Archive for May 2013

ULTIMATE INSULT? ‘ProfitClicking,’ A ‘JSSTripler’/’JustBeenPaid’ Reload Scam That Surfaced After Collapse Of Zeek Rewards, Now Called ‘ProfitCrapping’ On Ponzi Boards

ULTIMATE INSULT? 'ProfitClicking,' A 'JSSTripler'/'JustBeenPaid' Reload Scam That Surfaced After Collapse Of Zeek Rewards, Now Called 'ProfitCrapping' On Ponzi Boards

A “program” the PP Blog reported may have ties to the so-called “sovereign citizens” movement appears to have wiped out investors and perhaps zeroed out the purported earnings of many of them, according to posts at the MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi-scheme forum. In fact, according to one post, the “ProfitClicking” program perhaps now can be best described […]

UPDATE: 2 Liberty Reserve Figures Jailed In New York; 1 Of Them Has Lawyer Experienced In Mob Cases

UPDATE: 2 Liberty Reserve Figures Jailed In New York; 1 Of Them Has Lawyer Experienced In Mob Cases

Two defendants in the alleged $6 billion Liberty Reserve money-laundering conspiracy are listed as inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York. They are Vladimir Kats, also known as “Ragnar,” and Mark Marmilev, also known as “Marko” and “Mark Halls.” Kats is 41; Marmilev is 33. Their release dates are listed as “unknown.” […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Liberty Reserve, Founder, Others Indicted In New York

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Liberty Reserve, Founder, Others Indicted In New York

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (15TH UPDATE 2:31 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) Liberty Reserve, its founder and several others have been indicted in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The charges, which include conspiracy to commit money-laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, were […]

BULLETIN: ‘PerfectMoney,’ Fraud-Scheme Processor Purportedly Based In Panama, Says It Is Banning U.S. Customers

BULLETIN: 'PerfectMoney,' Fraud-Scheme Processor Purportedly Based In Panama, Says It Is Banning U.S. Customers

BULLETIN: On the heels of the apparent shutdown of Costa Rica-based Liberty Reserve as part of an international money-laundering investigation, “PerfectMoney” says it is banning users from the United States. Perfect Money purportedly operates from Panama. (More below.) In an announcement dated today on its website, Perfect Money says that “due to changes in our […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Liberty Reserve Payment Processor Offline Amid Reports Of Arrest Of Operator In Spain On Money-Laundering Charges

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Liberty Reserve Payment Processor Offline Amid Reports Of Arrest Of Operator In Spain On Money-Laundering Charges

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Costa Rica-based Liberty Reserve, a payment processor favored by HYIP scammers and other criminals, is offline — and there are reports that its operator is under arrest in Spain on money-laundering charges. “We lost Huge $$$,” a poster on the MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi forum complained. The poster’s forum signature was advertising […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Kenneth Wayne Leaming Sentenced To 8 Years In Federal Prison

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported 'Sovereign Citizen' Kenneth Wayne Leaming Sentenced To 8 Years In Federal Prison

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (UPDATED 10:55 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison. His former business associate and fellow purported “sovereign” David Carroll Stephenson has been sentenced to 10 years. Stephenson already was serving prison time for a tax scam. […]

Zeekers Targeted As Early Ponzi-Board Rift Develops Over Promo For ‘My Fun Life’; Lawsuits Involving Other MLMs Make Headlines

Zeekers Targeted As Early Ponzi-Board Rift Develops Over Promo For 'My Fun Life'; Lawsuits Involving Other MLMs Make Headlines

UPDATED 4:04 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) It has been another miserable PR week for MLM. Some members of the alleged Zeek Rewards Ponzi- and pyramid scheme now are receiving over-the-top emails for an emerging travel-membership “program” known as “MyFunLife,” a source tells the PP Blog. Meanwhile, executives from a longstanding MLM company are suing each other […]

‘OPERATION SWILL’ — Is It The Greatest Name Ever For An Undercover Probe? Hard-Working New Jersey Revelers Allegedly Ripped Off In Their Purchases Of High-End Spirits

'OPERATION SWILL' -- Is It The Greatest Name Ever For An Undercover Probe? Hard-Working New Jersey Revelers Allegedly Ripped Off In Their Purchases Of High-End Spirits

UPDATED 4:13 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) If you repaired to your favorite New Jersey tavern on your way home after a hard day of work — and if you ordered a high-end spirit because it was payday or you simply preferred a premium brand — you might have been suckered in a “dishonest ruse to increase […]

RECOMMENDED VIEWING: ‘American Greed’ To Air Story On Trevor Cook Ponzi Scheme Tonight

“Talk Radio Takedown” from CNBC’s “American Greed” program is expected to air at 10 p.m. EDT today, after a National Hockey League playoff game concludes. Visit the CNBC site. Watch the teaser (part of which features the taped voice of one of Cook’s radio pitchmen and chief bloviators) . . . The Cook/Kiley Forex fraud […]

Letter Sent To Federal Judge In Washington State Contained Ricin, FBI Says; Matthew Ryan Buquet Arrested

Letter Sent To Federal Judge In Washington State Contained Ricin, FBI Says; Matthew Ryan Buquet Arrested

The FBI has arrested Matthew Ryan Buquet, who appeared in federal court yesterday to face a charge he mailed a letter containing ricin toxin to a federal judge in Washington state. Buquet is 37. The Associated Press, via Fox News, identified the intended recipient as U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle of the Eastern District […]

UPDATE: Pushed To Profitable Sunrise Victims, Biwako Bank Limited Appears To Be DOA

UPDATE: Pushed To Profitable Sunrise Victims, Biwako Bank Limited Appears To Be DOA

UPDATE: The PP Blog wrote about Biwako Bank Limited on April 29 after it was touted on a Profitable Sunrise Facebook site as a good “program” for individuals ripped off in the alleged Profitable Sunrise pyramid scheme. But now Biwako Bank’s website has disappeared, with the “program” apparently following Profitable Sunrise into the darkness. “**THIS […]