URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Ohio Calls Nanci Jo Frazer’s Focus Up Ministries ‘Front’ For Profitable Sunrise HYIP Fraud Scheme; State Says It Believes Frazer Was An AdSurfDaily Pitchwoman With History Of Promoting Fraud Schemes Such As Zeek Rewards And Profit Clicking
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (Fourth update 9:10 p.m. EDT U.S.A.) In court papers, the state of Ohio has called Nanci Jo Frazer’s Focus Up Ministries a “front” for the Profitable Sunrise HYIP scheme and alleges that Focus Up changed its name to Defining Vision Ministries Inc. in June 2013 — two months after the SEC brought the Profitable Sunrise fraud action in federal court in Atlanta.
Records suggest Nanci Jo Frazer also is known as Nancy Jo Frazer. The Ohio court documents list the “Nancy” spelling. Other documents list the “Nanci” spelling.
A judge in Williams County, Ohio, has ordered Frazer, Focus Up and other entities associated with Frazer to “[i]mmediately cease all activities on behalf of any charitable organization/trust in the state of Ohio,” to preserve assets and to return assets that already may have been dissipated.
The judge also ordered Frazer and others to cease selling unregistered securities. Meanwhile, the judge ordered three Ohio banks to take eight accounts linked to Frazer and others into “actual and/or constructive possession.” Frazer resides in Bryan, Ohio.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Commerce said today that the state has brought civil fraud charges against Frazer, Focus Up, Defining Vision and others. Documents say the state believes Frazer was a pitchwoman for the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme and other “programs,” including Zeek Rewards and Profit Clicking.
“This case involves a worldwide pyramid scheme that defrauded Ohioans and others out of millions of dollars,” DeWine said. “These individuals brought the scheme to Ohio by promising outrageous returns and telling investors that their donations and investments would help charities. We will continue to work closely with the Department of Commerce to hold the defendants accountable for their actions.”
Also charged were David Frazer, Frazer’s husband, and Albert Rosebrock, a member of Frazer’s NJF Global Group. Rosebrock also was alleged by Ohio to be an AdSurfDaily and Zeek affiliate.
Purported Profitable Sunrise operator “Roman Novak” is called “John Doe” in Ohio’s complaint, leading to continuing questions about whether “Novak” actually exists. In April, the SEC said that Profitable Sunrise pitchmen may not even have known with whom they were doing business. Profitable Sunrise purported to pay up to 2.7 percent interest a day. The SEC said it was using a “mail drop” in England and offshore bank accounts potentially to scam tens of millions of dollars.
Frazer’s group may have driven $30 million to the scam, according to court files.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Rosebrock is blaming the SEC for the collapse of Profitable Sunrise.
From a statement by Ohio prosecutors (italics added):
Profitable Sunrise is an international pyramid scheme recently shut down by federal and international authorities. Profitable Sunrise claimed to be a Christian company that would use investment proceeds to help charities and provide investors with large returns. According to the state’s complaint, the Frazers, of Bryan, and Rosebrock, of Sherwood, used Focus Up Ministries’ status as a charity to solicit donations and investments into Profitable Sunrise. They also claimed that invested funds would compound at 1.6 to 2.7 percent daily, growing at annual rates of 5,000 to more than 75,000 percent.
The complaint also alleges that the defendants used funds donated to Focus Up Ministries for personal expenses and other unlawful purposes. These included financing for personal business ventures, the purchase of a big screen television, no-interest personal loans, and compensation for agents who solicited on behalf of the Profitable Sunrise pyramid scheme. The complaint contains counts of misrepresentation, deceptive acts and practices, conversion, falsification, securities fraud, and unlicensed sale of securities, among other violations.
The SEC has described Zeek Rewards as a $600 million Ponzi- and pyramid fraud. AdSurfDaily was a $119 million Ponzi scheme, according to the U.S. Secret Service. Meanwhile, ProfitClicking is a “program” linked to Frederick Mann, the purported operator of JSSTripler/JustBeenPaid, which has come under regulatory scrutiny in Italy and the Philippines.
If Frazer was a pitchwoman for ASD, Zeek and ProfitClicking/JSS/JBP, it would mean she was pushing Profitable Sunrise after various well-publicized regulatory or law-enforcement actions against those “programs,” which purported to pay interest of between 1 percent and 2 percent a day. (ASD = 1 percent/day; Zeek = 1.5 percent/day; ProfitClicking/JSS/JBP = 2 percent/day.)
Beyond that, it would mean Frazer pushed the purported 2.7 percent a day Profitable Sunrise “Long Haul” plan, even though agencies filed various actions against the “lower-paying” programs with which she allegedly was involved previously.
Some HYIP promoters move from one fraud scheme to another, while engaging in willful blindness. ASD is known to have had ties to the “sovereign citizens” movement. Mann, of ProfitClicking/JSS/JBP, once used a website to drive traffic to videos featuring Francis Schaeffer Cox, a purported “sovereign citizen” and “militia” man implicated in a murder plot against public officials in Alaska.
Good Ole’ “Ponzi” Jo Frazer………
LOL, “Ponzi” Jo is the correct name for her. I hope they take her Co-conspirators with her along with some referral collectors.
Rosebrock claiming it was the SEC’s fault that Profitable Sunrise collapsed can’t be true. According to Nanci Jo, it was all due to Jim Paris and myself, or at least my alter-ego Lynn/Luke Eggelston, that caused the demise of Profitable Sunrise.
I’m hurt that he failed to give Jim and I the credit we deserve according to Nanci Jo.
Since there are people who will try to take my comments above seriously, I am being sarcastic.
Nancy claims she/they are the biggest victims:
http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=919553
Yeah victim my assets. Her videos tell a different story, and they are going to bite her in the behind if this gets to trial.
I can see her claiming diminshed capacity as a defense, but victim? No way.
Now what was truly funny is when she claimed that Jim Paris was really Roman Novak, and he and I conspired to take Profitable Sunrise down. Of course this is after she claimed Jim and I were the cause of Profitable Sunrise being forced to shut down and the authorities issued all their warnings and cease and desist orders. Hard to keep all those stories straight.
“Luke, use the force…..”
Back in the glory days of Profitable Sunrise, Nanci Jo was telling everyone how important Roman Novak was to her, and how he had changed her life. What a Godly man he was, and what great things he was doing with his program. She even said she had met him face-to-face, and had seen all the documents that proved his business was legitimate.
Now it seems that Nanci Jo has memory loss for this is what she said in the article posted above, and I quote:
“Nancy Jo Frazer claims that she, her husband and Rosebrock “did not know what was happening”.
In a phone interview with WNWO, Frazer said she did not want to go on camera at this time, the self-proclaimed television spokeswoman said that it all started when she was introduced to a man named “Roman Novack” by phone.
Frazer says that “Novack” was referred to her as a “reputable collateral lender out of the UK” and says he offered her “free advertising” on his many websites “in exchange for being a group leader for his program” called Profitable Sunrise.
Mrs. Frazer says she never met “Novack”, face to face, but looked him up online and said he “had a good reputation on the internet”.
Frazer says that after signing on with “Novack” he began using her name and her ministry for other things, without her knowledge.”
Talk about delusional. I think she is going for the insanity defense. Hmm, the authorities cannot find him, but Nanci Jo knows how, so hopefully she is helping law enforcement locate him. I especially loved the last line about him using her name and ministry for other things without her knowledge. Nanci Jo, you had no ministry. It was a lie just like everything else that came out of your mouth.
She was fooled? Which time, ASD? Zeek? ProfitClicking?
And who fooled her into claiming she was a 501(3)C Charity? Who tricked her into buying the TV, making interest free loans to herself and other insiders?
So now, it looks like her husband has been fired, she is going to owe potentially millions in restitution, fines etc… and will likely face criminal charges.
Nanci Jo may find that State Prosecutors are not as gullible as her downline and won’t be buying her explanations.
I just looked over http://www.nancijofrazer.com/services.html for the first time. Could this botched paragraph be the aftermath of “emergency editing”? ->
“FoCusUp ministries is supports the mionistries of Joyce Meyers and Joel Olsteen for their effective efforts in educating people around the world in finding solution to the challenges of everyday living based on the most trusted foundation”
SD
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Does this person actually exist?
Does he actually exist?
From Paragraph 5 of the SEC’s April 2013 complaint:
“Profitable Sunrise operates for the benefit of unknown individuals and/or
organizations doing business through companies formed in the Czech Republic and using bank accounts in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, and China, among other places.”
Patrick
Also: From an April SEC application for a TRO and asset freeze:
“But the person calling himself Roman Novak is nowhere to be found . . . There is more than a slight possibility, as with many offering frauds, that the people described in the website, including the Novak brothers, do not exist.”
Also see:
https://patrickpretty.com/2013/04/05/urgent-bulletin-moving-sec-files-complaint-against-profitable-sunrise/
Patrick
Highly doubt it, John. ProSun was just a generic HYIP script whose owner hit the lottery when it gained all those promoters and investors. All that he did was change the names of the people in the description of the site. There was actually another HYIP that listed Roman Novak as the operator, but it had failed months before. He apparently only contacted people in the “program” from a cell phone and never the same one twice. It’s really entirely due to the efforts of the promoters that this got as many people as it did. It really shouldn’t have.
As for Nanci Jo, I hope the prosecutors are able to use how she and her fellow pitchmen referred to Lynn Edgington as Satan and claimed that he wanted to take down ProSun so that people couldn’t be rich. Completely ignoring the fact that he’s the owner of a 501(c) designed to protect people from fraud that existed way before ProSun. But then they claimed he made Eagle just for this. Or that he’s running a scheme to get people to gift money to his non profit charity. And that nobody inside ProSun was unhappy with it and that it was nobody’s business.
It’s almost poetic justice that she and other promoters are the ones left to deal with legal trouble when “Roman Novak” split. It’s like they went brain dead as they promoted a criminal enterprise for a commission (a fairly sizable one but not nearly as much as what Novak was making) using their real names without any kind of exit strategy. But if they were still blaming Lynn and James Paris for this, they’d claim that they were behind all those states putting out alerts against ProSun and were the ones who made Roman have to “retire” to the beaches somewhere with a woman he just met. Instead of just giving back all the money he took.
Because God told Roman to keep it. It’s amazing what they expected people to believe. It’s a strange mixture of being funny and absolutely disgusting.
She knows exactly what she’s done. And Is she NANCY JO OR NANCI J. OR NANCY FRAZIER, OR FRAZER… I’VE SEEN IT ALL WAYS and it is the SAME person as I knew her back in the early 90’s and same photos ( she did get a complete overhaul for cosmetic surgery) but same lady… She’s been a scammer since then when she tried to be a big time Pageant Director for her own company, which failed because of cheating on scoring, go figure. Nancy/Nanci loves to Over hyping anything she does and suck people in…. “Self Proclaimed” in so many things indeed, she just does it all. To hear about ministry/charitable fraud, I can totally believe it and she needs to be accountable as well as her husband-banker, head of Chamber of Commerce,yikes…. The Big fish in the little pond Needs to get caught. She is a very good “story teller” for sure always to make it beneficial for her. And just to be involved with the name…. PROFITable Sunrise? You bet she’s in for the profit.
FRAZER WINS IN COURT. THANKED BY THE FBI. JUDGE RETURNED ASSTES TO HER & ASSOCIATES. HUSBAND NOW WORKING WITH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE FRAZERS… REALLY KNOW THEM KNOW THEY ARE VICTIMS AND SO DOES THE FBI. Sorry to disappoint all you He Man Woman Haters but Nanci Jo Frazer had a very successful Talent Showcase for nine years backed by ORAL Oral Roberts University who gave her winners over $1 million dollars in scholarships. The Haircare line from Matrix Essentials also sponsored her program. She had big time agents from Hollywood and New York fly in and judge. Her program was advertised in SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE AND YM MAGAZINES. Nanci Jo Frazer was also one of the top Pageant Photographers for the Miss USA and Miss America Pageants. And Lisa or whoever you are… you have obviously never attended a Frazer event. All SCORE SHEETS WERE GIVEN AT THE IMMEDIATE CONCLUSION OF THE COMPETITION AND ACCESS TO THE MASTER TABULATIONS. You could grab your score sheets and WALK UP TO A JUDGE TO REVIEW THEM FOR ACCURACY IF YOU WANTED. Nanci Jo Frazer is popular because she helps people and that is how she ended up in Ministry. She wanted to pursue what ever direction God had for her and that made her vulnerable to the guy who created Profitable Sunrise. Her husband is one of the most trusted and respected bankers in their community and he lost his job because the order came from the Columbus office. The unemployement agaency has stated that his dismissal was unjustified. The bank will be responsible to make up for the losses. The FBI has stated that Nanci Frazer was a victim of “Innocent Ignorance”. The Federal Government is NOT naming the Frazer’s in the case against Prifitable Sunrise. The Williams County judge DEMANDED the State of Ohio release almost all their assets back to them. YOU GUYS ARE ATTACKING THE WRONG PEOPLE. Oh and Nanci Jo Frazer HAS NEVER HAD ANY PLASTIC SURGERY ON HER FACE… SHE JUST USES GREAT SKINCARE AND WOULD BE FLATTERED THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT. The best part… Nanci Jo Frazer is not trying to lash out at anyone as she understands that people do not know what really happened. Why don’t you call her and find out who she is yourself instead of trying to ruin someone. Happy people don’t write hate blogs about other people. We all live in this stupid world together.. lets help each other not hate each other.
“lets help each other not hate each other”
and yet here you are hating on people that expose these slug scammers that you love.
Oh Heather, do you Really belive that?
Perhaps you should read this – http://pa.wmsco.org/eservices/?x=p*-O1fqKCSLgOh4PvDiqp3bOoGlMMkIKsgI8ltuupNZ*2y*e1EijREaL3H8H4xAyPh5qJoXRh7*1xENjTwJBZQ
Actually, eight accounts remain frozen. The judge did free up $20,000 for Nancy Jo and David to pay legal bills and $8,000 for Albert Rosebrock to pay legal bills. The case is still open and Frazer et al. may have exposure in other states and jurisdictions.
It’s easy enough for me to imagine that the FBI could benefit from interviewing Nanci Jo Frazer and that polite agents would thank her. It’s pretty clear that Profitable Sunrise operated as a racketeering enterprise and that at least some of its promoters were in the “sovereign citizens” movement or on the fringes of it.
I’m thinking that the FBI would see that as a pretty wicked combination — i.e., an international criminal enterprise linked to people who express a view that no laws apply to them and sometimes engage in “paper terrorism” against judges, prosecutors, agents and litigation opponents.
And since the identity of purported Profitable Sunrise operator “Roman Novak” isn’t known — and since religion was part of this mix — it could mean that the Christian community was tapped as a funding source by international racketeers (or worse) to make trouble against the United States and to cause economic pain and/or disruption for Americans.
What are you saying? That a woman implicated in a 2.7-percent-a-day, international fraud scheme targeted at Christians and operated by an exceptionally murky figure who used a mail drop in England and used offshore bank accounts to gather/move money in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, and China, among other places, is the victim of “He Man Woman Haters?”
Why all the marketing fluff? “. . . backed by ORAL Oral Roberts University . . . Haircare line from Matrix Essentials also sponsored her program . . . program was advertised in SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE AND YM MAGAZINES . . . one of the top Pageant Photographers for the Miss USA and Miss America Pageants.”
In many ways, the story about Profitable Sunrise and Nancy Jo Frazer is yet another story straight from MLM La-La Land. You are not helping Nancy Jo Frazer with this marketing pablum in apparent defense of her beauty-pageant bona fides.
You write all this uppercase pablum as though you were there, Heather.
It also apparently made her vulnerable to the person she says she assisted in AdSurfDaily’s 1-percent-a-day “program” and to the 1.5-percent-a-day “program” of Zeek Rewards — and perhaps also to the 2-percent-a-day “program” of JSSTripler/JustBeenPaid/ProfitClicking.
ASD was a $119 million Ponzi scheme pushed by a man who described himself as a Christian “money magnet” and “defended” by a “sovereign citizen” (Kenneth Wayne Leaming) now in prison for filing bogus liens against public officials, harboring federal fugitives (from a separate scam) and possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Compared to ASD’s Andy Bowdoin, who’s doing 78 months in federal prison, Bernard Madoff was a piker in terms of suggesting how much money investors would earn on an annualized-percentage basis.
One might think that the ASD case might have given Nancy Jo Frazer a strong clue something was seriously and criminally amiss at Profitable Sunrise.
And one also might think that the SEC’s Zeek action alleging a $600 million Ponzi- and pyramid scheme with the purveyor accused of fudging the math in the same fashion as ASD’s Bowdoin fudged it might have given Nancy Jo Frazer a strong clue.
Moreover, one might think that the noxious demonizing of the U.S. government by JSS/JBP/ProfitClicking’s Frederick Mann might have given Nancy Jo Frazer a strong clue that something was seriously and criminally amiss at Profitable Sunrise. Frederick Mann, a former ASD promoter, used one of his websites to drive traffic to YouTube videos of Francis Schaeffer Cox, a “sovereign citizen” and “militia” man implicated in a murder plot against public officials in Alaska and now sentenced to a lengthy jail term.
With this fact set, one had to overlook a publicly-accessible library of information that practically screamed “Don’t join Profitable Sunrise!”
And when one considers Nancy Jo Frazer suggested that the U.S. government was conspiring against the HYIP world by waiting to act until a program “hit about $50 million per month” and was interested in carving off “a percentage of the take,” well, it’s hard to describe that level of detachment.
“When I saw Profitable Sunrise was offshore, that was the very first thing that attracted me to the project,” she said, laughing.
I’d encourage you to apply the “don’t touch a hot stove” moment from your childhood here, Heather. ASD was a hot stove, but the warning went unheeded. Zeek was a hot stove, but the warning went unheeded. JSS/JBP/ProfitClicking was a hot stove, but THAT warning went unheeded. All the warnings from the SEC and FINRA went unheeded.
Profitable Sunrise was an exceptionally hot stove in this context, and even THAT warning went unheeded.
In fact, the narrative demonizing the government and positioning Profitable Sunrise as a attractive opportunity because of its “offshore” nature (in the aftermath of the onshore ASD and Zeek actions and the apparent success Frederick Mann enjoyed while hiding from U.S. regulators and comparing the United States to the Mafia and murderers) demonstrates to me that Nancy Jo Frazer put the pursuit of profits over everything else.
Oh, brother . . . The HYIP world is what is creating the unhappiness, not the Bloggers who write about it. Demonizing the media ain’t gonna help. Heather. These schemes are plundering investors of billions of dollars in the age of terrorism and cross-border organized crime over the Internet.
You’re free to disagree, of course. But I’d ask you to submit your PR talking points in smaller blocks of text and to minimize your use of all-caps.
Patrick