Category: Writing And Branding
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FANTASY POST: President Cuts Short Vacation To Address Nation On ‘Grave Threat To National Economic Security’; Government Targeted With ‘Taunt’ From Purported MLM Operators Amid Sea Of Incongruity; ‘We Have The Power,’ Unnamed ‘Group’ Says
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a fantasy post. The “story” below is not real. The PP Blog occasionally presents fantasy posts, parody and satire as a means of advancing the discussion about issues in the world of online crime and marketing schemes. BAR HARBOR, Maine (PPBlog) — President Obama abruptly cut short his family vacation here…
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CFTC: Convicted Felon Was Running Texas-Based Forex Firm; Robert Mihailovich Sr. And Robert Mihailovich Jr. Charged In Case That Alleges Pattern Of Marketing, Webinar Deception
Investors turned over more than $30 million to a felon who hid his conviction and even managed to persuade clients to give him power of attorney, the CFTC said. Robert Mihailovich Sr. was released from federal prison on June 27, 2007, after serving 21 months for mail fraud, the CFTC said. On Oct. 14, 2008…
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Beyond Diamonds Investments Inc., Darial Chatman Subjects Of ‘Cease And Desist’ Order In South Carolina; State Says Firm Was Selling Unregistered Securities And Claiming To Be ‘SEC Compliant’
UPDATED 12:52 P.M. EDT (USA) A South Carolina man previously ordered by Pennsylvania to stop selling unregistered securities for a real-estate business now has been ordered by South Carolina to stop selling unregistered securities for yet-another business, authorities said. Darial Chatman, also known as Darrell Chatman and Darrell Chapman, was ordered by the Pennsylvania Securities…
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LockInYourFreeSpot.com A ‘New DNA URL,’ Company Says: Will Members Transfer Their Prospect Lists To MLM Firm?
Data Network Affiliates (DNA) is asking members to drive traffic to yet-another URL: LockInYourFreeSpot.com. LockInYourFreeSpot.com is at least the third URL DNA has featured this year in bids to recruit members into a multilevel-marketing (MLM) program that purportedly offers everything from license-plate data to cell-phone service and juices. Why DNA, which says it is launching…
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FIRST, TRUMP, OPRAH, APPLE: Now, PP Blog’s ‘Breaking News’ Graphic Used In Video Pitch For Data Network Affiliates’ MLM Program
A sales rep for Data Network Affiliates (DNA) used the “Breaking News” graphic from the PP Blog to supplement a sales pitch for a nonexistent cell-phone plan that touted “unlimited” talk-and-text service for $10 a month, plus a free phone. The unauthorized use of the Blog’s intellectual property in a sales pitch raises troubling, new…
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EDITORIAL: MLM’s Great Race To The Bottom? While FTC, SEC, CFTC Warn About Affinity Fraud, Data Network Affiliates Says Its Mortgage-Reduction Program Is A ‘Church Fundraisers DREAM Come True’
Apparently tithing, bake sales, quilting bees, church-sponsored dinners, flea markets and car washes by Christian teens to raise money for projects have gone the way of the dinosaur. Building on an earlier claim that churches have a “MORAL OBLIGATION” to pitch its purported mortgage-reduction program, Data Network Affiliates (DNA) now says the program is a…
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DATA NETWORK AFFILIATES: Churches Have ‘MORAL OBLIGATION’ To Pitch Members On Firm’s ‘Mortgage Reduction’ Program; Purported Data And Cell-Phone Firm Venturing Into Foreclosure-Rescue And ‘Resort’ Businesses
A multilevel-marketing (MLM) company that positioned itself as a firm that collected data that could be used by law enforcement and the AMBER Alert program to rescue abducted children — and later declared itself the world champion of cell-phone pricing — may be entering the foreclosure-rescue and real-estate businesses, members said. News about the purported…
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Two-Thirds Of Poll Respondents Rate Data Network Affiliates’ Pitch A ‘Complete Failure’; Nearly 90 Percent Rate It ‘Poor’ Or Worse
UPDATED 11:53 A.M. EDT (U.S.A.) The sales pitch of a multilevel-marketing (MLM) company that plucks the heartstrings of members by suggesting it can help law-enforcement and the AMBER Alert program locate abducted children has been rated a “Complete Failure” by 66 percent of respondents in a PP Blog Poll. Meanwhile, 88 percent of respondents rated…
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EDITORIAL: Grab Your Umbrella And Air Freshener: Data Network Affiliates’ Vomit Spigot Wide Open And Raining Down On World Of MLM
EDITOR’S NOTE: Readers with queasy tummies are duly cautioned that this post is on the subject of MLM vomit. No, the troops aren’t packaging and selling regurgitated stomach juice and chunky bits that pay commissions 10 levels deep — at least not yet. This post discusses MLM advertising vomit as practiced by Data Network Affiliates,…