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Bot Attack At PP Blog
The PP Blog is experiencing a spambot attack that almost exclusively is trained at a single story and Comments thread from February 2010, more than six years ago. Since early Tuesday, the onslaught has included about a spam per minute. The attack, a sort of miniDDoS involving scores and scores of IPs and email addresses likely…
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BULLETIN: Darryle Douglas, Alleged Zeek Insider, Arrested
BULLETIN: (4th update 9:11 p.m. ET U.S.A.) Alleged Zeek Rewards’ insider Darryle Douglas has been arrested in Riverside, Calif. Court filings docketed March 7 in the SEC’s civil case against Zeek say Douglas, whose age was not listed, was arrested March 2 by the U.S. Marshals Service. On Dec. 10, 2015, Senior U.S. District Judge Graham C.…
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DEVELOPING STORY: TelexFree Rep Sued By Trustee Claims Herbalife ‘Executives’ And ‘Personnel’ Helped Sell Him On Alleged Ponzi/Pyramid Deal
DEVELOPING STORY: (Updated 9:23 p.m. ET U.S.A.) A TelexFree rep being sued by the court-appointed bankruptcy trustee for the return of more than $2.6 million in alleged winnings from the judicially declared Ponzi- and pyramid scheme claims that Herbalife “executives” and “personnel” attended a March 2014 TelexFree event in Boston and helped sell him on the ill-fated…
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‘BidsThatGive’ Operator Listed As Oregon’s Biggest Tax Scofflaw
UPDATED 12:41 P.M. ET U.S.A. Remember “BidsThatGive,” the bizarre auction “program” linked to MLM huckster Randall Jeffers that surfaced just prior to the spectacular collapse of Zeek Rewards in 2012 amid Ponzi-scheme allegations? Among other things, BidsThatGive was notable for reckless name-dropping and claiming it existed to feed children and prevent them from becoming sex slaves.…
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Payza/OboPay Investigation Continues
The office of U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips of the District of Columbia originally anticipated making an announcement about a criminal investigation involving the Payza and OboPay payment processors “shortly” after Jan. 22. On Feb. 10, however, prosecutors updated their Victim/Witness site to say they now do not expect to make an announcement until “shortly”…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Justice Antonin Scalia Dies In Texas
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Antonin Scalia, an associate justice of the nine-member U.S. Supreme Court, has died in Texas, according to multiple media reports. From Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: “Justice Antonin Scalia was a man of God, a patriot, and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the Rule of Law. He was the…
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TELEXFREE CLASS-ACTION: Judge Restrains Assets Of 2 Alleged Promoters, Including Scott Miller And ‘MyAdvertisingPays’ Pitchman Daniil Shoyfer
Let’s begin by pointing out that Daniil Shoyfer and Scott Miller have not been charged by the SEC in its 2014 TelexFree action. There are asset freezes aplenty in that government-brought case, including freezes against alleged promoters Sann Rodrigues, Faith Sloan, Randy Crosby and Santiago De La Rosa. The asset restraints imposed yesterday by U.S.…
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