EDITOR’S NOTE: The PP Blog contacted the office of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, late tonight for a comment on the practices of NarcThatCar promoters. Reid’s office did not respond immediately.
UPDATED 2:34 P.M. ET (March 5, U.S.A.) A YouTube video promotion for Narc That Car gives a tour of the promoter’s secure back office, displays the names of downline members and advises viewers that the parking lots of libraries, schools and universities provide a steady stream of license-plate numbers to be harvested and entered into a database.
“So, carry a pen and paper with you,” the narrator instructs. “You can go to parking lots. You can go to libraries. You can go to schools. My wife goes to the university, and just goes through the parking lot and collects license-plate numbers.”
An address in the video suggests plate data was recorded in or around the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The address is the same street address as the UNLV campus. Among the facilities that share the address are sports complexes such as the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion, which have large parking lots and a combined seating capacity of at least 21,248, and the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies.
Harry Reid, a U.S. Senator, is the Senate Majority Leader. His office did not respond immediately late Saturday night to a request for comment. (Reid’s voicemail box was full, so the PP Blog contacted Reid’s office via email.)
The video, which has a headline of “NarcThatCar Training Video” on the YouTube site, provides no instruction on the propriety, safety or legality of entering either public or private property for the purpose of recording plate numbers of students, faculty, employees or visitors.
No mention is made in the video about whether Narc That Car prospects or members were required to obtain permission from library, school and university administrators, students, employees, campus police or other security forces before recording license-plate data from cars parked at such facilities.
Narc That Car does not screen promoters. U.S. residents who pay a $100 fee to the company
become “independent consultants” and are encouraged to begin to record license-plate numbers. For an additional fee of $24.95 a month, members can enter the information directly into a Narc That Car database through a website the firm provides.
The YouTube video is 8:48 in length. The Narc That Car back-office tour begins at the 2:42 mark; the promoter’s comments on schools, universities and libraries begin at the 3:49 mark. UNLV’s address appears at the 4:21 mark, and the names of the promoters’ downline members appear at the 5:12 mark.
NarcThatCar is a Dallas-based firm that says it is building a database for financial companies and firms in the business of repossessing automobiles. The company is the subject of inquiries by the BBB and the district attorney of Henderson County, Texas.
In the video, the narrator said he hoped to ascend to the rank of Narc That Car “director.”
There are several tabs in the back office, including a tab labeled “Clients.” The narrator did not press the “Clients” tab.
“Don’t worry about that right now,” he said. He did not explain why members should not concern themselves about the tab.
The video suggests that the Narc That Car system checks to see if plate numbers entered by members are valid. A member must enter the address at which the plate was spotted. It appears, however, that any address can be entered, and that Narc That Car cannot tell if the car was observed at the reported address or not.
In a separate YouTube video, a Narc That Car promoter said he recorded 100 license-plate numbers in a Walmart parking lot, noting that he had enough plate numbers to give some away to incoming members, thus qualifying the members for compensation without leaving their homes.
NarcThatCar pays members $55 after reporting their first 10 plate numbers. If the Walmart promoter recorded 100, he could give away 90 to induce new recruits to join the program and receive $55 each. If the promoter lived in say, Florida — and if he recruited a member from Alaska — the Alaska member would appear to have the capacity to fabricate an address at which the car was spotted.
The Walmart promoter, however, appears to have soured on Narc That Car, and now has joined a similar company — Data Network Affiliates. (See reference in earlier story.) A DNA email to members suggested that Jeff Long, who published the Narc That Car Walmart video on YouTube, is now the top recruiter for DNA, which uses a domain registration in the Cayman Islands.
Long reportedly has recruited 628 DNA members.
“GO JEFF GO – JEFF WILL BE THE 1st PERSON IN THE WORLD TO EVER SPONSOR 1000 OR MORE ON HIS 1st LEVEL IN ANY MLM OR V.A.M. KIND OF COMPANY,” the DNA email said, according to a DNA member.
In yet another Narc That Car video on YouTube, a camera operated by a promoter in an automobile pans cars in the parking lot of a mall or shopping center.
At roughly the 0:38 mark in the video, a message pops on the screen that the promoters did not want to look “suspicious” while recording the video. At roughly the 1:10 mark, a reddish Chevrolet Camaro comes into view. At roughly 1:18 mark, the couple recording the video pulls in behind the Camaro. In the following frames, the car’s plate number is recorded in a notebook.
“And when you get your 10, what they do is send you back 50 bucks immediately,†the narrator says. “And all you gotta do to get your other $75 is just find three people that’s willing to go in and do the same thing you’re doing.â€
The narrator concludes the video by saying it’s “the New Age parking-lot†business.
See the video dubbed “training” that includes the address of UNLV, and tells prospects that libraries, schools and universities are fine places to write down the plate numbers of automobiles.