If you have Googled me, then you have probably seen a few forums where people are claiming that Broker Jones is a Scammer, and that if he’s involved in something you should run!!!!
I have challenged these “trolls” to point out at least one specific time that I have scammed or mislead anyone intentionally into anything, and they all fail to give an example. Instead they resort to calling me names such as “broken jones” and “bernstein jones”….and some people think I’m “fat”. I think the claim of my being “overweight” is at least refuted on my facebook page. (Feel free to add me as a friend, I’m social, have over 1000 friends and I like to chat!)
One of the common statements out there is that Broker Jones was into “autosurfing and scammed a bunch of people”……..and here we can talk about the TRUTH….rather than silly accusations spammed to you from “trolls” who are mainly just terrified of what my company represents to their so-called “hyip/surf industry”.
About 5 years ago….as evidenced from the very first posts on this blog (which you can actually read if you are so indisposed) I was introduced to something called Autosurfing, and a friend of mine told me about a “company” called Fast Profits Club, and it was returning around 40% per month. Having never heard of such a thing as Autosurfing before and no idea what reasonable returns on investment were, I joined it under my buddies recommendation. Well…a little over a month later I lost $3,000 and FPC ran off with all of our money. It was my risk, my loss and I certainly didn’t recruit anyone into it. So I’m quite positive that it’s not Fast Profits Club or my losing my own money that has “trolls” on the internet crying that Broker is a Scammer! Let’s investigate further!
When I fail at something, I tend to become obsessed with learning more and getting better, so I began to do my homework on the owners, and various “autosurfs” and I started writing this blog in an attempt to help others avoid the ones that were “obviously” scams. It became apparent quickly that there were tons of scammers on the internet and most of them were “getting away with it”.
I ultimately found Tri-Star Media, a company run by Bob Krimm and his son Chris. I ended up telling about 10 people about this one when I first joined it, and all of us made money. My statements to my small team were “this is high risk, so only put in what you can afford to lose, and take out everything up front so that you are only risking profit.” The 10 of us did this and all of us made some good money before Tri-Star Media began to exhibit red flags and ultimately “ran off with the money”. However those who I referred……..all made thousands. We weren’t the Ken Russo’s of the internet who continued to lure people in clearly after the “red flags of ponzi” began showing up. Nope. We kept large in part to ourselves and we were not out there recruiting others. I had learned very quick that there was only a “small window of safety” when joining these things and after the 6 month mark it was far too risky to have anyone else put in “new money”. Considering our small group was all well into profit and we were more interested in our own returns than dragging in a bunch of people we didn’t know…….and none of us lost money……I guess it doesn’t make sense to call me a Scammer here either.
Next on the agenda is Vlane aka Global Marketing Solutions aka 3 Great Solutions run by the infamous Dr. Mara Greenway (if she even is a doctor…), Vee Ann Fuerhoff (aka Mrs. Vee), Stephen Decatur, GemQueen and others………these guys/gals all promised us this was a new era for “autosurfing” and even claimed that they were NOT an “autosurf” but instead they were an advertising rebate agency. They cooked up a great story, promised to provide products to us, made us sign contracts (that are now very null and void), and they launched. I have to admit…….I believed them. Immediately I brought in about 40 people and we all “invested our money” as soon as the company launched. After the 6 month mark I told them all to stop referring others, and our team was about 55 people in total. I emailed them weekly and told all of them to make sure they take out their original investments and just use profits. After a year we were ALL IN PROFIT, and we didn’t recruit anyone else. And then I started seeing “red flags” and well…..I couldn’t keep silent. I had to warn people…..because the word on the street was that people were maxxing out their credit cards, and mortgaging their homes in order to “invest” with Vlane at a time in which I felt Vlane was exposing itself as a ponzi.
I HAD TO WARN PEOPLE……..I simply could not fathom anyone maxxing out their credit cards and losing their homes to what I felt was nothing more than a glorified ponzi scam and the writing was on the wall that the ponzi well was drying up…..If you google around for Vlane you’ll find the articles I wrote a long time ago.
I was the first person willing to stand up and warn people to stay away from Vlane and to pull all their money out.
Shortly after my article was written, the Vlane owners deleted my account. (They simply deleted $15,000 of mine…..keep in mind I was well in profit and had been cashing out over $1,000 a month for almost a year)
Then they got on a big conference call and slandered me forwards and backwards.
Then they sent a “fake lawsuit” to my door. Well…..at the time it seemed real, and I actually filed a formal response and their “lawyer” never even accepted my response. It was then I realized that they had NO intention of ever taking me to court……they simply wanted me to remain silent long enough for them to “continue their charade” so they could disappear with everyones money.
I took a lot of heat for standing up against Vlane.
A lot of people climbed up on their soap boxes and began to call Broker Jones a scammer with his own “agenda”.
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But almost a year has gone by and Vlane is still not paying anyone. They have all but vanished with everyones money.
Only now have people begun to apologize to me.
Only now have people begun to say “Broker ……..was right”.
And that’s ok to me. I wasn’t stepping out and calling out the “red flags” for personal gain. I did it to try and save others.
So…..with that said. I brought a team in early to Vlane….it capped at around 55 people and we stopped recruiting at all per my guidance at the 6 month mark. All of us made money. And everyone pulled out their money in time, and per my private warnings. Nobody who was in contact with me on my team lost any money. I sacrificed my own account to warn others. ….so how on Earth…..could Broker Jones be a scammer because of Vlane?
Ahhh….now we come to the crux of the issue, and probably one of my biggest “career” mistakes to date.
Around the same exact time that Vlane was displaying it’s Ponzi Flags…….I became aware of a company that was about to launch called Oceanside Wealth. It was a company that had a very unique idea. It was a company that was going to combine MLM with Forex……..I was intrigued, and mentioned on a very popular forum called AutoSurfAuthority.com that I was going to join.
…within 3 days of my announcing on a public forum that I was going to join and build a team. Over 60 people had posted a reply saying they were going to join me…..within 30 days that number skyrocketed to 600, and by the time that Oceanside Wealth finally launched, I had mustered a team of 3,000 people in less than 60 days. As it turned out (call it fate…chance….destiny…..or just plain old coincidence) both of the owners of Oceanside Wealth lived about 15 minutes from me. I had a meeting with one of the owners at the time JD Kaiser, and he explained to me the system and asked for my input.
What JD did NOT tell me at the time was that he was only a 49% owner, and that Kumar was a 51% owner and in full control of the company.
I ended up meeting Dr. Kumar Singh and he was a likeable guy who seemed rather intelligent and from what I could gather after several face to face meetings with these JD and Kumar was that they had a unique concept, a brilliant Forex product, and it all seemed like it was going to be “too easy”. I mean….I had a team of 3,000 people in less than 60 days, and we had a product that would generate so much passive income for everyone involved it really was the “no brainer” of the decade.
The first major issue that happened was that originally Jake Amedee and Ken Russo had been invited to Oceanside Wealth because they each wielded massive teams. However they word on the Internet is that they both decided to get rip roaring drunk the night PRIOR to launching, and they flooded the Oceanside Matrix with hundreds of sign ups a full 24 hours before the company was even supposed to go live. Later they would deny it all, and Jake would call me up on the phone and tell me that he “never drinks” (hahaha….hahahahah yeah right), and then he would go so far as to threaten to “end me”. (In other words he threatened my life). JD, and Kumar and me got together at one of Kumar’s investment homes in Gilbert Arizona and we made the decision to wipe the database clean, and uninvite both Jake and Ken for their unscrupulous behavior. Kumar and JD told me they did not want to associate with people who were out to cheat the system, and I wholeheartedly agreed. Of course Jake Amedee (the now missing and suspected “on the run” former admin of ASA) and Ken Russo (a blatant ponzi promoting pimp), would put their own sad spin on the story and try to claim that it was Broker Jones who Scammed them out of their stop spots at Oceanside Wealth. I was banned from Autosurfauthority so that I could not even give my side of the story of what REALLY happened. But it all comes out in the wash I suppose considering how Jake is now on the run and wanted by multiple Legal Agencies. …and Ken Russo…..heh……well that’s all I’m going to say about that for now.
So the database was cleared and the launch was put on hold for a few days, and then it was re-launched with only my personal team. (Of 3,000 people….)
Then the real problems began.
On the night of the launch their backoffice experienced multiple failures, and their programmer named Dennis from a company called Internet Next Step, was taking all sorts of liberties with things such as “free memberships” and even plugging in his own people to the matrix. Free Memberships in a “company forced matrix” just don’t work. There were major server crashes, glitches, multiple people signing up into multiple accounts, and generally it was just a fiasco. I was not impressed with Dennis or Internet Next Step and anytime we called to complain he just told us “look I’ve launched many MLM’s bigger than you guys with no problems”…….OK DENNIS SO WHY WERE THERE PROBLEMS WITH OCEANSIDE IF YOU WERE THE EXPERT? (whew….had to get that of my chest) I recommend that if you are ever getting ready to launch your own company you avoid Internet Next Step at all costs. My experience with them was complete garbage, and they charge insane prices to fix THEIR MISTAKES! They make mistakes….and then they charge you for them….how awesome is that? This is one of those times I actually felt bad for Kumar because he was the guy paying for all of it.
A couple of weeks into launch, there were still minor issues with the backoffice, and it became clear that Oceanside was going to have to “foot the bill” for all of the “magic free spots” that Dennis allowed in. At first it seemed plausible, but then Kumar on a whim decided that he wasn’t going to pay for them and everyones matrix check, including mine went to almost nothing.
We dealt with that, however then Kumar started “dictating” how things were going to be run in his company….and as the 51% owner I suppose that was his right, but one night he called me up and said “Broker, can you explain to me exactly how our matrix works?”
I about fell out of my chair. How could a 51% owner not even know how his own company ran?
I offered my full time services to manage the company and make some radical changes. I mean at the time he was running a matrix with no products……you can’t be an MLM company with no products. I told him I could help develop an integral marketing training series.
He refused to pay me. He said “no employees”. To which I replied, “ok run the company yourself then.”
At this time, I had made friends with the Trader of Oceanside’s Forex system named Mac, and also with JD. We began forming a plan in the event that Oceanside under the tyranny of Dr. Kumar was to fail. Mac said to me on the phone, “Let’s call this what it is Broker…..we’re talking about the pre-launch of your own company”.
Dr. Kumar began taking bank wires for Forex investing……yet he NEVER finished the paperwork to actually use the brokerage account……so the money….never went anywhere. I had never seen a business owner ….who not only didn’t even understand his OWN business model…….but who moved so slowly on all things Administrative.
Realizing the absolute certainty of his failure as a business owner and the ultimate decline of Oceanside Wealth with him at the sole decision maker……I announced my leaving, and I told him on a phone call “You had better refund every last person or it’s your ass”.
Dr. Kumar did end up refunding almost everyone. He did skip a few people who never got their refunds, but we have since collected their names/emails and bank statements showing their transactions and all told it’s a list of less than 5 people and less than $7500 ($2,000 of that being mine……Dr. Kumar…..ran off with my money. He is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. And I’ll gladly go to court over that statement if he ever reads this. He stole from me pure and simple.)
However……..they say that all things happen for a reason, and I am a firm believer of that.
Because on September 4th 2009……..we launched our company and we decided to keep the name to remind everyone that “we aren’t trying to run….or hide…….from anyone”.
Oceanside Network was born.
So far it has run almost flawlessly. Our passive income system is churning away, and I’m actually watching it live right now on the computer next to me. I have made a promise to the few who lost their investment dollars to Dr. Kumar that when Oceanside Network is strong enough, we’ll pay them out of our own pockets. My $2,000 is lost forever…….but I gained a Presidency in a company where I am now equal part owner and chief decision maker for the most part.
Throughout the years my motto has never changed. I’m here to make money, and to help others do the same.
So….the ultimate question that you must now ask yourself is before you. Is Broker Jones A Scammer?
My opinion…of course…is biased. Thank you for reading, I’ve had a good time re-living my journey in writing this.
~Free Your Life, Live Your Dreams~
Broker Jones
