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FEDS: Man Bilked $10 Million In Ponzi Scheme That Traded On Name Of The Famous NASCAR Brand

Even as stock-car fans were celebrating the news that Indy-car driving star Danica Patrick would hopscotch circuits and participate in a limited number of events in NASCAR’s Nationwide Series next year, federal prosecutors were putting together a Ponzi scheme case against a man alleged to have obtained $10 million by using NASCAR’s name. Eliott Jay…

Dec 15, 2009
Cyberstalker ‘joe’ Sent Repeated Harassing Communications From Network Registered To City Government In California; Threatened To Sue PP Blog

EDITOR’S NOTE: Is it any wonder so many people believe the Internet is just one giant cesspool? This is the latest news on “joe,” who graduated from Ponzi advocacy to cyberstalking in September. UPDATED 4:28 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Saying he wants to give the PatrickPretty.com Blog something else to “chew on” after it announced Saturday…

Dec 15, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENT: PatrickPretty.com Blog To Share Data On ‘unclefesta26’ With Law Enforcement; Blog Also Will Share Data On ‘joe’

DECEMBER 12, 2009, 12:03 P.M. ET (U.S.A.). The PatrickPretty.com Blog announced today that it has made an arrangement to share data about cyberstalkers “unclefesta26” and “joe” on its own initiative with law-enforcement and, at the Blog’s discretion, with the operators of certain websites. The Blog’s decision to share a limited amount of information with authorities…

Dec 12, 2009
THE ‘BOOK’ DEFINED: Louisiana Woman Faces Stunning Total Of 851 Charges In $3 Million Insurance-Fraud Caper

In perhaps their most powerful message to date in the Age of White-Collar Fraud, police have thrown the book at a Louisiana insurance agent, accusing her of an astonishing total of 851 crimes. For good measure, the Louisiana Department of Insurance immediately suspended Jolie R. Bonvillian’s sales license and fined her $21,250. Bonvillian, 40, of…

Dec 10, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: FBI Tells Senate Judiciary Committee It Is Probing 314 HYIP Schemes Only Months After ASD Members Asked Panel To Probe Prosecutors

And to think that only months ago — in February 2009 — various members of AdSurfDaily wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee trying to elicit support for Ponzi schemes. The letter-writing campaign was spearheaded by “Professor” Patrick Moriarty and pushed by the Pro-AdSurfDaily Surf’s Up forum. But now the FBI has told the committee, led…

Dec 10, 2009
Ponzi Suspect to Judge, ‘Jail Me’; Judge To Ponzi Suspect, ‘OK’; Minnesota’s Gerard Frank Cellette Jr. Booked Into Hennepin County Jail On 36 Felony Counts

Gerard Frank Cellette Jr. was implicated by prosecutors in an alleged $53 million Ponzi scheme in Minnesota last month. Cellette, 44, of Andover, Minn., asked a judge to jail him yesterday — and the judge granted his wish. Cellette now is Inmate No. 2009034708 in the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Jail. He was charged Nov. 5…

Dec 10, 2009
Madoff Confessed Ponzi Scheme Year Ago Today; AdViewGlobal Prepared Ponzi Roll-Out Even As Stunned Public Watched Madoff Spectacle Unfold

One year ago today Bernard Madoff uttered a memorable phrase, describing his securities business economically as “one big lie” — and his Ponzi house of cards came tumbling down. Even as Madoff was uttering those three words to his sons and the FBI soon was to knock on his door, the insiders behind the AdViewGlobal…

Dec 10, 2009
AdViewGlobal Recording Suggests Member Cashed Out $10,000 Only Days After Formal Launch And That Insiders Were Awarded Bonuses; Less Than Two Weeks Later, Surf Switched To ‘Private Association’ Structure

UPDATED 7:19 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A recording posted on a public website of a Feb. 12 conference call by the AdViewGlobal (AVG) autosurf suggests an unnamed male member of the surf qualified for a $10,000 cashout within days of the company’s formal launch. The recording leads to questions about how a participant could qualify for…

Dec 7, 2009
INTRIGUE: Is Our ‘joe’ The Surf’s Up ‘joe?’ Egg-Themed HYIP Pitch Leads To Questions As ASD Members Continue To Promote Programs Associated With Ponzi Model

UPDATED 5:24 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Is the “joe” who posted here before being blocked for showcasing an utter lack of restraint the same “joe” who pitched four HYIPs on the Pro-AdSurfDaily Surf’s Up forum two days ago? We don’t know. We do know, however, that both “joes” have pushed Ponzi programs and displayed an astonishing…

Dec 5, 2009
‘Egg’-Themed HYIP Domains Pitched By Surf’s Up Poster Registered In Last Name Of Man Dubbed A ‘Co-Conspirator’ In Scheme To Defraud Prepaid Wireless Company; Government Of Belize Issued Warning About HYIP Site

UPDATED 2:22 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A poster using the handle “joe” at the Pro-AdSurfDaily Surf’s Up forum advertised four egg-themed domain names that redirected to four high-yield investment programs yesterday, sayingÂ in all-caps, “ALL MY EGGS ARE NOT IN ONE BASKET. “I MAKE $2000.00 A WEEK.” It is unclear if the poster has a license to…

Dec 4, 2009
Michigan Woman Charged With Racketeering In Alleged Real-Estate Ponzi Scheme; Rita Gosselin Arrested, Jailed Early This Morning In Greater Detroit

Just hours after news broke of a racketeering indictment by Colorado prosecutors against a Denver-area man in an alleged Ponzi scheme, Michigan prosecutors announced the racketeering indictment of a Greater Detroit woman in what was described as a real-estate Ponzi scheme. In the past two days, prosecutors from different agencies in different regions of the…

Dec 3, 2009

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