SCAM ALERT!!

WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!!


The scam machine has come full circle and we are now back to offering "Personal Investment Opportunities" (PIO's) to an unsuspecting group....again.

If you remember the Channel 9 ACA episodes (You can see them on this blog), then you will also remember the number of people that had taken up a fantastic offer in a business called "Life Success Pacific Rim". The investors put in almost half a million Australian dollars, only to see schirmer spend the lot pretty much on himself (carefully funnelled through various companies of course, so hard to track ... or so he thinks) then declare that there were no investors!! A feature of that investment was that it was only vailable to "Sophisticated Investors", and that is just another way schirmer thinks to circumvent the ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) process and avoid scrutiny. Well Doh!

Well I have been informed that the Life Success scam started its ill fated life in exactly the same way as this latest scam. An email was sent around, just like the one that has surfaced now so beware. I will add here that schirmers other company is currently being liquidated due to lack of funds as per a previous blog..... Sound ironic you think? Me thinks too. No doubt mr schirmer would like as many people as possible to see his incredible opportunity so I thought I might help him out a bit so here it is. If you have received something like this then theres plenty of apparent schirmer victims around to get some cold hard facts from before you hand over your money. This was sent to one of my Aussie contacts:
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From: bounce@infusionmail.com [mailto:bounce@infusionmail.com] On Behalf Of David Schirmer
Sent: Monday, 25 January 2010 8:45 PM
To: xxx@xxxx
Subject: Investment Opportunity
Hi xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,

I trust this finds you in good health and excited about 2010 ... I am!

Every week I get approached by someone looking for money ... for everything from inventions to seeking money to expand their business. Most investment requests go straight in the bin, normally because the risk seems too high or the idea is too farfetched (or maybe I don't understand it) or the time frame is too short etc. Most offer a very good return on investment.

I have seen a couple lately that could be worthwhile a further look - one could be the next "FaceBook for Retail" (for sophisticated investors only - will not be released to the general public.)

Because of our promise to you that we will not share, give away or sell your contact details to any third party; even if the opportunity looks better than buying Microsoft shares in 1986 we will not provide anyone your information without your permission .

If you have an interest in high return private investment opportunities now or in the future please let me know by replying this email with " Investment Opportunity " in the subject line. I will either pass on your contact details or send you information on who to contact and you can do what you like with it from there. I will not provide any recommendation or advice or indicate whether or not I have or intend to purchase any shares; as with all investments you must do your own due diligence and seek professional advice .

I don't get anything from your interest or any investment you make other then knowing I'm providing you with information.

Yours in abundance
David Schirmer
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David Schirmer Group of Companies
Unit C1, 5-7 Janine St
Scoresby Industrial Park
Scoresby, Vic 3179
Australia(03) 9765-5333
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so!

Is it any coincidence that this "Opportunity" has surfaced right when he has the Australian Tax Office chasing for unpaid taxes in excess of AUD$230,000?? See post below regarding a schirmer company called Excellence in Results.

I have been reliably informed that 2010 is the year that his BMW M5 lease runs out, and I believe that he will owe BMW a small fortune when that happens. I have also been informed that he is trying to flog off his Platinum Super Traders course, a course that lacks in substance and real results, for something like AUD$90,000!!!!
He has some serious money issues this year and is going back to his proven scam of offering some fantastic PIO's.

Let me explain the email that he is sending out:

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From: bounce@infusionmail.com [mailto:bounce@infusionmail.com] On Behalf Of David Schirmer
Sent: Monday, 25 January 2010 8:45 PM
To: xxx@xxxx
Subject: Investment Opportunity
Hi xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,

I trust this finds you in good health and excited about 2010 ... I am! (Code for "I am in the shit and I need your money fast.")
Every week I get approached by someone looking for money ...(that someone is the one and only schirmer, there is noone approaching him for anything surely) for everything from inventions to seeking money to expand their business. (in particular schirmer is seeking your money for himself, rent to pay, car repayments, wages, etc.) Most investment requests go straight in the bin, normally because the risk seems too high or the idea is too farfetched (or maybe I don't understand it) or the time frame is too short
etc. Most offer a very good return on investment. (why would they go into the bin if they were offering a very good return?? Because they don't exist except for in the marketing that he is now using to make it sound like he is saving you from the bad ones and only offering you the good ones.)
I have seen a couple lately that could be worthwhile a further look - one could be the next "FaceBook for Retail" (for sophisticated investors only - will not be released to the general public) (Wow, now they are exclusive, "only for sophisticated investors", he is trying to make you feel important while circumventing the ASIC process which leaves you where? Makes you feel that you know what you are doing, but all he wants is your money and you will never see it or any promised returns again)
Because of our promise to you that we will not share, give away or sell your contact details to any third party; even if the opportunity looks better than buying Microsoft shares in 1986 we will not provide anyone your information without your permission . (schirmer apparently treats his "borrowed" client database like gold and does not share it with anyone, even when he promises he will, so that is your first real indication that any PIO that is offered is coming straight from schirmer. More than likely there is noone approaching him with all these fantastic offers.)
If you have an interest in high return private investment opportunities now or in the future please let me know by replying this email with " Investment Opportunity " in the subject line. I will either pass on your contact details or send you information on who to contact and you can do what you like with it from there. I will not provide any recommendation or advice or indicate whether or not I have or intend to purchase any shares; as with all investments you must do your own due diligence and seek professional advice . (He will set you up to purchase into a newly manufactured company that has no track record and is tightly hidden in a unit trust, and if he has learned his lesson from the PIO that he offered to the ripped off Life Success investors, then he will structure things in a way that makes no reference to himself and even to the point of avoiding signing things.)
I don't get anything from your interest or any investment you make other then knowing I'm providing you with information. (Your BULLSHIT detector should be going off like crazy now!!!! The ONLY reason schirmer is offering anything here is for MONEY for himself because right now he desparately needs it!!!)
Yours in abundance (....of bullshit)
David Schirmer
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David Schirmer Group of CompaniesUnit C1, 5-7 Janine StScoresby Industrial ParkScoresby, Vic 3179Australia(03) 9765-5333
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You have been warned, so spread this around so that the people you care about don't get burned like the last lot of "investors". All those twitterific friends that he claims to have could suddently become overnight "sophisticated investors".