AI Cambridge Review: Quantitative trading “click a button” Ponzi

AI Cambridge fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI Cambridge’s website domain (“cambridgeai.xyz”), was privately registered on December 16th, 2024.

AI Cambridge’s official marketing features Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running AI Cambridge has ties to China.

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…]


Avlitex Review: Boris CEO MLM crypto mining Ponzi

Avlitex operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche. On its website, Avlitex represents it is based out of Canada.

The provided corporate address however belongs to Regus, a virtual office retailer. This means it is unlikely Avlitex has any actual ties to Canada.

Supporting this is Avlitex providing a registration certificate for Avlitex Limited, a shell company purportedly registered in Ontario.

Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence these certificates are meaningless.

Avlitex is supposedly headed up by CEO Raymond Norbury:

Norbury doesn’t exist outside of Avlitex’s website, making him a prime Boris CEO candidate.

Further confirming this is the actor playing Norbury appearing in a marketing video on Avlitex’s official YouTube channel.

In the video, shot at a rented office, the actor playing Norbury features an eastern European accent.

This tracks with the majority of Boris CEO schemes being run by eastern European scammers (Russians and Ukrainians).

Other executives are listed on Avlitex’s website. These executives appear to be represented by AI-generated photos. Notably, none of them appear in Avlitex’s marketing videos.

Avlitex’s website domain (“avlitex.com”), was first registered in 2011. The private registration was last updated on September 21st, 2024.

Although it has only existed for a few months, on its website Avlitex falsely claims its “story began in 2020”.

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…]


Generation Zoe’s Leonardo Cositorto wants to marry prisoner

The clown show surrounding Leonardo Cositorto’s Generation Zoe trial in Argentina continues.

The latest is Cositorto announcing plans to marry a fellow prisoner. [Continue reading…]


GSB Settlement claim portal delay response email

On January 3rd BehindMLM reached out to AlixPartners seeking an update on the continuously delayed victim claim portal.

Hi,

This is the second email I’m sending as the first went unanswered back in September.

Can you provide an update to victims of GSB as to why the victim claim portal is being continually delayed? Thanks.

-Oz

On January 13th we received a response, citing “additional time to work with regulators and GSB” as the reason behind delays. [Continue reading…]



Lindt Mall Review: Stolen identity “click a button” Ponzi

Lindt Mall fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Lindt Mall’s website domain (“fa.arabianmall.vip”), was

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…]


IconX Review: Mining Race Dubai crypto Ponzi

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

IconX’s website domain (“iconx.tech”), was privately registered on March 9th, 2024.

The only names disclosed on IconX’s website are Danyal Islam, Rado Mulej and Hind el Hadaj, purportedly members of a “community trustees council”.

Further research reveals Islam, Mulej and Hadaj are promoters who are part of IconX’s marketing.

Salman Butt is another name we can add to the list.

As to who’s actually running IconX, further research reveals ties to Dubai’s Al-Maktoum ruling family (click to enlarge):

  • Saeed bin Hasher Al-Maktoum – IconX’s Chairman
  • Solaiman Al-Rifai – IconX Board Member
  • Ram Alsridi – IconX Managing Director and Board Member
  • Ali Abuzinjal – IconX Community Director

Al-Maktoum, Al-Rifai and Abuzinjal are Dubai-based MLM crypto fraudsters. All three were previously involved in Safir International’s Zeniq Coin Ponzi scheme.

Safir International went on to collapse in 2023.

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 IconX, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]


AI Quantify Review: Quantitative trading “click a button” Ponzi

AI Quantify fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI Quantify operates from two known website domains; trx6.vip and trx5.cc. Both of AI Quantify’s domains were privately registered on December 30th, 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…]



Sixth Society: $200,000 membership securities fraud

Sixth Society fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Sixth Society’s website domain (“sixthsociety.com”), was first registered in 2016. The private registration was last updated on March 4th, 2024.

Through the Wayback Machine we can see Sixth Society’s earlier website design revealed two names of interest; Volker Hartzsch and Elisa Giudici:

On his personal website Volker Hartzsch cites himself as a founder of Sixth Society:

Before he reinvented himself as a crypto bro, Hartzsch was selling car parts from Dubai:

According to Hartzsch’s Twitter profile he’s still based out of the UAE:

On her personal website Elisa Giudici, a purported UK resident, cites herself as “founder of Sixth Society”:

Why this information is not disclosed on Sixth Society’s website is unclear.

While they each appear to have their own crypto bro projects under their respective belts, Hartzsch and Giudici are also co-founders of Trustyfy:

Trustyfy appears to operate as a middleman between crypto wallet owners and “external partners … [who] can empower you with more traditional services, such as debit cards”.

As per its website Sixth Society represents it is run through Block Prime LTD;

This website and app are owned and operated by Sixth Society, a business of Block Prime Ltd, with headquarters in London, United Kingdom, company number 14031792.

Block Prime LTD was a UK company run by Hartzsch, Giudici and Stefano Tresca.

As per the screenshot above, Tresca is a co-founder of Trustyfy. He also appears to be a Sixth Society co-founder.

Block Prime LTD was voluntarily dissolved on December 17th, 2024. The footer of Sixth Society’s website now ties the company to “Sixth Society OU” and “Sixth Society US Inc.”

Sixth Society OU is an Estonian shell company under the control of Hartzsch, Giudici and Blas Daniel Pedreno Esteban.

Esteban is a resident of Spain and is listed as “Head of Backend Dev” on Trusyfy’s website.

Esteban’s name being tied to Sixth Society’s Estonian shell company suggests he’s also a co-founder but I wasn’t able to verify.

Sixth Society US Inc. is a Delaware shell company. Owing to lax registration requirements and regulation, Delaware is a favorite US jurisdiction for scammers to register shell companies in.

Pertaining to Volker Hartzsch being based out of 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 Sixth Society, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]


CTL Shop Review: Fake orders “click a button” Ponzi

CTL Shop fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

CTL Shop’s website domain (“clslshop.com”), was registered with bogus details on April 10th, 2024.

If we look at CTL Shop’s website source-code we find Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running CTL Shop has ties to China.

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…]


“Click a button” Ponzi scammers targeting Chinese actors & models

Scammers behind the “click a button” app Ponzis are now targeting Chinese mainland actors and models.

Multiple cases over the past weeks detail Chinese nationals being lured to Thailand under false pretenses. [Continue reading…]