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“So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes. Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?” — Bruce Springsteen, Jersey Shore poet, lyricist, singer, musician, philanthropist and American icon. From “Brilliant Disguise” on the “Tunnel of Love” album, Columbia Records, 1987 That something can become an embarrassment to an entire […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (21st update 5:49 p.m.) Zeek Rewards figures Dawn Wright-Olivares and Daniel Olivares of Clarksville, Ark., have been charged criminally by federal prosecutors in the Western District of North Carolina and sued civilly by the SEC. Among the criminal allegations are tax-fraud conspiracy and investment-fraud conspiracy, according to a charging document. […]

UPDATED 11:23 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) The November/December issue of Home Business Advertiser carries a puff piece on TelexFree promoter Scott Miller. The one-page article, described by the publication as a “totally wild cover story,” does not reference TelexFree by name. Nor does the piece mention that TelexFree is the subject of a pyramid-scheme probe in […]

It won’t be quite like buying Bonnie and Clyde’s fateful getaway car, but it still will represent a purchase of American crime or fraud history. In Lexington, N.C., tomorrow — on the second and final day of the court-approved Zeek Rewards auction — pieces of MLM Ponzi-scheme history will be put up for bid. And […]

UPDATED 5:14 P.M. ET U.S.A. The court-approved auction in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme case is being conducted today and tomorrow. Bidding already is under way — and you can observe it live. We just observed bidding for an autographed poster of Loretta Lynn start out at $100. Competitive bids flowed in, and the poster […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The PP Blog is back — after its most recent brush with death led to a suspension of publishing that lasted through all or parts of six days. You’ll read more in the days ahead about certain changes the Blog plans to implement to safeguard its right to publish, to improve revenue, to […]

With Cyber Monday and the traditional online sales coming up a few days from now on Dec. 2, this is what we know: Payza, the successor brand to Montreal-based AlertPay, a Ponzi-forum darling and chronic HYIP- and fraud-enabler, suddenly says this in a headline on its Community forum: “US Funds Frozen | Obopay/Ultralight FS. issue.” […]

UPDATED 7:36 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Let’s say you’re out there feverishly flogging the TelexFree MLM even as the pyramid-scheme probe moves forward in Brazil, a judge and prosecutor have been threatened with death and TelexFree executive Carlos Costa is pulling an Andy Bowdoin and telling the world that God used him to bring the purported […]

UPDATED 7:42 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Not only is the court-appointed receiver in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi-scheme case selling Zeek’s old headquarters (with attached coin-operated laundry) in Lexington, N.C., he’s also selling a hefty collection of country-music memorabilia and other entertainment keepsakes. Among them is a “Saturday Night Live Script featuring Johnny Cash and musical guest […]

BULLETIN: The court-appointed receiver in the Zeek Rewards MLM Ponzi scheme case says in new court filings that clawback claims against alleged net winners “are now imminent, and a lawsuit against multiple named defendants along with a class of net winners will be filed during the fourth quarter of 2013.” Zeek winners received an estimated […]

A 48-year-old resident of Lexington, N.C., has been charged criminally in an alleged “precious metals investment scam,” the office of North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall said. Huge profits purportedly would flow within two weeks from gold transactions in the Middle East, according to related state filings. Rondell Scott Hedrick  was taken to […]