Showing posts with label Emgoldex Team USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emgoldex Team USA. Show all posts

Monday, July 13, 2015

Scam Psychology: How does a scam encourage people to adopt a lost cause?

When one questions scams and suspect schemes for as long as the MLMSkeptic did, one'd seen a lot of things, such as people claiming that they forgive ZeekRewards Ponzi even before we knew the full extent of damage (just under a billion dollars), how Paul "ZeekRewards" Burks told newspaper "don't blame me, I never told them to invest more than they can afford", and so on.

Jael Phelps picketing Trinity Episcopal Church...
Jael Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church picketing Trinity Episcopal Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
However, some time the... fanaticism of certain fans of particular schemes rival that of the pro-life-crazies (who had assassinated doctors that performed abortions, for example, try reconciling that!), or perhaps those of Westboro Baptist Church (well-known crazies of the US). Others appear to be willing to "go down with the ship".

A recent example is Emgoldex, which just rebranded itself as Global InterGold, and some "diehard" Emgoldex fans, eager to defend their own stance on the scam, engaged in conspiracy theory with zero regard to logic.

I won't bore you with long history of Emgoldex. Suffice to say this European based Ponzi scheme had spread via help of the Internet, and nobody really knows where it's being ran out of (may have been Russia) but it was denounced as illegal all over the world, including the US (both state and Federal level), Malaysia, Philippines, even Dubai UAE where it allegedly was based out of.

Yet there are still backers who claimed that "you just don't understand Emgoldex", "you just don't understand MLM", "you are prejudiced against MLM", and so on and so forth. You can find many of them in the comments on this topic.  Some of them are certain of their righteous cause, others are somewhat doubtful but "hopeful" that they had made the right choices, even when facts started to stack against them.

Friday, October 24, 2014

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.