Ash Mufareh still stalling OnPassive launch after 2.5 years
OnPassive has been in prelaunch now for roughly two and a half years.
To this day, gullible “founders” who shelled $97 for positions still have nothing to show for it.
A reader comment from late October prompted me to flag OnPassive for an update check in a few months.
The comment itself was the revelation that, thirty or so months in, OnPassive was launching an AI chat bot.
According to Mufareh, the bot is to be used to cut Onpassive’s “human support hours” by 40%.
With a never-ending prelaunch and not a cent in commissions paid out since inception, you can imagine how busy OnPassive’s support team must be.
How long it took OnPassive’s outsourced Indian developers to put together bot technology found on practically every major ecommerce website is unclear.
What I can tell you is OnPassive first started talking about chat bots back in February 2020.
Meaningless techno-jargon aside, I could install a chat bot on BehindMLM in about five minutes.
Out of curiosity I went looking for a bot popup on OnPassive’s website and didn’t find one. So whether the chat bot even launched or not is unclear (it might just be used for victim correspondence from the backoffice).
If you’re wondering what kind of people hand over $97 and then sit back and swallow one nonsense update after another for two and a half years, here’s a snapshot of your typical OnPassive affiliate’s mindset:
I say typical because naturally some OnPassive affiliates realize they’ve been taken for a ride.
The best example of this a grab from the YouTube channel “loner gripe” (same source as the chat bot announcement linked to above).
In a video uploaded on August 30th, an OnPassive affiliate tells Mufareh he’s been struggling with no income “since before COVID”.
Sensing he’s about to be grilled, Mufareh cuts him off and berates the man for not looking at his camera.
After an awkward exchange, and having just been told the man is “struggling with no income”, Mufareh asks, “How are you doing today?”
The man responds that he’s “doing OK” but “struggling to pay the bills”.
Cue lots of shifty sideways glancing by Mufareh:
Why? Because Mufareh knew what was coming…
What was has to happen in order to open the soft launch, so I can start bringing money in and feed my kids?
Rather than just answer the question (never, but thanks for your money though), Mufareh hid behind the question being asked on a “public webinar”.
This is a public webinar. You can ask that question tomorrow on the private webinar with founders.
Make sense? Yeah, didn’t to me either.
After deflecting the man’s question, Mufareh invites him to ask another one.
So you’ve said in the past, “It’s a done deal”. What specifically do you mean by it’s done?
Do you mean the programming is done? Or it’s a done deal that we will open? But can you give me a timeline?
Or what’s done? What’s the actual done part of the done deal?
After a few moments of awkward silence, Mufareh again deflects;
OK. Yeah. Tha-that is definitely the wrong place for the question.
What follows is classic Mufareh word salad;
We were talking about the ideal perfect business. The right ingredients for a business model, OK?
Alright that business doesn’t exist.
We decided to do something called OnPassive, applying, endorsing, OK? Including… those… perfect business ingredients.
That’s what we’ve done. And we realized after, y’know… we’ve been doing it, that we’re able… OK? And we got all the resources and abilities to make it happen.
It’s a done deal, it’s a matter of time.
Clear as mud? Yeah.
I feel it’s worth pointing out again that OnPassive’s business model is a simple matrix script. You sign up, pay a fee for a matrix position and get paid to recruit others who do the same.
All that’s stopping OnPassive launching is attaching said matrix script to a live website.
But Oz, if it’s that simple then why has Ash Mufareh strung OnPassive affiliates along for two and a half years and counting?
A December 7th blog post on OnPassive’s website claims “over 341,000 members have now entered the Go-Founder ranks!”
341,000 multiplied by $99 comes to $33,759,000.
The problem with actually launching OnPassive is that means money flowing out of Mufareh’s pockets as commissions paid to affiliates.
Sadly, that’s all there is to it.
Based on current Alexa website traffic estimates, OnPassive is being primarily promoted in India, the US and Australia.
No idea who “loner gripe” is but keep up the great work!
I call this “Terminal Prelaunch”. Just a long ongoing pitch of “things to come” with owners collecting money to fund their slimy lifestyles.
I saw a guy run a terminal prelaunch for 5 years till he shut down.
There is a gullible segment of the population that bites hard on what I coined “Concept Marketing” Pitching a concept/dream of things yet to be seen. Its easier to believe and pitch the hype then to take the time to do the due diligence.
Chase that shiny new object again and again see what it gets you. Broke and dead or dead broke.
Its all good till its not. Good luck!!
I have a ready answer to all of OnPassive’s problems. Because what I’ve done with this comment…and I realized after, y’know, I’ve been writing it, that I’m able… OK? I got all the resources to make this comment happen.
It’s a done deal; it’s a matter of time.
That’s the claimed situation publicly, but I have serious doubts about it being the reality. I’ve become pretty convinced Mufareh must have a secret commissions system going, for a chosen few.
The reason I think this is because of the YouTube salesmen. The one I occasionally look at is a guy called Mike Ellis, who has a YT channel called OnPassive Nation. He started promoting OnPassive/GoFounders in March 2019, and has been putting out a continuous stream of videos, usually more than one a week.
In all of them he confidently promises that OnPassive is going to launch Any Day Soon Now. Very, very definitely before the end of 2019. And 2020. And three weeks from now, no doubt 2021.
He’s a serial pusher of get-rick-quick MLM schemes.
Before OnPassive, he was peddling something called Make Money Now, which disappeared from his output without any explanation or excuse in early 2019 (and also seems to be gone from the net entirely), and something referred to as Free Forex Signals (which of course had to be paid for), of which the last signs of life in his videos are a few from January 2019, with feeble excuses for why the promised launch has been delayed for a bit (but will of course happen any day soon now).
That, too, then disappears without a trace.
Since then, it’s OnPassive all the way.
I just cannot believe someone like that is working for free. Even if he might have fallen for Mufareh’s BS for a bit himself, he’s been doing this for close to two years now, continuously churning out videos, all supposedly without seeing a penny himself.
There has to be something in it for him, beyond empty promises of making money after the ever-receding launch date.
This is why I believe there must be a secret, behind-the-scenes commission system in place, with Mufareh sharing some of the loot with a few prominent promoters like Ellis (there are a few more active on YouTube, and no doubt others on social media I can’t see).
After all, he needs a salesforce to keep on bringing in those $97 suckers, without them he’d be limited to only those people he can reach directly himself, and that pool must have been fished dry a long time ago.
That video clip of Mufareh being put on the spot with an obvious, simple question is indeed hilarious. What I found so laughing-out-loud funny about it when I first saw it was that he first tries to deflect by berating the guy for not being “professional” by not looking straight at the camera.
On the few occasions I’d seen Mufareh before, I’d always been struck by how completely unprofessional he appears, slouching in front of the camera with his head barely hovering above the bottom edge of the picture, and the top two thirds of the picture only showing the wall.
He doesn’t even seem to try – for instance, in nothing I’ve seen he tries to pretend he’s in an office setting (or in India, where the hundreds, or perhaps by now thousands, of software developers he’s got working for him are). Even that Mike Ellis guy looks like a serious businessman in comparison.
This particular appearance is even worse, he’s set himself up with the most crappy amateurish green screen background I’ve ever seen, which regularly shows through parts of his face, and all of the papers he’s waving about at one point. And then he’s picked that stupid background image, which provides him with a bizarro Ferris wheel halo.
Anyone who falls for a scam this crude deserves what they get.
This is what happens when you follow ponzi pimps’ statements leading you to a scheme, which, potentially, is being run by sociopath/psycopath.
Did everyone forget the recent as of the last few months change to the comp plan?
Where GOFOUNDERS and the public are to pay between $100 – $250 just to join ONPASSIVE.
All the endless youtube videos talking about the 3×10 matrix and 4 levels of packages has now become trash.
IF ASH can’t confirm a launch date in public now we have a new FEE that can’t be confirmed either.
Seems like the door is wide open for a new round of excuses.
If people can hunt down 3 to join under them their membership becomes FREE.
Remember the low $25 entry fee was to help the struggling people jump start their income. What happened to that?
I can only suppose the “A.I.” only has to focus on recruiting 3 per member and it can stop helping that member.
Still no confirmation on the total of PAID GOFOUNDERS.
ASH Can not hide once the launch happens as it will be revealed in how much confirmed commissions are being paid to members that join from then onward.
He never had to confirm anything since $97 Gofounder fees had no commissions attached so he could hide the truth in the numbers.
All while Ash’s script bumps up the member count and so called pending members to the grand total of GOFOUNDERS.
This explains why the launch date is never confirmed as he knows the true amount of money taken in and what has to happen ADVERTISING wise once a REAL LAUNCH takes place.
50 so called products with most of them with duplicate functions.
Time grows near when this scam is fully revealed for what it is.
Has this actually launched though? (no pun intended)
AFAIK OnPassive is still charging $99 founders positions.
Once the “SOFT LAUNCH” begins the FOUNDER POSITIONS GO up to $147 per position so commissions can be paid.
Time is still counting down on the big huge life changing launch!
Yeah that’s marketing bullshit that’s been around since day one :D.
As far as I can tell, the only thing Mufareh is doing is selling those $97 GoFounders “positions” (it has to end in the magic digit 7 – I forget who came up with that inanity, but all the online scammers do it, there’s some psychobabble reason behind it).
OnPassive as such only exists as Mufareh’s promises. So all the stuff about fees or a compensation plan is just smoke and mirrors, there only to give the salesmen like Mike Ellis something to go on about.
He can make it up and change it as he goes along, no money is changing hands.
I’ve said this before, he’s found the solution to the problem all pyramid schemes face: that they collapse when recruitment dries up.
He’s solved it by simply not setting up a pyramid scheme at all, he’s just selling the promise that one day there will be pyramid scheme.
The obvious reason he cannot launch is that he has no products. I suppose he could put together some white-labelled crap apps from bargain basement Indian developers, but that could only cover a small part of the array of products he’s promised. But why would he even bother?
It would be immediately apparent that this was nothing like the promised goods, and OnPassive would collapse as soon as it launches.
The obvious thing to do is continue the endless prelaunch until the stream of $97 payments dries up completely, and simply call it a day.
He could even simply disappear from view, without even bothering to come up with some lame excuse for why it supposedly collapsed before the launch could happen.
And as Oz points out, he’s done quite well from this non-launched, non-pyramid scheme.
He now claims 341,000 “founders”, which would mean he got $33 million. Of course that number is inflated, but even if we assume he got only a tenth of that, he’d still have made 3.3 million – that’s not bad money for doing nothing except tell lies during a webinar once a week or so for two years.
Even if he only got just one percent of what he claims, that’s still $330,000, which would mean he’d have been making about twice the US median household income over that period.
For a guy like Mufareh who going by reports from people who’ve run into him was pretty much penniless, bumming off and defrauding girlfriends and acquantainces, that’s still pretty nice money – especially for working a few hours a week at most.
And “working” only in the sense of sitting in front of a camera and talking endless, repetitive, shite.
The $97 amount also has the advantage that once it’s over, the individual amounts will be so small people won’t bother trying to recoup it (unless there are people who are buying hundreds of these “positions”, but as far as I can tell that’s not the idea).
I would like to know more information about Onpassive. They may be fooling a lot of people.
OnPassive is a pyramid scheme. What else is there to know?
Well, here is an interesting video that is a laugh a minute to watch. The best part is they list the top 100 founders and how many they have suckered into joining this farce.
Ken Russo has 385 suckers he got to join. Hard to say how many in his downline that also got people suckered into joining.
Here’s the video link: youtube.com/watch?v=IlJQ1FbqTDM
Enjoy because it is comedic gold of all the promises.
Guys, Onpassive company is running its business in India without getting registered as firm/company with ministry of corporate affairs, govt of India.
I wonder how they allowed to hire people any pay them like an unorganised sector shop type model.
They hence dont even provide /contribute Provident funds to employees as not registered (which is mandate for pvt ltd org with strength of employee more then 15). This is serious offence and abuse i guess.
Moreover, they just seems to hiring customer support and web developers guys as if now and no AI engineers while they claim they are AI product company.
Either they aren’t and just operate illegally, or through shell companies.
Between “we have a chat bot!” and OnPassive’s matrix comp plan script, it’s pretty obvious Mufareh is just copypasta’ing whatever he can.
So in like almost 3 years time and the top promoter “founder” doesn’t have over 400 referrals?
Yet somehow number 100 has less than 100 referrals.
Tell me more about the 353,000 Founders.
Keep in mind even with just under 400 referrals doesn’t mean they are all paid referrals.
Leaked OnPassive membercount script:
Do you have any evidence at all that Mufareh is running a business in India? Because all I’ve seen so far are some easily-faked pictures, plus an old, very brief video, for which he’d hired about 20 extras to pretend to be employees, in a shared office place.
As to any pictures or videos showing a company logo: you can buy stock photography and videography which has been specially prepared so a company logo can be photoshopped into it very convincingly, with all the “difficult” aspects like correct lighting and shadows, and correct perspective, taken care of.
This usually includes things like building facades, billboards in busy city environments, vehicles driving by with the logo on the side, etc.
It’s technically quite easy to do. After all, most such displays in the real world are essentially flat, rectangular boards fixed onto perfectly vertical flat surfaces, the math to correctly reproduce that in an image if the exact dimensions are already known is quite simple.
Again, do you have any evidence at all that Mufareh has hired anyone in India? If you want to pretend to be a real and rapidly growing company, it’s an old, standard scamster trick to publish fake job ads.
That will cost you nothing, or next to nothing, will create the impression that an actual company exists, and of course you simply ignore anyone who responds.
This trick is much older than the internet, but that has made it even easier: putting jobs ads in newspapers costs some money, nowadays there are tons of free advertising sites; and when somebody googles on the company name and location they will also find those ads, creating an online footprint for your fake company.
Remember that Mufareh has been claiming to be employing hundreds of specialist developers in India for over two years now (you can easily trace the history of his claims by simply reading through the comments on the various articles right here on BehindMLM).
The huge array of software he’s been promising was claimed to be completely finished and ready to go six months ago, only waiting for the approval of some mysterious “pen-pushers” to be launched.
Not a single sign of the existence of that legion of developers, or of any piece of new software, has ever been seen in public.
Just the financial side of it proves nothing of the size he talks about can exist for real.
The only income he has are those $97 payments. Mufareh himself doesn’t have any money, and there’s never been any talk of outside investors. Even if you take his grossly inflated numbers as being real (and he’s admitted himself that a lot of those $97 “founders” haven’t actually paid up), he’s got nowhere near the kind of money needed to pay hundreds of highly qualified people, plus the infrastructure they need.
Plus he’s been talking about those hundreds right from the start, when he was only claiming a few tens of thousands of “founders”, so with even less hypothetical money to spend.
I suppose it’s possible he hired a guy or two, or has accomplices, in India, to help him put create a semblance of a presence there. After all, he’s got a small cadre of Americans peddling his scheme on Youtube, who one can’t imagine are working for free, he might have a few similar people in India.
You know, people to hire one or two billboards and put the company name on there for just long enough to have some pictures made, post fake job offer ads, rent a virtual office, etc. It might be easier for someone local to do that, rather han doing it himself, from Florida – although that’s certainly feasible.
Welcome to 2021.
Where the launch in 2020 did not happen as predicted.
Even after ASH said in a few videos that “2020 was going to happen don’t worry”.
A new year with a lot more excuses to be made are ahead of us.
With Gofounders ready to accept all the excuses and defend it.
The never ending “launching soon” marches on.
In this video from December 23, 2020 there are 380,203 founders.
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youtube.com/watch?v=BGAMqMPbNHk
On a second YouTube channel, Indian Zaver Jafri promises:
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Much more promotion for this scam on his channel “onlife“:
youtube.com/c/buddytom/videos
Here is just an excerpt from January 2021:
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His private account – youtube.com/c/ZaverJafri/videos – does not contain any fraudulent advertising.
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Is the 18th the new launch date? I have seen it posted a few places.
Lets hope it happens so this can begin to flop.
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youtube.com/watch?v=r9tBIeSD7Ic
Obviously, Richard RED Redfern is a perfect liar as his January 25, 2021 video didn’t receive any dislikes.
Another video by this scammer had 8,136 views:
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Does this scammer live in a trailer or RV? A living room or study looks different.
youtube.com/watch?v=5O8SXp1prN8
All recommendations of this scammer at a glance on this page:
youtube.com/channel/UCzbbf8LozzfUEkLSoOYDh5g/videos
That looks like a small house attic. Cheaper rent up there.
Are you all aware that ONPASSIVE now has its own building (Ozedit: marketing spam removed)
If you were just recruited into OnPassive, you’re a bit late to the marketing spam train.
When you realize you’ve just joined a pyramid scheme that’s going on three years, sorry for your loss.
I am being pitched by a guy who says Ash is God. That they are now out of prelaunch and all I have to do is give them 97 bucks to see those products and the comp plan. And that everyone is beating Ash up for no reason.
He said the number of founders is now 500k and growing. Yes…50 million dollars.
My guy said he hasn’t gotten a nickel in commissions yet for the people he has enrolled. But now it’s going to change.
Anyone know if this is all true? Can’t wait to get rich!
The simple answer is NO it is not true. 500,000 founders my assets. This is just more smoke and mirrors and blowing smoke up everyone’s skirts.
The old adage, “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with Bullshit” applies to Ash. He is a liar and a crook.
This a pyramid scheme for God’s sake.
If your guy hasn’t got paid, nothing has changed.
All money paid in is still being directed to Ash Mufareh’s wallet.
Sounds like he’s pretty deep into it if Ash is god. I guess the halo background works on some people.
20 minutes of new lies in a video dated February 26, 2021.
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youtube.com/watch?v=vStl49CuKsQ
The woman in the video is only called Julie. She speaks of more than 546,000 members and that OnPassive is not an MLM or network marketing. The main office is in Orlando, Florida and so on…
Farid Mallick‘s channel from India has 12,900 subscribers and publishes many links:
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youtube.com/c/FaridMallick/about
Streamed 4 hours ago:
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youtube.com/watch?v=lRTdUCqrTXE
Thanks for that Melanie. Will add to my watchlist.
New videos every day. Who looks at them when they are 1 or 2 hours long?
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youtube.com/channel/UCEINCfD5NtQp4ihbyXm30ZQ
At 1 to 2 hours these videos aren’t meant for new eyes. They’re to keep those already sucked in from leaving.
Obviously, criticizing OnPassive was wrong. I’m reading now:
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What do I have to do to become a member?
youtube.com/watch?v=myAdMh-WsiA
It seems someone set up a fake Behindmlm.us page. (Ozedit: link removed)
It seems set up to legitimise OnPassive and Ash Mufareh. I have a friend that has fallen for this BS hook, line and sinker.
This now on the level of a cult. It joins Crowd1, FutureNet, and Onecoin/Onelife as another scheme targeting the gullible.
I think some people get caught in the hope and toxic positivity. The end up falling for scam after scam.
Yah, Mufareh has his goons in India spamming SEO all day impersonating BehindMLM.
If you run a search for “ash mufareh” or “onpassive” you’ll see the results stuffed full of spam. Pretty funny.
Remember….
Everyone is expected to make that ONE TIME PAYMENT on their monthly subscription.
THEN
Wait for the riches to come in month by month from people they find to join from FREE 7 day trials.
Your monthly fee is paid from “commissions” as they come in.
Keeping in mind the monthly fee is around $200 they have yet to settle on because they are FAKE LAUNCHING products no one can buy.
Each product “launch” is a new reason to make more videos and spam the internet with more hype and promises of wealth.
Not sure how many Tech companies you have launched, but this being my first I’ll try to keep it civil when you blabber on about how we haven’t launched yet.
You see, when you take on a project this size there are some things you need to consider. Like staff for instance.
How long do you think it would take for you to find a data scientist who was in the location you needed them and capable of doing the job?
Just staffing this project should have taken a year or more, and not to mention we are in a pandemic as well.
So when you say we haven’t launched yet it’s kinda like telling the whole world you’re an idiot.
A matrix script, a chatbot script and a shitcoin script.
Staff, data scientists, “tech”, a “project”… lol.
Three years, sorry for your loss.
Fuckoff. You could’ve gotten better “software” from an India-MLM factory for 25USD, you’re just slow on the uptake and in no rush to try deliver anything.
Try being honest for once,it might sting initially but it feels better when you get used to not trying to think of excuses daily.
Quite a few, actually. I’ve worked for several start-ups as a staff engineer and for dozens more as a consultant, so I’m pretty well versed in the process of launching new companies.
You see a lot during a 40-year career, and you learn to smell techno-bullshit from miles away. I can tell you this: if techno-bullshit were turf, OnPassive could be a golf course.
OnPassive’s staffing should have been complete long before the outbreak of COVID in December ’19, and locality isn’t an issue in our highly interconnected world. So when you say staffing is a problem, it’s kinda like you’re telling the whole world you’re an idiot.
OnPassive’s history has been all grandiose promises with nothing to show for it but an off-the-shelf chatbot and a shitcoin.
Maybe the shitcoin will make for a better exit scam than Mufareh’s brief burnout episode (from which he miraculously recovered when it blew up in his face).
I don’t think that you know what you’re talking about, I do hope you have all the details.
Been tracking OnPassive for a few years. Everything relevant has been covered.
I don’t think that you know what you’re talking about, I do hope you have all the details.