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Mister Colibri, one of Seven Rings International’s recruitment scams that operates out of Brazil, claims to offer their members weekly payments if they watch advertisements. Mister Colibri also pays large commissions for the recruitment of others to the company. Upon examination, these advertiser videos are in actuality little more than random videos pulled of YouTube, [Continue reading…]

Last Monday saw the continuation of the Solomon James writ 383 case that is currently playing out in the Supreme Court of India. Last we checked in the Union of India had been given two weeks to file a response to the Lahoti Mediation Report. Unfortunately the contents of this reply were not made public [Continue reading…]

“The Common Man” is a character created by R.K. Laxman that features in the cartoon series ‘You Said It’. Laxman was born in 1921 and considered to be India’s greatest ever cartoonist. For over a half of a century, the Common Man has represented the hopes, aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the average [Continue reading…]

Way back in October of last year, Speak Asia COO Tarak Bajpai and his buddy Rajiv Mehotra (business partner of Speak Asia CEO Manoj Kumar, on the management team of Seven Rings International, listed as a director of Tulsient Technologies (Kumar’s private business) and “assistant for daily portal operations and incharge of regular pop-ups” guy [Continue reading…]

Much has been made of the links between the two scams Mister Colibri and Speak Asia. Mister Colibri is a recruitment scam currently operating in Brazil that was founded by Seven Rings International, funded by founders Manoj Kumar and Elia de Prisco (named as primary investors and co-founders by Mister Colibri members). Manoj Kumar today [Continue reading…]

For as long as I’ve we’ve been following Speak Asia, their domain registration data has always stated that the company’s office are in Singapore. As of a few days ago, the domain whois registration data for speakasiaonline.com was listed as Speakasia Online Pte. Ltd. 71 Bukit Batok Crescent #10-08 Prestige, Si 65807 Telephone: +65.91234567 Fax: [Continue reading…]

Back in early December of last year, I was contacted by a Brazilian national who was concerned over the MLM company ‘Mister Colibri’ and the similarities it appeared to have with the AdMatrix. The AdMatrix being a scam run by Seven Rings International that paid members to watch Youtube videos and paid out commissions on [Continue reading…]

“Tarak Bajpai has disappeared and we don’t know where he is.” I am sure it cannot be an officer from the EOW (who said this), as they will not make such wrong comments. Ashok Bahirwani, AISPA Secretary (currently on the run from the EOW) Tarak Bajpai is in Mumbai under the gaze of the EOW. [Continue reading…]

Earlier this evening it was observed that the Supreme Court had received former Justice Ramesh Lahoti’s report following the conclusion of the Lahoti Committee. Setting a hearing date of January 9th, many Speak Asia panelists have deluded themselves into thinking this is some kind of final judgement on the business operations of Speak Asia. Whilst [Continue reading…]

I’ve been following Speak Asia for a while now on BehindMLM, and whilst the coverage has mostly been negative, as expected when you’re dealing with a ponzi scheme, there have been moments of positivity. These moments have come mostly in the form of YouTube video releases from Speak Asia’s CEO Manoj Kumar. Promising a wide [Continue reading…]