September 26, 2014

The SEC charged Charles S. Wang, Qian Cathy Zhang and Francis Y. Yuen, operators of Hong Kong-based eAdGear Holdings Limited and California-based eAdGear, Inc., with running an international pyramid scheme that raised more than $129 million from investors worldwide, primarily in the U.S., China, and Taiwan.   According to the SEC, even though eAdGear claimed to be a successful Internet marketing company, nearly all of its revenue was generated by investors, not its products or services and eAdGear’s operators used money from new investors to pay earlier investors as well as to repay a personal loan and purchase million-dollar homes for themselves. SEC

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