Finally – a term for how these scams are able to operate, defying good sense and logic. It’s called “affinity fraud”. Here is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s definition of affinity fraud: Affinity fraud refers to investment scams that prey upon members of identifiable groups, such as [...] Read more »
This story featured on NBC’s “Today Show” this morning. Daughter turns mom in for Ponzi scheme ‘Something had to be done,’ about $50 million fraud, she said on TODAY I was struck by how similar this tale is to the same stories received at MadeSmall by victims of TMII’s MadeBig scam. Although the [...] Read more »
You may recall that last summer, former TMII agent Mike Johnston shared his experiences as an agent and detailed his complaint against Richi Roane and TMII. Mike filed complaints with the Oregon Department of Justice and the Utah Better Business Bureau. This case was closed earlier this month. You can see the full complaint [...] Read more »
Not that it went away but recently we’ve noticed new activity from certain members who had been “hibernating” while Richi Roane fleshed out his latest iteration of MadeBig. With a new web domain and URL, Roane now pitches his Empowerment Program, under the guise of YEP – Your Empowerment Program, which can be found at [...] Read more »
An Internet consulting company in Utah lists MadeBig/TMII as a client they have provided services to. They are called ZCHP Limited Company and include screen shots of both the current MadeBig site and the TMII Back Office, as two of the three examples on their site. Interestingly, 302 Productions also list the MadeBig site in [...] Read more »
Continuing the weekly call catch-up, Richi Roane spoke again on November 11th, 2009. Richi was excited that Crescent City, California, seemed to be the new hotbed for TMII Empowerment Program activity. You may recall this is the home city of TMII “wannabe” Kevin Fugate who is documented as stating he made no income from TMII [...] Read more »
For regular visitors, apologies for the lack of updates this month. Without further ado, we’ll catch up on some of the calls that have been heard from TMII President and owner, Richi Roane. As usual with these MLM conference calls, the beginning was chaotic as Roane himself came late and co-host Gerald Parks got things [...] Read more »
In TMII’s Wednesday Night Live Call tonight, Richi Roane made an interesting statement regarding the first e-book/audio book which is part of the Madebig Empowerment Program downloads. With a complete lack of originality, TMII/MadeBig are using Napoleon Hill’s “Think And Grow Rich”, which was first published in 1937 (and not 1928, as quoted by Gerald [...] Read more »
MadeBig and TMII got some much needed, national exposure earlier this week but probably not the kind they were looking for. They were featured in the October 2009 news update of Pyramid Scheme Alert, an international association who work to expose, study and prevent pyramid schemes. Pyramid Scheme Alert is the first consumer organization [...] Read more »
Richi Roane was back rallying the troops this week, after last week’s absence. His sixteen minute call consisted of a few announcements including the requirement to gather more information from agents than TMII might already have from them. According to Richi, older agents (who really should know better, if they actually looked at their profit [...] Read more »
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