URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Your time soon may be up if you’re flogging the absurd HYIP known as JSS Tripler. CONSOB, the Italian securities regulator, has opened a probe into the activities of multiple promoters amid concerns the purported “program” is being offered to Italian citizens unlawfully as a security. JSS Tripler is an [...]
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ALERT! On Heels Of SEC’s Complaint Against Alleged Latvian Hacker Accused Of Manipulating Stock Prices By Hijacking Brokerage Accounts, FINRA Warns Of Plots Targeting Email Accounts
“Investors who suspect that their email account has been hacked should immediately notify their brokerage firm and other financial institutions, and anyone who suspects they have been defrauded should file a complaint with FINRA.” — Gerri Walsh, vice president for Investor Education, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Jan. 26, 2012 The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) [...]
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC Says Latvian Trader Hatched ‘Online Account Intrusion Scheme’ And Manipulated Prices Of More Than 100 NYSE And Nasdaq Securities
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: In a case that raises grave security concerns, the SEC has gone to federal court in San Francisco, alleging that a 34-year-old Latvian trader who held positions in multiple stocks “hijacked” the online accounts of customers at large broker-dealers and made trades in the accounts to manipulate prices and pocket [...]
President Raises Piracy Issue In State Of The Union Address Just Days After Justice Department Brings Megaupload Copyright-Infringement Case; Overall Fraud Battle Will Expand, Obama Tells Nation
Speaking to the nation in his State of the Union address to Congress, President Obama last night referenced U.S. efforts to combat piracy. Although the remarks were in the context of battling knock-off goods that infringe trademarks and affect American manufacturing jobs, Obama delivered the message just days after the Justice Department brought racketeering and [...]
‘OneX’ And Club Asteria Pitchman ‘Strosdegoz’ Turns Attention To New ‘Program’ Called ‘Huge Yield’; Flogging On Ponzi Boards Has Begun Amid Early Report Of DDoS Attack
Veteran Ponzi-board huckster “strosdegoz,” also known as “manolo,” now is flogging a new “program” known as “Huge Yield.” There already is an unconfirmed report that HugeYield has suffered a DDoS attack. “strosdegoz” emerged last year as a regular shill for Club Asteria, the purported Virginia-based program that became a Ponzi-forum darling and later announced its [...]
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BULLETIN: Alaska ‘Sovereign Citizens’ Charged In New Indictment; Feds Say Francis Schaeffer Cox Had ‘Armed Security’ Force That ‘Stop[ed] Private Citizens Without Lawful Authority And Under The Force Of Arms’
BULLETIN: A new superseding indictment has been returned in federal court in Alaska against purported “sovereign citizens” and “militia” members Francis Schaeffer Cox, Coleman L. Barney and Lonnie G. Vernon. In addition to the original charges outlined in an the first superseding indictment, the trio now is accused of conspiracy to kill federal officers and [...]
PP BLOG POST NO. 1,500: ‘Anonymous’ Data Cannons, The Conscription Of The Unwitting Public To Wage An Electronic War On Law Enforcement — And Google And The ‘C’ Word
Dear Readers, This PP Blog post is No. 1,500 since we switched to the WordPress platform in December 2008. Two years later, in December 2010, we commemorated our 1,000th post in this letter to readers, which rued the lionization of fools and hucksters on the Internet and questioned whether criminals and anarchists hold the upper [...]
BULLETIN: SEC Says St. Louis Man Went On ‘Spending Spree’ With Investors’ Money, Fleecing Them Of More Than $9 Million; Burton Douglas Morriss Charged With Fraud
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Missouri and obtained an emergency asset freeze in a case that alleges a St. Louis man who operated private investment funds misappropriated more than $9 million from investors. Charged in the civil case is Burton Douglas Morriss, 49, and four companies: MIC VII LLC, Acartha Technology [...]
BULLETIN: Verdict Goes Against TD Bank In Case Linked To Scott Rothstein Ponzi; Jury Awards $67 Million; Victorious Attorney For Investors Also Is Court-Appointed Receiver In Fraud Case With AdSurfDaily Tie
BULLETIN: A Florida jury found that TD Bank assisted now-disbarred and imprisoned attorney Scott Rothstein in his epic Ponzi scheme and has found the bank liable for $67 million in damages. Read a story in the Sun Sentinel about the federal-court verdict that went against TD Bank. The victorious attorney in the civil case is [...]
UPDATE: Fugitives Arrested With AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming File Bizarre ‘Forgive Me’ Pleading In Arkansas Federal Court — AFTER Missing First Filing Deadline
On Nov. 22, 2011, AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming was arrested by the FBI in Washington state on charges he filed bogus liens against at least five public officials involved in the ASD Ponzi case. Some ASD members apparently have relied on Leaming for legal advice, even though he is not [...]
BULLETIN: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, Accused White House Shooter, Formally Indicted On Charges Of Attempting To Assassinate President Obama; Case Assigned To Judge Collyer
BULLETIN: Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, the Idaho man accused in November of shooting at the White House, now has been formally indicted on charges of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. Ortega-Hernandez, 21, also was accused of assaulting three U.S. officers or employees with a deadly weapon. Whether the officers or employees were [...]