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The Fake Marriage between Felix & Yuliya

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:33:52 +0000

A Russian woman blatantly stated her objective in her postings. Her lawyer says she didn’t know such marriages were illegal.When 24-year-old Yuliya Kalinina turned to the Internet in search of a husband, she made it absolutely clear what she was looking for in a relationship:

“Green Card Marriage — Will pay $300/month. Total $15, 000,” the Russian national living in Los Angeles wrote in an ad placed on the Craigslist website. “This is strictly platonic business offer, sex not involved.” Just in case any would-be Romeos weren’t taking the hint, she added, “NOT required to live together.”

Kalinina’s direct approach was very attractive, drawing the attention not only of the man who would marry her, but also of agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

After nearly two years of what federal prosecutors allege was a sham marriage, Kalinina and her 30-year-old husband, Benjamin C. Adams, were arrested last week at separate residences.

Prosecutors say Kalinina leased Adams a new Ford Mustang for his trouble.

She also took care of the wedding arrangements: Performing the ceremony was Dmitri Chavkerov, an Internet-ordained minister who also happened to be Kalinina’s live-in boyfriend.

“I’d say it’s a fairly blatant example of marriage fraud,” said Assistant U.S. Atty. Curtis A. Kin, one of the prosecutors on the case.

Robert Schoch, special agent in charge of ICE investigations in Los Angeles, said it was the first criminal case he was aware of in which people had allegedly used the Internet to engineer a fraudulent marriage in hopes of obtaining a green card.

According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Kalinina began advertising in the personal ads section of Craigslist in October 2005.

She posted at least eight ads, most of them titled “Green Card Marriage — Will pay $300/month. Total $15,000.”

According to the court papers, ICE agents also obtained e-mails from Kalinina’s Google account in which she and Adams discussed their potential marriage.

“How long does it have to last for?” Adams allegedly asked, according to a Jan. 9, 2006, e-mail.

“Marriage will take 2-3 years (most likely 2),” Kalinina responded.

Adams then told Kalinina that he had bad credit and suggested she lease a car for him in exchange for agreeing to marry her, the complaint alleges. The two were married Feb. 17, 2006.

A month later, Kalinina leased Adams a 2006 Ford Mustang, the documents state. That April, the couple filed paperwork seeking to establish permanent residency for Kalinina.

When confronted by ICE agent’s months later, the documents state, Kalinina and her boyfriend — the man who performed the marriage ceremony — admitted that the marriage to Adams was a fraud intended to obtain a green card. Marrying her boyfriend would have done nothing to help her immigration status, because he is in the country illegally.

Attorney Dale Rubin, who is representing Kalinina, said his client has a pending asylum application but was concerned that it wouldn’t be granted before she was due to leave the country.

He said Kalinina didn’t know it was illegal to marry for a green card, which he said was evidenced by the blatant language in her ads.

“For some reason, if you’re from Russia, you think the way to get around a problem is to throw money at it,” he said.

Reviews about The Fake Marriage

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:32:16 +0000

11/5/07 – Our company just received a threatening email from Dmitri Chavkerov saying he will call the FBI and Police on our Operating Manager and Dmitri showed that he posessed his Home Address and Social Security Number which he threatened to post this outdated info on his fake review site Forexbastards.com …. Our Members and Managers are well insulated from this Pig11/6/07 – We will be launching a new site Forexscammer.com it will be a site maintained by traders with the goal of debunking what is in our opinion false claims and bogus signal service, IB relationships and manipulated ratings system..12/11/07 – We posted Official US Government Record and PDF of Complaint by the Government of Dmitri Chavkerov being busted on November 30, 2007 along with girlfriend Yuliya Kalinina also we noticed on Dmitri’s forum his posters are complaining about him not being around and on a supposed over extended vacation, we as well noticed that a post on his forum made by “Heinz” was censored by “ADMIN” in his post he had a link to this page.12/12/07 – It appers Dmitri is up to his little tricks again apperantly he is posting on his forum under a different name (Upright Pip) that we are a scam and somehow connected to Centralpips.com I challange him or anyone else to find any connection with our Company and that company (Centralpips), you will not find one…… here is a quote from an email we recieved from him ” 6. Your business. I’ll be quite frank with you. I have some information to believe that you were behind centralpips.com, which was a scam, but I am definitely not sure about it.”The problem, is that he will not show what this so called information is. So Dmitri why don’t you please show the world this information?12/26/07 – Just put a new link up above titled “What Happened to Felix Homogratus?” when reading this something stood out in this article and it was the statement – (“It’s sad too that anyone who speaks out against Felix by posting an opinion of his services online gets greeted with emails of how the FBI is going to come and get them.”) – because oddly enough this is what he did to us threatening to phone the FBI if and local Police if we received one negative review on his Fake Review site.

Felix Homogratus is the owner of Forex Bastards

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:31:18 +0000

There is an on going investigation into the activities of Dmitri Chavkerov Poster child of 21 century Internet fraud as you know or may not know he has been under investigation for a number of things for the last few years and charges have been placed against his criminal partner in a fraudulent scheme to defraud the people of the united states. Its people like this that have made the need for homeland security a must. We must all do our due diligence to detect fraudsters and terrorist. There are also numerous complaints by investors and a pending case of identity theft and transmission of personal banking information on a female victim. As well as black mail, slander and defamation. Its time to bring Mr. Dmitri Chavkerov to justice, arrest have already been made more are sure to follow if your company has been a victim of black mail, false slander or you have lost money from his services or products or feel he has caused you financial harm please contact www.ic3.gov or your report can be documented by the arresting agent [William James Cunningham ] Documentation of the current case can be found at: >>

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsrelea…osangeles1.htm

Mr. Dmitri has made headlines around the world for his cutting edge class of fraud. And is the first to be caught in this type of online fraud. Based on current information he is pretending to be a trading expert but based on financial statements he has lost a large sum of money in trading the Forex market and all of his current income is from fraudulent product sales. He scares people into not buying or trusting his competitor’s products then thru his massive network of Forex sites sell them his Forex product. Scare then magic solution that many internet scammers & fraudsters use today.He hides behind other names and web-sites and shady people.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was established in March 2003 as the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is comprised of five integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities.
ForexBastards.com Felix – Dmitri Chavkerov Mr. Dimitri has made headlines around the world for his cutting edge class of Forex fraud. Online Internet

Forex Bastards Send Spam Mails

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:30:49 +0000

I get a lot of spam and junk email in my inbox every day so I usually don’t pay attention to new Forex sites that spring up over the place, however, a couple of my subscribers have added comments on this site about a popular Forex broker review and free Forex signal service at Forex Bastards.So, this weekend I decided to go and check it out. I signed up for Forex Bastards’ free Forex signal service and read some of their popular review pages on Forex brokers, Forex education, and Forex alerts.Having perused the site I liked the similar views held by the owner of Forex Bastards, Felix Homogratus (not his real name), on Oanda – that being: Oanda is the best Forex broker out there (but not perfect). Another interesting thing I found about Felix’s site was the economic announcement portals he uses to obtain the latest released figures. If you’re someone who isn’t using Bloomberg or Reuters to obtain your economic figures and you need these numbers with your Forex trading strategy (and you can afford the hefty monthly fee) then you’ll want to subscribe to Felix’s signals and read what he has to say. Lastly, I had a good laugh at his “Forex Scams” page where he listed popular Forex brokers such as AC-Markets, Refco, and FXCM on this page!Probably the most interesting thing about Forex Bastards was Felix’s broadcast email that he sent out on the weekend on an interview he had with Richard Olsen, CEO of Oanda. I’m probably not at liberty to copy the entire email here, but what struck me was the fact that with Felix’s news announcement strategy (where he takes a direction as soon as figures are released on popular news announcements and then proceeds to exit that position within ONE minute of it being opened) was that Oanda were willing to take a loss with the positions he was taking (due to the fast moving market)!!As Felix has had some success with this news announcement strategy he was looking to increase his position sizing to see if he could make more money with it, but after realizing the cost to Oanda of his strategy he concluded after the interview that he would maintain his current position sizing and continue to withdraw his profits on a weekly basis.In a way it reminded me of the days when Forex brokers guaranteed stops and traders, such as myself, were able to make good money trading volatile announcements such as the Non-Farm Payrolls by strangling either side of the currency – unfortunately this strategy was nullified when Forex brokers no longer guaranteed stops and we all experienced slippage of between 30-50 pips!I similarly think that Felix’s news strategy will not last long at Oanda, as I haven’t heard of too many brokers willing to take a loss on behalf of their clients. Things that make it even worse for Felix are the fact that he has a large subscriber base where he details his strategy before the event and no doubt some of them use his strategies on Oanda too – all it will take is one person with a big enough bank to nullify this opportunity for everyone else.For those using Felix’s strategies: take advantage while the opportunity exists, but don’t think it will last forever (although for your sakes I really hope it does).

Scam & Spam Mail sent by Forex Bastards

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:29:45 +0000

Now, a few interesting things about this one:- The email was sent by ‘Felix Homogratus’, an individual who obviously uses a nickname to run his business. His real name is Dmitri Chavkerov. My gut tells me that there is something fishy about running a business under a nickname but maybe that’s just me.- ‘Felix’ runs a few sites, one of those is www.forexbastards.com. According to Felix “Forex Bastards was founded in January of 2006, after I literally couldn’t handle getting screwed any longer. Learning how to trade Forex I went through several Forex brokers, a few different trading signals providers and used multiple Forex educational training services; some brilliant, some useless and some down right horrible.”. For some reason I get the feeling that his Yacht Seminar is a typical example of the types of scams his website was meant to expose.- The speakers include Felix’s partner, Rob Grespinet. According to the agenda, “If he feels like it, [Rob] will share with the participants the “inner talk” and “big boys outlook” on the Forex market over the next year. Otherwise, we’ll just have to enjoy his profanity and witty humor.”. Have you ever been to a seminar where one of speakers may or may not participate depending on his mood on that day? Interesting character…- Now the piece de resistance is the other two speakers: Skip Atwater and Marty Rosenblatt. Those guys are supposedly experts in ‘Remote Viewing’. Now I have to admit that I had to look up ‘Remote Viewing’ because I had no idea what that meant. I thought that maybe it was the name of a new fancy indicator or strategy but I came to find that remove viewing (RV) is “is a protocol used in consciousness research where a viewer attempts to gather sense impressions and “knowingness”, non-sensorial information, about a target.” So basically we are talking about telepathy or clairvoyance in trading the Forex?!?! How desperate are we getting here? What’s next, opening a ‘channel’ to Jesse Livermore to ask him for tips?- The last speaker is ‘anonymous’ and I quote “He wants to keep his identity unknown before the seminar”. Come on…people using nicknames, others using clairvoyance, and this last one the enigmatic speaker who wants to remain incognito. Is it a trading seminar or a masquerade? Is there really a difference? I am starting to wonder.- As another test, let’s go back to the CFTC warnings and let’s see how many apply to this ‘invitation’: 1) “Stay away from opportunities that seem too good to be true”. In Felix’s own words: “I can teach you a trading system that in my experience can easily make you into a Forex millionaire in 3 years or less”. Now here note the word ‘EASILY’, ‘MILLIONAIRE’, and ‘3 YEARS’. Too good to be true? I also always like when systems promise to make you plenty of money with extremely little effort. Two beautiful examples in this invitation. First from Felix himself ” I’ll be honest with you, because of this way of trading, I am starting to become very lazy, and I am actually sleeping through a lot of the news announcements that I used to trade short term.” Next from Skip Atwater: “The technique takes 1 hour per day, 5 days per week, and it has made this guy millions”.2) “Be Sure You Get the Company’s Performance Track Record”. In Felix’s own words again “[Rob Grespinet] is a heavy weight financial giant, and most people will never be able to comprehend the level of connections this guy has. Just being in this guy’s presence is an honor”….Ok, what is HIS performance track record? Numbers please! About Skip Atwater: “he will be teaching a simple technique he has been using over the years. The technique takes 1 hour per day, 5 days per week, and it has made this guy millions.” So this guy is going to teach me how to use psychic abilities to make money in the market? Show me a trading journal here, show me a trading account statement! Quantify this guy’s trading system’s expectancy! Last but not least: “this is Felix writing, and if you know me, you should know by now that I don’t throw empty words into thin air”. Actually Felix I don’t know you, at all! Actually it’s only by googling ‘Felix Homogratus’ that I was able to find your real name. Maybe you’ve made millions but for all I know none of it was made through trading; maybe you have made all this money scamming retail traders.Ok, I have already wasted enough time analyzing this email. My only point is that there are plenty of emails like this one finding their way in my inbox every single day, making incredible promises, telling me that there is a system out there that could make me millions by just working one hour a day, and to be honest I not only don’t believe any of them but I have to come to find them insulting. As individuals who are entering the retail trading world, this is what we are exposed to. We have to be vigilant, extremely vigilant.

Fake Characters in Felix’s websites & Forums

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:28:57 +0000

Before saying anything about this scammer, I want you to observe the following illusion that Felix has done here & there

Open the following website that owned by Felix http://www.wpips.com/

Scroll down till you reach the Testimonials, you will find someone called Juneed Khan saying “I’m up 1500 pips so far from July 15, 2007“

Now open this profile in MySpace http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=206013400

This is the profile of the of the same person in the Testimonials but with two different names

The Employees that are working with Felix:

1- RASHID GASHOR: He is working as messenger For Forex Bastards

He is Arabian but lives in United State open accounts with different brokers & try to make problems with those brokers like the following problems:

- Claiming that there is no money arrived after the withdrawal

- Recording & Editing the chats to be published in the forums

- Scalping

- Giving his account to other trader

- Cheating in credit cards

Rashid has been boasted several times & he never stops that he is now using fake characters in the forums with several fake emails & usernames

Always defending for Forex Bastards & scamming other brokers

2- Robert Grespi: He is working as publisher in the forums with different IDs like Pharaoh, deezee, DJDJ, theskyhy, DaveO, Vettah, Pipsgeek, Ilya Paniotov, musketeer, CeleronS, arturofield, trader, OzWizard, ForexGump, StandingCow, rajeev, Abundant1

Felix Helped Adam & Tahir to stole Credit Cards

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:28:19 +0000

If you are one of those who are interested in Forex Forums, so you actually know what I’m talking about, if not, so it is better for you to know. THere is a website, which is interested in indicating many brokers as scammers, known as ForexPeaceArmy. This website is owned by Felix assisted by other group of people whose aim is to abuse brokers’ reputation. After detecting those people’s history unfortunately I found that this Felix and other members of his group, Dimitry and pharaoh, were imprisoned twice before. Moreover, Adam and Tahir are Mafia Traders who opened many accounts with many brokers and worked with Automated Expert Advisers that allow them only to win never to lose. They were opening platforms from different IPs, which indicates that they were working for the sake of each other.What may be a surprise for you was not a surprise for me after knowing all this, for Adam was boasted before by the CIA for using different IP and stealing credit cards through the web.I think words cannot express our reactions, so instead we should take actions, for actions in cases like this are most effective. I think the best expression to describe this Black Market- that gives wrong signals and fake reviews about brokers- is that it is like AIDS, which has no cure, its only cure is to eradicate it. We must stop it and bring it to an end to clear up Forex Market.

History of Rashid Ghafoor | Scam Warning for Brokers

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:26:53 +0000

Being once a Forex trader you will meet many problems concerning the trustworthy of the broker you are dealing with. Unfortunately there are people who use this point to attack well-guaranteed brokers with. I’m going to show you what I’ve found after my search, for this issue concerns me a lot because I used to be a trader in Forex Market for 6 years and then I became to be IB with one of the greatest brokers in Forex Market, and I have passed through problems very similar to this.During my Forex activity I have seen many swindlers whose target is to steal money but by cheating. One of them is called Rashid, he is Algerian but lives in US. His work concentrated on opening accounts and operating it with Automated Expert Advisers in order to ensure his profit. He cheated many brokers and took money not of his rightful possession. Cases:- Claiming big withdrawal twice times & saying that the 1^st one didn’t arrive (By participation with his bank)- Threatening The brokers - Brokers’ Provocation is his job- Hacking the mails of customer services & send Factious mails to clients - Hacking Credit cards through ATMs of Banks - Saying bad mouth about brokers to make them lose their reputation- Allegation that he is introducing broker for AC-Markets, FXCM, FXDD, Interbanfx, MIG investment, Gain Capital- Exporting Drugs to the Middle East The last crimes done through Rashid’s business that he is participating in blue jobs in the Middle East (This is against Arab League’s law), for that Rashid has been arrested by FBI after investigating with him for trading in Drugs and Blue Jobs.

Disturbing Forex Market

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:25:57 +0000

There is no doubt that if you are a trader in the Forex Market, you will be much concerned with Forex Market’s stability and conditions. There are many factors that cause Forex Market’s inclination. First, there are Forex enemies who intend to speak bad mouth about some brokers in order to abuse their reputation, and make them lose traders as well. They usually claim that these brokers are scammers.They also send certain traders to some brokers in order to make problems with these brokers. These traders tend to cause troubles either by trading wrongly or by stealing money and cause these brokers’ loss like Adam Pecherski.Moreover, some of those Forex enemies, who are actually owners of Brokerage Firms, provide traders with wrong signals which consequently cause traders’ loss. Eventually, those traders will become afraid of trading in Forex and will lose trustworthy in any broker, especially those whom they dealt with.Besides, there is a technical way (a devilish one) that causes a drawback in the brokers’ trade system. It is by developing fake software as an expert adviser, this automation system claims trader’s profit without doing much effort. Actually this technique was used by Tahir Saeed as well as others.In addition, some of those enemies steal brokers’ platforms and sell them under their names, which is not in their rightful possession. It is like stealing some other’s effort and contends it to be yours.Also some of them intend establishing bad reputation for good brokers inside their own websites, so that traders and visitors to this website will see these indictments of the brokers, and as a result will keep away from them.On the other hand, those enemies spam the Forex Forums with wrong reviews about brokers to convince people of their bad business to keep them away from these brokers and cause their loss, as Rashid Ghafoor did.All these factors cause Forex Market declension and make it fall gradually, and consequently if this continues to happen Forex Market will vanish one day.There is something called Product Life Cycle It consists of three levels1- Ascending: In which the volume of the transactions that achieved in Forex Market are increasing [From 1.9 Trillion $ to be 3 Trillion dollars]2- Constant: in which the Forex Market will be fixed for a period of time at a specific level 3- Descending: in which the volume of transactions achieved will be decreasing till it reach a New Product Life Cycle & so on.Those Firms, Traders, brokers & associations like ForexPeaceArmy are helping in the declination in the trend of Forex Market at all.As we see in the following period too, many traders lost their money & afraid to open accounts again even if it is with his brother’s broker.

Terrorists On Wall Street

forexscamss — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:19:34 +0000

There is a great deal of fraud in the Forex market, so it would wise for the new forex investor to check out the broker thoroughly. Other good ways of checking a broker is by talking to other Forex traders through the many forums dedicated to foreign exchange.Otherwise, it would be difficult to check the background of the broker, and little one can do if the broker turns out to be less than honest .The funds of most Forex brokers are not guaranteed, nor are they segregated from the funds of the firm. If the firm goes bankrupt, you will probably be just a general creditor, and may not get all, or any, of your money back. No government organization guarantees the funds, unlike the funds in a bank account or a stock brokerage account.
Don’t Trust who make reviews for brokers because most of them take money from scam brokers to add them as stars Example: ForexBastards, forexpeacearmy, forexdiamondFelix Homogratus or Dmitri Chavkerov is the owner of Felix peace Army who send many threats to brokers & many other provocations to make them pay money for avoiding fake scams to be made by him.
He is doing that & attracting traders by sending signals to them
All The signals are wrong 100% to make them lose their money with brokers to find more complaints about brokers & the game is begin So fare a battle between Felix & brokers.
Felix owns many fake brokerage firms; Felix was in the jail for more than 7 years FBI investigated with him & all his capital was reserved He made a fake marriage contract He is not American CitizenMany & many & more if you searched for Forex scams if you need to gather more information about how they do business, are they readily available to answer questions, or resolve complaints. You can do this by reading what they have on their website, and by calling them on the telephone to see how quickly and how well they respond, or getting advice from the many chat rooms about Forex, including those provided by the broker. Although almost all Forex trading is done over the Internet nowadays, sometimes Internet connections don’t work, or the company’s trading platform isn’t working the way it should or the way you think it should, so it is very important that they also provide telephone service.
The most important criteria in selecting a Forex broker after assuring your self that they are reputable brokers is the trading platform, the currency pairs offered, and the spread, the difference between the bid/ask prices, which is how the Forex broker is compensated, and the best way to judge these criteria is to open practice accounts with several brokers, which most offer, and trade for about a month in each account. Practice accounts allow you to trade Forex using live market data and using the company’s software, but without using actual money. You must remember that when you place an order with the broker, your order cannot be seen by anyone else other than your broker—not even other brokers. All of your transactions are with the broker—not other traders; the broker develops the trading software, or, at least customizes it, you can be restricted from doing certain things that you might be accustomed to doing with stocks, for instance.
A good way to compare actual trading is to open real mini-accounts with several brokers. Because mini-accounts require very small deposits to open, most people should have no problem opening several accounts to see what their actual profits and losses are, broker fees, and responsiveness. This also helps if one of the brokers goes bankrupt. At least you won’t lose all of your money because you placed it with one broker. Despite many brokers claims to the contrary, trading foreign exchange successfully is not an easy thing to do. Forex trading is at best a risky business and at worst, a scammer’s dreams come true. As a general rule, it is best to avoid any companies claiming that Forex trading is easy, guarantees results or encourages you to make small deposits and use high leverages. Regardless of how well educated you are, investing a small sum in FX trading is likely to end in losses.
Some recent scammers who have been caught include: Lake Shore Asset Management, Forexbastards, ForexPeaceArmy, Felix Homogratus, Lake Dow and Ty Edwards, Ben Ouyang, Rashid Ghafoor, Adam, Tahir, Emerald Worldwide Holdings, Foreign Fund (First Bank), Equity Financial, Shasta, or Tech Traders,IBS/IMC, Kevin J. Steele Nawab Ali Khan Ali,Sun Platinum Worldwide Commodity orporation Graystone Browne Financial,Sterling Trading Group, Inc,STG Global Trading or QIX, Inc.A broker must be registered and reputable since there are innumerable scams involving Forex investment.