Chen Zhi, founder and Chairman of Prince Holding Group, has been indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges. [Continue reading…]

iComTech promoter Juan Arellano has received a time served sentence and three years of supervised release.

$1.74 million already seized by the US government is forfeited. And Arellano is jointly liable for $789,218 in restitution. [Continue reading…]

Following multiple regulatory fraud warnings, Crytpex’s website domain was seized earlier this month. [Continue reading…]

BehindMLM has published two LifeVantage reviews to date; the first in 2015 and a second in 2019.

In September 2025, LifeVantage announced it had acquired LoveBiome. This prompted a BehindMLM reader to request an updated review.

Seeing as it’s been six years, today we’re revisiting LifeVantage for an updated review. [Continue reading…]

Clayton and Elisha Sampson have been ordered to pay $750,000 in punitive damages.

In awarding punitive damages on September 30th, the court noted discrepancies in the Sampsons’ testimony and failure to produce requested financial records. [Continue reading…]

Vault27 fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Vault27’s website domain (“vault27.net”), was registered in February 2023. The private registration was last updated on January 5th, 2025.

Further research reveals Bruce John Curnick citing himself as Vault27’s founder and CEO:

Curnick claims to be a South African living in the UK.

In addition to Vault27, Curnick is behind Dreamz and Meishi.

Dreamz appears to be an MLM opportunity attached to Meishi, a paid LinkedIn style directory.

Part of Meishi was Meishi Invest:

Meishi Invest was an unregistered crypto investment scheme that was abandoned in late 2024.

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…]

BitHarvest has received an investment fraud warning from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).

As per the AFM’s October 7th BitHarvest warning; [Continue reading…]

AtomicMeta fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AtomicMeta’s website domain (“atomicmeta.com”), was first registered in 2021. The private registration was last updated on July 27th, 2025.

On the WayBack Machine we can see AtomicMeta’s website domain was for sale as of March 2025. AtomicMeta’s website went live in or around August 2025, so it’s likely the domain itself was purchased in or around July 2025.

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…]

Zeus Funding, aka Zeus 12X, doesn’t appear to have a website. Instead, the MLM opportunity is run through a shady Telegram group named “@zeusinstant”.

Neither Zeus Funding’s official marketing material or its Telegram group discloses who’s behind the company.

On a September 15th Zeus Funding marketing webinar hosted by Jason Regan from Success in Living. Zeus Funding is represented by Michael Eder:

Elsewhere Eder cites himself as a co-founder and Managing Partner of Zeus Funding and something called Zyra:

As per his Instagram profile, Eder is based out of Austria:

Zeus Funding claims to be a partner of Tag Markets:

To that end, in the previously Zeus Funding webinar, Tag Markets is represented by Jared Esguerra:

Esguerra is cited as Tag Markets’ owner. On social media, Esguerra represents he works in “financial services” and is based out of Dubai;

Zeus Funding marketing material cites Kevin Marin Valez as co-founder and CEO of Tag Markets:

On social media, Valez claims to be a “digital creator” and “business administrator” based out of Colombia:

Last week BehindMLM reported on Crowd1 Ponzi victims being funneled into Tag Markets investment fraud. In the comments of that article, a BehindMLM reader claimed serial fraudster Niklas Freihofer (aka Nik Freihofer) was behind Tag Markets.

Freihofer is purportedly from Germany. This might tie into Zeus Funding’s German language focus.

Another name we can attach to Tag Markets is Leonhard Wolman, author of Tag Markets’ “macro briefing” documents.

Based on Eder being based out of Austria, it follows Zeus Funding is operated from Austria.

As per the “Kevin Marin” marketing slide above, Tag Markets is represented to be operating from Columbia [sic] and Dubai.

Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Zeus Funding, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

Jacques Marais has rebooted his multi-collapsed Infinity Grid MLM gifting scheme.

Victims of the scam are also being recruited under Marais into LevAI. [Continue reading…]