The SEC has sued PGI Global’s Ramil Venture Palafox and several relief defendant accomplices.

Ramil Ventura Palafox is the sole named defendant. The SEC has also sued four relief defendants; [Continue reading…]

PGI Global Ponzi scammer Ramil Ventura Palafox, aka RV Palafox, has been arrested in California.

Palafox’s arrest follows a March 13th, 2025 sealed Grand Jury indictment in Virginia. [Continue reading…]

Profit Connect’s Brent Covar is running another recently launched Ponzi while out on pre-trial release. [Continue reading…]

Wanted fugitive John Barksdale is spearheading efforts to defraud consumers through Akasha.

Akasha and its AK1111 shitcoin is being pitched as the latest investment opportunity of Ultron and Akita Rider. [Continue reading…]

Following a request from a BehindMLM reader, Vorpen AI came up for review today.

A visit to Vorpen AI’s website however reveals it now redirects to Vorpen X.

Vorpen AI ran from the website domain (“vorpen.ai”), privately registered in June 2024.

Vorpen AI’s social media accounts were abandoned on or around April 13th. The domain redirection to Vorpen X happened around the same time. [Continue reading…]

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

Aifeex’s website domain (“aifeex.com”), was privately registered on October 9th, 2024.

Over on Aifeex’s official Telegram channel we find Chinese:

This suggest whoever is running Aifeex 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…]

Des Alpes fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website domains.

Des Alpes operates from two known website domains:

1. desalpesfamily.app.clientclub.net – appears to be a subdomain on a third-party platform
2. desalpes.world – privately registered on October 24th, 2024

At time of publication both website homepages are nothing more than affiliate log in forms. A bit more information is provided on “invite.desalpes.world”, however this is still just a recruitment funnel with a vague generic marketing pitch.

Further research reveals Des Alpes promoters citing Daniel Dalpe as CEO and presumably founder of the company:

According to his social media profiles, Alpes is based out of Qubec, Canada. I wasn’t able to verify Alpes’ MLM history.

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…]

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

Treasure operates from two known website domains:

1. nk116.com – privately registered on February 26th, 2025
2. asctr.com – registered with bogus details on February 20th, 2025

Of note is Treasure’s “asctr.com” domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

It should also be noted that, until recently, Treasure’s “nk116.com” domain was being used to run Nuclear AI. Nuclear AI is an already-collapsed “click a button” Ponzi scheme.

Treasure has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued a Treasure pyramid fraud warning on April 14th, 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…]

HC Wellness operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche. The company provides a corporate address in Mexico City on its website.

HC Wellness’ website domain (“hcwellness.net”), was registered in August 2019. The private registration was last updated on August 19th, 2024.

Heading up HC Wellness is founder Rafael Chavez Monzon and CEO Pablo Lara.

The “HC” in HC Wellness stands for “Hispano Club”. This reflects HC Wellness primarily targeting Latin America.

As per a 2017 trademark filing, Hispano Club offered

membership club services providing discounts and administrative processing of rebates for the services of others; all of the foregoing excluding insurance, surety, and warranty products and services.

In addition to access to discounts, Hispano Club also offered access to pre-paid health care plans and legal aid services.

It appears the original business collapsed and, around 2019, Hispano Club was rebooted as HC Wellness.

Pablo Lara’s HC Wellness corporate bio credits him with “extensive experience in network marketing.”

A search for “Pablo Lara mlm” prior to 2017 returns limited results. I was unable to verify Lara’s MLM history.

Read on for a full review of HC Wellness’ MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

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

Quant AI’s website domain (“airobot10.com”), was privately registered on January 16th, 2025.

Quant AI has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. Ukraine’s National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), issued a Quant AI securities fraud warning on April 14th, 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…]