Darren Yaw is operating round attempting to cover his Guardian Capital AG Ponzi previous.
Cue all method of gaslighting, beginning with a bunch of bogus DMCA takedown notices.
I loosely hold observe of DMCA takedowns filed towards BehindMLM. Something we publish is protected by truthful use, however it may be attention-grabbing to see who’s attempting to cover what.
Again on December eleventh a DMCA discover was filed towards BehindMLM on behalf of Chen Chiu.
I didn’t recall the title and figured it was just a few random scammer attempting their luck.
On December fifteenth one other discover was filed, this time on behalf of Darren Yaw.
I acknowledged Yaw’s title as co-founder of the collapsed GCG Asia Ponzi scheme.
This prompted me to look nearer into the Chen Chiu discover, at which level I found BehindMLM had by no means revealed something on Chiu.
Pulling up Chen Chiu’s title on the Lumen Database reveals a bunch of DMCA notices filed on December eleventh.
That led me to this web site in Chinese language, detailing Darren Yaw’s jail stint in Cambodia.
At this level I figured Chen Chiu and Darren Yaw are the identical individual.
The Chinese language language web site has some images of Yaw in Cambodian jail I hadn’t seen earlier than.
As reported right here on BehindMLM, Yaw and his spouse have been arrested in Cambodia in 2019.
Monitoring what occurred after that was troublesome. As of June 2019, all we knew was that Yaw’s spouse had been launched however that he was nonetheless in custody.
Right this moment I revisited Yaw’s arrest and located he, as “Yaw Foo Hoe” (??), was convicted of tried fraud in October 2019.
Yaw was sentenced to at least one yr in jail however acquired a 5 month suspended sentence.
This implies Yaw was launched someday in Q2, 2020.
Getting again to the DMCA notices, they’re all fairly comparable. The one for the Chinese language language web site cited above reads as follows:
This private photograph belongs to our consumer that was utilized by someone to discredit him.
He was accused with false allegations and pictures hooked up on hyperlinks/boards are his property.
Pictures of him and his colleagues are even exploited for faux information on-line and that is towards the legislation.
To be clear, Yaw/Chiu was very a lot arrested, convicted and sentenced to jail in Cambodia. I can’t communicate to possession of Yaw’s jail images, however I’ve republished them right here underneath Truthful Use.
The DMCA discover Chen Chiu filed towards BehindMLM on December eleventh reads close to an identical to the discover quoted above.
The discover Darren Yaw filed on December fifteenth is extra egregious.
Personal images of my consumer that he has taken himself has been leaked on-line with out his consent.
My consumer is a excessive standing particular person who has been recognised by the King of Malaysia, and these leaks has affected his status negatively.
As these are his non-public images, they aren’t meant to be distributed on-line and stays his copyright since he’s a creator, and no hyperlinks of the content material will be discovered on-line.
Excluding the jail images above, the solely photograph BehindMLM has revealed of Yaw is that this one:
That was taken straight from GCG Asia’s advertising and marketing materials. The unique supply doesn’t exist anymore, as a result of GCG Asia’s web site was pulled following Yaw’s arrest.
In any occasion, it’s clearly not a “non-public photograph” as Yaw falsely represents. Nor was it “leaked on-line”.
This by itself shouldn’t be one thing I’d usually report on. Scammers submitting bogus DMCA notices towards BehindMLM is nothing new. And it’s not notably attention-grabbing.
On December fifteenth nevertheless Yaw filed yet one more DMCA discover, this time referencing BehindMLM in a listing of thirty-two different web site domains.
The textual content of the discover was an identical to the discover filed towards BehindMLM. Absolutely all these domains didn’t “leak” images of Yaw.
This piqued my curiosity. What was Yaw as much as?
Seems a bit of excellent quaint status administration, by way of boatloads of mendacity and deceit.
GCG Asia was a easy buying and selling Ponzi scheme with pyramid recruitment.
By a collection of 2021 press-releases, Yaw tried to rebrand GCG Asia and his involvement within the rip-off.
- In June 2021 GCG Asia was rebranded as “Go Cost Go”, a fictional Malaysian EV startup
- In July 2021 GCG Asia was rebranded because the fictional entity “Authorities Fee for Monetary Governance”, a fraud preventing outfit in Cambodia
- In July 2021 GCG Asia was additionally rebranded as an Indonesian “training establishment”, with a faux CEO and baloney partnership with a Cambodian faculty
- In July 2021 GCG Asia was rebranded but once more as fictional “inexperienced developer” Inexperienced Metropolis Group Asia, whose fictional CEO acquired a fictional award
- In August 2021 GCG Asia was rebranded as a Singapore “edutech startup” that Darren Yaw and his spouse had invested in
- In September 2021 GCG Asia was rebranded as an Indonesian “luxurious style distributor and retailer”, headed up by Darren Yaw as “Martin Yaw Foo Hoe”
- In September 2021 Yaw, as “John Darren Yaw”, additionally reappointed himself CEO of GCG Asia, now a fictional promoting agency trying to develop into the US
The press-releases are filled with key phrases pertaining to GCG Asia and Yaw’s arrest and incarceration in Cambodia.
Right here’s an instance from the September 2021 bogus promoting agency article:
The articles usually reference Cambodia and different south-east Asian international locations Yaw and GCG Asia scammed folks in.
Having revealed bogus details about GCC and Yaw all through 2021, the plan now appears to be to take down professional info by way of bogus DMCAs.
And it seems to be working.
Right here’s what occurs whenever you run a Google search on “GCG Asia”:
Not as drastic however outcomes have additionally been faraway from a search on Darren Yaw:
For reference, Chen Chiu flooded Google with twenty-two bogus DMCA takedown notices towards varied web sites on December eleventh.
Darren Yaw filed thirty bogus DMCA notices towards varied web sites on December fifteenth.
Replace seventeenth September 2022 – A couple of days after this text was revealed, Darren Yaw and 9 different GCG Asia co-conspirators have been arrested in Malaysia.