Sci Issues Global Fraud Alert On Athenas Higher Learning Center Of Beijing

Scam Patrol just recently was informed by an AICG insider of a new FRAUDULENT franchise scheme being peddled by American Fugitives Sam & Linda Arnoldboth in the U.S., China, and Europe. After their fraudulent loan scheme in Beijing w as publicly exposed, they obtained new phones numbers and an executive suite and are now offering to sell turn-key schools to teach Chinese in the U.S. and to teach English in China to anyone
willing to shell out 1.5 million rmb (roughly $500,000USD)

The phony school franchise is called ATHENAS HIGHER LEARNING CENTER which in Beijing was established nine months ago to primarily launder money for corrupt Chinese military officers (According to a former seceretary employed by the Arnolds). In Beijing, the "school" is a one room operation approximately 15 by 30 feet that seats twelve students who for $3,000 are told they will get jobs in the U.S. once they can demonstrate they can speak and read English. In reality the school is not certified nor accredited and nobody bothers to tell the students that neither AICG nor Athena can obtain the required visa nor sponsorship of a U.S. company that they require by law to go to the U.S. The phony school is located at the SuYuan Office Center of the Beijing Friendship Hotel in suite 61633.  Further the "teachers" of Athena Higher Leraning Center, according to their bulletin board and web site are Sam and Linda Arnold, John Vickers, Sam Arnold Jr. - none of whom hold any degree in Education, English, nor Linguistics.  In fact none of them even graduated from any verifiable university and Sam Sr. received his education in a U.S. prison.


For those not familiar with the Arnold Gang, they are wanted fugitivesin the U.S. for over five years for a multitude of frauds including consume  credit card, mortgage, bank, and securities fraud. Sam Arnold has been arrested four times for DUI, Fraud, Assault, and Identity Theft & Forgery. He has pled guilty to six felony charges in the U.S. and after serving one year in prison was sent to drug rehab from which he went AWOL - and straight to China where he has operated five different fraud schemes including the infamous American Independent Capital Group (AICG). Please see our previous reports on AICG. and the below links:


http://www.cslb.ca.gov/GeneralInformation/Newsroom/MostWanted/SamuelNevielArnold.asp

Arnold's new base of operations appears to have been relocated to the below address:


AICG

Room A15, 15th Floor

Wang Jing Tower

Beijing 100102

Tel: +86 (0)10 6472 8868

Fax: +86 (0)10 5885 7130

This is the third "relocation" in two years and to date the Arnolds have utilized thirty three different telephone numbers and are now even using Skype and Magic Jack numbers to appear as if they are calling from U.S. offices in Florida, Beverly Hills and elsewhere. More on Sam Arnold can be found at fraudwatchers dot org and ripoffreport dot com. Over the last month the Arnolds have issued over a dozen bogus news releases designed to give false credibility to their schemes and only last week, a team of Interpol investigators arrived in Beijing to collect sworn statements from Chinese victims.

The Arnolds have a 16 year history of running sophisticated frauds in California, Nevada, New York, Texas, and Florida. At present there are three outstanding arrest warrants for him in the U.S. By marrying a Chinese national he is protected from extradition. After his personal residence was identified in our previous report, we have received information that he vacated the property and is now living under an alias name "Sam Martin" not far from the Wan Jing Tower office location.

Arnold has been using forged bank statements to show the past "sucess" of Athena's Higher Learning Center and has been using paid schills as references who giving glowing reports about the Arnolds and their
companies. Together with the phony news releases, his frauds appear to be quite believable - on the surface. We have notified the FBI, Interpol, and Scotland Yard about this new scheme and were advised that an investigation would be launched immediately.

In the interim, we have issued a GLOBAL FRAUD ALERT and advise anyone contacted by Sam or Linda Arnold, John Vickers, or any broker from AICG, Athenas Higher Learning Center, or Investments in China, to
contact the FBI and/or Interpol and DO NOT PAY ANY MONEYS OR SIGN ANY CONTRACTS no matter what you are told. These are professional con artists who could make the Pope believe that Jesus was really an AmWay sales rep and the apostles were his downline!