Several respondents in the Texas State Securities Board’s previously issued GSPartners emergency cease and desist order have lost their right to appeal.

These include GSPartners executives Dirc Zahlmann, Bruce Hughes and Aline Lima, as well as the failed Swiss Valorem Bank rebrand. [Continue reading…]

Healthy Home operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

The company is headed up by three co-founders; Steve Perkins (CEO), Dean De Grasse and Amber De Grasse.

Before co-founding Healthy Home, Steve Perkins was Vice President of Sales at NewULife.

Dean and Amber De Grasse are also tied to NewULife, ranking at Diamond Ambassador as distributors circa 2020:

In March 2024 discussion on BehindMLM suggested Healthy Home was made up of a large block of former NewULife distributors.

Healthy Home provides a corporate address in Utah on its website.

The company operates from the domain “healthyhome.com”, first registered back in 1996. The private registration was last updated on January 8th, 2024.

Based on a post on its official FaceBook page, Healthy Home launched in January 2023:

Read on for a full review of the Healthy Home MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Reddit, Yelp, GlassDoor, Indeed, TripAdvisor and the PubPeer Foundation have collectively filed an amicus brief in BehindMLM’s GSB Gold Standard Corporation appeal.

In their capacity as a “group of online speech platforms with millions of daily users”, brief movants (amici) above seek to address an “important question”; [Continue reading…]

The Financial Education Services “terminations” class-action has been partially dismissed.

And following the March 21st partial dismissal order, what’s left of the case has been sent to arbitration. [Continue reading…]

On April 1st GSPartners spinoff Billionico announced it had hired Alfredo Pino.

An accompanying press-release claimed Pino, who also goes by Alfie Pino, had been hired to “mentor elite education teams”.

Alfie Pino has extensive coaching experience, specializing in all things cryptocurrency.

He was teaching, helping students navigate the ever-changing rapids of the blockchain industry and has now introduced Billionico to his team, extending his unique mentoring methodology and enriching the platform’s holistic approach to business education.

Upon receiving the formal invitation to join Billionico as a coach of its elite educators, Alfie Pino shifted his focus from teaching individuals to mentoring a small group of select elites and now has a unique opportunity to make a global impact.

Research into Pino reveals a scrubbed FaceBook profile and press-release spam. This piqued my interest so I dug a bit deeper.

Turns out Pino, originally from Ontario, Canada, has quite a bit of regulatory baggage behind him. [Continue reading…]

A court has ordered the appointment of a Qyral Receiver.

The order follows an April 10th emergency ex-parte application filed by defendant Darius Banasik, and an April 12th proposed order filed by plaintiffs Hanieh Sigari and Qyral LLC. [Continue reading…]

A promoter has claimed GSPartners has “abandoned any hope of operating in the US”.

The update was presented as a highlight of a GSPartners corporate call, held on Thursday April 4th. [Continue reading…]

What’s left of the Richard Smith’s Tranzact Card to FinMore grift has collapsed.

In an email sent out a few hours ago, frontman Peter Rancie “announc[ed] the complete and immediate shutdown of TranzactCard and FinMore”. [Continue reading…]

QM Corporation, aka “Quaestum Association”, operates in the “benefits forever” MLM niche.

QM Corporation’s website domain “qmcorporation.net”, was privately registered on August 21st, 2019.

The domain is registered to “Club Brizzi”, through an incomplete address in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

Two creators are cited on QM Corporation’s website; Marco and Alessandro:

Marco corresponds with Marco Brizzi, Alessandro with Alessandro Brizzi.

Marco Brizzi appears to be your typical crypto bro cringelord:

Alessandro Brizzi runs the website Cognito Matrix. “Popular topics” Brizzi writes about include “aliens & UFOs”, “ancient aliens” and “strange space”.

Neither Marco or Brizzi appear to have MLM executive experience.

Read on for a full review of QM Corporation’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Vilocity Global represents it operates in the travel, AI and crypto MLM niches.

The company operates from the domain “vilocityglobal.com”, privately registered on November 10th, 2023.

Heading up Vilocity Global we have founder and CEO Jimmy Ezzell.

Ezzell is joined by Global Master Trainer Ali Mehdaoui, who is also prominent in Vilocity Global marketing material.

Jimmy Ezzell is known to BehindMLM as founder and CEO of the Young Entrepreneurs Project (marketed as YEP Tribe).

When BehindMLM reviewed YEP Tribe in 2021 the company was selling $89 water bottles and pay to play subscriptions.

After losing over $4 million in 2020, YEP Tribe was begging the public for $1 million in investment. These losses also coincided with YEP Tribe partnering up with Cory Kromray’s Driven Trading.

BehindMLM believes YEP Tribe committed securities and commodities fraud through Driven Trading’s “AI automated” offering.

In a February 2022 SEC filing YEP Tribe disclosed its partnership with Driven Trading was “a significant source of revenue for the company”.

In that same filing YEP Tribe disclosed to the SEC it had also “separated” from Driven Trading. No reason was provided.

YEP Tribe has since collapsed. The company’s website is no longer accessible and YEP Inc. hasn’t made any SEC filings since May 2022.

Not surprisingly, Vilocity Global Master Trainer Ali Mehdaoui was also Global Master Trainer for YEP Tribe.

Read on for a full review of Vilocity Global’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]