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by rw2 3607 days ago
This was written in 2014, I wonder what scheme he is doing today.
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Per the article.

His major ventures today provide consumers with driving records, criminal records, and vehicle-history reports (just as Carfax does) across dozens of different pages, notably carhistory.us.org, dmv.us.org, vehiclehistory.com, and vehiclehistoryrecord.com. In fact, anyone looking for these services would have a hard time avoiding him: as of November, if you searched vehicle history on Google, Yahoo, or Bing, ads for Willms’s sites were among the first things you would see. By the looks of it, Willms offers a terrific deal—just $1 for a vehicle-history report, compared with $39.99 for one from Carfax. Because of this, Willms’s lawyer claims that the sites have received “several hundred thousand positive comments related to the product.”

So more of the same scams.

He almost definitely partly chose this niche so that he could respond to craigslist/classified ads of people selling their cars and say "I'm ready to pay [huge amount] in cash today but I need to see a vehicle history report from XYZ first."

For like a decade now, people have been posting fake job ads and then telling applicants to pay for their own "background check" in an identical scam.

You could always just ask him; here's a way to find him: http://jessewillms.com
Clearly any answer a person like this would give to that question wouldn't be reliable information.
Unless that person is Martin Shkreli, who would happily answer you in full honesty about the next abuse he's doing while also making it clear how little he cares about what people think about him.
According to wikipedia " According to his web site, Willms is currently involved in advertising and resides in Sherwood Park." So probably something.

And this is from his site "Jesse is currently involved in a national advertising campaign selling informational products including property and home value reports." Home value reports sound very sketchy.