While supporters of the group's methods have stated that it can exploit loopholes in mortgage documents to prevent the takeover of at-risk properties from bank repossession, a number of politicians, financial advisors and legal commentators have warned that the group's purpose is to scam investors and embezzle funds while claiming to place the property into a non-existent 'trust'.
[5][6] The first mention of the 'trust' in the media was in July 2013 when the Irish Examiner reported that a number of indebted individuals had been pledging certain assets to this trust.
[11] Allen was later arrested,[4] and subsequently released after giving an undertaking "not to interfere with or trespass on" specific lands in County Kildare which were subject to receivership.
[2] A 2013 article in The Irish Examiner stated that "despite its growing popularity, there is no general understanding of how the trust can trump commitments borrowers have made in their loan agreements".
[20] A 2018 paper, published by the Center for Expertise and Training on Religious Fundamentalism and Radicalization in Canada, described the organisation as a "pseudolaw-based entity" that advocated pseudolegal concepts such as the "strawman theory".