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Anonymous Almere Stad, Flevoland, Netherlands 2011-11-21 10:29:43 Business Venture Scam | E65 Mike Poulos
Mike Poulos, an expatriate Canadian, residing in Indonesia since about 1999; an American, Jeff Gordon, believed to be living in Atlanta, GA; Hansel Kao, believed to be a Singapore national. Recently, a new company was formed in Batam and announced in a newspaper there. The company is called HMV Bullion, named for it\'s principal partners, Hansel Kao, Mike Poulos, and Vizal Fepwarmen. Shortly after formation of this partnership, Mr Poulos was detained and fined by Indonesian customs for attempting to smuggle 1,000 Canadian silver coins into Indonesia illegally from Singapore by failing to declare them as currency. Hansel Kao, one of the HMV partners, has been identified as manager of a Singapore business, E-Force Services, owned by Mike Poulos, which has been used since about 2007 or 2008 as a mail-drop to receive documents and funds extracted from victims of the E65/Plus20K scam. |