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SECRET SERVICE: INetGlobal Forced Members To Keep Money In The Company With ‘Automatic Repurchasing’ Scheme; Undercover Agent Sent Email To Support, Which Verified Repurchase Was Mandatory

UPDATED 11:07 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) One of the undercover Secret Service agents who joined INetGlobal discovered that the company had implemented an “automatic repurchasing” program by default and that the program could not be switched off, thus distancing participants — many of whom may not have understood English — from their money. Although it is…

Feb 26, 2010
BULLETIN: Receiver In Affiliate Strategies Inc. (ASI) Case Asks Federal Judge To Add Noobing Autosurf To Receivership Probe After Inquiries By ‘Tax Authorities’

The court-appointed receiver in the fraud case against the parent company of the Noobing autosurf has asked a federal judge for the authority to add Noobing to the receivership probe. Larry Cook, the receiver, said that Noobing and 14 other companies under the Affiliate Strategies Inc. (ASI) umbrella have become the subjects of “numerous inquiries”…

Feb 25, 2010
BULLETIN: Dean Blechman’s Name Removed From Data Network Affiliates’ Website; Audio In Which CEO Threatened Critics Also Removed

UPDATED 12:24 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) Is Dean Blechman no longer the chief executive officer of Data Network Affiliates (DNA), an MLM firm that purports to be in the business of recording license-plate numbers of cars as they move from destination to destination? Blechman, who identified himself as the CEO in an audio recording and was…

Feb 25, 2010
AdSurfDaily Cited In INetGlobal/Steve Renner Search Warrant Application; Former Company CEO Helped Agents Prior To Raid; Undercover Agent Joined Surf Program; Agents Witnessed Spectacle At New York Function

The U.S. Secret Service observed Minnesota-based INetGlobal’s operations for weeks in January, dispatched undercover agents to join the autosurf, learned that a bank recently had closed accounts tied to the firm amid money-laundering suspicions — and already had received incriminating information from the firm’s former chief executive officer prior to executing multiple search warrants Tuesday,…

Feb 25, 2010
ASDMBA, Jaffa Partners Websites Offine; Registrations For Both Are Current

UPDATED 2:59 P.M.Â ET (U.S.A.) Both sites discussed in story below are back up. . . . Two websites associated with AdSurfDaily mainstay Bob Guenther are offline. The sites — asdmba.com and jaffapartners.com — both are returning this message: “OOPS. This site is currently unavailable.” The message includes a prompt for ASDMBA and JaffaPartners to…

Feb 24, 2010
Secret Service, FBI, IRS Raid Steve Renner’s INetGlobal Operations In Minneapolis; Scene Resembled AdSurfDaily Raid In Florida

UPDATED 10:40 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) Federal and state agents have raided the Minneapolis offices of Inter-Mark Corp., seeking evidence of a Ponzi scheme, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis/St. Paul is reporting. Inter-Mark Corp. is operated by Steve Renner, who also operates a purported “advertising” service known as INetGlobal.Â In a scene that resembled the August 2008…

Feb 24, 2010
Robert Guenther Named Defendant In Feb. 2 Shareholder Lawsuit That Alleges RICO Violations, Conversion, Unjust Enrichment, Fraudulent Transfer

Robert Guenther and a woman referenced as “Jane Doe” are listed as defendants in a shareholder lawsuit filed Feb. 2 in Arizona by investors in Cheyenne Mountain Games (CMG) and Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (CME). Guenther is the de facto head of the ASD Members Business Association (ASDMBA), an entity that came to life in the…

Feb 23, 2010
Images Of Trump, Oprah Appear For 10 Continuous Minutes In Data Network Affiliates Promo On YouTube; Boss Has Impressive ‘Speed Dial’ List, Narrator Says

The images of business tycoon Donald Trump and entertainment icon Oprah Winfrey appear for 10 continuous minutes in a sales pitch for Data Network Affiliates (DNA) on YouTube. DNA pitchmen have described the company as a multilevel-marketing (MLM) company that recruits affiliates to record license-plate numbers in the parking lots of retail stores, churches, doctors’…

Feb 22, 2010
FTC Uncovers ‘Widespread Data Breaches’; Sends Letters To Nearly 100 Organizations, Opens ‘Non-Public Investigations’

Saying it has identified nearly 100 organizations that lost control of personal information they maintain on employees, customers or others, the FTC has notified the entities to tighten security on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks. At the same time, the agency said it has opened “non-public investigations” of companies whose customer or employee information has been…

Feb 22, 2010
EDITORIAL: An American Named ‘Daisy’: What Data Network Affiliates And Narc That Car Can Learn From Andy Bowdoin And AdSurfDaily — And The High Potential For Backlash

EDITOR’S NOTE: Repping for Data Network Affiliates or Narc That Car, two companies in the business of recording license-plate data? Here are some things you might want to consider . . . UPDATED 2:21 P.M. ET (March 5, U.S.A.) Data Network Affiliates (DNA) and Narc That Car (NTC) both say they are soliciting members to…

Feb 22, 2010
Data Network Affiliates’ CEO Warns Critics: ‘They Better Be Very, Very Careful’

UPDATED 10:31 A.M. ET (U.S.A.) The chief executive officer of Data Network Affiliates (DNA) has come out swinging against critics, threatening to take legal action. “There are some distractions I’m hearing about out there,” said CEO Dean Blechman. An audio recording of Blechman’s remarks is posted on DNA’s website. Two DNA pitchmen warmed up listeners…

Feb 21, 2010