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Zeek, The ‘I’ Word And The Weight Of History . . .

UPDATED 6:36 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) To hear some folks in HYIP Ponzi Land tell it, “opportunities” can avoid the long arm of the law by preemptively prohibiting affiliates from using certain words — “investment” and “security,” for two examples. Regardless, court records show that hucksters who played linguistic games to mask their fraud schemes confronted…

Jul 25, 2012
EDITORIAL: Randy Schroeder Of Mona Vie Emerges As Zeek Critic And Asks MLMers To Open Their Eyes; Troy Dooly Takes Him To The Woodshed — And Plants Seed Zeek May Sue; JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid ‘Defender’ ‘MoneyMakingBrain’ Dials Up Bizarre Intimidation Campaign, Plants Seed Frederick Mann May Sue

“It’s gonna blow up; it’s gonna be an ugly blow-up. It’ll probably happen sooner, not later. And it will leave a trail of devastation behind it. And I urge you to not even consider them.” — Comment on Zeek Rewards by Randy Schroeder, president of North America and Europe for Mona Vie, July 16, 2012 UPDATED…

Jul 22, 2012
PICTURE STORY: ‘OneX’ Scheme Says It Is Switching To I-Payout; Conference-Call Announcement Made On Same Day U.S. Senate Panel Grilled HSBC Executives And Said Bank Exposed United States To ‘Money Laundering, Drug And Terrorist Financing Risk’

Back in April, federal prosecutors described the purported OneX “program” as a “fraudulent scheme” and “pyramid” pushed by former AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin, the author of the $110 million ASD Ponzi scheme. Bowdoin, 77, now is jailed in the District of Columbia — in part because of his OneX pitches. He’d initially been free of…

Jul 19, 2012
KABOOM! Alleged HYIP Operator Indicted On 49 Ponzi-Related Charges By Federal Grand Jury In Ohio After IRS Probe; ‘Program’ Was Pushed On MoneyMakerGroup And TalkGold; Wire Fraud And Money-Laundering Alleged Against Terrance Osberger Of Eagle Trades LTD

BULLETIN: The operator of an alleged HYIP fraud known as Eagle Trades LTD has been indicted on 49 Ponzi-related charges of wire fraud and money-laundering after a probe by the IRS, federal prosecutors in the Northern District of Ohio said. Terrance Osberger, 48, of Genoa, Ohio, has been charged with one count of wire fraud…

Jul 12, 2012
UPDATE: (1) Article In Portuguese By Zeek Affiliate On Google News Says Program Has 100,000 Members In Brazil Alone; (2) American Pitchman Calls Zeek An ‘Investment’ On YouTube — And Then Takes It Back

UPDATED 1:59 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) An article on Google News by an apparent Portuguese-speaking affiliate of the U.S.-based Zeek Rewards MLM “program” that is married to a penny-auction site known as Zeekler claims that Zeek has more than 100,000 members in Brazil alone. Meanwhile, a promo by an American affiliate dated July 7 on YouTube…

Jul 9, 2012
BULLETIN: Purported JSSTripler/JustBeenPaid Operator Frederick Mann Confirms For SECOND Time That ‘Program’ Pays Members With Funds From New Members; He Adds That ALL Payments Come From Members In Closed System

BULLETIN: Frederick Mann, the purported operator of the JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid HYIP “program,” has acknowledged once again — this time by implication — that JSS/JBP pays members from funds received from new members. And Mann, who said the “program” had about a million members and acknowledged that nonmembers could not make purchases, has gone a step…

Jul 1, 2012
MODERN MLM? Purported JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid Promoter Who’s Also a Purported Zeek Promoter Tells Zeek Members They Can Post Their ‘Ads’ On His Blog To Earn Zeek Payouts

1. 2. UPDATED 11:22 A.M. EDT (JUNE 13, U.S.A.) Images of a man described as “Alan Chapman” appear in online promos for both the JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid and Zeek Rewards “programs” that plant the seed that enormous daily returns on the order of 1 percent to 2 percent are possible. In one Blog pitch for JSS/JBP…

Jun 12, 2012
MORE ABSURDITIES: Zeek Promo Appears On Website That Also Pushes JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid; ‘Indefinitely Sustainable Second Income Seniors . . . Secure Your Pension,’ Site Claims; Zeek Post Includes Detailed Instructions On How To Wire Funds To North Carolina Bank

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the PP Blog was researching matters pertaining to the Zeek Rewards MLM “program” and preparing the post below for publication, it encountered a subdomain of the ZeekRewards.com website styled “zeeksupport.” A page on the subdomain purports to identify 16 Zeek “employees,” although is was unclear whether the workers received a wage or…

Jun 7, 2012
Zeek Rewards MLM Says Affiliates Must Cash Checks ‘Immediately’ Because It Is Closing Accounts At 2 U.S. Banks

UPDATED 8:18 A.M. EDT (MAY 29, U.S.A.) In a curious Memorial Day announcement placed below a representation of the American flag, the Zeek Rewards MLM “program” told affiliates they must cash commission checks “immediately” because Zeek is switching banks. “Zeek is currently in the process of moving to a bank that can handle our growing…

May 28, 2012
Joyous Dog’s Death ‘A Sign Of GOD Telling You To Stop Publishing Fear And Meaningless Accusations Once And For All,’ HYIP Apologist Claims

They’ll tell you that 2 percent a day (730 percent a year) is not too good to be true and that experts had performed “due diligence.” They’ll say their “program” is different from other schemes that either collapsed under their own weight or were brought down by the government. They’ll position themselves as free-market entrepreneurs,…

May 24, 2012
EDITORIAL: Stepfords At The Gate: Zeek Trots Out ‘Social Security’ Argument In Preemptive Pyramid Scheme Denial; MLM ‘Program’ Married To Penny-Auction Site Makes Its Bizarre Case With Exclamation Points

UPDATED 11:12 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) After the U.S. Secret Service seized tens of millions of dollars in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi case in 2008, some of ASD’s Stepfordian members advanced the bizarre theory that ASD should have been left untouched because Social Security — a U.S. government program — is a Ponzi scheme. The argument, which…

May 22, 2012