Ontario Securities Commission

Rockwell Partners SA, an HYIP “program” that has a 218-page thread at the MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi forum, now is the subject of a warning from the Ontario Securities Commission. A Facebook site that claims an association with Rockwell Partners asserted in March 2014 that “[w]e would like to remind you that Rockwell Partners is not just […]

BULLETIN: (7th Update 8:51 p.m. ET U.S.A.) Entities known as Fleet Mutual Wealth Limited, MWF Financial Limited and Mutual Wealth are frauds that filed invalid forms with the SEC to dupe the masses, the SEC said. An associated web domain styled MutualWealth.com also is a fraud, the SEC said in a statement and emergency court […]

BULLETIN: Dozens of members of a church congregation were scammed by husband-and-wife pastors and a church administrator in a Forex fraud and “loan” scheme in which money was funneled to Panama, Toronto police say. Arrested were Lorraine Bahlmann, 47, Verna Hibbert, 48, and Marlon Hibbert, 49. They’ve been charged with with 38 counts of fraud […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (UPDATED 6:25 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The SEC has filed an emergency action in federal court in Charlotte, N.C., that alleges Zeek Rewards is a $600 million Ponzi and pyramid scheme. “The obligations to investors drastically exceed the company’s cash on hand, which is why we need to step in quickly, […]

BULLETIN: The CFTC has gone to federal court in Texas, alleging that Christopher B. Cornett of the town of Buda was operating a Forex- pool fraud and misappropriation scheme that gathered more than $14 million in phases between June 2008 and October 2011. Cornett has been charged civilly with fraud, which allegedly operated through entities […]

BULLETIN: The Los Angeles Times is reporting (link below) that James Fayed has been formally sentenced to the death penalty for arranging the brutal slashing death of Pamela Fayed, his estranged wife and a potential witness against him. James Fayed, 48, is an emerging figure in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi case. Federal prosecutors in the District […]

BULLETIN: The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has obtained freeze and cease-trade orders against three Quebec residents and two business entities — and has shut down at least one website amid allegations that an international marketing scam was under way. At least two of the programs referenced in AMF’s action were promoted on the TalkGold […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’re pushing Ponzi schemes on MoneyMakerGroup, TalkGold and other criminal forums, allegations brought by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) against geographically localized promoters of Gold Quest International (GQI) may interrupt your delusions of invincibility over the next several weeks. Upline and downline networks within Gold Quest International (GQI), a bizarre company taken […]

Saying his offshore Ponzi scheme was on the verge of collapse but still collecting money, the SEC has charged a resident of the U.S. Virgin Islands with fraud. Several international authorities assisted in the probe, the SEC said. Daniel Spitzer, a U.S. citizen who resides in St. Thomas, was charged in the scheme. The SEC […]

A Florida man selling “joint ventures” in oil-and-gas businesses in Texas to overseas clients through corporate arms in the United States and Aruba has been accused of fraud by the SEC. Named defendants in the case were Justin Solomon of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and three affiliated companies: Seisma Oil Research LLC of Boca Raton, Fla., […]

In November 2009, President Obama formed the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF). By January, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who answers to Obama,  publicly warned fraudsters that “if you propagate an investment scheme, if you are complicit in an act of financial fraud, you are writing your ticket to jail.” It now turns […]