Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.quatloos.com/">Quatloos! http://www.quatloos.com -- Quatloos! �</A> ------ Quatloos! Defined: Farcical units of currency which poke fun at those who make ridiculous business offers. The term is particularly fitting for this site, which reveals and discusses scams and frauds -- many of which are objectively ridiculous. If you are having difficulty accessing this cite, click to http://www.quatloos .com and start from there. Welcome to Quatloos! -- Financial Scams & Frauds Exposed -- What are Quatloos? That's easy -- Six Koos make a Quatloo, and Eight Quatloos make a Mooloo. So what are Koos and Mooloos? Well, every Koos is worth Four Plocks, and if you get Sixteen Mooloos together you can trade them for a Znoos. O.K., you get the picture. Quatloos don't really exist. They are largely spoken of in Internet Newsgroups in response to advertisements by spammers and scam artists. For instance, if someone places an advertisement in the alt.smokers.cigars newsgroup saying "Selling real Havana cigars for $10 a box", the denizens of that newsgroup (suspecting that the cigars are fakes) might respond by posting: "I'll give you 75 Quatloos and an expired cheeseburger coupon". Quatloos are thus farcical units of currency which poke fun at those who make ridiculous business offers. The term is particularly fitting for this site, which reveals and discusses scams and frauds -- many of which are objectively ridiculous. This site educates you about common scams, frauds, and financial traps. This site also cautions you about certain groups which may have engaged in questionable conduct. NEW FOR APRIL 2000 BREAKING NEWS -- Stockgeneration has finally collapsed. If you had money in this "stock game" say Sayonara to it. More details soon. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Quatloos! Cyber-Museum of Scams & Frauds -- Nigerian Scam Letter Gallery -- A priceless collection of actual scam letters sent out by scam artists masquerading as various relatives of the late General Abacha, employees of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, officials of the Nigerian Central Bank and much more! Help them get $30 million out of Nigeria and you will be richly rewarded . . . NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Introduction to Multi-Level Marketing -- What Multi-Level Marketing is, and why it never works for the people downline. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Quatloos! Guide to Casino Gambling -- How the House uses Risk Compounding to wear down bettors, the best and worst casino games, and more. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Omega Trust & Trading Exhibit -- We examine perhaps the longest running bank debenture scam, which has lasted more than seven years and never paid a cent (and, yes, some idiots still believe in it). Includes copies of the agreements used to scam people, actual audiotapes from the promoter telling people that their money is on the way (in 1995), and even the promoter's letter telling people that the program is over (which they can't believe and so have simply ignored). RESOURCE -- Moderated Omega Victims Support Forum NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- IRS Warnings on Fraudulent and Abusive Trusts -- The IRS is fed up with these things, and is tracking down the promoters and people who bought into them. Read the IRS's latest announcement on abusive trusts. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Our April 2000 Newsletter -- Featured stories: * Stockgeneration * Pump & Dump Schemes * Digital Stock Markets * Abusive Trusts * Multi-Level Marketing * Global Prosperity & Its Progeny * Shills * Cyber-Museum of Scams & Frauds * Omega FINANCIAL SCAMS & TRAPS "After years of trying to get rich with get-rich-quick schemes, I know I'm going to get rich with this scheme . . . and quick!" -- Homer Simpson Not only are you interested in investing your Quatloos, but others are interested in investing your Quatloos for you! Why, because they make their Quatloos off of your Quatloos, of course. And herein lies an inherent conflict-of-interest, which begins innocently enough but can quickly develop into outright fraud. Annuity Abuse -- What variable annuities are and how they can be good investments for the average guy. But also why a variable annuity can be one of the worst investments a high income or high net worth individual can make. Bank Debenture Trading Program -- "$100,000 minimum, pays 50% profit every 30 days, to $12 Million per year with profit guaranteed." Yeah, and your check will be delivered by the Easter Bunny himself. Sheer fraud. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Omega Trust & Trading Exhibit -- We examine perhaps the longest running bank debenture scam, which has lasted more than seven years and never paid a cent (and, yes, some idiots still believe in it). Includes copies of the agreements used to scam people, actual audiotapes from the promoter telling people that their money is on the way (in 1995), and even the promoter's letter telling people that the program is over (which they can't believe and so have simply ignored). Nigerian Scam a/k/a 4-1-9 Scam -- Those wacky Nigerians are at it again! Help them get $40 million out of their country and you will get a $12 million commission, but don't spend the money just yet. Would you believe this scam is the 3rd largest industry in Nigeria!?! NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Quatloos! Cyber-Museum of Scams & Frauds -- Nigerian Scam Letter Gallery -- A priceless collection of actual scam letters sent out by scam artists masquerading as various relatives of the late General Abacha, employees of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, officials of the Nigerian Central Bank and much more! Help them get $30 million out of Nigeria and you will be richly rewarded . . . Sales Commissions and Loaded Investments -- Why sales commissions means conflict-of-interest, and why you should avoid paying a sales load for anything. And, the worst of the worst, fee based financial planners who charge you a flat fee of assets under management and receive sales commissions for putting you into loaded products. Self-Liquidating Loans -- Borrow $500 million on Monday, and live on E-Z Street on Tuesday. How attempting to get 9-figure loans means $99 profit to hucksters. Avoiding Investment Scams -- 10 simple questions you can ask to help keep you from being defrauded. LEGAL SCAMS & TRAPS Once you've made your Quatloos, you have an interested in protecting them now, and then later transferring them to your kids. And, sure enough, there are lots of folks with impressive paper hanging on the wall who will tell you they can do this -- for a fee. But there are idiots out there, as well as folks who are looking to get their hands on your Quatloos. Alaskan Trusts and Delaware Trusts -- A real asset protection tool, or a scam to give the trust companies and banks in these states additional revenue? Living Trusts -- Considers the Misuse and Abuse of one of the most heavily marketed legal planning tools. OFFSHORE SCAMS & TRAPS Why keep your Quatloos here, where people can get at them, when you can move your Quatloos to some offshore tax haven and use them to buy Pina Coladas, condos and yachts! Unfortunately, most scam artists hang out in these Banana Republics, looking for your Quatloos. Costa Rica Property Scams -- Today you've bought it and gosh is it beautiful. You make plans to retire there, but before your plane leaves the runway, the squatters move in, and now your retirement dreams turn to nightmares. Dominion of Melchizedek -- You can become an Ambassador of Melchizedek, join their Bar Association, and even get a Banking License -- all in one stop! The trouble is in finding Melchizedek (which, for those of you who are deficient in geography, doesn't exist). Global Prosperity Group / Investors International -- Criminal fraud multi-level style. Hiding Money Offshore -- One of the dumbest traps you can get yourself into, but also the most common. Place your money with someone offshore, and hope that they give it back. The problem: They take the money and run, and you can't complain without being prosecuted for tax evasion. Or worse: They extort even more money out of you under threat that they will turn you in for tax evasion. This happens every year for hundreds of millions of dollars -- Would you like to be part of this scene? Marc Harris Organisation -- Recent allegations of Offshore Alert against the Marc Harris Organization of Panama have caused a considerable stir among offshore practitioners. COURT OPINION -- Offshore Alert and its reporter David Marchant have prevailed in a lawsuit brought by the Marc Harris Organization for libel and slander. The U.S. District Judge who heard the case essentially found that Offshore Alert's allegations that the Marc Harris Organization engaged in shoddy accounting practices and improper commingling of client assets, and in promoting U.S. citizens to commit tax evasion, were true. Download the Court's Judgment in Adobe PDF format Offshore Books & Seminars -- You see them at B. Dalton and in the in-flight magazines: They show beautiful palm trees, Learjets and exotic sports cars, and promise to change your life. Will these books and seminars make you a millionaire basking in the sun, or will your dream vacation be at Club Fed? Offshore Personal / Private Banks -- Subtitle: "Open your own offshore private bank and millions will start to walk into your life instantly!" Yeah, right. Watch a 1/4 million dollar legal and accounting nightmare walk into life instantly. Private Offshore Insurance & Self-Insurance -- Subtitle: "Form your own insurance company and pay everything to yourself as a deductible premium!" Sequel: The IRS declares that the premium was not deductible in the first place, and you pay substantial penalties and interest so that you have really self-screwed up. Unsecured Offshore Credit Cards -- For as little as a $200 processing charge, you can get an unsecured offshore credit card with as much as a $5,000 credit limit, but you better be prepared to wait a long, long, lllooonnnggg time for your card to arrive. PT -- We exposed the scam variously known as "Perpetual Travelers", "Permanent Tourists" and "Prior Taxpayer" which plays on your anti-government fears as a way to separate you and your money. TAX SCAMS & TRAPS Keeping one's Quatloos means minimizing one's taxes. Trouble is, where tax minimization ends and tax evasion begins is often not clear. And then there are few folks who are a few Plocks short of a full Koos, who have all sorts of wacky reasons why you don't even have to pay taxes. Anti-IRS Theories -- These theories argue that the 16th Amendment was not properly ratified, that the Internal Revenue Code was not properly enacted, that the Internal Revenue Service was not properly constituted or is acting outside of its authorities, that "income" does not really mean "income", that "income tax" is only assessable on residents of the District of Columbia and Guam, and other such nonsense. But how can these theories help YOU if NO court will recognize them? The answer is: They can't. Tax Protestor Theories De-Bunked -- We show you why more than 20 popular tax protestor theories are completely bogus. Black Holes & UFOs -- Criminal tax evasive strategies pitched by tax lawyers, whereby your money eventually "disappears" off of IRS radar screens and ends up with your kids -- but both you and your kids may have trouble finding the money yourself, especially while making an extended stay at Club Fed. Constitutional Trusts a/k/a Pure Trusts -- Great things, so long as the IRS and your creditors agree to litigate issues arising from these trusts before a Posse Comitatus in a mobile home trailer somewhere. Otherwise, a voodoo spell would be more effective protection. Diplomatic & Consulate Titles -- These are being promoted as something which will insulate you from U.S. taxes, but you'll be lucky to use them just to get out of parking tickets. Life Insurance To Pay Estate Taxes -- Buy enough insurance to pay off your estate taxes and your net ahead! Maybe. But the only ones who you know will be net ahead will be Uncle Sam, your insurance company, and your insurance salesman. Your kids? Who knows. And just why is it that your insurance salesman takes all those trips to Europe anyway? MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING SCAMS "Buy 1 for yourself and get the chance to sell your friends and family 5 and get your downline started!" We examine the multi-level marketing industry, where only the people who come up with the ideas make any money, and everybody else is left unhappy, broke, and tired of reading scripts and selling overpriced vitamins and similarly worthless products. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Introduction to Multi-Level Marketing -- What Multi-Level Marketing is, and why it never works for the people downline. QUATLOOS! GUIDE TO GAMBLING We at Quatloos! love to gamble. And our (non-casino-tainted) guide will show you the odds, how to avoid the scams (really dumb bets, i.e., 98% of them), and what bets will give you the highest odds against the House. Hint: You still can't beat the House Advantage, but maybe we can keep you from getting completely slaughtered with our unique insights. We'll bet 80 Quatloos on the newcomer! NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Quatloos! Guide to Casino Gambling -- How the House uses Risk Compounding to wear down bettors, the best and worst casino games, and more. NEW FOR APRIL 2000! -- Quatloos! Guide to Casino Gambling -- Money Management Systems -- Why you need a Money Management System, but also why they are not a cure-all for bad luck or bad play. QUATLOOS! CYBER-MUSEUM OF SCAMS & FRAUDS Our famous Cyber-Museum of Scams & Frauds is now open to the public! This month we have on display three very special exhibits, which will help you understand these particular scams in-depth. Our Cyber-Museum is as always 100% free and some of the best entertainment around. So, come on in, have a cup of coffee and take your time browsing through these exhibits. More to come! * Nigerian Scam Letters -- Actual letters from Nigeria which were sent in the hope and anticipation of conning somebody to invest a couple of hundred thousand dollars to "help" the Nigerians move tens of millions of (nonexistent) funds out the country. * Tax Protestor Cases -- Actual U.S. court opinions which expose the hilariously stupid theories the so-called tax protestors have actually tried to argue with a straight face in court. * Omega Trust & Trading Exhibit -- We examine perhaps the longest running bank debenture scam, which has lasted more than seven years and never paid a cent (and, yes, some idiots still believe in it). Includes copies of the agreements used to scam people, actual audiotapes from the promoter telling people that their money is on the way (in 1995), and even the promoter's letter telling people that the program is over (which they can't believe and so have simply ignored). 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