Парни, тема рабочая) но гнилая) Родригез и Гутемберг персоны известные, и тут не понятно) почему у нас ничего с этим не делают?)))) Они 2 пирамиды хлопнули, сейчас качают вообще по крупному))))) Я одного понять не могу) я понимаю, что народ не образованый, на ресурсы иностранные не могут зайти, почитать... Те люди, которые на этом поднимают, как потом другим в глаза будут?)))
Я понимаю тема прет и прибыль)
Гугл переводчик в помощь) и поиск тоже едет!)
U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SUMMARY
4. This matter involves Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos, individually and doing business as Vizinova, and their role in a multimillion-dollar fraudulent pyramid scheme based in Southern California and Guadalajara, Mexico which largely targeted members of the Asian-American and Hispanic-American communities. From September 2013 to September 2014, Rodriguez and Dos Santos raised approximately $5 million from roughly 100 investors, misappropriating almost 30% of it for their personal use.
5. The Vizinova scheme centered around a promise that investors would earn “points” that would yield a passive rate of return and which could be accumulated both upon investment and as a reward for the recruitment of new investors. Investors were told that their points would one day be convertible to cash with a debit card to be issued by Vizinova. In addition, purchasers of points – i.e., investors – were to be provided an online “platform” through which they could purchase from Vizinova, at wholesale cost with points or cash, mobile apps and other software that they could then sell at retail prices, for additional points or cash. The “platforms” and products were clearly intended to legitimize the entire endeavor, but very few products existed or were purchased or sold – the true incentive for investors was to accumulate and sell points which ultimately proved to be worthless.
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6. Rodriguez and Dos Santos previously were upper-tier salesmen in World Capital Market (“WCM”), the subject of a 2014 emergency civil injunctive action by the Commission, SEC v. World Capital Market, Inc., et al., Case No. 14-cv-02334- JFW-MRW (C.D. Cal.). It was through their efforts on behalf of WCM that they first met several of the individuals who later became investors in Vizinova. Rodriguez and Dos Santos created third-party entities, and opened accounts in the names of those entities, in which they deposited investor funds targeted for investment in WCM, and later, in Vizinova. In each case, they made, or authorized others to make, materially false statements about the underlying enterprise. In each case, only some of the monies intended for investment made their way to the underlying enterprise, and a significant portion of those monies were misappropriated by Rodriguez and Dos Santos for their personal benefit.
7. By engaging in this conduct, Rodriguez and Dos Santos violated, and unless enjoined, will continue to violate the antifraud and registration provisions of the federal securities laws. Therefore, with this action, the SEC seeks permanent injunctions, disgorgement with prejudgment interest and civil penalties against both defendants.
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Rodriguez and Dos Santos knowingly took numerous deceptive actions in furtherance of the Vizinova scheme. They held themselves out as Vizinova to investors and sales agents. They provided their subordinates with false information that described Vizinova as a legitimate multi-level marketing enterprise, and rewarded those subordinates with commissions for using those falsehoods to solicit new investors. They controlled all of the U.S.-based bank accounts into which investor monies were deposited and from which investor monies were disbursed – as “returns” to investors and for the purpose of purchasing real property, expensive cars, and other luxuries for themselves.
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Defendants’ Misuse of Investor Funds
25. From September 2013 to September 2014, approximately $5 million in investor money was deposited into accounts controlled by Rodriguez and Dos Santos. Rodriguez and Dos Santos appear to have diverted approximately $1.8 million of the total amount they raised for their personal use.
26. Rodriguez used almost $860,000 to purchase a house, $280,000 in withdrawals or checks to himself, and diverted $150,000 to other entities he controlled. Dos Santos spent approximately $200,000 in withdrawals or checks to himself, $200,000 on a Lamborghini, and $100,000 on mortgage payments.
27. Rodriguez and Dos Santos also spent more than $1.2 million on credit and debit card bills in connection with running the enterprise.
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Back in March the SEC filed a complaint against Vizinova owners Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos.
The SEC alleged Vizinova was a $5 million dollar Ponzi scheme. BehindMLM reviewed Vizinova in 2014 and concluded the same.
Rather than contest the allegations and clear their name, both Rodriguez and Dos Santos settled.
On June 8th, Final Judgments were entered against the pair.
According to the filed judgments, Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos will pay back $1.4 million in disgorgement. A civil penalty of $160,000 was also issued.
The judgments also see both Rodriguez and Dos Santos prohibited from
violating the Securities Exchange Act
making untrue statements
committing fraud upon any person
offering unregistered securities and
obtaining money by means of untrue statements
After the Vizinova Ponzi scheme collapsed, Rodriguez and Dos Santos launched AirBit Club.
Through AirBit Club, Rodriguez and Dos Santos solicit investment of up to $1000 on the promise of a 0.2% to 1.2% daily ROI.
Pyramid commissions are also paid out on the recruitment of new AirBit Club affiliates.
At the time of publication AirBit Club still appeared to be operational, however Alexa traffic estimates show a steep decline in activity beginning in May.
Whether further action is taken against Rodriguez and Dos Santos for continuing to defraud investors through AirBit Club remains to be seen.
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Since then we've confirmed ViziNova co-founder Gutemberg dos Santos also co-founded AirBit Club. The other co-founder(s) of AirBit Club have not been publicly disclosed. Several sources have written in to us however claiming Renato Rodriguez, dos Santos' partner in Vizinova, is involved.
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Law360, New York (March 2, 2017, 7:18 PM EST) -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday hit two men with a California federal suit accusing them of running a $5 million pyramid scheme based on a system of earning “points” that were falsely marketed as convertible to cash.
The SEC said Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos raised around $5 million from about 100 investors through their company Vizinova SA de CV by telling backers that their investments and recruitment of additional investors would earn points that could be swapped for a debit card....
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A “program” known as ViziNova was both a cross-border pyramid scheme and a reload scam aimed at victims of the WCM777 online debacle, the SEC says.
VizaNova, which gathered at least $5 million, invaded the Asian-American and Hispanic-American communities and was partly focused at Brazilians, the SEC said.
A PP Blog report in June 2014 suggested some ViziNova promoters also were involved in the epic TelexFree scam, which targeted speakers of Portuguese and Spanish. It is common for promoters of MLM-style scams to proceed from scheme to scheme to scheme.
Charged in the SEC’s ViziNova complaint were alleged operators Renato Rodriguez of Downey, Calif., and Gutemberg Dos Santos of Las Vegas. Both hucksters also promoted WCM777, the agency said.
“Rodriguez and Dos Santos previously were upper-tier salesmen in World Capital Market (“WCM”), the subject of a 2014 emergency civil injunctive action by the Commission,” the SEC said.
The complaint also positions ViziNova as a WCM777 reload scheme in which scammed WCM777 participants were scammed a second time by ViziNova. WCM777 was led by Ponzi/pyramid schemer “Phil” Ming Xu.
From the SEC’s ViziNova complaint (italics added/light editing performed):
Rodriguez and Dos Santos made false statements to investors. In March and April 2014, an investor received a phone call from Dos Santos, who told him that Rodriguez and Dos Santos had created Vizinova to make whole those who had invested in WCM. He told him that persons investing $3,200 in Vizinova would receive $32 per day until they had been credited $5,000.
In September 2014, the investor met with Dos Santos to voice his complaints that Vizinova offered no means to convert points to cash and that the few products available for purchase and resale did not work; Dos Santos reminded him that Vizinova was in a developmental stage and urged patience. That same investor made two trips to Guadalajara, Mexico in the fall of 2014, meeting with Rodriguez and Dos Santos each time in unsuccessful efforts to have his principal returned . . .
Another investor invested his money and the money of investors whom he recruited for WCM by providing the money to Rodriguez. In early 2014, he met with Rodriguez to demand the return of the amount invested. Rodriguez told him he was going to launch a new, then-unnamed multilevel marketing company in which investors would receive $5,000 for every $3,200 invested, and asked the investor to continue recruiting investors and to develop software for the new venture.
ViziNova worked in part because Rodriguez and Dos Santos “provided their subordinates with false information that described Vizinova as a legitimate multi-level marketing enterprise, and rewarded those subordinates with commissions for using those falsehoods to solicit new investors,” the SEC charged.
Setting up a bogus company in Mexico and other business entities to steer pyramid proceeds also was part of the scam, the SEC said.
“There is no U.S.-based entity called Vizinova,” the SEC charged. “Instead, Rodriguez and Dos Santos used Mexican nationals as nominees to incorporate an entity known as Vizinova S.A. de C.V, in Mexico in April 2014. Although Mexican law precluded them from incorporating the entity, Rodriguez and Dos Santos controlled Vizinova.”
The securities-fraud haul by Rodriguez included “almost $860,000 to purchase a house, $280,000 in withdrawals or checks to himself” and diversions of $150,000 to other entities he controlled,” the SEC charged.
Dos Santos, meanwhile, “spent approximately $200,000 in withdrawals or checks to himself, $200,000 on a Lamborghini, and $100,000 on mortgage payments,” the SEC charged.
In addition, “Rodriguez and Dos Santos also spent more than $1.2 million on credit and debit card bills in connection with running the enterprise,” the SEC charged.
Rodriguez reportedly once sent a cease-and-desist letter to BehindMLM.com.
Read the SEC complaint. The defendants agreed to settle for $1.4 million in disgorgement and $160,000 each in penalties, the SEC said. They neither admitted nor denied the allegations, and the settlement must be approved by a federal judge.
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Возможности огромные, так же, как и перспективы..........
Парни молодцы, что сумели раскачать! а дальше...........! Занавес!)
И не ругайтесь!) Попкорном лучше запасайтесь!) Легких ..... не бывает!)
Both core components of the AirBit Club MLM opportunity present glaring compliance issues.
On the ROI side of things, AirBit Club offer affiliates a passive ROI purportedly sourced from bitcoin investment.
This first and foremost requires registration with a securities regulator. There is no indication on the AirBit Club website suggesting the company has registered with any such regulator.
Secondly there’s a very real possibility that, while a token amount of bitcoin mining may take place, that AirBit Club simply re-use newly invested funds to pay off existing investors.
This would make it a Ponzi scheme.
The rest of the AirBit Club compensation plan is a combination of “pay to play” and pyramid scheme territory.
The pay to play element is evident in commissions paid out to affiliates determined by how much they invest. This is evident in all components of the AirBit Club compensation plan.
In MLM, commissions should always be based on individual sales performance of products and services – not how much an affiliate spends on membership fees.
The pyramid scheme component is evident in the recruitment commissions AirBit Club pay out. This includes both the direct and indirect residual recruitment commissions paid out via the 3×18 matrix.
In summary, once an affiliate has paid a membership fee, AirBit Club then pays them to recruit other affiliates who do the same.
The Retirement Plan matrix is a pyramid scheme within a pyramid scheme, with monthly affiliate fees shuffled around to pay off those with the largest matrices under them.
All components of the AirBit Club compensation plan require constant recruitment of new affiliates. If this slows down, funds entering the system also slow down and commissions will roll to a stand-still.
At this point AirBit Club will have collapsed, with the anonymous admin(s) doing a runner.
If Renato Rodriguez is indeed involved, one only need look at the collapse of ViziNova to see how the future of AirBit Club will play out.
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On March 2nd the SEC filed a lawsuit against Vizinova and owners Renato Rodriguez (full name: Pablo Renato Rodriguez Arevalo) and Gutemberg Dos Santos.
Vizinova launched in March, 2014 and for all intents and purposes was a reboot of Phil Ming Xu’s WCM777 Ponzi scheme.
Both Rodriguez and Dos Santos were affiliates in WCM777.
In their complaint, the SEC allege that Vizinova was a $5 million dollar Ponzi scheme.
Through the shell companies Kingdom Marketing Group, Eagle Holdings Group and FirstNet United, Rodriguez and Dos Santos laundered and kept about 30% of invested funds.
There is no U.S.-based entity called Vizinova. Instead, Rodriguez and Dos Santos used Mexican nationals as nominees to incorporate an entity known as
Vizinova S.A. de C.V, in Mexico in April 2014.
Although Mexican law precluded them from incorporating the entity, Rodriguez and Dos Santos controlled Vizinova.
Vizinova’s business model saw affiliates invest in Ponzi points, which could be used to purchase goods and services via an e-commerce platform.
This was on top of a ROI of up to 166% and pyramid recruitment commissions, which by far made up the bulk of the business.
As per the SEC’s investigation;
The “platforms” and products were clearly intended to legitimize the entire endeavor, but very few products existed or were purchased or sold – the true incentive for investors was to accumulate and sell points which ultimately proved to be worthless.
Rodriguez and Dos Santos refused to participate in the SEC’s investigation into Vizinova. Upon confronted with first-hand evidence of fraud, both scammers asserted their Fifth Amendment rights.
The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and protects a person from being compelled to be a witness against themselves in a criminal case.
I had a look on Pacer but at the time of publication there doesn’t appear to be a criminal case filed for either Rodriguez or Dos Santos.
That doesn’t mean a criminal investigation isn’t underway, which Rodriguez and Dos Santos appear to be aware of.
Meanwhile in their civil case against the pair, the SEC allege
Rodriguez and Dos Santos knowingly took numerous deceptive actions in furtherance of the Vizinova scheme.
They held themselves out as Vizinova to investors and sales agents.
They provided their subordinates with false information that described Vizinova as a legitimate multi-level marketing enterprise, and rewarded those subordinates with commissions for using those falsehoods to solicit
new investors.
They controlled all of the U.S.-based bank accounts into which investor monies were deposited and from which investor monies were disbursed – as “returns” to investors and for the purpose of purchasing real property, expensive cars, and other luxuries for themselves.
In total Rordriguez and Dos Santos personally stole $1.8 million of funds from “unqualified (and) unsophisticated” Vizinova investors.
Rodriguez used almost $860,000 to purchase a house, $280,000 in
withdrawals or checks to himself, and diverted $150,000 to other entities he
controlled.
Dos Santos spent approximately $200,000 in withdrawals or checks to himself, $200,000 on a Lamborghini, and $100,000 on mortgage payments.
Having failed to register either themselves or Vizinova with the SEC, the regulator’s lawsuit charged them with
fraud in the connection with the purchase and sale of securities
fraud in the offer or sale of securities and
the unregistered offer and sale of securities
Rather than clear their name and explain how Vizinova wasn’t a Ponzi scheme, Rodriguez and Dos Santos settled with the SEC on March 2nd.
As part of proposed settlement, Rodriguez and Dos Santos will pay back $1.4 million in disgorgement, on top of a $160,000 fine each.
Neither Rodriguez or Dos Santos are admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations (wink wink, nudge nudge), and court approval is still required before the settlement is made final.
After Vizinova collapsed, Rodriguez and Dos Santos continued scamming people through AirBit Club, launched mid last year.
AirBit Club is pretty much more of the same. Affiliates invest $250 to $1000 in bitcoin on the promise of a daily ROI for 125 to 300 days. Pyramid commissions are also paid out upon recruitment of new affiliate investors.
Alexa traffic statistics for the AirBit Club website suggest the scam is still operating, primarily in Japan and Colombia.
Possibly in an attempt to hide his ongoing attempts to defraud investors, Rodriguez sent BehindMLM a cease and desist after we reviewed AirBit Club shortly after launch.
How much Rodriguez and Dos Santos have stolen from AirBit Club investors since it launched last year is unknown.
AirBit Club is not mentioned in the SEC’s Vizinova complaint or proposed settlement agreement. SEC settlement agreements typically require defendants to cease engaging in fraud, so how that plays out with AirBit Club remains to be seen.
Whether or not AirBit Club will feature in pending criminal charges against Rodriguez and Dos Santos will also be of interest when the time comes.
Stay tuned…
Но у нас же каждый человек о своей выгоде думает, в том и смысл матричной пирамиды, что каждый хочет урвать себе, плевать на соседа если сам замутился)
