Friday, October 24, 2014

BREAKING NEWS: GetEasy under police investigation in Portugal

RPT "Friday at 9" News reported that GetEasy, an alleged Ponzi scheme, is under Judicial Police investigation in Portugal.

http://behindmlm.com/companies/geteasy-under-police-investigation-in-portugal

Full video report is available at

http://www.rtp.pt/play/p1047/e170084/sexta-as-9-ii

BREAKING NEWS: Fed Grand Jury Indicts Paul Burks of Zeek Reward Ponzi Scheme

Star Tribune (North Carolina) has reported that Federal grand jury has indicted Paul Burks, head of Rex Venture Group, parent company of Zeekler and ZeekRewards ponzi scheme, of wire and mail fraud, conspiracy, and tax fraud.

http://www.startribune.com/business/280347122.html

BREAKING NEWS: Massachusetts filed civil fraud charges against Emgoldex "Team USA"

Massachusetts securities division (MSD) has filed civil fraud charges against "Emgoldex Team USA" and its four members of selling unregistered securities, pyramid scheme, and general public fraud. The lawsuit can be viewed here:

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/sct/current/sctemgoldex/EmGoldex-et-al-Complaint-Docket-No-2014-0056.pdf

If you promote an alleged scam, you can be targeted by your local regulators, regardless of whether you "own" the scam or not. "Emgoldex Team USA" and the four members are certainly not owners, but if that's what local authorities can get their hands on, then the local authorities will do so.

Thanks to BehindMLM and PatrickPretty for the headsup.


BREAKING NEWS: Moolah goes bust, CEO missing with 1.5M worth of DogeCoins; other cryptocoin scams shut

According to _The Guardian_, Moolah, a cryptocurrency exchange that specialized in Dogecoin (and even sponsored a car in NASCAR racing series), headed by "Alex Green", had apparently gone bust and all the customer funds (believed to be 1.4 to 1.5 million pounds?) are gone.

Alex Green allegedly told everybody that he was previously named "Ryan Kennedy" after running several business into the ground, including Flirble (a web hosting service that ran only 2 months) and Lemon (a bitcoin mining firm that shut down in 2013), according to _The Guardian_.  And because this company is also done, he's taking the money and he's gonna run.

In July 2014 "Green" and his company Moolah bought a competitor "Mintpal" after Mintpal was hacked and lost $2M worth of bitcoins. However, nobody had even apparently saw "Green" in person outside of Moolah's offices.