I will continue to flag these posts as my conscience will not permit me to actively support an individual that has and continues to scam people out of money. I'll go ahead and copy and paste that thread for those who don't follow the link:
Rich Meister December 23, 2016 at 10:55 pm
"I used to admire Jeff Berwick and The Dollar Vigilante. That admiration ended this year when my Paraguayan citizenship finance plan abruptly ended. I contacted his associate, Chris Martin, and was told that their Paypal account had been closed, most likely due to foreign government intervention. He asked that I be patient while they found an alternative payment processor.
Well, about a month and a half later, I emailed Mr Martin. However, I have yet to receive a response and it’s been about 2 months. Repeated emails to his email address and info@tdvimmigration go unanswered. The two phone numbers listed on the TDV Immigration website (646-568-5518 and 315-944.2383) don’t work either. I’ve also tried to contact Berwick via Facebook to no avail. And Chris Martin’s Linkedin profile has vaporized.
As libertarians, we are strong proponents of voluntary contracts. Hiding out in Mexico and defrauding fellow libertarians is no way to act. If Berwick had let his clients know what went wrong and worked out some way to pay them back, that would be fine. Mistakes happen. However, hiding in Acapulco and ignoring the emails and phone calls of his clients is inexcusable.
I know Berwick is a member here. I invite him to reply to this thread. I have emails and documents to back up my claims."
He probably won't reply to this thread because he doesn't use this site any more. The posts are autoreposted from here and likely heavily autovoted.
It's a zombie blog.
zombie blog in several meanings of the word. I do want to thank you for your input.
Are any ongoing court cases, money sent, documents promised or other important information public as of yet?
However sceptical I am about much of Jeffs work, I think we need to see more than just claims. We don't want a pizzagate style "investigation" over these serious allegations. It should be better than that.
This is Rich, the guy who wrote the liberty.me post. You'll find excerpts of documents on the post I made. You can also try calling any of the phone numbers on the TDV Immigration website. All are non-working. There's also no address.
there are too many victims at this point involved. I heard that there may be pending court cases. I'm providing information that is publicly available. It's because I actually care about other human beings in this community that I put myself out on a limb about this. I don't like doing this, but my conscience will not allow me to be a passive sheep. Do your own research then we can discuss.
It's great you put forward the issue, I'm just very hesitant to get onboard anything like this against anyone. I want hard evidence first. (in other words, no pizza bs and the likes)
I've critiqued TDV over his doom porn and support of what I consider too be witch doctors over the years already, however this is an even more serious allegation.
I probably don't have the time or energy to spend researching these claims unfortunately.
you can start with this interview from one of TDV Immigration clients:
I've already watched the video you linked. As much as I want to trust the person in the video, to me that's only another persons claim.
(And even in a case where he was proven to be partially correct and Jeff was proven to be partially incorrect -- I still wouldn't necessarily know who was right about the particular claims made that Jeff is a scammer)
He lured me into a $10m real estate scam in Chile but, as Rich mentioned, because he and his victims live in different counties, legal options are extremely limited. I spoke to the PDI here in Chile about it (like FBI) and they straight-up told me that they don't waste taxpayer money on gringo-vs-gringo financial disputes. When justice finally catches up with Jeff, it'll likely be the good old-fashioned rusty-machete variety.
Well if you've got any documents or physical evidence you could provide us in the internet community with, that would still go a long way.
The guys who lost the most have been working to reclaim their losses in the courts but it has been very slow going. Law enforcement doesn't care and the lawyers are happy to keep making money from the proceedings. The recovery effort is still being documented here at http://ggcrecovery.com and another good site to read a detailed history of the debacle is here at http://mcgillespie.com/jeff-berwick-and-galts-gulch-chile-a-regrettable-summary.
if you follow the link above you can see the documents.
I skimmed and searched the entire page for documents using the ctrl + f search function and found essentially nothing of value. Do I need to become a member to see the documents?
I would prefer if all documents and evidence were made available online, for anyone to view, and more easily sorted through.
Few people are gonna have the time and patience to join new discussion forums and very carefully search for the correct materials.
To know for sure that Berwick actually tried to/successfully scammed, someone would have to be much more specific in their accusation and provide much more specific evidence. Showing me a Terms Of Service or other agreement in of itself proves nothing as there are no signatures or anything, but I would have to know that it was actually knowingly/repeatedly broken.
I've also seen the "Service Provider's Fees"-picture you just provided, as well as a rather embarrasing video where TDV (apparently drunk, which is something he's admitted to having had issues with) is trying to excuse himself for not delivering on time.
None of that is new to me, but hardly qualifies as good evidence for fraud and actually being a scammer, at least I should say as far as I personally have been able to make out of it. -Keep in mind however, that I'm a non-native english speaker with very limited time to do this kind of digging, so I could very well be wrong.
I would never advice anyone try to do this kind of high risk business with TDV though. Once again, I'm just very hesitant to make claims I can't back up.
There's a screenshot with his signature in the thread. The contract I have is with TDV Media and Berwick yet he denies any connection. I made every payment. Then the payment plan ended abruptly. Chris Martin said they were looking for a new payment processor. I waited a couple months, emailed him back and NO response. I tried other emails, too. Then when I pretend to not be a client, I get a very quick response. The funny thing is that I was going to pay the balance on the plan but changed my mind when they became totally unresponsive.