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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. […]

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 “guaranteed” grants of $25,000 from economic-stimulus funds […]

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 […]

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 […]

UPDATED 3:44 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Topic: In their response to an Andy Bowdoin pleading, federal prosecutors yesterday pointedly referred to ASD  insiders as Bowdoin “associates” and “confederates.” Is it a signal? Topic: Shad Foss, whom the receiver in the CEP Ponzi scheme case views as a Ponzi promoter worthy of pursuing for clawbacks, sent an […]

Ning.com sites by David Courtney that promoted autosurfs have been taken offline without explanation. It is unclear if the removal is permanent, but sites for MegaLido, AdGateWorld and BizAdSplash went offline last night and remain offline this morning. “This social network has been taken offline by its owner,” each site said. “It’s likely that the […]

UPDATE 2:49 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) At a gathering of creditors today, Irving Picard, the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, said he could find no evidence that Madoff even purchased securities for customers in the past 13 years. Cash came in — and immediately went out — to sustain the Ponzi, […]

UPDATE 9:08 A.M. EST (FEB. 19 U.S.A.) After having gone missing yesterday, entries below “Noobing Rotator’s Top Rated Sites” on Noobing’s main page have returned. But previous entries for Rachel Ray, the Red Cross, Omaha Steaks and OrganicConsumers no longer are there. Here, below, our earlier post . . . Controversial surf site Noobing has […]

UPDATE 4:16 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) The Noobing domain — www.noobing.com — is now back online. It had been offline for more than an hour, throwing this error message: “The remote name could not be resolved: ‘gonoobing.blogspot.com.’ What caused this and why the domain tried to resolve to a Blog instead of the sales website are […]

UPDATED 9:11 PM. EST (U.S.A.) An autosurf excoriated in forums for slashing payouts has hearing-impaired clients, according to several videos on YouTube. At least 15 of the YouTube videos feature sign language and appear to have been created by hearing-impaired members of Noobing. Many of the videos use the word “Noobing” — coupled with the […]

UPDATED 12:37 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) Members of an autosurf named “Noobing” are beginning to complain about “low” rates of return. Is the surf trying to horde cash? Noobing members are complaining publicly about “bait and switch.” They were attracted to the program by suggestions of returns of up to 3 percent a day, but the […]