Thread: Trend Sound Promoter

Good Agency to file a complaint about TSP is Federal Trade Commision.
https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/#crnt&panel1-1

More info: CRIMINAL ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN WITH FTC ASSISTANCE

Working with the FTC’s Criminal Liaison Unit, the USPIS and DOJ’s Office of Consumer Litigation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, has recently filed criminal charges against 14 individuals in connection with their involvement in business opportunity scams. The FTC has provided hundreds of hours of investigative support on these
cases and has assigned two of its attorneys to serve as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys to work on these and other criminal matters.

In addition, recent criminal actions brought by the Office of Consumer Litigation have resulted in significant prison sentences for promoters of business opportunities whose schemes violated the FTC Act or the Franchise Rule, including:
•70 month sentence for Jeffrey Salley and four years’ probation for Terri Salley for criminal contempt. United States v. Salley (S.D. Fla. Jan. 7, 2005).
•84 month sentence for Dennis Vaughan for criminal contempt, wire fraud, and money laundering, upheld by Tenth Circuit. United States v. Vaughan (10th Cir. Dec. 21, 2004).
•125 month sentence for Robert Ferrera for criminal contempt. United States v. Ferrera (W.D. Mo. Nov. 30, 2004).

Another good agency is DFI Online Complaint Form-Consumer Services

One more agency to file a complaint about TSP fraud is US Postal Inspection Service
https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/c...complaint.aspx

More info from USPIS : If you believe you’re a victim of fraud related to the U.S. Mail, including mailed sweepstakes, lotteries, on-line auctions, work-at-home scams or chain letters, report your concern to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service as mail fraud.

It almost looks like these guys are going to get away with it. I emailed Sarah twice but got no response. Then today got an email from TSP telling me to go to court in June to try to fight the Ch. 11 bankruptcy. Also I filed with almost every agency on this forum but got no response from any. what is it our tax money pays for??

Court meeting for creditors:

June 4, 2014
9:30 AM
US Courthouse, Room 4107, 700 Stewart St, Seattle, WA 98101

3 very important agencies to report TSP "work from home" scam/fraud:

1) Criminal Liaison Unit (Federal Trade Commission) : Contact CLU | Federal Trade Commission
Would you like more information about using the FTC as a resource to prosecute consumer fraud?
Contact the CLU Chief:
CLU@ftc.gov
1-800-CLU-1234

2) US Department of Justice Criminal Division: USDOJ: CRM: Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section (NDDS)
Correspondence to the Department of Justice, Criminal Division including the Assistant Attorney General, may be sent to:
U.S. Department of Justice
Criminal Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
By E-Mail
Correspondences by e-mail may be sent to Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov
By Phone
Department of Justice Main Switchboard - 202-514-2000
Criminal Division Citizen Phone Line - 202-353-4641
Criminal Division officials, see the Directory of Department Officials

3) US Postal Inspection Service: https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/c...complaint.aspx
More info: If you believe you’re a victim of fraud related to the U.S. Mail, including mailed sweepstakes, lotteries, on-line auctions, work-at-home scams or chain letters, report your concern to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service as mail fraud.

File your fraud report, and ask agency to intervene bankruptcy, and start criminal investigation.

If some of the agencies will not respond to you, contact senator Maria Cantwell: Help with Federal Agencies - Senator Maria Cantwell

US Trustee Motion to convert chapter 11 to chapter 7 bankruptcy - DOC 15

Attachment 7593

That's not good. It's exactly what they want.

Today court news:

Volodimyr Pigida will be subpoenaed to appear in court during next 10 days by request from Marc S. Stern, attorney for Igor and Tatyana Kotelevskiy (creditors)

- DOC 25

Originally Posted by Whip

That's not good. It's exactly what they want.

Yea, a lot of things in this hybrid scam were designed to be hard to prosecute/investigate,
Pigida ,been said, has a law degree.

One of the claim filled by a "creditor" at bankruptcy court:

Attachment 7609

Here is what surprises me the most,
That neither she or now nobody in court sees something wrong was going on,
that somebody deposited money ("bought a premium package") with an advertised 408% profit a year,

all because she and the court was led to believe she did something useful aka was a contractor and her 250 clicks on the same button per work day
was not just smoke and mirrors.

Jeez


PS: Victims, please open your eyes, stop pretending you were employed/contractors/workers and it is just a "salary non paid" issue,
You were DEFRAUDED

isn't a chapter 7 going to be better for creditors? As they will be forced to have their assets liquidated including that new 1.5 million estate Pigida bought using victims money. Also I bought my premium package in march so I should expect to not get a penny back right?

Best Regards,
DC

Originally Posted by peachy123

isn't a chapter 7 going to be better for creditors? As they will be forced to have their assets liquidated including that new 1.5 million estate Pigida bought using victims money. Also I bought my premium package in march so I should expect to not get a penny back right?

Best Regards,
DC

It tells me they aren't even really investigating this as they really should be. Especially when people are tipping you off that it's a criminal enterprise.

Originally Posted by peachy123

isn't a chapter 7 going to be better for creditors? As they will be forced to have their assets liquidated including that new 1.5 million estate Pigida bought using victims money. Also I bought my premium package in march so I should expect to not get a penny back right?

Best Regards,
DC

Neither chapter 11 or chapter 7 can return you the money, chapter 7 is a liquidation - distributing $50k+bentley car (the only sum in the name of the company) across the creditors. You can already imagine it will be less than a penny on a dollar.

Personal assets of all who benefited (Pigida's, operators and those "promoters" who made profit) are not touchable under a corporate veil - that is what a bankruptcy for.

To make the scammers and the profiters personally responsible, a charge of wire fraud from authorities is needed.

Originally Posted by peachy123

isn't a chapter 7 going to be better for creditors? As they will be forced to have their assets liquidated including that new 1.5 million estate Pigida bought using victims money. Also I bought my premium package in march so I should expect to not get a penny back right?

Best Regards,
DC

Prosecutors do not arrest and charge someone solely because another person claims that a crime occurred and wants the offender prosecuted. Unless the police observe the crime, they will need to gather evidence and other information to recommend that the prosecutor charge the person with a crime.
Criminal investigation and fraud audit need to be done. Execution and levy is used to seize real estate, stock in corporations, and the debtor’s personal effects. The creditor can execute against the debtor’s property in possession of a third party.

Originally Posted by TSPvictims

Prosecutors do not arrest and charge someone solely because another person claims that a crime occurred and wants the offender prosecuted. Unless the police observe the crime, they will need to gather evidence and other information to recommend that the prosecutor charge the person with a crime.
Criminal investigation and fraud audit need to be done. Execution and levy is used to seize real estate, stock in corporations, and the debtor’s personal effects. The creditor can execute against the debtor’s property in possession of a third party.

To start investigation, authority need to have a complaint from the victim! No victim-no crime! The process begins when a victim, or one having knowledge of a crime, files a sworn statement with the proper authority known as a complaint. Once a complaint has been investigated, and the complaint is found to have probable cause, a crime can be charged. Remember, if there no victims, no complaints means no crime.

An interesting thing I missed from my view,

A Florida corporation - "TREND SOUND PROMOTOR AMG CORP" (ID: P12000099787, EIN: 46-1482825)

was voluntary terminated by Volodimyr Pigida on Mar 13 2014



PS: was Pigida not sure if company is "PROMOTER" or "PROMOTOR" when he registered them both (FL and WA) ? :)

Originally Posted by littleroundman

I see this assets classification "$0 to $50,000" was incorrect.

Lets fix it and stop quoting $50k
After going through court documents (and their accounting is a mess) I think I can estimate the best numbers there can be.

Ok, here are their debts:
Attachment 7611

Notes: those are provided by TSP but only for months of Feb and March, we also already know great number of victims who lost money was not counted in it. The actual debt sum for a year of operation must be a way bigger.



here are the assets:

Attachment 7612

Notes: They forgot to list a lawsuit against John Doe 1 of Florida ;)
Also not sure if they included their balances in payment processors (Contact, SolidTrustPay) under "Accounts Receivable" or they just hid it.
And frozen balance in credit card processor they blamed non payment with was a lie, not listed.
The proof of assets and bank statements TSP failed to show in court as requested.


Overall, the stated asset sum (under $412k) is slightly bigger than $50k but still not enough to cover debts (declared or undeclared).

Other interesting numbers:
* payment of $15,000.00 to Lary Feinstein for representing TSP in bankruptcy
* Income stated in 2013 was $4,373,768.30 in court docs but does not match a messy income schedule where it says NET PROFIT for 2013 is $885,739.39 (that schedule gave me a headache trying to make sense out of it)
* Income stated in 2014 YTD was $3,423,920.00

Both 2013 and 2014 stated income should make everyone wonder "So, where are the money?"

For those who demanded a proof of TSP being a scam, their disbalance sum (provided by TSP themselves) and non payment since december should be it,
do you think there is a better proof than this? ;)

Now i remember it was US Secret Service who busted Zeek Rewards ponzi (which is very TSP alike)
Perhaps SS will be also good place to complain, they might have more time for a new case to investigate

here is how to get in touch:

U.S. Secret Service
Seattle Electronic Crimes Task Force
206-553-1922
Email:seaecwg@einformation.usss.gov

Originally Posted by NikSam

...
The proof of assets and bank statements TSP failed to show in court as requested.
...

As I see now, TSP provided a proof only on Bentley car,
and request for speedy conversion to chapter 7 was denied by Judge, so may 16 hearing on that shorten time conversion will not happen and conversion will continue at normal pace (DOC 31)

Makes me wonder why they did not produce bank statements, it is so easy, were they looting the bank accounts after the filing ?

Interesting, looks like TSP forgot to pay taxes , at all :) (claim 4-1)

Attachment 7615

This is half-page ad advertising Trend Sound Promoter as a work from home opportunity.
It was run by Seattle–based russian-language printed monthly publication:
Nashi Vesti / Наши Вести (Our News) - ISSN # 2152-7407

The ad first appeared in Mar 2013 edition and continued till the September edition.
The newspaper claims 500,000 auditory in States of OR,WA,FL, ID

In the past , other Pigida's alleged scam "Global Employment Alliance" was also advertised in this newspaper.


Attachment 7617

"Packages" still available for sale. Take a look prices and pay scale. Attachment 7618 Attachment 7619 Attachment 7620 Attachment 7621 Attachment 7622 Attachment 7623

Here at 5:15 you can see what they call a process of "sending email" (they have no idea who it sent to or from or if it is even sent or which content was sent):

Click -> Click -> 5 sec delay -> $0.40 to account

And she does it 25 times every work day for a year as the $525 Mini+ package allows producing a total yearly whooping ROI of 485% (minus one time $120 admin fee and minus 5% withdrawal fee)




PS: where are all the shills at ?

Advance Fee Employment Fraud - Global Employment Alliance - a scam by Volodimyr Pigida

Begining in 2011 Pigida and others launched several websites:
glemail.com.ua
glemail.com
glemail.kiev.ua
glemail.ru

All were linked to a WA corporation Global Employment Alliance Corp. (ID: 603069929)
ran by a Notary Public and the President Volodimyr Pigida.
GEA was advertised on online forums and in Seattle russian-language newspaper.

The sites offered an employment for Russians And Ukrainians to come to U.S. (Alaska and Washington)
and work at sea-food processing plants with at least "$18 per hour" salary.
The work schedule was harsh: 7 days a week, with 8 hours of work and 8 hours of relax in intervals.
This job offer included free food and stay and processing all the paperwork required (work visas, medical certificates)
Cost of flying was supposed to be paid out from the paychecks.

Also were other miscellaneous low level jobs advertised with much better work schedule
paying at least $9.25 per hour
All jobs did not require the english language skills.

An applicant had to pay $600 contract fee, plus expenses for medical certificate, opening a debit card and a bank account, few processing fees.
All looked legit, a lot of paperwork, interviews in local offices at the end they were given a Pigida's notaralized contract and were told to wait.
There was a huge amount of applicants.

People been waiting for 1.5 years till they started getting mad and screaming at people who were working for GEA locally
and on the phones, till those disappeared and as a last word said "contact WA office / Pigida" (or said they had no idea , did not get paid or were also cheated and did not go to US)

And around november 2012 the GEA sites went offline.

As far as it is known there was not a single person who went to work to U.S.
And about that time Pigida got a new car and a house, and launched the TSP.
On apr 4 2013 , The corporation was terminated by Pigida.

There are criminal cases opened in Odessa and Kiev.

see the attached file which has an overview of sites and names,addresses,phones of all who were involved.

PS: Victims of GEA, contact me in private.

Today in bankruptcy court:

Larry B. Feinstein (TSP lawyer) filled an agreement with Pigida to be paid $395 per hour for his services from TSP (or personal) estate.
and upto $275 per hour for his assistants time.

-DOC 34-36