zeekrewardsAlthough it was filed back in August, we only found out about the Zeek Receivership’s lawsuit against Canadian net-winners through a Receivership update published yesterday.

A complaint was first filed on the 15th of August, with an amended complaint (which added additional investors to the list of defendants) filed shortly thereafter on September 4th.

Both complaints outline the fraudulent nature of Zeek Rewards, and claim that

because Zeek’s net winners “won” (the victims’) money in an unlawful combined Ponzi and pyramid scheme, the net winners are not permitted to keep their winnings and must return the fraudulently transferred winnings back to the Receiver for distribution to Zeek’s victims.

Collectively alleged to have stolen a combined $2.91 million from Zeek victims, defendants named in the complaint are as follows:

  • Catherine Parker – Parker is a resident Ontario and allegedly received $179,656.05 under one or more usernames, including “fitdeal.” Parker was unofficially credited as a Zeek Rewards employee (customer service), and prior to Zeek Rewards was involved in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme.
  • Xiaomei Wang – Wang is a resident of Ontario and allegedly received $376,808.09 under one or more usernames, including “admin1.”
  • Beverly Dawn Trca – Kitchen is a resident of Alberta and allegedly received $314,228.43 under one or more usernames, including “perfectstorm.” Trca-Kitchen’s Youtube channel contains promotional videos for Rippln and Staged.
  • Bin Xu – Xu is a resident of Ontario and allegedly received $244,232.18 under one or more usernames, including “canadaxu168.”
  • Joel Broughton – Broughton is a resident of Ontario and received $166,669.36 under one or more usernames, including “newrichreport.” On his personal blog, Broughton claims “the last main online mlm opportunity that we built we had over 500,000 members in our downline in less than 2 years.” He’s currently promoting North American Power.
  • Feng Guang Wu – Wu is a resident of Ontario and received $125,485.31 under one or more usernames, including “feng998.”
  • Don Fitz-Ritson – Ritson is a resident of Ontario and received $121,773.22 under one or more usernames, including “VonDon.”
  • Ruth Konig – Konig is a resident of Alberta and received $118,828.40 under one or more usernames, including “free4life60.” Konig’s Twitter profile has tweets marketing Rippln and more recently, Neurs.
  • Guan Jun Zhang – Zhang is a resident of Ontario and received $115,061.48 under one or more usernames, including “canadaxu.”
  • Leon Killam – Killam is a resident of Ontario and received $108,690.96 under one or more usernames, including “zeekpaysme.”
  • Guo Hua Liang – Liang is a resident of Ontario and received $99,668.36 under one or more usernames, including “sgl.”
  • Sandra Gavel – Gavel is a resident of British Columbia and received $89,906.62 under one or more usernames, including “woodngavel.” After Zeek Rewards, Gavel appears to have gotten involved with AddWallet, a similar Ponzi scheme.

There will be those among you that were members in Zeek Rewards, and if you cast your mind back, you will remember that in August 2011, Zeek carried out the exact same process. We were all upset initially, but our bid point balance grew so fast that we quickly forgot about the deduction.

As my business partner, Sandra Gavel says:

“I am sure that you will all agree with me that in order to be prosperous we need a program that is sustainable. So we may go backwards a little bit, but the future going forward is as a lucrative, compliant and generous Advertising and Marketing Program.

With the new 90 day retirement of ad units, we will grow our balances much much faster after the launch, as the daily revenue improves and increases.”

  • Yong Sheng Wang – Wang is a resident of Ontario and received $88,579.96 under one or more usernames, including “wys8888.”
  • Devey Dejong – Dejong is a resident of British Columbia and receieved  $87,652.96 under one or more usernames, including “majorprofits.”
  • Richard Bruce Foeller – Foeller was a resident of Ontario and, through “The Estate of Richard Bruce Foeller”, received $76,168.00 under
    one or more usernames, including “RickBruce.” Foeller died in late 2013.
  • Brian Fussey – Fussey is a resident of British Columbia and received $68,294.59 under one or more usernames, including “bfck.”
  • Shao Zhang Huang – Huang is a resident of Ontario and received  $67,833.78 under one or more usernames, including “mir22.”
  • James Macelwain – Macelwain is a resident of British Columbia and received $65,516.09 under one or more usernames, including “bobmacelwain.” Macelwain was actively trying to recruit affiliates into Zeek via Twitter circa 2011/early 2012. He has since, under the moniker “coach bob” become an affiliate with WakeUpNow.
  • Eugene Veinotte – Veinotte is a resident of British Columbia and, through the shell company “0937702 B.C. LTD”, received $62,457.23 under one or more usernames, including “moneygrows.” After Zeek Rewards Veinotte got involved in GoldenAngels, a $2 pyramid scheme. More recently he’s been involved in JustBeenPaid (later known as Profit Clicking and now “AdClick Xpress”). Through his investing in the scheme, in January 2014 Veinotte won a “Clickdraw” prize of $259.05.
  • Michael Gallup – Gallup is a resident of Alberta and received $61,944.87 under one or more usernames, including “MikeGallup.”
  • JiaYu (“Jeff”) Wang – Wang is a resident of Ontario and received $58,346.21 under one or more usernames, including “wys8688.”
  • Ying Liu – Liu is a resident of Ontario and received $57,421.31 under one or more usernames, including “canadaliu1.”
  • Jane Ferguson – Ferguson is a resident of Alberta and received $55,052.01 under one or more usernames, including “janesventure.”
  • Zahid Ali – Ali is a resident of Ontario and received $51,267.28 under one or more usernames, including “kismat.”
  • Mei-Ping Liang – Liang is a resident of Ontario and received $50,863.61 under one or more usernames, including “sog88.”

Remember, these are Canada’s top Zeek Ponzi pimps who have thus far refused to negotiate with the Receiver. For reasons known only to themselves, the named investors above believe they are entitled to keep the funds they stole from Zeek investors who joined after them.

Now the matter will play out in court, with the Receivership requesting three counts of relief.

The Receivership has asked the court the court to

1. Enter judgment against each of the named Defendants in the amount of their net winnings from the ZeekRewards scheme.

2. Enter an injunction against the named Defendants prohibiting each of them from dissipating their assets pending satisfaction of the Judgment against them.

and

3. Award prejudgment and post-judgment interest, costs and such other and further relief against all Defendants as the Receiver is entitled to recover.

In his Status Report for the third quarter of 2014, the Receivership states that he ‘will soon pursue similar actions against additional foreign defendants.‘

Stay tuned…

 

Footnote: Our thanks to Don @ ASDUpdates for providing a copy of the Recievership’s Complaint.