Picture Story: Hailed A ‘Hero’ By ‘Surf’s Up’ Advocates’ Site And AdViewGlobal Forum, Will Curtis Richmond Save The Day For Beleaguered AdSurfDaily Inc. And Andy Bowdoin Faithful?
UPDATE AND EDITOR’S NOTE 8:07 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) The screen shots below are of actual court documents in litigation involving Curtis Richmond and the sham Utah “Indian” tribe. If you’d like to view the full PDF of the court filings from which the screen shots were made, please click here. It’s a long but interesting […]
No Claims Filed In Second AdSurfDaily-Connected Seizure
UPDATED 1:31 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) Nearly two months have passed since federal prosecutors went to court and filed a second forfeiture complaint against assets tied to AdSurfDaily Inc., an alleged $100 million Ponzi scheme. The document was filed Dec. 19, about a week before Christmas. As of the morning of Feb. 6, 2009, no party […]
EDITORIAL: Welcome To The Age Of The Portable Ponzi
UPDATED 3:09 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) Talk about a message at odds with itself. Yesterday AdViewGlobal, which does not identify its owners and claims it has no affiliation with AdSurfDaily Inc., revealed its chief executive officer also is or was an executive at ASD (emphasis added): “Since Mr. [Gary] Talbert was and is the C.E.O. for […]
AdViewGlobal Touted As ‘Billion Dollar Company’
Two days before Christmas a poster at FreeLunchRoom.com declared that AdViewGlobal would be a “1 Billion Dollar Company [before the] end of 2009.” In an enthusiastic prelaunch endorsement, the poster exclaimed that AdViewGlobal is “the company we have been waiting for!” Could AdViewGlobal really put one-thousand million dollars on the table before the end of […]
Follow-Up: No Autosurf Cure For Struggling Newspapers
Our site has been serving more pages, fueled in large measure by readers’ interest in the AdSurfDaily case and our reports on Ponzi fraud and securities fraud. We got a mention in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week (and later on Google News, which picked up the P-I column) in response to our column on whether […]
Roster: Are These Autosurfs In Litigation? Troubled?
Back in August we began to cover AdSurfDaily Inc., a Florida company accused of being an illegal enterprise. Federal prosecutors said ASD, an autosurf, was selling unregistered securities by calling itself an “advertising” company and running a $100 million Ponzi scheme. A sister site, LaFuenteDinero, was named in the same federal forfeiture complaint. So was […]
Ad View Global, New ‘Advertising’ Program, Debuts
This morning we read an early pitch for Ad View Global (AVGlobal), a new “advertising” company that is coming online in the wake of the $100 million government seizure of assets tied to AdSurfDaily Inc. AVGlobal, according to the promoter’s ad we read, is positioning itself as a guarantee against the recession and poor economy. […]