Unfortunately, this way of filing a complaint is done at Government speed. But at least it's done through a browser. You are welcome to use other means, such as contacting the FBI directly. If you wish to use the internet, follow the steps below and read each page as you navigate through the ICCC.
Internet Crime Complaint Center Instructions and Templates
2. Click on one of the links “File a Complaint”.
3. Click on the “I Accept” button at the bottom after reading the information. If you have been threatened already, take it seriously and follow their instructions.
4. [Spam page] Click the “No” radio button. Click the “Next” button.
5. [FBI fraud page] Click the “No” radio button. Click the “Next” button.
6. [Type page] Click the “Money” radio button. Click the “Next” button.
7. [Someone page] Click the “Someone tried to cheat you while buying, selling, or renting something” radio button at the top. Click the “Next” button.
8. [Auction page] Click the “No” radio button. Click the “Next” button.
9. [Buyer page] Click the “Buyer” radio button. Click the “Next” button.
10. [Product page] Click the second radio button down, “They never delivered the product...” button. Click the “Next” button.
11. Enter your Personal Information. You must enter at least all fields marked with an asterisk (*).
12. Enter the following in the second section called “Information about the Individual/Business that victimized you”
Business Name: Sharing-The-Profits, LLC
Name: Harold R Borsheim
Gender: M
Address: 2281 S Calle Palo Fierro
City: Palm Springs
State: California
Country: United States
Zip Code/Route: 92264
Phone number: 7602196359
13. Enter the following in the third section called “Other Identifiers about the Individual/Business that victimized you”
Web Site: http://empowerment4u.webs.com/theprogram.htm
IP Address:
IRC Server:
Chat Room Name:
Usenet Newsgroup:
Other: http://empowerment4u.webs.com/thephases.htm
14. Enter the monetary loss (your actual loss, perhaps just $100) in the fourth section called “Monetary Loss”. Click the radio button that matches how you paid. Click No if you did not use a third party payment processor, or Yes if you did.
15. Type in your own description in the next section called “Description of the Incident” and indicate the medium (we clicked both Telephone and Website). Answer the remaining 5 questions about how you found out about the scam. Here is what we put into the Description. Use it if you know and agree to all the wording, change it to how you know about it, or just use your own wording.
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“I have been the victim of a Gifting pyramid scheme that sold Irrevocable Trust instruments for
$100, $50 of which was to be sent to other Trusts already in place. I have personally lost $100. The Trustee was to be Gary A. Smith. Harold R. Borsheim ran a Texas LLC called Share-The-Profits that collected my money and sent the postal orders to Gary A. Smith.
The empowerment4u.webs.com website described the modified pyramid scheme in detail until it was locked. The scammers operated and continue to operate a weekly conference call from a free conference call service.
Sharing-The-Profits promised that the early entrants, those signing up first, will be making $5000 per month with only the $100 investment. They also said that a hundred thousand people were waiting to sign up.
The creator, Harold R. Borsheim, was a claimant in the famous Ponzi scheme “Colon End Parenthesis Trust” run by someone else. Harold is a claimant for $27,000 in the litigation and his Share-The-Profits company is a claimant for $3,000. This can found at the website
http://www.wfperkinsforcep.com/.
Gary A. Smith has accepted Postal Money Orders funneled through Hal Borsheim of over $85,000.
Gary A. Smith works at a company called Mystic Isle Trust, 8466 CLIMBING WAY PICKNEY, MI
48169-8484. The other person listed for that company is DAVID R. FANTERIA, ESQ. Their phone
number is 810-220-8870.
Gary A. Smith is the same Gary A. Smith in the SEC decision INITIAL
DECISION NO. 84, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING FILE NO. 3-8755, 4 January 1996 by Brenda P. Murray, Chief Administrative Law Judge wherein he is “barred from association with any investment adviser” for issues such as threatening a federal judge and as an unregistered investment advisor.
Further, see SEC vs. Gary A. Smith, USDC, ED Michigan, Civil Action No. 93-74410, E.D. MI (LR-13849) and U.S. v. Gary A. Smith, Criminal No. 93-80954, U.S.E.D. MI (Initial Decision Rel. No. 84).
These 3 court cases are found on the internet at:
http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1996/dig010596.pdf
http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1993/dig102893.pdf
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/aljdec/id84bpm.txt”
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16. Lastly, enter any information if others have witnessed your sending money to Share-The-Profits, Hal Borsheim, or Gary A. Smith, in the last section entitled “Contact Information”
17. Click “Next” and you have helped thousands of victims!
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