DAO1 and Apertum scammers are impersonating BehindMLM.

The impersonation is taking place on the website “BehindMLMReviews”, set up in late 2024 to deceive consumers.

BehindMLMReviews operates from the domain “behindmlmreviews.com”. Originally the site was set up as a clone of BehindMLM, populated with content stolen from BehindMLM and other sources.

BehindMLMReviews also charges $500 for fake reviews, trading on BehindMLM’s reputation.

After eight or nine months it was clear BehindMLMReviews hadn’t gained any traction. The site was abandoned in July 2025 and, with periods of downtime, went dormant.

On January 15th, 2026, BehindMLMReviews began republishing DAO1 and Apertum marketing spam.

At time of publication six articles have been published, regurgitating DAO1 and Apertum marketing press-releases published elsewhere.

DAO1 and Apertum promoters featured in the articles are:

  • Holly Hayes (Australia);
  • Kelly Nichols (Australia);
  • Amanda Flavell (Australia);
  • Sarah Percy (Australia);
  • Jessica Klinger, aka J9 (Germany/Dubai);
  • Andrew Hawkes, aka DocDrew (Australia);
  • Tony Pipes (New Zealand); and
  • Neil Morrison (New Zealand)

Authorities in Australia, Germany and New Zealand have all issued DAO1 fraud warnings over the past year:

Latvia and Lithuania have also issued DAO1 and Apertum fraud warnings.

DAO1 is a fraudulent investment scheme run by Josip Heit (right). Apertum is part of DAO1 and provides a cryptocurrency bridge to launder invested funds through.

Heit, a convicted fraudster from Croatia, resides in Dubai but is believed to hold a German passport.

In addition to his Luxembourg conviction and active Croatian money laundering investigation, Heit settled GSPartners fraud allegations with US state regulators in late 2024.

GSPartners and its G999 token (among others), was the predecessor of DAO1 and Apertum’s APTM token. Heit’s GSPartners fraud settlement with US state regulators is ongoing as of January 2026.

BehindMLMReviews isn’t the first attempt to impersonate BehindMLM to deceive consumers. One attempt caught the attention of the SEC in

As part of efforts to defraud consumers through OnPassive, in 2021 owner Ash Mufareh directed the creation of a BehindMLM impersonation website bearing the same name.

In 2023 the SEC cited Mufareh’s impersonation of BehindMLM in its OnPassive lawsuit;

To counter negative reviews of Mufareh and ONPASSIVE on existing MLM review websites, Mufareh and ONPASSIVE furtively created websites mimicking the names of the existing sites and on which ONPASSIVE personnel, at Mufareh’s direction, then posted internally-generated positive reviews of Mufareh and ONPASSIVE, falsely passing them off as objective, third-party reviews.

By concealing their involvement, Mufareh and ONPASSIVE sought to deceive investors into thinking that the reviews posted on the counterfeit sites were objectively made by independent third parties.

The creation of the counterfeit websites and posting of fake positive reviews of Mufareh and ONPASSIVE acted as a deceit on investors by falsely purporting to be objective third-party sites and data.

Mufareh settled OnPassive fraud charges with the SEC for $32 million in 2025.

DNS records tie BehindMLMReviews to Dmitrijs Babovskis, aka Dmitry Babovsky:

Babovsky is a Latvian resident with ties to First Cloud SIA. First Cloud SIA is the parent company of FirstHost, BehindMLMReviews’ website host.

BehindMLM contacted FirstHost to report a violation of its “Agreement on the provision of services”. FirstHost did not respond to two separate complaint.

BehindMLMReviews’ website domain is registered with Ascio. BehindMLM also reported a violation of Ascio’s ” registration agreement”.

Ascio refused to enforce its registration agreement terms. As a domain registrar, Ascio claimed it had “no control” of BehindMLMReviews’ registered domain.