YouTube bans Max Stiegemeier for promoting scams
Over the past few years Max Stiegemeier has launched a series of matrix based recruitment scams that, particularly over the last six months or so, have been launched with increased frequency.
With all of Stiegemeier’s MLM opportunities having no retail product offering and relying on the recruitment of new members to generate commissions for existing members, sooner or later Stiegemeier’s companys always fizzle out and he finds himself having to relaunch the same concept over and over again under different branding.
Common to all of his company’s are the marketing videos Max, who refers to himself as ‘the Internet’s TOP super affiliate‘, uploads to YouTube to market them. Usually consisting of Max sitting infront of a few computer screens assuring viewers that they’ve stumbled across ‘the most important website they’ll ever visit’ or some such, Stiegemeier usually used these videos on the homepages of his companies to promote them.
Not anymore.
Sometime over the last week YouTube decided they’d had enough of Stiegemeier promoting his recruitment scams on their website and have suspended Stiegemeier’s ‘gcfglobalsystem’ YouTube account.
The reason?
‘gfcglobalsystem’ has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams and commercially deceptive content.
After conducting an investigation themselves, it appears YouTube have decided that the various companies Stiegemeier operates (most recently being Auto Profit Machine and Auto Profit Global), are scams that are ‘commercially deceptive‘ in nature.
Here at BehindMLM after reviewing Auto Profit Machine and Auto Profit Global I’d already concluded they were nothing more than recruitment scams, so it’s great to see YouTube take a proactive stance against the promotion and propagation of such scams.
Not withstanding the statement YouTube’s suspension of Stiegemeier’s gfcglobalsystem account makes about his own credibility and that of his MLM companies, one can only wonder if this is perhaps part of a greater effort by YouTube to crack down on the use of their website to promote MLM opportunities of dubious nature.
Promoters of blatant recruitment based MLM scams might want to think twice before uploading their next promotional video to YouTube…
Oz, the link to Youtube is broken.
Whoops, WordPress didn’t like the ‘www’. All fixed now cheers.
Thanks for your post and warning on Max. It is believed he is still out there re-creating more scams – as yet his latest is perhaps this:
http://www.id3system.com
IT is an autopilot paypal commission software that generates you lots of money for doing nothing and the purchase price is $297.00 through SWREG. complete with a 30 day money back guarantee – it is very much a new version and twist of his Auto Profit Machine and his http://www.thecode.ws which he has removed.
IT is a brand new program just created and believed Stiegemeier is behind this latest scam, the do nothing make commissions on complete autopilot. I just need your paypal email address.
Check it out, and for anyone following Stiegemeier over the past year, you will know exactly what is being said in this post. Crazy Daily Cash, Little Cash Bot, Auto Cash Bot, Auto Profit Machine, Auto Profit Machine Global and thecode.ws among his many failed ventures of 2011.
I can’t say with certainty if Stiegemeier is running ID3System but http://id3system.com/templates/ezygold/ confirms the opportunity is powered by the EZGold script, the same script Stiegemeier used for Auto Profit Machine and Auto Profit Global.
Sounds massively dodgy, give me your paypal account email and I’ll send you money… and the story is amusing too. Random email with a software attachment that took 2 weeks to install?
Yeah… good one.
What’s the bet “Barry” is just some paid schmuck off Fivver?
edit: not related to ID3 System (or maybe it is), but Stiegemeier is also hosting running some webinars (‘Success Secrets’) kicking off tommorow:
http://ewebinars.com/3682/n21er9mscc/webinar-register.php
a ‘leak’ that Stiegemeier may be using the name of Barry Husband in a current recruitment scam under the disguise of a newly created passive income generator.
Referred to as automatic paypal commission software where the price has been set at $297.00 to lure people into buying something that again promises riches for doing nothing and in closing on the audio at id3system.com, it simply states that “just promise me one thing, don’t tell anybody about this system.”
Now for any followers that are still out their of Stiegemeier, anyone involved in the most recent of recruitment scams thus being Auto Profit Machine and Auto Profit Global and the since closed thecode.ws, you should see the flare of similarities to this audio/videopresentation that even resembles his past Crazy Daily Cash System, where he reveals receiving a mysterious email that this is what you have been waiting for.
He further goes on to say that this new system has generated him $837,426.24 with this id3system.com – Don’t fall victim to id3system.com and loose $297.00 to this scam, no products whatsoever.
Nobody receives mysterious emails and money starts filling up their paypal accounts automatically all the time to the tune of over 800K. Anyone with a brain would know this and recognize this as another “Internet Scam”!
I fell prey to the latest scam ID3System.. was offered to me at $48.00 for a 30 day trial.. And yes it is Max Steigmeier behind the scam same as his autopilot machine crap…
Needless to say it’s been a month and I’ve received not a dime in commissions.. I’ve also tried to get a refund and that’s impossible as SWREG doesn’t even respond to your ticket it just goes back to Max’s customer support page..
Just a fair warning… Stay clear of anything he’s done because none of it works.. and he’ll take your money and run.
I’m going to mention this only because it’s happened two or three times now.
Max Stiegemeier is following who publicly criticises him here and then using his company records is threatening people with legal action for criticising him and his opportunities.
What typically happens is someone involved in Stiegemeier’s companies leaves a comment how they were ripped off (because they couldn’t recruit anyone?). Then a few days later I get an email requesting I remove the comment because Stiegemeier got in contact with them and threatened them with action (he has all their details from his company records).
I don’t mind taking down people’s comments as they’re free to share or not share their stories.
On the plus side, those who have complained publicly appear to be getting their money back.
In December 2011 I purchases an addition to the autoprofit machine called personal advertising. Max stiegmeier guanteed success with system or your money would be refunded.
Needless to say that he has yet to return my 200 dollars. I have sent several emails and support tickets and the replies are you have to wait 14 business days. Then I was told their refund process behind. Then his support person, tim, stop replying to my request all together.
What is really sad about Mr stiegmeier is that he professes to be a Christian always making references to God in his advertisements. When in fact he is robbing and lying to people to get their money.
This can be solved using a few simple methods. One of the methods is the definitions I have stated earlier.
* “We’re mostly analysing business models, not the laws in each and every country”.
* “Our main audience can be defined to be ‘normal people’, an international audience without any specific professions (like lawyers and so on)”.
Statements like these are NOT “Legal disclaimers”, but they are meant to interfere in the process where a “hobby-lawyer” is asking a real lawyer about possible defamations or related topics. The real lawyer will identify statements more precisely, usually in the meaning of identifying them as “acceptable, in the context they were presented”.
I have tested the statements here in several posts, and they have met very little resistance. “We are mostly analysing business models” have been tested when somebody have complained about “illegal”, “scam”, “Ponzi scheme” and similar expressions.
Here’s an example where the definition “normal people” can protect against legal threats, using the last post as an example:
A “hobby-lawyer” can react on the last sentence, interpreting it to be factual claims of criminal and unethical behaviour, and consider the statement to be defamatory.
A real lawyer will probably read the sentence in context with the other statements (the whole post), and consider it to be “personal experience” rather than “factual claims” – making a possible case much weaker.
The definition “normal people” will tell the real lawyer that he will meet lots of additional problems if he’s trying to send any legal threats. Most “normal people” won’t separate one specific sentence from it’s context in order to find something to complain about. 🙂
The definition “normal people” will also tell the real lawyer that he has to adjust his own viewpoint. People don’t write anything specifically for his profession here, so he can’t expect all kinds of “legal correctness” in statements, either.
I prefer “pretend-laywers”, who don’t even play one on TV.
I’ve had a guy who claimed that he wants to sue me for revealing his own facebook posting kept in Google Cache. (He also claimed to review MLMs, except every MLM he described as “not scam”, even scams like TVI Express, Zamzuu, and such.)
He claims I am using his picture without his permission. I pointed out that once stuff goes out onto the Internet you can’t retrieve it, and anything you posted on Facebook is public indeed. Never heard a peep from him ever since.
People who don’t understand their rights won’t stand up for them.
Beware of his latest program. He will send you an email about a new program and give a number to call to get all the details.
In the recording it is explained that this new program will deliver traffic real visitors to 4 sites of your choice. that it will cost $897 the following week but because of memorial day he will let you in it for only $197.
He claims that he has hired a bunch of expert internet marketers to drive traffic to your site and you can earn money from that as well as the opportunity to become an affiliate to the program and earn $500 commissions per sale.
All I can say is that that i have been involved in two of his opportunities and never made a single dime. Go figure.
Real companies *hate* fakers like that. NPR’s Planet Money just revealed that you can BUY Facebook likes easily, about 25 cents each in lots of 1000. Companies advertise for freelancers to click likes on businesses, 10 cents each. Drives Facebook crazy.
The 20Ksystem.com (Pop Ultra) voice mail system that I purchased hardly ever worked properly. I complained over and over that it never ran when scheduled. Support was absolutely worthless.
When I asked for refund per their “60 day, no questions asked guarantee, I was told that I had to use the product for 60 days first, before they’d give me a refund. Can you believe that? I had to dispute the charges using my Banks credit security.
Of course later, I was suckered into Autocashbot and that other similar program that turned out to be worthless.
my experience has been very similar to ajcrad’s (and to many other silent victims, i presume). i brought my entire family into auto profit machine ($250) because of the no-sponsoring required 70/30 rotator and even bought the personal advertising upgrade ($200) with the guarantee that “if you don’t make money with APG you will get your money back; that’s our guarantee.”
VERBATIM! ON THEIR WEBSITE! but so far, after giving max all the time in the world (you can’t reach him, btw) to make good on that claim i have not seen any shadow of my wife’s hard-earned cash (i am retired and trying to make some money online).
reading all the comments here about max steigemeier i am surprised that he can still do this with impunity! i am a new immigrant from a less-developed country but back there he would not be able to get away with this.
Better business bureau; fair trade board; whatever else is there to regulate and/or police such miscreants? vigilante justice is something i know about….
Living on a limited income, (social security) I wanted something to supplement my income. So when I got the email promoting id3 Systems it sounded good to me and I paid $297 to join Jan. 12,2012.
Almost immediately, I started getting emails that said I had a possible PayPal commission(s). I did receive a commission for $22.47 on Jan. 21, 2012 but nothing since.
My support ticket that I submitted on Feb.17 has gone unanswered and follow-ups have also been ignored. Since support tickets are completely ignored, refunds are out of the question.
I got suckered into several of Max Stiegemeier’s worthless programs. His Auto Cash Bot, Little Cash Bot, and recently his Traffic Money System, all a load of BS.
With regards to his latest scam, Traffic Money System, I had to make numerous complaints to his so-called “support” team to find out why I have not received a commission payment. I got a total run-a-around, then out of the blue I received a payment from what appeared to be Max in an amount more than I was entitled to recieve based on the plan I chose.
This seemed to me like hush money, interesting to note, my links seemed to have stopped receiving any traffic from his program?
I am convinced he is nothing more than a flim-flam man, and the internet world knows this, this guy is desparate for money. Most, if not all money making opportunities provide a moneyback guarantee, with Stiegemeier, he offers NOTHING!
Not one of his programs have moneyback guarantees. He should be banned from the internet. It wouldn’t surprise me if he get prosecuted for fraud.
Thank you guys for the head up. I was a victim of Max lat year and what happened was, I created a YouTube Video “Auto Profit Machine- Another Max Stiegemeier Scam”.
After 3 days my YouTube account was suspended. In fact Google suspended all my services including my gmail.
I appealed and Google reinstated my gamil and all the other Google accounts except YouTube. I was not really interested in my YouTube account.
However last week I appealed to YouTube and they reinstated my YouTube account and they found that I was not violating any policies.
I really suspect that my account was cancelled because I had the keyword “Max Stiegemeier” in the title and that was the only reason.
He is such a lair. I am sure he will be coming up with something new.
Hi.
The link you show to Max’s YouTube account is working. It’s not banned at all. Maybe you should change that. It doesn’t look like YouTube banned him. Maybe you are thinking of a different Max or a different Youtube account.
Paula
The account was most certainly banned by YouTube for the reason stated in the article at the time of publication. There is no mistake.
There’s only 3 videos on there, not of them related to MLM or marketing. They are all “personal” stuff from Max. So it was definitely “banned”.
INSTANT CASH PLUGIN is another one of his scams!
Max will hack your account(s) if you make any youtube videos about his crap not working!
How is this guy still allowed to do this? This is massive fraud.
I’ve heard it from the horses mouth, if you want to believe me. Knew him about 2 years ago. When I asked him what he did for a living, cuz my girlfriend and I at the time were curious how he made such a lucrative living, he just said he created pyramid schemes.
Had no clue back then that were as many of them as there are. Too bad.
Mike- First of all, this blog was created to post opinions and articles about programs, for a open discussion about those programs.
Even though I do NOT agree with this blog post, I am a fan of free speech and have chosen to let it exist freely.
BUT- I do not know you, and I would never in a million years make the statement that you are claiming I personally made to you.
You know that you are just here as a Troll, making up B.S. About knowing me personally. By the way— I don’t have a girlfriend, I’m a married man and have been for a long time.
@Max… Mike said HIS girlfriend… not yours.
@K. Chang Yes, I just noticed that I read the posting too quickly and replied very fast.
The point I’m trying to make, is that I would never make that a comment like that to anyone in a million years. The commenter is a Troll and their comment is bogus.
Just like the comment that was posted 2 days ago *Claiming to be by my Wife. That comment was also bogus and removed.
The ONLY Mike that I can think of, that comes to mind, that I knew a few years ago- Was a ‘Mike’ that suffered from serious manic depression and was an alcoholic. He made some crazy comments to me on my facebook page and I blocked him.
So Mike- If you’re looking for payback by making a slanderous and inaccurate post about me on this blog, I highly suggest that you look somewhere else.
I am ALL about free speech. That is why I am here, right now, participating in the discussion on this blog for which I am a frequent reader.
But note- This is not a place for personal attacks or false and made-up stories about my personal life and I won’t standby and let people make up B.S. and lies about my personal life.
You quite obviously (whoever you are) have a LOT of free time on your hands to be running a Google search on my name and then posting a made-up story on this blog like you have just done. There’s one thing you should know- If this is YOU, the Mike that I knew 2 years ago that was a bumbling alcoholic and addict, and if this is YOU posting false information about me in a public forum, that it WILL come back to bite you.
I am all about posting opinions and facts, and believe in the 1st Amendment and Freedom of speech, but your comment is that of a Troll and you are ridiculous. I suggest that you get a life.
If it was a troll, he’s gonna like the long winded response..
I always take the “personal proclamations” with a whole saltshaker full of salt. 🙂
Over the past few days there has been a couple comments posted on here (one which was removed) that were off topic and touched on my personal life. One, claiming to be from my Wife was completely bogus and nothing more than an attack against my family.
That’s where I draw the line. This thread has been here almost a year. Let’s keep my personal life out of it. If you want to discuss my ‘YouTube’ Account per the topic of this thread, then let’s discuss.
This is what happens when you become a public figure especially in the MLM arena, where most everyone lose their money and only make a select few at the top richer. I guess it really is part of the game.
People are becoming wiser to all these scams offered through MLM’s and voicing themselves more because they are fed up of being scammed out of their money by fast and smooth sales pitches offering systems who are just a bunch of crap in disguise to automate emptying one’s pockets.
I’ve always wondered how these peeps actually feel deep inside knowing they are basically stealing money from everyone.
That’s the whole reason why I got OUT of the MLM Industry and moved onto better things.
I’m just saying, this article is almost a year old- we can discuss it, but I do have a family and I will always protect them from false and made-up stories about my personal life.
IMO amongst others, the Extreme Cash Robot is a good example of mass deception for personal gain.
Actually that’s incorrect. ECR worked wonders for people with advertising their businesses online. It was the first automated advertising system of it’s kind.
Are you willing to share reasons why you are finished with the MLM industry?
Sure. When I first started in the MLM Industry it was back in 1997 and I was doing offline marketing. I joined many different systems and programs without success.
I then started creating my own systems and programs. One of them was Success Blueprint, which was an IM Training and Leadership program that taught people how to be a good marketer.
This was very early on when the online version of MLM formats was just started to become popular online.
Success Blueprint was a massive success. I sold SB to Success University and throughout the years helped to build different systems in the MLM Arena.
I had a great deal of success, and of course my own share of failures. As the economy got worse over the past 3 years, more and more people were turning to MLM for the glamour of a Quick way to make money and not looking at their objectives in a company as a long-term business.
The most successful MLM and Internet Marketers realize that a long-term approach towards building a profitable business is a key ingredient in success.
Nowadays… it’s near impossible to instill that understanding in affiliates that join different programs because truth be told– People don’t care. People are broke. People are suffering with the shift that this economy has taken. It’s become the wild, wild west.
I told myself that I wasn’t going to be a part of the problem anymore, looked deep inside myself and realized that it was time to get out of the MLM Industry and move on to other things.
I could easily sit here and say that ‘The Empower Network’ is Mass Deception. It’s 100% Recruitment driven. 100%. Has there been an article written here about Empower Network? No.
EN is Mass Deception on a VERY large scale. If you took away the recruitment for Empower Network, what would happen?
It would implode. People are not joining Empower Network to learn and blog. If they wanted to Blog they could go to Blogger.com or WordPress and start their own blog.
If you took away the recruitment with EN, it would die a very quick death.
With ECR, it was a 70/30 split. 70% of our customers were purchasing the product to advertise their business and never even promoted or recruited new members into the program. They were just looking for quality advertising for their business.
I think Oz saw Empower Network as mainly a blogging platform, but from what I see, it’s another combo system where you’re blogging, AND you’re expected to recruit other bloggers and get paid for it, which fits with what you described.
Though personally, most people who blog on Empower are get-rich-quick folks, many of whom simply lauded similar schemes, including TVI Express pyramid, Zeek Rewards ponzi, and so on. THAT makes it a real den of snakes, as bad as… uh… “Scamland”. 🙂 (You know which website I mean)
Yes, it’s simply the WordPress Platform with the Network Module installed and an affiliate program attached.
Yes, yada yada they have compliance and legal and terms etc… but it’s simply a mask, a disguise if you will. Plus- I have to tell you, I don’t believe the “Homeless Drug Addict” Story…
@Max
This isn’t the place to discuss EN. EN has been briefly discussed in the commentary of the About section of BehindMLM though I believe.
I’ve had requests to look at EN and have breifly gone over it myself. The reason there’s no review is because it’s not MLM in that from my glance, the 100% commission structure is paid out only one level (I didn’t look too deep, the skinny white pale guy pretending to be a tan king mugshot makes me want to throw up anytime I get near it).
I tell anyone who emails me about it that it’s recruitment driven, as it’s a one time payment to join. And really… you’re buying into the opportunity as WordPress is free. You don’t actually buy the domain so they can’t claim that’s what you’re buying either.
Although I in know why justify them, I’ve over timed tried to refine the companies and schemes on here more on the MLM side (I know the two on here that are yours are also single level commissions). That’s the reason there’s no EN review.
I still might do the odd one that looks to be MLM but once I’ve gone over it turns out it’s not (due to my time investment in research), but if I can ascertain quickly that it’s not paying out on multiple levels I’ll leave it there.
As far as business opportunities go, any scheme that relies on recruitment is fundamentally flawed. Single or Multi level it doesn’t matter.
I’ve changed my mind about Empower Network and upon closer inspection it definitely pays out on multiple levels making it MLM.
A full Empower Network review is now up and and any further discussion about EN can be continued there.
Its a pity I did not check this before getting involved in what appears to be his latest scam – Easy Pay Profits – I am still waiting for my confirmation mail and access to this new software he has put out ?
Jack– Max here. First of all, Easy Pay Profits is not a matrix, a recruitment program, an MLM or ANY kind of make money online program. So– it has no place on BehindMLM.com to begin with.
EPP is a website submitter software that submits any website of your chooseing to search engines, article directories and bookmarking sites for you. I don’t appreciate you posting on here and stating what ‘appears to be his latest scam’. Those kind of assumptions incite trolls.
The software has a 24 hour support desk which is available in the members area. I will shoot you an email here also to help you out with your login/password info.
Wouldn’t you agree, though, Max, that “Easy Pay Profits” just sounds like one of those get-rich-quick schemes, like 12DailyPro, AdSurfDaily, and so on?
Check the “Spam / Junk mail” filter in your e-mail account?
A lot can be gathered from a name. Some people could just assume by looking at the name, but the content of the site has nothing to do with any kind of recruitment driven program.
It’s a software- plain and simple for SEO optimization and website submission.
Then shouldn’t it be called SEOMagicCarpet.com?
I checked, it’s available. Consider it free advice. 🙂
Hey, I joined your latest Beta tester for Easy Pay Profits yesterday paying $29.95 for the privilege.
I viewed the training video on the members area but does not reflect the members area I received. It is totally different and totally useless in it present configuration. I could not do anything w/ it but download the 10k articles and Jennifer, your assistant, had to assist me with the downloading.
Why would you make the left side of the members area different from what is shown on the video and make it useless in the process ?
You’re probably clicking on the wrong link. Open a support ticket and I will help you out personally.
REALLY??? Easy pay profits!
If all your automated systems work so well, why do you need to start new ones?
Is easypayprofits a script you bought from Kajabiapp?
Well, Max Stiegemeier, you were successful in listing my video as “YouTube users have flagged this video as possibly a scam, spam, or commercially deceptive content” by giving dislikes with fake accounts.
As you may already know, your false claims on copyrights and the take down notice was not completely successful. Too bad that your false copyright claims about the screenshot I published in http://sunishsebastian.tumblr.com/post/71309398190/max-stiegemeiers-response-to-auto-profit-machine was not heard.
It is not the matter of me losing $50 any more…
On the interent you can also find that Max Stiegemeier is the owner of a company called Digital Capital Limited. It offers security brokerage services.
There are 2 addresses listed for it:
43 Dover St
London W1S 4NU
and
Third floor 207 Regent St
London W1B 3HH
This company was registered Nov 25th 2013 directors.findthecompany.co.uk/l/8995582/Mr-Max-Stiegemeier
Does anyone have any information on what his pitch is here?
Latest email I have received from Max Stiegemeier.
I have had no contact with Max.He does not own the internet. He is evidently following me.
1] online comments are not equivalent to ‘contact’.
2] posting personal information already available on the internet is not defamatory.
i’m just glad to help mr kevin thompson out ! 🙂