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Noobing-Connected Firm Discussed In Senate Hearing

The head of the Federal Trade Commission told a Senate panel yesterday that a firm associated with the Noobing autosurf embarked on a scheme to sell a $59 book and then used a telemarketing company to upsell customers to an expensive program that fraudulently sold “guaranteed” government grants from economic-stimulus funds. “Just last week, some…

Sep 11, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Judge Orders Offshore Assets Of Firm Associated With Noobing Autosurf Repatriated; Broadens Authority Of Receiver To Pursue Recovery

In a ruling that may send shockwaves throughout the offshore autosurf “industry,” a federal judge has ordered the parent company of the Noobing autosurf to repatriate to the United States all assets and documents held on foreign soil. U.S. District Judge Julie A. Robinson also cleared the way for any safe-deposit boxes to be opened…

Sep 3, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Receiver In ASI/Brett Blackman Case Delivers Devastating Preliminary Report; Noobing Autosurf Identified As Part Of ASI Affiliate Fold And Was Registered In Nevis; Belize Used For Other Firm

A receiver appointed to review financial records of Affiliate Strategies Inc. and related companies named defendants in a fraudulent government-grants scheme last month advised a federal judge that the companies were insolvent and had less than one day’s operating cash requirements in their bank accounts. Astonishingly, receiver Larry Cook advised U.S. District Judge Julie A.…

Aug 20, 2009
UPDATE: Receiver In ASI Case Launches Website

Larry Cook, the receiver in the Federal Trade Commission case against Affiliate Strategies Inc., Brett Blackman and several co-defendants, has started a website to inform interested parties. Visit the receiver’s website in the ASI case. The FTC said the defendants were involved in a fraudulent scheme that promised â€œguaranteedâ€ grants of $25,000 from economic-stimulus funds…

Aug 12, 2009
UPDATE: Noobing Surf Site Offline As FTC Fraud Case Against Affiliate Strategies Inc. Proceeds; Receiver Appointed And Expected To File Preliminary Report Soon

A receiver has been appointed in the case against Affiliate Strategies Inc. (ASI) and Brett Blackman, ASI’s president, chief executive officer and founding partner. Noobing, a surfing site, is in the ASI fold, but has not been named a defendant. Regardless, the Noobing site is offline. A federal judge has granted a freeze of ASI’s…

Aug 7, 2009
Noobing, Surf Site That Pitched Itself To Deaf Community, Goes Missing; Purported President Was Named In FTC Complaint Against Separate Firm Last Month That Alleged ‘Guaranteed’ Government ‘Stimulus’ Grants Of $25,000

UPDATED 10:48 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The Noobing surf site is throwing a server error and will not resolve. The development came in the aftermath of a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed late last month against Brett Blackman and others, although Noobing was not named in the FTC complaint. On July 24, a federal judge froze…

Aug 3, 2009