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  • BehindMLM Reader Claims ‘Excited’ Attendees Were Fainting At Florida Gathering Of World Consumer Alliance; ‘Program’ That Published Laundry List Of HYIP Ads Apparently Conducting 9-Month ‘Prelaunch’

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Longtime huckster Phil Piccolo learned long ago that God and starving children “work” in MLM. We can’t help but wonder how many shills would flop over backward at his events if he ever finds out that fainting also “works.”

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    A reader tells BehindMLM that attendees of a “World Consumer Alliance” (WCA) event in Sarasota, Fla., were fainting from apparent excitement.

    WCA, with Paul Skulitz as the advertised admin, came out of the gate as “Wealth Creation Alliance,” saying it was selling “ad units” and declaring it was operated by an “Executive Dream Team.” (See Sept. 5, 2012, PP Blog story.)

    Here’s a snippet from a September 2012 WCA sales pitch (italics added):

    “We are fully operational right now and in our company pre-launch, this simply means that you are able to sign up for free and receive your business website and purchase advertising units as well. You can also refer and sign others in as well. We are also currently receiving payments and more importantly we are paying referral bonuses and daily profit sharing. Our pre-launch will continue through October 2012. We will hold our first major event the first weekend of November. (Details will be forthcoming)

    On Sept. 7, the PP Blog reported that WCA was publishing promos for various HYIP schemes, including one that called itself A2P. A2P purported to be in “Pre-launch” and advertised these purported features.

    • 7% daily payout for 30 days
    • 10% income on 2 levels
    • Join Free!

    WCA appears now to be stuck in “prelaunch” mode through March 8 after missing a November launch date. Read the comment by “Disgusted WCA Affiliate” at BehindMLM. (Make sure you page up to read the Sept. 13, 2012, WCA story from Oz at BehindMLM.)

  • UPDATE: ‘Wealth Creation Alliance’ Now Publishing Ads For HYIP Scheme After HYIP Scheme

    ProfitClicking was one of the "programs" advertised on Wealth Creation Alliance today.

    UPDATE: (UPDATED 11:51 A.M. EDT U.S.A.) Our first story on Wealth Creation Alliance (WCA) is here. Like the collapsed Zeek Rewards MLM scheme that the SEC accused last month of being a $600 million Ponzi- and pyramid fraud, WCA preemptively denies it is an investment company. And WCA also specifically denies in is an “HYIP,” despite the fact it claims that a $2 “purchase” of an “ad unit” will return $3.25.

    Apparently positioning itself as an “advertising” company, WCA now is publishing ads for HYIP scheme after HYIP scheme on its website. One of the ads is for “ProfitClicking,” the apparent successor scam to the JSS/Tripler/JustBeenPaid scheme that seeks to make members affirm they are not with the “government” while simultaneously seeking to disclaim any responsibility on the part of itself and affiliates for advancing the scheme, which plants the Zeek-like seed that annualized returns in the hundreds of percent are there for the making.

    Another ad on the WCA site today read as follows (italics added):

    New A2P Pre-launch
    7% daily for 30 days
    10% income on 2 levels
    Join Free!
    Click Here Now

    A2P is shorthand for Alert2Pay, which purports to have a “ShortTerm Plan” for 30 days and a “LongTerm Plan” for 70 days. Both plans permit “compounding,” a key marker of an HYIP scam.

    And Alert2Pay also explains what it is not, another key marker of a scam.

    “Alert2pay is not a hyip, not a mlm, not a doubler and definitely not a cycler. We’re a Targeted Email Advertising company that’s Paying You Daily Cash Back on ALL Your Advertising Purchases. We sit under the umbrella called AI Corp, (AlertInvest Corporation). Alert2Pay.com is the first website under the AI Corp umbrella.”

    Another “program” pitched on WCA is something called HourHour. Here is the text pitch (italics added):

    Get 120% in 5 days!
    Paying hourly!
    Licensed Script!
    Click Here Now

    HourHour purports to pay “1% FIXED HOURLY FOR 120 HOURS” or “150% AFTER 240 HOURS.” Meanwhile, the HourHour “program” advertises that its accepts SolidTrustPay and other offshore payment processors. SolidTrustPay has been linked to fraud scheme after fraud scheme and was one of the processors used by Zeek.

    See article on WCA at BehindMLM.com. Visit WCA thread on RealScam.com.