TelexFree Affiliate Pitches Appear To Have Been ‘Scraped’ To Drive Traffic To Purported Gold And Silver Venture In Panama; Spam Link Leads To Site That Showcases ‘First Zeek Red Carpet Event’ And ‘Banners Broker’ In Folder Labled ‘aaronsharazeek’

UPDATED 7:36 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Let’s say you’re out there feverishly flogging the TelexFree MLM even as the pyramid-scheme probe moves forward in Brazil, a judge and prosecutor have been threatened with death and TelexFree executive Carlos Costa is pulling an Andy Bowdoin and telling the world that God used him to bring the purported […]
UPDATE: E-Bullion, Firm Alleged To Have Provided Payment Services To ASD, Linked To Alleged Legisi Ponzi Scheme; Like ASD, FEDI Fraud Scheme Called Payments ‘Rebates’

UPDATED 2:25 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Still pushing autosurf and HYIP frauds? Last week, the PP Blog reported that the U.S. Secret Service and federal prosecutors had established a link between California-based E-Bullion and Florida-based AdSurfDaily. E-Bullion is a shuttered payment processor whose owner, James Fayed, is awaiting trial on charges of murdering his wife, Pamela […]
PROSECUTION: ASD Member Funded Account With Transfer From E-Bullion And Used Ad Rotator To Pitch ‘StreamlineGold,’ Apparent Pyramid Scheme; Records Show E-Bullion Founder Charged In Wife’s Murder In California

An AdSurfDaily promoter whose cash was seized in February 2009 and now has been targeted for forfeiture funded one of her three ASD accounts in part with a transfer from E-Bullion, a shuttered payment processor whose founder was charged in 2008 with operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business and hiring a hit man to kill his […]
GNI Members: Failed Program Was ‘Honest’ And ‘Real’; Critics Should Shut Up And Focus On Haiti Earthquake

Critics of Gold Nugget Invest (GNI), the collapsed Internet HYIP, do not understand that the program that advertised a return of 7.5 percent a week was “real,” according to a member writing on an online Ponzi board. Bickering about GNI only will lead to additional problems for the company, which is faithfully trying to reorganize, […]
CHILLING: Terrorism Link, A Ponzi, An HYIP, Gold, Mysterious ‘Offshore’ Businesses, ‘Rebates’ — And A Brutal Murder In California

EDITOR’S NOTE: HYIP or autosurf promoter? Can’t say no to the commissions from recruiting people into scheme after scheme? Position yourself as an “expert” on Internet forums — even though you don’t have a clue about the motivations of the program owners and may not even know their names? Find yourself promoting programs that reference […]
UPDATE: Prosecutor Lauds FBI Terrorism Task Force In Case That Linked Serial HYIP Promoter To Scheme Operated By Man Convicted Of Financing Terrorism

EDITOR’S NOTE: In an earlier post, we briefly touched on Ponzi peddler Brian David Anderson and his tie to an HYIP operated by a man convicted of financing terror. Federal prosecutors now have released a formal statement on Anderson’s guilty plea in a related Ponzi scheme — and the statement thanked the FBI’s Joint Terrorism […]