The U.S. Secret Service is conducting yet-another investigation into the practices of an Internet-based business amid Ponzi allegations. Agents have seized computers and business records from Regenesis Marketing Corp., which operates online as Regenesis 2×2 at this website.
A felon on federal probation was an integral part of the company, according to court records. Meanwhile, federal agents said they found the personal records of customers in a Dumpster.
Regenesis 2×2 sells what it calls “commission centers” for $325 and touts itself as “THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN FOR YOU.”
Seized were envelopes containing credit cards, debit cards and financial statements; 13 Priority Mail envelopes and 10 First Class Mail envelopes; and various computers, computer equipment and business records.
In court documents, the Secret Service revealed Regenesis 2X2 had been under surveillance for five weeks prior to the government applying for multiple search warrants, which were approved by a federal magistrate judge July 17.
The case has featured surveillance at multiple locations, including a UPS Store in Kirkland, Wash., that the company used as a mailing address. Business actually was conducted elsewhere in Washington state, including the town of Snoqualmie, according to court filings.
No charges have been filed and the website continues to resolve to a server. The Secret Service, however, laid out allegations of an elaborate fraud involving multiple individuals, multiple bank accounts, multiple addresses and multiple company names, including a firm known as Streamline Media of both Reno, Nev. and Kirkland.
Agents observed complaint letters directed at the firm being discarded into a Dumpster that was kept under constant surveillance. Also found in the Dumpster were copies of checks sent in by customers, other documents that included customers’ names and information to identify them personally, complaint faxes sent by customers and a letter from a law firm complaining about false, misleading and deceptive advertising, according to court filings.
In one case in which agents were observing one of the adult principals in the case, they observed a youth described as a teenager exiting a vehicle and “struggling with a large arm full of opened business and UPS Priority Mail envelopes,” the Secret Service said in court filings.
The juvenile entered a building and “then immediately came back outside and discarded the materials into an alley [D]umpster,” agents said.
Agents identified the adult under surveillance as a person “arrested by the Internal Revenue Service out of Las Vegas, Nevada[,] for felony violations related to Illegal Money Laundering from Securities Fraud and Wire Fraud” in a previous case.
The subject under surveillance was on federal probation, agents said.
Assisting the Secret Service in the probe are the Federal Trade Commission, the Seattle Police Department, the Kirkland Police Department, and the Washington state Department of Revenue, Employment Security Department and Department of Licensing.