PTGR AG operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

PTGR AG’s website domain (“ptgr.io”), was privately registered on January 26th, 2025.

Heading up PTGR AG we have founder and CEO Pan Gross-Ruyken.

Things get a little bit strange here. In addition to running PTGR AG, Gross-Ruyken is also a professor at the Swiss School of Management (SSM), Barcelona:

Gross-Ruyken’s SSM bio acknowledges his role at PTGR AG;

Currently serving as the CEO of PTGR AG in Zug, Switzerland, Dr. Grosse-Ruyken spearheads the company’s focus on digital finance solutions for private and institutional clients.

This doesn’t match up with PTGR AG as presented on its .IO domain – but it does match what PTGR AG offers on a second domain, “ptgr.ch”.

PTGR AG on the .CH domain does offer investing services, but its by consultation only. Additionally, general crypto services and consultancy is offered.

I thought someone might have hijacked the PTGR AG name but, if you click on the “$PTGR token” link at the top right of the PTGR AG .CH website, you get redirected to the .IO domain.

PTGR AG’s .CH website domain was privately registered on June 9th, 2021. The company is named after its founder, Pan Theo Gross-Ruyken.

Putting all of this together, it appears Pan Gross-Ruyken reinvented himself as a crypto bro circa 2021 but continued to work as an academic.

PTGR AG was the usual failed crypto bro scheme (might have even been a COVID-19 project), so now Grosse-Ruyken has added a PTGR token investment scheme.

We’ll delve into the legalities of this in the conclusion of the review.

Read on for a full review of PTGR AG’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Somebody has set up an Antares Trade recovery Ponzi.

The new scam has been set up on the domain “antarestrade.live”, privately registered on September 18th, 2025. [Continue reading…]

All InX fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

All InX’s website domain (“allinx.io”), was privately registered on July 28th, 2025.

It should be noted the first iteration of All InX collapsed within a month of its domain registration.

On August 20th “Salva Domainca”, who claimed to be an All InX founder, announced a “project update & relaunch plans”.

“Salva Domainca” doesn’t exist outside of All InX’s communications. There’s a good chance he doesn’t exist.

As far as I can tell, all signs point to All InX being a Chinese run scam out of Asia.

As per All InX’s website Terms of Use;

If unresolved, disputes shall be submitted to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) under its arbitration rules.

All InX does not provide services to residents or entities from restricted jurisdictions, including but not limited to: North Korea, Cuba, Mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore, and any sanctioned regions.

The intent appears to be to defraud consumers outside of regions All InX is operated from – with some generally sanctioned regions thrown in for obfuscation.

There are also Russian elements to All InX. Over on YouTube we find staged marketing events held across Asia, which is typical of Chinese MLM scams.

One event though was purportedly recently held in Russia:

We also find “influencer” style marketing videos, featuring AI-generated avatars.

One in particular stands out, Moonlight (@Moon1ightSt):

All InX videos featuring the Moonlight avatar are heavily edited. I’m pretty sure this is one of those AI face filters, with some guy playing Moonlight in front of a greenscreen.

The Moonlight avatar has its own YouTube channel, on which we find random crypto shill videos dating back to April 2024.

In the early videos the Moonlight avatar speaks in Chinese. There are also a few badly dubbed videos.

In a few All InX marketing videos we find Chief Investing Officer “Mikael Laviolette”:

On LinkedIn Laviolette goes by Mikael Laviolette Belanger and represents he is based out of Malaysia.

On a Twitter profile scrubbed of posts prior to August 2025 (when All InX launched), Laviolette is represented to be from Canada.

Another data point for All InX is it’s app developer, Top Line Digital Marketing (PVT) LTD.

Top Line Digital Marketing is represented to be based out of Sri Lanka.

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…]

LuLaRoe co-founder Mark Stidham passed away on September 25th at the age of sixty-eight.

Stidham is believed to have died of complications related to pancreatic cancer. [Continue reading…]

Athene Network has collapsed.

Following a trademark infringement judgment earlier this year, the scammers behind the Ponzi scheme have rebooted as Atheus Network. [Continue reading…]

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…]