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Peter Popoff is a televangelist con-artist asshole who uses scummy deals to attempt to con mentally-weak people out of their money. In the 60's Popoff started to preach at his local church. He claimed that he could "foretell the future" using his l33t hax0r God given skillz. Popoff urged anybody listening to his sermons to "break free of the devil" and throw their (probably placebo) prescription pills onto the stage. Later on, Popoff would command wheelchair-bound people to "rise and break free". They would then stand and walk perfectly fine, not needing any sort of help to learn how to walk. Obviously, since everybody on this site is a classy, smart individual, you should have deduced that the recipients of these cures were hired by Popoff himself to sit in wheelchairs.
Later on, in 1985, Popoff would collecte donations for a program to give free Bibles to citizens of the Soviet Union via helium filled balloons. By an amazing "coincidence", his office was broken into and every single scrap of money was taken. After this, Popoff would tearfully beg for more neet bucks from old ultra-conservative men and women.
Popoff started accurately announcing home addresses and specific illnesses of his audience members to prove that his "God-given abilities" were not, in fact a sham. However, Popoff was exposed in 1986 by James Randi, starting an immense lolcoaster. As it turns out, Popoff was using an earpiece to recieve transmissions from his wife who would dox people in the audience via prayer request cards filled out by audience members. Alexander Jason, a crime scene analyst and electronics expert, helped to pick up these messages using radio scanners and created a video interspersing the transmissions with Popoff's sermon. The best bit of this was when Randi planted some accomplices in Popoff's audience including, I shit you not, a man dressed as a woman, whom Popoff "cured" of uterine cancer. Even better was Elizabeth Popoff describing this "woman" to Popoff as "...that big nigger in the back..." and warning him to "Keep your hands off those tits..." At another session later on, Elizabeth and her aides were heard laughing at the appearance of a man suffering from testicular cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNl52deOZro&t=14s
In May 1986, Popoff came onto "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", and was faced with
this evidence. Popoff started out denying Randi and accusing NBC of hiring an actress to impersonate his wife. However, he eventually admitted the radio device existing, but claimed that Elizabeth only "occasionally" gave him "the name of a person who needs special prayers". He also stated that, "almost everybody" knew about this wireless communication system. This was apparently untrue, however, as his donations and ratings declined significantly. In September 1987, he declared bankruptcy, and embezzled the remaining money that he had.
You, my esteemed shitposters, may be wondering what this ancient history has to do with anything today, well, I am here to tell you that he is back. On February 2007, an Inside Edition segment reported that Popoff had new infomercials that depicted him "healing the sick" in the same manner as before. However, it had been about 20 or so years, and, considering the average human has an attention span of 8 seconds, pretty much everybody forgot about this guy. Some victims were interviewed, including some poor married couple who said that Popoff took THOUSANDS of dollars from them! Popoff refused to comment on this atrocity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HyYwkEvLA
His new scam is to sell Miracle Springs Water, a packet of water that will apparently give you financial prosperity as long as you sleep with the water for one night, drink it afterwards, pray over the empty packet, and sprinkle some of the included "Dead-Sea-Salt", (which is just regular fucking salt that you could probably steal from a fast food restaurant while some underpaid cashier wasn't looking) over a check for $27 and send it to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuawSq6zDA
Despite Popoff claiming that his company donates this "measly" amount to charity, his organization has a "Did Not Disclose" rating with the "Better Business Bureau", which indicates a refusal to disclose any information regarding donations.
As of April 20th 2016, csicop.org has a post detailing what goes on behind the scenes from a former employee, Crystal Sanchez. Popoff insists that his water comes from a spring near Chernobyl, which was the site of a devastating nuclear accident. Folklore says that the water from this spring was not polluted by the accident, so people came to drink from it. Popoff, as we know, is filled with complete shit, so instead ofcoming from a magical lake, it came from Costco.
What's more, the "personalized" letters from Popoff were actually just reprints of earlier letters, minus the names. They would attempt to keep these letters secret by suggesting, "Keep this between you and me. Some things are no one else's business." Even worse, Peter doesn't even write the letters. One day, Sanchez counted $30,000 in donations, just from her own stack. Her other 19 colleagues ranked in $600,000. Sanchez decided to quit after some poor young man threatened to commit suicide unless he got to speak to Popoff directly. Popoff refused to answer this call.
https://www.csicop.org/specialartic...he_hidden_story_of_crystal_sanchez_the_peter_
https://archive.is/7HyuT
While we all think televangelists are stupid and annoying, at least most of them actually have good intentions. However, we can all agree that Peter Popoff is a scummy, horrendous, disgusting con man with an insatiable greed, who prays on poor mentally deficient old people who buy into his bullshit.
Thanks for reading my thread dude, please give me constructive critisism for how to make it better. kthxgbye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vkW8VYj6NA
Peter Popoff is a televangelist con-artist asshole who uses scummy deals to attempt to con mentally-weak people out of their money. In the 60's Popoff started to preach at his local church. He claimed that he could "foretell the future" using his l33t hax0r God given skillz. Popoff urged anybody listening to his sermons to "break free of the devil" and throw their (probably placebo) prescription pills onto the stage. Later on, Popoff would command wheelchair-bound people to "rise and break free". They would then stand and walk perfectly fine, not needing any sort of help to learn how to walk. Obviously, since everybody on this site is a classy, smart individual, you should have deduced that the recipients of these cures were hired by Popoff himself to sit in wheelchairs.
Later on, in 1985, Popoff would collecte donations for a program to give free Bibles to citizens of the Soviet Union via helium filled balloons. By an amazing "coincidence", his office was broken into and every single scrap of money was taken. After this, Popoff would tearfully beg for more neet bucks from old ultra-conservative men and women.
Popoff started accurately announcing home addresses and specific illnesses of his audience members to prove that his "God-given abilities" were not, in fact a sham. However, Popoff was exposed in 1986 by James Randi, starting an immense lolcoaster. As it turns out, Popoff was using an earpiece to recieve transmissions from his wife who would dox people in the audience via prayer request cards filled out by audience members. Alexander Jason, a crime scene analyst and electronics expert, helped to pick up these messages using radio scanners and created a video interspersing the transmissions with Popoff's sermon. The best bit of this was when Randi planted some accomplices in Popoff's audience including, I shit you not, a man dressed as a woman, whom Popoff "cured" of uterine cancer. Even better was Elizabeth Popoff describing this "woman" to Popoff as "...that big nigger in the back..." and warning him to "Keep your hands off those tits..." At another session later on, Elizabeth and her aides were heard laughing at the appearance of a man suffering from testicular cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNl52deOZro&t=14s
In May 1986, Popoff came onto "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", and was faced with
this evidence. Popoff started out denying Randi and accusing NBC of hiring an actress to impersonate his wife. However, he eventually admitted the radio device existing, but claimed that Elizabeth only "occasionally" gave him "the name of a person who needs special prayers". He also stated that, "almost everybody" knew about this wireless communication system. This was apparently untrue, however, as his donations and ratings declined significantly. In September 1987, he declared bankruptcy, and embezzled the remaining money that he had.
You, my esteemed shitposters, may be wondering what this ancient history has to do with anything today, well, I am here to tell you that he is back. On February 2007, an Inside Edition segment reported that Popoff had new infomercials that depicted him "healing the sick" in the same manner as before. However, it had been about 20 or so years, and, considering the average human has an attention span of 8 seconds, pretty much everybody forgot about this guy. Some victims were interviewed, including some poor married couple who said that Popoff took THOUSANDS of dollars from them! Popoff refused to comment on this atrocity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HyYwkEvLA
His new scam is to sell Miracle Springs Water, a packet of water that will apparently give you financial prosperity as long as you sleep with the water for one night, drink it afterwards, pray over the empty packet, and sprinkle some of the included "Dead-Sea-Salt", (which is just regular fucking salt that you could probably steal from a fast food restaurant while some underpaid cashier wasn't looking) over a check for $27 and send it to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGuawSq6zDA
Despite Popoff claiming that his company donates this "measly" amount to charity, his organization has a "Did Not Disclose" rating with the "Better Business Bureau", which indicates a refusal to disclose any information regarding donations.
As of April 20th 2016, csicop.org has a post detailing what goes on behind the scenes from a former employee, Crystal Sanchez. Popoff insists that his water comes from a spring near Chernobyl, which was the site of a devastating nuclear accident. Folklore says that the water from this spring was not polluted by the accident, so people came to drink from it. Popoff, as we know, is filled with complete shit, so instead ofcoming from a magical lake, it came from Costco.
What's more, the "personalized" letters from Popoff were actually just reprints of earlier letters, minus the names. They would attempt to keep these letters secret by suggesting, "Keep this between you and me. Some things are no one else's business." Even worse, Peter doesn't even write the letters. One day, Sanchez counted $30,000 in donations, just from her own stack. Her other 19 colleagues ranked in $600,000. Sanchez decided to quit after some poor young man threatened to commit suicide unless he got to speak to Popoff directly. Popoff refused to answer this call.
https://www.csicop.org/specialartic...he_hidden_story_of_crystal_sanchez_the_peter_
https://archive.is/7HyuT
While we all think televangelists are stupid and annoying, at least most of them actually have good intentions. However, we can all agree that Peter Popoff is a scummy, horrendous, disgusting con man with an insatiable greed, who prays on poor mentally deficient old people who buy into his bullshit.
Thanks for reading my thread dude, please give me constructive critisism for how to make it better. kthxgbye
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fftopic: I love flat earthers and religious conspiracy nuts. My favorites are the ones that think the moon is a hologram.
