Big Brother 9 Autism Scandal Hit By Web Scam Scandal - Warning
February 26th, 2008 Scandals,During the first week of Big Brother 9 houseguest Adam Jasinski opened his mouth and uttered the first scandal of the season. He described to fellow houseguests his plans, if he won, to open a hair salon so the “retards could get together”. His stupidity was quickly refuted by the surrounding houseguests but the shockwaves continue. Not a day has gone by that we haven’t received a comment from a concerned viewer or family member of someone stricken with the condition of autism.
In the subsequent days foundations supporting research to end and ease autism like Austim United have stepped forward and asked CBS to issue an apology. So while Adam’s words were terrible and hurtful what I saw today was even worse. A new scam, looking to take advantage of this Big Brother 9 scandal, has hit the Internet.
An individual fronting himself as “UNIAF: United Autism Foundation” has sprung up a website with an issued apology reporting Adam’s firing from their organization while making a request for donations. The first problem is, and there are a lot of them here, a search at Give.org, BBB’s safety check site for verifying a charity, has no entry for “United Autism Foundation”. A quick research through Whois.net shows the offending domain, which I will not link or list, was registered just last year (December 2007) and its registered web site title is listed as “Official Big Brother - Adam Jasinski Fan Website”. That’s quite a change of heart to today.
The only offering of proof of legitimacy is a poorly scanned letter allegedly from the IRS hosted at an altogether different domain operating with a .com TLD. I’ve read that it just takes a $500 fee to get the charitable organization tax status which means anyone could invest to get that. The business address is also different from the provided mailing address on the “Donate” page. That mailing address shows up as a strip mall on Google Maps’ “Street View”. The website is also entitled “UNIAF - Offical Apology” [sic]. “Offical” huh? Do you mean “official’? Maybe he can’t spell “official” or figure out his real address because the site is operated out of Karlsruhe, Germany by Olaf B Hampel (source: NetworkSolutions).
Under no conditions should you visit or donate to the “UNIAF” website or any site claiming to be a charity that you can not verify through trusted sites like Give.org. Please spread the word and don’t let this scam take a penny of money that could be going to the actual cause of fighting autism.
If you would like to donate to the fight against autism then visit Autism United, a legitimate organization.
Update: Additional research turned up this on Craigslist (I know, I know, that’s not a terribly reliable resource at all, but…):
I am selling custom shirts to support the National Autism Association. This is to make up for what may be a scam perpertratated [sic] by Big Brother’s Adam and the United Autism Foundation or UAIF…
From what I have researched this foundation’s web presense [sic] started in December of last year.. Probably after Adam’s Big Brother TV show selection. I am not slandering this foundation as I don’t have proof it is a scam. I am just saying it seems fishy. And if you want to donate to the United Autism Foundation to go to research, then please make it at the National Autism Association which has a long and rich web presense [sic] and history. If the United Autism Foundation or UNIAF is legit then rest assured by making a donation to the National Autism Association will definately [sic] go toward this.
So if Adam Jasinski is really associated with this organization, just how real is this organization anyways? As the Craigslist entry correctly cited, the offending websites were setup within weeks of when Robyn Kass announced the casting had been completed back in December 2007. Is it possible that Jasinski planned this whole thing as a scam going into the house?
Earlier I noted how suspiciously similar his “retards” comments were to the scene in “There’s Something About Mary”, click here to read that discussion here. The whole thing seemed so faked and forced to me, but no one else seemed to pick up on this. Now I’m starting to get all tinfoil-hat-conspiracy-theory worked up. How deep does this rabbit hole go?? Stop me now if I’m getting too far out there.
Update 2: UNIAF has now abandoned their dot com domain, as I pointed out that was suspicious for a charity (commercial domain vs org domain). But guess what? They’ll sell it to you! UNIAF.com is now for sale to the highest bidder. They’ve also taken down their “donate here” link.
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March 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pm[…] about him. The questionable remarks about “retards”, the dubious affiliation with his supposed autism association, and the inevitable firing that followed has left a bad taste in peoples mouths. I would have […]
February 26th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Awesome job finding this stuff out, thats some real FBI stuff that you pulled and I hope this idiot gets caught.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Either Adam’s a jerk or he was in on it (which would still make him a jerk)…
March 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I am not sure who Adam Jasinski is, but someone needs to do a back ground check on Olaf Hampel. In my opinion, He is the true scam artist. He has had many “BUSINESSES” that he has ripped people off. I am one of them. 2 years ago he had a manufacturing business that he was selling home theater projectors. He used a registered name of a company in Germany. We had a 100% failure rate on 4 projectors. When my attorney contacted him he closed down the business. He is a former Denver Bronco player and is using that to legitimize his scams. He sends out emails to try and get money. Someone needs to stop him. As a disclaimer to protect myself, This is all my opinion, but it is easy enough to track down everything that I am saying by doing a little research on the web. All of his assets are in his wifes name probably to keep them from being taken away.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Thank you for doing all the research and all the time it took you my son is autistic he is not “retarted” he is fully functional and i take great offence to anyone who does try and scam me my family or others in our situation autism is a expencive mental disorder and its bad enough that most the time our health insurance plans won’t cover any treatments let alone tests so agian thank you for bringing light on this jerk scam artist trying to get money out of families who are already hurting.
April 28th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I noticed that UNIAF has a website at uniaf.org, but the donation part has been removed. Was this the same site that was once at uniaf.com? Thanks for this post…very interesting!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:21 am
I sent an email to UNIAF.org and basically asked them to respond to this post and others. Here is the response I received this morning:
Subject: You have no clue
Say something when you know the truth. Obviously you don’t know anything – keep on reading other peoples BS.
Good luck….
In my email I encouraged UNIAF to quickly put an end to the rumors just as quickly as they denounced Adam’s words. I wouldn’t say this was too much of an articulate, professional response.
Time will tell.
May 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
A simple web search listed Olaf Hampel as a German bobsledder with a wikipedia entry.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
@ilace: Yes, I saw that and thought it was funny because Olaf claims to be a retired NFL player, in the US of course. Lots of conflicting stories about this guy.