The PP Blog was hit by a bot attack today bearing multiple IP signatures from Singapore. Dozens of Singapore IPs maintained open connections to the Blog for approximately three minutes. Why the Blog was targeted was unclear. The bots sought to call up individual stories and a number of archive URLs. In at least a [...]
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Global Corporate Alliance, Dallas-Based Medical Insurance Firm, Allegedly Was $10 Million Ponzi Scheme; Operators Charged Civilly, Criminally; Purported Opportunity Tried To Build Street Cred By Tying Itself To Racing Sponsor
Global Corporate Alliance (GCA) was not an MLM or HYIP firm. Even so, some of the allegations against the Dallas-based company read like U.S. government complaints filed against Zeek Rewards, Profitable Sunrise and AdSurfDaily. Perhaps most notable is the SEC’s allegation that GCA had no underlying profitable business through which it generated payments to investors, [...]
‘Earn Profit Click,’ Scheme Targeted At Profitable Sunrise Victims On Facebook, Says It Will Build Its Program With Targeted Spam On Facebook And Twitter
An emerging scheme that butchers the English language and contends it opposes spam also bizarrely says it intends to build its business by requiring members to post ads on Facebook and Twitter. Equally bizarrely, the scheme says it accepts Liberty Reserve, the now-shuttered payment processor implicated by the United States last month in an alleged [...]
Raymond Leo Jarlik Bell, 70-Year-Old Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Linked To AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming, Sentenced To More Than 8 Years In Federal Prison
Raymond Leo Jarlik Bell, a 70-year-old purported “sovereign citizen” linked to AdSurfDaily figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming, has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for a tax scam. In July 2011, federal agents found records of bogus liens filed by Leaming against public officials while executing a search warrant at Jarlik Bell’s residence in [...]
SEC And FINRA Say ‘Pump And Dump’ Spam Increasing Sharply; McAfee Says ‘Botnet-Creating Malware’ Was Being Sold Through Liberty Reserve
DISCLOSURE: The PP Blog uses McAfee security software. The Blog is not compensated for its use of the software. UPDATED 10:23 A.M. (JUNE 15, U.S.A.) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have issued an Investor Alert warning about a sharp increase in spam linked to “pump-and-dump” stock schemes. [...]
BULLETIN: New South Wales Police Arrest Man For Fraud Crimes Allegedly Linked To Liberty Reserve
BULLETIN: (UPDATED 11:43 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The New South Wales Police Force (Australia) has arrested a 21-year-old man, amid allegations he was laundering money through Liberty Reserve. Officials did not identify the man in a news release announcing the arrest, but said he did not apply for bail and remains in custody. In a statement, [...]
ASD Updates Blog Experiencing Outage; [UPDATE: Now Back Online]
UPDATED 8:28 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The ASD Updates Blog is back online. Our earlier story is below . . . The ASD Updates Blog is experiencing an outage that is preventing the Blog from publishing and sending/responding to email, its publisher said today. The outage has been described as a “net related problem.” ASD Updates [...]
RALEIGH NEWS OBSERVER: Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Jailed In North Carolina, Amid Allegations He Filed Bogus Lien Against Wake County Court Clerk
It has happened again — this time in Raleigh, N.C., officials said. Sullivan Colin, 36, has been arrested on a charge of filing a false lien for $3 million against a court clerk who oversaw a foreclosure case, the Raleigh News Observer is reporting. From the News Observer (italics added): Court officials say the lien [...]
International Scammer Pleads Guilty In United States To Swindling Retirees In ‘Jamaican Lottery Scheme’; O’Brain J. Lynch Potentially Faces Decades In Federal Prison
“Investigators from [the Social Security Administration] discovered that hundreds of victims throughout the United States were losing their social security benefits and their life savings either because they believed that they had won ‘The Jamaican Lottery’ or because, as part of another telemarketing scheme, they revealed enough information about themselves that allowed the thieves to [...]
BBC HOST: ‘We Have An Idiot On The Program Today’ — And It’s Alex Jones
HYIP apologists dating back (at least) to the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme in 2008 ($119 million) have bizarrely sought to defend their favorite scams by steering discussions off the track. Why talk about the recidivist securities felon who presided over ASD (Andy Bowdoin), for instance, when the “real menace” is the Bilderberg Group? And, hey, since [...]
A Purported ‘Moorish Aboriginal Sovereign Citizen’ Booked On Drug Charges In Greater Atlanta, WSBTV Reports
Chadwick Simmons was flush with weed and told police he was a “Moorish Aboriginal Sovereign Citizen” who’d trademarked his name, WSBTV.com is reporting. Some purported Moorish Americans and “sovereign citizens” have constructed paperwork confections that purport police, court officials or media outlets owe them tremendous sums of money when using their names or citing court [...]