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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: CFTC Files Actions In Utah, Wyoming, New York And Illinois Against Domestic AND Offshore Firms In Second Phase Of Forex Sweep; 11 Companies Accused Of Illegally Soliciting U.S. Customers

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: UPDATED 8:14 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has gone to federal courts in four different states and simultaneously filed actions against 11 separate companies in the second phase of an enforcement sweep. The firms, some of which conduct business offshore but allegedly use webhosting companies or other…

Sep 8, 2011
UPDATE: Eliott Jay Dresher Pleads Guilty In $13.5 Million Ponzi Scheme That Traded On Famous ‘NASCAR’ Brand

UPDATE: Eliott Jay Dresher, the California man whose Ponzi scheme traded on the famous racing brand of NASCAR, now faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in Los Angeles to mail fraud. Dresher, 64, of Chatsworth, was jailed in December 2009 in a case brought by the FBI and the U.S.…

Sep 8, 2011
Inc? MPB Today Back In The News, But Is Press Release Dated Yesterday Accurate? MLM ‘Opportunity’ Was Subject Of Bizarre Promos Last Year, Including 1 In Which Obama Was Painted As Nazi And Hillary Clinton Was Cast As Bawling Drunk

A Florida grocery company with an MLM arm is back in the news — but a press release that describes MPB Today as a corporation may not be accurate. The press release dated yesterday is titled “MPBtoday Inc. Announces New Openings in Pensacola, Florida.” The release does not describe the purported “new openings,” and…

Sep 7, 2011
UPDATE: Club Asteria Pitchman And TalkGold Promoter ’10BucksUp’ Declares That Filing An AlertPay Dispute To Recover Money From Yet-Another Tanking HYIP Scheme ‘Drastic’ Measure That Will Cause ‘All’ Members To ‘Suffer’

You can’t make this stuff up . . . A Club Asteria pitchman flogging multiple HYIP schemes on the TalkGold Ponzi forum says that late-entry members of a teetering “program” known as “JustBeenPaid” are engaging in hurtful and “drastic measures” if they file disputes with AlertPay. Filing a dispute means that “all members will suffer,”…

Sep 6, 2011
Federal Judge Orders Sale Of Helicopters, Houseboats, Vintage Cars And Real Estate Linked To Alleged $275 Million Online Scam Operated By Jailed Utah Internet Marketer Jeremy Johnson

A federal judge has ordered the sale of helicopters, airplanes, houseboats, vintage cars and real estate allegedly linked to a massive fraud scheme engineered on the Internet by Utah resident Jeremy Johnson and dozens of corporations, including at least 51 shell companies. Johnson, 35, has been jailed in the United States since his June arrest…

Sep 6, 2011
BULLETIN: Commodities Online LLC Fraud Case Takes Unexpected Turn; Federal Judge Says Defense Attorney Accused Her Of ‘Trampling’ On Client’s Constitutional Rights In Issuing Order To Turn Over $1.45 Million To Court-Appointed Receiver

BULLETIN: A federal judge in Florida who says she was accused of “abusing” her discretion and “trampling” the Constitutional rights of a man implicated in an alleged multimillion-dollar commodities fraud by the SEC has ordered the defense attorney who made the assertions to explain himself and substantiate claims that his client had been denied due…

Sep 3, 2011
SPECIAL REPORT: PROSECUTION: More Than 11,000 Remissions Claims And 150,000 Pages Of Documentation Received In AdSurfDaily Case; Number Of Claims Greatly Exceeds Population Of ASD’s Home Base Of Quincy, Fla.

UPDATED 12:09 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Federal prosecutors effectively advised U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer last month that enough people to fill a small city had filed remissions claims in the AdSurfDaily autosurf Ponzi case. Although prosecutors did not reveal a precise number, they said in court filings that more than 11,000 people had filed claims…

Sep 3, 2011
BULLETIN: SEC Says Alleged Life-Settlement Scammer Ran $4.5 Million Fraud And Ponzi Scheme — And Spent $5,000 On ‘Cowboy Boots’ And Another $5,000 For ‘Dating Service’ While Directing $55,000 To A ‘Tribute’ For Deceased Entertainer Michael Jackson; Image Of Former President Bill Clinton Appears On Website

UPDATED 4:32 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) It’s only getting stranger . . . The SEC has gone to federal court in Los Angeles and obtained an emergency asset freeze for what it described as a $4.5 million life-settlement fraud and Ponzi scheme operated by a man who spent more than $5,000 in investor funds on “cowboy…

Sep 2, 2011
UPDATE: MLM Pitchman Jeff Long Warned Against ‘EZ MONEY Pitches’ When He Fled DNA, Narc That Car Last Year; Long Now Promoting AutoXTen Cycler Amid Claims That Members Can ‘Turn $10 into $199,240’

Jeff Long, one of the purported founders of the AutoXTen matrix-cycler scheme, warned his followers last year to “Stay away from ‘EZ MONEY’ pitches and claims.” A year later, Long appears to be ignoring his own advice. The 2010 warning appeared in a YouTube video Long edited after he had led his troops into registering…

Sep 2, 2011
KABOOM! Oregon Destroys Carcass Of 2X2 Matrix Cycler Promoted On Ponzi Boards And Exposes Follow-Up Scheme By Emailing Admin; Recidivist Scam Promoter Kristopher K. Keeney Fined $345,000; State Says He Led Investors Into Pyramid Scheme, Sold Unregistered Securities, Lied To Recruits

BULLETIN: After a securities investigator emailed a “program” admin for information in 2008, the state of Oregon systematically destroyed the carcass of a collapsed 2X2 cycler in a months-long probe that exposed a secondary scheme, according to records. Kristopher K. Keeney, a recidivist offender with a P.O. Box in Milwaukie, Ore., presided over InC, also…

Sep 1, 2011
Document Linked To Company Associated With AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming Is Referenced In Congressional Record As ‘Claim Against The United States Of America’

UPDATED 6:55 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A garden-variety, lawful protest commonly received in mailrooms within the halls of power? A self-serving, reality-inverting tale of the civil-forfeiture case against the proceeds of an alleged $110 million autosurf Ponzi scheme? A backdoor bid to end-run rulings made by the U.S. Judiciary and hand an invoice to the U.S.…

Aug 31, 2011

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