Global Innovative Publishing Group (Jeff Vacek)

[dankone]

Jeff Vacek and Global Innovative Publishing Group are a scam.

I first learned about Jeff Vacek after buying and reading is forex book on Amazon. The book includes an invitation to sign up for his email analysis and information. In my first few weeks in the forex worked I jumped at the opportunity to have more information flowing into my inbox. After reading some of his information he offered the opportunity to learn to trade by watching him trade some of my money. I am an idiot so I sent him 1,000. I told myself that it wasn't a scam and if it was I was ok with the risk to learn the trade. As it turns out it was a scam and I didn't learn much about forex (I did learn something about caveat emptor and if it sounds too good to be true).

About a month after my initial investment Jeff reached out to me and said that he would be changing the pool structure and requested I send him more money. I declined to send additional funds and we agreed that my investment and profits would be returned. This was more then 2 months ago. I reached out to Jeff several times via email and phone. He had an excuse ready at every contact. It has been clear to me that this was a scam for some time but i didn't take any action because I wasn't ready to acknowledge it.

On November 24th, we agreed via email that my position would be closed. Per our agreement that means my funds should have been sent by 12/6/2015. As of 2/1/2016 all I have received is excuses. The pool agreement can be seen here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcY3E5dXd1TlppVG8/view?usp=sharing

Funds were sent to support@global-ipg.com Global Innovative Publishing Group via PayPal.


Furthermore, I believe that Jeff Vacek is actually the well known scammer Danny Wall.

Jeff uses the google voice number (702) 757-1129. This number is listed on his website at global-ipg.com (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcME5JRkJUZDNaMGc/view?usp=sharing). This number and address (3651 Lindell Rd Suite D538 Las Vegas, NV 89103) are also listed on the website http://firstpopsearch.com/about-us/ (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcTS14N3QxVWFZanc/view?usp=sharing). First Pop search is registered to Jordyn Wall (
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcY01pcW1venF0Ym8/view?usp=sharing). Jordyn is another name that Danny has been known to use. The site is also registered to the email address dewnhew@gmail.com which Jeff openly accesses in one of his videos. Also its listed on his liked in profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannywalljr (with a picture https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcQWNpZ1hENTNkUlU/view?usp=sharing)

I included screen shots, as I expect some cleanup to be done once Jeff/Danny/Jordyn read this.

I have listened to several videos and talked to Jeff on the phone. I am not a voice expert but I can assure you it is the same voice as this youtube video released by Danny Wall:

In addition to the Lindell Rd address Jeff also uses this address: 2200 W. Bonanza Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89106, United States

I should have known better and done more research before sending money. There isnt much information on the web about Jeff Vacek yet, but I am just getting started.

Thanks and I hope this saves somebody else some money,

Dan

 

[Pharaoh]

Get in touch with the CFTC, NFA, and SEC as soon as possible. If at all possible, call them. Share everything you have, including how you transferred the money.

 

[shimoda94]

Hi. Here is an other idiot. i have also sent money to Jeff. More or less same story as you.
Could we help each other out?

 

[tradeprojeff]

The OP, Dan Krueger, has received a full refund.

 

[tradeprojeff]

Hi. Here is an other idiot. i have also sent money to Jeff. More or less same story as you.
Could we help each other out?

And this person joined a program one day, the next filed a "non-receipt claim" through PayPal, and the day after that I sent a request to paypal to issue the refund.

 

[Pharaoh]

The OP has received a full refund.

Ask him to post that he's gotten his refund so AsstModerator can mark the thread as resolved.

 

[dankone]

I have received some of my funds back from Paypal and some additional funds from protections from American Express. I did not receive ANY funds back from "Jeff". He also did not respond to paypal on any of these issues. The time between when I was supposed to receive funds from Jeff and when I disputed the transactions was over 60 days. It was not the next day. I did try to work with "Jeff" and gave him plenty of opportunity to send me funds per our agreement.

The structure of "Jeffs" current scam is designed to invalidate most of the protections that I was able to take advantage of. Most buyer protections have time limits associated with them. Most of his new "investments" are 6 months or longer. This time line has been specifically chosen to keep funds that are sent his way.

 

[tradeprojeff]

I have received some of my funds back from Paypal

That is because I replied to your paypal challenge and said to give your money back. Even the challenge from your payment in November for $100 I have requested that PayPal give the funds back to you, that challenge is still showing "under review" by paypal.

I can provide screen shots of the paypal challenges proving that this is in fact what happened.

 

[dankone]

I can provide evidence also, here is the screen shot from the first $1000 payment ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcVmlmdHZINXFLUUE/view?usp=sharing ). Please note this was initiated on 2/5/2016. Not the day after I sent funds on 9/28/2015. Also much after you should have sent me back my investment and profits on 12/6/2015. You did not respond at all to this.

Can you tell me and FPA why you did not send me the funds you told me on so many occasions you would send?

 

[tradeprojeff]

I can provide evidence also, here is the screen shot from the first $1000 payment ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KgYIjnMAwcVmlmdHZINXFLUUE/view?usp=sharing ). Please note this was initiated on 2/5/2016. Not the day after I sent funds on 9/28/2015.

The comment I made regarding "the day after" was not in reference to you but to Shimoda94 which is why I quoted him in that comment.

Secondly I explained to you that I was having problems getting the wire out, told you that it was happening and during the months of December you knew I was travelling and had little ability to solve it till I returned. I understand that the resolution took a very long time but the end result is that you demanded a refund and filed a charge back before I could finally get the problem resolved. Once that happens I can not give you payments on a program you are claiming you were not in. All I can really do at that point is give you the refund and back you out of the accounting for that program.

That's what happened. You asked for a refund and when the charge back hit my account I gave you the refund without any challenge from me in paypal's system, I just issued the refund. This is because I was never trying to "scam you" as you claim and when you were dissatisfied I "made you whole" as much as I could by giving your money back to you.