Xtagged.com SCAM (and con-artist Andy Esquivel)
The truth about Xtagged, Wiser Technology, and the scams of Andy Esquivel
Month: November 2012
New trial date set in Andres Esquivel’s securities fraud case
Posted on November 28, 2012 in Trial Updates
A new trial date has been set in Andy Esquivel’s securities fraud case. A final pre-trial hearing will occur on January 15th followed by a jury trial on February 27th and 28th where Andy will be represented by a public defender (because he cannot afford to pay for an attorney himself). Full updates can be viewed in the case file here.
On the 28th of February we expect the court to find that Andres Esquivel did in fact sell “securities” to three men in Davis County Utah and therefore did in fact violate the law. Andy continues to claim that he did NOT sell securities to these three men and that he is therefore innocent of securities fraud. I’m curious to find out how someone becomes an “owner” of a business after being sold “shares” in the company without having participated in a “securities” transaction. This should be very enlightening.
Details of Andy Esquivel’s pending Utah Department of Securities Administrative Action
Posted on November 26, 2012 in Andy Esquivel's Scams Trial Updates Xtagged
Andres “Andy” Esquivel likes to pretend that the people who have worked to bring him to justice will one day face some sort of legal retribution. His favorite claim is that once he’s found innocent of securities fraud, “the SEC” has promised to begin an investigation of the people who worked to bring criminal charges against him in the first place. The story goes that Andy met with an SEC judge after he was formally charged with fraud in Davis County and that the judge promised that as soon as the criminal case was over he would investigate the conspiracy to convict Andy. Andy sounds as if he’s really excited about these new charges, as seen in the following post:
“Wait until a real investigation happens and don’t worry a real one is coming the SEC Judge told Allen Brady Aug, 02, 2011 he would start one as soon as Davis county case is over he told Allen that…” – Andy Esquivel
As we have explained on this blog numerous times, the Utah Department of Securities officers that Andy met with indicated to him that HE will be subject to further administrative action by their agency once his criminal case concludes, not his victims. It is unknown what sorts of sanctions or penalties Andy will be subject to once the criminal case ends, but what will not be happening is some investigation of Andy’s victims or the administrators of this blog resulting in charges against us. The ‘investigation’ Andy refers to has already occurred and resulted in the criminal charges he now faces. What’s left is for the Utah Department of Securities to take their own disciplinary action outside of the criminal charges now pending.
Here are the details of the Utah Department of Securities case against Andy Esquivel and Xtagged.
- Document #1 – details of the charges against Andy, facts of the case, and the results of the UDS investigation that has already occurred.
- Document #2 – a complete description of the conversations between Andy Esquivel and the Utah Department of Securities officials by Administrative Law Judge J. Steven Eklund, explaining that they would defer the pending charges and administrative actions against Andy until after the criminal trial concludes.
- Document #3 – statement of the delivery of the request to defer administrative action until after the conclusion of Andy’s criminal trial as delivered to Assistant Attorney General Scott Davis.
Andy will no doubt continue to brag that he talked to a judge at the SEC (the Judge being Steven Eklund and the agency actually being the Utah Department of Securities, not the SEC) and that those discussions will result in another investigation that will exonerate him and implicate his victims, but this is a complete falsehood. The facts of the case are simple and are here documented for the entire world to review.
Why Andy continues to deflect blame for his criminal activity away from himself and towards the people he scammed is beyond me. A normal person would admit to their crimes, take the punishment and move on. Pathological lying sociopaths apparently can’t do that.
Andy Esquivel using identity theft to make case against fraud charges…
Posted on November 1, 2012 in Andy's Threats Xtagged
Andy Esquivel creates fake LinkedIn profile to “prove” that he is innocent of securities fraud
This is typical Andy: desperate and clueless!
In his latest attempt to discredit the felony fraud charges which he is currently awaiting trial for, Andy Esquivel has resorted to identity theft. Maybe Identity Theft is too strong a term since what Andy is doing is technically not “illegal”, only against the terms of service of LinkedIn, but I still think it’s interesting that Andy continues to use deception to plead the case that he is not a fraud.
This week in an effort to prove that he did not in fact con his aunt out of $60,000 by encouraging her to invest in a scam website called “Xtagged,” Andy posted a fake LinkedIn profile which he claims is his aunts. The profile proclaims in typical Andy fashion that she was not a victim but an owner of Xtagged and that she will be testifying in court.
There are numerous clues that this profile is fake and that the account was created by Andy to cover for his criminal activity. Anyone familiar with the tone and language of Andy’s numerous online activities can recognize him at a glance:
- Her profile photo is Andy’s Aunt with the license plate of her vehicle (no normal person advertises their license plate, especially on LinkedIn) and actually includes an added plate on the right side that was added with a cheap photo editor like the ones Andy uses because he can’t afford Photoshop.
- “www.Xtagged.com” (which has been offline for months) is listed as her FIRST occupation, and the other companies she owns are only listed secondarily – this in spite of the fact that per primary field of work is listed as “Real Estate” not “online scams”.
- In her “summary” section, there is a bright news post with the headline “***NEW***” just like in Andy’s various real and fake profiles. She (he) then follows with six more “*NEW*” pronouncements further down the page, as if she (he) is advertising soap. No normal professional puts news flashes in their summary like this. LinkedIn isn’t MySpace or Blogger, a fact Andy struggles to comprehend.
- The Summary newsflash begins with a statement in QUOTES, as if the person writing isn’t the person who actually made the statement being transcribed. If Andy’s aunt was typing this information in her own profile, she wouldn’t be quoting herself.
- The fake profile’s author refers to “Ryan &Daryl” as if she (he) knows us personally and as if they are under the assumption that anybody reading this profile will know us by first name as well. Since I’ve never met Andy’s aunt, this is strange behavior.
- The profile urges readers to call Andy Esquivel’s convicted felon, con-artist mother and gives her phone number. First of all, why would Andy’s aunt want professionals who view her profile on LinkedIn to contact her wacked-out, drug using, convicted felon sister who is out on parole and who’s a pariah in her family to get more information about her investments? Wouldn’t it make more sense for her to refer to her own contact information, which is already available to people connected to her through her professional profile?
- Finally Andy (posing as his Aunt) goes on to list a dozen or so links to his various blogs and postings on the web. This is odd behavior for a real-estate investor in California, but typical for a blog-whore like Andy. She (he) includes links to all of Andy’s favorite snippets, from Ron the cameraman being chosen for good reason to Rebecca Dunn’s “warnings” about this and that and blah, blah, blah that only Andy Esquivel thinks is interesting.
We obviously have independent confirmation that this profile does not in fact belong to Andy Esquivel’s Aunt (as if we needed it) and I’m sure the administrators t LinkedIn will be getting a complaint soon and will take it down.
Andy did the same thing with Rebecca Dunn: posting a fake profile of her and later pretending that the profile was created by the owners of this blog. I suspect that many of the other profiles that Andy promotes are also fake and created so that he can sock-puppet various people. It’s a common tactic of sociopaths and further evidence that Andy needs medication or detoxification or both.
It is amazing to me that someone who’s been charged with fraud continues to use fraud to proclaim their innocence. You would think that Andy would wake up at some point and realize that he’s not making the situation any worse by continuing to prove himself to be a pathological lying sociopath. You know what they say: when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging! Well Andy’s in a hole…