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Missouri Orders Alleged HYIP Operated By Christopher Hanson To Cease And Desist; Scheme Reached Into North Carolina, State Alleges; Tough Economic Times Give Scammers Opportunity To ‘Pull Schemes Directly From The Pages Of The Fraud Playbook,’ Official Says

Missouri Orders Alleged HYIP Operated By Christopher Hanson To Cease And Desist; Scheme Reached Into North Carolina, State Alleges; Tough Economic Times Give Scammers Opportunity To 'Pull Schemes Directly From The Pages Of The Fraud Playbook,' Official Says

UPDATED 10:52 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Christopher Hanson of Springfield, Mo., has been ordered to “cease and desist” from offering an HYIP “featuring supposed ‘leveraging’ on U.S. Treasuries,” the office of Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced. Missouri state securities regulators described the scheme as a hybrid that married Hanson’s HYIP to a prime-bank scheme. “In […]

Missouri Investigators Say Senior Citizens — Ages 91, 88 And 79 — Among Victims Swindled By Unregistered Dealer In Fraud Scheme That Diverted Money To ‘Hooters’ Waitresses

Missouri Investigators Say Senior Citizens -- Ages 91, 88 And 79 -- Among Victims Swindled By Unregistered Dealer In Fraud Scheme That Diverted Money To 'Hooters' Waitresses

Three senior citizens — including a 91-year-old Pennsylvania resident and 88- and 79-year-old  residents of Missouri — were fleeced in an investment scheme in which $10,000 was diverted to “three waitresses at a Hooters restaurant and one clerk at another retail establishment,” Missouri investigators said. All in all, the long-running scheme fetched at least $948,000, […]

FLASH: Missouri Regulators Say Pet-Food Firm Sold Unregistered Securities In State And Now Is Raising Funds In California Under Different Name To Pay Back Investors

FLASH: Missouri Regulators Say Pet-Food Firm Sold Unregistered Securities In State And Now Is Raising Funds In California Under Different Name To Pay Back Investors

FLASH: In a complicated case unfolding in Missouri, regulators say pet-food firms operated by Frank Renick sold unregistered securities in the state under one set of names and that Renick is raising funds under a different corporate name through a California “cloud” office to pay back investors. Renick’s actual presence in California was a virtual office […]

Missouri Man Banned From Investment Trade After Secretary Of State’s Office Discovers He Sold Unregistered Securities Of ‘Time-Share’ Resort To Senior Citizens In Their Eighties

Missouri Man Banned From Investment Trade After Secretary Of State's Office Discovers He Sold Unregistered Securities Of 'Time-Share' Resort To Senior Citizens In Their Eighties

A Missouri man who worked for a legitimate investment business near St. Louis sold unregistered securities in a Wisconsin-based, time-share “resort” business to elderly clients, Missouri officials said. The securities came in the form of “unregistered real estate investments,” the officials said. James McClellan Jr., of Chesterfield, never told 18 Missouri investors — at least […]