Thread: Banners Broker HYIP ponzi scam

Originally Posted by Theseus

They know that if they speak out their accounts will be blocked.

Makes me wonder...when this thing collapses, how long will it be before people even realise.

Actually...now that I played around with it a little. Various combinations of www.bannersbroker.com versus just plain bannersbroker.com without or without trailing slash sometimes get you the weird GoDaddy "expired" notice -- sometimes you just get the "server unreachable" message. This is in IE.

I think they have their root stuff or DNS stuff screwed up.

We are probably seeing simple incompetence in keeping a site up and running not something more diabolical. Like I said let's check in a few hours and see if it is back. I'm going to guess it will be ;-)

You guys wanting to buy the domain name...put your shiny new BB MasterCard back in its holster. Registrars bend over backward even after expiration, to give the domain owner a chance to reclaim their property. It takes weeks sometimes months to buy a domain name that has expired.

Originally Posted by AshKen1

That's why I posted it here. Wonder if it's to do with traffic packs? As I said, I don't understand the technical stuff at all. What I did note was that the server is in US. Would that cause disruption like this?

That's a lot of spambots. lol. Perhaps this is the 'hits' they guarantee you'll get.

Oh, I know that, Sam!
90 days I thought it was.

Originally Posted by samuel.r

I think they have their root stuff or DNS stuff screwed up.

We are probably seeing simple incompetence in keeping a site up and running not something more diabolical.

And whats their (supposed) business again??

MMG BB thread is shooting up in popularity. Still long way behind this one but increasing.

Originally Posted by noname999

It may be spectulation but it is bang on the money. There is no other realistic explanation. There is no reason they would not give notice unless their hand was forced. Can't wait to hear the lies though...

Something like "GoDaddy just couldn't handle the massive traffic that Banners Broker generated so we moved to a better provider.
All will now be well in the land of Banners Broker from now on...

No more outages from now on OK? Oh! and by the way we changed our name to Adverts Galore."

Maths/IT Genius, Cycler script writer Chris Smith.

This is the funnest post I have read in a long time! A Scam declaring "Bankruptcy" LOL!


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QUOTE (strosdegoz @ Dec 10 2012, 01:57 PM) *
If they were under maintenance they would have a message on the website as they have been doing in the past.
More likely they ran into some technical problems or simply shut this thing down which isn't likely right now but still possible.


Yep, I don't think they are quite ready to declare bankruptcy. I would give them another 3-6 months...but when it does happen, it's going to hurt a whole lot of innocent folks.. Oh well, that's business.... closedeyes.gif

The domain is registered until October 2017. Its hosted in Missouri, Saint Louis (Hosting Solutions International Inc.) and the servers IP address is responding.
Hosting Solutions is a name used by Serverloft, who are owned by Intergenia. We can rule out hardware malfunctions as Serverloft promise "...in case of a hardware breakdown, the server is replaced within four hours, 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

"Cannot display webpage" in this case just means, there is nothing on the Banners Broker web server that is responding to GET requests to serve up html. Which most likely means someone or something has stopped the webservice from running on the server for whatever reason. This has happened several before (usually with a splash screen though), and no doubt the site will be back on air in due course and everyone will carry on pretending that this is a normal occurance for businesses of this size... bulldust!

In an ideal world, Anonymous (the group) have heard about BB and taken them down with a DOS attack, lol!

Edit: At this time, the Authoritative DNS server has not been changed (nor the server IP), so no apparent sign of a change of host if that is the excuse.

Who knows what is really going on. It is way too early to say they have run with the money. One sure sign they will run is when all the major shills and pimps stop posting on any forum or blog. One thing for sure, the next few days are going to be quite interesting.

Hmm, maybe all the affiliate websites should be looked into as well. The one for Paul McCarthy was showing site down for maintenance earlier this morning and now it is saying "Could not connect to remote server." Rather odd for the Ireland main BB website. Wonder if the UK, India sites cannot be connected to the remote server? I guess this is what they meant by a "new structure" coming soon, or whatever they said was being changed.

None of the remaining Banners Broker members are likely to be panicking.

They've been "preconditioned" to expect exactly this sort of event, right back since Banners Brokers' earliest days.

When Banners Broker eventually collapses, it will take a few weeks for the fact to sink in for the "true believers," giving whoever really IS behind the scam to be long gone.

Nice to see..even for few hours...the dragon site down...I wonder what new scam will they come out with?...some kind of rescamming is in progress I guess

You'd think a "cash-rich", debt-free, multi-million dollar company could afford a back-up server, wouldn't you?

Someone has found the password for the backup laptop, website is back. Maybe it's running off Paul McCarthy's Casio now?

Originally Posted by Hypanor

Someone has found the password for the backup laptop, website is back. Maybe it's running off Paul McCarthy's Casio now?

Yeah....it took him awhile to find that right size watch battery it uses.

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The wording of this is interesting...

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"new Canadian partner" ?

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There's a top tip for any married people out there, if you think you might be suffering from the 7-year itch, simply get your spouse to change their name and, hey presto, you have a "new partner"

And now Banners Broker have a "believable" new excuse to explain away lack of or delayed payments.

This will cover Banners' brokers' a** for weeks in the eyes of the shills, pimps and "true believers"

Look out for a whole lot of "see, if they were crooks, they wouldn't have bothered to come back" posts on the usual suspect forums.

Thats definitely 5 Carlow Court, same building that is showing on Google Maps (never trust Google Maps, BTW - some images are very dated).
This mob say they are still in that building though - Durham Energy Specialist Ltd. - Consulting Engineers. Waiting to see what they say to an enquiry email...

Originally Posted by Hypanor

Thats definitely 5 Carlow Court, same building that is showing on Google Maps (never trust Google Maps, BTW - some images are very dated).
This mob say they are still in that building though - Durham Energy Specialist Ltd. - Consulting Engineers. Waiting to see what they say to an enquiry email...

Durham own both number 5 and number 10, so they may well have simply moved everything into the latter, it'll be interesting to see....

Yeah right, more like he lashed out on a brand spankin' new iPad mini and the site's running off that....

Originally Posted by Hypanor

Someone has found the password for the backup laptop, website is back. Maybe it's running off Paul McCarthy's Casio now?

re: Website Outage - take this whichever way you want, whether you're a shill or a troll, I'm only bothering to post this because my own domains (godaddy hosted ones) have been offline all day. So much so, I've received about 40 or 50 phone calls today from clients unable to log into MY websites, which are hosted on GoDaddy. I have also had problems getting into my facebook fan page several times today (server not found).

Seems to me it's high time BB moved its servers into the cloud, like thepiratebay.se ....

Facebook down..multiple sites down.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/10/2012 - 3:27pm

Site: facebookLast week, GoDaddy was hacked; regardless of what GoDaddy says in an effort to mislead consumers - the facts are clear..they were compromised. Websites associated with GoDaddy are systematically being taken down - Gmail an hour ago, Facebook, Bank of America, Pandora, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail Last Night..shall I continue?This needs to be reviewed because facebook, as of this moment, does not exist in DNS servers. I have multiple screen shots of the progressive failure of Facebook which indicates that it was being done step-by-step. There is no doubt about this and companies need to be transparent and honest in what has happened. I was able to ping another Facebook address after it went down which worked, it resolved fine in the browser. A few minutes later - it was gone. Reports worldwide indicate that it is down. Even SITEDOWN.COM is down! Downforeveryoneorjustme results show me that it does not exist on the "Interwho". We need to be wary of a large scale cyberattack........ Oh, earlier - look at the interesting SQL error that came up even on Facebook games? MySQL ExceptionMessage: 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /opt/cc/wc.20121206-1702/www/application/library/Api/Player.php
Line: 144
Query: UPDATE users SET seentime = 1355176189 WHERE userid =
Generally lots of reports of Facebook and Bank of America being down over the course of the day. GoDaddy, BofA, and Facebook seem to be back up though. Still it illustrates that BB is not the only site in the world that has problems!

Ummn, that report was from September 12, NOT December 12.

The date format is in US style, i.e. 12/10/2010 indicates September 12.

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Go Daddy-serviced Web sites go down; hacker takes credit

One hacker claims responsibility for an outage affecting sites for which Go Daddy provides hosting and DNS services.

by Elinor Mills
September 10, 2012 12:07 PM PDT

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Well Paul McCarthy's BB site is back up. I guess all is well with the world.

90 views on my blog at the moment.
If anyone would like to help me make sure it's just right please message me.

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Originally Posted by EagleOne

Well Paul McCarthy's BB site is back up. I guess all is well with the world.

Still sporting the fake VAT number too (screen shots taken within last 5 minutes)

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