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

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”.

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:

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.

Reddit, Yelp, GlassDoor, Indeed, TripAdvisor and the PubPeer Foundation have collectively filed an amicus brief in BehindMLM’s GSB Gold Standard Corporation appeal. In their capacity as a “group of online speech platforms with millions of daily users”, brief movants (amici) above seek to address an “important question”;

The Financial Education Services “terminations” class-action has been partially dismissed. And following the March 21st partial dismissal order, what’s left of the case has been sent to arbitration.

On April 1st GSPartners spinoff Billionico announced it had hired Alfredo Pino. An accompanying press-release claimed Pino, who also goes by Alfie Pino, had been hired to “mentor elite education teams”. Alfie Pino has extensive coaching experience, specializing in all things cryptocurrency. He was teaching, helping students navigate the ever-changing rapids of the blockchain industry [Continue reading…]

A court has ordered the appointment of a Qyral Receiver. The order follows an April 10th emergency ex-parte application filed by defendant Darius Banasik, and an April 12th proposed order filed by plaintiffs Hanieh Sigari and Qyral LLC.

A promoter has claimed GSPartners has “abandoned any hope of operating in the US”. The update was presented as a highlight of a GSPartners corporate call, held on Thursday April 4th.

What’s left of the Richard Smith’s Tranzact Card to FinMore grift has collapsed. In an email sent out a few hours ago, frontman Peter Rancie “announc[ed] the complete and immediate shutdown of TranzactCard and FinMore”.