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• To become the #1 Avatar Fan (wait....I already am :-P)
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• Playing the oboe, and saxaphone,
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Friday, February 23, 2007
OMG did you hear?
I just got the new issue of the Otaku dispathc so you probably did, but I'll post it in case you didn't get it
"In late January, theOtaku.com agreed to help an organization
throw a charity convention in Las Vegas. All revenue from the
convention was supposed to go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation
for breast cancer research. The convention organizers, a Jeff
Borncamp and an Aaron Ecker, also agreed to donate $2,700 worth
of prizes to us so that we could run a breast cancer awareness art
contest.
Many people in the anime community were thrilled about the
convention, since it was a way to show the world that anime fans
can be charitable.
Fast forward and we hit a nightmare scenario. Jeff, the on-site
representative at the convention, stood up in the middle of the
event and fled with the cash box, which contained all the money
for the charity (between $2,000 and $3,000).
As terrible as that was, things got worse. Attendees had to vacate
because Jeff told security on his way out that the convention was
cancelled. The dealers, all of whom lost money, didn't get their
deposits back. With Jeff gone and unreachable, both myself and the
voice actors were stranded in Vegas. None of us had hotel
accommodations and I found out that night that Jeff hadn't even
booked me a flight home.
Thanks to Rich, head of the popular Anime Vegas convention, the
voice actors and I found a place to stay.
When I returned from Vegas, I decided to devote theOtaku.com's
resources toward investigating what happened. Through a series of
posts, we found out out that both Jeff and Aaron are
hardened con artists. Aaron was even indicted in 2006 by the
FBI for fraud. They clearly thought the anime community was an
easy target--how wrong they were. Now, no one can even Google their
names without reading what happened.
Due to theOtaku.com's coverage, we've gotten some organizations
working on how they can help the Komen Foundation make up for
what happened. That has been one positive thing to come out of this.
However, the breast cancer awareness art contest we held now has
no prizes. theOtaku.com has taken the moral initiative to remedy
this. It's a $2,700 liability, and we need your help..."
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