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BYI TV Review: Stolen identity “click a button” Ponzi

BYI TV, aka Beyond, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. BYI TV has two known website domains: byi-tv.vip – registered with bogus details on September 26th, 2024 byi-tv.com – registered with bogus details on October 3rd, 2024 BYI TV has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of [Continue reading…]


AI-Coinbase Review: Stolen identity “click a button” Ponzi

AI-Coinbase fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. AI-Coinbase has two known website domains: ai-coinbase.cc – registered with bogus details on September 30th, 2024 ai-coinbase.com – registered with bogus details on September 29th, 2024 Both of AI-Coinbase’s website domains were registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore). AI-Coinbase has already attracted the [Continue reading…]


RainbowEx Review: Trading signals “click a button” Ponzi

RainbowEx fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. RainbowEx’s website domain (“rainbowex.life”), was was privately registered on July 2nd, 2024. If we look at the source-code of RainbowEx’s website, we find it is localized to Chinese: This suggests whoever is running RainbowEx has ties to China. As always, if an MLM company [Continue reading…]


Auratus Gold holding Oct 2024 promo events in QLD, AU

What’s left of GSPartners spinoff Auratus Gold is gearing up to hold two marketing promo events in Queensland, Australia this weekend. The events, which will no doubt be used to market Auratus Gold to Australians, follow two Auratus Gold specific fraud warnings issued by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).


Payza’s Firoz Patel hid $24 mill, pleads guilty to obstruction

After pleading guilty to money laundering charges, Firoz Patel’s plan seems to have been do a bit of jail time and then live off $24 million in stashed bitcoin. Unfortunately for Patel the DOJ caught wind of the stash, prompting additional criminal charges filed in May 2023. Patel pled guilty to obstruction last month and [Continue reading…]


Pruvit sues Vital Health for patent infringement

Pruvit has sued Vital Health for alleged infringement of ketosis related patents. Pruvit is joined in its lawsuit by Axcess Global Sciences, a Texas shell company who licenses use of the patents to Pruvit.


CFTC files suit against The Traders Domain scammers

US authorities have finally taken action against The Traders Domain Ponzi scammers. On September 30th the CFTC filed suit against Traders Domain FX LTD and several additional corporate and individual defendants. While The Traders Domain itself wasn’t an MLM opportunity, the scam is of interest to BehindMLM due to several MLM Ponzis feeding into it. [Continue reading…]


Visalus ordered to pay $638,125 in robocall fraud legal costs

Visalus has been ordered to pay $638,125 in legal costs. The October 2nd order is part of a lawsuit filed against Visalus in 2015, alleging multiple violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TPCA).


Is United Wealth Education violating the FTC Act?

Back in August BehindMLM covered Financial Education Services’ $324 million FTC settlement. The settlement pertained to the FTC alleging FES “scam[med] consumers out of more than $213 million”. On September 27th I received an email from Sue Griffin, representing herself to be VP of Agent Support for United Wealth Education Services, formerly FES.”


GlobTFX Review: Quantitative trading “click a button” Ponzi

GlobTFX, aka GTFX App, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. GlobTFX’s current website domain (“globtfx.com”), was privately registered on July 23rd, 2024. It should be noted that GlobTFX has disabled root website access on their domain. The company instead operates from two subdomains: home.globtfx.com – app funnel h5.globtfx.com – desktop app [Continue reading…]