Steve Renner

Dear Readers, This is actually Post No. 1,007 since the PP Blog switched to the WordPress platform two years ago this month. We’d hoped to commemorate our 1,000th WordPress post in the actual 1,000th post, but missed the chance because of Breaking News concerning the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force’s Operation Broken Trust. Several hours […]

BULLETIN: UPDATED 9:18 A.M. ET (U.S.A., DEC. 8.) A Mexican company listed as a customer of Steve Renner’s Cash Cards International (CCI) in a 2005 scam known as MegaFund now has been charged by the CFTC with running a massive Forex fraud scheme that gathered at least $28 million from more than 800 U.S. customers. […]

INetGlobal, a Minneapolis-based autosurf firm under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service and the IRS, has lost an appeal. On May 28, U.S. Magistrate Judge Franklin Noel issued an order that permitted investigators to make contact with witnesses in the case under certain conditions. Paul Engh, an attorney who said he represented INetGlobal employees, filed […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally was published June 30. The PP Blog later encountered a database problem, which caused the site to go down and resulted in the temporary loss of some data. The data now has been retrieved. This story is about a new site known as “WebsiteTester.biz,” but some background is in order. […]

Steve Renner, the operator of the Minneapolis-based INetGlobal autosurf, is an inmate at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Duluth, Minn., according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP). Renner, 55, was sentenced in May to 18 months for income-tax evasion. He was indicted in September 2008 and convicted in December 2009. The Duluth FPC […]

UPDATED 6:14 P.M. ET (U.S.A., JAN. 20, 2011.) Employees of an Internet company under federal investigation amid allegations it was operating a Ponzi scheme have received some good news: a sum of $125,000 has been released to pay their past-due salaries and $25,000 has been released to pay their past-due healthcare benefits. Meanwhile, $200,000 per […]

Steve Renner is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, the agency said this afternoon. Renner, 55, was the operator of the INetGlobal autosurf. He was convicted of income-tax evasion in December 2009. On May 5, he was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank to 18 months in prison, although Renner was not […]

The investigation into the business practices of INetGlobal is turning into a legal slog reminiscent of the AdSurfDaily autosurf Ponzi scheme case. In April, attorney Paul Engh filed a motion, saying he represented INetGlobal employees. Among other things, Engh sought an order that effectively would have blocked the U.S. Secret Service from interviewing the employees, […]

Dear Readers, We have received a few inquiries about a new surfing program called AdPayDaily (APD). Our initial take is that the program is a dressed-up version of AdSurfDaily, AdViewGlobal, BizAdSplash and AdGateWorld and that the operators are persuaded they’ve found a word combination and legal structure that will neutralize critics and law enforcement should […]

UPDATED 10:17 A.M. EDT (May 25, U.S.A.) It has been another nasty day for the HYIP and autosurf “industries” and their apologists. Investigators have charged two Mexican nationals with operating a Ponzi scheme on U.S. soil. The alleged scheme, which used names such as New Golden Investment Group LLC (NGI), NGI Group LLC, New Golden […]

Training material purportedly produced in November 2009 and published online shows prospects of INetGlobal how to transfer money from the company to a reloadable debit card. The presentation reveals that INetGlobal was using the same debit-card firm that provided services for a Florida man implicated in October 2009 — just a month before the INetGlobal […]