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Federal Stock Bond has received a pyramid fraud warning from Russia. As per the Central Bank of Russia’s January 12th warning, Federal Stock Bond exhibits “signs of a financial pyramid”.

Three scammers behind the 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle pyramid scheme have been criminally charged. Alex Dee, aka Alex Dowlatshahi, was arrested in Washington on January 10th, 2024 Brian Kaplan was arrested in Colorado on October 2nd, 2023 Jerrold Maurer, aka Jerry Maurer, was arrested at an unknown date

Following executed search warrants on January 11th, Indian authorities have frozen Rs. 6.4 million (~$77,000 USD). In a January 12th press-release, the Enforcement Directorate revealed the funds were tied to iX Global and TP Global FX.

Two former promoter of the 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle pyramid scheme have been sued by the FTC. A Complaint filed by the FTC on December 8th, 2023, names three defendants: Bob Shafer, aka Robert William Shafer, Coach Bob, Bo Hall, Bo Small, Bo Rich and Beau Rich, a resident of New York; Samuel James Smith, [Continue reading…]

The Body Shop is closing the UK and Australian divisions of its The Body Shop At Home MLM opportunity. Yesterday The Body Shop informed distributors it had

David Carmona, founder of the iComTech Ponzi scheme, has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. After initially pleading not guilty following his arrest in late 2022, Carmona changed his plea at a December 22nd hearing.

A German court has sentenced OneCoin promoter and money launderer Frank Ricketts to five years in prison. As tweeted by Johan von Mirbach, producer of the CryptoQueen docu series, Ricketts’ wife Manon Hubenthal received four years. Disgraced attorney Martin Breidenbach, who assisted Ricketts and Hubenthal with laundering OneCoin Ponzi funds, was sentenced to two years [Continue reading…]

Rodney Burton, aka “Bitcoin Rodney”, was arrested in Florida on January 4th, 2024. Burton has been indicted on HyperFund fraud charges, filed as part of a wider criminal case in Maryland.

Following a January 3rd article from the Guardian trying to uncover Hyperverse CEO Steven Reece Lewis, I couldn’t help but revisit the collapsed Ponzi scheme. There wasn’t much to go on. I tracked Lewis to Thailand’s nightlife but couldn’t find anything definitive to publish. Someone else who read the Guardian’s article is “Nobody Special” of [Continue reading…]

A reader recently wrote in about Shane Morand promoting “PureCafe” on YouTube. They figured it was some new coffee MLM and asked me to look into it.