Achieve Community @ BehindMLM

Despite the rosy image of thanks and gratitude carefully crafted on the Achieve Community forums, there is evidently a growing undercurrent of discontent. Despite claiming Achieve Community would never accept deposits without a mechanism in place to pay out commissions, Achieve Community went ahead and did just that when they signed with iPayDNA. For reasons [Continue reading…]

Giving themselves a pat on the back, an announcement from DORA, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, today celebrates the recovery of $2.1 million from investment scammers. The sum was recovered from various investment scams dating back to 2013, with the Colorado Securities Division praised for their efforts. After completing an analysis of its 2014 numbers, the [Continue reading…]

Now that we have our Forum up, it is up to all of you to create the communication you want to have there. Help each other with questions please, and if there are comments you don’t like don’t answer them, it isn’t necessary for anyone to be bothered by our members opinions. The Forum is a [Continue reading…]

Maxim Chukharev was one of the seven individuals indicted in connection to the Liberty Reserve payment processor. A hotbed of MLM underbelly fraud, among other things, Liberty Reserve was shut down for money laundering mid last year.

Typically when we’ve seen regulatory investigations announced in the MLM world, the company in question is quick to acknowledge the situation. They usually do this by announcing their full cooperation with the authorities, and in the worst instances, suspend business operations while they try to figure out how much trouble they’re in. Not so when [Continue reading…]

It took a day later than I expected, but last night I received confirmation that the Colorado Securities Division has opened an investigation into the Achieve Community. Yesterday I’d published a preliminary announcement regarding a possible investigation, with confirmation arriving later in the day via email.

Yesterday saw an unexpected comment appear on BehindMLM, supposedly authored by an investigator with the Colorado Securities Division: I am investigator with the Colorado Division of Securities seeking anyone from CO who has put money in with The Achieve Community. The comment, left by “Inv. M.C. Williams”, appeared on one of BehindMLM’s Achieve Community articles [Continue reading…]

Typically when a Ponzi scheme hits regulatory problems the admins usually shut it down and disappear. Every once in a while though an admin comes along and believes they’ve truly re-invented the wheel. Achieve Community owner Kristi Johnson is one of those admins. With the stress of coming up with new excuses each week to [Continue reading…]

Despite previously claiming that their “new Payout Processor is Global Cash Card”, news today that Achieve Community is once again without a payment processor. When exactly Kristi Johnson was made aware GCC would not be working with Achieve is unclear. Today’s announcement however appears to have been prompted by an Achieve affiliate publishing an email they [Continue reading…]

After Payoneer terminated Achieve Community’s payment processor services in early November, the opportunity has been in limbo for over a month. Deposits into Achieve were re-instated two weeks ago via Asian processor iPayDNA, with members reporting unrelated companies showing up on credit card statements shortly thereafter. Now it appears withdrawals are poised to start up again, with [Continue reading…]