Sale on, big sick machine!

When it comes to explaining what I mean by my mantra, "No neat and tidy endings," sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Especially if it is a picture of words.

I have used mostly words and a few pictures to elucidate that oft-repeated message about no neat and tidy endings, with my most recent posts focusing on the carrion feeders who are now circling the remains of serial scammer Kevin Trudeau's scammy Global Information Network (GIN). There is, for example, an ex-KT b.f.f., Matt DuBiel, formerly of KTRN Radio Network, who has been busy exploiting his Katie connection to push new scams.

But this picture... well, to me it illustrates in an even more poignant way that the end of GIN will not be the end of similar scams, nor of the scammers who have so clearly benefited from GIN. It also illustrates that GIN and Katie have left a mighty legacy that will survive no matter what happens with the civil case or the upcoming criminal trial. In fact, GIN and Katie's most lasting legacy seems to be that they have provided second- or third-string scammers with a larger platform.

The shot above is from a Facebook page devoted to planning an alternative to the annual GIN Leadership Cruise. The actual GIN Leadership Cruise has been cancelled due to Katie's legal problems finally catching up with him. The GINtanic may really be sinking this time, and if GIN doesn't go away, it will almost certainly be re-branded without Katie.

But it seems clear that those events will make barely a dent in the big sick machine.

Out of respect for the privacy of the people planning this alt-cruise (I had previously applauded them for seemingly planning for life after Katie and GIN), I redacted all names except for the high-profile huckster and long-time Trudeau friend who is apparently going to be on board with the sea-gullibles. That huckster is of course Fred Van Liew, who has been an honored guest on my Whirled previously.

Please don't take this as victim-bashing in any way, but I have to say this: As long as people are willing to believe in stupid things (like the GIN Council, and the ability of third-rate hucksters to "heal" energetically), there will be people to take advantage of that willingness.
 
A Facebook friend recently indicated on one of the self-proclaimed "GIN destroyer" Facebook pages that fighting scams is like a game of Whack-a-Mole. That's an apt comparison. And while said "GIN destroyers" are high-fiving each other and claiming victory because of the apparently eminent demise of GIN, those of us with a more realistic perspective know that there will be no Hollywood ending to this story... and really, no ending at all.

PS added 17 October 2013: The Fred Van Loony alt-GIN cruise is causing quite a buzz on the GIN destroyer pages, and once again another Loony -- that would be Mocktor Loony Coldwell -- engages in some pot-calling-kettle action by accusing Fred of being a fondler who is "practicing medicine without a license." Click to enlarge if you need to -- particularly the second pic, which shows Loony Coldwell at his echolaliac best (or worst).

Hello?!? Hands-on "healing, anyone?

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Another GIN scavenger: "carrion" on a proud Scamworld tradition

As serial scammer Kevin Trudeau's GIN scampire continues to disintegrate in the face of the receivership and the looming court cases, the scavengers are circling, and have been for most of this year, picking off the flesh before the beast is even dead. There's the IBMS Master's Society, founded by Trudeau's ex-b.f.f. Mocktor Leonard Coldwell and Trudeau's ex-marketing guy Peter Wink.

But if you think that the IMBS-ing U Master Baiter's Seekrit Society is the only GIN-n-Katie scavenger game in town, you'd be sadly mistaken. Another scavenger, one Matt DuBiel, formerly of KTRN Radio Network but still a force to be reckoned with on Internet radio, has also been circling the near-kill. He's been a busy little carrion feeder over the past few days.

A few days ago a former GIN member sent me a copy of an email Matt had sent out, promoting a new "course" by a guy who calls himself The Nomad Capitalist.

From: KTRNusa@gmail.com
Subject: he got his freedom back!
Date: 9 October, 2013 1:07:33 PM EDT
To:

Hi [Name]!

My good friend recently took matters into his own hands to reclaim his FREEDOM from this police state.

I just got off the phone with him...

He literally just put the finishing touches on an amazing in depth online course that will teach us how to do the same.

He's calling it Offshore 101, but that's a fancy way of saying "take your freedom back and use whatever countries will help you".

http://nomadcapitalist.com/go/half-off-101/

He likes to say, go where you are treated BEST...for banking, for citizenship, for business, for travel...

This Offshore 101 Course is SIX HOURS of amazing information they don't want you to know about...and it's 100% LEGAL!

It's broken up into 10 parts so you can start and stop as needed.

He sells this course online for $200, but I asked him to give people I know 50% off...AND HE AGREED, but this special expires tomorrow at midnight.

Grab this now and learn how to reclaim your freedom.

Use the DISCOUNT CODE: radio

CLICK HERE [link removed by me ~CC] TO GET 50% NOW

You'll get HALF off immediately!  But do it before midnight tomorrow.

P.S.  Learn how to reclaim your GLOBAL freedom, get 50% off the best 6 hours of material available on the subject...click here [link removed by me ~ CC] and use the discount code radio.

The "Nomad Capitalist" is one Andrew Henderson. Though Kevin himself more than likely had nothing to do with this email, it's still more than a little ironic that it's coming from someone even remotely associated with Kevin, when Kevin's own attempts to become a "free" citizen of the world -- more specifically, to hide his assets in far flung corners of the globe -- are a big part of why he is in the mess in which he currently finds himself.

But you have to pity poor Matt, who had one of his big platforms and income streams snatched out from under him when that mean receiver closed down the KTRN site. Another ex-GIN pal just got this in the emails yesterday:

From: "KTRNusa@gmail.com
Date: October 11, 2013 at 3:57:01 PM EDT
To:
Subject: they killed KTRN..

Hey...
Did you see the KTRN site has been taken down???
Who knows what they'll take down next...
I'm emailing because I am building a team of super motivated go-getters...and I'd like you to consider joining me.This is going to be like NOTHING you've ever been a part of.
It's got HUGE money making potential, the members are tip notch..and I got started for $25.
You can use this to promote your other MLMs, Network Marketing businesses, websites...you name it. 
The internet training is where you really get tremendous value though. 
You'll learn how to actually use the web to make money instead of waste time!
People who get on my team early are going to get media perks and special mastermind opportunities....
My group will use radio and tv to make this explode...
Get in now.  I'm telling ya!  This started AFTER GIN...and it's now BIGGER by over 100x.
This video explains everything.
Best,
Matt
P.S.  Watch this free video [link removed by me ~CC] and let's make something cool happen!

Can you guess what this big op is, boys and girls? That's right, it's the scammy, scummy Empower Network's scummiest scam yet -- BlogBeast. (Empower has been thoroughly covered on Omri's Glancingweb blog and lately visited by the Salty Droid as well.)

You really can't blame Matt for exploiting his GIN and Katie creds, even indirectly, and trying to pick up the pieces of his Scamworld career by exploring other opportunities. Like most of Katie's former cohorts, Matt may feel a bit betrayed by Katie's duplicity, not to mention that he may be feeling desperate, now that the sure thing he had has been taken away. That's probably why he felt he had little to lose when reportedly spilling some info to Peter Wink last year, which Peter shared on Facebook earlier this year (I didn't screen-shoot the conversations but they ended up on the Quatloos forum, whose members apparently didn't realize that Abe was not a "high level" GIN member):

...I also had a phone conversation shorty [sic] after I was done with GIN with Matt DuBiel of KTRN who told me that he taped the entire Your Wish is Your Command program for KT in Chicago, so everything fell right into place...

You'll have to consider the source(s), but in this instance I believe Peter was telling the truth and that Matt was too, regarding the taping of Your Wish Is Your Command.

At any rate, I strongly suspect that the Nomad Capitalist and BlogBeast ops are not the last we'll be hearing from Matt, and I expect that Matt will not be the last of the former Katie cohorts to try to continue to make his way in Scamworld, using Katie and GIN in any way they can. That's how it works: the big sick machine just hums on and on and on. Even if (when) GIN dies or is totally re-branded without Katie, and even if Katie ends up rockin' the orange for a while, Scamworld will live on.

You know... no neat and tidy endings.

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