Another breathless missive from our intrepid reporter as to the activities of the crew of Derek and the two Kevins. This post could probably be labelled "Death and Ressurrection, or You Can't Keep a Good Scammer Down". When we last left you the crew were flying high, happily posting ads on Kijiji advertising their foreclosure expertise, trying to recruit front people and all the foreclosed properties they could. Hint to the crew - try to vary your wording in the ads and don`t have the same group of ads all be posted from the same email address. It`is pretty obvious who is posting when the wording is the same on a dozen ads and the same person is also recruiting for a front man. In fact they were so confident they even tried to sell to an investor a property that was
a. past the redemption period so the only person who could make financial decisions about the property was the bank`s lawyer, certainly not the hapless resident or the crew;
b. had a MLS listing and a realtor assigned by the bank.
The assigned realtor, and the bank lawyer certainly took an interest when they learned that grubby little fingers were intruding on their interests, but that is another story.
Then bad things happened. Kijiji changed their site policies:
Your ad has been removed from Kijiji because it does not supply enough
> information to be posted in the Financial Services category.
>
> In an effort to better the user experience, we are now asking users who
> are posting a financial lending ad to include a business name, business
> address, and phone number. It is also strongly recommended to include a
> website and lending license number. You may receive a phone call from a
> Kijiji representative to confirm your information.
Like every good scam, you have to advertise for customers. There are still attempts by the crew to post ads, they`re generally quickly removed. It`s an almost daily changing list of company names - Okanagan Wholesale Investments, whatever, all accredited by the Real Estate Council of Canada, all with the same wording.
So that`s the advertising, we have the marketing to consider which requires a web presence. Nothing new at all on privatesectoract.com, Derek silent and Manji reduced to marketing a completely different scam that`s certinly a fall from his glory days. Here`s his website
http://bigbossdog.weebly.com/
The privatesectoract.com website, which previously contained every video, including some that were word for word voice overs of emails sent by Kumar, Johnson, and Manji to investors was stripped of everything except some very old and tired rehashed generic FMOTL videos. Ty Griffiths went AWOL from the site and anything about Johnson disappeared as well.
The rebirth
Privatesectoract resurfaced with a much more professional cover, still with the same old videos however.
http://www.privatesectoract.com
Ty Griffiths came back to life again with his own website that he doesn`t have to share
http://www.hotjusticerealitytv.com
Derek didn`t want to be left out so he needed a site that is voicing the splendours of the Real Estate Council of Canada and complains about the provincial regulatory bodies and his battles with various people
http://www.realestatecouncilofcanada.ca
and of course some youtube videos under the rather glorified name of The Derek Johnson Story.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUGOx ... 0lFhA/feed
Talk about blowing your own whistle.... Of course Kumar, the driving force behind the mighty investment arm needed one as well
http://www.satoriinvestments.ca
Most of the site is just video voiceovers of the emails allready covered previously in the thread.
I am not sure if I`m channeling my own inner paranoia but I find it interesting that all of the sites use Weebly and the two sites that actually deal with money and could have potential blowback to the site owners have (dot)ca extensions. It`s a double blind method of masking under Canadian Privacy Laws any useful information that might be returned using a WHOIS enquiry.
Summary of all this, as my eyes fade to black, half decent marketing but they have to think a way around their current difficulties advertising their product. Although Kijiji pushes the appearance of the small. local oriented, and user friendly electronic classifieds they`re a big company, owned by ebay, and are quite proactive and friendly with the local authorities if they believe that someone is using their site in a manner that could give them bad publicity.