Global Unity: Kingdom777 Ponzi rebooted (again)
It’s getting rather difficult to keep up with the continuous changes Phillip Ming Xu keeps making to his global Ponzi empire. After regulators around the world began to target Xu and his WCM777 Ponzi scheme late last year, he changed its name to Kingdom777 and hid behind the skirt of newly appointed CEO, James Tenorio.
What became of Tenorio remains unclear. He published one update on the Kingdom777 website in January, after which rumors claiming he’d abandoned the post began to surface. I was never able to confirm this information, however it seems Tenorio has since gone into hiding as there has been no communication from him since.
That left Ming Xu back in charge, and with Kingdom777 barely over a month old, it appears he’s gone and changed the name of his scheme yet again.
Suspicions were raised when Kingdom777 and its associated sites went offline roughly twenty-four hours ago. Dutra’s The Paper observed that
As of early this morning the websites for Kingdom777 are down. This includes kingdom777.com, kingdomtrade.org and kingdom777.hk. Social media is stating the outage will be for 48 hours and they are making upgrades and changes to the site.
It is unknown how unity.pe plays into this yet, however the domain is listed as repossessed by godaddy.com, the preferred domain seller of Kingdom777 owner Xu Ming.
Further initial investigations into this outage show that many of the sites are moving services to new providers and net blocks.
Worldcapitalmarket.com has relocated onto Google Cloud Services, 1and300.com has moved to a net block assigned to seizuretimegaming, Kingdom777.com has moved to Yahoo hosting, kingdomtrade.org remains at liquidweb, where many of the sites related to this scam have been since the start of the scheme.
A few hours ago emails began to trickle in with information on one of Kingdom777’s top Ponzi pimps trying to covertly shift over his downline to a “new” scheme, named “Global Unity”.
Renato Rodriguez, one of the top leaders in wcm777 might be switching all of people to “his” new company. He said “no information must be shared”.
The Global Unity website domain, “global-unity.net” was only registered just yesterday on February 24th, with much of the site still in development:
It does look a little similar to Kingdom777 but on the surface there’s no direct link. The Global Unity “products” website page currently displays some babble about being poor (which is obviously copy and pasted from somewhere), and the “company profile” is your standard “ignore everything negative” scam talk:
If you are feeling that life just cannot be any worse for you, it can be challenging to think positive thoughts.
When we are stressed,depressed, upset, or otherwise in a negative state of mind because we perceive that “bad things” keep happening to us, it is important to shift those negative thoughts to something positive. If we don’t, we will only attract more “bad things.”
It is often very hard to think positive when so many things are negative, but I can assure you that someone, somewhere is worse off than you. We can choose to think differently by beginning with the smallest of steps……
Not much to go on there either. At this point I was going to wait for further developments but after bit more digging about, I managed to confirm Global Unity is just another reincarnation of Xu’s Ponzi empire.
Directly linking Global Unity to Xu’s WCM777 and Kingdom777 is the website’s members page:
While the public face of Global Unity for now only bears a passing resemblance to WCM777 and Kingdom777’s website design, the member’s area is an exact clone running the same backend script:
Exactly why Ming Xu is changing the name of the Ponzi scheme yet again is currently not clear. Only last month he was promising a new affiliate “code of ethics”, and claimed he was going to “register Kingdom777’s stock with the SEC”. Xu also went so far as to “educate” affiliates on how to refer to and market the Kingdom777 Ponzi scheme without using investment terminology.
I can only guess things didn’t work out with the Kingdom777 name-change and short-lived appointment of James Tenorio, at least not in the way Xu would have liked. Another email from a BehindMLM reader offers some additional (unconfirmed) insight:
Supposedly, team leaders in California just had a conference call to the Spanish speaking affiliates. They told affiliates that they are doing business under a new name, Global-Unity.
They are also saying that they are now legal in the US and supposedly unblock all accounts.
Legal in the US they say? I’d imagine the state of California will see what is just a simple name-change of a Ponzi scheme they’ve already banned rather differently.
Pending further information being made available over the next few days, stay tuned for the next chapter of the WCM777 saga…
Footnote: My thanks to the BehindMLM readers who sent in various email tips for this article.
Oz,
The photo at The Paper shows the domain unity.pe. This was the first sighting of the new site and was later changed to global-unity.net. The unity.pe is the repossesed domain name.
Waiting to hear back from godaddy regarding the domain repossession
Ah ok. I just checked, it’s not repossed, it’s parked. At least according to what GoDaddy are throwing up.
Parked is just the owner redirecting the domain to a “parked page”, provided by GoDaddy. It’s a common enough feature with domain providers. People use it when they’ve bought a domain but haven’t finished or don’t want to put up content on it yet.
If it was previously showing a Global Unity template, my guess would be it was a test domain they’ve since retired now that “global-unity.net” has (partially) gone live.
Do a look up of the whois info for the domain. That’s where the repossession notice stands.
I like to use hexillion.com for that type of query.
Right you are! It’ll be interesting to hear anything back from GoDaddy but I think they’ll be reluctant to share any information with a third-party.
If Global Unity goes down in the next few days I think it’d be a safe bet regulators are involved. The abrupt closure of all of Xu’s other domains is really weird otherwise.
Not in so much that he did it, but in how it was done. WCM777 – Kingdom777 was a relatively smooth transition complete with announcements. Kingdom777 to Global Unity has been completely covert.
I removed the paragraph about the domain seizure seeing as it was an oversight on my behalf. Misread the original paragraph (reread it and wondered how I mixed up the domain it was referring to!).
Oz,
I use domaintools.com for my Whois stuff. I find them superior and much easier.
In fact, DomainTools says:
The PTR of the IP where global-unity.net website is hosted is:
web02.wcm777.com
If you try to browse that address it loads the Global Unity site.
Well, I just received an email stating USA based IP addresses are once again locked out of accessing accounting functions of the site.
Makes me wonder if they were ever actually “up” to begin with. One snippet promoting the name change reads “It’s all about UNITY. Let’s unite as one in an opportUNITY..”, along with the standard “Be patient” babbling.
Still no official word from Phil Ming Xu as to what is happening or why the sudden shifts are taking place. The change does take away from the stories that compliance with the SEC and DOJ were right around the corner.
And the hit’s to Ming just keep on coming –
It takes a scammer to know a scammer, and the domain globaluinty.net has been registered and put up to mimic the feel of globalunity.net
Phil, it looks like the people you are scamming are grabbing a piece of the pie
That “kid on shoulder” was the same login picture on Kingdom777 before. This is “same wine new bottle” all over again.
Oh, and the Chinese Characters? Thousand Happiness City. I guess it seems to fit “Millenium City” moniker.
No active corp in California under either Global Unity or Qianxi
Nothing in Nevada either.
Nothing in Delaware either.
Qianxi.com is registered in Xiamen China.
Qianxi looked like some Facebook wannabe social network to me. Not sure what the tie-in is (past failed Xu venture?).
THE DOMAIN REGISTRATION ADDRESS IS THE SAME THAN usearching.info, a recognized ID Theft scam.
more info: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/09/id-theft-service-tied-to-payday-loan-sites/
That’s just typo-squatting (domain name squatting, but only with the typos)
Uh, everybody uses DomainByProxy. That in itself doesn’t mean anything except they have something to hide.
Another confirmed link to Ming Xu… This is the rDNS query:
Oh, my… That company name and address looks really familiar!
Searching that brought us one of Ming Xu’s cronies in China.
The gmail address in that rwhois is linked to a hiring ad in China back in 2012 in Guanzhou:
alljobsearch.cn/fcgi-bin/job/job_comp.fcgi?comid=13672700
The title translates to “Goldpoint International Holdings Guangzhou Technology Research and Development Center”. And they were looking for a .NET programmer to do something with social networking platforms.
Goldpoint, of course, is the company cooked up by Ming Xu in his spat with Siemens.
The phone number given in the ad goes to a building supply shop in Foshan, Guanzhou. This may be his contact in China.
@Kasey
That’d be that Qianxi website?
Sounds more like WCM and 1and300 to me. IMHO, of course.
Strange how quiet everyone who has been affiliated with him from the past never pipes up to say anything one way or the other. I’m guessing WCM/KingDum777 must have a pretty intimidating NDA.
I don’t think so, but I don’t have enough to rule it out completely. The server has like 8 other two-chinese-word domain names on it, none of which seem to be related to PMX.
He probably just bought the domain name from the original owners, then decided he needs a more English name lest he sounds too much like JuDing.
And the roll into Global-Community.net continues –
Group leaders in and outside the USA are reporting the immediate shutdown of KingdomTrade.org and are telling affiliates their Kingdom Points and Kingdom Card balances will be applied to the back office and their new Unity-Card. (Apparently there will no longer be a trading platform involved)
We also are now seeing the launch of unitymall.com, which is hosted over in the seizuretimegaming block, where other domains were pointed when the abrupt change over took place earlier in the week. That ties a good link to the new system and PMX.
I’m sure there will be more to come.
so now no more kingdoom777.com? coz i cant open the website. and wat exaxctly new one?
So I take it you opened up this article, ignored it and just scrolled down till you found where you could publish a comment.
Cmon son…
@soso –
I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track……
If you are feeling that life just cannot be any worse for you, it can be challenging to think positive thoughts. When we are stressed, depressed, upset, or otherwise in a negative state of mind because we perceive that “bad things” keep happening to us, it is important to shift those negative thoughts to something positive. If we don’t, we will only attract more “bad things.”
It is often very hard to think positive when so many things are negative, but I can assure you that someone, somewhere is worse off than you. We can choose to think differently by beginning with the smallest of steps……
I told you to change your focus guys, there are bigger and better things comming.
@Redshield
No, old and reworked scams are continuing, just not in China this time.
From social media today (name removed):
From the MassMutual scam Phil was involved with in China a few years back. Maybe he will start raising funds for the Olympics in Brasil? Or release more renderings from the Venus project, claiming they are the renderings for Millennium City? Perhaps Brockstar can get in on the fun?
And what happened to the Cloud Services Company? Where is Tiger? Why does the company keep changing names and focus? Where did Tenorio go? What happened to Steve Huntsman?
I know the answers to a whole lot of these questions, and have a good list going of where the affiliate dollars are being stashed to be out of reach of the regulators (Which has been forwarded up the chain).
Oh, and I thought you picked up your toys and left the playground Redshield??
Why is the registering of a business name an indication of “bigger and better things coming”
Do you have any idea how easy and cheap it is to register a “business entity”
Can anybody do a review on another company named Better Living Global Marketing or Bitters Paradise, it looks very similar to Zeek Rewards and it has some similarities to the ponzi scheme WCM777
Sure: https://behindmlm.com/companies/better-living-global-marketing-review-99-day-rois/
Search bar is on the top right of every page.
Did you actually read the cease and desist order from California? Ming Xu himself is barred. Switching company name won’t save him.
So apparently WCM777 / Kingdom777 / Global-Unity affiliates, along with some TelexFree investors, are getting hot and bothered about a new scheme some top-investors are launching: “Vizinova”.
Here’s how it’s being promoted by affiliates:
Luis Borges, a TelexFree pimp, is telling people he’ll send out the comp plan if they “msg him on Facebook”.
Apparently this was just announced yesterday. If anyone runs into the comp plan feel free to send it my way and I’ll take a look.
With TF and Xu’s empire both going down the toilet I think the reload scams are going to come thick and heavy (think all the penny auction startups that launched and failed after Zeek).
Can you do a Review en this company WISHCLUB, seems leaders from Telexfree talking to follow them to this new company any information on that company thaks!!!
Any news on Wishclub? thanks.