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By PatrickPretty.com • December 31st, 2009

A Louisiania man charged criminally in an alleged Ponzi scheme and sued civilly on the same day last month lied to investors, some of whom liquidated retirement savings and annuities only to suffer massive losses by entrusting funds to Matthew B. Pizzolato, a federal judge has ruled.
The case against Pizzolato is proceeding on separate tracks: [...]

Dear Readers,
Need a thought-provoking diversion? Whether you’re a man or woman, a conservative or a liberal, a fan of political correctness or a critic who figures the world is tilting toward madness because of all the straining to be nice, “The Kenmore Conspiracy” will provide you with some things to think about.
“The Kenmore Conspiracy” mixes [...]

UPDATED 5:16 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) NOTE: After additional research, the 10-digit number cited below appears not to be a bank-account number. Rather, it appears to be a telephone number associated with Nate Boyd, a former compliance officer for AdSurfDaily. Boyd’s name also has been associated with the AdViewGlobal (AVG) autosurf.
See the comments thread below.
Here, our [...]

UPDATED Jan. 20, 2010: Sale. Price of Single-User License for “Rebates Aren’t Guaranteed” lowered to $9.88.
Dear Readers,
We are pleased today to release, “Rebates Aren’t Guaranteed: The True Story Of Ponzi Deceptions And Myths In The Criminal Autosurf ‘Industry.’”
Belong to an autosurf? Thought about joining one? Think they’re harmless?
Think again. “Rebates Aren’t Guaranteed” reveals some [...]

UPDATED 1:18 P.M. EDT (NOV 2, 2009, U.S.A.)
Now Available
Dear Readers,
On Monday, Nov. 2, we will release an eReport titled, “Rebates Aren’t Guaranteed: The True Story Of Ponzi Deceptions And Myths In The Criminal Autosurf ‘Industry.’”
The PDF-formatted product will be available through e-Junkie.com, with convenient payment via PayPal or major credit card, where available. We are [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was prompted by a post we saw on Scam.com. The “lede” is deliberately buried in this article in favor of some background information.
During the 1990s, I was sitting at home one evening just minding my own business. Back in those days I routinely had staggered newspaper deadlines beginning at 7 p.m. [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’ve been approached by individuals or a downline “team” and invited to join an online “surfing” program that purports to be an “advertising” company, this column may be of some value to you. Extremely well-known publishing companies — companies that produce titles you know and love, and companies that know advertising and [...]

Federal agents, local police officers and prosecutors nationwide have carried out the largest action “ever undertaken against a Mexican drug cartel,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced.
At least 303 individuals in 19 states were arrested in the past two days alone as part of Project Coronado. More than 3,000 agents and officers operated across the [...]

Dear Readers,
From time to time I publish a post in letter form. This usually happens when a post in story, editorial or essay form does not seem appropriate. This is one of those times.
Honestly, just how strange could things get in Ponzi Land?
Ponzi Land, which relatively few people outside of law enforcement even knew existed [...]

Stewart David Nozette was arrested by the FBI yesterday for attempted espionage. Though Nozette was not formally charged with the Constitutional crime of treason — the only crime specifically described in the Constitution — the crime of espionage is viewed by the public as an act of treason against the United States because selling secrets [...]

The spread of online commerce has been accompanied by a spread of elaborate frauds — some of which have gathered tens of millions of dollars.
Accompanying the fraud have been stares of disbelief. Not all of the stares have been directed at the fraudsters themselves. Indeed, thousands and thousands of people globally at any point in [...]

Last week was an odd one for millions of Americans. President Obama was announced the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and no one really knew what to do.
The Peace Prize is the big one, the Nobel people remember for generations. But Obama has been in office only months, and the Nobel committee more than [...]

UPDATED 7:15 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Homicide detectives are investigating a disturbing situation in Arizona in which two people have died and others developed severe medical symptoms after engaging in a group sauna at the Angel Valley Retreat in Sedona.
Angel Valley promotes “a unique energetic environment to support your journey of self-discovery, healing and realization of [...]

Tomorrow President Obama will present the Congressional Gold Medal to American icon Arnold Palmer.
The AP wire carried the story today. By coincidence, the Orlando Sentinel simultaneously was reporting that a two-year-old girl was rushed to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, after she was found submerged and unresponsive in a swimming pool.
Simultaneously Florida Today was reporting [...]

Andy Bowdoin, whom federal prosecutors said appropriated the brand of the institution of the Presidency of the United States to make more Ponzi sales, now has turned to the wholesome brand of the Miss America Organization to sanitize the Ponzi business.
Members of Bowdoin’s autosurf company, AdSurfDaily, also appropriated the brand of Google, claiming the surf firm had a [...]

The head of the Federal Trade Commission told a Senate panel yesterday that a firm associated with the Noobing autosurf embarked on a scheme to sell a $59 book and then used a telemarketing company to upsell customers to an expensive program that fraudulently sold “guaranteed” government grants from economic-stimulus funds.
“Just last week, some of [...]

UPDATED 11:57 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) There are widespread reports this morning that AdVentures4U (ADV4U), the new darling of the autosurf world, is suspending “revenue sharing” and that its owner was threatened.
The reports come on the heels of various reports that the surf slashed payout rates and poured money into a gold-buying business known as TradingGold4Cash. [...]

UPDATED 7:53 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdViewGlobal (AVG), which also is known as the AV Global Association (AVGA), registered the association name as a fictitious entity in Florida in April, canceled and re-registered it in May — and canceled the registration again July 21 in a transaction that involved a hotel fax machine in Montevideo, Uruguay, [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Information in this story was gleaned Tuesday and Wednesday from a source who spoke to the PatrickPretty.com Blog on the condition of anonymity. We interviewed the source Wednesday. The source said a large group of individuals once loyal to Andy Bowdoin no longer could stand in his corner. “We got mixed up in [...]