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Retooling as it hatches a plan to launch anew? Huddling with its mysterious lawyer because the U.S. Department of Justice called it a “fraudulent scheme” and “pyramid” pushed by an accused felon awaiting trial in his Ponzi scheme case? The website of “OneX” has been displaying an “under maintenance” message for days. The development occurs […]

UPDATED 11:12 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) After the U.S. Secret Service seized tens of millions of dollars in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi case in 2008, some of ASD’s Stepfordian members advanced the bizarre theory that ASD should have been left untouched because Social Security — a U.S. government program — is a Ponzi scheme. The argument, which […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (5TH UPDATE: 5:54 P.M. EDT) Andy Bowdoin has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi case. A bond-review hearing for the 77-year-old ASD patriarch had been scheduled for 2 p.m. today. Instead, the proceeding turned into a plea hearing. “The Internet now allows swindlers to perpetrate fraud on […]

UPDATED 12:06 P.M. EDT (MAY 5, USA): Andy Bowdoin’s bond-review hearing has been rescheduled from May 8 to May 18. Here, below, our earlier story . . . Only days ago, federal prosecutors described the OneX “program” pitched online by accused Ponzi schemer Andy Bowdoin of AdSurfDaily as a “fraudulent scheme” and “pyramid” that “simply […]

UPDATED 7:44 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.). A potentially damning audio recording of a March 15 conference call in which Frederick Mann told JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid members that the “opportunity” was paying them with money from “new members” has gone missing from the JSS/JBP website. The precise date on which the recording was removed was not immediately clear. […]

With federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia now saying AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin was involved in multiple fraud schemes after the U.S. Secret Service seized  $65.8 million from his personal bank accounts in August 2008 in a Ponzi probe, the ASD patriarch now faces a bond-review hearing in Washington. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer […]

UPDATED 11:40 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.)  Federal prosecutors say they’ve tied AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin to the failed AdViewGlobal autosurf and intend to introduce evidence of “uncharged misconduct” at Bowdoin’s trial for the alleged ASD Ponzi scheme. Meanwhile, prosecutors say “OneX” — a “program” Bowdoin said he was pitching to help pay for his criminal defense […]

“There is a line between First Amendment Rights vs. Libel here. So, when does your right to form an opinion begins (sic) and when does it constitute a defamation of character? The answer is, law enforcement agencies don’t pay attention to what’s being said on forums and blogs, so get your head straight and feet […]

BULLETIN: A Florida jury found that TD Bank assisted now-disbarred and imprisoned attorney Scott Rothstein in his epic Ponzi scheme and has found the bank liable for $67 million in damages. Read a story in the Sun Sentinel about the federal-court verdict that went against TD Bank. The victorious attorney in the civil case is […]

UPDATE: “Dave,” the purported “admin” of an increasingly bizarre HYIP known as JSS Tripler 2 (T2), has blocked public access to the T2 forum. T2, which purportedly was born after a meeting of Ponzi-forum minds, is using payment processors notoriously friendly to Ponzi and fraud schemes. The “program” is trading on the name of a […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Any number of ventures have tied themselves to claims of remarkable returns made possible by purchasing “advertising” products and services or agreeing to watch or receive “advertisements” in a closed environment. Longtime readers will recall that AdViewGlobal (AVG) came out of the gate in late 2008 and early 2009 by claiming what it […]