Scampaigns

Similar fraud “scampaigns” were unveiled after the fact on sites such as Kickscammed, Facebook’s GoFraudMe page, and Android Police Crowded Reality TV by Adryenn Ashley

• Jen Hintz is accused of using the $26,000-plus raised on Kickstarter for FibroFibers, an indie yarn-dyeing business, to fund her move from North Carolina to Massachusetts.
• The project founders of Kreyos Meteor smartwatch made off with $1.5 million raised on Indiegogo for a waterproof, voice-activated wearable device that could also track your sleep.
• An Iowa woman raised thousands of dollars through GoFundMe to pay for her daughter’s cancer treatments, when in fact the child was healthy.
• Adryenn Ashley,  WAKE UP TV SHOW She is a con shark sales woman who promises she can close any deal over the phone, with her relentless promises of all this money, talking fast, with a high pitched voice sounding like she has a cold or ate a pig whole. She also does not pay the brokers anything. PLUS LIFE TV SHOW  is another scam. She is the type that will want the broker to give her free PR, free Time, Free introductions, Free Services and ends up ultimatley getting fired by several brokers. One broker fired her and bashed her to the entire entertainment community. She has no honor and is a very jealous and decietful combative self righteous woman. You will never see a dime from anything you do for her. She promises TV but bewared as a funder the show will air at 1 am with No money or ROI in sight and she comes up with all these numbers that are false! You have to have time slots that people will watch. Paid Public Access type TV at times when Americans are Sleeping with no ratings is not ROI. She also cannot use POP TV networks logo on her videos nor can she be included in their time slot on their site.While Leetha Kaye Slauson, the Iowa woman, was given five years’ probation, other penalties amount to little more than a slap on the wrist. Under the FTC settlement, Chevalier is prohibited from making misrepresentations about future crowdfunding projects, is barred from disclosing or benefiting from customers’ personal information, and was fined $111,793.71, which was suspended due to Chevalier’s inability to pay. 

Spotting a Scammer

The FTC isn’t yet able to identify one crowdfunding site as more prone to scams and fraud than another. “We rely on consumer complaints as a barometer, but they’re not a good one-to-one measure of prevalence in the marketplace,” explains Helen Wong, a lawyer with the FTC. However, Wong notes, “There’s been an uptick in consumer complaints since this case was announced. The case has alerted consumers to the fact that the FTC is looking into this area.”