DANNY DE HEK

I’ve been tracking Goliath Ventures Inc. since September 1, 2025, warning anyone who would listen that this so-called "joint venture" in decentralized finance was nothing more than a textbook Ponzi scheme dressed up in crypto jargon.

On February 18, 2026, everything I’ve been saying was laid bare in federal court. Prestige Florida Property Investment LLC filed a blistering complaint in the U.S. District Court, Mi...

When a partner like Punit Shah keeps sending the same weekly email claiming the MSB license is progressing while wallets remain the blocker, it’s not an update—it’s a deliberate way to keep investors calm, prevent them from coordinating, and buy another week of silence before the courts force real answers.

I’ve been watching this unfold since September 2025. Investors poured hundreds of millions into Goliath Ventures Inc.,...

The last few weeks haven’t been loud. They’ve been heavy. My inbox hasn’t been filling with speculation or curiosity — it’s been filling with confessions. People admitting they haven’t been paid since October, November, and December. People saying they stayed quiet because they wanted to believe this would resolve itself. People who were told to wait just a little longer, right up until “the end of January.”

The email is a...

The last few weeks have been different. Not louder, not more dramatic — just heavier. My inbox has shifted from casual questions to detailed confessions. People who stayed silent for months are now reaching out, often late at night, often shaken, finally realising that what they were promised is not coming back. The floodgates didn’t burst all at once. They cracked. And now the water is rushing through.

THE SILENCE BEFORE ...

If your balance is growing but you can’t withdraw a cent, you don’t have an investment — you have a story being told to you on a screen. That’s where this investigation begins.

For months, investors were promised regular distributions. When payments slowed or stopped, they were told delays were temporary. While money failed to arrive, dashboards continued to update, balances continued to rise, and investors were encouraged...

On 12 December 2025 at 8:13 PM, I received an unsolicited commercial email from Robert Rolls, identifying himself as Founder and Chief Executive of Afirmo NZ Ltd. I had no prior relationship with him or the company, had not requested contact, and had not consented to receive marketing of any kind.

THE EMAIL ARRIVES

The message was promotional and lacked an unsubscribe mechanism. Under New Zealand law, a single uns...

This investigation looks at what existed before Goliath Ventures Inc ever collapsed — before missed payouts, before silence, before the excuses. It examines how trust was established, how credibility was borrowed, and how millions were raised long before anything verifiable was ever built.

This is not a hindsight critique. It’s a reconstruction of origins.

HOW TO REPORT GOLIATH VENTURES INC

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A short promotional video appeared on GOLIATH VENTURES INC’s official social media accounts. Four hours later, it was gone. Before it disappeared, we secured the video and preserved the transcript. What it revealed was not transparency — it was a glimpse into how the narrative is being rewritten while investors remain unpaid.

THE VIDEO THAT SHOULDN’T HAVE LASTED

The video confidently spoke about the future — 2026,...

For weeks, investors were told payments were imminent. Specific dates were given. Confidence was projected. Assurances were repeated. Then the money didn’t arrive. What followed was silence, a luxury event, and eventually a carefully worded newsletter that raised more questions than it answered.

This is a chronological breakdown of what actually happened, using Goliath’s own communications, timelines, and public behaviour.

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The December 15–18 payout window was promised in writing. October catch-ups. November payouts. Everything owed. Normal schedule. As this window opened, investors began asking the same question at the same time: where is the money? What should have been a routine payout cycle instead exposed silence, confusion, and a growing list of red flags that can no longer be ignored.

THE PROMISE

On December 3, 2025, Goliath V...

Hours before Goliath Ventures Inc’s big Miami dinner, the company’s inner circle shifted from hype to panic. Instead of confidence, we suddenly saw a loyalty sermon from Tomo Marjanovic, wrapped in the new hashtag #GoliathStrong, urging his “brothers” not to walk away. It was clear something inside the organisation had fractured, and this message was attempting to hold together what was already slipping apart.

THE MESSAGE ...

On 18 November 2025, I watched Andrew Tate’s Hyperliquid balance collapse in real time. Months of reckless, high-leverage trading came to a brutal end as his account dropped to just $984. More than $727,000 of his own money and around $75,000 in referral bonuses had been wiped out with no withdrawals ever recorded.

Four days earlier, GOLIATH VENTURES INC — a “quant fund” promoted across the same influencer ecosystem — sudd...

This is the story of what happened in the hours, days, and moments leading up to the collapse of one of the largest alleged Ponzi schemes in America.

THE FIRST SIGNS OF TROUBLE

The earliest warning came quietly. Investors expecting their November 14th payouts woke to an unexpected message from Goliath Ventures Inc. The company claimed that distributions were being delayed due to a “forensic audit,” a phrase famili...

The first real sign of trouble came when investors began messaging me to say their payouts due on the 14th had not arrived. There were no advance warnings, no delays announced, and no meaningful explanations. Instead, a single excuse began to circulate among investors: the payouts were being blocked because of an “audit.”

That claim didn’t match how real audits work.
And that’s when the investigation began.

TH...

The press release paints Stephen Davis as a fallen fire chief who bravely left public service to start a parenting project and a publishing company. It reads like a feel-good comeback story. But buried behind this glossy narrative is the part he didn’t disclose: his role as Director of Administration for GOLIATH VENTURES INC, a company now at the centre of federal scrutiny.

While the article highlights his podcasts, memoir...

I’m DANNY DEHEK https://www.dehek.com, a New York Times–featured investigative journalist (print edition, by David Segal, featured in a Bloomberg documentary by Alice Kantor, and quoted by The Guardian Australia in coverage by Sarah Martin.

I use open-source intelligence (OSINT https://www.dehek.com/general/scam-fraud-investigations/what-is-osint-the-power-of-open-source-intelligence-in-scam-busting/) to expose scams, Ponz...

In this exposé, Danny de Hek aka The Crypto Ponzi Scheme Avenger breaks down Stephen McCullah’s latest GRAPE AMA and the private messages he sent after being publicly exposed. What unfolds is a classic scammer playbook — denial, manipulation, and even a failed attempt to bribe me with $5,000 to take down my videos.

McCullah, known for past disasters like Apollo (APL), GSX, and LunaOne, now claims that his new project, GRAP...

New Zealand journalist Danny de Hek is being sued by Christopher Delgado’s GOLIATH VENTURES INC in a Florida courtroom.

This is Danny vs Goliath — a real-life David vs Goliath story where truth meets power.

On September 22, 2025, GOLIATH VENTURES INC filed a lawsuit against Danny — 7,000 miles away from his home in New Zealand — claiming he caused “millions of dollars in damages.” Their complaint accuses him of ly...

In this exclusive audio recording, Michelle Alistoun—cousin to exposed scammer Rory Conacher—breaks her silence following a landmark court ruling in Durban. On 4 August 2025, the High Court granted a provisional liquidation order against RJS Capital (Pty) Ltd after finding compelling evidence of insolvency and misconduct.

With no introduction, this episode features Michelle reading her personal statement in her own voice—raw, emotio...