Huge Yield Review: Recruit faster = more payouts
Although I’m sure somebody else must have done it before, as far as companies I’ve reviewed go, Huge Yield is the first company I’ve seen that use a reverse matrix but pay out as members advance in levels.
Too bad everything else about Huge Yield has been done before and worse, is pretty much just cover for a stock standard recruitment scheme.
Read on for a full review of the Huge Yield MLM opportunity.
The Company
Huge Yield contains no information on their website about who is running or owns the business.
The domain hugeyield.com was registered on December 28th, 2011 however the registration information is set to private.
A look at the source code reveals the following code:
Template Coded by: Xopsn.com
Template For: Adv. Cycler
The Exclusive Online Private Service Network (XOPSN) are a hosting and template package who provide a variety of business templates with website hosting.
It would appear that whoever is running Huge Yield has simply purchased XOPSN’s ‘Adv Cycler’ template ($40-$120 USD) and bundled it with their monthly hosting.
Interestingly enough, a bit of snooping around the Huge Yield website revealed that for some reason the Cash Flames company logo is hosted on the server.
Cash Flames was a recruitment scam I reviewed back in December 2011 that appears to now be offline (because it no-doubt failed).
Further poking around revealed that the admin/owner of Huge Yield (and presumably Cash Flames before it) is a one Mr. Larry Lawrence.
You can verify this yourself by visiting the Huge Yield admin page, entering in admin/admin and clicking MyPages –> Members Pages –> the ‘edit’ icon for ‘Admin Contact Information’.
One would think the admin of an opportunity that claims to have paid out over $45,000 in commissions would use a more robust admin login but I digress.
Apart from Cash Flames, I wasn’t able to find any information on Larry Lawrence’s network marketing history.
The Huge Yield Product Line
At the time of publication there is no mention of products anywhere on the Huge Yield website.
Scattered around the various pages that make up the website however is what appears to be an inhouse advertising network. One would assume that after paying a membership fee to join Huge Yield advertising credits would be made available to members to use around the site.
There does not appear to be any retail product offering attached to the Huge Yield income opportunity.
The Huge Yield Compensation Plan
The Huge Yield compensation plan revolves around two 2×3 matrices and one optional 2×3 feeder matrix.
Both of these matrices contain seven membership positions and are operated in reverse meaning that you join them from the bottom and progress your way up two levels before cycling out.
Joining the bottom level of the first HY1 matrix, upon the bottom level (4 member positions) filling, the person at the top of the matrix cycles out it splits and two new matrices are created.
You move up a level (ordered by the time you personally recruited your first new member into Huge Yield since the matrix started) and the process repeats itself. The idea is that eventually you’ll be on level 3 of the matrix and when it fills you’ll cycle out and earn a commission.
The HY1 Matrix pays nothing but cycling out of this matrix is the only way to enter the HY2 Matrix. Upon cycling out, members are automatically re-entered back into the bottom of a HY1 matrix too.
The HY2 matrix pays $120 when a member leaves the bottom level for level 2 and $240 again when advancing from level 2 to 3. When a member cycles out the top of a HY2 matrix they are paid out a $640 cycle commission.
The total payout for HY2 is $1000.
Joining Huge Yield
Huge Yield costs a one time payment of $120.
There is also a $60 membership option but members who opt for this must go through an additional 2×1 feeder matrix before they are able to enter the HY1 matrix as per the Huge Yield compensation plan above.
Conclusion
Income Club (ID: 968), Posted on 20 Jan 2012 15:54: Is it required for us to recruit anyone in order to earn?
Admin, Posted on 21 Jan 2012 05:15: Yes just bring in two person and that is all.
As you can see per the compensation plan there’s no retail sales here and 100% of the commissions paid out to members are made up of membership fees and dependent on the constant recruitment of new members.
Since Cash Flames it appears Larry Lawrence has decided to try his hand at a slightly different matrix based model but fundamentally the requirement on recruitment remains the same.
Ultimately like Cash Flames, I predict Huge Yield will just wind up being another short lived recruitment scam.
It’s a pseudonym for sure. I mean, who would use a name like Larry Lawrence? it’s like “Marky Mark” (i.e. Mark Wahlberg)
(For those who are not familiar with Western names, Larry is the diminutive form of “Lawrence”, much like Mike is diminutive form of “Michael”)
That thought did cross my mind (especially when no MLM history turned up).
Gotta wonder just how dodgy an opportunity is when the admin is even lying to paid members about their identity…
Ah well, the support tickets were kinda mundanely interesting in the sense you get an idea of the people who join these scams.
This link should provide a little more interesting info:
http://www.bramjnet.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=1034632
(ignore the Arabic on top)
I didn’t think to Google the Skype name… mikola90 huh.
The English used on the Huge Yield site certainly supports the admin being a non native English speaker.
And that Skype ID? Linked to another pyramid scheme named… AutoCashPayment, of course:
http://www.moneymakergroup.com/Autocashpayment-Autocas-t389292.html
Didn’t say who’s the admin of that scheme though, sad.
Mikola is the guy who’s trying to SELL the site though.
True, and that email plugged into Google turns up a bunch of domains being sold by this guy (he mentions bank of Egypt a few times so I figure he’s based there).
Guess for now we’re stuck wondering who purchased the domains off him and decided to whack mlm scripts onto them.
Found this in the public support ticket area:
It names ‘Carl Haavaldsen’ and Tatiana Toganel as designers and again Larry Lawrence is named as owner.
edit: here we go – http://www.facebook.com/cyberzook
Haavaldsen was slinging something called ‘Gem Fortunes’ back in August 2011 – http://uwanted2know.typepad.com/blog/
As late as November 2011 (Huge Yield launched mid Jan 2012) Haavaldsen was ‘getting ready for the launch of Ultamex‘ with Tatiana… how many scams are these guys involved in?
edit2: still can’t find anything on this Larry Larence guy… pretty sure he doesn’t exist/the name is a fake at this point.
edit3: Haalvaldsen named in early 2011 as top promoter of ‘Fortune 2×2‘, which looks to be a now defunct 2×2 matrix recruitment scam run by some guy called ‘Robert Corriveau’.
edit4: In July 2006 Haavaldsen started something called the ‘$7 Miracle Matrix’, that’s what at least 6 years pushing matrix scams?
edit5: 3,390 Google results if anyone wants any further information on Haavaldsen’s MLM history…
That “Gold Coders Script” is the MLM Script. It’s a ready-made matrix scam website.
I think I found the same duo (Carl and Tatiana) pushing Ultamex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ob0TqNIGsY
Found it!
Carl Haavaldsen and Tatiana Toganel, previously launched UltaMex
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/post/2491599/UltaMexLaunchesNovember26thYouDONOTWantToMissThis.aspx
Got to be the same people… serial schemers.
Much like that Steigmeier guy, eh?
Naming “fake owners” isn’t new. TVI Express did it for years.
@Oz, how did you link up the names? I went searching for Carl and Tatiana, and MLM and landed on Team UltaMex’s videos, which sounded exactly the same as the video for HugeYield above. Then I started searching for posts with Carl and Tatiana and UltaMex and landed on the adlandpro page.
Was interesting in how you chased them down. 🙂
Haavaldsen claimed in the UltaMex video that he had 26 years of MLM experience, so he had a lot MORE than 6 years pushing this sort of crap.
Tatiana is not too far behind. She was in Winalite and ROI Unlimited. here’s some pix she shared:
http://winalitetechnology.mirtesen.ru/photos
I’m guessing she’s the brunette that appeared in several of the photos.
Oh, great, according to her own LinkedIn profile, she was a TVI Express member too. 😛
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/uprofit
So we’ve got ourselves a pair of ‘full-boat’ Canada based scammers here it would seem.
Haalvaldsen mentions himself by name in that YouTube video along with Toganel and Lawrence.
Getting the spelling of his name was just a matter of searching YouTube for more Huge Yield videos and finding a 720p resolution web conference one where Haalvaldsen provides the spelling of his surname.
Haalvaldsen’s surname led to Tatiana’s surname and the rest followed.
One would hope this Lawrence guy changes the admin/admin login and password to the Huge Yield website backend sooner rather than later.
It’s interesting to see how the same people are always in several different MLM companies, many times in more the one at the same time
They got roped into one scheme when “young”, then it became a part of their belief system: recruit a lot of people and get rich off of them.
When one system became useless, they discard it like a hermit crab and pick another. They don’t see anything wrong with it, as it’s all they know.
Looks like the Huge Yield back office is currently offline:
There’s a ton of similar support tickets lodged within the past 36 hours. Also good to see others are noticing the complete lack of products mentioned on the website:
Also apparently refunds are not going through either:
The Huge Yield website is currently reporting $66241.20 has been paid out. Have Havaaldsen, Toganel and Lawrence already decided to abandon ship and run with people’s money?
Probably forgot to pay the GoldCoders license fee. 😉
Currently the Huge Yield website is down for maintenance.
Curiously enough the source-code of the maintenance page is pulling the images ‘hugeyieldlogo3.jpg’ and ‘maintenance.gif’ from uwatned2know.com.
Uwanted2know is the private marketing blog of Carl and Rita Havaaldsen.
Hmmm, the case for ‘Larry Lawrence’ being just a made up name with Haavaldsen running Huge Yield is looking stronger than ever.
See what I mean?
As far as I can tell, HugeYield is owned by these two Canadians.
Oh, here’s something else more hilarious (nothing to with HugeYield other than bogus HYIP/cyber-pyramid scheme):
Did you know that there is a “patent” issued by USPTO on computer system designed to be an “umbrella system” that can be used to handle multiple individual programs/systems?
http://www.google.com/patents/US6578010
What’s even MORE hilarious is some morons claim this is a “selling point” for another scam: JustBeenPaid
http://uriegas.hubpages.com/hub/Get10DollarsFree-WithJustBeenPaid-Earn2PercentDaily
Get10DollarsFreeWithJustBeenPaid seems to have suddenly made a decision to be less active in marketing?
Probably because I flagged him on Hubpages. They frown upon that sort of advertorials… it’s like spam.
Found a related scam: expresWealth.com (one S only)
Identical design elements to HugeYield, and links to justmatrixx@gmail.com, which seem to belong to “Eliot” of Cadiz, Spain.
My own research into HugeYield is up: it’s a pyramid scheme
http://kschang.hubpages.com/hub/Researching-Company-Online-How-to-Do-It-Yourself-DIY-Huge-Yield-who-is-Carl-Haavaldsen-and-Tatiana-Hoganel?done
@Kasey
ExpresWealth is using the same OppsSoft MLM backend as Huge Yields (verified in the source-code of the website). They could be run by the same person or two different admins who have purchased the OppSofts backend.
But what are the chances of of both of them showing the DNS records going to justmatrixx(at)gmail.com, both designed by same team, both using the same domain registrar, both using the same web host?
Though at least ExpresWealth folks changed the admin password. 😉 (Yes, I tried that too)
That’s probably not a co-incidence.
I checked to see if OppSofts provide hosting and they don’t appear to so whoever the admin is connected to both companies.
OppSofts only provide script and install. They don’t host.
Both sides are hosted on avinex or some thing that sounds like that. WHO.IS DNS archive says both *were* at one time hosted in bizophost (or something like that).
So there’s definitely a link between the two. Both are getting some heavy attention on Facebook and whatnot.