Posted by the admin

Interesting! The coup has worked well. Very well, indeed! The real picture will be out soon enough, but in the meanwhile I am surprised to see how some people have managed to scam thousands of people in one fell swoop. Come'on people, use some brains. How is it that the person who owns the BZ domains, controls access to sites of all other admins/mods/sysops, and controls the backups to the site happens to be the scammer and the ones who launched a new site with old backups become legitimate? As I said, the details will be out soon enough but here's a quick summary of what has happened so far:
A couple of admins, unhappy over not being party to the donations (from LBIs and stuff) plotted to take over the control of BZ sites.
The only problem: they only had access to one set of backups from last Jan, since that's when I had provided them with a backup copy when there were some issues after a server upgrade.
So they went ahead with the last backup, using freedns to redirect to the new site while messing up the existing site via a malicious script mess up the existing sites.
Bottomline: These rougue admins think they control the new site, but remember, there is only one BZ group and it will be back.
Am looking for help with some others who can help bring up the BZ domains back up to speed: a week/10 days at best.
In the meanwhile, if I were you, I would be careful about saving any private info with them: emails/paypal addresses etc. As I said, I will be back with the sites and the full story with details soon.

Let me give you some numbers closer to the actual figures. Although the monthly inflow is not consistent, all the Bz sites combined used to make north of (roughly) $17,50,000 an year. The main sources being monthly donations, GBs, mass LBIs and by selling BZ accounts (yes, that used to be a thing, how else do you see invites for see or trading on other sites). Yes, the sites were monetized very very well, and that is EXACTLY the reason these rougue ones are trying to wrest control. But rest assured, all the BZ sites will be back to their glory with or without you. I have cleaned up the mess you created on TP and it's up and running. The rest of the BZ sites will follow suit soon enough. I also need some new people to help out on the forums. So let me know who wants to chip in. There will be a rigorous interview for the same though. Together we'll rstore the lost glory.