GSPartners files second YouTuber lawsuit in South Africa
GSPartners, owner Josip Heit and its top South African promoters have filed suit against a second YouTube channel owner.
This time the Ponzi scheme and its promoters are going after #ChrisTrade.
Named plaintiffs in GSPartners lawsuit are:
- Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG;
- Josip Heit (GSPartners owner);
- Tony de Gouveia (right);
- Bruce Hughes;
- Andrew Eaton and
- Brendon Earp-Jones
The single named defendant is the YouTube channel #ChrisTrade, owned by Christopher Wayne McDaniel.
The GSPartners Plaintiffs don’t disclose the G999 Ponzi scheme in their High Court lawsuit.
Instead, GSPartners is referred to as a “lawful business methodology”.
During about January 2021 to May 2021 the defendant on his YouTube video channel … on his Twitter handle … on WhatsApp and Telegram published … numerous statements of and concerning GSB, Heit and the plaintiffs.
The statements concerning GSB and its business, its associated products, its lawful business methodology and the plaintiffs.
Just so we’re clear, neither GSPartners, Josip Heit or any of the plaintiff promoters are registered with the FSCA.
GSPartners operates and is promoted illegally in South Africa.
Specific ChrisTrade videos the GSPartners plaintiffs have objected to are:
- G999 Is it a Scam or Legit? (Feb 13, 2021, 6529 views)
- G999 Threats & Intimidations (Apr 5, 2021, 2082 views)
As with their first South African YouTuber lawsuit, the GSPartners Plaintiffs provide a list of phrases from the videos they object to:
Examples from WhatsApp, Twitter and Telegram are also provided.
The statements and words used to describe GSP, Heit and the plaintiffs in the YouTube videos, WhatsApp, twitter and telegram were intended by the defendant acting as aforesaid and understood by viewers and recipients of the YouTube videos, WhatsApp voice note, twitter and telegram posts to mean that inter alia that GSB, Heit and the plaintiffs
- (are) scamster(s)
- (are) fraudsters
- (are) dishonest
- (are) running illegitimate businesses
- mislead the public
- promote none existent [sic] product or technology
Based on GSPartners being a Ponzi scheme, the above representations are truthfully accurate. While the list of video phrases the plaintiffs have objected contain colorful language, nonetheless they are accurate too.
I can’t stress this enough:
GSPartners is a Ponzi scheme run by Josip Heit.
Heit, a former Karatbars Ponzi executive, simply copy and pasted the business model to launch his own scam.
Tony De Gouveia, Bruce Highes, Andrew Eaton and Brendon Earp-Jones are all top GSPartner promoters.
They are promoting a Ponzi scheme to steal from South Africans and anyone else who invests under them.
GSPartners and its promoters claim efforts of ChrisTrade to create public awareness resulted in a 66% decline in recruited victims across February to April 2021.
- GSPartners attributes ChrisTrade’s videos to them not recruiting 231,000 new victims, equating to $17.325 million
- Tony de Gouveia claims his average monthly income from recruiting GSPartners victims dropped from $81,399 to $40,077
Bruce Hughes (right) claims his average monthly income from recruiting GSPartners victims dropped from $16,547 to $8027- Andrew Eaton claims his average monthly income from recruiting GSPartners victims dropped from $31,306 to $17,969
- Brendon Earp-Jones claims his average monthly income from recruiting GSPartners victims dropped from $10,979 to $9,129
In what is now clearly a campaign to silence awareness of GSPartner’s fraudulent business and Ponzi promoters spreading across South Africa, each of the GSPartners Plaintiffs is seeking R25 million in damages.
Once again I find myself calling out South African regulators and authorities for doing absolutely nothing to combat rampant promotion of MLM Ponzi schemes across the country.
As I understand it, ChrisTrade intends to fight GSPartner’s bogus lawsuit. Stay tuned for any updates.
All these fools will do is expose themselves as criminals operating an illegal Ponzi scam.
They have NO legitimate licences from any legitimate financial authority. Even the Gold Standard Bank website has a legal disclaimer stating they are not a bank.
Josip Heit was “Chairman of the Board” at Karatbars, a previous Ponzi scam.
The legal case is simply an attempt to silence critics and make a little money through sueing.
I will have to reach out to this channel for a collab. I have not followed GSPartners “development.” However, I am very familiar with people trying to silence you when you speak out.
My videos about Darren and Mike and The Ace Initiative (both connected to Enagic) have brought out C&Ds, privacy claims, attempted strikes etc. I’m still standing and just keep going.
You cant claim loss of income, without explaining your income in detail and proving loss.
These guys just sealed their fate with the receiver of revenue in South Africa, who will be extremely interested in the case and the income they claim to be generating.
This is like burglars suing home security companies and cops for making their “jobs” harder.
Why aren’t they suing the governmental agencies who are issuing the warnings, hmm?
I’ll be interested to hear what tortured math they use to justify two videos with fewer than 10,000 views between them costing them 231,000 new victims, without the phrases “MLM scheme” or “pyramid scheme” coming up.
In any fair court, a motion to dismiss by the defendant should be sufficient to end all of this malarky. Truth is the best defense, and restating government warnings is far from actionable.
Sheesh, what a dumb lawsuit.
@ Amos N Andy
To be fair, SA does have one the lowest rates for mathematics literacy in the worls.
This case will never go anywhere. The defendants will point out that it is frivolous and ask the court to make these guys put down a deposit if they are serious. Money only moves in one direction with people like this and it will die.
I am enjoying what Oz called the “colourful language” in the YT broadcasts.
Amazing. Recruitment is drying up therefore they go after some random tuber who is exposing their crimes.
This scheme must collapse sooner rather than later.
THAT Bruce guy should be ashamed of himself complaining of losing an income, being a ‘church planter’ and all. He should be content making that kind of money regardless if he has experience a drop in salary.
The correct amount of income to receive by stealing from others is zero.
Oz – Josip is coming after you for criminal charges unless you buy a card and a couple of XLT vouchers from him.
youtu.be/iPNalN2-G8c?t=179
Alex the mild-mannered CTO has probably spent hours on Google trying to find your address. Heit not happy.
Arrested? Heit’s been hiding in Dubai for too long.
The rest of the world doesn’t run like Dubai and the Ukraine. You can’t just dial-a-sheik, have words and get people arrested.
Do we have a source clip for that? I think this is article worthy for the lulz.