Looking for Elliot305 - Please Help Scam

[Agathon]

Hly crap. Look at the dirt on this guy. The feds have looked into him apparenty. Assuming it's actually him??

The mortgage company I previously worked for was "hit" by Mr. Swanberg in 2006. He basically "extorted" $2500 out of us by threatening to sue over a DoNotCall violation, but would take the $2500 and go away if we didn't want to go to court. Despite the fact that we knew the suit was without merit, we paid the $2500 because legal fees would have been significantly more. And that is how he usually stings his victims.

What drove me crazy was the way he went about trapping one of our branch managers. He called the business number, which was forwarded to the branch managers cell phone and left a message. The message was "test, test, test, my telephone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx" When the branch manager called back, Swanberg accused the manager of violating the DoNotCall laws because Swanberg's number was on the DNC list. The manager protested saying he was returning Mr. Swanberg's call. Swanberg, said his call was a test of our companies' DoNotCall procedures, and that the managers return call was obviously a solicitation for business.

Well, our manager eventually lost his cool after several minutes of arguing and called Swanberg an "ass" among other things. Now get this! Swanberg was recording the whole conversation. After a few days our manager received a copy of the recorded call, a one inch stack of legal documents showing previous lawsuits and letters from others who paid him off. When our company heard the recording we considered the bad press of our manager losing his temper and decided to pay him off rather than fight. We even bought his book to learn more about his tactics. He claimed to sit at home for days with multiple phone lines in his apartment, waiting for call backs, and opportunities to nail companies. Once we read how he had been doing this for years with some success, we caved in. Swanberg signed a document agreeing to never call us again with one of his "tests", and took his $2500.

Let's hope this guy has finally been stopped. But it doesn't stop someone else from trying his tactics in the future. My advice is train your people properly when it comes to DoNotCall. Don't take chances with phone lists you purchase from resellers unless they guarantee compliance.

He sounds pretty crafty. I know he got banned from other forum for trying to hack them but didn't think it was this big.

 

[royserpa]

He is banned for 10 years not 2 weeks.

So do we expect @Elliot305 to resurrect on Jan 2030? When shall we expect the resurrection of @ceosam ?

 

[TheVigilante]

So do we expect @Elliot305 to resurrect on Jan 2030? When shall we expect the resurrection of @ceosam ?

There is a chance he might be having another account here

 

[royserpa]

You paid $10k to him for a method?

Several methods a few years ago. The methods were good, but you could do a LOT more than what he taught on his methods.

From those 10k i made prob around 140k in the next 1.5years after buying his methods, but it was mostly my twists that actually paid me off big time. He prob could have done a lot more himself if he was focused on his methods and not actually sold them. But, hey, thanks for the methods lel!

 

[tjgirl]

He scammed many of us - I sadly fell for his tactics and his online presence

 

[theRevolt]

Was cleaning out old PMs and found he was banned and saw the link to this thread.
Never paid him anything just had some casual PMs about some other stuff...

Definitely sounds like a typical Ponzi scheme...
Pay upfront get paid interest back... well the supposed bankroll. The the looked spots and mentioning only if numbers are meet he would release the method to buy more time.

Bank wires are not reversible like cc payments unless you go the route through police. Good luck to recover something

 

[Commoner]

Hello everyone,

I don't know if I'm considerably an aged member here but well..

However, tossing derogatory remarks at Elliot is not exactly nice. I'd purchased Ad-sense methods v1 till v3 (which wasn't released to many members plus a high upfront fee) from him (prolly @Royserpa did too) and it's apt. with a couple of twists (not so straightforward due to red flags of 3-5seconds/click).

Note: Made a killing previously but past results is not an indicator of future performance.

PS: If the casino method requires huge upfront fee, that goes to show he's pathetic to reveal such a lucrative scheme of no almost non-existent twist (or was it a con in the first place?)

Regards,
Commoner

 

[royserpa]

Hello everyone,

I don't know if I'm considerably an aged member here but well..

However, tossing derogatory remarks at Elliot is not exactly nice. I'd purchased Ad-sense methods v1 till v3 (which wasn't released to many members plus a high upfront fee) from him (prolly https://www.blackhatworld.com/members/royserpa.226133/ did too) and it's apt. with a couple of twists (not so straightforward due to red flags of 3-5seconds/click).

Note: Made a killing previously but past results is not an indicator of future performance.

PS: If the casino method requires huge upfront fee, that goes to show he's pathetic to reveal such a lucrative scheme of no almost non-existent twist (or was it a con in the first place?)

Regards,
Commoner

It was probably a con, as all his previous methods were at least $5k+, in 2018 he offered me some methods for $10k at least.

So, yea, $1.5k is peanuts compared to what he offered and to the amount of people offered to.

I don't remember which were each adsense version, but I remember I bought several methods from @Elliot305 and made big bank due to my twists.

 

[Commoner]

It was probably a con, as all his previous methods were at least $5k+, in 2018 he offered me some methods for $10k at least.

So, yea, $1.5k is peanuts compared to what he offered and to the amount of people offered to.

I don't remember which were each adsense version, but I remember I bought several methods from @Elliot305 and made big bank due to my twists.

Yeah, you're definitely accurate and those who never purchased should not comment (no offense though).

The last method certainly costs me 20K++ (so imagine previous 2 versions + some upgrades) and whatever JVs out there may not match.

I like your twists, you shared before in some members' journeys to motivate them - thank you for that.

Cheers,
Commoner

 

[nufaman]

LMAO at the clown saying that "tossing derogatory remarks at Elliot is not exactly nice"

Yeah, we should all be nice to the poor little scammer.

I remember seeing that douche on another blackhat forum I am a member of... so I did a quick check and there is also a thread about this amazing casino offer.. and guess what? There are several people saying that he suddenly vanished with their money and can't find him anywhere.

Seems he went around as many forums as he could, looking for suckers to grab his "partnership" and then ran away with a nice chunk of money.

Oh, but don't say anything bad about poor little ellitot, it is not nice to do that

 

[Commoner]

LMAO at the clown saying that "tossing derogatory remarks at Elliot is not exactly nice"

Yeah, we should all be nice to the poor little scammer.

I remember seeing that douche on another blackhat forum I am a member of... so I did a quick check and there is also a thread about this amazing casino offer.. and guess what? There are several people saying that he suddenly vanished with their money and can't find him anywhere.

Seems he went around as many forums as he could, looking for suckers to grab his "partnership" and then ran away with a nice chunk of money.

Oh, but don't say anything bad about poor little ellitot, it is not nice to do that

Hey Nufaman,

Firstly, I'm not a clown.

If the members are victimized, certainly, I'm equally sorry for the root cause.

However, the onus in victims' favor since they possessed the cash - why not question further or contact those who dealt with Elliot before?

At least, we can do all means to lower the probability - oh well, the verdict is out anyways be experienced members here (found in earlier posts).

Regards,
Commoner

 

[royserpa]

Hey Nufaman,

Firstly, I'm not a clown.

If the members are victimized, certainly, I'm equally sorry for the root cause.

However, the onus in victims' favor since they possessed the cash - why not question further or contact those who dealt with Elliot before?

At least, we can do all means to lower the probability - oh well, the verdict is out anyways be experienced members here (found in earlier posts).

Regards,
Commoner

Actually, I was really thingking about getting on this method of him, but it really smelled phishy as he just offered to give him money for a way to exploit a casino. Like, there's really no "twist" on that, and if I find a vulnerability, I'm exploiting it myself until it gets patched. I wouldn't be selling something like that to so many people. Like, if too many people do it, it would have been discovered and patched a lot earlier.

I bought his past methods as I could see ways to think of other twists and make bank.

 

[Commoner]

Actually, I was really thingking about getting on this method of him, but it really smelled phishy as he just offered to give him money for a way to exploit a casino. Like, there's really no "twist" on that, and if I find a vulnerability, I'm exploiting it myself until it gets patched. I wouldn't be selling something like that to so many people. Like, if too many people do it, it would have been discovered and patched a lot earlier.

I bought his past methods as I could see ways to think of other twists and make bank.

Totally concurred with you.

The casino method was a long-time back when he offered me too - showed me live demonstration on Skype as well.

However, I was not convinced (working as a penn-tester back then) and knew such exploits going public would sooner or later be patched. It's all about probabilities game.

Oh yes, we've to be more innovative to his methods-on-sale.

Cheers,
Commoner

 

[royserpa]

Totally concurred with you.

The casino method was a long-time back when he offered me too - showed me live demonstration on Skype as well.

However, I was not convinced (working as a penn-tester back then) and knew such exploits going public would sooner or later be patched. It's all about probabilities game.

Cheers,
Commoner

Exaclty.

His profits came from selling the exploit, and not from exploiting the casino himself.

I remember he used to tell me he exploited the casino, made X profit, and tried to sell it to me.

 

[putitintomyveins]

one of the biggest red flags should have been when he wasnt able to show any proof of payout. I asked for proof of payout after he gave me the pitch but he said he just started it out and didnt have any.

I have bought the previous elliot adsense methods and he was always able to show me payment proof but now he wasnt that alone was enough for me to know it was a possible scam.

I even bought his pay per call method and he sabotaged a lot of his buyers by telling the networks how he scammed them when we paid him a serious bit of money.

 

[royserpa]

one of the biggest red flags should have been when he wasnt able to show any proof of payout. I asked for proof of payout after he gave me the pitch but he said he just started it out and didnt have any.

I have bought the previous elliot adsense methods and he was always able to show me payment proof but now he wasnt that alone was enough for me to know it was a possible scam.

I even bought his pay per call method and he sabotaged a lot of his buyers by telling the networks how he scammed them when we paid him a serious bit of money.

how much were you charged for the pay per call method?

 

[virtualpurity]

I hate to see this, man.

I bought several of his methods for like 4-5 figures a few years ago and I ALWAYS made my money back and a LOT more due to me having GREAT angles on how to apply his strategies.

Sure, if you only followed what he sold, you would make SOME money. The key was in using that knowledge and apply it.

I'm in no way defending him if he scammed anyone, but what I'm saying is that in the past I probably paid him around 10k or more for his methods and I ended up making around 100k-140k from it.

As always, guys, find a method and make/discover a twist to make it a fortune.

Another method I found on my own has made me close to 90k or so in the last few years with minimal input and still working today.

Be creative, guys. TONS of ways to make a fortune out there.

Take action, test, see what others are doing, get inspiration from other industries, try again, fail and finally succeed. It works.

I'm sorry if @Elliot305 scammed anyone

i feel the same. It is a shame he went down this road.
I have dealt with him for the adsense one. And i can say that his previous methods were with some really "out of the box" thinking and legit money makers.
But i guess the greed can sometimes take over a man.. Sad, he had so much potential..

 

[SH-M]

how much were you charged for the pay per call method?

I've paid $2k for it... barely made it back and had to open a US bank account (while in the US of course) for some of the tools to work. It was too late as the method is not viable nowadays. Wasn't made well aware of the requirements it had, especially the US vcc's that are impossible to get without a US bank account, at least in the required level for the method.

However, that method worked in essence and that made me trust him for the masquerade that went later on with this casino method. I also almost purchased the Fivver method which he didn't sell anymore as it was not working after a few months of milking it hard.

To be honest, even the casino method and the planning behind it sounded very clever on paper, except the bankroll, but that could've been that he wanted to profit from the start from our fees without investing anything (and just in case the method is patched) - then profit even more through the JV's by distributing some initial bankroll up to the point it's not needed anymore (a few weeks by his calculations).

The fact that his previous methods worked and some may have made a lot of $ from them does not provide him amnesty for the dishonesty with the casino method. I may have lost $1k on this deal, but as @BassTrackerBoats once said in a Skype conversation, every 'loss' should be considered as a learning investment. Therefore, I have learned a valuable lesson for $1k - hopefully it will be the first and last hard lesson to be learned in this obscure and pathetic way.

 

[putitintomyveins]

I paid 5K for it and didnt make it back. The method relied heavy on being from the us and being in the same timzone.

The adsense method was the one method where there was a lot of room to think outside of the box and make money with.

Other methods he raped to death and then started selling. With the PPC method i had people refusing to do it because they had already done it a few times.

 

[royserpa]

I paid 5K for it and didnt make it back.

Tough luck, man :/