Trevor Cook

An individual or group of individuals believed to be operating internationally created a website that mimicked the website of the U.S. Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC) “in an apparent attempt to target [Bernard] Madoff victims” in a fraud scheme, SIPC said.
SIPC and the SEC issued warnings immediately, as did the court-appointed receiver in the alleged [...]

It’s starting to read like Ian Fleming fare, something straight out of James Bond and “Octopussy.”
R.J. Zayed, the receiver in the alleged Trevor Cook/Pat Kiley Ponzi scheme in Minnesota, says he did not find Cook’s collection of Faberge eggs when, armed with a court order, he searched Cook’s home in Apple Valley. The precise size [...]

UPDATED 5:23 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A California man has been arrested by the FBI and IRS criminal investigators in an alleged Ponzi scheme involving $12 million.
Peter Jerald Frommer was taken into custody this morning, after a federal grand jury returned a 17-count indictment yesterday.
Frommer, 34, formerly of Malibu, was charged with two counts of mail [...]

UPDATED 5:25 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) KINGZ Capital Management Corp. (KCM) might have been used or contemplated for use as a tool in two far-reaching, incredibly elaborate Ponzi schemes, according to an analysis of public records and other information.
One of the schemes ultimately appears to have consumed tens of millions of dollars in a squalid venture [...]

UPDATED 1:18 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A company that denied any ties to the AdViewGlobal autosurf after AVG listed it as a facilitator of offshore wire transfers has been permanently banned by the National Futures Association (NFA) amid allegations that it failed to uphold high ethical standards and failed to supervise its operations.
KINGZ Capital Management Corp. [...]

If a thousand people tell you the autosurf they’re promoting is the “real deal” and that they’ve done their “due diligence” — they are lying.
If you believe them, you are setting yourself up to be fleeced and perhaps even dragged into court, perhaps as a reluctant victim or perhaps even as a defendant in a [...]

On a day a federal judge ordered alleged Minnesota Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook jailed — in part for not turning over a two-passenger submarine allegedly purchased on eBay with Ponzi proceeds — the following things happened:

A would-be PP Blog poster attempted to post the same news release about AdSurfDaily mainstay “Professor” Patrick Moriarty in 10 [...]

UPDATED 7:55 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A federal judge has ordered Trevor Cook jailed for not turning over assets in a Minnesota Ponzi scheme case brought by the SEC.
Chief U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis found Cook in civil contempt of court. U.S. Marshals “escorted Cook from the courtroom to jail,” the SEC said.
“Mr. Cook has [...]

Alleged Minnesota Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook may be hiding “millions” of Iraqi Dinars once stored on the third floor of the Van Dusen mansion in Minneapolis, according to the court-appointed receiver in the case against Cook and former Christian radio host Pat Kiley.
Cook also had a “vast” collection of expensive watches and “numerous” jeweled Faberge [...]

Player in a Ponzi scheme? If alleged Minnesota schemer Trevor Cook’s experience is any indication, you should expect to be placed under a microscope by local merchants and police if you’re named in a complaint by regulators.
Cub Foods, a Minnesota-based grocery chain, placed Cook under video surveillance when he entered a local store. A loss-prevention [...]

UPDATED 4:06 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A federal judge in the SEC and CFTC Ponzi scheme cases against Trevor Cook and Pat Kiley has paved the way for the receiver to begin selling property linked to the alleged $190 million scheme.
Among the first items up for bid will be 12 large-screen televisions, two slot machines and [...]

A Massachusetts man accused of targeting senior citizens and people of faith — and fleecing millions of dollars from them in a Ponzi scheme — has pleaded guilty.
Meanwhile, Canadian-citizen and Ponzi-scheme suspect Weizhen Tang, the self-described  “Chinese Warren Buffet,” was arrested last night at Pearson International Airport in Toronto.
Tang was taken into custody after returning [...]

In a case that already has featured assertions that alleged Minnesota Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook purchased a submarine on eBay to access his private island in Canada, the receiver in the case has filed papers that suggest Cook also had an affinity for large-screen TV sets.
Receiver R.J. Zayed listed 10 TV sets with 50-inch screens [...]

A Minnesota man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme with Christian radio host Pat Kiley is not cooperating with the court-appointed receiver in the case and might have spent $30,000 on “gift cards” after the SEC and CFTC brought twin actions last month, according to the receiver.
The receiver, R. J. Zayed, described efforts to locate [...]

Trevor Cook, the Minnesota man implicated with Christian radio host Pat Kiley in a Ponzi and currency-trading scheme that collected at least $190 million, already has taken the 5th Amendment in a civil case brought by the SEC.
The SEC now is seeking a contempt ruling against Cook, amid allegations he violated the asset freeze and [...]

Gerard Frank Cellette Jr. was implicated by prosecutors in an alleged $53 million Ponzi scheme in Minnesota last month.
Cellette, 44, of Andover, Minn., asked a judge to jail him yesterday — and the judge granted his wish. Cellette now is Inmate No. 2009034708 in the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Jail. He was charged Nov. 5 with [...]

UPDATED 5:24 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Is the “joe” who posted here before being blocked for showcasing an utter lack of restraint the same “joe” who pitched four HYIPs on the Pro-AdSurfDaily Surf’s Up forum two days ago?
We don’t know.
We do know, however, that both “joes” have pushed Ponzi programs and displayed an astonishing and unsettling [...]

You’ve heard about the Ponzi mansions. You’ve heard about the luxury automobiles — Scott Rothstein’s $1.6 million Bugatti and the $350,000 Rolls-Royces he and suspects in other Ponzi schemes enjoyed.
Now comes word that Trevor Cook, implicated in Minnesota with radio talk-show host Pat Kiley in an alleged Ponzi scheme involving at least $194 million, owned [...]