Stolen deceased identity used to promote OneCoin
For a two year old company who make all sort of financial claims, there’s a distinct lack of independent media acknowledgement.
When something is published, OneCoin and their affiliates go into meltdown and make sure friends and family watching their Facebook page take note:
The article Ken Labine, a Canadian OneCoin investor, is referencing was purportedly authored by William Morrow a few days ago on September 14th.
The article, “Here’s What You Need To Know About Cryptocurrency”, blabs on about bitcoin, then altcoins and finally OneCoin. It’s pretty much just a fluff piece with a OneCoin hook on the end.
Two problems with the author though. That’s not William Morrow in the profile photo, it’s a man named Morrow Willis.
According to public records, Morrow Willis died of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in February, 2015.
The shameful use of a dead man’s profile photo to promote OneCoin appears to be the work of Segun Onibalusi.
Onibalusi is based in Nigeria and claims to be an “entrepreneur and internet marketer with 6yrs of internet marketing (Link Building) experience”.
If you click on William Morrow’s Huffington Post profile link, you are redirected to Onibalusi’s profile. Scroll down and you’ll see the “Here’s What You Need To Know About Cryptocurrency” article was published on his account.
Onibalusi appears to have renamed his account to William Morrow sometime after published the OneCoin fluff piece, however not all areas of Huffington Post have updated to reflect the change.
In addition to defacing the memory of Morrow Willis with scammy marketing, Onibalusi also a created bogus Twitter profile to accompany his bogus William Morrow profile.
The bogus profile was created in May, 2016 and links to the company SEOPow.
On his About.me profile, Onibalusi claims SEOPow is a “link building agency”.
an Entrepreneur and an Internet Marketer with 6yrs of internet marketing (Link Building) experience, he has supervised several successful projects. He is the current president at SEOPOW a link building agency.
Whether Segun Onibalusi is a OneCoin affiliate himself is unclear. The Huffington Post article links to the OneCoin website twice, without an affiliate referral code.
Either way, I think we can all agree using dead people’s names and profile photos to promote a business opportunity is pretty slimy. Even for MLM.
OneCoin’s attempts at Ponzi promotion on Huffington Post haven’t gone well. The OneCoin website cites another Huffington Post blog, stating;
Despite growing efforts by our competition to discredit our growth by bombarding us with a number of unfounded accusations, experts from around the globe are continuously recognizing OneCoin as an innovative and revolutionary digital asset.
As posted in the Huffington Post : “No matter what you may think about OneCoin, it has definitely grown into one of the world’s largest cryptocurrencies, and likely won’t be leaving anytime soon.”
The accompanying link returns a “404 Not Found” error.
Shoutout to Niksam for taking the lead on this one. More OneCoin news later today.
Typical OneCoin. Well done idiot Ken Labine. lol
I hope some other idiot OneCoiners will share this on Facebook before the blog disappears.
By the way, retard Ken Labine was celebrating short time ago some announecement in Poland regarding OneCoin. The idiot was celebrating that it was great news.
Here is some better translation from swedish Flashback forum:
IMO it would be good if this page was also linked in the article: msfs.georgetown.edu/MorrowWillisTribute
Because that’s where the nigerian scammer took the picture for his fake Huffington Post blog and Twitter profile.
@WhistleBlowerFin
I chose the other link as it states when and why Willis died. No problems with it being mentioned in the comments though.
Attn Niksam (or anyone else who reads Russian), can I get a translation of this article?
capital.bg/biznes/kompanii/2016/09/14/2827301_bivshiiat_sobstvenik_na_restorant_krim_otkriva_spa/
It seems to state Ignatova either sold or invested 4.2 million EUR in a spa facility in Crimea or some such? Google Translate isn’t concrete enough for me to put a article together.
TIA.
I spent a few minutes with it and is says she purchased a restaurant named “Crimea” for 4.2 million Euros. The location of the restaurant is not given but is probably near Sofia, Bulgaria. The article is about a man who sold her the restaurant and a spa project he is involved in.
quote “For ten years he was owner of the iconic restaurant “Crimea”, but early last year it sold the founder of OneCoin Ruja Ignatova against 4.2 mln. Euros.”
So basically Ignatova has recently pumped another 4.2 mil EUR of OneCoin investor funds into a restaurant?
I suppose this is in preparation for a “ZOMG RESTAURANT MERCHANT TOTOTALLY NOT RELATED TO ONECOIN ACCEPTS ONECOINS!11$!!#” announcement next month…
novinite.com/articles/115848/Bulgaria’s+Oldest+Restaurant+Institutes+Full+Smoking+Ban
A poor picture of the restaurant.
It seems like middle management people like Ken La’swine are taking the lead on trying to promote OneCon, by taking shots in the dark. Hoping that their efforts can keep the ball rolling.
Knowing a little psychology, I think people like Ruja Ignorantova start getting bored with the game at this point. They’ve had a long run on all the big fish with money to invest (the uneducated, who had retirement money to spend). But, now the only countries left to go fishing are mostly poor nations, with little spare money.
Can’t keep the pyramid supported on that. I think the top dogs are bored with it, and trying to move on, to other games.
That article is in bulgarian , not in russian. But as much as understand it, mostly talks about Yarov Kapitanov and his projects.
The lats paragraph is of the interest:
Do not confuse Banya (as in SPA, Baths) in this article it references village called Banya.
Thanks Hoss/Niksam. Sounds like this might already been covered in the 20 mill EUR story.
Is Yarov Kapitanov of significance? Why is the Bulgarian media reporting on his projects?
Was this posted by Onecoin the Company itself….. could it be some sort of false flag, so people could use it against Onecoin……
What has this to do with Onecoin except that Onecoin was mentioned.
That article was published to promote OneCoin and uses non-affiliate links.
An affiliate would get no financial benefit for publishing or paying for that article to get published (purchasing links).
OneCoin corporate might have paid Onibalusi to publish the article, which would explain non-affiliate links.
Regardless, OneCoin affiliates are running around holding it up as legitimate third-party media coverage. It is anything but.
Ken Labine got some more ‘splaining to do.
As a Bulgarian, I can tell you that there is almost nothing “special” in this article. It’s about Yavor Kapitanov, who has almost finished a luxurious spa center near Razlog (a small town).
The funding and the cost of this project are still not clear (experts claim it exceeds 10 mln BGN). There are some details and information about the Spa itself.
The only mention of Ignatova is with regards to the sale of Yavor’s restaurant “Crimea” to her. She bought the place in April 2015.
I just want to mention that this restaurant is not near Sofia, it’s right next to the building of the National Assembly in Sofia.
MUST SEE MESSAGE TO DECEASED BLOGGER BY KEN LABINE!!!!!!
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Haha haha jajajaja!!! LMAO
Lol, the nigerian guy removed the dead guy’s image from the Twitter account: twitter.com/Mrwillmorrow
Now the image is only some logo.
But fortunately there is a screen capture and Google Web cache. 😀
webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JbRVGihEUYoJ:https://twitter.com/mrwillmorrow+&cd=1&hl=fi&ct=clnk&gl=fi
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Oh Segun Onibalusi, did you really have to go and lie on camera?
Huffington Post had nothing to do with the fake Twitter profile you created in May, 2016. For shame.
Or the fake business.com profile — business.com/author/william-morrow/ which recently had the stolen image replaced just like the guy did at twitter
Or the fake entrepreneur.com profile — entrepreneur.com/author/william-morrow
All design glitches. Send me money so that my uncle, who’s a secret General, can come to the US to show you the proof!
but the twitter account still has links to articles on huffington post which carry the image of the dead man since june 2016.
so, segun onibalusi means to say that the huffington post has been mixing up stuff since june 2016 and he didn’t bother to have it corrected?
meanwhile, what is wrong with the huffington post? they publish blogs written under a stolen identity?
any publication with half a reputation would have pulled that blog down by now!
Labine, on cue, disabled comments as usual after I (and likely others) pointed out than The Huffington Post’s “new platform” glitches were not wide-stretching enough to effect Mr. Morrow’s other social media platforms and various profiles (as Chris Bailey points out further).
His video had about a dozen up votes and twice as many down-votes last time I checked (to see if he had acknowledged that the “mistake” was on him).
Also, of all the many comments Labine has posted via Disqus, it appears he has only 13 up votes. Hey Ken! The world is trying to tell you something!
I’ve been following the whole OneCoin ponzi scam for some time now since some old guy from US tried to convince me to invest in it (i’m from Europe), which made me investigage and find out that it’s all a big scam.
And ever since I was just checking website daily for more news how OneCoin reaches new lows completely lacking the humanity in themselves.
But this one is another level. I wish and hope that all these people who steal money from pensioners, young and middle aged people will pay for everything they have done in prison. And especially that joke of a human Labine.
I reached out to the REAL author, as mentioned earlier. I sent him REAMS of information on the Onecoin scam.
Based upon his most recent response below, I don’t believe he had the same intent as the Labine’s of the world.
And it is appropriate to note that he did not include an “affiliate link” on the article, which suggests the positive light on Onecoin may have been a “wrong place, wrong time” as opposed to truly intentioning to “promote” the Onecoin scam.
Onecoin has recently spread tentacles in Nigeria, and he may have just heard “cryptocurrency, bitcoin, onecoin…” and found the subject newsworthy.
While unscrupulously hijacking the deceased Mr. Morrow Willis’ profile and spreading this across multiple platforms, it is clear that this was not done for the sole purpose of hyping OC, but more likely for the more “credible association” which might be drawn from the “looks of” an astute young Asian college grad from USC than perhaps someone from Nigeria.
I’m not justifying this, but if readership is the goal, than I can kinda empathize with the veil, as strange as that may sound.
On September 22, 2016 at 12:21 PM Segun Onibalusi wrote:
DISCLOSURE: In regards to any alleged “threats,” of course there were none whatsoever, by the very definition.
The ONLY thing I made crystal clear was that were action not taken to mitigate the damage potentially being caused to new victims by the article, than there are several issues at stake here which HuffPost, etc., would garner attention thereof:
1.) openly promoting a known scam
2.) illegally promoting an unregistered MLM in the US.
3.) illegally promoting the sale of unlicensed securities in the US.
4.) the collective implication of the former, with the added revelation of using a false identity (which I don’t believe was malicious).
What I made very clear is that I am interested in mitigating problems, not causing them. And his identity issue combined with OC promotion was his own perfect storm and faux pas and warranted investigative repercussion by the community, under the circumstances.
@Tim
Segun Onibalusi is an SEO schmuck. Someone paid him to insert OneCoin links on the Huffington Post blog.
To what extent he is aware OneCoin is a Ponzi scheme when he authored the article, who knows. But linkdropping OneCoin’s website on the Huff Post blog site was not unintentional. Ditto the fake profiles he created (sleazy SEO).
Onibalusi has already lied on the record about his scummy SEO practices (Huff Post glitches), so credibility = 0 at this point.
Of course he’s “sad” that he inadvertantly stepped into a shit storm that outed his fraudulent SEO/link building activities. SMH
In the article, huffingtonpost.com/william-morrow/the-ins-and-outs-of-netwo_b_12028970.html he gives kudos to Sebastian Greenwood…
I’m still thinking that these are a couple of positive spin fluff pieces paid for by OC or possibly Greenwood.
…annnnd it’s gone! 🙂
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/12014434
All references to OneCoin scam we’re eliminated 40 minutes ago.
Good job everyone!
Still there for me.
Oops…..yes it has gone. Was viewing and old cached page 🙂
aaand whatever will ken labine ponzi recruiter have to say about this!
i hope he will not be a slimy slithery scammer and ignore these changes in the huffington post article.
he rushed to post a video gushing about the article, and now he should rush to explain why the article has been edited to leave out any mention of onecoin. that is, if he has an honest bone in him.
ed ludbrook also proudly posted this article on his FB page. as a onecoin corporate executive he too owes an explanation to onecoin investors.
“The Huffington Post are a bunch of hater blawgers.”
I have come across One coin as on of my colleague tried to involve me in One Coin that make me to research more and just recently Karies wife sister, I know the girls since they were small, seems she is involved a lot now for looking for new victim.
I feel sorry about the people involved, they become like zombies blindly believing whatever the leaders say.
It would be good to post and share the information regularly on he FB at least to warn the people of the possibly not safe investment. I am just curious how and when they will collapse, at the moment it seems like still running well.
Is it possible that Ruja has plan how to keep it going when there will not anymore new people to involve? Sorry for my English.