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For his part in scamming consumers through MOBE, the FTC named Russell Whitney as a defendant in their fraudulent business lawsuit. Rather than defend the FTC’s allegations and clear his name, Whitney has instead opted to reach a settlement.

As expected, rather than fight the FTC’s allegation that MOBE was a $125 million dollar fraudulent business, owner and CEO Matthew Lloyd McPhee appears to be heading towards a negotiated settlement. Settlement negotiations between Lloyd and the FTC at this stage are well underway but the outcome is still uncertain. Nevertheless, the FTC appear confident [Continue reading…]

Whenever we see a major regulatory bust, there’s always at least one individual or entity that believes the rules don’t apply to them. For whatever reason, the concept of “funds obtained through illegitimate business activities don’t belong to you” doesn’t ring home. Following the recent FTC shutdown of MOBE, Qualpay have stepped up and demanded [Continue reading…]

A new motion by the FTC has requested the currently scheduled preliminary injunction hearing for June 26th be pushed back to July. The FTC’s motion has consent from all of the named defendants, as well as the court-appointed temporary MOBE Receiver.

The FTC are looking to depose Susan Zanghi, one of three individual defendants in their case against MOBE. In an unusual turn of events, prior to Zanghi’s deposition the FTC have filed an emergency motion to unfreeze $5000. The requested funds are to pay for limited legal representation at Zanghi’s deposition.

On June 5th a Florida District Court Judge appointed a temporary MOBE Receiver. The Receiver has taken control of MOBE’s assets and will work towards an eventual distribution of losses to Matt Lloyd’s victims. In the meantime Lloyd himself appears to be in hiding.

The FTC’s request for a Temporary Restraining Order against MOBE is supported by over 4557 pages of evidence. This includes: declarations from multiple MOBE victims (168 complaints were filed with the FTC) citations from MOBE’s 2016 case against Digital Altitude evidence collected from transcripts of communications between undercover FTC agents and MOBE staff evidence collected via [Continue reading…]

After the FTC busted Digital Altitude earlier this year, inevitably people began asking “What about MOBE?” So similar are MOBE’s and Digital Altitude’s “high-ticket marketing education” business models, that MOBE actually sued Digital Altitude in 2016. Having won an injunction against Digital Altitude and the scam all but shut down, now the FTC have filed [Continue reading…]

Following our announcement yesterday, BehindMLM can now confirm an FTC investigation into MOBE. That investigation is directly responsible for the MOBE website being offline and suspension of business operations.

This morning I received intel that two days ago top earners, Michael Williams and Michael Giannulis, informed their MOBE downline they were leaving the company. The cited reason for Williams’ and Giannulis’ departure was an FTC investigation into MOBE. Currently every MOBE corporate website is down. Here’s what we know.