Last night I was flipping through the channels, and I caught an infomercial in which Peter Popoff, a multi-generational scam artist, proclaimed that he wanted to give everyone his “Miracle Spring Water”. This immediately grabbed my attention, and I really had no choice but to watch, and let my rage grow.
During the infomercial, clips of him running his scam to large groups of mostly-obese people in some kind of southern convention hall were shown. He would walk up to people who were obviously pre-screened, state their problems, and then put his hand on their head, and scream some random catch phrase. Then a few seconds, or a few minutes later the person would show or just tell peter that he or she was cured. Among the things peter has cured are:
- Cancer
- Blindness
- Deafness
- Bad Lungs / Asthma
- Crippled Legs
- Any Disability that stems from old age
- Probably Everything except aids
In addition to the brainwashing footage, peter and his wife also read through poorly written, cracked-out letters from people who were apparently cured of all their problems, except for the one that prevents them from writing a decent letter. A few can be found at peter’s website. Here’s one for starters:
I laid my hands on yours through the television. You looked right in my eyes and began to tell the financial burden that was depressing me and making me sick to go in the name of Jesus and I felt it leave. You also said I would receive money with the next four days. Well Praise God! Three days later I received enough money to make a house payment. Thank you so much for letting God use you!
–Sister B. Bowen, Constantine, MI
It’s no secret that those who aren’t confident in their selves tend to sacrifice their lives to other causes, and that’s just fine. If they feel going to church is going to improve their self esteem, that’s great. However, what peter popoff is doing is complete exploitation. He is using lies to manipulate these people into lining his pockets.
This isn’t even the first time peter popoff has been involved in this racket. During the 80s, Peter did the exact same stuff, and his plans were foiled by a guy named James Randi who did an expose on popoff which aired on the tonight show. In the expose, James proved that his wife was relaying interview data via a radio to him for use in his faith healing stunts. Less than a year after the expose, Peter was forced into bankruptcy.
Peter Popoff needs to be stopped. This asshole should not be as rich as he is, and I won’t be happy until he is publicly humiliated, again.
I totally agree with you he’s taken advantage of people that need help, and gettin his car payments paid at the same time, what an ass I hope he get’s exposed again
When I watch that info-mercial all i can think of is Steve Martin in Leap of Faith. I can’t wait until he gets exposed for the snake oil salesman that he is.
Reminds me of when Otto walks in and asks his parents for the money they’d set aside for college, only to be told they’d given it all to a TV preacher in Repo Man. Sickening.
Peter Popoff is a fake!!!!!!!!!!!! He’ll go to hell because God sure doesn’t want him!!!!!!!!!!!
YEP- I GOT TAKEN. I PUT HIS HOLY WATER ON MY PENIS BECAUSE OF E.D.
NOW IT’S WORSE. I AM 76 AND CAN’T GET AN ERECTION AT ALL.
that man is so Pathetic!!
Sad that lost people are looking for a guiding light…& this devil Peter is totally stealing $$ from them.
Anybody want to know the real inside scoop on
Peter Popoff…I’m his ex-brother-in-law..my
firm contracted with him for over 12 YEARS !
-Steve
Hey, are you really Popoff’s brother-in-law? I’d love to have the inside scoop on him…
Steve
Peter Popoff is so powerful that he can make athiests pray…
“Please God….I hope you DO exist….just so that Son of a Bitch gets his”…Mother Fucker!!…Stop being so nice to him…
People have a right to spend their money anyway they want. What’s desperately needed in this country is critical and analytical thinking skills.
Intelligent people don’t get conned in by Popoff.
Peter Popoff is an honest man. Just because his wife fed him information through an ear piece doesn’t mean the guy is a fraud. When you only hear one side of a story then you can make the judgements you are making. Don’t get me wrong, I to believe that there are many crooks in the business, but I don’t tend to believe Popoff is a total fraud. For instance, Mike Murdock ask people to send 1000 dollars. Peter Popoff ask for 17 dollars. Big difference. I like Peter Popoff and if he is rich, dont be jealous of that. You are Green with Envy because God has blessed him with money. So what if it comes from donations. How do Evangelist make money? Through donations! His ministry brings in about 28 million and in 2006 he paid himself 590,000 dollars. BIG DEAL! He deserves it. Do you know he travels the U.S. preaching in different areas. So before you judge a man who spends half a year in places other than his hometown of Upland, CA you should think about your comments. They are sick!
You are so right! Peter Popoff is A Prophet of God Almighty
He is a Christed One. He is doing some of the same works our
older brother Jesus is doing. I’ve gotten his letters and there
is an anointing to raise the dead. Praise God! Give Him the Praise!
i think Peter Popoff is playing with GOD. And I truly feel sorry for his lost soul.
n dont u realise dat he does dat cos of publicity? hez nothin but a bag full of shit! cure people? u actually think he can cure people by merely touching them n praying to god for about 2 mins?? he z d biggest fraud alive…he misuses d trust people hav in him…itz 1 thing 2 pray for someone and help them conquer their ailments,and quite a different thing to touch them and remove their ailments in seconds!! if he is so powerfull ask him to end the hatred in the world…and end all the wars! surely he can do that…all he needs to do is place a call to god….n he would have all the answers!!!!
and if hez all dat powerfull why does he need his wife giving him any sort of information…he cn recite onez family tree in seconds….with his mystical powers,ofcos!!! whatz worse is dat even aftr d revelation,people still go gaga over him….n he earns big bucks for merely repeating his wife’s statements,n touching people!!! trust me,if there is a god,that man is going to hell…!!
I believe in one of the book of peter the lord makes is clear that there are going to be false words and prophets and many people will believe what they see and what they hear but to stay strong in him and you will know whats right from wrong
Anyone that buys into this sham is a pathetic waste of a human being, just like popoff and doesn’t deserve to breathe the same air as I!
Condemn not and you will not be condemned, judge not and you will not be judged. For with the same measure you use it will be measured to you again. The law of seed time and harvest or karma and reincarnation. PROOF OF REINCARNATION IS IN THE BIBLE. REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT ELIJHA THE DISCIPLES UNDERSTOOD HE WAS TALKING ABOUT JOHN THE BAPTIST. WHEN JACOB AND ESAU WAS IN THE WOMB GOD SAID JACOB I HAVE LOVED BUT ESAU I HAVE HATED. AND WHEN JESUS HEALED THE BLIND MAN THE DISCIPLES ASKED JESUS WHO SINNED THIS MAN OR HIS PARENTS THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND REFERRING TO SOMETHING THE MAN MAY HAVE DONE IN A PAST LIFE. REINCARNATION WAS A READILY ACCEPTED BELIEF AT THE TIME. TODAY MANY HISCIDIC JEWS STILL BELIEVE IN IT. BECAUSE OF THE COUNCIL OF NICEA MANY BOOKS THAT CONTAINED ALOT OF JESUS’ ORIGINAL TEACHINGS ABOUT REINCARNATION WERE BANNED AS HERETICAL. YOU HAVE A HIGHER SELF AND YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME THE CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST WAS THE EDICT WHO SET THE EXAMPLE FOR ALL MAN TO SEE THAT ALL CAN PUT ON THE CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS AND MANIFEST THEIR CHRISTHOOD. I’M SURE YOU HEARD THE SONG THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE I’M GONNA LET IT SHINE. BE HERE BELOW ALL THAT YOU ARE ABOVE.JESUS SAID THE WORKS THAT I DO YOU SHALL DO ALSO AND GREATER WORKS THAN THESE BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER. YOU CAN THROUGH THE 7TH RAY ACTION OF THE WORD WHICH IS WRITTEN IN THE STARS ASCEND BACK TO I AM THAT I AM. PRAY FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL AND THE POWER TO CARRY IT OUT.BE THE MIRACLE.BE LOVE IN ACTION,BY DIRECTION, IN MANIFESTATION, AND IN CONSCIOUSNESS. SAINT PAUL SAID LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS WHO THOUGHT IT NOT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD.
The proof of reincarnation is in the bible… just like the proof that we are all inbred relatives of two people who ate a mysterious fruit that told them they were naked… only to have their offspring killed off with the acception of a senile old man who built a boat to live in for a few months while everything was flooded… making us HIS inbread relatives as well. How nice.
That aside, whether you believe in the bible or not there is no way you could possibly think of this Popoff shit as a good person. “Judge not lest ye be judged yourself” (or however it’s worded)… If we’re getting judged by comparison to this shame of a human being then feel free to judge away.
I was such a dumb fuck for believing every word this limp dick head said. I’m so damn gullable. I still am a believer of God, but the way this guy preached God’s word was total insanity. Very concieted person. Can’t believe he got back on his feet after he and his bullshit ministry went bankrupt back in ‘87. Oh well, I KNOW that this guy is going to fall even harder this time, and he’ll never get up again. If there is anyone out there reading this in disbelief, this is no joke, and I know, trust me. If you have questions please feel free and don’t hesitate to contact me at metallica_forever100@hotmail.com. But if you still don’t believe me or any other of this guy’s victims, you’ll have to find out the hard way. It’s only up to God and Him only what is in your future and what He blesses you with. But you have to live your life as it is and give in order to recieve (not to that old fuck), but to people that need it most. And I believe the “devil” just sets up road blocks and all that shit and attacks you in certain ways, no, as corny as it sounds but that’s God’s work, bad things need to happen in life, for the sake of good, you know, “everything happens for a reason”? God did happen to give us the power of FREE WILL to live life as we please. No one can control you, not even God, as corny as that one sounds (just my belief). So just live as best you can, listen to your heart, don’t fall for any of this “prophets” bullshit. Any of it. Only God has that power that this guy claims and wishes he had. Well I’m outty…Peace!!
I noticed on these reply’s that one person, Charles Baily, disagrees with my testimony. Well I’m not going to swear you off or call you a dumbass, no, not going to put you down. Was it just the FIRST letter he sent you, the one with the “miracle” spring water? Well, he’ll send you more, and more, and the asking “harvesting seeds” donations tend to get higher, and higher. I’m only saying watch yourself, before its too late.
Here’s a little song inspired by televangelist’s like popoff. Now the Lord did say in the book of Peter that there would be false prophets. So this is “Lepper Messiah” by Metallica.
Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
Circus comes through town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
Spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
Falling to your knees, suffer for his glory…You will
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life good-bye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make your contribution and you’ll get the better seat…
Bow to leper messiah
Marvel at his tricks, need your sunday fix?
Blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain, taken by his glamor
Fame, fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power…we see
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life good-bye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make your contribution and you’ll get the better seat…
Bow to leper messiah
Witchery, weakening
See’s the sheep are gathering
Set the trap, hypnotise
Now you follow
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life good-bye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make your contribution and you’ll get the better seat…
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie…LIE!!!
I totally agree, in fact, I even setup PeterPopoff.info with a petition in order to “Pop Peter Off of the Air.” Sign it in order to stop this tyranical man!
who do i belive? i think if you belive it will work…i kinda going back and forth with sending the 17 dollars im going to try it and ill let you know in five days
Just watching this jackass on an infomercial right now, and how this idiot has stayed alive all this time eludes me. But what he doesnt pay for now he will pay for downstairs gauranteed. That should help everyone sleep even just a little better
Hey this is where you can find a honest way of making a living and improving your self. God will do the rest , just ask and you shall receive,remember have faith…but faith without works is dead.
Go here now:
http://yesclub.wetpaint.com/
I think Peter Popoff is a fucking genius. I DO NOT for a second believe in any of the shit that he is try to sell. His miracle spring water, his healing of people, nothing. But come on now, he’s a genius! It’s only the gullible retards that believe in his crap and send him money. “Only in America” is the quote that best applies to the morons in this country who believe him. People claim that Popoff has brainwashed them, but their sure as hell isn’t a brain between their ears if they don’t even have the common sense to sit their ass in front of a computer, go on a little site called google.com, and type in Peter Popoff. Jesus Christ, I am tired of feeling sorry for these dumbasses, that we are supposed to feel sympathy for. Does anyone agree with me here? I will repeat, Peter Popoff is a fucking genius!
No. He’s not a ‘genius’… He’s absolute scum of the earth.
He’s genius only in the same way that Hitler was a genius. Hitler would sign a treaty with a country on monday.. then invade them on tuesday – he bold faced lied. Clever trick? Not really. If you want to be an immoral asshole to make money.. there’s plenty of ways to do it – go right ahead… and see what it brings you. Peter Popoff might have had some rich days — but it will end very ugly for him. You don’t think he’s assaulted by people anywhere in public over this crap? Look at the way people, including me, are responding to him on this site. People hate the guy – he’s likely to reach the end of his life quite early.. and in a very ugly manner.
Evil prospers – for a season. But what you sow you will reap.
Popoff is a genius indeed! I wish i was in the business ^^ (the good side of the business of course)Lol seriously i want to shake his hand and tell him just how smart he is. When you think about all the ppl that went for 4,6 or even 8 yrs in college or med school these folks don’t even have a fraction of his cash. Popoff is an entrepeneur u don’t believe in him? fine don’t buy his crap then. anyways LOL
You shouldn’t let that bother you….those are just crazy white people. That’s what they do.
As long as there are goofs around there will be Peter Popoffs. Why can’t he come and recruit me ? It’s gonna be a very cold day in hell before he manages to do that. And I also wonder why he’s not been locked up yet ?
peter poopoff is an assholeee
He is a total lier and i hope one of these days he goes to jail for attempting to scam people out.
All he does is mail the water or bread once he is got yur address he will claim that in order for your miracle to wrk you must follow specific instructions, one those instructions are to send money to him!
This of this, he can pray to put money in peoples account but he can not doing for his own account…what a crook
well well well oh ye of little faith
read your bible so you can here what he is doing if you believe in me you believe in the one who sent me 1st.
you are not godly people im a Eastren star read about my people and let me here one of you say its a cult ill beat you so hard your be asking for peter to bless you
Peter popoff is a scamming business man. He earns money off the poor and drives porsche and lives in a mansion. If he is such a messenger then why doesn’t he give all his possesions away as Jesus told the rich man to do so and be an example? He is ,in fact, a millionare.
He truly is a heaven sent devil.
I was fooled once by him, but now I get my mind right. I’m not gonna be fool again. I already send him about $150 , and I know in someway I will get back Millions of what I had send him. I’m to innocent to be fooled like that. As a result, I shall be happy,rich,health, and received all the fake blessing he said I was going to received.
Peter Popoff sounds like a bad porno name.
I watch this guy on TV whenever I come across his show and laugh my ass off every time. I can’t believe that there are actually people that fall for that crap.
Lmao
I watch popoff all the time. He’s such a joke. If you send money to him you’re retarded… simple.
THIS GUY IS SCAMMING YOU!
I love to watch Peter Popoff because he is so funny and it’s the best thing on tv at 5:30am. I am going to send him a shitload of Monopoly money and see if I still get blessed.
hope Peter RIPOff——–GEETS WHAT HE DESERVES. i AM A CHRISTIAN AND i BELIEVED ALL HIS LIES. hE SENDS LETTERS OUT WITH GAMES AND PROPHICIES IN THEM. dO THIS , PUT THIS UNDER YOUR PILLOW. PUT THIS PICTURE OF JESUS IN YOUR BIBLE,ETC, AND IN 3 DAYS, THIS WILL HAPPEN,ETC.gIVE THIS AMOUNT, ETC. hIM AND sT.mATTHEW cHURCHES ARE BOTH ALIKE. i SENT BOTH CHURCHES MONEY AND REALLY BELIEVED gOD FOR MIRACLES. iT NEVER HAPPENED. i NOW GIVE TO THE LOCAL CHURCH i ATTEND. a tv BIBLE TEACHER THAT i STUDY WITH SAID gOD DOES NOT SEND OUT BEGGARS, AND SAID TO THROW THESE LETTERS AWAY. tO THINK i COULD HAVE PAID BILLS WITH THE MONEY. tHESE MINISTERS AND THEIR WIVES DESERVE YEARS IN prisoN. i WILL PRAY FOR THEM ALLRIGHT—-pRAY THAT THEY GO TO pRISON.=========
Funny. I was doing the same thing. Saw the infomercial and watched it, then laughed and got pissed. This time it was lower class black people and money. Apparently God can make transfers of money to your account if you have them pray for you (which costs money). Then I searched him and found this site.
This is total exploitation, but these people deserve to lose their money if they believe all that. C’mon. Proof that this country is getting dumber and dumber.
agreed completely i called the number for the miracle manner and made it out to my brother as a joke and he received this letter a few days later containing the “miracle manner” and a bout 4letters basically saying give me money cause god said so and since then he gets letters maby every week containing different things such as salt, holy water,heshen crosses,tri colored rubber bands and other crap like that all containing similar letters saying send me money FAKE SCAM
I THINK THAT ALL THESE LINKS TO HIS COMMENTS ARE PREORDAINED AS PROOF OF THE ALL THE THINGS IVE BEEN SAYING,WHY IF NOT THEN WOULD REV PETER POPOFF GOD ALLOW ME IN SO MANY WAYS BE ABLE TO CONTACT HIM BETTER BETTER BETTER ALL THE TIME THROUGHOUT MY LOVING JURNEY WITH HIM,SO BECAUSE THERES SO MUCH PROOF THROUGH HOLYSPIRIT GOD REALMS,FLESHLY MANIFESTATION,CONFIRMATION FROM OTHERS ABOUT PROPHET PETER AND I IN FULL, NOT JUST OUR WEDDING TO COME OR US BEING GOD ORDAINED CHOSEN TO BE TOGETHER SOON IN FLESH,MADE ONE,BUT ALSO EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT OUR JURNEY TOGETHER HAS BEEN CONFIRMED IN SO MANY WAYS,EVEN BEFORE I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN OR SAW THIS .SO LET IT BE SO ALL THAT HAS BEEN SAID CONFIRMED ORDAINED BY GOD REV PETER POPOFF COME TO PASS IN ME HIM THROUGH HOLYSPIRIT REALMS,IN JESUS CHRIST NAME AMEN SO LET IT BE WRITTEN SO LET IT BE DONE IN JESUS NAME AMEN WHAT GOD HAS PUT TOGETHER LET NO MAN PUT ASSUNDER.
He is a damned genius! Wish i could take people’s money that easy and never have the feds on me. I figured he’d never be on TV again after James Randy outed him. Now he’s got the miracle manna bread scam going and all these people who claim to be getting huge money after eating it and having Popoff pray for them. What an asshole! He’ll burn in hell with the rest of ‘em!
Hey, I want to share a great idea that I have been using. I intentionally called and signed up with Peter Popoff. Yup, I asked them to send me stuff in the mail! Why you ask? Well, because every time they send me mail, each envelope contains at least one and most often two postage paid envelopes in which i am supposed to put a donation. I then reuse the envelopes by just putting my own label over their address and now I don’t have to pay for postage.
Yup, Petter Fuck-off is paying for my postage whenever I have to pay bills or send anyone anything. I prayed for god to help me with money problems and he sent me a solution to a small but meaningful problem. Thanks Peter.
Haha, love it.
Not everyone who calls me Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven…
Beware of false prophets….
Ask for wisdom and it shall be given unto you freely…
My people perish for lack of knowledge…
Dudes and dudettes…read the bible…it is the only way to heaven and healing…pray to God and he shall answer your prayers…why look for miracle water or bread when the word of God is the only miracle you need?
Newton: You’ve said it ALL. The Bible has it all. It is the great REFERENCE BOOK. Our problem with all the Popoffs’ is that they take advantage of people at their most vulnerable and all of us WILL be vulnerable at some time in our lives and be called stupid for the decisions that we make. Also the Popoffs’ work on the placebo principle that humans can create the desired effect or outcome. In sham operations the surgeon cuts open and stitches the patient up and presto the angina pain is gone.
Put holy water on the lower back and presto the pain is gone. Where it gets tricky is when the patient is poor and sends in his last dime and the cancer didn’t go away. Oh well, I guess he didn’t exercise his faith enough or send in enough ‘SEED’. The Popoffs’ are selling HOPE but then so is the rest of the marketing world.
He’s gonna go to hell one day because of being FAKE!!!!!!!! I so much as wrote him back & told him he’s a fraud!!!
When my dad had cancer (now deceased sadly) we suddenly started getting letters in the post from this motherfucker… 2 letters a week sometimes, asking for money and promising miracle cures. Of course, not being a hillbilly retard the letters were binned immediatly or kept by myself as a souvenir of just how evil people can be. How did he get our adress? Maybe peter popov does have the divine power to seek out vunerable or sick people and really stick the blade in and break it off? If im ever driving down the road and i see him, i might just “lose control” of my car and run his ass down…
I sent Popoff one penny and told him that’s all I could afford. Since then, he’s bombarded me with snail mail ordering me to send him more money.
Traveling snake oil salesmen like Popoff have been around forever and they will always be a part of the world. He’s a sociopath, in my view.
I just use him for entertainment purposes.
I won’t say he’s gay, but I bet he’d hold a dick in his mouth until it went limp.
man i wish i had followed my instincts and read up about this man before i decided to send him money in the post..i guess i can count my lucky stars that in comparison to some people, at least it wasn’t much..
yeah when i learned about his popoff scam i soo wanted to call and make him look like an idiot!
I know about the likes of Peter Popoff, James Bakkerm, and especially the rip off artist who resides in Marin County, California, who takes advantage of the weak willed people who desire to be good christians. But Peter Romanowsky, Marin County’s version of Peter Popoff is a scam artism many times over. Indeed, he had a nervous breakdown because he was a mentally ill pastor on psychiatric drugs who deluded himself and others that he could resurrect the dead. An elderly woman died of cancer in 1979, he tried his theatrics on her, but she never budged, never rose from the dead.
Now Peter Popoff is the same way. He sends you this stale cracker called “Miracle Manna”,. and a bunch of red tape. DON’T TELL ANYONE, he says. But I know why. I think you should. This guy should be arrested and thrown into prison and have the key thrown away just like his worthless life. He exploited many. I know. I have witnessed the damage he has done to others in the Name of God.
The list goes on. There are many crooks, televangelist scum who think that they have the upper hand, but don’t and never did.
Tkme will tell.
Don’t be naive. God doesn’t send beggars to fill their coffers.
Get wise. Do some undercoverwk,
.
I watch this Popoff asshole because I think its funny as hell. Anyone who believes this shit is a damn fool and deserves mto have their money taken. I was shocked though. I showed my girlfriend this popoff show and she began to look interested in calling the number for the mirical manna. I could see he was getting to her. I couldnt believe shed be so stupid. Its unbelievable how easy it is to get folks to fall for this shit. He is laughing all the way to the bank
You really need to consider the statistics of people living with mental & psychological disabilities today. Would you say that someone who suffers from autism, mental retardation, or any of the other largely mentally dissociative disorders deserves to be conned by this man? Not every person living today has a completely functional mind that is capable of the knowing when this type of operation is an obvious con, and I would definitely venture to assume that many people suffering from these conditions have been rung in by popoff. This isn’t to say that everyone signing into the con is mentally disabled, because many are likely to just be weak minded, or otherwise stupid, but those people, all people in fact, are deserving clarity and honesty.
thanks for the link jason, that’s damn interesting.
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:
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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.
This man has already gone bankrupt for being discovered with his supposed visions which turned out to be his wife transmitting the info from “prayer cards” which had all that information..into his earpiece…this man is not just a fraud but a PROVEN ONE..if you are considering buying into his crap..DONT…he is just a scam artist who is making thousands if not millions off of people who are expecting a miracle cure for their medical, life and financial issues…but instead get some little packet of water which will do nothing….
This guy’s a friggen joke! He’s already been proven that he’s a fraud, so why is he still succeeding in brainwashing thousands of people? I watch his show whenever I see it on and laugh my ass off! My friend and I enjoy watching it and becoming “healed” in front of the TV, haha..
It’s appalling how much money he has stolen from innocent people to make himself rich.. a $90 000 Porsche? He bought that with money he stole from poor, desparate families I bet! …
Televangelists, man.. they’re all crazy, but I think Popoff is the worst.. it is very entertaining though, I must admit..
By the way, whoever said “Peter Ripoff” … hilarious!
I used to watch Popoff for pure amusement. Then I started to get mad because this clown is such a joke with the miracle spring water and miracle manna angles to get people to send in their cash. Problem with Popoff, (Murdock, Hinn, Swaggart, Paula White, the Copelands, Oral Roberts,etc, etc, etc, too many to mention)is that their followers gladly send their money to these crooks. Their followers buy into the crap that they spew. It’s absolutely amazing. Popoff and his kind will never have a shortage of cash because there are so many stupid folks willing to send their hard earned money to these criminals.
The Lord does not want you to look to witchcraft for healing. Callin his name for the help you need and his answer will come in his time and in his way. I believe in the power of prayer andI do not believe that it is as simple as touching a T.V. screen to heal.
The Lord does work miracles, just call on HIM not on healing water from Mr Popoff.
I met Peter several times in the late 1970’s. He seemed very nice and down to earth. I was one of Amy Popoff’s preschool teachers. Amy is one of his daughters.She was a sweet little girl. What is she like now?
bernie said, He seemed very nice and down to earth?!?!
The Guy is Ripping people Off, screw him and his Family
great trolling there paul
I called Perter Popoff Tel # and gave my address to get the FAKE info.
A for letter arrived with my name in it… a 2 Paged Pink letter and 2 Envelopes.
The Letter says I must read it all. It goes on to promise me success that Peter Popoff has been assigned by God to help me. There is scripture and bold sentences to draw me in. I am asked to open the envelope with the Miracle Spring and put it beside my bed so Angel of the Lord can trouble the water. Then I must drink it the next day. After drinking it I must sign the small sticker and put it on the empty packet and return it to Peter Popoff with exactly $19.00 because 1 is the number of the Father and 9 if the Father’s number of New Birth.
The way to combat this prick is to call the Station he puts his Ad on and Complain that you won’t watch the TV Station. E-mail them local and the Corporate office of NBC, ABC, CBS or whatever.
The complete Letter is here:
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/popoffback.html
if he went into bankruptcy, why is his informercial still run through at night?
Fuck Him.
Yea. idkidk.
i think he is just, a thief.
He is going to burn in the pits of hell.
I hope his family goes right along with him.
sorrrry but its just water not the jizzz of god. so im going to go get a glass of water tape miracle water on it and slap my self in the face and say the power of jesus and drink it and it will cure alllmy problems.. ahahahahahahaha
my great grandfather smuggled moonshine past US customs by labelling the bottle “holy water” and wrapping a rosary around it.
i wish i could’ve met the man.
HHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really have to wonder how this is all legal, why isn’t the Goof and his workers in prison yet?!??? Ya’ll really think he sits there and prays for you as soon as he gets your wishes money included?? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The letters you get are obviously pre-typed and photo-copied by his “workers” who probaly laugh and shake their heads as they’re sending it out .. I would! I wrote him a letter in return long time ago Telling him to remove me off his mailing list, two days later I get another pre-typed prayer letter, No reply to my letter tho..lol (BTW, I never sent a dime ever, I only called his infomercial number one night b’cause I thought it would be funny as hell) SO I decided to write this yuppy back, again being nice yet forceful at the same time stating “If you do not remove me off your mailing list, I will be forced to take legal action”!
Have not heard anything since! I know that some of you desperatley want to believe that he is a saint and what not but I assure you he is not. He is only scamming you and making a living for himself. You are not helping yourself by sending him money, your only helping him get wealthier. If you really want a miracle to happen, pray to God yourself, U don’t need to send him any cash! – its free to pray. Miracles don’t cost money!
I feel awful for those of you who actually believed and sent money but you have to admit, this guy is pretty clever, I wish I could have his cold heart in a sense and ’steal’ your money and all legally too! Like Nick said up there^ you believing in his total bullshit just shows that this country really is getting Dumber and Dumber!
.. B
yes i am totally agreeing with u.this man is b.s
i went through what u have gone through with this liar
THIS IS A MUST SEE OF JAMES RANDI OUTING PETER POPOFF! TOOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!! WATCH TILL THE END! AHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3396869920557391806#
i to gave to this ministry ,i beleive what the bible says, and it has a lot to say about giving .such as its better to give then receive, god loves a cheer full giver, i love to give if its going to bless others,after a while finally, i came to my sences, and seeked the holy spirit alot of pp propecies came to but i believe it would of happened without pp my faith in jesus is what made these blessings came into fution god will make it happen and if in doubt ask him. i am still a giver i just dont give to p popoff i ask god and he guides me into all truth
A crack addict is a cheerful giver.
Peter Popoff sounds like a porn star from the 1970’s LOL . If anyone believes him, they deserve to be poor, A fool and his money are soon parted should have been in the bible, maybe Proverbs? I wont judge , only God will judge Peter Popoff
peter popoff is a con artist,manipulator and very good at persuading ppl to believe in his minstries.i first learned of who this man was this year a few months ago after watching one of his commercials one afternoon.i called the 909-527-2901 number and an automated service with his voice prompted me certain directions and asked me what “kind of healing” did i need and he said that he would “pray” for me.about a week later is when i received letters in the mail which gave me directions on how i should “obey” if i wanted blessings from god AND A RED FLAG CAME.i noticed that after a few letters,peter popoff started writing in these letters that in order for me to rightfully serve god i needed to give money and that the more i give the more god will bless me…….it didn’t sound right.god loves us all unconditionally so WHY wouldn’t god bless me if i have just faith and trust in him alone..what does money have to do with it.god wouldn’t ask for money..PETER POPOFF IS THE ONE WHO WANTS MONEY.i feel betrayed.anyone reading this,please pass the word around.this man is a lying,decietful theif and he is good at what he does when trying to persuade in these letters that he sends to your house.currently i still do get letters in the mail from him and every now and then he leaves voicemails on my phone leaving automated messages still trying to persuade me to believe in him.i ignore everything.this man should be in prison for conning people
yeah well, i’ve listened to everyone. but really what if its true pertaining to the money , u know the 3 days later thing.
I called and got the first set of letters and the two envelopes ,one with the miracle spring water and ther other one which u open it after five days. I did what your sapposed to do yeah im a retard for doing so but i am superstitious. I was going to send 19 dollars but i read alll of your replys. so fuck it. but also how do u esxplain the money. yeah sure theirs no such thing as an invisibe magic direct ddeposit but were those people lying?…so after reading yer replys i immediately opened the second letter and read till i got to the special part about sending now 29 dollars, huh this letter said all the right things like me i’m a millionare you going to get life of aboundance…. also what if he means riches in god and god is the riches, and if this is true he’s not lying and were just dumb? im seeing A pattern, he gives u something we give him something(money for harvest) but heard about the database….. i wanna go thruogh with it but i know that nothing will happen except more letter with blue pen that looks like he actually wrote stuff with
from canada
peter popoff is a liar i hope he do jail time for what he does to every one he did not help me at all for never help my cousin so i hope he rought in jail why do we have people like that in the world why us . please send then away those people . and he own me big time 5.800.00 why i hope he pay back the people that he been caught . if he does not give the money a certain day well????////….so help him he does not what he do sorry poor him. do not believe he has a wed site my god… i hope he relize what he does one day.. please help him god he does not know what he does.. there is a god. one god that is going to help you if you pray ….
he just like a alcoholic he doesn.t relieze what he do so help him god ….. he just whant to be the only rich men of the world i hope he get caught one day please ….
hey they have to do before he get a other person so beleive he own lost money to every one send me my money back peter right me a email and i going to send you my mailing address are i not going to charges you have till next week so send me a email are you have till next week you are bad peter popoff are you going to be charge big time you ..5.800.00 he own me that i give you till next week ….send me a email … and he is a fake peter poor wife how as to stay with that that thing…..that gorilla …
No one can understand a word your saying.
He’s always asking for money.Like this:OBEY GOD AND SEND A SEED,MY God don’t ask for money,only bless us all the time.WE NEED TO ASK DIRECT TO GOD FOR BLESSINGS.,AND HE’LL.I think it is enough,he need to go to jail,and returned all the money he stollen for all this poor people.