Jan Gregory issues death threat against BehindMLM’s Oz
Jan Gregory’s Ponzi empire is falling apart.
In what appears to be retaliation against ongoing investigative reporting into fraud, Gregory has issued a death threat against Oz, editor and author of BehindMLM.
In a video uploaded to Jan Gregory’s personal YouTube account on June 22nd, 2023, Gregory can be seen firing a weapon at a range.
The title of the video is “Jan Gregory sharpening his skills for the future encounter with the owner of #BehindMLM”.
The background track to Gregory’s public death threat is “I Shot The Sheriff”, by Bob Marley & the Wailers.
Jan Gregory, aka Jan Strzepka and Jan Gregory Cerato, is a serial promoter of Ponzi schemes.
EmpiresX, a $100 million dollar Ponzi scheme, is just one of the many Ponzi schemes Gregory has promoted over the past few years.
EmpiresX’s two admins were indicted on criminal charges in July 2022. They have also been sued by the SEC and CFTC.
After EmpiresX Gregory briefly ran his own Ponzi scheme in Canada. Gregory managed to defraud “at least $200,000” from “at least 16 investors”.
Following an internal investigation, in April 2022 the Alberta Securities Commission found Gregory had committed securities fraud.
In September 2022 the ASC fined Gregory $165,000. Shortly thereafter, Gregory fled Canada for Dubai.
Once in Dubai, Gregory teamed up with Russians operating out of Dubai and/or Turkey to launch several MLM crypto Ponzi schemes.
So far these include Maxspread Technologies (collapsed), CoinMarketBull (collapsed), Vortic United, CloudFI and SureX.
California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation issued a Maxpread Technologies securities fraud cease and desist on April 19th.
Whether there is a wider US investigation into Gregory’s Ponzi schemes is unclear.
In fining Gregory for securities fraud, the ASC noted
Cerato poses a significant risk to investors and the capital market, and … that he “accepted little or no responsibility or regret and instead blamed others and exhibited contempt towards those who were harmed by his actions.”
In the face of death threats from scammers, BehindMLM remains committed to researching and reporting in the interests of consumer protection.
Update 22nd June 2023 – Gregory has also issued a public death threat on FaceBook:
The above post was made on Gregory’s personal FaceBook page on June 22nd, 2023.
Oz, Keep up the good work. And guard your privacy.
What a bonehead publishing a death threat. Hyperbole personified.
Who’s upset Jan?!
Criminals gonna criminal.
Yo Oz, I hope you enjoy those delicious super salty scammer tears 🙂
This guy looks like the human embodiment of gas station penis pills.
This is further proof that Oz does a great job and that he is making a big difference…
Welcome to the club Oz. You know you are doing great work and making a difference when they issue death threats, veiled or otherwise.
Report this piece of human excrement to the authorities. This dolt just committed a crime far more serious than being charged with running a Ponzi.
It’s times like this when physical violence is being threatened that society really needs the authorities (who are funded by tax-payers money) to step in.
If you (the reader) are with the authorities, please know that there are many well-meaning people whose daily lives are being ruined by ruthless scammers. This isn’t the only example; Coffeezilla (Youtube personality who investigates scams) has also been threatened with death threats from scammers whose scams he’s exposing to the public.
Many of these self-funded investigators put in considerable time, effort, and even their own lives at stake to help society get rid of scammers. And doing this isn’t even profitable in the least.
Thanks for the support guys <3. I did report this one to the relevant authorities.
We need people like you OZ so thank you for all that you do for the people of this world.
Let’s make sure we send the crooks to where they belong….. in jail.
Keep up the good work Oz, stay safe!
Thank you for all that you accomplish in exposing MLM scams and Crytpo grifts of all kinds. The perpetrators show anger when faced with truth.
Thank you for your work and dedication to exposing these scum behind scams and Ponzi schemes. Clearly you have managed to make him nervous – well done!
Jan Gregory is now pushing Verse Network too alongside Luigi Bruni. Proof emailed to Oz.
Thanks. Had a busy day. Still one article to write but it can wait till tomorrow. Emails behind.
I wonder if Gregory will oust the Mainet guys as CEO.
Definitely a shift away from the Russians. Perhaps that’s why Gregory’s practicing his marksmanship.
I can’t imagine signing up to be the face of a bunch of collapsed/collapsing Russian mob Ponzis is good for your health.
Keep your head down Oz !!
We love you, Oz.
He changed the video title, now coming after all the Haters. Watch out everyone
“…..with Haters who talk negatively about him”
Glad you went to the authorities. You know you are doing something right when the scammers are this desperate to silence you.
Next thing you know you will have a book written about you. Don Allen Holbrook wrote SoapBox-Momster to thank me for exposing his billion dollar theme park scam, Earthquest.
Its the most salacious, disgusting trash imaginable and to no one’s surprise I get murdered in the end. But, he has never gotten another cent of taxpayer money, so I am totally honored!
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The ol’ “haterz!” line is a bit of a cop out.
Lil bro out there equating documentation of his involvement in financial fraud with someone calling him names.
@Soapboxmom
Thankfully I haven’t covered anyone willing to put themselves through that sort of humiliation.
One-sided blog sites, which do not allow for open and free communication from both parties on the topics they post (Ozedit: chatGPT copypasta removed)
BehindMLM has an open comments section. In fact Jan Gregory responded to BehindMLM’s original CoinMarketBull review.
Funny how we went from that to death threats once Jan’s Ponzis began collapsing.
I did have to mark the rest of Jan’s comment as spam because it was the usual derails. That and denying the very real fraud fine he was running away from in Canada.
After CoinMarketBull and Maxpread Technologies collapsed, Jan ran away from the Russians in Turkey. Now he’s also run away from his original very personal death threat.
It’s what Jan does, he runs away.
1. Doesn’t look like you got banned.
2. No obligation to “allow open and free communication”.
3. Do you have a relevant comment related to death threats?
I’m out over 10g to this scammer. If anyone is doing anything to recover their money or put this guy and all his cohorts in jail forever and needs any help, let me know.
I don’t have any money left but I can testify to my losses.