ASD Ad Cash Generator - Scam or A Real Gem?

Studiotraffic was a "get-paid autosurf" site which was launched in late 2003 by an unknown person, going by the name of John Horan. It paid its users to watch advertisements every day. For each day that its users watched the required number of advertisements, they got paid 1% of their account level - for example, if they had a $100 account level, they got paid $1 each day they watched the advertisements. All users started out with a free $10 account level, and they could purchase upgrades to increase their account level up to a maximum of $80,000. The rules later changed, allowing users to have only one account, and to earn a maximum of $21,000 per month.

On March 29th, 2006 the last version of the Studiotraffic.com website was still active and listed the following figures for member fees and number of total members:Web Archive Project saved last day of Studiotraffic.com (March 29, 2006)

- Total Membership Fees to Date $ 20,021,560

- Total Studio Traffic Members 395,547

Studiotraffic is now defunct; its domain names have been taken over by MyFileHut.com. Many of its former members found themselves almost bankrupt as the site shut down without prior warning. The owner of the site disappeared and has not been heard from since.

Charis F. Johnson was the founder and administrator of the investment autosurf 12DailyPro. Johnson founded LifeClicks, LLC, the company which owns 12DailyPro, in her apartment home in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

12DailyPro was a version of what is commonly known as a ?paid autosurf? program where ?investors? deposited money, ranging from US$6.00 to US$6000.00 per account, and received an extremely high profit (44%) within a short period (12 days). Under the umbrella of her company, LifeClicks, and through the use of her experience in marketing and web development, Johnson created one of the largest modern day versions of the Ponzi scheme. Through the use of her website, she manipulated thousands of people to join and deposit money. In the later stages of the fraudulent scheme, she managed to retain investors' trust by repeatedly bouncing blame and failures on other companies, groups, and individuals, including Brigham Young University students and professors, StormPay, ABC4 News of Salt Lake City, Utah, The Owners of Talkgold.com and even the government of the United States. ?Ms. Johnson was extremely successful in attracting investors and raised approximately $50 million in less than nine months.? [http://www.tlennonfor12dailypro.com/media/12DP_FirstInterimReport.pdf] It was later discovered that Johnson had been siphoning money from the funds she generated using 12DailyPro (an excess of US$1.9 million dollars) into her personal bank account since mid 2005. When the company was shut down many of these people lost large sums of money, although the earliest ?investors? remained in profit.

On 24 February 2006, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered 12DailyPro and its parent company to cease and desist all operations. On 28 February, a Los Angeles judge ordered all company assets and records to be turned over to an appointed receiver for investigation, who published his first interim report on 1 September 2006 (see below). Charis F. Johnson now faces criminal and civil suits from both local and federal agencies.