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In an update to victims of the $850 million Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors said Dawn Wright-Olivares and Daniel Olivares will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office while out on bond. Wright-Olivares, 45, was Zeek’s former COO. She pleaded guilty last week to investment-fraud conspiracy and tax-fraud conspiracy. Daniel Olivares, the […]

Whoever is pulling the linguistic strings at the Banners Broker HYIP cult operating globally online now is channeling Zeek Rewards, AdSurfDaily and AdViewGlobal in their final days. Zeek, an $850 million Ponzi- and pyramid fraud that once suggested participants should change their toilet-paper dispensing habits if instructed to do so, threatened to ban members who […]

Calling Sann Rodrigues its “TOP PROMOTER IN THE WORLD,” the alleged TelexFree pyramid scheme curiously has announced that Rodrigues will be a headliner at a TelexFree rah-rah session in Spain on March 1 and 2. An image of Rodrigues now rolls across TelexFree’s website. But the promo does not mention that Rodrigues was successfully sued […]

BULLETIN: (3rd Update 1:46 p.m. ET U.S.A.) Dawn Wright-Olivares and Daniel Olivares pleaded guilty this morning for their roles in the $850 million Zeek Rewards Ponzi- and pyramid scheme, the office of U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins of the Western District of North Carolina said. Wright-Olivares, 45, was Zeek’s former COO. Her stepson, Olivares, 31, […]

Ah, those serially disingenuous MLM hucksters and commission-based Ponzi pitchmen: They’ll ultimately destroy their own brands while picking millions of pockets. Before doing so, they’ll use your brand as a temporary means of sanitizing themselves, bring PR disasters to your legitimate company and perhaps even find an insidious way to turn the government into their […]

UPDATED 9:21 A.M. ET (FEB. 22, 2014 U.S.A.) As the PP Blog reported on July 4, 2013, TelexFree is using a shared office facility in Marlborough, Mass. Promoters of TelexFree, alleged in Brazil to be a massive pyramid scheme that may be using a VOIP product as a front, have shown photos of TelexFree President […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (4th Update 5:14 p.m. ET U.S.A.) The U.S. Department of Justice has sued North Carolina-based Four Oaks Bank, alleging that it turned a blind eye to fraud markers at Rex Venture Group LLC and processed “close to $60 million in ACH transactions in furtherance of the illegal scheme.” Rex Venture […]

A columnist at Jornal.US News Service is reporting in Portuguese that TelexFree members are receiving instructions on how to register for the “program” by using location-masking proxies and bogus information on their countries of residence. Here is the English translation by Google Translate. TelexFree has been the subject of a pyramid-scheme probe in Brazil since […]

SPECIAL REPORT: (Updated 5:48 a.m. Jan. 7, U.S.A.) N. Donald Jenkins Jr., an Arkansas attorney listed as a registered agent for Wandering Phoenix LLC, a firm federal prosecutors have linked to Zeek Rewards’ figure Dawn Wright-Olivares, was ordered disbarred on May 30, 2013, records show. He thrice previously was ordered suspended from the practice of […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: A “razorback” is a wild (feral) hog present in certain U.S. states, including Arkansas. The University of Arkansas calls its sports teams the “Razorbacks.” Zeek Rewards Ponzi-scheme figure Dawn Wright-Olivares, an Arkansas resident, recently opened a Clarksville restaurant called “The Healthy Hog.” Though the words “healthy” and “hog” may appear to be in […]

The court-appointed receiver in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi-scheme case has announced he is in the process of sending a batch of more than 80,000 Notices of Claims Determination. This is the first batch of such notices, which the receiver began to issue yesterday. The first batch is expected to take through Dec. 31 to be […]