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GlimDropper
06-23-2010, 09:48 PM
As Reported on the Patrick Pretty Blog:

FOX 5 ATLANTA: Narc That Car President, Director Involved In Previous Pyramid Schemes; Separately, Math Expert Says License-Plate Location System ‘Like Finding A Needle In A Haystack’ (http://patrickpretty.com/2010/06/23/fox-5-atlanta-narc-that-car-president-director-involved-in-previous-pyramid-schemes-separately-math-expert-says-license-plate-location-system-like-finding-a-needle-in-a-haystack/)



The Fox 5 News “I-Team” in Atlanta has returned to the subjects of pyramid schemes and Narc That Car, also known as Crowd Sourcing International. (See video and link below.)

During tonight’s principal newscast, veteran investigative reporter Dana Fowle reported that Narc President Jacques Johnson was a manager in YourTravelBiz (YTB), which was sued in 2008 by California Attorney General Jerry Brown for operating a pyramid scheme.

Fox 5 also reports that Narc Director Norman Pearah was charged in the 1980's for running a pyramid scheme in Louisiana. Patrick performed some original research on those charges and details as well as video links to the news coverage are available on his blog at the link above.

Mike!
06-23-2010, 10:02 PM
Who wants to invite Allout over so he can call us all naysayers over and over and over again...:p

TheBloodDonor
06-28-2010, 04:02 PM
OK, not only is the database next to useless, if it exists at all, there is doubt if it is "crowdsourcing" at all.

Crowdsourcing International: The Opposite of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing International: The Opposite of Crowdsourcing « IdeaScale Blog (http://blog.ideascale.com/2010/06/26/crowdsourcing-international-the-opposite-of-crowdsourcing/)

Lightbulb
07-06-2010, 11:26 PM
Who wants to invite Allout over so he can call us all naysayers over and over and over again...:p

Bite you tongue Mike!, one of the nice things here is the lack of Allout and a few others. :p

In all seriousness, do I understand this program correctly?

You pay money to enter American license plate numbers, including time and location seen into a data base? And if someone somewhere is looking for that exact same plate and agrees to pay for the data you entered some time in the past, you might get a commission? Is there a mention of how much this commission might be?

And there is no list of the companies or people who have paid for such data in the past and no way to tell if anyone is looking for the data you just entered, such as "company X is looking for this plate number from this state" type of list?

GlimDropper
07-08-2010, 05:28 PM
In all seriousness, do I understand this program correctly?

You pay money to enter American license plate numbers, including time and location seen into a data base? And if someone somewhere is looking for that exact same plate and agrees to pay for the data you entered some time in the past, you might get a commission? Is there a mention of how much this commission might be?

Not quite, so far no one has ever been able to prove anybody has ever paid to use the database but many of their reps are getting paid. Paid for what? Why recruiting other people to pay to join, who in turn get paid to recruit other people to pay to join. And so on, and so on.,.. You can actually earn a decent commission check, if you can recruit enough paying members, and don't care if you're helping to run an illegal pyramid scheme.