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UPDATE: Club Asteria Pitchman And TalkGold Promoter ’10BucksUp’ Declares That Filing An AlertPay Dispute To Recover Money From Yet-Another Tanking HYIP Scheme ‘Drastic’ Measure That Will Cause ‘All’ Members To ‘Suffer’

You can’t make this stuff up . . . A Club Asteria pitchman flogging multiple HYIP schemes on the TalkGold Ponzi forum says that late-entry members of a teetering “program” known as “JustBeenPaid” are engaging in hurtful and “drastic measures” if they file disputes with AlertPay. Filing a dispute means that “all members will suffer,”…

Sep 6, 2011
BULLETIN: Commodities Online LLC Fraud Case Takes Unexpected Turn; Federal Judge Says Defense Attorney Accused Her Of ‘Trampling’ On Client’s Constitutional Rights In Issuing Order To Turn Over $1.45 Million To Court-Appointed Receiver

BULLETIN: A federal judge in Florida who says she was accused of “abusing” her discretion and “trampling” the Constitutional rights of a man implicated in an alleged multimillion-dollar commodities fraud by the SEC has ordered the defense attorney who made the assertions to explain himself and substantiate claims that his client had been denied due…

Sep 3, 2011
SPECIAL REPORT: PROSECUTION: More Than 11,000 Remissions Claims And 150,000 Pages Of Documentation Received In AdSurfDaily Case; Number Of Claims Greatly Exceeds Population Of ASD’s Home Base Of Quincy, Fla.

UPDATED 12:09 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Federal prosecutors effectively advised U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer last month that enough people to fill a small city had filed remissions claims in the AdSurfDaily autosurf Ponzi case. Although prosecutors did not reveal a precise number, they said in court filings that more than 11,000 people had filed claims…

Sep 3, 2011
BULLETIN: SEC Says Alleged Life-Settlement Scammer Ran $4.5 Million Fraud And Ponzi Scheme — And Spent $5,000 On ‘Cowboy Boots’ And Another $5,000 For ‘Dating Service’ While Directing $55,000 To A ‘Tribute’ For Deceased Entertainer Michael Jackson; Image Of Former President Bill Clinton Appears On Website

UPDATED 4:32 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) It’s only getting stranger . . . The SEC has gone to federal court in Los Angeles and obtained an emergency asset freeze for what it described as a $4.5 million life-settlement fraud and Ponzi scheme operated by a man who spent more than $5,000 in investor funds on “cowboy…

Sep 2, 2011
UPDATE: MLM Pitchman Jeff Long Warned Against ‘EZ MONEY Pitches’ When He Fled DNA, Narc That Car Last Year; Long Now Promoting AutoXTen Cycler Amid Claims That Members Can ‘Turn $10 into $199,240’

Jeff Long, one of the purported founders of the AutoXTen matrix-cycler scheme, warned his followers last year to “Stay away from ‘EZ MONEY’ pitches and claims.” A year later, Long appears to be ignoring his own advice. The 2010 warning appeared in a YouTube video Long edited after he had led his troops into registering…

Sep 2, 2011
KABOOM! Oregon Destroys Carcass Of 2X2 Matrix Cycler Promoted On Ponzi Boards And Exposes Follow-Up Scheme By Emailing Admin; Recidivist Scam Promoter Kristopher K. Keeney Fined $345,000; State Says He Led Investors Into Pyramid Scheme, Sold Unregistered Securities, Lied To Recruits

BULLETIN: After a securities investigator emailed a “program” admin for information in 2008, the state of Oregon systematically destroyed the carcass of a collapsed 2X2 cycler in a months-long probe that exposed a secondary scheme, according to records. Kristopher K. Keeney, a recidivist offender with a P.O. Box in Milwaukie, Ore., presided over InC, also…

Sep 1, 2011
Document Linked To Company Associated With AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming Is Referenced In Congressional Record As ‘Claim Against The United States Of America’

UPDATED 6:55 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A garden-variety, lawful protest commonly received in mailrooms within the halls of power? A self-serving, reality-inverting tale of the civil-forfeiture case against the proceeds of an alleged $110 million autosurf Ponzi scheme? A backdoor bid to end-run rulings made by the U.S. Judiciary and hand an invoice to the U.S.…

Aug 31, 2011
BULLETIN: Second Notary With Tie To AdSurfDaily Figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming Has License Revoked In Washington State; Woman’s Name Appeared On ASD Court Docket Last Year

BULLETIN: The state of Washington has revoked the notary license of Kathryn E. Aschlea. The precise reason for the revocation was not immediately clear, although the state’s website said Aschlea “failed to comply with [a] fine and education sanction.” Aschlea is listed in Washington state records as a business associate of AdSurfDaily figure Kenneth Wayne…

Aug 30, 2011
UPDATE: ASD’s Bowdoin Claims Hurricane Irene Knocked His Fundraising Website Offline; Accused Ponzi Schemer Says He’s Confident Jury Will Acquit Him; Messages Follow Earlier Claims From ASD Figures That May Raise Questions About Whether An Effort To Obstruct Justice Was Under Way

In recent emails to members, accused Ponzi schemer Andy Bowdoin of Florida-based AdSurfDaily has predicted that a jury in the District of Columbia will acquit him based on the testimony of expert witnesses. Bowdoin, 76, has been appealing to members he is accused of defrauding in a $110 million scheme to pony up $500,000 to…

Aug 30, 2011
WHEN PONZIS COLLIDE: Receiver’s Probe Into Commodities Online LLC ‘Severely Delayed And Impeded’ By ‘Noncooperation’; Federal Judge Orders James Clark Howard III And Sutton Capital LLC To Disgorge $1.45 Million; Firm That Listed AdSurfDaily Figure (And ‘Surf’s Up’ Mod) As ‘Director’ Sued Howard In 2010

A federal judge in Florida has ordered a convicted narcotics and firearms felon who emerged as a central figure in a Ponzi scheme case after his release from prison to disgorge $1.45 million. The order, signed Aug. 23 by U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz, applies to James Clark Howard III and Sutton Capital LLC.…

Aug 30, 2011
BULLETIN: FLORIDA — AGAIN (UPDATE): James Risher Ponzi Scheme Used Pitchman Who Targeted Teachers, Retirees, Church Members, Golfers, SEC Says; Risher Had 5 Prior Criminal Convictions; Pitchman Daniel Joseph Sebastian Now Charged Civilly

“[Y]ou invest in this fund and all of a sudden you start making more money than you’ve ever made in your life with your investors. And then all of a sudden you start making enough money where you don’t have to go to work . . . [a]t Safe Harbor, you could retire today, like…

Aug 29, 2011