The Economy

By PatrickPretty.com • March 15th, 2010

UPDATED 4:32 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A video Narc That Car promoters may rent for $12.95 a month and a onetime set-up fee of $15 through a third-party provider demonizes a fantasy deadbeat named “Rena the Realtor” for stiffing a bank on her car loan and says some members of the multilevel-marking company are making more [...]

It entered the autosurf world in January 2009 with the stern bang of a drum in a promotional video. The message was dire: “The World Is In Crisis,” it warned. “Turn On The News, And You’ll See. The Stock Market Is At A Record Low. Foreclosures Are At An All-Time High. Thousand’s (sic) Are Losing [...]

UPDATED 5:14 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The database being built by affiliates of Narc That Car (NTC) will not be used solely for the purpose of locating cars for seizure by the repo man, according to a recording of a March 11 conference call by the company.
The database, according to the recording, also is envisioned as [...]

Welcome to the rapidly evolving world of Planet Fraud, U.S. Region — or, more precisely, the U.S. Region of Planet Cyberfraud, the electronic web of deceit that often exists out of view and is sucking wealth at an alarming pace.
Its capitals last year, according to a new report from The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), [...]

UPDATED 2:24 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) If you’re wanting to visit Steve Renner’s INetGlobal.com and AdPacs.com sites, at the moment you’ll land on pages that say “InetGlobal is currently down for maintenance. We’ll to (sic) be back by 12:00pm CST.”
The message on InetGlobal.com and AdPacs.com has been in place for at least three hours and, despite [...]

LifeLock Inc. and its principals have been barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information collected from customers, the FTC said.
The FTC charged LifeLock and its co-founders — CEO Richard Todd Davis and former COO Robert J. Maynard Jr. — in the civil case. The [...]

You might find yourself a rank amateur in the new business of writing down the license-plate numbers of your neighbors for entry in a database if you don’t pay Data Network Affiliates (DNA) a one-time fee of $97 and a monthly fee of $29.95 for the right to use what the firm describes as a [...]

Billed as the “Oscar” night presentation because it coincided with the Academy Awards, a conference call hosted by Data Network Affiliates (DNA) lasted for a total of roughly 32:10.
Almost all of the call — about 28 minutes — consisted of  hype.  (Looking it as a percentage, about 87.5 percent of the call was hype.) Roughly [...]

UPDATED 5:21 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) On Feb. 23, the U.S. Secret Service raided the Minneapolis offices of INetGlobal, a company operated by Steve Renner under the Inter-Mark Corp. umbrella. The raid occurred amid allegations that INetGlobal was operating an autosurf Ponzi scheme and also engaging in wire fraud and money-laundering.
A week later — on March [...]

The president of a Florida-based autosurf company implicated in a Ponzi scheme by the U.S. Secret Service says he is appealing a forfeiture order that gave the government title to more than $65 million seized from his personal bank accounts in 2008.
Notice of the appeal by Andy Bowdoin of AdSurfDaily was filed by his attorneys [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Untargeted, unfocused traffic and participants who did not have websites to advertise are two of the issues in the AdSurfDaily autosurf Ponzi scheme case. They also are issues in the INetGlobal case.
UPDATED 8:20 A.M. ET (March 10, U.S.A.) Public records and other information suggest INetGlobal was becoming largely dependent on cash from Mainland [...]

UPDATED 2:20 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Did people associated with a company implicated by the U.S. Secret Service in a Ponzi scheme, wire-fraud and money-laundering case participate in a misinformation campaign?
A Twitter website with a tie to the Inter-Mark companies operated by Steve Renner claims that federal officials are “leaking” information to the PP Blog.
“Didn’t happen [...]

First, some news: A website titled DeanBlechman.com now resolves to a parked page at the offshore registrar directNIC. As first reported on the PP Blog, the site previously redirected to the website of Data Network Affiliates (DNA).
directNIC is “based in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands,” relocating from its former base in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, according [...]

It’s starting to read like Ian Fleming fare, something straight out of James Bond and “Octopussy.”
R.J. Zayed, the receiver in the alleged Trevor Cook/Pat Kiley Ponzi scheme in Minnesota, says he did not find Cook’s collection of Faberge eggs when, armed with a court order, he searched Cook’s home in Apple Valley. The precise size [...]

UPDATED 1:42 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) The Better Business Bureau branch in Dallas has given Narc That Car a rating of “F,” the worst-possible rating on the BBB’s 14-step rating scale.
Narc That Car’s previous rating was “NR,” meaning the firm had no rating with the BBB, which opened an inquiry into the company Jan. 18.
The BBB [...]

Can’t get enough of Narc That Car promoter “Jah’s” check-waving videos on YouTube? Need a “Jah” fix to ensure NTC actually pays its members?
It looks as though you’ll now have to get your fix in private. Jah’s check-waving videos have been removed from YouTube’s public site.
“Jah” explains why in a new YouTube video, dated March [...]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Clarity did not emerge in a phone interview Wednesday with former Data Network Affiliates’ CEO Dean Blechman. Blechman was candid at times and guarded at times. His guardedness, however, seemed largely involuntary. It was as though Blechman, who was courteous throughout the interview, would have chosen full-throttle openness had a handler not been [...]

The former chief executive officer of an upstart multilevel-marketing (MLM) firm said this morning that the company was lying to members.
Dean Blechman, the former CEO of Data Network Affiliates, said that members deserved to know the truth and that he will make it plain in an interview with the PP Blog later today.
In preliminary comments, [...]

UPDATED 1:57 P.M. ET (March 5, U.S.A) Data Network Affiliates (DNA) announced via email that Chief Executive Officer Dean Blechman has stepped down, according to a member. The announcement came six days after Blechman’s departure — and one day after the company said it launched a “Beta Test” of its ability to gather license-plate numbers.
DNA’s [...]