Xtagged.com SCAM (and con-artist Andy Esquivel)
The truth about Xtagged, Wiser Technology, and the scams of Andy Esquivel
Month: April 2012
Andy Esquivel’s pre-trial conference continued to June 19th
Posted on April 26, 2012 in Trial Updates Xtagged
Andy Esquivel’s pre-trial conference continued to June 19th
On April 24th Michael Holje asked for a continuance of the pre-trial conference until June to give him more time to negotiate a plea or prepare for a defense. The court agreed and a 2nd pre-trial conference has been set for June 19th at 8:34am. As always trial updated can be found here [PDF].
Xtagged the Movie and other news!
Posted on April 25, 2012 in Xtagged
Latest news regarding Xtagged and Andy Esquivel
Xtagged Movie!
According to sources who received emails (from Andy) about the project, a new movie is in the works. That’s right, “Xtagged the Movie” will be coming soon to theaters all across Andy’s imagination.
The new film will cover the story of Xtagged from it’s roots in ham radio in the 1950s all the way up to Andy Esquivel’s pending criminal trial and ultimate conviction on securities fraud charges. Comedian Carlos Mecca has reportedly agreed to play the roll of Andy Esquivel in the new film, which will no doubt be directed by Ron Kelsay.
Child Support
In other news, Andy Esquivel is running from the Colorado Office of Recovery Services which is trying to get back child-support from him for the two kids he abandoned in Utah. Since Andy is currently unemployed, hasn’t worked in over a decade, and is about to be charged with fraud, they’re finding it difficult to get Andy to own up to his parental responsibilities. Andy hasn’t paid a dime in child support in years.
Ham Radio
Andy now claims that the real roots of Xtagged were in Ham Radio. He’s come to this conclusion because he noticed one day that Shar Jenkins’ father Silvester C. Jenkins, who is apparently a Ham radio enthusiast, has a personalized license plate with his call leters on it. This has been a practice of HAM radio enthusiasts for years, and therefore Andy concludes that it must have been his inspiration for Xtagged!
Pre-Trial hearing
Andy’s pre-trial hearing was held yesterday at 8:34am. We don’t have any updates on the hearing yet, but will post details once the court records are updated.
“Scam.com” user on Scam.com was always Andy…
Posted on April 12, 2012 in Andy's Threats
Scam.com user was Andy Esquivel
This won’t come as much of a surprise to anybody here, but there’s new evidence that the “Scam.com” user on the Scam.com website was in fact Andy all along.
We all knew it because Andy copied the tagline from out UtahRaves.com thread and made it the tagline of the user, but was too stupid to realize that the tagline got truncated (something any sane person would have seen right away). The “Scam.com” user always posted the most mindless and zombie-like things, and although they were all critical of Andy, they usually only repeated things many of us had already posted or simply agreed with what we said. The user never offered a fresh perspective of Andy’s scams (as a real user would have) and was usually so obnoxious that even those of us who were busy exposing Andy’s scams were annoyed by it’s posts.
Andy used to bash the “Scam.com” straw-man and say that the user was an illustration of the tactics we were using to expose him. Those of us who really did work to expose Andy saw through the ruse and rolled our eyes, but I’m sure the performance earned Andy a few brownie points among his mentally incapacitated followers.
Well just in case anybody on this blog still doubted who “Scam.com” was, the final proof is in: Andy changed the users profile name to read “Bannedddddd”.
The first obvious give-away that this is Andy and not a real user is that when the administrator of a vBulletin message board bans somebody, their username remains the same, but their tagline changes to reflect the new status. Sometimes the username appears with a line through it to make the point clear. Changing the username to “banned” would be silly because every “banned” user would have the same name…a condition frankly not even allowed by the VB database.
Second and even more obvious giveaway is Andy’s use of a string of d’s in the name. Andy is obsessed with strings of d’s because he fell in love with a skit by a comedian named Carlos Mecca a few years back that featured the him in a chicken costume singing a “deedeedee” song. Most of us here never got the joke, but Andy cracks himself up with it all the time so he references the skit any time he gets really excited. I’m sure many of you have heard Andy say “I got you now you DDDs.” It’s the kind of humor only a drug addict could understand.
Andy must have gotten bored waiting for trial and so decided to play with one of his sock-puppets over at Scam.com to amuse himself.
Andy Esquivel Securities Fraud preliminary hearing audio transcript online now.
Posted on April 6, 2012 in Andy's Videos Trial Updates Xtagged
Andy Esquivel Securities Fraud preliminary hearing audio transcript
The audio transcript of Andy Esquivel’s Felony Securities Fraud preliminary hearing and his subsequent arraignment on three felony counts of Securities Fraud is now available here.
- :45 Judge orders all potential witnesses to leave the room except for victims of the crime
- 2:30 prosecutor’s opening statement
- 3:45 Kyle Cluff witness testimony
- 48:00 Chris Engelbreght witness testimony
- 1:13:00 Ryan Butcher witness testimony
- 1:45:00 Adam Sweet Complaint Investigator for the Utah Division of Securities expert testimony
- 1:56:00 Tom Brady Acting Director of Enforcement at the Utah Division of Securities expert testimony
- 2:30:35 Defense Counsel argues for reduction of 2nd degree felony charge
- 2:33:45 Judge finds probable cause for all charges as presented by the state, including securities fraud in the 2nd degree
- 2:37:28 Andy Esquivel is formally indicted and pleads not guilty to one second degree and two third degree felony counts of securities fraud. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for April 24th.
After the hearing was over, Andy walked out of the courtroom and confronted his followers who were forced to wait outside and who had no idea what had just happened in the courtroom. Watch this [VIDEO] of Andy trying to put a good spin on the fact that he was just indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud. It’s really fun to watch a master con artist and pathological liar at work.