Category: Ad Surf Daily
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NEW HAVEN REGISTER: Feds, State Investigating Cash-Gifting Schemes In Connecticut; Grand Jury Convenes; State AG Called Gifting Programs The Business Of ‘Parasites’ In Statement About ‘The Women’s Gifting Table’ Last Year
State and federal probes into cash-gifting schemes are under way in Connecticut, the New Haven Register is reporting. Investigators are concerned about so-called “Women’s Gifting Tables,” and women soon will be called before a federal grand jury, the newspaper reported. Similar probes are under way in Michigan. Seven women were charged with felonies last month,…
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‘FRAUD CREEP’: The Two-Word Term That Explains How Crime Expands On The Internet To Affect Tens Of Thousands Of Victims At A Time
EDITOR’S NOTE: Our definition of “fraud creep” — and suggestions on the context in which the term should be applied — appears lower in this story. First, some background . . . Investigators now are counting victims of massive, web-based fraud schemes tens of thousands at a time. Such scams pose both budgetary and logistical…
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Two Days Before Remissions Deadline, ASD Members Receive Yet-Another Confusing, Highly Questionable Email That Suggests Victims Seeking Restitution Should Tell Administrator That Program Was Not An Investment
Some AdSurfDaily members have received an email that appears to be attributed in part to Sara Mattoon, the embattled autosurf firm’s former spokeswoman. The most recent correspondence fractures facts, suggests the government has no credible witnesses or evidence in its wire-fraud and securities-fraud case against ASD President Andy Bowdoin and implies suggestions given to recipients…
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EDITORIAL: ASD By The Numbers: Why America And The World Should Be Shocked — And Why Serial Autosurf And HYIP Promoters Should Be Prosecuted
UPDATED 12:04 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) In court filings this week in the AdSurfDaily autosurf Ponzi scheme case, federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia revealed a series of jaw-dropping numbers. The biggest of these is 500,000 — the number of pages of emails gleaned so far in the investigation, which began in July 2008. Because…
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BULLETIN: 40,000 Potential Victims Identified So Far In ASD Case; Government Says Autosurf Firm May Not Have Entered All Names In Database
BULLETIN: Federal prosecutors now say that a Florida company whose operator is accused of running an international Ponzi scheme may have defrauded 40,000 or more victims and may not have entered all the names of people who gave it money into the firm’s database. Andy Bowdoin, the president of AdSurfDaily, was indicted last month on…
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LETTER TO READERS: PP Blog Calls Police, Turns Off Google AdSense Ads After Search Giant Refuses To Take Report About Chronic Harassment From YouTube Cyberstalker ‘unclefesta26’
Dear Readers, YouTube and Google apparently are unwilling to do anything about the cyberstalker “unclefesta26,” who appears to be harassing the PP Blog (and others) from an IP in the United Kingdom. First, though, let me share some of reasons for this post. The PP Blog is a Google AdSense publisher. On Nov. 17, Google…
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Is Andy Bowdoin Renewing His Efforts To Have Federal Judge Removed From Case? Accused Ponzi Swindler Faces New Filing Deadline To Argue For Case Transfer
Accused Ponzi swindler Andy Bowdoin of Florida-based AdSurfDaily has been granted an extra two weeks to argue that the criminal case against him should be transferred from U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Through his attorneys, Bowdoin informed U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer on Jan. 3 that he intends to file a Rule…
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Georgia Fraud Case Had ASD-Like Elements; Woman Sentenced To 60 Years For Scheme; Cynthia O’Tyson Was Recidivist Offender; TV Camera Captures Sentencing
A Georgia woman with a history of stealing and being placed on probation after serving short stints in custody now has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Cynthia O’Tyson’s sentencing was captured in Superior Court by WRDW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Augusta. The station led its 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts yesterday with…
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UPDATE: MPB Today Now Says Gary Calhoun Was Selected As 2003 ‘Businessman Of The Year’ By National Republican Congressional Committee
Members of the purported MPB Today “grocery” program now are touting company President Gary Calhoun as 2003’s “Businessman of the Year” in promotional news releases and articles online. The company itself is doing the same thing on its website, explaining that Calhoun “was chosen as ‘Outstanding Young Men (sic) in America 1982’ . . .…
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A ‘MONEY MAGNET’ AT WORK: Andy Bowdoin Wows Crowd With Photo Of Building Later Seized; Indicted Autosurf Operator Gives Gordon Gekko-Like Speech In Which Greed Is Recast As A ‘Positive’
EDITOR’S NOTE: Two videos of sales pitches by AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin are linked below. Both are available at publicly accessible websites. The first video shows Bowdoin, in the summer of 2008, wowing a crowd by showing ASD rally attendees a photo of ASD’s new headquarters building in Quincy, Fla. The building later was seized…
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UPDATE: E-Bullion, Firm Alleged To Have Provided Payment Services To ASD, Linked To Alleged Legisi Ponzi Scheme; Like ASD, FEDI Fraud Scheme Called Payments ‘Rebates’
UPDATED 2:25 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Still pushing autosurf and HYIP frauds? Last week, the PP Blog reported that the U.S. Secret Service and federal prosecutors had established a link between California-based E-Bullion and Florida-based AdSurfDaily. E-Bullion is a shuttered payment processor whose owner, James Fayed, is awaiting trial on charges of murdering his wife, Pamela…