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I just got an email from someone about them...
GreenZap (an online payment site similar to paypal) doesn't officially open until June, 2005, but you can preregister now. What a great deal!!! & It's easy. They don't ask for anything but your name, address, and email. Plus, if you open an account now, you'll get $25 from them on my behalf. In June they will need more info but now is when you get
The site is greenzapdotcom and I have NOT signed up, just wondering if anyone has heard of them?
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From their FAQ:
Q: When will there be more information about the company?
A: As GreenZap approaches their summer 2005 launch date, they will continue to release information about their company, vision, policies, and procedures.
I wouldn't sign up with any company that didn't have their policies spelled out.
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GreenZap is another facet of Damon Westmoreland's Mazumah.biz, a known MLM operation.
http://www.mazumah.biz
Linda Murphy is Mazumah's VP of Marketing and is also involved with many of Damon Westmoreland's other "get rich quick"-type businesses. She registered GreenZap with San Diego California's Fictitious Business Names on March 10, 2005:
http://arcc.co.san-diego.ca.us/servi...ber=2005008722
GREENZAP FBN #2005008722 Details
Number of Businesses 001
Business Name GREENZAP
Number of Owners 001
Owner MURPHY LINDA
Filing Date (CCyy/MM/DD) 20050310
Expiration Date(CCyy/MM/DD) 20100310
Business Conducted By Individual
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...6/ai_112249200 Linda Murphy Mazumah's Public Relations manager
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/sls/68985003.html Linda Murphy posted job offer for Mazumah's internet-based banking and payroll division
Pictures of Linda Murphy and Damon Westmoreland
http://www.mazumah.biz/index.htm Click on PICTURES tab
http://www.sandiego.bbb.org/commonre...ompid=30002299 San Diego BBB report on Mazumah which shows Linda Murphy as VP of Marketing
Greenzap is a Damon Westmoreland company no matter who is listed as President, CEO, etc. Run a Google search on Damon Westmoreland, Caruba International (also arubatradewinds or Tradewind Holding Co) tele-card network, mypaysystems, BestOf.com, Card Global, jet99 and too many others to mention.
A few CARUBA articles:
http://www.ravallinews.com/articles/...ews/news04.txt Local residents fall victim to illegal investment scheme
http://www.abcnews4.com/news/stories/0305/214999.html Attorney General Warns Against Pyramid Scheme
http://turideas.com/2caruba.htm Westmoreland Executive Vice President and Ivan Shew-A-tjon (AKA Ivan F. Shew) President of Caruba International
http://www.sandiego.bbb.org/commonre...002153&c ode= BBB report on Tele-card Network showing Damon Westmoreland as owner
FTC and Tele-card Network:
http://www.thedigest.com/74/74-15.html
FTC BUSTS TELECOM PYRAMID SCAMS!
Washington, D.C., Nov. 18, 1996 (DLD Digest) -- In a massive crackdown that is the broadest federal-state coordinated effort of its type, the Federal Trade Commission and enforcement officials from 25 states last Friday announced that they have taken more than 75 law enforcement actions so far against get-rich-quick self-employment schemes, including work-at-home scams, pyramid schemes often pitched on the Internet, and pre-packaged small businesses involving everything from vending machine frauds to sophisticated medical billing services.
The actions are the result of "Operation Missed Fortune," launched early last summer. This federal/state effort targets scam artists who capitalize on downsizing, the growth of computers in consumers' homes and other trends by promising people "proven" and "lucrative" opportunities to gain financial independence and to "be your own boss." The firms charge up-front fees ranging from $30 to tens of thousands of dollars. Officials said the fraudulent companies make false promises about high earnings, sometimes refer consumers to phony references or "shills" who give glowing, but false, reports about the business, and frequently fail to provide consumers with detailed business disclosure documents required by federal or state law. The FTC staff estimated that consumers lose tens of millions of dollars to get-rich-quick business scams every year. Officials will be filing more actions as part of this project in the coming weeks.
FTC Operation Missed Fortune: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1996/11/misdfortlst.htm look under California for Tele-card Network
The obnoxious spam from GreenZappers has already started to flow. Take a look at Google Groups: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups...r=&sa=N&tab=wg
My advice is to avoid GreenZap.
Blanche
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Thanks so much..
I received my spam from my BIL and he said he got if from an "Ebay Powerseller" like that makes them special. guess he doesn't realize that I"m a powerseller too. Anyway, I've warned him off and told him to stop spreading the love, but we'll see.
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A search on ebay for greenzap brings up 346 listings.
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Yes! Avoid it like the plague! A few people that signed up, said their information was given to who ever they signed up under. Their name, address and telephone number, etc. Supposedly they have changed that, but I wouldn't take the risk.
As always, Blanche has provided some great info. There is also some discussion about Greenzap on the FAS forums.
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This pay site has been spammed into many groups on eBay by various user accounts. I have also read some group leader(s) have received pink slaps for not deleting these posts. I have seen these on at least 5 groups and know of at least 2 others, as well as some forums.
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I just ran across some interesting news regarding GreenZap.
http://www.scam.com/showpost.php?p=48291&postcount=263
05-20-2005, 09:30 AM
ZappityDooDah
Junior Member Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1
Re: Greenzap? Latest Greatest Payment Processor
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La Jolla, California, May 20, 2005 - GreenZap, Inc., a consumer-based online buying and spending account service, has sent and received emails from people in over 125 countries from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden and China, to Australia, Netherlands, Singapore, Endor, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, Nebraska, Rome, Egypt, Italy, Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria, Austria, Narnia, Somalia, Thailand, Trinidad, and China and Sweden.
Hello, I just wanted to "pop" in here to update you fine people about the status of the long-awaited Greenzap Detailed Rewardz Outline. As you may or may not know, we promised that this outline would be released "on/before May 15, 2005". Some people allege that this date has come and gone and that the outline has not been released. It has been released, but where and to whom I am not at liberty to say because we want to protect the unique elegant integrity of the outline. Further, although we ourselves chose this alleged date and we did have accesz to a calendar when we chose it, we feel that this arbitrary date is unfair to us. We will therefore release the document to the general public on another date if indeed we ever release such alleged document ever. Now I know the naysayerz who frequent thiz board will try to make this zound zomehow negative but nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that were we to release the outline at this time it would be picked apart by the nayzayerz. The nayzayerz would doubtless read the document and point out thingz which they claim are evidence of a scam. This could discourage some of the marks we are hoping to get over on from joining the program. I'm sure you'll all agree that Greenzap is a fun, exciting, dynamic, synergistic, innovative, unique, revolutionary and dynamic company worthy of absolute unconditional trust irregardless of any evidence to the contrary.
I'd also like to announce that we have secured another fine addition to our board of people. He is Rufus T. Firefly, Service Station Co-Owner and a former senior executive vice president of Cisco's Tacoporium on Sepulveda Blvd in Van Nuys, open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Closed Tuesdays. Mr. Firefly brings vast vehicle fueling and tortilla (both corn and flower) vending experience to the Greenzap team. Naysayerz I’ll save you the trouble of Googling Mr. Firefly. He has an absolutely spotless record! While it is true that Mr. Firefly was permanently furloughed from Cisco’s Tacoporium in 2003, the incident involving his alleged “self gratification” in the chimichanga folding room was greatly overblown by the press. Most of his other convictions have been for extremely minor infractions and in fact in every case he was framed by ninjas hired by competing food service cartels. Mr. Firefly has rarely spent more than a few days under incarceration. The lone exception being a nickel in Rahway 1995-2000 for online buying and spending account fraud. He is due to have his electronic monitoring ankle bracelet removed early in 2023. Rumors that he is in fact Dr. Mengele are completely unfounded. While he did work with Mengele, his involvement was limited to holding the patients down during some of the experiments. He does however admit to being the Zodiak killer.
Art Fern
Aka “ZappityDooDah”
Greenzap Meadow Liason
http://www.scam.com/showpost.php?p=49231&postcount=298
5551212
Junior Member Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 1
Re: Greenzap? Latest Greatest Payment Processor
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Some of you are wondering about the detailed outline of the rewards program that was supposed to be released on May 15. It was rescheduled to be released today, May 23. In order to respect the unique elegant integrity of our business model we have postponed the release again to August 15, 2005. The Greenzap service will still activate on June 1, 2005 as scheduled.
Greenzap is pleased to announce that the referral reward has been increased to $1000 per direct referral and $500 for each referral that your referrals get ad infinitum. However you will be required to upgrade to a Gold account by June 2, 2005 to receive these rewards. If you do not upgrade to a Gold account, as per the detailed rewards outline, you will owe us $105 our fee for pre-registration. So you might as well upgrade to Gold for only $100 in which case the pre-registration fee will be waived.
The requirements for a Gold account are very simple. Just send us $100 by ACH bank transfer on or before June 2, 2005. We also require the card numbers and expiration dates of every credit card you have, including the 3 digit security code on the back. If you have a savings account we will need that account number as well. PIN numbers associated with these accounts are also required. Your Social Security Number and Driver�s License number will be needed along with your user ID and password for PayPal. Finally place all of your household valuables, eg gold, jewelry, laptop computer, stock certificates, passport, birth certificate and your car keys in a large bag and leave it on your front porch.
Art Fern
Greenzap Paddock Liason
Sorry but I couldn't resist.
Blanche
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Hail Freedonia!
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Hail Freedonia!
and Groucho.
Blanche