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WELCOME TO PLANET CYBERFRAUD, U.S. REGION: IC3 Report Shows Tremendous Surge In Dollars Lost To Online Scams; Nevada, Utah, Florida, D.C. Among Cyberscam Capitals

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…

Mar 12, 2010
INetGlobal, AdPacs Websites Offline; Acesse.com, Associated Search Site, Has Limited Functionality

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,…

Mar 12, 2010
ALERT: International Con Artists Target Madoff Victims; Regulatory Agencies, Receiver In Cook/Kiley Ponzi Case Go On Guard For Copycats

An individual or group of individuals believed to be operating internationally created a website that mimicked the website of the U.S. Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC) “in an apparent attempt to target [Bernard] Madoff victims” in a fraud scheme, SIPC said. SIPC and the SEC issued warnings immediately, as did the court-appointed receiver in the…

Mar 12, 2010
FTC Charges Founder, CEO Of LifeLock In Deceptive Claims And Privacy Case; Company Agrees To $12 Million Settlement With Agency, 35 State Attorneys General

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…

Mar 12, 2010
Data Network Affiliates’ Upsell Includes ‘PRO’ Module To Enter License-Plate Numbers; Company Describes Its ‘FREE’ Module As A Clunker

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…

Mar 11, 2010
DNA President’s ‘Oscar’ Night Comments Sandwiched Between 28 Minutes Of Hype; No Substantive Issues Addressed Directly

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 ofÂ hype.Â (Looking it as a percentage, about 87.5 percent of the call was hype.)…

Mar 10, 2010
Is A New Company Known As RGMG Emerging To Promote Elements Of Inter-Mark Corp. In Wake Of Secret Service Raid At INetGlobal Amid Ponzi Allegations?

UPDATED 5:43 P.M. ET (U.S.A., Jan. 20, 2011.) 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…

Mar 9, 2010
AdSurfDaily’s Bowdoin Says He’s Appealing Forfeiture Order Issued By Federal Judge; Notice Filed 6 Days After INetGlobal Raid; Riddle Of Bowdoin’s Competing Affidavit Claims Unsolved

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…

Mar 9, 2010
Timeline Suggests INetGlobal Was Pounding Clickbank Vendors With Traffic From China In Months Proceeding Raid While Sucking Bandwidth And Destroying Conversion Stats

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…

Mar 8, 2010
Website Of Spokesman For Renner Entity Claims Government ‘Leaking’ Info To PP Blog About INetGlobal Ponzi Probe; ‘Didn’t Happen — Ever,’ Blog Says; Meanwhile, A Bogus ‘Apology’ Claim

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.…

Mar 7, 2010
EDITORIAL/ANALYSIS: Events Are Controlling DNA, Not The Other Way Around; Prosecutor’s Office Mum On Narc That Car Inquiry In Texas

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,…

Mar 6, 2010