DCPTG (aka Digital Currency Pioneer Technology Group), fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

DCPTG operates from two known website domains:

• dcptg.com – registered in April 2023, private registration last updated on March 26th, 2024
• dcptg.xyz – registered on November 29th, 2022, private registration last updated on December 22nd, 2023

Some DCPTG marketing points to the domain “dcptg.vip”. At time of publication however this domain is disabled.

As of March 2024, SimilarWeb tracks top sources of traffic to DCPTG’s website as Germany (31%), Hungary (16%), Austria (11%), Russia (10%) and Switzerland (6%).

The majority of DCPTG’s website traffic originates from German-speaking countries. This is reflected in DCPTG securities fraud warnings already issued by Germany (March 5th) and Austria (April 6th).

The Central Bank of Russia also issued a DCPTG pyramid fraud warning on Januiary 4th, 2024.

Due to it falsely representing it is based out of the US, DCPTG has also attracted the attention of US regulators.

In December 2023 the Washington Department of Financial Institutions issued a DCPTG securities fraud warning:

DFI has reason to believe that ITP is connected with Coscoin, DCPTG, and Alevius, all of which are purported investment trading platforms registered with the Washington State Secretary of State.

It does not appear that Coscoin, DCPTG, and Alevius’s businesses are actually located at any of the locations they list on the Washington State Secretary of State’s filings, nor that they are engaged in lawful business activities.

ITP Corp, CosCoin and Alevius are collapsed “click a button” app Ponzis run by Chinese scammers.

If we inspect look at the support page of DCPTG’s website, we find it runs on Meiqia software:

Meiqia is a Chinese software company based out of Beijing. This suggests whoever is running DCPTG has ties to China.

In what appears to be an attempt to hide this, DCPTG’s marketing videos feature a combination of stock footage, staged events featuring actors and AI robo avatars.

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.

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Blugenics operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche. The company provides a corporate address in Nevada on its website.

Heading up Blugenics we have CEO Paul Redmayne and COO Eric Swaim.

Paul Redmayne is known to BehindMLM as:

• President of Blue Bird Bids, a Zeek Rewards Ponzi clone (2012)

• co-founder of RevStar Global, a Ponzi successor to the notorious Banners Broker Ponzi (2014)

Eric Swaim was Vice-President of Blue Bird Bids. When the Ponzi collapsed, partly due to Swaim raising concerns of internal manipulation, Swaim took control and converted what was left into PureNRG FX.

PureNRG FX launched in 2013 and was done by 2014. Swaim re-joined Redmayne in RevStar Global as Vice President of Sales in 2014.

RevStar Global is long gone and there’s a considerable gap in Redmayne’s and Swaim’s MLM history.

Fast forward to mid 2023 and Redmayne and Swaim launched Bimble Saving Club:

As far as I can tell, Bimble Savings Club was a travel-themed MLM pyramid scheme.

Bimble Savings Club’s website is no longer accessible, which leads into Blugenics launching its MLM opportunity at some point.

I’d love to be a bit more specific but, like Redmayne and Swaim, Blugenics doesn’t have much of a digital footprint.

What I did come across was this 2020 marketing video featuring Dave Hunter, in which he cites himself as founder and CEO of Blugenics Innovations.

Bluegenics Innovations was founded in 2015, originally as a non-MLM company.

As per Blugenics Innovation’s LinkedIn profile;

Blugenics Innovations is a leading Canadian company that specializes in the development and distribution of high-quality marine phytoplankton products.

Our flagship brand, Karen for Good Health, is the largest phytoplankton supplement brand in North America, offering a wide range of health benefits to our customers.

Sometime after Bimble Savings Club collapsed, Hunter appears to have hired Redmayne and Swaim to front an MLM side of the business, Blugenics Naturals.

Note that while Blugenics Innovations is a Canadian company, Blugenics Naturals cites itself as “a U.S based company”. I’m not sure if there’s anything more to that than an LLC shell company registered in Nevada.

To keep things simple this review will simply refer to Blugenics Innovations and Blugenics Naturals as “Blugenics”.

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Pruvit has filed a lawsuit against Michael Rutherford and Keisha O’Neal.

In their lawsuit, Pruvit accuses Rutherford and O’Neal of soliciting Pruvit distributors for an undisclosed “separate business venture”.

Pruvit asserts that as a result of their activity, Rutherford and O’Neal have breached the terms of settlement agreements reached last year. [Continue reading…]

As part of an undisclosed sale to a third-party, Beautycounter has informed its Brand Advocates they’ve been terminated. [Continue reading…]

Verse Network has received a securities fraud warning from France.

As per the Autorite des Marches Financiers’ April 4th warning, Verse Network is “offering investments in … crypto-assets, without being authorized to do so”. [Continue reading…]

The scammers behind the collapsed Greek Mythology Club NFT Ponzi have pivoted to commodities fraud.

In early February, Brendon Parker (aka Crypto Bren) announced the GMC Elev8ed Forex Trading System.

Fellow Greek Mythology Club co-founder Zak Anstis has GMC Elev8ed daily returns marketing on his social feeds:

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GetFit Mining fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

GetFit Mining’s website domain (“getfitmining.com”), was registered in March 2022. The private registration was last updated on March 26th, 2023.

A YouTube video embedded on GetFit Mining’s website leads to a YouTube channel titled “GetFit Activity Mining”. There we find GetFit Mining marketing videos hosted by “Lynette”.

“Lynette” corresponds to Shirley Lynette Artin Crawford (right).

On April 16th, Danny Dehek held a livestream covering GetFit Mining on his “The Crypto Ponzi Scheme Avenger” YouTube channel.

At around [1:29:11] DeHek reveals he was contacted by Crawford in her capacity as GetFit Mining’s owner. This tracks with Crawford featuring in GetFit Mining’s marketing videos.

DeHek calls Artin as part of his livestream. She doesn’t answer but did call him back at [2:03:22].

Crawford, a US resident who also goes by “Lynette Artin”, is known to BehindMLM as a net-winner in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme.

How much Crawford stole through Zeek Rewards is unclear, but it was enough to see her targeted through clawback litigation.

After Zeek Rewards was shut down by US authorities in 2012, Crawford’s name popped up in association with numerous reload scams; GoFunRewards, OfferHubb, Uptown Offers, Quick Pay Group and CrowdFundFast.

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OLSP System fails to provide ownership or executive information on its public-facing website.

OLSP System operates from the domain (“olspsystem.com”), was registered back in July 2020. The private registration was last updated on July 2nd, 2023.

Presently, OLSP System’s website is nothing more than an affiliate login/signup form:

With a bit of technical manipulation we land on a non-public page that identifies Wayne Crowe as OLSP System’s founder.

Crowe operates OLSP System through Wayne Crowe Limited, a company registered in the UK back in 2016.

Normally I’d flag a UK company as a red flag but it appears Wayne Crowe is a UK resident.

On social media Crowe presents himself as “affiliate marketer of the year”. What authority that’s on or for what year is unclear.

Based on his YouTube channel, Crowe has an internet marketing history going back at least five years. “Traffic Domination” is a recurring theme on his channel.

Like OLSP System, Traffic Domination’s homepage is nothing more than an affiliate login/signup form.

On the MLM side of things, circa 2021 Crowe was promoting iCoinPro.

iCoinPro launched in 2017 and, while retail was possible, built a business around $39.95 a month autoship recruitment.

Promotion for OLSP System on Crowe’s YouTube channel began in early 2021. It appears to have initially been an opportunity launched within Traffic Domination.

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Agravitae operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

The company was founded in 2022 and is based out of California.

Heading up Agravitae we have founder Ken Owen (aka Kenneth Owen).

As per Owen’s Agravitae corporate bio;

Ken Owen, founder of Agravitae, grew up on a small farm in Oregon. After a prolific career in marketing and real estate, Ken knew he always wanted to return to his roots.

Soon enough he discovered what is now TKO farms – a hardwood and tropical fruit farm in Tea Kettle, Belize.

Some additional information Owen’s employment history is revealed in a June 2022 PR interview with Ideamensch;

After graduating from school, Ken landed in Palm Springs and began his career in land development.

As he cultivated new business relationships, he found that he had a skill set well-suited to sales.

This led him to a position with AT&T, which eventually brought him to Los Angeles.

It was here that Ken became one of the largest distributors of the then-new technology of voice over internet protocol (VOIP).

In California, Ken continued to learn all he could about investments and land development. Initially, he invested in several businesses, and while some worked out and went public, others did not do as well.

However, whether successful or unsuccessful, each opportunity provided him with more education in real time, and Ken took every lesson to heart.

The skills acquired through these transactions would eventually lead Kenneth Owen to the success he has found today.

Owen’s transition to TKO Farms seems to have come about in or around 2017.

As far as I can tell, Owen doesn’t have any MLM executive history prior to founding Agravitae.

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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…]