BRIXDALE MORTGAGE WAS A SCAM – NOT MLM - I TOLD YOU SO!
30 June 2006 – for those that got mad... when I said Brixdale was too good to be true and they couldn’t do what they said... Here you are! Sad this guy did not go to jail!
MORE ILLEGAL INCOME CLAIMS
29 June 2006 – Here is a low end $10 scum sucker with illegal income claims! And also the law on illegal income claims in the U.S.
HERE IS AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM ILLEGAL INCOME CLAIM
HERE IS WHAT THE LAW SAYS ABOUT INCOME CLAIMS and why the folks above may go to jail!
SCHOOL FOR NEWBIES - ILLEGAL INCOME CLAIMS !
28 June 2006 – This is not MLM thank heavens (it is a work at home business scam) but if you land on the page of an MLMer that makes an income claim like this... Run – run!
FTC PROPOSAL EXPOSES MLM WOMEN TO SEXUAL PREDATORS
911 DRA DRAFT LETTER FOR THE FTC GETS 3 GOLD STARS FROM LAWYERS
22 June 2006 – You need to get another letter, or your first one out the Federal Trade Commission using the Distributor Rights template/suggestions. The DRA is the only sample letter out there that points out the silly FTC Biz Opp proposal would EXPOSE WOMEN DISTRIBUTORS AND THEIR CHILDREN EXPOSED TO SEXUAL PREDATORS. If you sent a whimpy letter before from a whimpy sample – Do it again use this one! STOP THE FTC!!
ADVOCARE IN TROUBLE? – DISTRIBUTOR TERMINATIONS
21 June 2006 – An Old friend of mine started Advocare out of Dallas. He died, now I bet he is rolling over in his grave. Advocare has done some real strange Distributor Terminations. Here are the notes on the investigation that the WatchDog has started. When companies start termination of Distributors for weird reasons they usually start to float to the top.
GASOLINE ADDITIVES THE PLOTS THICKEN
18 June 2006 – Now it seems that Omstar 1280DX (see website below) has crawled into a snakepit. They are selling product to aaTCM - AA Turbo Charge Marketing, Inc. A massive email blast by Phil Piccolo (click for Phil’s history) laid claim that he’s the mastermind behind aaTCM. It’s verified that Piccolo is trying selling regional positions for big bucks. If anyone is fooled by Phil’s Christian b.s. I have a tape were he called my wife several years ago. It is so vile we would have to hide the Audio from Women and kids. Does this product have the required EPA test for gasoline engines? SEE LATEST SHOCKING NEWS FOR ADDITIVE SELLERS!
MORE "THIN ICE" GASOLINE PROGRAMS
16 June 2006 -- Magnets are back! They are one the favorites of the FTC to whack (Dallas). APPGas is back! They have almost the same website as they did when the Missouri AG shut them down (Dallas). APPGas raised prices to $499 so they can try to pay $50 a month. You would get a gas card for $150 a month with $200 worth of gasoline on it. Well, you would have, if the cards had worked. That is why the AG in Missouri got them last time. Switching from Dallas (the home of shaky gas deals?) to the west coast, the fuel additive company Omstar initiated arbitration proceedings against Ethos (settled once). See the page below, the only way to prove additives or gizmo's work.
STOP THE FTC ATTACK ON GOOD MLM’S – SEND A LETTER!
11 June 2006 – Time extension to get your letter in. DRAFT letter for you to copy and change and send via Fedex, snail mail, or via Internet. JUMP ON THIS FAST! GET YOUR LETTER IN! You can also read our strategy and how this came about. MLM IS GOOD.... THIS ISN’T! Washington Bureaucrats have lost sight of America!
CELL PHONE – DO NOT CALL LIST
11 Jume 2006 ---If telemarketers call your Cell phone you pay for air time! To keep from getting hit call 888-382-1222 This is THE DO NO CALL LIST! Good for Five Years? With the FTC trying to screw the little folks out there they will probably be selling your number! The FTC loves Crooks so why kiss their ass (the FTC)
MORINDA BIG LAYOFF
10 June 2006 – Hard to put facts together: Noni Hit by Peta, Owners scammed in pyramid scheme and now the layoffs. Here are the files...... Your editor doesn’t trust them all, sort out the facts yourself.
GOJI JUICE BEING HIT BY NEW ZEALAND
8 June 2006 – Ads that are being run saying Goji juice would cure cancer sure got the Ministry Of Health in New Zealand to move fast. There are also reports that the high sugar content is sending diabetics to emergency healthcare.
Here is the latest report. Hint = Slow load for the website below, while you are there look at the video it loads pretty quick.
JUDGE UPHOLDS TRO ON BIO PERFORMANCE GAS PILL
2 June 2006 -- A State of Texas judge left the temporary restraining order (TRO) in place and set the BioPerformance trial for 18 Sept 2006. The hearing concluded in San Antonio, yesterday.
WATCHDOG ON GASOLINE PILLS POTIONS AND LOTIONS
2 June 2006 – One more time, there is only one test acceptable to the FTC and Attorney Generals! No silly lab tests in ISO 9000 labs. No silly flash tests in EPA chemical labs for MSDS (safety sheets). Once again, there is only one master test that is definitive proof according to the FTC. That is the EPA certified Emissions and Mileage test – the same computer controlled diagnostic test new cars go through; nothing else matters!
FUEL FREEDOM INT. HIT BY FLORIDA INVESTIGATORS
1 June 2006 – Florida AG now down on FFI... This is bad for the industry. I wish these people just do the right testing not just FFI but everybody selling a fuel additive.
BIO PERFORMANCE HIT BY FLORIDA AG
31 May 2006 – Looks like the Florida AG doesn't like BioPerformance either!
LIBERTY LEAGUE SCAM HIT AND EXPOSED
25 May 2006 – 2-up Liberty League has been exposed with a hit by the Arizona Attorney General! There is a chance for those who were scammed to get all or most of their money back! Great! So far, I've had complaints from a gentleman who was taken for $63,000.00, a blind couple who was encouraged to mortgage their house for $40,000.00 and a single mom who was taken for $23,000.00. I've been working with Night Line about Liberty League being a rebirth of Global Prosperity! Click below for the Arizona AG's news release and instructions for how to file a complaint.
MORINDA AND XANGO SETTLE LAWSUIT
18 May 2006 – - This is the only news available since both sides agreed to non-disclosure in the terms of the settlement. In other news not related to this lawsuit Xango has gone over 500k distributors worldwide.
TEXAS AG SHUTS DOWN BIO PERFORMANCE OUT OF DALLAS
17 May 2006 – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott shut down BP out of Dallas for selling fake fuel pills in a pyramid scheme with hoopola (see article). AG’s don’t like Binaries to start with and evidently had some high mileage claims made to... or in front of investigators. Reportedly the AG also got some $1 million dollar earnings claims! Court date in Texas is May 30th, 2006.
Ouch Earnings Claims!
Florida TV Station Lays It On
CO-OP GAS WITH CASH PYRAMID SCHEME!
15 May 2006 – Hot new 2x2 rollover matrix pyramid scam! Send cash! If you have ever wondered what the WatchDog means “rollover matrix scam” here one is in all it’s full glory! Send cash and don’t expect anything back! Cash and save-- sure they will save your money in their pocket! http://www.gaswithcash.com/
THE WATCHDOG: WHICH GAS MLM'S WILL SURVIVE - 100% TRUE PREDICTION!
12 May 2006 – With over 5 MLM Gas Savers out there here is a summary of what it takes to make claims on gasoline mileage increases. There is only one way to keep from getting hit by the law.
FFI GAS PILLS POUNDED
11 May 2006 – It seems the Media hates gas pills right or wrong. FFI and their gasoline pills just went through the media thresher like BP Below did. It seems that the Media and the law just have it in for gas savings... That is because this is probably the 3 wave of "save gas" stuff to roll through the U.S. in the last 30 years!
BIO PERFORMANCE GAS PILLS FLUNK TV TEST
9 May 2006 – After watching the news story (link below), your Watchdog realized these probably were NOT mothballs! They are a different product that has a spectographic frequency different from mothballs (now the Texas AG says no)the company says in a report. The WatchDog has received 3 complaints about Bio Performance not returning money on product. Texas Law, if you return the product to the company they have to return your money (usually 90%). This requirement is good for a year.
NEW PDF LINK TO FTC PROPOSAL DOWNLOAD (NOT ON FTC SITE)
911 NEW FTC BIZ OPP RULE HITS ALL LEGIT MLM COMPANIES
Get This To Your MLM Company and Thier Lawyers = 911!
911 NEW FTC BIZ OPP RULE HITS ALL LEGIT MLM COMPANIES
Get This To Your MLM Company and Thier Lawyers!
2 May 2006 – Your Editor had time to go through the new Biz Opp rules the FTC wants to put in place. They look terrible! Here some really silly things that I do not think will help stop scams one bit. I will have the full Rule Making PDFup in a day or two. Meantime here is my analysis:
1. Seven days before a prospect signs up and pays money they will have to sign your MLM Company disclosure document. Your company will have to spend money to store these written pieces of paper. So get our your old fax machines or... expect to have a big Fedex bill sending these disclosures around.
2. Want to wait 7 days? That is what the FTC wants you to do! You will have to wait seven days after the prospect
signs the disclosure form to sign them up and get their money to your company.
3. The FTC is saying the Biz Opp disclosure form will only be one page! Fat chance, by next year it will be 2 pages
and probably be 10 pages in 10 years.
4. They want more people to handle the paperwork. Oh great, a bigger government! Where is Ronald Reagan??
5. Will it stop scamsters? No! See Below!
6. In the draft rule the FTC quotes their so called attack on Pyramid Schemes they quote their takedown of 2extreme. Yes they did, 2 years too late and after your WatchDog had helped people that had been scammed out of $30 K send complaints to their AG's and he FTC. This was over 20 older people taken for over $30k@ .... Two years later the FTC moves! They also quote Equinox who was hitting people for at least $5000. The FTC limit was $500 and it took them years to do anything. In Fact it was when we (The MLM Watchdog) got Equinox on ABC's 20/20 that the FTC was forced to get off their buns and did something about shutting Equinox down.
7. The Federal regulation is dropped to zero dollars from $500 to have to have the disclosures in #1 signed.
8. The FDA tricked the National Nutritional Foods Association on Good Manufacturing Practices for Manufacturers and
came out with rule (which in effect are laws) that were bad. It seems that the FTC may be copying from the
FDA bad playbook. No open vote on this... the FDA and FTC Commissioners vote behind closed doors!
9. In effect this proposed Biz Rule by the FTC is a law. The problem is that our elected Senators and Congressmen are not voting on the new rule. Just 5 FTC Commissioners that are appointed - not elected - behind closed doors!
UP TO YOU WEALTH PYRAMID SCAM
5 May 2006- Not only is this an illegal pyramid scheme, but the giving of the "gifts" can trigger huge taxes to both those making the gift and those receiving. UTYW is a deal that can Bring the IRS to your doorstep with handcuffs. The website for this scam (See the “camoflauge” lies for yourself on the front page.. Do not sign up!) http://uptoyouwealth.com. This is a good learning experience of how scammers lie. You may also want to check to see exactly how the "gift" aspect worked... are you required to pay $$ in order for you to gain more money? If you stand to make money from giving a gift... It is illegal. What happens is when these scams get busted? The IRS follows behind with the records seized from the gifting scam and you are in for the IRS audits of your lifetime... Call your IRS office and ask for an Investigator and tell them you have been offered an opportunity to make money by joining a gifting program! It can save you grief!
EXPECT ANOTHER HIT ON HYIP (HIGH YIELD INVESTMENT PROGRAMS)
1 May 2006 – Back in 2003 the FBI ripped a hole in HYIP programs that are so common on the Internet. The FBI calls them “High Yield Investment Fraud.” You've heard it here before but here are some common traits of HYIP scams.
o "Secret" trading
o Risk free
o Guaranteed and/or high rates of return
o Investments only used as collateral
o Not licensed
o Not offered by legitimate brokerage firms
911 - 911 - 911 NEW FTC RULE APPLIES TO MLM COMPANIES
23 Apr 2006 – Ouch! This is putting the fox in charge of the henhouse? Only one area would really help stop pyramid schemes that harm our industry. The big problem once this Rule is in force harmful changes could be slipped in! Big Concern! 911 - 911 - 911 Send this link to your Company ASAP!
BAD TESTS = BENZENE IN SOFT DRINKS = BAD TESTS?
18 Apr 2006 - Because some lab tests cause benzene to be formed in soft drinks, The National Institute of Health has let a contract to develop an non-volatile test for benzene in soft drinks.
GIFTING COMPLAINT > FROM JAIL BOUND GIFTERS
17 Apr 2006 – The WatchDog is getting email from gifters telling me I am stupid. Why, because I don’t realize the IRS says gifting money is legal. Sorry “Gifters” there is a hitch in the IRS code for you. You can certainly give $10 K a year away legally. In fact send me all that excess money you want. HOWEVER don’t expect to make any money from doing it! When you “Gift” (give money) to another person, with the expectation of making money it is illegal! http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/giftalrt.htm Attorney General list to report Gifting Scams
NEW! MLM – AFFILIATE DUE DILIGENCE TO AVOID SCAMS
15 Apr 2006 – New Updated. Alexa toolbar and ratings added as tools for the MLM – Affiliate Due Diligence web page. Pass the worD to help cut down scams and hype in our good in MLM and Affiliate Industry.
IRELAND HIT BY BIG GIFTING SCAM
15 Apr 2006 - Suckers put 5,000 Euro (about $7,000) into the Liberty Gifting scheme.
PAGES OUT OF THE MLM INSIDER MAGAZINE INCUDED IN MASTER INDEX
DRA: MLM Distributor Rights Association: Meeting
