BET Channel Supports Peter Popoff Fraud?
You’ll have to excuse me if I sound angry or unforgiving in this post because I am. Recently, a dear woman I know was telling me about her friend who had gotten into some “weird” religion and was a self-proclaimed prophet. This person is a follower of Peter Popoff among other things and unfortunately refuses to use the Internet as it may allow for government intrusion (which leads to the one world government headed up by the Anti-Christ). If only she would trust the Internet for just twenty minutes she could review the video detailing how Peter Popoff was exposed as a fraud on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson waaaaay back in 1983.
I read further on Popoff on Wikipedia because I thought he was a done deal–for Christ’s sake people, we’re in the information age, do a background check–and find that he has had a resurgence and is still pulling in major bucks. Part of his resurgence was due to BET (Black Entertainment Television) giving him time slots on their channel for his corrupt infomercials. BET is not the only culprit, there are others, but BET of all channels should be more responsible than to allow this white idiot to feed off the black gospel. In other words, I am playing the race card here and saying that BET aided and abetted a white man to defraud their black viewers, many of which cannot afford to throw away money in this economy. If you visit Popoff’s site he has a video on the left side that features black people amazed that their debts were mysteriously paid off. Could Popoff be more exploitative?
I tried to run searches if the NAACP had ever voiced their opinion on this issue but came up empty. You would think at least one major black voice would speak out–if you know of one, please comment.
I’m sure for those of you who regularly keep up on skepticism that this is old news, but for me it was really disheartening to hear–in 2011–that a faith healer is still suckering people. BET should be ashamed along with all the other channels selling Popoff airtime–but BET especially! I was hoping, since Wiki referred to news that was from 1998 up until 2007 that BET had stopped allowing Popoff airtime, but this is not the case as shown on the TV schedule below–which makes me even angrier at BET who, and this is coming from a “whiter-than-white” guy, is allowing their brethren to be taken for every penny to make a network buck. How traitorous is that? African Americans including Black churches should boycott BET for this.
I’m posting the YouTube video below which shows the original fraud of Peter Popoff back in the early eighties. We don’t need to keep allowing this faker to keep getting rich. If everyone with a blog or website would at create an article heading about “Popoff The Fake” or similar title so that they appear in the search engines next to Popoff’s site URL it may have a beneficial effect. I’d also like to see pressure placed on BET so throw in “BET Supports Fraud” as well.
If you’re a black person reading this and you think I’m playing the race card too much here then good. You should be angry just from a human perspective that people like Popoff shouldn’t be allowed to do what they’re doing. BUT as a black voice, BET is going to listen to you versus me. I think you should be angry as hell at both Popoff and BET.
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The fact of the matter is that many black people are greedy, lazy and ignorant. This makes them perfect targets for Peter. Send me some of your welfare check, and I’ll make you a millionaire, and send you 22″ chrome rims.
Uh-huh, and many white people are greedy dumb asses as well. The ones filling the audiences of Trinity Broadcasting Network or Daystar.
When this first came on BET I must admit, I was one of the idiots that believed this man. My first thought was this man has thousands of testimony and they all seem sincere. After receiving the first letter, I did just as it said and sent in some money as he requested. It didn’t take long for me to finally realize what was going on. This man is a fraud and it’s horrendous that he is using the gospel to make money through manipulation of people (especially African Americans). However, Peter Pop off isn’t the only man on BET making money, there are plenty more constantly asking for seeds. If you want to sow a seed, for goodness sakes sow a seed at your own church, do you know what these people are doing with your money!!!! Im so disappointed with BET!
Peter can easely get to black people, all he have to say is MONEY and there it is, they will fall for it. As they already greedy as it is, they will fall for his veal to find easy way to make or get money because they are to lazy to go out and get money the right way. Beinging well uneducated, you can pretty much flash anything or tell them anything as long as if they don’t have to work for it. Peter Popoff and his black followers will serve in HELL.
@Kim, –That’s just dumb, racist, and apathetic. Shows quite a bit of ignorance and broad generalizations.
@Kim-Sweetheart you may want to proof read your post before making it permanent just to make sure that the very thing you’re accusing me of, is what you sound like-”well uneducated”. We beg to differ. I will lift you up in prayer my sister. This really isn’t a race issue at all, as believers we must ask God for wisdom and discernment of spirit, not to be tricked by false prophets. Anyone who knows the word, knows that it speaks of this very thing happening. Just for the record the bible doesn’t say that it will be black folks or white folks that would fall prey to deception. Children of the true and living God seek him and him ONLY be blessed!
KIM I AGREE WITH KEISHA YOU ARE VERY DISTURBED AND CONFUSED HOW ARE YOU GOIN TO SAY ALL BLACK PEOPLE JUST WANT FREE MONEY I KNOW MANY BLACK CHRISTIANS WHO (ACTUALLY WORK FOR A LIVING ) AND YES SOME OF THEM FOLLOW POPOFF BUT ITS WHATS IN THE HEART THAT COUNTS IF YOU GO TO ANY CHURCH THEY WANT TIDINGS OR OFFERINGS SO IF YOU SEND IT TO POPOFF OR PUT IT IN THE COLLECTION BASKET IT IS YOUR OFFERING TO GOD WITH THAT INTENTION IF IT IS USED FOR ONE’S SOLE PURPOSE OF GETTING RICH QUICK THEY HAVE TO ANSWER FOR IT NOT US
Ignorance and racist speaks for itself and is an acquired bitter taste. We must pray for all the inbred trailor trash that’s been blinded along the way. If they know there history the original text of the bible was written in hebrew. Which was written by black people out of Africa. Soloman say’s i’m black and i’m beautiful. Jesus hair was like wool feet was like polised brass and he was made in the image of God. So be careful who you talk about you could be cursing yourself. Moses was taken in by Egyptian’s when he was a babe and passed for one of them they are black. Keep cursing yourself with ignorance and not studying for yourself. God Bless, and pray for the IGNORANT and FOOLISH because they come in all color’s.
Life and death is in the power of the tongue. Keep killing yourself talking about God’s children!
First of all, the issue is not a black, white, green, etc. issue. it is a human race issue. I to was taken in by this man. He presents himself as an angel of light, when in reality he is filled with darkness. He is one of the false prophets that the word of God speaks of, and you have to be very careful in dealing with these people, unfortunately I was taken in at a vunerable state at the time, I was unemployed, had been for 2 years and I had just gone through 2 deaths(uncles) in my family back to back,and was having problems with the pastor of my church. I allowed the enemy to come and deceive me at that time. Praise God through prayer and research, I will not fall prey again, by listening to the Holy Spirit and staying in God’s word so that I may get under and stay under the covering of the precious blood of my Lord Jesus Christ. I hope that you all will do the same. Remember we are all of one race the HUMAN RACE! God bless.Rest assured that Peter Popoffs destination is the Lake of fire with satan and the rest of the false prophets and everyone associated with them who willfully and knowingly take part in this abomination towards God. for those who consider the ones who were taken in by him “stupid”, “retarded”, “lazy”, etc., be careful who you judge and what you say, because just because you didn’t fall for this scam there are plenty others out there that you may and will fall for with out even realizing it until it’s to late. those of you who are true christians pray for your brothers and sisters in Christ and yes even pray for those who are ignorant as well, that’s what God commands and wants us to do. I love you in Christ, be safe, be blessed.
White people can be so stupid Peter belongs to you low life bunch of liars that want things given to you that’s why you bitches had slaves my how times changed you go serve in hell next to your ancestors
Hey smarty- you are reinforcing what the eloquent kim up there thinks of you. Peter pop is a scam artist, they come in all shades, its a full time job for some men in africa to scam women out of money playing the im an african king card, send me some money and ill send you more back.
On a seperate note i am white and i have never owned a slave, nor did my immigrant family. Im so tired of the ignorant remarks about how “we” owned slaves. There is no we and there are many white families with ancestors that fought and died to abolish slavery so you can be a free man. You should be ashamed of what you have chosen to do with it. Everyone else’s comments on here prove the kims of the world wrong about the stereotypes given to black people, then you just had to chime in an blow it. I hope you read this and take it as a wake up call to rise above…. Or at the very least google the civil war.
Please contact bbb.com. he is claiming now that a donation and miracle spring water cures cancer. This guy is a scumbag. you better believe if he was using Allah or if Jewish card, this would shut down. Christians need to stand up and stop this snake oil loser.
Maybe if you have faith and believe in something you wouldn’t think he’s a fraud. For those ppl they had faith the size of a mustard seed n even if he’s a fraud GOD WILL NOT DECEIVE YOU! besides he doesn’t ask for that much money. if they didn’t spend it with him, they would have spent it somewhere else.
LaToya, that is a really sad way of thinking and I’m not trying to be mean or sarcastic. If God can’t give you brains enough to recognize that Popoff is a fraud and that you can research this “fact” with video evidence of him cheating, then your god is not even worth considering to be real. Consider all the people who claim to have talked to god or know what god wants or claim power from god and you’ll have a line up of cheats causing human misery. When I was a Christian there was such a thing as “discernment.”
Otherwise, as an atheist, I say embrace reason and you’ll see what an obvious fraud Popoff is. If you’re saying that faith preps you to be gullible, I can’t really argue with that.