"Jah," who once produced check-waving videos to promote Narc That Car, the predecessor company to Crowd Sourcing International, now says he has dropped the firm. He noted, however, that he had a new opportunity waiting in the wings, and a video he shared with his Blog audience published an image of a check only 1 second into the promo. It was not immediately clear if displaying a check at the 1-second mark of an MLM promo established a new world record.
Crowd Sourcing International (CSI) promoter “Jah” has dumped the company after defending it for months, clashing with critics, bashing the Better Business Bureau and publishing check-waving videos on YouTube to promote the Dallas-based firm.
“I’m no longer with CSI after the new changes 8/16,” Jah noted on his Blog. He added that he now would promote a new opportunity.
CSI appears to have changed its program in mid-August. Even so, a message dated Aug. 24 on its website notes it has undone the changes — at least temporarily.
“Effective Immediately – For the next 60 days, CSI is pleased to suspend the ‘retail’ product volume requirement for ‘promotion and qualification,’” the company notes. “CSI understands the learning curve involved in launching new products and training the field sales force. Change requires time… We will also use this time to design and launch exciting new products.”
For his part, Jah told readers he’s moving to greener pastures.
“Crowd Sourcing Int’l Reps Pursuing My Video Talk For Good Reason,” a headline on Jah’s Blog proclaims.
A video Jah published on his website for the new opportunity flashed the first check at the 1-second mark. It was not immediately clear if the swiftness with which the check was displayed established a new world record for a multilevel-marketing (MLM) opportunity.
Crowd Sourcing International, formerly known as Narc That Car, has an “F” rating from the BBB.
Narc That Car promoter “Jah,” who previously declared that repping for the company was like working for the “Census Bureau” and that his downline group would cap earnings claims in check-waving videos on YouTube at three figures because “we’re not going to be out here flashing, you know, five-figure checks†now suggests at Scam.com (see link below) that the firm’s critics merit a promotion.
If you criticize Narc That Car, which also is known as Crowd Sourcing International, you’re no longer a simple “naysayer.” According to Jah, you’re a “naysayer scammer.”
It was not immediately clear if other Narc That Car promoters or promoters of other questionable business opportunities would follow Jah’s lead and add the word “scammer” after the word “naysayer” in their efforts to cloud issues and discredit critics.
Also unclear is whether Jah had come to believe that the word “naysayer” alone had run out of steam and needed a boost from a word that packed an extra wallop.
At one time, Jah incorporated a strategy of actually calling Narc That Car a scam to refute claims that the company might be using a questionable business model associated with pyramid schemes. That approach apparently fizzled. His NarcThatCarIsAScam.info website has not been updated since it bashed the Better Business Bureau March 27, and Jah apparently has turned to an approach that labels NarcThatCar critics as scammers, as opposed to calling the company itself a scam to prove his point that it is not.
It is too soon to tell whether “naysayer scammer” will gain traction and emerge as a sort of perfect insult that will cause critics to acknowledge they’d lost both the PR war and the intellectual confrontation before retreating and scattering to the winds to nurse their wounds in private.
Jah also is persistently attacking the Better Business Bureau, which gave Narc That Car an “F” rating. And he has attacked the PP Blog, repeatedly asserting that the Blog lied about Narc That not being affiliated with Code Amber in a bid to discredit the company.
The PP Blog never asserted NTC had no relationship with Code Amber, which means Jah is arguing against a claim the Blog never made. The Blog reported that the U.S. Department of Justice denied that the federally managed AMBER Alert program, which NTC referenced in a promotional video, had any affiliation with NTC.
Jah previously has dismissed critics as simple “naysayers” and “haters.” He has never explained how such terms were consistent with a professional approach to public relations. Oddly, Jah persistently attacks critics for producing what he describes as hearsay — all the while attempting to bolster his hearsay case against critics by passing along third-party assertions purportedly from his upline.
Narc That Car says it is in the business of paying people to record license-plate numbers for entry in a database purportedly used by companies in the business of repossessing automobiles. Tactics employed by some repo companies are controversial, and the National Consumer Law Center has linked the repo trade to six deaths since 2006.
Meanwhile, the repo business has ties to to so-called “buy here, pay here” business in which used-car lots finance purchases for high-risk borrowers, often in areas of high poverty and unemployment.
Like members of the AdSurfDaily, AdViewGlobal and AdGateWorld autosurfs, Jah has seized on the name of the PP Blog to discredit it, describing it on the WorkAtHomeForum as authored by “Patrick the pretty guy.”
Other critics of the Blog have referred to it as “Pretty Patrick.” Some have suggested it should be dismissed because its author either is gay or confused about his gender. Among other things, the author had been called a “fag,” an “it” and just plain “ugly.” One critic of the Blog suggested the world might have been a better place had the author’s mother aborted him.
Virtually all of the Blog’s critics have purported to be professional business people. Regardless, many of them have raced from one scam to the next, dragging their downlines with them and subjecting themselves and their downline members to both civil and criminal prosecution.
Visit Scam.com to observe Jah toiling with the critics.
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 a means of locating people, meaning it could be used to develop a data map that can plot the movement of citizens by tracking sightings of the license plates of their cars. The announcement of NTC’s plans may trigger even more concern about privacy and legal issues because citizens may not know their plate numbers are being recorded by a private business and entered in a database that tracks movement of cars.
NTC does not publish a list of data clients. The company says it is expanding internationally, which raises the possibility that overseas data clients could track the movement of U.S. citizens, as well as citizens of other countries. Meanwhile, NTC provides only threadbare details about its management team while collecting millions of dollars from participants.
Absent transparent controls, such a data tool conceivably could be used by spy agencies and secret clients, nationally and internationally, as a means of monitoring the behavioral patterns of individuals, including persons who hold sensitive jobs in government, science and industry, as well as the behavioral patterns of individuals such as politicians, candidates for offices, judges and their family members — and people of all stripes, regardless of occupation.
NTC does not describe how it screens data clients, and also has announced a new name change — the third name the company will use this year alone.
“What we want to become is the biggest company in the world for locating one individual item,” a speaker on the call said. It is believed the speaker was CEO William Forester.
“That could be a car, boat, person, child — anything you could possibly imagine,” the speaker said. “That’s what we’re building this database for.”
No Paid Clients From Law Enforcement
The speaker confirmed that NTC has no paying clients from law enforcement, saying the company would provide data to police agencies “for free” as a “service to the community.”
“We’re not charging local law enforcement; law enforcement — any law enforcement — is not a customer of ours,” the speaker said. The confirmation that NTC had no paid law-enforcement clients leads to questions about the company’s ability to attract clients outside of law enforcement in sufficient quantity to mute concerns about how it pays affiliates and whether the firm was using a pyramid or Ponzi model to pay participants who harvest license-plate data.
The confirmation also destroyed claims from individual NTC affiliates that the company had an existing stable of law enforcement clients such as the FBI, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the military — and was part of the federally operated AMBER Alert program.
Such claims appeared in promoters’ ads for weeks, leading to questions about whether NTC had come into possession of money based on false, misleading or confusing claims by its army of promoters — and whether NTC’s own vague claims led to the dubious claims of its affiliates.
The speaker said NTC had “over 34,000” members, was expanding “very, very rapidly” and had paid out “over several million dollars” in bonuses and commissions. He added that the company was integrated with Code Amber.
Code Amber is an entity that publishes AMBER Alerts and makes available a website ticker for others to publicize alerts, but is not the AMBER Alert program itself. The AMBER Alert program is administered by the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, both of which said last month that they are not affiliated with NTC, despite the claims of promoters.
An Ohio man who promotes NTC on a Blog known as Cash For Car Plates announced the name change on his Blog last week.
“Narc Technologies/Narc That Car is now Crowd Sourcing International,” wrote Ajamu Kafele.
No announcement of a name change appears on NTC’s website.
But an NTC audio (the source of the quotes above) is accessible from a website titled CrowdSourcingWealth.com operated by Kafele, who uses the nickname “Jah” to promote the company. The audio, which Kafele described as an excerpt of remarks by the “CEO,” suggests the name change is official and that NTC will begin to use the initials CSI.
Indeed, a speaker says in the call, “We’re gonna change our name to Crowd Sourcing International — that’s right, for short, CSI.”
The CrowdSourcingWealth.com domain was registered in Kafele’s name March 12, one day after the NTC conference call. A similar domain name that references NTC — CrowdSourcingPower.com — was registered in California Jan. 27. Like Kafele’s domain, the CrowdSourcingPower domain appears to be an NTC affiliate site that is a work-in-progress.
NTC appears to have arrived at the conclusion that tying the company’s brand to the catch phrase crowdsourcing — which describes a method of accomplishing a task using large numbers of people and is controversial as an economic and scientific approach because it may drive down wages and lead to flawed and uneven results — would resonate with NTC members.
“The main goal of NarcThatCar is to us (sic) the Power of CrowdSourcing to develop the largest database of it’s (sic) kind,” the CrowdSourcingPower.com site says. “Working together with Amber Alert and other organizations we can help to locate the known vehicles that may be involved in the abduction of children.”
“CSI” is an acronym used by law enforcement that stands for “Crime Scene Investigation.” It also is the title of a crime drama on the CBS television network. If the name change is official, Crowd Sourcing International will become the third name NTC and its corporate parent have operated under this year.
The use of the CSI name as an acronym also could set the stage for NTC affiliates again to leech off the brands of famous entities by tying NTC to companies or entities that have no affiliation with the firm.
NTC affiliates have demonstrated a desire to link the program to the names or the intellectual property of famous entities, including government entities. At least one NTC affiliate registered a domain titled AmberAlertHelp. org, using it as an affiliate site for NTC. Another affiliate used a takeoff of the ToysRUs brand to promote NTC.
Kafele has recorded check-waving videos to promote NTC and has said repping for the firm was like working for the U.S. Census Bureau.
The announcement about the name change, Kafele said, was based on a “company wide” announcement NTC made during a March 11 conference call. Why the announcement does not appear on the NTC website was not immediately clear.
Company VP To Explain Vision
Meanwhile, NTC has identified Rene Couch as its vice president of marketing. No biographical
Narc That Car says VP Rene Couch will share his vision for the company.
information on Couch was provided on NTC’s website, which said Couch will “share his vision” of the company at a meeting March 23 in Oklahoma City. The audio accessible from Kafele’s website includes comments from a male speaker who used the name Rene.
A man by the same name with the middle initial of “L” was charged civilly by the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) with selling unregistered securities and misappropriating investors’ funds in a complex case involving real-estate promissory notes.
It is unclear if NTC’s Rene Couch is the Rene L. Couch referenced in the ACC complaint.
A call to NTC by the PP Blog was answered by an auto-attendant. A message said the office was closed. There was not an option for a caller to leave a message. The Blog verified there was no option to leave a message by placing a second call to the number. As was the case with the first call, the auto-attendant simply hung up.
In 2005, after a finding that Rene L. Couch and entities he controlled had made “untrue statements or misleading omissions of material facts, and or . . . [engaged] in transactions, practices or courses of business which operate or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon investors,” ACC issued an order to cease and desist from unlawful conduct.
Rene L. Couch and the entities further were ordered to disgorge “$549,085 plus interest at the rate of 10% per annum” to investors. In filings in the case, Rene L. Couch was described as the owner of a “personal nutritional supplement business known as Infinity 2.” Rene L. Couch consented to the order, according to case filings.
Rene L. Couch was accused in the Arizona case of using investor funds in the real-estate venture for “various undisclosed purposes” and diverting investor funds to the Infinity 2 supplement business. Infinity 2 was described in documents external to the case as a multilevel-marketing company.
The filings in the ACC case are public records.
Other Arizona public records show that Rene L. Couch was a party in a Family Court dispute in Maricopa County over back child support and unreimbursed medical expenses between April 1, 2006 and May 31, 2009. Records published on an Arizona court site show that one of the parties was ordered to pay $65,895 in back support, plus an additional $8,472 in unreimbursed expenses.
Repayment terms in the support case were set at $550 a month, according to records. The party ordered to pay the back support was not clear from court filings, and the case still appears to be in litigation. The PP Blog was unable to contact NTC to clarify whether the Rene Couch referenced as its vice president was the Rene L. Couch referenced in the Arizona documents.
In February, NBC-5 of Dallas/Fort Worth reported it repeatedly was unable to reach NTC by telephone to answer questions for a story.
“Repeatedly, NBCDFW worked through a phone tree, only to reach a recording that said, ‘Sorry, this mailbox is full and cannot accept any more recordings. Thank you for using the voice mail system. Goodbye,” the station reported of its efforts to navigate NTC’s phone tree.
NBC-5 further reported that it sent a reporter to the company’s office, and was met by a man who identified himself as the operations manager.
“He said company phones are busy because Narc Technologies has more than 20,000 participants,” the station reported. “He declined to answer any other questions and said the company’s CEO would call us back, but we have received no return calls.”
Timing Of Name-Change Announcement
The timing of the name-change announcement coincides with a negative rating NTC received from the Better Business Bureau. The BBB branch in Dallas gave Narc That Car a rating of “F” on March 4. The “F” rating is the BBB’s lowest on a 14-point scale that begins with “A+” as the highest possible score. The announcement of the name change occurred March 11, a week after the BBB issued the company an “F.”
Three versions of domains using the phrase CrowdSourcingInternational — a .com version, a .net version and a .org version — were registered behind a proxy Feb. 4. All three domains resolve to a parked page that shows advertisements.
It was not immediately clear if the domains are connected to NarcThatCar. If they are, the domains were registered 17 days after the BBB opened an inquiry into Narc That Car amid pyramid concerns. On the previous day — Feb. 3 — the district attorney of Henderson County, Texas, also opened an inquiry. In a statement last month, the district attorney said he was consulting with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in the case.
Less than a month earlier, on Jan. 12, a corporation named National Automotive Record Centre Inc. filed papers to incorporate in Nevada. Kafele produced a YouTube video March 1 that showed affiliate payments from National Automotive Record Centre Inc. for NTC earnings.
An earlier video by Kafele showed a payment coming from Narc Technologies Inc., another company associated with the NTC brand. Both videos were made private on YouTube after the PP Blog reported that Kafele claimed in the video that working for NTC was like working for the U.S. Census Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
NTC is not a government entity. Its affiliates are deemed “independent consultants” by the company. Regardless, advertisements by NTC promoters have implied or stated directly that NTC was associated with the government, including the federally operated AMBER Alert program and even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Kafele was toiling with NTC critics on Scam.com a day after the name-change announcement. Among other things, he asserted that “Whip,” a poster on the PP Blog, and PP were one in the same.
The claim is false, but follows a general pattern of claims about the PP Blog, which frequently becomes the target of fanciful theories and criticism from supporters of companies the Blog is writing about.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that Kafele had engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in a banking and mortgage-foreclosure case involving a third party, and assessed him a $1,000 civil penalty. Kafele and others have made sweeping statements that license-plate numbers are “public information” available for the taking to be entered by affiliates in the NTC database.
“This is how simple this business is, folks,†he said in the video, as a camera panned around the Giant Eagle parking lot and captured one car after another in video frames.
“I’m not even going to talk to anybody,†he said. He noted that “I’m just going to jot down some public information of the license plates. That’s the way this works.â€
At Scam.com, Kafele also suggested that the PP Blog “lied about our company not being affiliated with Code Amber, in an attempt to discredit us.”
That claim, too, is untrue. The PP Blog never asserted NTC had no relationship with Code Amber. The Blog reported that the U.S. Department of Justice denied that the federally managed AMBER Alert program, which NTC referenced in a promotional video, had any affiliation with NTC.
NTC removed the AMBER Alert reference from the video after the Justice Department’s denial.
Kafele also has defended NTC by attacking the credibility of the BBB and dismissing critics as “naysayers” and “haters.”
The PP Blog reads Scam.com, but does not post there — under any identity. The Blog even has been called a scam on Scam.com by a poster who was banned from the Blog for abusing its Comments function and, later, sending dozens of communications under multiple identities that were designed to harass the Blog and probe its software systems for vulnerabilities.
The poster, who was banned from Scam.com for posting under multiple identities, later threatened to sue the PP Blog.
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 4.
“Here’s the situation,” the video says. “Our company has a public advertising policy that does not allow us to openly advertise income specifics.”
The video does not explain whether “Jah” was asked by NTC to remove the videos from public viewing or whether he arrived at his own decision to do so.
It appears as though three CashForCarPlates videos by “Jah” that waved checks or focused on money in other ways have been made private-only.
One of the videos was placed on YouTube March 1, just three days ago. While public, it showed two checks issued by National Automotive Record Centre Inc.. The checks were drawn on NewBridge Bank to demonstrate that Narc That Car pays.
“We’re [going] to show you some real, solid video proof of the money that’s being made here and where you can go with this business,†the video said. “This is awesome.â€
Whether Narc That Car pays has not been an issue, however. The issues have centered on how the company pays, whether it is operating a pyramid or Ponzi business model and the propriety, safety and legality of Narc That Car.
The two checks in the video were for $45 and $452.10. Both appeared to have been drawn Feb. 23.
In the video, the $45 check was used as proof of payment — and the check for $452.10 is used as proof of the type of payments that could come later for Narc That Car members.
“This may be one of our last . . . videos, because this is the real deal,†the video said. “We can’t go any further. We’re not going to be out here flashing, you know, five-figure checks.â€
The video also claimed that recording license-plate numbers for NTC was like working for the “Census Bureau.”
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 website previously implied the company would be in full launch yesterday, after two previously advertised launch dates in February were postponed.
Why DNA, which lists a Cayman Islands address in its domain registration and lists no address at all in email communications sent to members, chose to wait nearly a week to announce Blechman’s departure to the membership was unclear.
Important news such as the departure of a CEO or top executive normally is announced in advance of the departure as a means of quelling rumors and maintaining continuity and stakeholder trust.
Also unclear is why a domain titled DeanBlechman.com, which uses the same Cayman Islands address as DNA’s website and a DNA-related website known as TagEveryCar.com, redirects to the DNA website.
A person believed to be Blechman contacted the PP Blog Sunday, saying by email that “I am no longer the CEO of DNA. I have no affiliation with the company whatsoever.†The sender’s identity could not be verified immediately, but the Blog believes it was Blechman, owing to follow-up correspondence it received.
It is anticipated that Blechman will contact the Blog later this week to answer questions, although no formal interview has been scheduled. It is unclear if Blechman knows about the DeanBlechman.com domain or approved of its creation.
DNA, which previously had neither a contact form nor a contact email address on its website, now lists a gmail address. gmail is Google’s free email service. A source said tonight that the gmail address was on an autoresponder that sends a message titled “Top 16 Customer Service Issues.”
Item No. 5 on the Top 16 list reads: “The D.N.A. Management is Aware of many FALSE Rumors…The D.N.A. Legal Department is on top of such and is taking Legal Action…You can not become the #1 record breaking company in THE WORLD… Without people taking cheap shots at you…Â In the mean time keep on keeping on…”
Meanwhile, Item No. 16 provided an explanation for why the DNA domain was registered in the Cayman Islands. The reason, according to the autoresponder message, was because the company chose “privacy” protection for $5 in a bid to prevent management from having to “put up with 100 stupid calls a day.”
Prior to the numbered items, the autoresponder message claimed: “The D.N.A. company is signing a MEGA MILLION DOLLAR DEAL with a publicly known industry giant. Between this agreement being sign (sic) and the D.N.A. Top Secret Product being announced on March 27th, 2010. (sic)Â D.N.A. is positioning itself to be Global Giant.”
The announcement by DNA of Blechman’s departure was ungrammatical, bizarre — and also at odds with information previously released by the company. It even misspelled Blechman’s name.
“Intentions On Going Public,” the email began. “Say Good Bye To Naysayers.
“A public company has to answer to a HIGHER POWER than an AG,” the email said. “A publicly traded company has to answer to the SEC. No messing with them. Ask Martha Stewart.
“Dean Bleckman (sic) on 02/24/2010 stepped down from being the future CEO and any affiliation with D.N.A…” the company email said. “Due to the fact that Mr. Blechman is a Director and High Equity Owner of a high visibility network marketing company could create a conflict of interest. We believe Mr. Blechman to be a very good man and wish him well in any future endeavors.
“There are some who will try to turn the above information against us,” the email continued. “But the truth be known with the intention of taking D.N.A. public it is in our best interest to have management dedicated and with experience on taking companies public.
“DNA is currently interviewing high level marquis executives for the role of CEO,” the company said. “We will keep all our D.N.A. Affiliates informed. All other management is 100% in place and very dedicated and excited about the future of D.N.A.”
Why DNA would say Blechman stepped down from being the “future” CEO is unclear. Only days ago Blechman identified himself as the current CEO, and the company promoted him as such in marketing materials and on conference calls.
Narc That Car Update
A new YouTube video by a Narc That Car (NTC) promoter says that collecting data for NTC is like working for the U.S. Census Bureau. Checks issued by the firm bear the name “National Automotive Record Centre,” the video reveals.
Despite the use of the word “national” in its name and the YouTube video that uses the name of the Census Bureau, NTC is not a government agency.
The video, by NTC promoter “Jah” of the Cash For Car Plates Blog, focuses exclusively on money and does not address any propriety, safety, legal or privacy concerns, defining license-plate numbers as “public” information available for the taking for entry into the NTC database.
“We’re like Census Bureau workers,” the video claims. “We’re collecting public data.”
Some critics have raised myriad concerns about NTC, which is the subject of an inquiry by the BBB in Dallas and the office of the district attorney of Henderson County, Texas.
Among the concerns raised by critics is whether the company could use the license-plate data it collects to create profiles on the movement of people — battered wives living in secret shelters, federal judges, politicians, celebrities, patients of psychiatrists and other medical professionals, members of religious groups and ordinary citizens from coast to coast in the United States.
Some promoters of Narc That Car and DNA have argued that people who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear, raising the specter of a sort of private Big Brother.
Narc That Car promoters routinely suggest that no license-plate numbers are off-limits for entry in the database, which purportedly is being created for companies in the business of repossessing automobiles.
At least one You Tube video promoting Narc That Car — a video that featured footage from a Public Service Announcement by a group of celebrities that had been spliced into the video as though they were promoting Narc That Car — has been removed from YouTube for Terms of Use violations.
That video, by a Narc That Car downline group known as Team Trinity International, formerly existed at this URL:
Jah’s Cash For Car Plates video for NTC, meanwhile, shows two checks issued by National Automotive Record Centre Inc. and drawn on NewBridge Bank to demonstrate that Narc That Car pays.
“We’re [going] to show you some real, solid video proof of the money that’s being made here and where you can go with this business,” the video says. “This is awesome.”
Whether Narc That Car pays has not been an issue, however. The issues have centered on how the company pays, whether it is operating a pyramid or Ponzi business model and the propriety, safety and legality of Narc That Car.
The two checks in the video are for $45 and $452.10Â — both of which appear to have been drawn Feb. 23.
In the video, the $45 check is used as proof of payment — and the check for $452.10 is used as proof of the type of payments that could come later for Narc That Car members.
“This may be one of our last . . . videos, because this is the real deal,” the video says. “We can’t go any further. We’re not going to be out here flashing, you know, five-figure checks.”
The video was placed on You Tube March 1.
In a Jah video placed on YouTube Feb. 12, a check featured in the video is written in the name of a different entity: Narc Technologies Inc. The check appears to be drawn on a different bank than the check in the March 1 video, although the video was grainy.
National Automotive Record Centre Inc. was registered as a corporation in Nevada Jan. 12.
Jah of the CashForCarPlates team shows postmark on YouTube of check received from NarcThatCar as proof the company pays. The video also displays a check in the amount of $70.
UPDATED 2:30 P.M. EDT (March 5, U.S.A.) NarcThatCar promoter Ajamu Kafele announced that his downline team has launched a website to refute claims that the Dallas-based multilevel-marketing (MLM) program is a scam.
The announcement was made last night, during a Valentine’s Day conference call hosted by Kafele, who uses the nickname “Jah” and is an independent affiliate of Narc That Car.
The domain name chosen to refute claims that Narc That Car is a scam actually states the company is a scam:
NarcThatCarIsAScam.info (Emphasis added.)
Kafele, who operates a website and Blog known as Cash For Car Plates to promote Narc That Car, recorded the conference call, which is posted online. Kafele did not say in the conference call whether he and his 132-member downline group had obtained permission from NarcThatCar to use its name in a branded domain title that states the company is a scam and then attempts to refute the assertion by posting contrary information on the NarcThatCarIsAScam.info website.
His hope, he said during the call, was that by suggesting NarcThatCar was a scam, the website could be used to prove the opposite.
One of the participants in the call was a man who said he was “eighty and a half” and was working to introduce other senior citizens to Narc That Car. Kafele said during the call that there was “no substance” to critics’ concerns that Narc That Car is structured like a Ponzi or a pyramid scheme.
Kafele dissed critics who have raised privacy concerns about Narc That Car. After paying a $100 up-front fee and spending an additional $24.95 a month, Narc That Car “independent consultants” are encouraged to write down the license-plate numbers of cars and enter them in a database.
Narc That Car promoters have identified the parking lots of major retail chains, libraries, schools and universities as sources of license-plate numbers. Some promoters have encouraged their downline members to carry notebooks and pens in retailers’ parking lots and the parking lots of educational facilities. Others have encouraged participants to take photos of license plates or record them on video cameras, perhaps hundreds at a time.
“Some of these guys are just mad because they think there is a privacy issue, ” Kafele said, arguing that automated technology exists that is used to collect license-plate data.
Some critics have questioned whether NarcThat Car promoters are selling an actual product or simply an income opportunity.
“For lack of a better word, the product is the gathering of the data,” Kafele said during the call, which mostly featured Kafele’s remarks. He suggested that Narc That Car had an “apparent client” that “already is backing up” the company, but did not name the client.
Two third-party audio snippets recorded previously by other Narc That Car promoters were played back during the call as evidence that “due diligence” had been conducted on the company, which is the subject of inquiries by the BBB in Dallas and the district attorney of Henderson County, Texas.
The BBB has asked Narc That Car to explain advertising claims and the company’s compensation plan.
The audio snippets played back during Kafele’s conference call claimed Narc That Car was “very well-funded” and the product of the imagination of a “child prodigy.” A specific source of the funding was not disclosed.
“They have a proven model,” Kafele said during the call.
An application for “Narc That Car” as a “Service Mark” is on file in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to the government’s TESS computer system. Information in the government database says the mark was applied for in July 2009.
Narc That Car is engaged in “Business services in the nature of collateral locator services, namely, tracking and management of lien related collaterals on behalf of lien holders” and also performs “Security services, namely, collateral locator services in the nature of theft recovery,” according to TESS.
Gerald P. Nehra, an MLM attorney, assisted Narc That Car in registering the brand, according to the TESS database.
Among the headlines on NarcThatCarIsAScam.info:
Narc That Car Opportunity: Distinguishing Fact From Fiction
Are The Naysayers Against Narc That Car Really Credible?
What Is The Truth About Narc That Car and the Texas Atty General
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Kafele’s Cash For Car Plates Blog repeatedly uses the word “scam” in the context of Narc That Car.
At the moment, the word “scam” in the context of Narc That Car appears on the front page of the Cash For Car plates Blog 13 times, including the current feature story. The current feature story uses the word “scam” in a headline — “Is Narc That Car Really A Scam? — and in the first paragraph of the feature post.
“Scam” also is used in other posts and labels on the Cash For Bar plates Blog, which is hosted by Blogspot.com, Google’s free hosting site for its Blogger platform. Among the labels on the Blog are “narc that car scam,” “make money from home scam” and “home business scam.”
Internet marketers who promote MLMs and other money-making opportunities often use the word “scam” — deliberately associating the word “scam” with companies they are recommending — on the theory it drives traffic to their websites when prospects perform online searches.
Some companies take a dim view of such practices by promoters, believing they can damage brands and confuse the public.
Listen to the conference call in which Kafele announces the NarcThatCarIsAScam.info website and defines the site as a “counterintelligence” effort.
