James Bunchan

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REPORTS: Prosecutor In TelexFree Case Threatened With Death

REPORTS: Prosecutor In TelexFree Case Threatened With Death

There are reports in Brazilian media that a prosecutor in the state of Acre has received death threats over her role in the TelexFree investigation and is receiving police protection. TelexFree, which has a U.S. arm in Massachusetts, purports to be in the communications business. The MLM company is under investigation in multiple states in […]

Now, Boat-Sharking For ‘Biwako Bank Limited’: Promos Appear On Facebook Site For Profitable Sunrise And Claim Enterprise Is ‘Japan’s Strongest Bank’

Now, Boat-Sharking For 'Biwako Bank Limited': Promos Appear On Facebook Site For Profitable Sunrise And Claim Enterprise Is 'Japan's Strongest Bank'

Biwako Bank Limited caught our attention yesterday after a boat-shark appeared on a Facebook Profitable Sunrise site to promote it while making this claim: “**THIS IS NOT AN HYIP , THIS IS A BANK**” The claim is at odds with a claim on the MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi forum that Biwako has a “GoldCoders’ HYIP Manager License.” […]

UPDATE: North Carolina Says Profitable Sunrise Investors Have Been Targeted In ‘Reload Scams’ Like Zeek Rewards Investors Before Them

UPDATE: North Carolina Says Profitable Sunrise Investors Have Been Targeted In 'Reload Scams' Like Zeek Rewards Investors Before Them

UPDATED 11:28 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The Securities Division of North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall has issued a warning that Profitable Sunrise investors are being targeted in “reload scams.” North Carolina issued a similar warning in August 2012, saying then that members of the Zeek Rewards “program” — an alleged $600 million Ponzi- […]

[VOMIT ALERT]: JSS Tripler 2 — After Name Change to T2MoneyKlub — Opens Feeder Scam Called Compound150; Operator/Cheerleader Lecture MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi-Forum Mods As ‘Opportunity’ Targets ‘Compounding Lovers’

[VOMIT ALERT]: JSS Tripler 2 -- After Name Change to T2MoneyKlub -- Opens Feeder Scam Called Compound150; Operator/Cheerleader Lecture MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi-Forum Mods As 'Opportunity' Targets 'Compounding Lovers'

The ink was barely dry on the most recent civil judgments for millions of dollars against serial HYIP pitchman Matthew J. Gagnon when Compound150 launched yesterday. On Tuesday, the SEC announced $4.2 million in new court-ordered assessments against Gagnon, who’d earlier been hit with more than $2.5 million in assessments in a related case and […]

Appeals Court Upholds 20-Year Prison Sentence Of Seng Tan, Mercedes-Driving Pyramid Schemer Who Blamed Hurricane Katrina For Payment Delays And Told Members That The ‘Gods’ Had Sent Her To Make Them Millionaires

Appeals Court Upholds 20-Year Prison Sentence Of Seng Tan, Mercedes-Driving Pyramid Schemer Who Blamed Hurricane Katrina For Payment Delays And Told Members That The 'Gods' Had Sent Her To Make Them Millionaires

EDITOR’S NOTE: Simply put, the World Marketing Direct Selling (WMDS) and OneUniverseOnline (1UOL) pyramid scheme of James Bunchan and Seng Tan was one of the ugliest — if not the ugliest — in U.S. history. Bunchan eventually was implicated in a a murder-for-hire plot in which 12 witnesses and a federal prosecutor in Massachusetts were […]

BULLETIN: Appeals Court Upholds Conviction Of James Bunchan, Pyramid Schemer Who Scammed Investors, Plotted Murder Of 12 Witnesses And Identified Federal Prosecutor As Possible Homicide Target

BULLETIN: Appeals Court Upholds Conviction Of James Bunchan, Pyramid Schemer Who Scammed Investors, Plotted Murder Of 12 Witnesses And Identified Federal Prosecutor As Possible Homicide Target

BULLETIN: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has upheld the conviction of James Bunchan in a murder-for-hire plot that grew from a pyramid scheme that gathered $20 million and mostly targeted people of Cambodian descent. Federal prosecutors described the pyramid scheme as “devastating,” saying it relied on smoke and mirrors to fleece […]