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The information provided on Scott Brandon Been has been compiled from publicly available information as well as the Been vs Active World Holdings Federal Lawsuit. This site is curated by Alfonso Knoll, Sr.
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Scott Brandon Been
Age: 48
Katy, TX
Read the CHECKPEOPLE.com report compiled on Scott Brandon Been from publicly available information, including criminal history CLICK HERE
The report for the total amount paid to SB by AWC as of 5/27/2023. (Link) This does not include the $50,000 paid to his lawyer in 2023.(Link)
Possible Scott Been Scams
The following business and alter egos are possible scams perpetrated by Scott Brandon Been
(“SB”, "SBB", “MWC”, “Married with Crypto”, "Saitama", "CULT", “Zack Morris”, “Credit Repair USA” “Head of the Table”, “Innovative Ranking Services”, “JWalkerDigital" "Credit Innovations", "Credit Repair Nerds", "SBB Wholesale", "SCAMRNightmare", "Legal-x"
Latest SBB Scam
Latest Receipts 11/20/2024
Token Purchase Agreement Fonz Signed
Token Purchase Agreement SBB Signed
Court Dismissal
Alex Garza / Been Purchase
Executed Settlement Agreement
On 11/20/2024 Scott Been posted information about M. Osborn on his YouTube Channel. He claims Osborn is not allowed to participate in crypto projects. This information is categorically false. If people have questions about Osborn, they can go to his site at www.michaeltosborn.com
SBB referenced Alex Garza in his Youtube as a person that lost $250,000 in AWC. Please review the PDF receipts above between Garza and Been, where Been scammed Garza by paying $25k (using AWC funds) for all of his tokens.
Brief Synopsis
Documenting the tumultuous start up of the Active World Club crypto business and the constant interference by Crypto Pump and Dump Scammer, Blackmailer, and Extortionist Scott Been (Married with Crypto). Notorious for his pump and dump harassment of the Saitama crypto community and the pillaging of Active World Club “AWC” the blockchain project he himself began, promoted, and plundered.
I’ll get into his Saitama debacle, but first fast forward to Active World Club. This was a thriving crypto community. It began partly by Been hiring my company to create a crypto token. He had very little concern about the utility and business purpose of the token. He just wanted something promotional. After we did tons of dev work on the model, and actually built the foundation of utility, he then promptly pulled a charge back scam and refused to pay for the contracted work. When I continued to build out the concept anyway, he blackmailed me for $750,000. You read that right, he did a chargeback on us for $5k and then proceeded to demand seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to not ruin my life.(Link)
That’s how the insanity with Scott Been began in 2018. He coerced and threatened me into letting him continue with a portion of the project. He harassed me with continued threats. Skip forward 2 years after he quit the project and harassment on and off several times. He came back as a self professed crypto promoter and YouTuber with a following of successful Saitama loyalists. He called himself Married with Crypto and his posts combined some amalgam of get rich quick hubris with a discount version of Cribs and an utter misinterpretation of the blockchain. Been wanted to promote the project that I developed, which by this time was named Active World. He promised to use the power of his social channels and YouTube to drive new members of the community and token sales.
With the benefit of hindsight it’s obvious that Scott Been set us up for lawfare from the very beginning back in 2018. His first blackmail attempt was early on, but eventually he did exactly what he threatened to, no matter how crazy it seemed at the time. He made up a completely false narrative and ran with it attempting to force us to pay him more and more money through online harassment, cyber bullying, threats, libel, and slander. He worked with others in his group of social media thugs to sow hate and lies. He blackmailed us into buying the tokens the Club gave him for free, so that he wouldn’t dump them all on the fragile new liquidity pools that were launched and running.
So, we tried to buy our own tokens back to save the Club members and projects. I personally felt it was necessary to stop him from actively trying to destroy the Club. The buyback was an attempt to stop his subterfuge and get rid of his negative behavior. More importantly, multiple Club members insisted that they wanted him out. In this buyback he demanded more than 1 million dollars. The Club already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars that he demanded for introducing token buyers. So, I considered it best to pay his demands to get rid of him.
Unfortunately this time frame almost immediately transitioned into the Crypto Winter of 2022 and resulted in a prolonged crypto bear market. We were unable to continue to fund basic operations, let alone a token buyback that was obtained through extortion. So the threats and crazy harassment began again. Been was completely inconsiderate and ignored the limitations due to market conditions. He didn’t care about the wellbeing of the Club or any of the members he introduced or got paid for introducing. As usual he was unreasonable and unhinged. These Club members that he cared nothing about are people that he and his wife were paid 30% of sales and millions of free tokens for introducing.
The Club could not pay the unreasonable demands by Scott Been in the down market, so he preceded with lawfare and even more threats and online bullying.
Eventually he found a Texas firm to file a lawsuit demanding the token purchase be honored at the expense of every member and project. They cared very little, if at all about what was fair. In the crypto bear market any demands were an existential threat. An interesting point was that the only collateral we provided in the event of default in the agreement was the tokens themselves. This was a point of contention and so the firm conspired with Been to accuse me of fraud so that they could name me personally and circumvent the intent and recourse prescribed in the token
purchase agreement and signed documents. The link detailing this between the lawyer and Been is (Link).
1/1/25 - 1/23/25 SBB "x" Response
SBB Openly Offers Insider Information....INSANE!!
SBB Explains How He Is Going To Write Off The ProphetBOT Loss !!
11/20/2024 SBB "x" Response
AWC/NSAVx Facts
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The CEX NEVER requests nor requires Social Security Numbers in order to open an account.
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KYC information collected from VIP account holders are for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) purposes and consist of Passport or ID scan, Proof of Residence and a Selfie.
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KYC is administered by Hollex KYC and stored on AWC S3 Page.
If this is how Legal X performs their due diligence, their operations won't last much longer.
SBB Tweets
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​In Beens latest Tweets and YouTube video, he feels the need to ramble about the current state of NSAV, Knoll , Osborn and Garza, acting like he is the legal authority on all things crypto. Just Receipts will only supply facts, not conjecture. We will continue to provide receipts on everything that is discussed. Having worked with Been for several years, he has proven to be nothing but a low level scammer, that is now trying to be a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing as a confidence man with Legal-X.
History
In 2018 SB listed his credit repair business Credit Repair USA for sale. I met him through the
due diligence process while I reviewed the acquisition. Midway through he decided not to sell. However, through the process he expressed his desire to use crypto as an alternative to help grow his business. Since then, for half a decade plus I have dealt with him as he displayed a pattern of asking for projects to be worked on for his benefit, paying a portion of the bill, changing his mind, and threatening legal action, and blackmailing. Then, changing his mind again and wanting to move ahead with the same projects
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On January 30, 2018 SB contracted with Funding OTC to help build him a Crypto token for his credit repair company (Link). He paid $5,000 down and later paid $5,000 when the whitepaper was completed. He then tried to have PayPal reverse both payments although all contracted work for the payments was completed. He got one chargeback return of $5,000 because it was uncontested. The other $5,000 chargeback was contested and eventually became the total sum that SB paid. After that through the years he wanted to proceed and continue the project. Then he didn’t. And then he did. I had already created a great decentralized business club model that had the potential to provide a unique service in the market, so I continued to build it. Eventually he directly blackmailed me when he threatened to file all sorts of claims if he wasn’t given $750,000 (Link). His total payment at that time was $5,000 on a contract for which he owed $15,000. He still thought nothing about blackmailing me for three quarters of a million dollars.
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In the summer of 2021 SB began to reach out to me again. On July 30, 2021 SB reached out to ask if I could adjust the crypto token and project that he didn’t pay for the first time. He said that he himself was an influencer and he lined up a group of other crypto promoters to promote it (Link). SB then went on to name the parties he had lined up (Link). As a promoter SB eventually began pushing the Club project on his Twitter and YouTube channels and was instrumental in introducing the project to new potential members. He ran interviews with me about the club on his live channels and recommended the creation of “Ask Me Anything” AMAs for people looking to get involved. As is his nature he turned against the other promoters when he began bashing the Saitama community and thereby many of our own Club members and was essentially “Divorced from Crypto” (Link).
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For the role of promoter, SB demanded a very high percentage of token sales in USD and was given 336,346,000,000 AWRT and 1,000,049 AWB Tokens for free. As a holder of AWB he then received 10,000,401,478 USHX Tokens and 10,000,401,478 FOTC Tokens … all for free with zero cost basis. SB acknowledged recruiting promoters in his Twitter posts (Link).
Because of the need for Defi and a sound business model, the Club concept and tokens grew in popularity and achieved success in the early months. The first Utility Token packages began being sold in October of 2021 and Active World Holdings Inc began its formal pivot into Defi. The incubator exchange was built as a project launch point. Token casino projects and sports books were built to test token spendability in merchant environments. Proprietary technologies were developed that eventually led to fun NFT prize technologies like MadHatter Mystery Box and now much more. SB made significant money through this success and received far more from the Club than his $5k total he had delivered to date. (Link).
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But that wasn’t enough, although he had $0 cost basis in any of these token projects, around the beginning of 2022, SB had caused significant strife within the membership, and began to ask for AWC to buy back “his” tokens (Link). He asked to keep it confidential (Link). Effective February 1, 2022, to stave off a massive rug pull and the destruction of the Club, AWC entered into a Token Purchase Agreement with him.
In August of 2022 SB began Tweeting about not being able to buy his house without AWC.
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Toward the end of 2022, after receiving Hundreds of Thousands of dollars, SB began posting a series of tweets disparaging and harming AWC. (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link)
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In September of 2022 SB reached out again to discuss creating a new project he called
“Progressive X” (Link). Scott used the payments from the Token Purchase Agreement, from the sale of Tokens he had no cost basis in, to fund his idea for “Progressive X” as he admits in his email to his attorney in October of 2022 (Link).
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The threats and online harassment escalated from there. Continual threats, lies, and
disparagement came from Been and his aliases on Twitter, YouTube, and via text and email.
Even death threats that had to be reported to the police. He actively damaged the Club, the
members, and me personally on a continual basis. The online terrorizing and cyber bullying were relentless. After considerable time passed the crypto markets began a limited recovery. Most of the crypto projects that entered the crash were decimated and disappeared. But we never stopped building tech. AWC’s vision continued and we held it together through the downturn. So, we decided to try once again to end the disparagement and interference by Been and agreed to settle the lawsuit. (Link)
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Unfortunately the market recovery was turbulent. We were able to make one $50,000 payment to the vultures and funds dried up again (Link). Our inability to complete the payments meant we had to default on this piece of the extortion. The Club and I wound up with a default judgment against us for what was now less than the token purchase agreement, but still over $900k. Been sold that judgment to WFD, who he now insinuates works for him. He sold it for a significant discount to the face value. Judgment. (Link) The collection activity coupled with Been’s continued harassment and online threats put the assets still remaining in AWC in jeopardy. These included 2 pieces of real estate that the Club owns which needed to be protected.
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Active World Club had to file for a chapter 11 reorganization in order to preserve assets and
attempt to save the future of the holding company that operates it. WFD holds a default judgment against the Club’s holding company and myself, not because Been “won” anything at all, but because the settlement agreement we signed in good faith, could not be adhered to due to market constraints.
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Crypto Promoter Scott Been may have been bound by certain rules regarding his promotional activities at Active World Club, Saitama, Cult and others that he did not follow. For example, did he tell perspective buyers that he owned and was paid by a large percentage of sales ? Maybe Section 17B of the Securities Act and other regulations pertain. Are his activities, including harassment, and cyber bullying a pattern across multiple projects like Saitama and AWC and others ? Did multiple dev teams and project owners pay him to stop this harassment and online cyber bullying ?
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SEC Crypto Promoter Disclosure Rules:
Did Scott Brandon Been and his alter egos follow any of these rules?
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires crypto promoters to follow specific disclosure rules to ensure transparency and protect investors. Key rules include:
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1. Disclosure of Compensation for Promotions
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If a promoter is paid (directly or indirectly) to endorse or promote a crypto project, they must disclose the compensation arrangement clearly. This includes detailing:
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The type of compensation received (cash, tokens, other assets).
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The amount or value of the compensation.
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The nature of their promotional relationship with the project.
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This disclosure ensures that followers and potential investors understand the potential conflict of interest.
2. Avoidance of False or Misleading Statements
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Promoters must not make false or misleading statements about the crypto project or its potential investment returns. Statements must be factual and avoid exaggerating performance, downplaying risks, or otherwise misleading investors about the project.
3. Adherence to Securities Laws if Tokens are Classified as Securities
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If the promoted cryptocurrency is considered a security under U.S. law, the promoter must comply with all applicable securities laws, including:
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Registration Requirements: If a token is deemed a security, it must be registered with the SEC, or meet an exemption, before being promoted or sold.
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Accredited Investor Restrictions: For certain types of token sales or offerings limited to accredited investors, promoters must not encourage unqualified individuals to invest.
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Even if the token itself is not classified as a security, the SEC may pursue enforcement if the promotion includes a “contractual” or “investment scheme” that satisfies the Howey Test, used to determine if an investment qualifies as a security.
4. Disclosure of Risks Inherent to Cryptocurrency Investments
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Crypto promoters should disclose risks to help potential investors make informed decisions. This may include volatility, regulatory risks, and other potential downsides of investing in the cryptocurrency space.
5. Avoidance of Manipulative or Deceptive Activities
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Engaging in pump-and-dump schemes or manipulating the token’s price or volume to attract investors is strictly prohibited. Such activities can lead to significant penalties, including fines and bans from promoting securities.
6. Compliance with Anti-Fraud Provisions
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All promotions are subject to the SEC's anti-fraud provisions, which prohibit fraudulent, manipulative, or deceptive practices in connection with the offer or sale of securities.
7. Social Media Disclosure
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Disclosures must be clear, conspicuous, and accessible in any medium used, including social media. They cannot be buried in comments, hashtags, or other parts of the platform that are not immediately visible. The SEC recommends that disclosures be placed within or directly adjacent to the endorsement.
8. Adherence to SEC’s Enforcement Actions and Guidance
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The SEC has issued guidance and conducted enforcement actions on crypto promotion, notably the actions against influencers for undisclosed paid promotions. Staying updated with SEC’s statements, enforcement actions, and guidance can help promoters avoid unintentional violations.
Promoters who fail to adhere to these rules may face civil penalties, disgorgement of profits, and even bans from participating in certain markets. These rules are designed to ensure transparency, protect investors from undue influence, and maintain the integrity of the financial markets.
Legal-X Foundational Issues According to AI:
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Legal Token Creation
In the U.S., creating a token with proceeds specifically funding lawsuits against other crypto projects and applying 50% of settlements to the token's liquidity pool could raise legal issues. This arrangement may resemble the definition of an investment contract (a type of security) if it meets the Howey Test criteria: an investment of money in a common enterprise with an expectation of profit derived from the promoter’s efforts. As such, it may need to be registered with the SEC or qualify for an exemption to avoid regulatory complications. Consulting a securities attorney would be essential for compliance and to clarify if this structure meets securities regulations.
Business Formation
Forming a business specifically to fund lawsuits against other crypto projects, especially while using social media to pressure those projects into settling, could raise serious legal concerns. If this approach is used to deliberately damage reputations or coerce quick settlements, it could potentially be seen as extortion or defamation, depending on the context, intent, and jurisdiction. Such actions may violate laws against coercion and unfair business practices. Consulting a qualified attorney is crucial for assessing the legality and risks involved in this strategy.
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If an individual in Texas is spreading false information about your crypto company with the intent to pressure you into a settlement for their financial gain, it may fall under unfair business practices or even defamation. This behavior could potentially be considered extortion if it’s meant to coerce you into a financial agreement. Defamation laws vary by state, and this could also implicate business torts like tortious interference with business relationships. Consulting a legal professional can help you assess options for protecting your company.
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What to do?
Yes, you can report this to authorities if you believe the individual's actions are unlawful. Given the potential issues with defamation, extortion, or unfair business practices, you might consider:
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Contacting Local Law Enforcement: For cases involving extortion or blackmail, local law enforcement in both your state and theirs may assist.
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Filing a Report with Federal Agencies: If the activity crosses state lines and involves extortion, the FBI may be interested.
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Seeking Legal Advice: A qualified attorney can help determine if their actions violate civil or criminal law and guide you on the best course of action.
Collect and document all evidence (e.g., social media posts, messages) to support your claims.
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