Scoville reveals Ernie Ganz keeping Traffic Hurricane Ponzi funds
Relationships between scammers are fickle at best. Throw in a bit of Ponzi greed, potentially millions of dollars and a list of people who’ve bought into math-breaking ROI lie, and all bets are off.
As a result of the SEC lawsuit against Traffic Monsoon last year, owner Charles Scoville had his assets frozen. Rather than get an honest job to support himself in the meantime, Scoville sought out donations to fund his legal defense.
In the immediate aftermath of the SEC shutdown, Ernie Ganz launched Traffic Monsoon Plus.
Ganz (right) was Scoville’s right-hand man in Traffic Monsoon such to the extent Scoville named him as someone he “trusted with his life”.
In the event of Scoville’s demise, Ganz and Dave Barker were ‘selected as individuals who would take over‘ Traffic Monsoon.
The pair had access to everything, including the Traffic Monsoon Ponzi script and affiliate-base.
After the court appointed a Traffic Monsoon Receiver, technically everything to do with Traffic Monsoon belonged to the Receivership.
In a February 28th Facebook post, Scoville revealed his initial reaction to Traffic Monsoon Plus;
When we found out that TM was taken down by the receiver, I told Ernie at the time I don’t think this is a very good idea.
I told Ernie this really looks bad on me and I think he should take it down. He insisted nothing can be traced back to me and not to worry…
So the site was there but people got upset their account info was on there… so he took it down because of the back-lash.
In the meantime, despite pleas from top Traffic Monsoon investors and Scoville’s family, collections for his defense fund were slow.
We were struggling to get donations to help with the legal defense fund.
Allegedly, this is when Ganz came up with the idea of funding Scoville’s defense with the same Ponzi business model the SEC shut Traffic Monsoon down for using.
So Ernie had this idea. He said people aren’t donating because they aren’t benefiting from their donation.
We all agreed that helping pay attorneys to defend TM and bring it back would indeed benefit everyone who donated.
Ernie believed people didn’t see it that way, and felt that if people could buy adpacks and get involved in a new business to help them earn money, then people would go for it.
He was talking about using company profits from the sales of ad services in a new program would go towards the legal defense fund to support TM attorneys.
Ernie changed the name of TrafficMonsoon.plus to traffic hurricane and removed account details (mostly) and relaunched, and said it has nothing to do with TM because of legal reasons – he didn’t want it to be connected with Traffic Monsoon because then it would be tied into the same lawsuit TM is facing.
He also knew I couldn’t have anything to do with it because I was under a restraining order.
He said TH is my site, and when I win this lawsuit TH will be handed over to me.
TH is for my benefit, for TM, and for all the members. It was a place people could go and earn in the meantime.
Company profits would go straight into paying the attorneys and we wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not we could afford attorneys.
The website is exactly the same. A few minor modifications and possible site optimizations, but anyone with eyes can see it’s the exact same thing.
A copy of TM because it actually is the exact same script just renamed. All the work I put into the site is there.
Ernie intended on this, because people already knew how to use TM and felt it would be a good way to help people jump back into business while at the same time raise funds for the legal defense.
The Traffic Monsoon script legally is the property of the Receiver, who I’m sure hasn’t authorized Ernie Ganz to use to create new Ponzi schemes.
The Traffic Monsoon Receiver did subpoena Ganz last September, but as of yet nothing has come of it. At least not publicly.
In any event, despite the “noble” intentions Ganz professed when setting up Traffic Hurricane, according to Scoville he’s since gone rogue.
The intention for traffic hurricane was said to help raise funds for TM because people weren’t donating towards the cause.
Ernie felt that if people got involved in traffic hurricane, they could help raise the needed funds to pay for TM’s legal expenses.
Ernie did donate some money to TM at the beginning of this lawsuit.
I just wanted everyone who thinks TrafficHurricane is helping me, helping with legal defense funds, or benefiting TM in anyway– that it’s not.
Seems to me that Ernie has changed his mind.
It sure looks like TM was stolen from me and rebranded.. leading me to believe it was all for me.. all to support me.. all to support the members… all to help TM cover legal fees.. but in the end, we’re struggling to meet legal expenses.
TrafficHurricane moves on… Ernie is happy with “his” business, leaving me in the dust to sort all this out on my own without TrafficHurricane’s help..
For his part Ganz was recently in Belgium schmoozing with Traffic Hurricane’s top investors (most, if not all, of whom were in Traffic Monsoon).
For reasons that one day we’ll probably one day read about in regulatory legal filings, Ganz’s schmooze list included Firoz Patel, the Canada-based Executive Vice President of Payza.
Randomly showing up at various MLM underbelly events from time to time, Patel seems intent on positioning himself as the next Arthur Budovsky.
Ganz meanwhile has since returned to the US and is believed to be residing in Florida.
Scoville, Traffic Monsoon and the SEC have been in a legal standoff since last November, pending a decision on the SEC’s request for a preliminary injunction.
Stay tuned…
If I remember correctly, the receiver wanted the database and scoville said he didn’t know where it was.
“He was taking the profits from TH and using them to pay for Scoville’s defence?”
I am only going to say this once because people are not stupid but:
WHAT PROFITS? IT’S A BLOODY PONZI AND THERE ARE NO PROFITS IN A PONZI. YOU ARE JUST PAYING FOR ADPACKS AND YOUR MONEY IS BEING USED TO PAY FOR A SLIMEBALL!
“Profits” = what Ernie Ganz makes from his admin positions.
Charles Scoville made millions from his positions in Traffic Monsoon.
When TH+ registered in the Philippines, Ernie thought he was out of the “evil clutches” of the US Authorities.
The only problem is that all Ernie registered in the Philippines was the Traffic Hurricane Plus name. When you check out the registration, the certificate clearly states and I quote:
(emphasis mine).
Someone remind me again please how Ernie Ganz is not festering away in prison already?
I’m truly gobsmacked at the sheer audacity of people like him (and my pin up poster Ponzi pimp of the century, Simon Stepsys) to be out there slithering around without seemingly a single care in the world, not to mention the apparently baffling lack of action taken by the authorities to have his CLEARLY criminal ass behind bars?
I really hope that Scovillain gets the book and kitchen sink thrown at him if nothing else. Just reading one of his latest sprawling and typically banal Farcebook posts about how he’s “done nothing wrong” and how keeps trying to emphasise this ‘fact’, damn near makes me want to mount a nuclear missile ala “Dr Strangelove” style and head towards his house.
dilip patel, a british resident who was a top affiliate of TM and subsequently joined ernie ganz’s TH, alleges that ganz initially paid scoville $15,000 to help fund his legal battle with the SEC.
ganz did not make any further payments from TH ‘profits’ as he had allegedly promised scoville.
patel alleges that in effect, ganz paid $15,000 to ‘purchase’ the TM website script and affiliate base from scoville:
meanwhile it seems that ernie ganz’s TH, while being registered in the philippines, is selling investments in the US too.
so, ganz has used property [website script, affiliate data] that legally belongs to the court appointed receiver of TM, to launch a ponzi and collect US money. he’s going to be in deep shit soon [hopefully].
It wasn’t Scoville’s to sell. All Traffic Monsoon assets belonged to the Receiver the second the Receivership was appointed.
Somebody hand Ganz a shovel.
Yes but in a ponzi those so-called profits are already spoken for by the people that actually bought the ad-packs to give Ernie that money and now he owes $5 on each one plus the principle sum, so how can there ever be any “Profits” in a ponzi unless you have no intention of paying back any of that money?
Put simply unless you are going to steal from a ponzi like Charles Scoville did, then as an owner there will NEVER BE ANY PROFITS 😛
Serial ponzi players will tell you the “coff, chortle, snicker” acceptable formula is:
80% returned to members
10% for running expenses
10% to the owner for his trouble.
on facebook, ernie ganz has been gloating that charles scoville calling him out for reneging on his promise, has worked as a free ‘advertisement’ for traffic hurricane.
ganz is claiming that he is getting hundreds of sign ups everyday and business is so good that he has organised a branded mastercard for his traffic hurricane affiliates through payza [the shady MLM underbelly payment processor].
mastercard really needs to pull up its socks. it seems shady fraud companies [traffic hurricane, onecoin] can easily get branded debit cards from them!
ernie ganz says that though this mastercard prepaid card costs approx $20, affiliates will easily recover the cost because a traffic hurricane branded mastercard will greatly help them ‘promote’ [read: get new investors] the business.
guess we should write to mastercard, asking whether business is so bad that they have to offer their services to one ponzi after the other.
You know the MC will be through some dodgy third-party, same as all the other scams.
“Pepe’s Fried Chicken” in the Philippines or some such…
If it’s through Payza itself, Patel is really going hard to become the next Budovski.
the mastercard has ‘Payza’ printed on it. i guess that means it’s through payza?
seeing that ernie ganz and feroz patel are spitting straight in the SEC’s eyes, it will be a shame if they’re not brought down.
the last ‘mastercard’ the monsoon scam bragged of was a prepaid card.
The DOJ let Budovski dig his own grave for years before moving in on Liberty Reserve.
Payza has popped up in Zeek Rewards, Traffic Monsoon/Hurricane and who knows what else. I’m sure there’s an internal case file where Payza and Patel’s facilitation of fraud is being dutifully filed.
i’ve sent a mail to mastercard US, lets hope i get a reply.
i got every penny of the money i invested back from traffic monsoon because i put a dispute on them in paypal. they closed my account.
i told my referrals to do the same and the ones that did the dispute got their money back. i had one referral that said he didn’t want to take a chance by losing his account so he would not file he is the only one that lost all his investment.
once the PayPal waiting period was up the admin at trafficmonsoon had to make a deposit to cover the disputes before they could unlock their own money. a soon as this happened i was refunded because i instantly won my dispute.
oh, and traffic monsoon was so mad at me they could have bitten my head off but there was not a thing they could do about it but cancel my account. lol
i still laugh about it. but i just hate it for the people that kept on trusting them and thought everything was going to be ok.
i talked till i turned blue with some people that argued with me about charlie scoville not being a scammer. he scammed everyone before in 2 other businesses where no one recovered any money. like adhitprofits for example where i lost 150.00.
Ernie is at it again, just crashed another business and left all us customers holding the bag, over $2.5 million lost because of his callus, irresponsible, corrupt arrogance, negligence, and incompetence. This man should not be walking free.
(Ozedit: link removed due to privacy concerns)
What was the “other business” and why on Earth would you have anything to do with any business Ernie Ganz is involved in?