Affiliate Mentor fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

In fact as I write this, Affiliate Mentor’s website is nothing more than an affiliate log in page:

Affiliate Mentor’s website domain (“affiliatementor.com”), was first registered on July 12th, 2004. The private registration was last updated on May 28th, 2024.

Further research reveals Affiliate Mentor marketing videos narrated by J Joshua Beistle.

J. Joshua Beistle first appeared on BehindMLM in 2013, as President of the JubiRev Ponzi scheme.

Essentially a reload of the notorious Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme, JubiRev collapsed a few months after launch.

Beistle returned in mid 2014 with BrandOnline365, a short-lived pyramid scheme.

In 2020 Beistle resurfaced with Doug Wellens as co-founders of Essential Access Network.

In 2022 Beistle and Wellens hid their ownership of Enigma Network by posing as the company’s “training team”.

Enigma Network collapsed a few months after launch and was rebooted as BFX Standard. Today BFX Standard’s website is still up but features Nvisionu branding.

Nvisionu is an IM Mastery Academy spinoff run by CEO David Imonitie. The exact nature of the relationship between what’s left of BFX Standard and Nvisionu is unclear.

From Affiliate Mentor’s “affiliate application & agreement”;

By executing the Affiliate Mentor Affiliate Agreement (“Agreement”), you apply for legal authorization to become a Affiliate Mentor business owner and enter into a contract with Streamlined Marketing Systems, Inc., the parent Company of its DBA – Affiliate Mentor.

Streamlined Marketing Systems Inc. gives us three more names to add to Affiliate Mentor;

Pass Up VIP Commissions

If an Affiliate Mentor only buys in at the Core tier but recruits someone who buys into the VIP tier, those cycler commissions “pass up” to the first upline affiliate who has bought into the VIP tier.

Affiliate Mentor’s Products

Affiliate mentor has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market Affiliate Mentor affiliate membership itself.

Affiliate Mentor affiliate membership provides access to two products; Core and VIP.

Core appears to be paid website traffic that’s funneled into something called “ClickCash”.

VIP is $297 annually and “instantly unlocks up to $2500 in free traffic”.

Affiliate Mentor’s Compensation Plan

Affiliate Mentor pays commissions on recruitment of affiliates who purchase its Core and/or VIP product tiers.

Core Commissions

Affiliate Mentor pays a $20 commission on personally recruited affiliates who sign up for the $49.95 a month Core tier.

Core tier is also available on an annual basis (cost unknown), on which a $200 commission is paid.

VIP Commissions

Purchase of Affiliate Mentor’s $297 VIP membership tier provides access to a 2×2 matrix cycler.

A 2×2 matrix places an affiliate at the top of a matrix, with two positions directly under them:

These two positions form the first level of the matrix. The second level of the matrix is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).

Positions in the matrix are filled via $297 VIP position purchases by directly and indirectly recruited affiliates.

Once all commissions in the matrix are filled a $500 cycle commission is paid out.

A $250 matching commission is also paid to the affiliate who recruited the affiliate earning the $500 cycle commission.

Upon cycling and triggering a $500 cycle commission, a VIP position enters a new 2×2 matrix and the process of filling the matrix begins again.

Joining Affiliate Mentor

Affiliate Mentor affiliate membership is either $49.50 a month for the Core tier and/or $297 annually for the VIP tier.

The more an Affiliate Mentor affiliate spends on membership the higher their income potential.

Affiliate Mentor Conclusion

Affiliate Mentor combines pyramid recruitment with a cycler Ponzi model.

Affiliate Mentor’s Core and VIP tiers pay on recruitment of affiliates who buy into said tiers. Nothing is marketed or sold to retail customers, making both tiers a pyramid scheme.

Affiliate Mentor enters Ponzi scheme territory through its VIP tier cycler. $295 in and then a return is generated and paid out of subsequent $295 investments.

The VIP tier ROI is paid out as long as new investments are still coming in.

Attached to Affiliate Mentor’s Core and VIP tiers are paid traffic packages. The idea being paid traffic is directed to Affiliate Mentor’s marketing funnel, creating closed-loop pyramid scheme.

While Affiliate Mentor’s traffic packages are self-serving (without constant recruitment Affiliate Mentor collapses), the packages could be substitutes out for any other product or service. It’s the income opportunity that Affiliate Mentor and its affiliate promoters are selling.

As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.

This will see matrices within Affiliate Mentor’s cycler begin to stall. Once enough matrices have stalled, an irreversible collapse is triggered.

Being a cycler Ponzi, primary beneficiaries of Affiliate Mentor are those running it. This takes place through one or more preloaded admin positions.

These admin positions cycle through first, and maintain that momentum through passups and being placed on active matrices. Eventually, everybody else winds up stuck on a stalled matrix.

The math behind Ponzi schemes guarantees that when they collapse, the majority of participants lose money.