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Dear brothers and sisters,
It has been brought to our attention that the innocent public has fallen victim to scam artist Adam McBride and his company Equiso. In July 2012 McBride used the social fundraising platform Kickstarter to scam users out of $241,000. Backers were left out of money and with a product that pre-existed in the form of an UPTEK HDMI dongle, not as McBride claimed 'a revolutionary smart tv device.' McBride has since scammed investors out of funds in excess of +$2,000,000.
We demand justice for the innocent and persecution of the criminal, Adam McBride. Justice can be served with McBride refunding the $241,000 to Kickstarter backers and +$2,000,000 to investors. $1,800,000 to investors Teed and Shollmier and $275,000 to Heller.
If the monies are not paid to the above we will take extreme action against McBride, Equiso and company Kickstarter as they are guilty for not attending to the needs of backers and allowing this scam to continue while reaping the profits from the innocent; we will begin releasing sensitive information with regards to McBride including banking accounts, credit information, passwords, emails, social media. From there we will move forward with each member of Equiso as listed below as well as their partnering companies. We will reek havoc upon retailers carrying an Equiso product. We will reek havoc upon Kickstarter. We will also place fault upon company UPTEK and release information we have uncovered about their operations.
Demand is also made that McBride publicly apologize to injured parties via Kickstarter platform.
Adam McBride, You have one week to comply with the above demand before we begin leaking information.
So you understand how serious we are we will release to the public your private firmware update you have slated for Walmart only launch.
Link to firmware update: http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=385825&uk=371999023
Criminal: Adam McBride of Equiso Smart TV
Victims: Supporters via Kickstarter / investors: Teed, Shollmier and Heller / employees scammed out of money / big box retailers
FACTS:
- July 2012 Equiso closed on $241,000 via Kickstarter
- McBride promised to send backers the product by end of Sept 2012
- To date many have still not received their promised item in exchange for their financial support
- Product that has been received has been a faulty rebrand of the HDMI stick already in circulation via Shenzhen company UPTEK
- McBride used Kickstarter funds to fund his lifestyle and not deliver the quality promised item
- Kickstarter refuses to get involved
- Backers are now out of hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Heller invested in excess of $250,000
- October 18, 2012 - McBride granted Heller a 30% equity ownership of the company via Operating Agreement
- November 2012 - Heller championed the concerns of Kickstarter backers and unveiled McBride's illegal use of backer funds and immoral running of the operations.
- November 28 2012 - Heller complained of sexual harassment from McBride and Jeffry Waye
- On December 1, 2012 after taking in excess of $250,000 from Heller, McBride Waye illegally locked her out of the company
- McBride illegally transferred company assets from Echotech LLC (California) to Equiso.com Inc (DE)
- March 1 2013 - McBride released a public offer of $1,800,000 in shares of company equity to Ralph A. Teed
- March 2013 Walmart has placed a PO for the product but is unaware that they have been lied to by McBride and Distribution Company DPG - they are unaware of the entire scam McBride has built
Kickstarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2028163448/equiso-smart-tv-turn-any-tv-into-a-smart-tv
Equiso Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EquisoSmartTV?ref=ts&fref=tsEquiso
Twitter Page: @EquisoSmartTV
March 1, 2013 SEC Filing: http://www.secinfo.com/d1FU32.xe.htm
Public 3rd party Forum: http://equisoforum.com/
Adam McBride Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/adamdmcbride
Jeffry Waye Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Ev0H8t3r?ref=ts&fref=ts
Equiso Shipping solution: Shipwire.com account distribution@equiso.com
Payment solution: PayPal account: sales@equiso.com
McBride's Bank account: Bank of America
Distribution Company: DPG: http://www.dpgdistribution.com/
Company Emails:
Adam McBride: adam@equiso.com
Jeffry Waye: jeffry@equiso.com
John Scullin: john.scullin@equiso.com
Ying Yao: ying@equiso.com
Dan Val: dan@equiso.com
Kristy: kristy@uptek.com
Wal-mart contact: Kevin O'Connon SVP Consumer Electronics kevin.oconnor@wal-mart.com
Source: http://anonnews.org/
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