MLMWatchdog - WORLD WIDE SCAM

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From: webmaster@worldwidescam.com

Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:57 AM

To: Rod Cook

Subject: The Future of the WWSN

BOB BURTIS WORLD WIDE SCAM

by Bob - It's been a wild ride!

Watchdog Editors Note: Bob and I had a good relationship. We agreed to disagree on certain things and other like Eniva and their downline shifting = Agree Phil Piccolo = Agree and others? + - mad dogs to ride down.

For almost twelve years now, the WorldWide Scam Network has been the only free Internet consumer advocate service (Bob did forget the MLM WatchDog here) that was unsponsored and did not sell advertising. We simply felt it was important to expose some of the scams, pyramid schemes, MLM money games, worthless, fraudulent, and sometimes dangerous products, and the crooks, criminals and con artists who were behind them.

We did serious research and performed thorough due diligence; we documented our claims and stood behind our reports. There were legal threats and lawsuits from Neways, SkyBiz.com, BigSmart.com, and others. Best of all was the $8.6 million dollar lawsuit filed by Adam Gilmer of Travelogia who even

brought his lawsuit to our home town, where it was promptly thrown out of court and dismissed.

Sadly, after twelve long years, it does not seem that much has changed. SkyBiz.com is gone, Travelogia failed, and BigSmart.com was shut down by the FTC, but Lifewave and Dr. David Schmidt can still be found peddling worthless patches at local "Curves" exercise salons and Eniva is still selling their fortified orange juice, even after breaking every rule of true science and honest marketing in the book. Jim Fobair, Chuck Hanson, Phil Piccolo, Wayne Garland, Bruce Bise and all the usual suspects continue to run their scams and sell their junk. Meanwhile our opt-in mailing list has lost 50% of its subscribers and there hasn't been a donation to help support the WWSN in years.

Television and news media have little interest in publishing the truth about these MLM companies. Government regulators and law enforcement agencies don't take them seriously. And most respected network marketing "leaders" are unwilling to stand up to the scammers. MLM forums and message boards have some value in exposing these crimes in progress, but MLM true believers continue to blindly follow their chosen leaders and chase the money like lemmings headed for the sea, refusing to consider or intelligently discuss any differing opinion or point of view. The "Lifewave" thread at the "Museum of Hoaxes" web site has challenged and debated the topic of the phony Dr. David Schmidt and his worthless nanotechnology patches for more than four years and over 244 web pages.

Many people challenged the WWSN to take on the "REAL" scams of the day, such as Social Security. We explained it was not an area of interest for us, but we encouraged them to act upon their concerns and do what they could to expose those scams themselves. Perhaps we should have listened to their advice; maybe we would have seen the Wall Street, mortgage financing, and stock derivatives scams on the horizon.

Unfortunately, we didn't and we are now in an upside-down ARM mortgage we can no longer afford, the lender refuses to renegotiate, and nobody will refinance the one we've got. Two months from now our home will be foreclosed on. We'll be fine and we have several options, but after being victimized by the biggest Ponzi scheme the world has ever seen, investing limited time, effort and money into trying to expose Phil Piccolo's latest battery-powered gizmo or MLM travel scheme seems rather pointless, especially when there is so little public or governmental interest or support for our work.

The World Wide Scam Network (WWSN) and its hundreds of pages of research, debate, parody and satire will remain on the Internet; we just have no plans or motivation to update it in the foreseeable future. We thank those of you who did support and contribute to the web site and we hope you enjoyed and benefited from it. We have learned a lot as well, and were fortunate to have met many terrific people, foremost among them being MLM attorney Jeffrey Babener, who encouraged us, invited us to speak at his semi-annual MLM seminars, and became a true friend and mentor.

Carry on the fight, seek out the truth, always perform proper due diligence

- and be careful out there!

Bob Burtis

The WorldWide Scam Network

P.s. Rod Cook ur Editor - The prime rule today by the FTC and State AG's is below I like it and could make million$ with this model. MLM Companies have to look at this demand. If they haven't find another MLM.