Thread: Banners Broker HYIP ponzi scam

I've just gone onto the BB world tour site and found this:

General Tickets: $200 USD
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Friday Information Session
•Saturday Workshop
•Sunday Convention
Add-on included:•Saturday and Sunday unlimited Coffee, Tea and Water
•Saturday and Sunday Buffett Lunches

Saturday Night Gala Dinner Tickets: $150 USD
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Admission to Saturday night Gala
•Entertained by Band and Comedian
•Plus a great dinner, dancing, and socializing with BB Affiliates


V.I.P. Tickets: $500 USD
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Friday Information Session
•Saturday Workshop
•Sunday Convention
Add-on included:•Saturday and Sunday unlimited Coffee, Tea and Water
•Saturday and Sunday Buffet Lunches

Preferred seating in the front Access to VIP LOUNGE for the Saturday and Sunday events. Lunch served in the VIP LOUNGE
Saturday Night Gala Dinner Tickets
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Admission to Saturday night Gala
•Entertained by Band and Comedian
•Plus a great dinner, dancing, and socializing with BB Affiliates

Preferred seating and tables near the front

...thats like DOUBLE/TRIPLE the price of Manchester! Wow!

@Newto:

Ask Doc Brown.

Originally Posted by HARRISON

...thats like DOUBLE/TRIPLE the price of Manchester! Wow!

Its only the real muppets will be left at that stage, and they could be convinced to pay big bucks for any old rubbish.

Originally Posted by wakeupandsmelltheroses

Interesting no UK phone number! What happened to their wonderful Manchester/Bolton office?

How far can you Run / Drive / Fly in 24 hours?

If you want the UK/Manchester office try 0161 820 9319 Don't be too hard on Haley she might not know she is answering calls for a Ponzi scheme

Originally Posted by Newto

Something in my belly tells me its the end. How can anyone, even the most die-hard affiliates still believe all the stories of technical problems, maintenance issues or god knows what and how can Mr.S. and his cronies still believe that they can make people believe. Its beyond me.

I have posted academic links on the psychology of "authoritarianism" before
see bob Altemeyer's book especially the Chapter 4 about religious fundamentalists.
It is free here:
The Authoritarians

As for "The end is nigh" ( no pun intended) I don't think it is until you see some mid level players denouncing BB and the high level ones disappearing.
The disappearing act is beginning to occur in my opinion.

Originally Posted by noname999

@Newto:

Ask Doc Brown.

Urban Dictionary: flux capacitor

Sorry to spoil anyone's evening....

Originally Posted by HARRISON

I've just gone onto the BB world tour site and found this:

General Tickets: $200 USD
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Friday Information Session
•Saturday Workshop
•Sunday Convention
Add-on included:•Saturday and Sunday unlimited Coffee, Tea and Water
•Saturday and Sunday Buffett Lunches

Saturday Night Gala Dinner Tickets: $150 USD
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Admission to Saturday night Gala
•Entertained by Band and Comedian
•Plus a great dinner, dancing, and socializing with BB Affiliates


V.I.P. Tickets: $500 USD
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Friday Information Session
•Saturday Workshop
•Sunday Convention
Add-on included:•Saturday and Sunday unlimited Coffee, Tea and Water
•Saturday and Sunday Buffet Lunches

Preferred seating in the front Access to VIP LOUNGE for the Saturday and Sunday events. Lunch served in the VIP LOUNGE
Saturday Night Gala Dinner Tickets
Included in the ticket are the following:
•Admission to Saturday night Gala
•Entertained by Band and Comedian
•Plus a great dinner, dancing, and socializing with BB Affiliates

Preferred seating and tables near the front

...thats like DOUBLE/TRIPLE the price of Manchester! Wow!

It will cost more 'cos it is further away, isn't it?

And are they going to do the draw for the Mercedes car? You know, put all the panels in a hat and then Chris Smith closes his eyes are draws one out?

Originally Posted by Newto

" It's ok guys. I just heard that there is an issue with some flux capacitors on the 'INTERNET' engine that is running the blind network and affecting the fluctuations inherent in the smooth running of Banners brokers. Keep the faith guys. BB rocks!"

Just found this on the official BB Facebook site. What on earth are flux capacitors ???

When I saw that, I thought it was a p*ss take...........

So the BB convention thingie at Niagara Falls...

As shown on the BBTour website..... it tells you WHERE the do will be held

when and where.jpg


As shown on the convention centre website - um.................................

who.jpg

Never mind the cost of the blooming tickets, someone needs to CONFIRM the sodding booking.... OOOPS!!!!!

Originally Posted by AshKen1

So the BB convention thingie at Niagara Falls...

As shown on the BBTour website..... it tells you WHERE the do will be held

when and where.jpg


As shown on the convention centre website - um.................................

who.jpg

Never mind the cost of the blooming tickets, someone needs to CONFIRM the sodding booking.... OOOPS!!!!!

Hypnotist....so that's the secret!

I am just impressed that this real first straight line cycle doubler company, ooops, I mean this great advertising company, oops I mean this great advertising broker, oops I mean this great direct sales company, oops I mean this great blogging company cannot keep its website online.

Originally Posted by EagleOne

I am just impressed that this real first straight line cycle doubler company, ooops, I mean this great advertising company, oops I mean this great advertising broker, oops I mean this great direct sales company, oops I mean this great blogging company cannot keep its website online.

Yes well.... Imagine if it were an online auction site...


You're just about to make your last minute bid and .... the server goes splat. For several hours on one day. It finally comes back up... you make your bid... and the server goes splat again.... then comes back up... then goes offline... and you still haven't made your bid. Finally you get your item and go to pay. But the online auction site switches how you can pay... several times... and then pulls the card you can use...or it gets pulled.

Oh my doesn't that change how things look *innocent face*

Hey, our old chum Mr Bruce Lamb is at it again! Not only does he call people here "the kids at Real Scam " (ooh, flattery) he is still peddling his wares!

An extract from his dear little site:-


Without a great deal of effort so far this month the payouts achieved have been significant when compared to a contract or a salaried position. Were now on the 18th March and i can take out the following amounts $9587 Boxndice- $4958 Bruce - $1026 Lamb Enterprises.

In total just over $15000 which equates to £10k or there about's.

Given my total purchase or contribution was now £11,500 in total £10k per month thereafter is excellent having started in May 2012. I now have in excess of 1700 yellows and this is your cash flow.

The change in "business rules" so that people actually start using the full package in some areas hasn't gone down too well but a business owner looking to advertise his business or brand and create positive cash flow needs this display advertising component.

Hence we've brought into the mix a social media company to create the packages and plug ins to make each bb business owner working with us successful using this system.

On Saturday 16th March a cross section of the team got together with myself , Duncan and the social media company to start identifying what people needed to know and how to train the components through seminars and workshops.

The categories we will teach include beginners, intermediate and advanced, then how to Ramp, Crank and Bank.

Id love to say i thought of the ramp crank and bank but this was a phrase coined by an internet savvy millionaire called "Ayman" a few years back who ran a 3 month online course from Canada called:

The Arbitrage Conspiracy. This i attended and learned a number of techniques for accessing the revenues you are witnessing with bb although this was in the search and Cost Per Acquisition - CPA environment not display advertising as experienced in bb.

The Arbitrage Conspiracy taught a systems approach to cracking the "Google Code" this was split into modules and delivered through online webinars.

And another entry:

bb has recently had a period of turbulance but the business model is strong. Over the last few days i was absolutely inundated with calls from affiliates i knew, affiliates i didn't know until the call and people wanting to sign up, even given what they had heard about the business both good/ bad/ indifferent based upon who they had spoken to.

There is more if anyone wants to read up on it. Banner Alchemy: March 2013

Note to Bruce: Please do watch your spelling/grammar/punctuation/capitalisation. It looks a bit shabby otherwise IMHO. Nice picture of a rabbit though Bruce.

Originally Posted by Newto

" It's ok guys. I just heard that there is an issue with some flux capacitors on the 'INTERNET' engine that is running the blind network and affecting the fluctuations inherent in the smooth running of Banners brokers. Keep the faith guys. BB rocks!"

Just found this on the official BB Facebook site. What on earth are flux capacitors ???

You've obviously never seen Back to the Future. A work of fiction that some extremely gullible people took to be something that could really happen, Banners Broker stole idea for the "flux capacitor" from the film starring Michael J. Fox.....


back-to-the-future-flux-capacitor-replica-3.jpg

Originally Posted by Della Cate

It will cost more 'cos it is further away, isn't it?

And are they going to do the draw for the Mercedes car? You know, put all the panels in a hat and then Chris Smith closes his eyes are draws one out?

Looks like they've already bought the car....

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Originally Posted by Theseus

You've obviously never seen Back to the Future. A work of fiction that some extremely gullible people took to be something that could really happen, Banners Broker stole idea for the "flux capacitor" from the film starring Michael J. Fox.....


back-to-the-future-flux-capacitor-replica-3.jpg

But you guys are getting it all wrong. It's the "buck$ capacitor"

Originally Posted by Della Cate

Hypanor, you did a lot of work on compiling that list of domain names, but for those of us who are not au fait with these kinds of things, why is it significant?

I am sorry to be dim, it's been a long day, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could explain for the dimwits (like me!) amongst us.

Thanking you in advance, Della.

Google Analytics is a small piece of HTML code that Google supplies you to add to your website page/s. You can't see it, but many websites use it for monitoring traffic to their site - what pages are visited, what browser is used to get there, from what country, how long you stayed, and other interesting stuff for marketers to peruse. Here is a random sample image of a GA dashboard.

When you sign up for Analytics, you are given a unique number. You can place the code on a number of websites, but all the stats will come back to that one dashboard.

So the significance to me is, why is such a wide variety of scammers from all parts of the globe, using this same Google Analytics number? It is not the sort of thing you would share with others.

Now there could be all manner of reasons why these sites came up in the GA search - it could even be something as simple as a standard form (web page) that has been plagiarised from site to site and the GA code unwittingly copied as well, but in no case did I come across a domain name that DIDN'T have the ring of a scam to it. And looking at the domain name owners, many appear here on RS (not necessarily just in the BB thread either).

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it leads me to believe that there is a central link for all these sites / people. What is that central link though!
Would love to know who the GA account is registered to, but I don't believe there is a way of finding that out without a court order.

Whoever it is, has been accumulating stats on all the sites that were listed.

I hope that explains it, and why it was of interest.

If you're unable to download the Excel file for whatever reason, drop me a PM. I can't attach it here as it is larger than the 100kb attachment limit here on RS.

Edit: A sample piece of the code Google supplies. You don't need to understand it, this is all you need to add to your webpage for it to work -

<script type="text/javascript">
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12345-1']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['_setCustomVar', 1, 'Member', 'yes', 2]);
(function() {
var ga = document.createElement('script');
ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(ga);
})();
</script>

Originally Posted by Hypanor

As has been mentioned earlier in this thread by Jason, a number of BB websites use Google Analytics. Their GA number is 10738267.

maybe Marcus Brewer was hired for all those sites and left his ID there.
http://www.realscam.com/f8/banners-b...html#post42184


or somebody copied entire block from a damn Tutorial.

or included ga.js file not realizing they have to edit it first.


Looks like mostly used by one of those so called "Professional Network Marketing Team" - MLM/Ponzi pimp teams who think they are damn businessmen.

Someone has posted this on Facebook around 2.00am this morning (UK time) - does anyone know if it is true?

really hope that all you people who have invested ya hard earnd $$$ back in your pockets as this scam has been broadcasted on all the TV stations here in AUSTRALIA as being a Pyramid Scam...

Originally Posted by DevaEboracum

Someone has posted this on Facebook around 2.00am this morning (UK time) - does anyone know if it is true?

really hope that all you people who have invested ya hard earnd $$$ back in your pockets as this scam has been broadcasted on all the TV stations here in AUSTRALIA as being a Pyramid Scam...

I hope it is true but I have searched the usual places, (mmg thread, finch's, BB FB pages) twitter and google.au and I can't find anything that backs this up. can anyone in that part of the world shed some light on this or is it a fairytale?

Originally Posted by Theseus

THE DOWERY
22 BARKER STREET
NANTWICH
CHESHIRE
ENGLAND
CW5 5TE.

It appears that this address for Stepsys is simply a serviced office: Movehut | Serviced Office to Rent in Nantwich

Simon Stepsys Electoral Roll 2007
The Coach House, 83 Welsh Row, Nantwich CW5 5ET

Simon S Stepsys Electoral Roll 2003,2005-06,2009-11
The Old Police Station, 96 Welsh Row, Nantwich CW5 5ET

TWO houses? (Look at the dates)

Jason

Site is STILL down. Its more then 24 hours now. Any hope of it ever coming back on? Any hope of anybody still getting at least SOME of their money out?

Why don't bb just reverse the polarity of the flux capacitors? Or change the dilithium crystals!

THAT surely would solve ALL the problems