web sites, chatrooms, e-mail and regular mail.  Parks falsely claims he has won all of his pro se (without an attorney) lawsuits against his victims, when in fact the documentation shows he has actually lost his lawsuits.

Consumer Alert: Since 2007, Ken Parks is using an alias, calling himself Max Parks and Ken "Max" Parks.  He is also running yet another unlicensed, unregistered photography business that he calls AtlantaMAXPhoto and Atlanta MAX Photo. 

When town and city authorities in Duluth, Johns Creek, Gwinnett County and Fulton County, Georgia, were last contacted in the spring of 2008, Ken Parks had never registered his Fotos by Ken photography business, his 2007 Atlanta MAX Photo photography business, or his Ansisoft computer repair and software (including web design) business.  In 2006 the supervisor at the Duluth licensing department stated that town regulations prohibit the existence and operation of two separate businesses in one location address.  Based on information obtained from the State of Georgia in early 2005, Parks registered his Ansisoft business as a Limited Liability Corporation with the State of Georgia (LLC control number:  0316850), but there was no record of any registration for Fotos by Ken with the State of Georgia as of early 2005.  Parks' 2007 Atlanta MAX Photo business was also not registered with the state as of the spring of 2008. 

Parks also claims to be a "ministry leader" and "teacher of the word" of his ETC Ministries and charity, which he also runs out of his home in Duluth, Georgia.  Parks' ETC Ministries web site criticizes all area churches, ministries, and charities, and he claims that only he and his one-man "ministry" truly ministers to the poor and needy in Duluth.  ETC Ministries is not registered with the IRS, nor with the State of Georgia, nor within any area of Gwinnett or Fulton counties in Georgia.  A complaint with documentation against Ken Parks is on record with the State of Georgia.

As detailed and documented on the ministrywarning.com web site, Ken Parks has a previous conviction for battery and trespass in crimes against women.  He also has a current fugitive-status arrest warrant issued against him in Connecticut for harassment against a woman.  Parks has also pulled a gun on his ex-wife in the presence of his children.  Furthermore, Parks has been investigated and warned by both the Secret Service (late 1980s) and the FBI in 2004 and 2005 to stop harassing and cyberstalking people.    

Parks has filed and lost harassing and baseless pro se lawsuits against his victims, yet fraudulently boasts of "winning" those lawsuits despite the public records showing that he has, in fact, lost his lawsuits.  Since 2000, Parks had nearly 20 libelous web sites, which included photographs of many of his victims, taken down by domestic and foreign web host companies because of his violations of Terms of Service agreements.  The web host companies that host his current libelous, cyberstalking, incendiary web sites refuse to uphold any Terms of Service agreements.  The victims of Parks' aggressive cyberstalking campaign and these victims' advocates have been told by attorneys general in states that efforts are being made to pass stronger federal and state laws to put to an end the abuse of cyberstalkers and other cyber criminals who make use of the Internet to commit their crimes.

Given the background of Ken Parks as a convicted criminal and serial cyberstalker, a legitimate question any person in search of a professional photographer needs to ask is:  Do I want this kind of person taking photographs of my special occasion with my loved ones?  Would I want to risk having pictures of myself or my loved ones posted on the Internet in the event Parks decides that I somehow "wronged" him and he then begins a libel and harassment campaign against me on the Internet as he has done against his other victims?  Do I want to risk being yet another victim of Ken Parks' harassing and baseless pro se lawsuits?

The warning about Parks' business activities is relevant to the other warnings found in the rest of the ministrywarning.com web site.  Parks has put up photographs of his stalking and harassment victims, including photographs of his victims' children, on his kenfactor and his etcministries web sites.  Ironically, on many of those same web sites (previous and current), Parks has actually advertised his Fotos by Ken photography business, as if publishing photographs of his cyberstalked victims on his web sites would actually be good advertisement for someone looking for a wedding or special occasion photographer.  Clearly, Parks seems to think cyberstalking and harassing his victims and including their photographs on his libelous web sites would actually be appealing to anyone seeking a "professional" photographer. 

More ominously, Parks has advertised his Fotos by Ken photography business on web sites dealing with children's topics and services: 

Atlanta Wedding Photographer - Fotos by Ken - Portraits, Family, Children, C...
... the metro-Atlanta Georgia area. Ken specializes in wedding and portrait photography, with a ... ... Atlanta Wedding Photographers, Atlanta Wedding Photography Atlanta Wedding Site, Atlanta Weddings ...

Ken Parks has also advertised his Fotos by Ken and his Atlanta MAX Photo businesses on wedding photography referral web sites and other referral web sites unrelated to photography.  On one such web site he also includes advertisement for his Ansisoft computer business:

Parks also makes a false claim about his qualifications on his Fotos by Ken web sites:

Family members of Ken Parks know as a fact that Ken Parks' father was not a professional photographer "for nearly 10 years."  Ken Parks' father was a life-long hobbyist photographer who photographed only a few weddings in friend-of-a-friend referral situations.  Family members remember that Ken Parks, as a teenager, helped carry his father's equipment to those few weddings, which hardly qualifies as being an "apprentice" and certainly not "for 10 years."  Ken Parks' father died in 1972.  Ken Parks took a paid photography assignment of a little league baseball team in the mid-1970s and one family member distinctly remembers that the photographs were very badly done, which angered the children's parents.  No one else in the family seems to remember Ken Parks ever photographing any weddings or special events throughout the rest of the 1970s and 1980s.  One family member who has had sporadic contact with Parks through the 1990s and up to 2005 never mentioned Parks doing any photography assignments.  If Parks did do any photography assignments they seem to be very infrequent.  The one family member who has had periodic contact with Parks throughout the 1990s and up to 2005 has stated that Parks asked for money due to high bills and spotty employment (see Ken Parks' resume with highlighted contradictions and false claims).  

As for Ken Parks' Ansisoft business, details of suspicions are documented on the ministrywarning.com web site that Parks sent virus infected e-mails to his harassment victims and altered his e-mail address in order to spam and harass dozens of his former friends.  That documentation ought to cause any person to reconsider hiring Parks to do any kind of computer repair or any other computer-related services.  Collection agencies have also contacted Parks' family members due to his past-due credit card bills and possibly for monies sought against Parks in a lawsuit he lost when he was sued by Providian National Bank when he lived in Florida.  Parks has apparently given credit card companies his family's address and phone number information rather than his own address and phone number information.  He is also suspected of having used his sons' Social Security Numbers in acquiring more credit cards.  People usually have much personal information in their computers.  To expose that information to someone like Parks could possibly make them a victim of identity theft and cause credit problems.

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