Thread: a wonderful opportunity to turn your $10 into 4 million.

No, I am not promoting these schemes, just wondering if they are connected with some more famous ones just using different names.

"You simply can not afford to miss it..."

ad2million.com

I will just pass myself but I know there are many who will grab at it.

Just read that is much like 10DollarsWonder.

To paraphrase Shakespeare:

"What's in a name? that which we call ad2million
By any other name would smell as badly as any autosurf"

Key indicators ad2million is just another one of a squillion "autosurfs" out there:

* advertising company
* advertising positions
* rotator
* cycled
* cycling
* earn up to $4 MILLION
* 2% daily
* fake, non legally binding Terms and Conditions.
* hosted in the US
* only accepts Alertpay

ad2million.com

174.36.50.170

174.36.0.0 - 174.37.255.255

SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
1950 N Stemmons Freeway
Dallas
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75207
United States

IP Admin
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Created: 2005-10-26
Updated: 2009-07-02
Source: whois.arin.net
Completed at 1/03/2011 10:43:55 PM
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Thanks LRM and just think how many people will be suckered into this one.

The layout of the Webpage itself is nearly identical to that of 10DollarWonder - which as most now know, is a pay to click scam and ponzi cycler (it is effectively productless and pays members with funds paid in by other members).

This looks like just more of the same and definitely illegal in the US and many other countries. Worth staying away from.

Thank you WT and LRM for commenting.

That Francisco DeJesus Rivera is something else. I call him DJ in Adland. He keeps posting in my Scam & Fraud forum. I am not deleting him anymore but trying to counteract him with information.

Here is his latest one:

One24 AND WHAT IS THIS?? NATURA BURST. You have heard of Clixtrack and RETIRE IN 24 MONTHS, they must all be tied in together under one big ponzi scheme. He spams so much I can't keep up with all his scams and doing the research.

As well as using the same templated website layout and barely altered script, ad2million and 10DollarWonder and 10centclub all share the same IP address indicating that the same fraudster or fraudsters are probably behind it:

174.36.50.170

174.36.0.0 - 174.37.255.255

SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
1950 N Stemmons Freeway
Dallas
TX
75207
United States

IP Admin
+1-214-442-0600
ipadmin@softlayer.com
IP Admin
+1-214-442-0600
ipadmin@softlayer.com

+1-214-442-0605
abuse@softlayer.com
+1-214-442-0605
abuse@softlayer.com

NS2.ARPA.GLOBAL-DATACENTER.COM
NS1.ARPA.GLOBAL-DATACENTER.COM

SOFTLAYER-4-7
Created: 2005-10-26
Updated: 2009-07-02
Source: whois.arin.net

Here is the pitch:

Hello friends,

I have something very exciting to share with you today. For about 4 years now I have been a member of the Secret Pays and I have earned tens of thousands dollars with that program (and it is still active - The Secret Pays Home Based Business with The Law of Attraction )

Well, the owner Sherm Mason (who has become a good friend of mine) has just introduced a new updated similar program that also pays $100 payments directly to members, no waiting.... with a neat Pay It Forward twist.

This is what Sherm shared with me...

Dear,

This just out and is really taking off like wildfire.

$1600 Today and it is Still early!!

There isn't a program out there right now that can even come close to This!

It is called Pifection (Pay It Forward Perfection).

http://MillerVentures.com/pifection.php

This is a real business that has real products that pays really well.

Find out all about it by taking our free tour and watching our cool videos. Do answer the short questionnaire, and tell me what you think. If you are ready to start making some real money, go ahead and start receiving $100 Bills.

I will pay for product purchase, a $100 dollar value.

People LOVE this business, and so will You!

http://MillerVentures.com/pifection.php

Looking forward to welcoming you to my team!

Love,
Sherm


I am wondering if all this is connected with the now nonexistent Secret Money System, at least when I try to go there it comes up with HTTP 404. The now announced "Pay It Forward" as pifection.com
Who is info:

Registrant:
Optimus Money
3502 Sussex Circle
Little Rock, AR 72211
us

Domain name: PIFECTION.COM


Administrative Contact:
Mason, Sherm OptimusPrime@ynotu2.ws
3502 Sussex Circle
Little Rock, AR 72211
us
+1.5016120334 Fax: +1.5013768111

Technical Contact:
Mason, Sherm OptimusPrime@ynotu2.ws
3502 Sussex Circle
Little Rock, AR 72211
us
+1.5016120334 Fax: +1.5013768111



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A Google search on Sherm Mason brings up a lot of praise for this very rich guy. He must be hooked up with a ton of internet scams and fraud. In searching some of this the name Trevor Allen came up, haven't I seen his name mentioned in here somewhere?

Optimus Money brings up information LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile). This just keeps getting more interesting. We have a TracFone (LG model) and I tried adding air time after it expired. That was a real trip!! I talked with CS agents from all parts of the world without any real results. Finally I filed a complaint with FTC about their customer service. I stated that I had done so and after spending another hour or two on the phone and repeating about 150 numbers over and over, I was able to add airtime.

The saga continues...

Originally Posted by honestme11

Well, the owner Sherm Mason (who has become a good friend of mine)
...
A Google search on Sherm Mason brings up a lot of praise for this very rich guy.

Also a recent bankruptcy:

Bankruptcy Filing Record


Debtor Information

Name:SHERMAN MASON
[redact same address as above]

Attorney:G. GREGORY NIBLOCKP.O. BOX 1208
STUTTGART, AR 72160
Phone:870-673-8444
Fax:870-673-0037

Filing Information

Filing Office:U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS (LITTLE ROCK)
Judge:JUDGE RICHARD D. TAYLOR
Filing Number:4:06-BK-13786
Filing Chapter:CHAPTER 13
Filing Date:08/30/2006
Filing Type:BANKRUPTCY

Isn't it amazing how many brilliant MLM entrepreneurs are in fact penniless?

Thanks wserra, very interesting. I did another search on the name Sherman Mason and found this website.

Sherm seems to average about 1 new… “Thing”, (for lack of a better description), per year. If memory serves, last year it was a money tree scam called “The Secret Pays” (thesecretpays.com), in which he played off of the popularity of the book, “The Secret”. “The Universe wants to pass $100 bills through your hands! “ And it did! They passed right though your hands into Sherms hands where they stayed.

But that was in 2006, I am sure he has recovered from all his 'schemes' going on.

Originally Posted by wserra

Also a recent bankruptcy:

Isn't it amazing how many brilliant MLM entrepreneurs are in fact penniless?

Actually, bankruptcy has little to do with being penniless. Case in point: Donald Trump. That is a "business strategy"! Do a project, suck the money out of it and declare bankruptcy to avoid paying creditors.

Originally Posted by laidback

Actually, bankruptcy has little to do with being penniless. Case in point: Donald Trump. That is a "business strategy"! Do a project, suck the money out of it and declare bankruptcy to avoid paying creditors.

To anyone doing REAL "due diligence" either of the examples given i.e. bankruptcy to avoid paying creditors or bankruptcy due to an inability to pay creditors, would be reason enough to walk away.

If people want to play at being a financial expert, take the risk, and ignore Mr Masons' previous history, fine.

It's their money and their right to do with it as they will.

http://hbiznews.com/blog/2010/09/hea...s-at-it-again/
Did any of you check out this website? I connected with Micah in FB this morning and told him about this place.

Sherm Mason? Partnered with Dell Daniels to swindle people as part of cash gifting "Operation 20k" a while back, with heavy ad targeting of the African-American community?

Originally Posted by littleroundman

To anyone doing REAL "due diligence" either of the examples given i.e. bankruptcy to avoid paying creditors or bankruptcy due to an inability to pay creditors, would be reason enough to walk away.

If people want to play at being a financial expert, take the risk, and ignore Mr Masons' previous history, fine.

It's their money and their right to do with it as they will.

BINGO! Head of the class as always!

Sherm Mason's latest - an autosurf called MagicDolla.com

And he's taken to calling himself "Dale Optimus" in the whois info. Wasn't hard for me to find who was really behind it though, checking over other sites with the same whois data until I found one that had the actual mailing address rather than the "Success Circle" nonsense. And the address matched Sherman. So did the email address, once I backtracked a bit.