Members Say AdViewGlobal Problems Are Mounting
UPDATED 11:07 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdViewGlobal (AVG) members have asked the company to produce a photograph of the company’s purported headquarters building in Uruguay. Meanwhile, members are complaining about slow payouts or no payouts from the autosurf and requesting photographs of the company’s management team.
At the same time, they are complaining about a lack of communication from the company, which purports to be headquartered in Uruguay but recently issued a news release with a dateline of Tallahassee, Fla.
As tensions build, AVG members say they are being left in the dark. And they question why queries do not get answered and why the surf’s payout rate is so “low.”
Although some promoters have suggested the company is conducting an internal “audit” to determine how much fraud occurred within the system because of misuse of a member-to-member cash button, the company itself provided the button.
How the company will determine what constitutes fraud is unclear. Some members acquired millions of page impressions by taking advantage of 200 percent — and even 250 percent — matching-bonus programs that ran virtually continuously for months.
In May, AVG announced a deal that permitted members to wire money to an offshore bank to acquire page impressions (ad-packs). Within days, however, one of the companies AVG identified as a facilitator of the wire transfers denied it had any business relationship with AVG and said it believed it had been targeted in a scam.
AVG withdrew the announcement after the company issued the denial, which raised the prospect that AVG had attempted to route money to itself by using the account of a separate company located in Florida.
A debit card that costs $30 — and permits people to pay AVG for “advertising” but not to withdraw “earnings” — also has led to questions. Members said the company was selling the debit card through PayPal, even though PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy expressly forbids the company’s services to be used for pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes.
The company that provides the debit card, Secure Cash Network Inc. (SCN), says in its Terms of Service that the card cannot be used for the purchase of illegal products and services. Many jurisdictions consider the autosurf business model to be illegal, and the U.S. government has successfully prosecuted a number of surf firms in recent years.
It is unclear if AVG has its own PayPal account or if a third-party account is being used to collect the money for the debit card, with the money somehow routed to AVG later. The utility of the debit card itself also is in question, since SCN says the card cannot be used to purchase illegal products or services.
More than 70 percent of AVG’s web traffic originates in the United States, according to one web service.
Proof can’t be shown of something that does not exist.
People like you, correction, david, however insist that everyone else is wrong.
In order to make that statement, you must have some kind of proof to back it up. You don’t.
We understand you don’t want to admit it and that you are just worried that you’ll never get any more suckers to make your money back but we already know you don’t have any.
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I don’t particularly care about ASD but I will say again, I challenge you to come on the AVGA corporate call and ask your questions and get the answers straight from the horses mouth, if you have the balls to do it.That way you can ask any question you want, Donna isn’t hiding from anything and I would like to hear the answer too. Just think, your 10 minutes of fame exposing AVGA for the scam that it is. What a hero! Go ahead, make my day.
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Joe,
’round and ’round we go….
You do know that Bowdoin admitted, twice, in legal filings, that ASD was an illegal operation, don’t you? I am also certain that you cannot articulate the differences between AVG and ASD, and I pretty much guarantee you cannot articulate the mathematical differences between the two (hint: there are none). Do you buy the premise that if ASD was an illegal Ponzi, then so was AVG in its early days? Even you ally CORRECTION! has admitted as much……
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IN it’s early days? Why isn’t it still?
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Also unfortunately correction may be a member but he isn’t exactly a spokesman and he doesn’t always have a very clear picture of what’s going on. He has said some things here that made me do a double take but whatever.
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Joe,
I refer to the early days in CORRECTION!’s terms, where he/she stated that now AVG is correcting some earlymistakes & trying to line up outside revenue. I’ll change to the “very early days” then, before AVG tried to do the things it is doing now, when all they did was to try to build the network by paying off old members with new member money….
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I dont know about AGVA correcting earlier mistakes, but one thing has been done. Last night,there were about 138 posts on the AVGA forum. Checking today the number has been reduced to 91. Looks like the censor has been at work during the night.
Don’t you love the way these legal advertising companies operate?
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