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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Florida Federal Judge Grants Government Motion To Transfer Lawsuit Filed By AdSurfDaily Figures Todd Disner And Dwight Owen Schweitzer To District Of Columbia; Ruling May Put Case In Hands Of Judge Collyer

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: A federal judge has granted the government’s request to transfer from Florida to the District of Columbia a lawsuit against the United States filed by AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer. The ruling today by U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida deals…

Jul 23, 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
EDITORIAL: Is AlertPay (Payza) FINALLY Doing The Right Thing? Scam-Friendly Payment Processor That Is Darling Of Global Wink-Nod Fraudsters And Ponzi Forums Says It Is Banning Programs That Offer A Return — But Questions Remain

EDITOR’S NOTE: Payza seems to have taken an important step Friday in the battle against online fraud. The payment-processing company perhaps deserves an accolade for that. But it’s too soon to heap praise on Payza. We are particularly concerned about the phrasing of a specific line in Payza’s altered User Agreement. More on that below…

Jul 16, 2012
Zeek Promoters Send Email To AdSurfDaily Members, Asking Them To Wire Money To Confessed Ponzi Schemer Andy Bowdoin’s Jailhouse Account In The District Of Columbia; Zeekers ‘Owe This Man A Great Deal Of Gratitude And More’ For Opening ‘Path To Success,’ Email Claims

UPDATED 8:42 A.M. EDT (JULY 14, U.S.A.) It’s beginning to look as though the Zeek Rewards’ MLM “program” has within it a large downline consisting of members of the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme. And in what may go down as one of the most spectacular PR blunders in the history of multilevel marketing, some former ASD…

Jul 13, 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
ZEEK SLAYER? Now, A Penny-Auction Site Married To MLM-Like Scheme Purportedly Tied To Effort To Save Children From Hunger Or Becoming ‘Sex Slave[s]’; Build Up To ‘Founding Member’ Sales Pitch Drops Names Of White House, Chelsea Clinton, Historian And Presidential Adviser Doug Wead, Unidentified Presidential Candidate And NBC News Anchor Lester Holt

EDITOR’S NOTE: It is true that far too many of the world’s children live in poverty. It also is true that children may become the objects of criminals who engage in human trafficking and that children are exploited in the sex trades. It is equally true that legitimate charities exist to combat these horrific situations…

Jul 5, 2012
UPDATE: AdSurfDaily-Like Weirdness Increasingly Creeps Into Lawsuit Against United States By ASD Pitchmen Dwight Owen Schweitzer And Todd Disner, Who Now Are Promoting Zeek Rewards

Federal prosecutors went to court in the Southern District of Florida today, saying AdSurfDaily figures Todd Disner and Dwight Owen Schweitzer were confusing their November 2011 lawsuit against the government with two forfeiture actions filed in the District of Columbia by federal prosecutors and the U.S. Secret Service in the ASD Ponzi case. An assistant…

Jun 25, 2012
BULLETIN: JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid Announces New Scam; Meanwhile, New Guidance From Frederick Mann Suggests Members Should Avoid The Word ‘Compound’

“‘Compound’ . . . is really a word which [members] probably shouldn’t use.” — Frederick Mann, purported operator of JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid, from conference call-recording dated June 14, 2012 “‘Repurchase’ is a great one.” — “Dale,” JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid conference-call host, in response to Frederick Mann comment noted above, June 14, 2012 BULLETIN: (UPDATED 8:44 P.M. EDT…

Jun 24, 2012
JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid Now Soliciting $20,000 ‘Purchase’ Amid Claim Of $400-Per-Day Payout

EDITOR’S NOTE: The JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid “program” may have links to the “sovereign citizens” movement. Potentially signaling a change in the “program’s” status quo, JSS/JBP has not posted a recording of its weekly conference call since June 7. As the screen shot below shows, JSS/JBP also now is soliciting “purchases” ranging from $1,000 to $20,000, suggesting…

Jun 23, 2012
DEVELOPING STORY: New Mystery Emerges: North Carolina/Nevada Entity ZeekRewards.com Was Served With California Cyberpiracy, Infringement And Unfair Competition Lawsuit In Flushing, N.Y.

ZeekRewards.com was accused of cyberpiracy, unfair competition and benefiting from copyright infringement in a trademark-dilution and defamation lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Nov. 7, 2011. The action demands an accounting, disgorgement of alleged ill-gotten gains and treble damages. The PP Blog was unable to reach Zeek immediately…

Jun 22, 2012
BULLETIN: North Carolina Attorney General’s Office Refutes Suggestion That Zeek Has Been Deemed ‘Legal’; ‘We Do Have Concerns,’ Agency Says; TV Station Removes Video Report Zeek Was Linking To On Its Blog

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 2:04 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper told the PP Blog this morning that it never said the Zeek MLM or auctions programs were legal. The agency said it had asked a local television station to issue a corrected report, and the station has removed a video…

Jun 20, 2012