Craddock confirms regulators shut him down
After over a year of rallying against the US government, throwing any number of conspiracy theories out there, promising the return of Zeek Rewards and everything inbetween, it appeared the SEC and Zeek Rewards Receivership finally caught up with Robert Craddock.
Craddock, a Zeek Rewards Ponzi net-winner who was quite obviously furious at the prospect of being forced to return stolen funds to victims, published the following abrupt backflip on the ZTeamBiz website back on November 13th, 2013:
November 13, 2013
Fellow Zeeker’s, this is our final posting. As you know the goal was to assist the people of Zeek Rewards, and provide relevant information relating to the Zeek Receivership.
Here are a few links you need to have to finish the process.
zeekrewardsreceivership.com
This site is operated by Kenneth Bell the appointed receiver for Rex Venture Group.
Again it has been a pleasure this past year providing updates to help you stay informed and hope you visit the zeekrewardsreceivership for further updates.
Only weeks prior Craddock (right) was promising his followers he was going to “bring back the Zeek Rewards excitement” and reveal a brand new “really good rev-sharing opp” for them to invest in.
At the time, I speculated that it was likely Craddock had been likely told to cease and desist by the Zeek Rewards Receivership.
To date Craddock hasn’t clarified what made him suddenly go all gushy for the Receivership and abandon his Ponzi resurrection plans. Fast forward four months later though and it appears Craddock has decided that enough time has passed to pick up where he left off.
In a new posting on the ZTeamBiz website, Craddock confirms that ZTeamBiz (and presumably himself) ‘has come under attack from regulators‘. Craddock has published all manner of misinformation since the shutdown of Zeek Rewards, so the revelation is hardly surprising.
Craddock also has a cry about “the critics”, stating they ‘want to just publish false and negative opinions’. Despite Zeek Rewards being a confirmed Ponzi scheme, Craddock also claims “the critics” ‘ have ‘consistently gotten it wrong and most people do not know what to believe‘.
Uh, right. Who “most people” are beats me but if there are people out there who still refuse to accept Zeek was a Ponzi scheme, probably best to steer well-clear. And it should go without saying that taking business advice from them would be rather asinine.
In any event, having likely settled with the Zeek Receiver and been forced to pay back some or all of his Zeek Ponzi winnings, in addition to having the regulators come down on him, one would imagine Craddock would be ready to slink off into the annals of Ponzi history.
Not so.
Likely believing that entering into an agreement with the Zeek Receivership grants him immunity as far as Ponzi investment goes, Craddock is back to his old tricks.
Targeting aforementioned people “who do not know what to believe”, Craddock continues on with his latest pitch:
For this reason we will start once again sending updating emails, and doing a better job of filtering out the ongoing negative people that haunt everyone in the industry.
If you would like to be on our mailing list you can register here and if you at any time wish to be off the list you can also request and be removed as well.
As we know Zeek is never coming back, we will from time to time provide you with updates of companies that we feel will meet, or exceed the income potential that Zeek provided. And at the same time also help you learn about ones, that may be only interested in taking your hard earned money.
We would like to also address the amateur hour on the web; I’m referencing the flood of inaccurate information that seems to flood everyone computer with so called experts wanting to tear down any program you may want to join.
If you can keep one thought in mind. These people writing the stories most likely have never experienced the success you have seen and only want to steal your dreams and ambitions.
I can’t speak for everybody but I imagine if Craddock gave most people the choice of either stealing their money, as he did in Zeek Rewards, and only stealing their Ponzi dreams and ambitions – which they’d opt for is obvious.
Craddock winds up his update by urging readers to contact those who “never did” get a chance to invest in Zeek Rewards and get them on board:
So if you know someone that wanted to and never did we are opening up the ability to register to Zteambiz to provide updates and assistance as we all move forward to better and more profitable ventures.
I believe fellow Zeek Rewards net-winner investor T. LeMont Silver would refer to those Craddock is targeting as “low-hanging fruit“.
Meanwhile while we wait for the next chapter of Craddock’s pursuit of Ponzi riches to unfold, I’ll leave you with some ZTeamBiz words of wisdom:
There is a phrase I feel best describes the average person that has subscribed to our list. “If you’re willing to do the things most people won’t, you can have the things most people can’t!”
If you’re willing to do the things most people can’t, that being rip off people by getting them to invest in MLM revenue-sharing schemes so you can take their money, then you can truly “have the things most people can’t”.
Well, at least until the regulators come knocking hey. Stay tuned…
Since the income potential of Zeek is -50% (i.e. you’ll lose half of what you put in), it seems Craddock has an easy job. 😀
If you are willing to do what most people do… Like Scam others… You can have what most people don’t… like a having your name mentioned in newspapers pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud!
Yep, it works!
* an orange jumpsuit with nifty arrow logos
* a bestie named Bubba
* a breakfast menu consisting of porridge, porridge or………..porridge
* a lifetime free of the inconvenience of having to make TO DO lists
* relief from the tedious task of having to do things for yourself – like think
From the article, Craddock’s statements …
He’s probably talking about Troy Dooly there. It can’t be about any of us, since he used “inaccurate information” and “so called experts” to identify the problem. 🙂
Is not Robert also part of changes worldwide
Where does this fit into the “silence as a condition of settlement” scenario.
That’s what’s interesting. It appears Craddock, presumably having paid the Receiver, has now gone rogue.
Perhaps he thinks Wright-Olivares and stepson in court will be the end of it?
Just check one of my spamail accounts for a ZTeam Update, Robert’s next great program is:
behindmlm.com/companies/changes-worldwide-review-25000-revenue-sharing/
I’m sure he’ll do just as well by his followers as he did for them in OfferHub and BTG360. With any luck, he’ll threaten to sue Timothy Baggett before this is over like he did in his last two programs.
That’s one possibility.
I knew there had to be some reason he stopped all his nonsense and appeared to play ball for the receiver. You’ll notice that his website is no longer criticizing or providing false information about the Zeek receivership, but now he’s out there trying to hawk new investment schemes to the Zeek survivors and stragglers.
Perhaps he agreed to not attack the receivership any more, but that doesn’t mean he can’t hawk other shady get-rich-quick schemes or whine about “dream stealers.”
What would be really interesting would be find out what the “IT” is that the critics have apparently got wrong.
Unless someone, somewhere claimed Zeek was being run by aliens or the Illuminati, I can’t think of one “IT” any critic got wrong.
That couldn’t be because Zeek was being run by a supersecret international ponzi scheme crime syndicate.
Oz,
I am certain you are aware that Craddock lists you as an “Internet Clown”, along with Patrick and Troy Dooly. I sometimes check his website to see if i have been added, but I am apparently not a big enough target.
Notice on his “Clowns” website that he will help you stop the negative things said about them on the interwebs FOR A PRICE. This guy is the real CLOWN.
BTW, I have been known to send the deleterious stuff he posts to Mr. Bell and his attorneys. Hey, they need to have some fun, too.
If I were you, I’d get a T-shirt made letting everyone know that you are an “Internet Clown”… Then watch him try to sue you…
Maybe he found some usefulness in the court documents listed on your website, so he decided that you actually delivered something of value to him?
Factual information will normally be respected, if you give people the option to choose it themselves when they WANT it.
I had actually identified it in post #4.
He has probably found one of my old posts from 2010, when I used Google translate. We can probably correct that “inaccurate information” problem if he can point it out for us.
I figure if Craddock thinks you’re a clown then you’re probably doing something right.
Given his track record of judgement I’d honestly be a bit worried if he did a 180.
I’m wondering if he gave any of the money he got people to send him for the legal fund that was going to kick the SEC’s assets all over the place and bring back Zeek? (it’s a rhetorical question, LOL!)
At least he got the engine on his plane overhauled with the money, or so the story goes. Bet the people donating were over-joyed to learn that piece of news. So much for the legal defense fund.