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BULLETIN: Alberta Securities Commission Issues Warning On ‘Profitable Sunrise’ After First Calgary Financial Observes ‘Trend’ Of ‘Suspicious’ Overseas Transactions

BULLETIN: The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has issued a warning on the Profitable Sunrise “program.” The Canadian agency’s move followed on the heels of reports from First Calgary Financial that “several of its Calgary customers have attempted to withdraw significant amounts of funds from their accounts for wire transfers to the Czech Republic,” ASC said.…

Mar 11, 2013
BULLETIN: Britain’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) Puts ‘Profitable Sunrise’ On Warning List Of ‘Unauthorised Firms And Individuals’

BULLETIN: The Financial Services Authority (FSA) of the United Kingdom has placed the Profitable Sunrise “program” on a warning list of “unauthorised firms and individuals.” Profitable Sunrise also is under scrutiny by American regulators in North Carolina and Alabama. The HYIP “program” purportedly is operated by Roman Novak. Separately, the New Zealand Herald is reporting…

Mar 8, 2013
DEVELOPING STORY: Pipe Bombs Reportedly Found In Pennsylvania Storage Unit Rented In Name Of Man Arrested In Ponzi Scheme Case

DEVELOPING STORY: It is early and facts remain unclear. What’s known, according to local news reports, is that the FBI notified local police in the area of Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania that agents would be operating in the region. Late yesterday — sometime after 11 p.m. while some residents were sleeping — explosions were…

Mar 8, 2013
MAXIMUM IRONY? Man Tells British Newspaper That He Used Prepaid Mastercard From Banners Broker At ATM — And Received Counterfeit £20 Note

UPDATED AT 10:40 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) A member of the “Banners Broker” program tells The Bristol Post that he used a prepaid Banners Broker MasterCard at a NatWest ATM to withdraw £600 and that a counterfeit £20 note was in the stack of cash dispensed by the machine. The plan, Paul Scoplin reportedly told the…

Mar 7, 2013
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: Alleged Utah Fraudster Jeremy Johnson, 4 Others Indicted On Dozens Of Criminal Charges

RECOMMENDED READING: From the Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/55960572-79/johnson-works-attorney-swallow.html.csp Also see Deseret News story and AP report in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mar 6, 2013
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Alabama Issues Warning On ‘Profitable Sunrise’

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: The state of Alabama has issued a warning on Profitable Sunrise. The move follows on the heels of a cease-and-desist order issued last week by North Carolina. The warning comes in the form of an “investor alert” issued by the office of Joseph Borg, the director of the Alabama Securities…

Mar 6, 2013
HIGH POINT (N.C.) ENTERPRISE: Zeek Reached Out To Pluck Utah Man; 1 Downline Had 1,500 Members, Victim Tells Paper

Zeek Rewards likely had a presence in all 50 U.S. states, plus U.S. territories. The High Point Enterprise, a publication in Zeek’s home state of North Carolina, today has a story about a Utah man who joined the “program” just prior to the SEC bringing allegations in August 2012 that Zeek was a $600 million…

Mar 5, 2013
North Carolina Secretary Of State: Profitable Sunrise ‘A Real Danger To The Investing Public’

EDITOR’S NOTE: Reproduced below is the full news release by the office of North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall on the cease-and-desist order issued last week to “Profitable Sunrise.” Even as the state has raised serious concerns about the “program,” Profitable Sunrise “defenders” have been seeking to minimize the issues. Some people even…

Mar 5, 2013
British Fraudster Running Investment Swindle And Conducting Pitchfests In Utah Sent Email To Undercover Agent, Feds Say; John S. Dudley Pleads Gulity To Wire Fraud

John S. Dudley, a citizen of Great Britain, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in federal court in Utah in an investment-fraud case that featured the presence of an undercover agent who’d received email from Dudley, the office of U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow said. The agent — from the Utah Department of Commerce’s Division…

Mar 5, 2013
‘NewGNI,’ Apparent Knockoff HYIP Scam Promoted By Zeek And ‘Profitable Sunrise’ Cheerleader ‘Ken Russo,’ Appears To Have Collapsed

The website of “NewGNI” has not resolved to a server for days. The “program” is believed to have been a knockoff of a predecessor scam known as “GNI” or GoldNuggetInvest, which collapsed in early 2010 after being promoted by members of the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme. The collapse of the original GNI was about as bizarre…

Mar 3, 2013
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: AdSurfDaily Figure And Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Kenneth Wayne Leaming Found Guilty Of Filing False Liens, Possessing Weapons Illegally — And More

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming has been found guilty in the Western District of Washington of filing false liens against public officials, harboring fugitives and being a felon in possession of firearms, federal prosecutors said tonight. Leaming associate David Carroll Stephenson also was found guilty of…

Mar 1, 2013