Bert Young's uSight scam comment
Message ID: 127979
Posted By: stats_for_all
Posted On: 2004-04-27 17:51:00
Subject: Re: Bert Young's uSight scam comment
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I tried not to editorialize much in my discussion of the uSight scam. I just want to get some of the mass of information out there.
Fundamentally, uSight was a slimey scam, where unsophisticated grandmothers were robbed of their savings after they attended "seminars" with visions of selling their teddy bear collections on the web. This is really that ugly.
The disconnect here is what the dot-com high flyer Bert Young was doing mugging grandmothers for they pin money.
I think the presence of epenzio and Leasecomm points to a level of national syndication in this scam.
Avalon Digital Marketing Services was once a legitimate business, it is a shell company at this point, doing business out of a PO Box in Sandy, Utah owned by Brad Campbell. It appears to me that it was raided by thieves.
The presence of Liberty Vending, Vendworx and the other vending machine companies with associated business adresses raised flags for me. My experience growing up was vending machine companies were exclusively Mafia fronts.
My speculation is Bert Young's old associates from his Waste Management days found him the job at uSight.
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Posted By: stats_for_all
Posted On: 2004-04-27 17:51:00
Subject: Re: Bert Young's uSight scam comment
Recs: 12
I tried not to editorialize much in my discussion of the uSight scam. I just want to get some of the mass of information out there.
Fundamentally, uSight was a slimey scam, where unsophisticated grandmothers were robbed of their savings after they attended "seminars" with visions of selling their teddy bear collections on the web. This is really that ugly.
The disconnect here is what the dot-com high flyer Bert Young was doing mugging grandmothers for they pin money.
I think the presence of epenzio and Leasecomm points to a level of national syndication in this scam.
Avalon Digital Marketing Services was once a legitimate business, it is a shell company at this point, doing business out of a PO Box in Sandy, Utah owned by Brad Campbell. It appears to me that it was raided by thieves.
The presence of Liberty Vending, Vendworx and the other vending machine companies with associated business adresses raised flags for me. My experience growing up was vending machine companies were exclusively Mafia fronts.
My speculation is Bert Young's old associates from his Waste Management days found him the job at uSight.
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