Ken Russo's latest involvement? Yagooft.com, a feeder for "TurboTalk"

[kschang]

TurboTalk seem to be a real product

Yagooft is a feeder / MLM to sell TurboTalk.

And there is already a krusso.yagooft.com

Coincidence? I think not!

[littleroundman]

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc153/thelittleroundman/Scams/yagooft.jpg

http://krusso.yagooft.com/founders (http://krusso.yagooft.com/founders)

In the words of Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs "there's no such thing as coincidence"

[Whip]

Perfect name. If you follow this idiot scammer........ya goofed.

[GlimDropper]

There's a kinda interesting genealogy to this one, their website mentions that the owner is one Mr. William McCullough. William (Bill) was the back office software provider to a pyramid scheme called SkyBiz which the FTC shut down in 2001 (http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/skybiz/skybiz.shtm). The genealogy part? Sky biz was owned by one Steven McCullough. I have some inquiries out about this but I'm pretty stinking certain that Bill is Steven's dad.

As a starting place I quote the MLM Watch Dog Rod Cook:



SKYBIZ IS RE-INCARNATED?

MY SOVEREIGN SEAS OWNER SAYS NO? & NO BINARY 3 PACKS!

7 Apr 2009 - Bill McCullough owner of Sovereigh Seas called and said NO MULTIPLE POSITIONS IN Sovereign Seas. I asked him about customers.... Who DO NOT Belong to the pay plan! SEE SKY Biz hit below - SkyBiz begging to find real Customers. Of course this resembles Sky Biz because Bill ran the back office for Sky Biz (as a vendor and not an owner - also ran ZibyCom) Here is your Editors concearn still:

[Link] (http://www.mlmwatchdog.com/Report_SkyBiz.html)

My Sovereign Seas was a short lived pyramid deal which promised to donate 1% of their haul to "the ocean," well ocean related charities. I'm sure Flipper said thank you but sometimes it's hard to translate the sounds they make, so it might have been "where's the money Bill."

Moving forward we get to a program I'll pass no immediate judgement on, The People's Ministry (http://by.thepeoplesministry.com/). I don't see a pay plan but I also don't find a 501c3 registration and nowhere do they claim that contributions are tax deductible. So for the moment let's assume this is all well intentioned and move on to why I mention it. Fist, William D. McCullough is listed listed as TPM's President and co-Founder (http://thepeoplesministry.com/About/Corporate/) but look at co-Founder Dawn McCullough. Of her it's said:


Dawn and her husband Stephen were married in 1988 on the Fourth of July. She is a devoted grandmother to three year old Nixon Dawn, and nine year old Isaiah, and her interests include interior decorating, fashion, riding motorcycles and hanging out anywhere there is an ocean.

After working in office management until 2000, she moved into business development full time with Stephen saying that they enjoy doing everything together.

So, Dawn married a McCullough named Steven. Is he involved in TPM? Well the website doesn't say so but the regestration seems to indicate as much:





Registrant:
My Sovereign Seas
227 Merkle
Norman, OK 73069
US

Domain name: THEPEOPLESMINISTRY.COM (http://dns.robtex.com/dns/thepeoplesministry.com.html)
Administrative Contact:
Mccullough, Stephen http://dns.robtex.com/k/ageuII8nACcGEdXSEm+/Www==@gmail.com (http://dns.robtex.com/dns/gmail.com.html)
227 Merkle
Norman, OK 73069
US
+1.4053215813 Fax: +1.0

Technical Contact:
Support, Technical http://dns.robtex.com/k/aXysPZS23NjFiLe+ia2q+KQ==@hosting.com (http://dns.robtex.com/dns/hosting.com.html)
650 Pencader Drive
Newark, DE 19702
US
+1.3027314948 Fax: +1.0
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 29-Jul-2012.
Record expires on 21-Jan-2014.
Record created on 21-Jan-2011.



Wait a second, My Sovereign Seas is TPM's regestrant and Steven McCullough is it's administative contact? It's starting to look like the SkBiz McCulloughs are in the charity buisness now. How comendable. Is there any indication they've stopped running pyramid schemes? Remember that address.

The "official" address for Yagooft LLC is:

7122 S Sheridan Road Suite 2-134 Tulsa, OK 74133

Which, no surprise here is a FedEx office (http://www.forlocations.com/fedex-Tulsa/OK/7122-s-sheridan-rd-suite-2) so the suite number is more like the number on the box they pick their mail up at. The Yagooft FAQ lists another address:

101 N Main Street, Suite 208 Winnsboro, Texas, 75494

Google map it, drill down to the maximum satellite resolution and find me their corporate headquarters. It might be underneath that red truck. But a lot of times it's difficult to get one of these programs off the ground, most particularly finding people to handle your financial transactions. It seems like this might have been the case with Yagooft and just to make sure that no one who wanted to give them money would be turned away they instituted bank wire transfers. From one of the many TG and MMG wanna be pimp sites (http://www.earningpalace.com/forum/network-marketing-money-cycling-programs/125612-yagooft-yagooft-com-2-print.html) we find:



Dear Yagooft Affiliate,

It’s time to purchase your Yagooft Software Package.
This letter is being sent to all Affiliates and Customers, so that everyone is on the same page.

8 days until our payment deadline of Nov. 15th.

Commission runs will begin on the 15th.

Yagooft was designed to use global payment systems to both collect and issue payments to affiliates. We always know that due to our explosive global growth, credit cards would not be the best option for processing payments.

In order to accommodate our growth and to enable smooth processing of both purchases and commissions we will now be working with payment options that don’t rely on credit cards. Instead we will be using Global Payment Solutions such as OkPay, Payza, and Liberty Reserve (with Paylutions, Payoneer and Solid Trust Pay coming soon). We will also be accepting personal checks (US Only), money orders, cashier’s checks, bank drafts and bank wires.

(Please note that Payza does allow you to fund your wallet using a Visa credit/debit card).

Mail personal checks (US Only), money orders, cashier’s checks, bank drafts to:
Yagooft LLC
7122 S Sheridan Suite 2-134
Tulsa, Ok. 74133

When sending Bank Wires you will need the following information:

Name of Bank
101 N Broadway
Oklahoma City OK. 73102
Routing Number: 103003632

Receiver Information:
Yagooft LLC
227 Merkle Drive
Norman, Ok. 73069
Account#: 0385042085
Banc First Swift Code: BFOKUS44


We appreciate your understanding and support as Yagooft continues it’s incredible world-wide growth.

If you have any questions please use your customer service panel in the Business Center to communicate with the Customer Service Team.

Thank You

The Yagooft Team




Good old Norman Oklahoma.

So, let's review. When you mail a check it's perfectly fine to send it to a mail drop but when you do a bank to bank fund transfer you can't use a FedEx mail box as contact info, you need to give people your real account info (darn those pesky regulators). So the REAL address for YaGooft LLC is:

227 Merkle Drive Norman, Ok. 73069

Well it's a good thing for Steven D. McCullough that William D. McCullough is running YaGooft and not him. Because he promised the FTC he'd be a good little boy (http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/03/skybiz.shtm):


Skybiz Pyramid Settlement to Provide $20 Million for Consumers

Evidence Showed Over 96 Percent of Recruits Lost Money

Distribution of $20 million dollars in consumer redress will begin in the near future for victims of SkyBiz, an alleged massive international pyramid operation based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The money for consumer redress is part of a settlement between the pyramid's promoters and the Federal Trade Commission, which charged that their scheme violated federal laws. The settlement also bars the defendants from participating in pyramid schemes in the future, and bars them from misrepresenting business ventures. It bars one defendant from engaging in any multilevel marketing programs for life and bars three others from engaging in multilevel marketing programs in the for periods ranging from seven to 22 years.

[path2prosperity]

Any connection with another enterprise which I have just mentioned on RealScam?

New RS thread. (http://www.realscam.com/f8/explosivecashmagnet-new-wealth4all-1732/#post32897)

[jlpederson]

Yagooft, LMBG, The people's ministry, LTM, all McCullough scams, of course there are others involved, Al Green, Lynn Spivey, bunch of liars using the name of God to promote their lies and schemes to every idiot foolish enough to listen. I have family who got into LTMI, LBMG, The People's Ministry scam, it's such a joke.