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BULLETIN: Recidivist Huckster Jailed In Florida In ‘Body Scan’ Securities Swindle Masterminded Separate Ponzi Scheme In California That Netted $11 Million, SEC Says; Jerry Aubrey Charged Amid Allegations He And Brother Peeled Off Millions For Basketball Tickets And Lavish Home Featuring ‘Giant Fish Aquariums With Miniature Sharks’
Jerry L. Aubrey first came on the SEC’s radar screens in 1998, when he was hawking “securities in a fictitious cruise ship,” records show. By 2007, he’d been charged criminally in Florida with securities fraud for selling shares of a bogus “body scan imaging business” between December 2000 and October 2003. He was convicted of…
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SEC: New York Pitchman, 73, Hawked ‘Illegal Offering’ For Murdoch Security & Investigations Inc. By Spinning Tall Tale Of ‘Anti-Piracy’ And ‘Anti-Terror’ Success On The ‘High Seas’
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the past 24 hours, the SEC has filed charges against two firms purportedly in the business of preventing terrorism. Read the PP Blog’s story about the first firm here. The cavalcade of senior citizens implicated in securities schemes continues — as does the story about the bizarre nature of recent fraud cases…
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BULLETIN: SEC Says InfrAegis — Purported ‘Homeland Security’ Firm With Product To Detect Weapons Of Mass Destruction — Was A $20 Million Fraud Based In Part On A ‘Trillion’-Dollar Lie; Company And CEO Gregory E. Webb Charged
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Illinois to charge InfrAegis Inc. and CEO Gregory E. Webb with fraud amid allegations they fleeced investors in a $20 million scam that traded on post-9/11 fears and claims that government security contracts worth more than $1 trillion would make everybody rich. Webb, 64, resides in…
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UPDATE: YouTube Is Removing Videos For ‘JustBeenPaid,’ Program Hawked By Serial Hucksters; MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi Forum Poster Suggests His Hundreds Of YouTube Accounts Will Enable Him To Circumvent Video Removals
YouTube is removing videos for JustBeenPaid, a “program’ linked to Frederick Mann and popularized by scammers on Ponzi boards such as TalkGold and MoneyMakerGroup. JustBeenPaid promos feature claims of remarkable returns. The removed videos carry messages such as “This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive…
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SPECIAL REPORT: SMOKING GUN? MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi Forum Post Made During Same Month Grand Jury That Indicted AdSurfDaily’s Andy Bowdoin Convened May Tie AdViewGlobal To International Penny-Stock Scheme And Collapsed Payment Processor In Arizona
EDITOR’S NOTE: Longtime readers of the PP Blog will recall that the purported AdSurfDaily (ASD) spinoff known as AdViewGlobal (AVG) and some of its members engaged in particularly bizarre behavior in May 2009. The absurdities included announcing (and then unannouncing) a puported deal with a new offshore wire facilitator, announcing (and then unannouncing) a new…