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What does an Information Consultant do?

By Franklyn Gallup of CardCovers.info

I get calls all the time from people who are trying to interest me in their business. This is because I am crazy enough to put my cell phone number on many of my websites. I look at a lot of different schemes and opportunities.

I was born at night but it wasn't last night.

Usually I try to keep an open mind when investigating these kinds of calls. I am looking at one such business right now and I at first dismissed it as just another one of THOSE but then I looked at it again.

This company is creating a National database of license numbers and are selling this information to auto manufacturing companies, auto dealers, banks, lien holders, government agencies, missing persons, Amber Alert, and law enforcement agencies.

I can see where these entities could be interested in plate numbers and locations where they are spotted. This makes sense to me.

As I investigated this more I found they were willing to pay people like me for collecting this kind of information as an Information Consultant.

What I didn't find is a reason not to do this. This company just recently decided to go national with this database so there seems to me to be a lot of opportunity.

Click here and listen to the video and then leave a comment Give me ANY reason I should not become involved with this.

"I was born at night but it wasn't last night. " Ha! Great line. The business opportunity sounds good but sorry, too busy right now to check out the video. I'm out the door going to a workshop on meditation.

June Campbell Feb 7, 2010 12:18

This looks like a new pyramid. There is no value at all in simple lists of vehicle numbers but heck, there is a lot of value in having people pay you $50 to join (you get half of your money back when you report your first ten tags) and $299.50 a year to be able to recruit more members into the pyramid.

Look at the video again and you will see that this company is making a huge income from those payments and by restricting the number of tags required each month to 10 they are ensuring that the pyramid will take a long time to collapse.

Think very carefully and if you join, make sure you recruit like crazy to get your money out before the collapse - but don't recruit anybody you like or are very friendly with.

I'm quite sure that the last place police or insurance companies would go for information about motor vehicles would be a company that simply has a list of tags. They are not even asking for model or make of car!

Think very carefully - it will take five minutes a month to collect 10 tags - are you really going to earn a legitimate income by doing that? Really?

Actually they are asking for plate numbers AND address where that plate number was located. They check the validity of the plate with DMV. The database is being built right now but I can see the value of this once it is built. The same plate numbers can be submitted from different locations. The database is the consumer and I would be creating the product.....information.

I tear things like this apart as a hobby and I am using this Intel as a vetting process. The person that told me about this told me to see if I could find 2 people interested BEFORE I join this. If I do join this I am going to suggest to find 2 people interested before they join as well which eliminates any risk at all.

I agree the $100 covers the $50 for the first 10 tags and the $25 for referral payment. This leaves $25 for the commissions. If I was building a database of this kind of information that is how I would do it. Make it financially viable and profitable from the get go no matter how large it became.

Thanks for the input.

I agree with theoldcoot that this sounds like just another pyramid scheme. Coincidentally, last night while I was chatting with someone online about something else entirely, a "spammer" broke into the conversation to try to sign everyone up for the same program you are describing. The red flag you should be seeing in connection with this, and the primary reason not to join, in my opinion, is that any program that puts pressure on its members to recruit, recruit, recruit with only minimal emphasis on having a product usually ends up being some sort of ponzi scheme. Such schemes, under whatever name they go these days, are still illegal. As stated on the FBI's Fraud Scheme page "If the offer of an 'opportunity' appears too good to be true, it probably is." Do the math!

The second thing that troubles me about this is exactly what do you think somebody is going to do with this information? Is it going to be used for illegal purposes? Anyone who has a valid reason to use the information described here can get it from the Department of Motor vehicles. But think about the legitimacy of someone going after the information anonymously and then handing it over to people they do not know for purposes they do not know. Does that sound right to you? Yes, a few unscrupulous people at the top of the pyramid will profit, but they might also go to jail.

I maintain that there is great risk in involving one's self in this sort of enterprise, not just the rather insignificant risk of losing a bit of money, but you risk being the cause of hapless others who trusted you losing their money and you also risk losing your reputation.

Janet Jenson Feb 7, 2010 18:18

Well... pyramid schemes aside, it feels slimy. The whole idea of intruding on the privacy of my neighbors gives me the "willies". This "tag" information is already on file at the appropriate state agencies. I would never be willing to recruit people to do something like this.

Thanks for the comments. I find it interesting that everyone seems to ASSUME I do not agree with them and that I am actively promoting this. I am objectively exploring this by presenting the information as it was presented to me.

This seems to me to be the new favor of the month for this kind of program and there isn't much out there online. I am sure I will be contacted more about this in the next months and now I have an Intel to direct them to.

Once this gets in the Search Engines anyone doing due diligence will find this Intel when they search for PlatesRus, Narc That Car and other similar terms.

Think your comments will have any value to someone considering this?

I agree that there is a privacy issue here and an ethical issue as well. There are also seems to be some trademark issues involved too.

I... don't feel that anyone in this forum was assuming anything. You asked for reasons not to join. You got them.

If you used this as a way to get these reasons out on the internet, then I think that you accomplished this quite nicely.

Thanks for the help.

Hi Biblefreeorg,

the title which included information consultant made me curious. Generally, this service may be a good and useful one, you know...

However, reading about the twist, which involved a pyramid scheme is disappointing on one hand.

The positive side is to make us aware about its danger by the resulting comments.

That makes your entry a fantastic one. It caused a genuine stir. This is what the Internet should be all about. Communication leading to discussions with conclusions is the non plus ultra of online social networking.
You've turned your Intel into that.

What was helpful is I could honestly say I checked this out when I talked to the person promoting this. This Intel isn't the only place I asked about this and and the response everywhere was totally negative.

I checked my email and found he had emailed me 5 times about this and called me as well so I know he is aggressively promoting this and so far has found only 5 takers.

Maybe it was the pictures of garlic. (grin) I hate doing Intels without some kind of picture.

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