Reverend Peter Popoff’s UK address
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Sid | Monday, 17 December, 2007
By anonymous, Wednesday, 12 March, 2008 @ 21:27
i think peter popoff should stop sending letters to people who have mental health problems. if he thinks he knows the people he writes to asking for money (3 letters this month asking for £12each time) had a concience or a genuine belive in god he would do what he does for nothing
By Sid, Monday, 24 March, 2008 @ 2:40
These are not only people with mental health problems. The letters I have in my possession are aimed at people in spiritual and/or financial turmoil.
That makes it a large proportion of the credit crunch population who are desperate for an easy answer to their problems and are in a vulnerable situation.
Obviously Rev. Popoff is there just to help out. Not to take advantage of the situation…or anything. I’m surprised the UK authorities haven’t caught up with his operation yet.
By Saveena, Thursday, 1 May, 2008 @ 9:04
Ok this is the most stupid scam ever and i can’t believe people are falling for it. I think his shows should be cancelled and shouldn’t even be broadcasted. He’s making money off innocent hurt souls. I know of a person who is in a bed debt problem herself and is still sending this bastard money because he makes it seem so real. FUCK PETER POPOFF.
By diamonds, Monday, 3 November, 2008 @ 16:21
people like him forces people to question the Christian faith. these kind of men are self serving and wickedly cruel. the sad news is that there many wolves like him who wear sheep clothing a warned by Christ. I have never trusted pastors they are in it for the money and they are dangerous
By ify, Thursday, 4 December, 2008 @ 16:00
could you please scan and publish your mails from popoff let me see whether it is the same one he sends me.
whether male or female.
thanks
By Devon McQuire, Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 @ 4:43
Kelly Media Group (KMG, Inc.) was founded in 2003 by Jason Cardiff. Kelly Media Group is a direct marketing agency. Anyone who has ever received junk mail in their mailbox will know what direct marketing is.
Kelly Media’s website states,”Why would you chance the future of your business on an advertising company that has to outsource your mailing campaigns to a 3rd-party fulfillment house. It is imperative that you place your direct mailing endeavors into the hands of a proven direct mailer, like Kelly Media Group.”
Why would you chance your future of your business on a fraudulent bag of manure like Jason Cardiff is a better question.
One of the areas specifically mentioned on Kelly Media Group’s website is “Church Marketing”. And boy does Kelly Media know how to market for the church. You see, the founder of Kelly Media, Jason Cardiff, also happens to be the son-in-law of Peter Popoff.
Peter Popoff, who in 1987 was making $4.3 million per MONTH, is a self proclaimed televangelist and claims to be a faith healer. He was a widely popular minister in the 1980s.
Yes, Peter Popoff, disgraced faith healer, and his collaborator wife, Elizabeth, are on the air trolling for dollars. On cable infomercials, Popoff promotes the Peter Popoff World Outreach Ministry, pleading for viewers to order his book, Prosperity Thinking: God’s Dynamic Forces That Bring Riches to
YOU! and get his new free, tiny vial of “Miracle Spring Water.” Intercut is scenes from his revival show where he lays hands on the afflicted, allegedly curing all sorts of medical problems (wink! wink!) and, oddly, supposedly freeing a woman’s jailed son.
Also intercut are scenes of Elizabeth reading “testimonials” of the cures from viewers healed by the
water or by Popoff through the TV.
Popoff, was exposed by James Randi on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1986. Randi and friends found out that Elizabeth was transmitting information to Peter, who wore a hidden earpiece
camouflaged as a hearing aid (very strange for a man who could supposedly cure all manners of illness).
Randi said, “I explained how Popoff had sent Reeford Sherrill (his ‘front man’), Volmer Thrane, and his wife, Elizabeth, into the audience in advance, equipped with transmitters to gather and broadcast the needed data backstage to the reverend.”
During the show, Elizabeth would prompt him again on the problems claimed by certain people in the audience. It then looked like he knew a person’s name and affliction as if given the information by
God! During one part of the revival section of the new show, Popoff gets worked up and touches the foreheads of afflicted persons, who usually fall backwards into the arms of one “volunteers”.
Youtube hosts numerous videos of this fraud, including James Randi on the Johnny Carson show in which Popoff’s wife Elizabeth, can actually be heard revealing audience member’s names and their illnesses to Peter via radio signals sent to the earpiece. Elizabeth can be heard to say, “Hello, Petey. I love you! I’m talking to you. Can you hear me? If you can’t, you’re in trouble, ’cause I’m talking as well as I can! I’m looking up names right now.”
In one recorded session Elizabeth Popoff speaks: “Reeford’s got a hot one!” (Laughter.) “Reeford’s so excited! He came running in back here and scared us half to death! You ready for a hot one? Okay! Want a hot one? Hot one! Hot off the press! Ruby Lee Harris. Ruby Lee. She is standing in the far back where there’s no chairs. (Long pause) “…Ruby Lee Harris. She’s against the back wall. She’s got lumps in her breast. You might want to whisper it – have her walk down! Have her run up there. Run! Oh! Look at her run! (Loud laughter) “she’s got knots in her breast.” (Laughter and giggles.) A home run! A home run!” (Then, later on, giggles are heard, and Pam speaks.) “At any rate, she should kick him in the face!” (giggles) (Elizabeth speaks.) “Pam says to make her – Pam thinks that you should have her kick him in the face (Giggles.)
Elizabeth Popoff and several aides would scout the audience looking for “hot” ones. They would ask them, “Is Jesus going to heal you? And what’s your name, and where do you live? Have you had this condition long?” They would write all this information down on cards, which later on Elizabeth would recite during the service via her concealed transmitter. She carried the power source in a large handbag, and the transmitter and microphone were hidden under her blouse.
Peter Popoff claimed that the video footage shown on Johnny Carson was a fake and that the woman who was said to be his wife Elizabeth was really an actor hired by NBC.
When the Popoff ministry was asked whether Popoff used a secret receiver in his ear, Janice Gleason, a public relations consultant for the Popoff organization, said that the electronic receiver in Popoff’s ear was used only to keep in touch with the television crew. (In the hours of taped transmissions, there was not one communication with the television crew.) Gleason said she believed that the woman’s voice heard on the Tonight Show was faked. But Popoff later admitted that it was his wife who was communicating with him
Peter Popoff also declared bankruptcy when his viewers began leaving him in droves after the revelation of fraud.
So it’s now 2009 and how does all of this tie in with the Kelly Media Group?
Nick Popoff, the son of Peter “fraud” Popoff works as consultant for Kelly Media, and Peter’s son-in-law Jason Cardiff is the founder of Kelly Media Group. Furthermore, the PeterPopoffMinistries website was created by Kelly Media Group.
If you make a donation on Popoff’s website (to “fulfill our mission of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus to the world” of course), take a look at whose e-mail account (now closed) the funds are processed with:
This is the actual code from the website donation page:
Yes, Jason Cardiff handles donations sent to Peter Popoff. This entire family is crooked and fraudulent.
Let’s take a look at how much money this family made in 2005. The information comes from Ministrywatch.com which tracks questional religious organizations.
People United for Christ, Inc./ Peter Popoff
Known Compensation per IRS Form 990:
Peter Popoff: 2005: $686,932
Elizabeth Popoff: 2005: $261,146
Nickolas Popoff: 2005: $189,293
Amy Cardiff (daughter): 2005: $183,330
Kelly Media Group, Inc./ son-in-law to Peter Popoff: $1,948,458
Other organizations: (1) Peter Popoff Ministries, LTD, (2) First Point (United
Kingdom), (3) Word for the World, (4) Peter Popoff Evang. Assoc-Canada.
Peter Popoff made $686,932 from donations received. His wife made $261,146.
Kelly Media Group made $1,948,458. That’s almost TWO MILLION dollars for web-hosting and direct mail services???
2006 incomes were slightly less for the Popoff family:
Peter Popoff Ministries $23,556,469
Peter Popoff . . . . . . . . . 628,732
Elizabeth Popoff $203,000
Nickolas Popoff $182,000
Amy Cardiff $176,000
Taking a closer look at the direct mail services of Kelly Media Group. People who sign up at Peter Popoff’s ministry website, are asked for their mailing address and email address. Once the information is filled out, people begin to receive up to two-dozen postal letters from Peter Popoff.
Each letter is personally addressed to the person (ex: “Robert, God has given me something that I must give you,” the letter begins). Computer-generated type is made to look like handwriting and only the names are changed from one letter to the next.
A former Kelly Media Group employee states, “while working for Kelly Media, which is an advertising agency owned and operated by Peter Popoffs son-in-law Jason Cardiff, it was my job to enter prayer requests and donations into a database. These entries into the database would generate a letter to be sent back to the person who wrote in. It would print up a detailed letter, which appears to be handwritten by Peter Popoff himself telling people that he was praying for them, and their particular problems.
The letters begin, ‘The other day I was praying for you, and decided to go to a coffee shop where I knew I could focus, and everytime I said your name I was embraced by the holy spirit.’
Do you really think Peter Popoff spends even 15 seconds reading through the hundreds of letters that he receives?
Popoff’s staff take the money out that Peter Popoff has asked the people for, writes the prayer requests on the envelope, and sends them to Kelly Media Group who type them into the database. The coffee shop line quoted above will be mass produced, word for word on each letter for about sixty thousand people at a time. All the while people think that they are sending him money to advance the work of god, and that in return he is praying for them. Peter Popoff is not only not praying for these people, he doesnt even know who they are.
Peter Popoff, Elizabath Popoff, Jason Cardiff are enjoying the good life for now, based on the dollars donated by people who don’t know any better. This family engage in fraud and questionable practices to conduct their business.
As a final testimony to the dishonest and questionable practices of Kelly Media Group and the Popoff’s, let’s take a look at the Direct Response Advertising Watch Dogs Of America. This group is touted as “a high-end elite group of executives that watch and study advertising executives around the globe for performance and client results.” Their website is here: http://www.directresponsewatchdogsofamerica.com
Imagine that, a group that takes time to watch and study advertising executives to see their performance and results. What would be the motivating factor here? How would this group earn an income? What else do they do?
The website for DRAWDA really doesn’t say much else about them. Portions of the website are incomplete as if the web developer stopped halfway through designing the site.
DRAWDA does mention though, Jason Cardiff. In fact DRAWDA actually names Jason Cardiff as an “up and coming direct response television advertising executive for 2008.”
Here is what they have to say about Mr. Cardiff:
Jason is President and founder of many companies Worldwide but best known for Kelly Media Group. Kelly Media Group is a California based direct response marketing think tank responsible for some of the most impressive successful marketing stories of the past 5 years. Jason Cardiff will tell you that he is only as good as his weakest link on his team, but his team consists of some of the brightest minds in the Unites States or perhaps the world. Offices are strategically located worldwide with the head office in Upland (California), Dallas (Texas), Vancouver (Canada), London (England), Sydney (Australia) and the newest office KMG Asia in Da Nang (Vietnam) http://www.kmgasia.com
That’s quite the honorable mention for someone who is engaged in defrauding religious worhsippers.
If you do a WHOIS of the website you will find that the website’s registrar has been hidden from public view.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DIRECTRESPONSEWATCHDOGSOFAMERICA.COM
Created on: 27-Aug-08
Expires on: 27-Aug-09
Last Updated on: 27-Aug-08
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration DIRECTRESPONSEWATCHDOGSOFAMERICA.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2598
Technical Contact:
Private, Registration DIRECTRESPONSEWATCHDOGSOFAMERICA.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2598
However if we pull up the WHOIS record for DRAWDA **BEFORE** they hid their domain’s registration information, we find this:
:
Kelly Media Group
2022 W 11th St
Upland, California 91786
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DIRECTRESPONSEWATCHDOGSOFAMERICA.COM
Created on: 27-Aug-08
Expires on: 27-Aug-09
Last Updated on: 27-Aug-08
Administrative Contact:
Cardiff, Jason jasonj@kellymediagroup.com
Kelly Media Group
2022 W 11th St
Upland, California 91786
United States
(877) 788-8463
Technical Contact:
Cardiff, Jason jasonj@kellymediagroup.com
Kelly Media Group
2022 W 11th St
Upland, California 91786
United States
(877) 788-8463
Domain servers in listed order:
NS25.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS26.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Way to go Jason Cardiff, inventing a bogus group and registering it in your OWN COMPANY’S NAME just to present yourself with an even more bogus mention as an up and coming executive.
Finally, if you visit Youtube you will find videos of Cardiff giving a “tour” of the KMG warehouse and product fulfillment center. In the video, shot by an amateur cameraman who clumsily holds a camcorder, Cardiff touts his business while the cameraman pretends to be impressed with the otherwise boring warehouse. The entire video is clearly orchestrated and the cameraman is really another employee of KMG.
Avoid the Kelly Media Group at all costs or anything with the Popoff name.
By wanderer, Saturday, 9 May, 2009 @ 22:04
Well done Devon Mcquire you are spot on in your investigations. I’ve just contacted Watchdog” to see if they will look into this hoaxer. I wonder what Peter Popoff will say to his maker when they eventually meet?
By Margaret C-B, Wednesday, 3 June, 2009 @ 11:29
Some months ago, I was at rock-bottom. The pain caused by an untreatable spinal disorder was getting worse by the week and my mobility was diminishing accordingly. None of the prescribed medications was having any effect, I was getting very little sleep, felt isolated and severely depressed.
One Saturday morning, while reading my newspaper (the prestigious Times)I came across an advert, offering prayer services for those suffering. There was a website address.
I am a Christian – and I was at such a low ebb, I thought it worth trying, even though I’d normally be sceptical about such adverts………….
I went to the website and submitted a request for prayers to be offered that I could find the strength to overcome the pain and depression.
Couple of weeks later, I received a letter from the Reverend Popoff, assuring me that my request had been noted and prayers were being said for my, ‘deliverance.’
The letter made many outlandish claims concerning the reverend’s powers – which I dismissed, of course.
Enclosed in the letter was a, ‘golden’ cross, in the centre of which was a vial holding water – which, the letter claimed, had been taken from a Sacred Spring in the Holy Land.
Also enclosed was a sachet containing a small amount of the same.
With the latter, I was instruted to annoint myself and the door frame of my bedroom before retiring and to repeat the process on the following two nights. In doing this, I was assured, I would begin to be healed…….
At the end of the letter was a request that I make a donation – of £20, or more – toward the ministry of the reverend.
I consigned the whole lot to the bin and thought no more of it.
To cut a long story short,soon afterward, my situation began to improve. Not in any miraculous way, rather that a new drug has helped to ease my pain somewhat, I’ve been awarded a disability allowance and a wheelchair and adpatations around my home have made my life a good deal easier.
However, the Reverend Popoff has become, in effect, a stalker!
Not a week passes that I don’t receive another letter. Each makes a more outrageous claim as to the visions he has received on my behalf.
Enclosed in the letters have been such things as sand from the Holy Land, mustard seeds from the same, a sliver of wood (resembling a blunted toothpick!)which is claimed to be from the Rod of Aaron and lastly, a sachet of the Green Oil of Prosperity!
Each letter claims that I am beset by Satanic forces, intent on dragging me down and causing me to be bereft of love and money…..
Each letter has contained a further request for a, ‘donation,’ the amount suggested increasing each time.
The latest suggestion is for any sum between £35 and £120!
I’ve written twice, asking that the correspondance cease, but to no avail.
Despite my disablement – with which I’ve come to terms – my life is happy.
It troubles me that there will be vulnerable, perhaps gullible, individuals receiving these letters, who will feel compelled to send money to this charlatan.
I shall write to the Times, advising them not to carry any further adverts, but thereafter, I don’t see what we can do to stop this predator.
By Margaret C-B, Sunday, 7 June, 2009 @ 10:24
Yet ANOTHER Popoff missive two days ago!
In this one he thanks me fro returning the Wheel of Prayer (which I forgot to mention previously) and that now his personal mission for me can begin in earnest…….
Hmmmmmm……..I DID return the Wheel of Prayer – torn into pieces!
This letter contaoins a exhortation that I consider making a Will – in order to prevent Satan laughing as my estate is divided up by cold-hearted judges and my family weep!
Ha! They’ll have to FIND my estate first, since I’m unlikely to have anything to BE divided up when I die!
I’m waiting now for the suggestion that I leave part of my estate to Popoff’s mission…..
I’m now saving the opening of the letters till my husband and son are at home, so thatI canread them aloud and give some entertainment around the table!
By William, Thursday, 11 June, 2009 @ 21:49
It looks like he is scamming for gold now in the UK http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/213/RipOff0213901.htm#430194
By Julie, Friday, 10 July, 2009 @ 19:51
Can any1 tell me how to stop this lunatic company sending letters to my mum…..she died 5 weeks ago and it so distressing! I’ve send everything back in their prepaid envo with instructions to stop but they just keep coming.
By john, Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 @ 11:31
so far received a cross,holy water,piece of cloth ,wooden cross with wood shavings,colour changing ring,faith explosion tablet, ( which changes into a face cloth in water )and other items i cant remember. all these fabulous things for ” faith seeds”= 15 -30 pounds, each item sent to me. i have not sent any money back but still they keep coming.
By Samson, Monday, 21 September, 2009 @ 15:56
I think i have been a victim of this scam. i did not research before giving money out to this ministry. i must have given out more than £300 – £400.00. But along the line, something keep telling me that how could a man of God be asking for money all the time to pray for you. I was about sending another money today but i decided to google peter poppof name and guess what? i cannot believe what i am reading. I have received so many thing from the ministry, including a ring, bracelet, wooden cross sea salt, green oil of prosperity but to mention view. Well all i can say is this, if this man is taken money from the poor and the needy in the name of God, his judgement will soon come. But the bible says we should beware of wolfs in sheep clothing. Read Matthew 24. Many would come in the name of Jesus, they would even perform miracles, but yet they are not of God. May God have mercy on all of us. My Advice to others is that, take your problem to your creator directly, pray and ask God to reveal himself to you. If God has given power to others then assuredly God can do the same in your life too. Ask God to forgive you if you have commit any sin and certainly he would do and set you free. God bless you.