Tag: Andy Bowdoin
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REALITY CHECK: Is Bowdoin Running Out Of Options?
UPDATED 8:52 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Is AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin quickly running out of options? A small spin campaign appears to be under way, and an email circulating among ASD members suggests the company will hold a conference call Monday. Like everything concerning ASD, the wording of the email is ambiguous. It is possible, however,…
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BREAKING NEWS: Bowdoin Files Corrected Affidavit, But Confusion Remains As Documents Disagree In Places
UPDATED 3:16 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin has filed a corrected affidavit in the civil-forfeiture case, apparently after visiting a notary public earlier today. An affidavit Bowdoin filed yesterday appeared to have lines and an entire paragraph missing. Today’s filing has 23 paragraphs, as opposed to yesterday’s 22. Yesterday’s filing jumped from paragraph…
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BULLETIN: Bowdoin Blames Lawyers, Continues To Fight
UPDATED 6:34 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin has informed a federal judge that he intends to continue to fight the civil forfeiture case. Bowdoin has filed a five-page affidavit in which he claims his defense counsel lied to him and manipulated him, prosecutors asked him “to provide statements which I did not believe…
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UPDATE: The Theory Of ‘Steroidal Puppeteers’
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Feb. 11, we published our theory of “Steroidal Puppeteers” in the ASD case. One of the prongs of the the theory holds that people with criminal intelligence superior to ASD President Andy Bowdoin were smart enough to let him do their bidding or recognized him as the perfect stooge while they remained…
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AdViewGlobal Domains Offline
UPDATED 8:09 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Two domains for the AdViewGlobal (AVG) autosurf will not resolve to a server. The domains are: adviewglobal.com startavga.com Why the domains will not resolve is unclear. The domains normally resolve to a server in Panama. As reported previously, a third domain associated with AVG — advglobal.com — also won’t resolve.…
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EDITORIAL: ‘Meanwhile, Andy Bowdoin Was Negotiating’
Perhaps you’ve read that the AdVentures4U (ADV4U) autosurf suspended payouts on or about Aug. 28. The surf, which purports to be a professional communications firm, butchered its announcement message to such a degree that professional Ponzi promoters began to email their lists to explain what they thought ADV4U was saying. Perhaps the only thing not…
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BREAKING NEWS: Bowdoin Asks For Extension; Lawyer Says ‘Entire Matter’ Could Be Resolved In Agreement
UPDATED 5:06 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The attorney for AdSurfDaily Inc. President Andy Bowdoin has asked a federal judge to extend a key filing deadline until Sept. 21. UPDATE 5:06 P.M: Judge Rosemary Coller, in a minute order just issued, has approved an extension until Sept. 14, not Sept. 21, as Bowdoin had requested. Charles A.…
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People Close To AVG Money Had Large Bankruptcies
UPDATED 11:18 A.M. EDT (U.S.A. AUG. 25) Two men identified as having significant positions of financial trust inside AdViewGlobal (AVG) discharged more than $1.6 million in separate bankruptcy filings, records show. One man used a mail drop as his street address in a 2004 bankruptcy filing that discharged $261,474 while claiming only $6,375 in assets,…
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EDITORIAL: Members Turn On Each Other As 11th Hour Dawns For Andy Bowdoin And AdSurfDaily Inc.
The coming hours and days may mark the end of AdSurfDaily. Fragmentation, fractiousness and bitterness are marking ASD’s final descent into infamy. Steve Watt of TheJoyLuckClub, for instance, is accusing the Mods at the Pro-ASD Surf’s Up forum of covering up for Andy Bowdoin and AdViewGlobal (AVG), an offshoot of ASD. We wish we could…
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BREAKING NEWS: Andy Bowdoin Negotiating With Federal Prosecutors In AdSurfDaily Inc. Forfeiture Case
UPDATED 1:23 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily President Andy Bowdoin — through his attorney — is negotiating with federal prosecutors. Charles A. Murray, Bowdoin’s attorney, has advised U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer that the negotiations “could result in an agreement resolving the matters in dispute either in part or whole.” Prosecutors have consented to Bowdoin being…
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ANNIVERSARY EVE: Message That Altered Lives Appeared On AdSurfDaily Website One Year Ago Tomorrow
It was before Bernard Madoff and before Sir Allen Stanford. President Obama was candidate Obama. Sarah Palin, the little-known governor of Alaska, would not become part of the public consciousness for nearly another month. Few people had heard of the so-called “Arby’s Indians.” Fewer yet could instantly place Uruguay or Panama on a map or…