Beyond Slim has abandoned its MLM business model.

I couldn’t find any official announcement but the change appears to have taken place towards the end of last month.

On October 2nd, Beyond Slim sought to reassure promoters and customers on FaceBook; “We’re not “going under.” We’re going over the top.” [Continue reading…]

TBR Powerup System fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

TBR Powerup System’s website domain (“tbrpowerupsystem.com”), was privately registered on July 1st, 2025.

Marketing videos on TBR Powerup System’s website are hosted on a YouTube channel bearing the name “Divine Power Bill Relief”:

As above, the channel features three videos. Two are recent TBR Powerup System marketing videos. The third is a “Divine Power Bill Relief” video from a year ago.

Divine Power Bill Relief was an MLM pyramid scheme hosted on the domain “joindivinepowerbrp.com”.

Divine Power Bill Relief has since collapsed and today a visit to its website looks like this:

Further research reveals an official Divine Power Bill Relief website with two admins; Domonique Barbee and Kimberly Crawford.

Divine Power Bill Relief appears to have been a short-lived scam, with promotion ending in December 2024.

After Divine Power Bill Relief collapsed, Barbee continued to promote fraudulent MLM schemes on social media. These include multiple matrix-based pyramid scheme and the MemeGames Ponzi scheme.

Beyond that, Barbee has made appearances on BehindMLM in connection to Tradera’s collapse in 2020.

As far as I can tell, Kimberly Crawford just appears to be a lackey that follows Barbee from scam to scam.

Of particular note is Barbee’s targeting of consumers under financial stress. This has been going on for years under various names:

• Miracle System – October 2018
• Divine Power of Prosperity – June 2024
• Divine Power Bill Relief – September 2024
• The Bill Relief Prosperity Magnet System – April 2025
• The TBR Prosperity Magnet System – May 2025
• TBR Powerup System – July 2025

Barbee’s scams don’t tend to last long so there’s a significant gap between 2018 and 2024.

More recently, “TBR” has emerged as an acronym for “The Bill Relief” across Barbee’s various scams.

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money. [Continue reading…]

People Getting Paid fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Instead, marketing videos on People Getting Paid’s website feature an AI-generated avatar.

People Getting Paid’s website domain (“peoplegettingpaid.com”), was privately registered on July 18th, 2025.

Update 5th October 2025 – Following a reader tip off in the comments below, I was able to confirm Jeffrey Long Long is behind People Getting Paid.

Long, aka Jeff Long, first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar as the founder of AutoXTen, a recruitment scheme launched in 2011.

AutoXTen collapsed a few months after launch. Long went on to launch SMS Dailies, which also collapsed shortly after launching.

Long resurfaced in late 2015 with Get Paid Social, a Facebook spam pyramid scheme.

Get Paid Social went into decline throughout 2016, prompting Long to launch 1 Online Business in mid 2017.

1 Online Business combined a cycler Ponzi business model with social media spam. Alexa traffic estimates for the 1 Online Business show a brief hype period followed by a collapse leading into 2018.

Long launched and began promoting Luvv, a pyramid scheme, around April, 2018. Luvv is believed to have collapsed a few months after its launch.

In early 2019 Long launched NewU Financial, a shady MLM gifting scheme promising investors a 200% ROI. That lasted barely a few months before NewU Financial collapsed.

Within weeks of NewU Financial collapsing Long launched Abundance Network, another illegal gifting scheme.

A few weeks later Long’s partner merchants pulled the plug, citing pyramid scheme concerns.

This led to a pyramid scheme model reboot in August 2019 that, not surprisingly, was also short-lived.

Long’s last appearance on BehindMLM was in April 2024, as owner of Internet Income System.

Internet Income System was a $100 a month gifting pyramid scheme. I’m not sure exactly when it collapsed but today Internet Income System’s website domain is disabled. /end update

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money. [Continue reading…]

The Pop Max Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Victims of the scheme are now being funneled into a “Luma Protocol” reboot. [Continue reading…]

The DOJ has requested Juan Carlos Reynoso’s contempt penalty be increased to $20,000 a day. [Continue reading…]

Crowd1 Ponzi victims are being funneled into an unregistered trading scheme run through Tag Markets. [Continue reading…]

Having failed to locate NovaTech FX co-founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion in Panama, the SEC now opines the Petions may have fled to Dubai.

The SEC’s latest disclosure was made in a September 29th filed declaration exhibit. The exhibit was attached to a motion seeking permission to serve the Petions via alternative service. [Continue reading…]

DAO1 has received a securities fraud warning from Germany’s BaFin.

As per BaFin’s October 2nd DAO1 warning; [Continue reading…]

Vortic United has received a securities fraud warning from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

ASIC added Vortic United to its Investor Alert List on October 1st, 2025. [Continue reading…]

Texas has rejoined the GSPartners fraud settlement.

As per an undated update to the GSB Settlement website; [Continue reading…]