Nelo Life Review: FinMore promoters launch pyramid scheme
Despite actively marketing for signups, Nelo Life fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
At time of publication, Nelo Life’s website displays a “global pre-launch” countdown timer:
41 days from today puts Nelo Life’s launch on or around April 29th, 2024.
When readers first began contacted me about Nelo Life a few days ago, former TranzactCard and FinMore promoter Scott Kufus was cited as owner of the company.
I suppose this made sense at the time, seeing as Kufus is pretty much the face of Nelo Life promotion.
A reader got in touch yesterday to advise that Nelo Life was in fact owned by Nick Sorensen, Eric Allen and Larry Lane. Supposedly, their initials is what makes up the company name NELo Life.
I’m not sure if there’s a fourth “O” initial owner or whether the “O” is just to round off NEL.
In any event, while this fits I haven’t seen any concrete evidence of Nelo Life company ownership.
Nelo Life’s first major red flag is company owners hiding from consumers.
Update 20th March 2024 – While I was putting this review together this was posted to Nelo Life’s official Twitter account:
/end update
In the absence of anyone else emerging as the owner(s) of Nelo Life, it’s worth noting Nick Sorensen is a former TranzactCard/FinMore promoter (click to enlarge):
Eric Allen is a former TranzactCard/FinMore promoter:
And Larry Lane is a former TranzactCard/FineMore promoter:
TranzactCard was an effective reboot of Richard Smith’s collapsed R Network scheme.
After TranzactCard predictably collapsed last month, FinMore was unveiled as a hastily put together reboot.
FinMore, while still around, predictably collapsed even faster than TranzactCard did. As per a YouTube video put out by Troy Dooly yesterday;
[1:55] They started to flounder very early on. They weren’t able to deliver.
They hyped up the opportunity … it got really weird to be quite honest.
[3:32] Why did they fire the compliance team that actually knew what was going on? Why did they get rid of the second compliance team?
Why did they get rid of some of their executives that actually knew the network marketing business?
So it was… it was just chaos.
[4:31] It was just on and on to where it brings us now to the present, where executives have left.
And then this weekend I was given the privilege of being on some private Zooms, and I was sent private videos of people saying, “We’re done. We’re leaving.”
Considering FinMore only launched about a month and a half ago, one would have to assume Nelo Life’s pre-launch is equally as hasty.
Nelo Life’s website domain (“nelolife.com”), was privately registered on March 5th – about a month after FinMore was revealed.
As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
Nelo Life’s Products
Nelo Life has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to promote Nelo Life affiliate membership itself.
Update 23rd March 2024 – Nelo Life has added retail by way of $59 a month access to a discount travel platform and $20 a month for access to wholesale supplements. /end update
Nelo Life’s Compensation Plan
Nelo Life affiliates pay $55 a month. Commissions are paid when they recruit others who do the same.
Bundled with Nelo Life affiliate membership is access to an educational video library and discount travel platform.
Recruitment Commissions
Nelo Life affiliates earn $25 per affiliate recruited.
Unified Recruitment Bonus
If a Nelo Life affiliate recruits two affiliates who each recruit two affiliates, they are classified as “unified”.
If a Nelo Life affiliate recruits two affiliates who also qualify as “unified” within thirty days of recruitment, a $75 bonus is paid out.
Residual Commissions
Nelo Life pays residual commissions via a 2×16 matrix.
A 2×16 matrix places a Nelo Life affiliate at the top of a matrix, with two positions directly below them:
Level two of the matrix is generated by splitting the first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).
Levels three to sixteen of the matrix are generated in the same manner, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.
Residual commissions are paid as $1 to $1.50 a month per Nelo Life affiliate directly or indirectly recruited into the matrix.
Matching Bonus
Nelo Life pays a Matching Bonus via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
Nelo Life caps the Matching Bonus at four unilevel team levels.
The Matching Bonus is paid as a percentage of earnings across these four levels as follows:
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 20% match
- levels 2 to 4 – 10% match
Joining Nelo Life
Nelo Life affiliate membership is $79.
Nelo Life Conclusion
Nelo Life is a rather obvious attempt to pillage what’s left of TranzactCard/FinMore for short-term gain.
There’s not much to Nelo Life. With no retail offering, under FTC guidelines it’s a straight up pyramid scheme.
Even with a retail offering (Nelo Life has until the end of next month to unofficially respond to this review and make changes), these tend to be pseudo-compliance with respect to subscription offerings.
What it comes down to is whether the majority of subscription holders are also participating in the business opportunity.
Right now they absolutely are, because 100% of Nelo Life signups are affiliates.
If a retail offering was added after publication of this review, this is unlikely to change due to paying $59 a month for an education video library and discount travel platform making no sense.
MasterClass, which Nelo Life compares itself to in official marketing, charges $15 a month for full access. Discount travel rates are so abundant across the internet it’s not even worth getting into.
As it stands, there’s a push to recruit as many people who lost money into TranzactCard/FinMore into Nelo Life.
After that relatively small pool of US residents has been exploited, the plan is then to offset those losses by exploiting third-world countries.
I’ll let Scott Kufus explain, as quoted from a recent Nelo Life marketing webinar;
When I first saw this and heard about this I thought “hallelujah”. Because I personally was building a business here in the United States.
And like most people, they’re building most of their businesses here in the US, I didn’t have a way to make money worldwide. And I was looking, like I need to leverage my worldwide contacts.
I love to travel. I just got back from Thailand and Dubai, and here’s what I learned, and I want you to learn this if you weren’t aware.
As I travelled to Thailand recently and Dubai and had a chance to talk with leaders from many companies, in other sort of industries and in other lands. I realized really quickly that I was thinking so small.
Because as I started talking to some of these leaders they’re like, “Man have you heard of this company? It’s $500 million.” I’m like, no.
“Have you heard of this company? Eight hundred million.” No.
“This company just did $1.4 billion in the last eighteen months.” I’m like, what? “This company’s at $1.2 billion in the last 36 months.” Companies I’ve never heard of, all over the planet.
They’re like, “Yeah they’re not in America. They’re not even operating there.” And I’m like, “Wow, that’s crazy.”
“Yeah, the legal system, just the challenges of the government, it’s just not worth their time.”
So they just go all over the planet because you have a billion people in India. They have a billion people in Indonesia [sic]. They have a billion people in China. Half a billion people in Europe. Half a billion people in Africa and all these places.
So the world market, the eight billion people, they’re all looking for opportunity. America has about 300 million people but there’s probably about thirty to fifty million people looking for something every day to enhance their lives.
But the global planet? Boy, we can all tap into that. That’s what we’re all looking for.
That Scott Kufus sees Nelo Life as a vehicle to evade US regulatory compliance should set off alarm bells.
As with all MLM pyramid schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will commissions.
This will see those at the bottom of Nelo Life’s pyramid scheme stop paying $59 a month. When this happens, those who recruited them also stop getting paid.
Unless new suckers are found (from third-world countries if Kufus is to be believed), eventually they too stop paying $59 a month.
Once enough Nelo Life affiliates stop paying $59 a month, an irreversible collapse is triggered.
You’ve seen this play out twice now with TranzactCard and FinMore. The only people who make money in pyramid schemes are those like Scott Kufus, Nick Sorensen, Eric Allen and Larry Lane, who benefit from the lion’s share of recruiting.
Math guarantees the majority of participants in pyramid schemes like Nelo Life lose money.
And if you feel bad about losing money yourself or recruiting others into TranzactCard/FinMore only for them to lose money – imagine pushing that situation onto unsuspecting Nelo Life recruits.
See Nelo Life for what it is and do better.
Update 23rd March 2024 – As discussed as a possibility above, Nelo Life has added a retail offering to its MLM opportunity.
Retail access to the discount travel booking platform and video library is $59 a month. Access to wholesale supplement pricing is $20 a month.
Costs associated with Nelo Life’s passive returns trading investment opportunity have not been disclosed.
Nelo Life affiliates can purchase both memberships but are charged $79 to participate in the MLM opportunity.
Love most of the work you do here. Hope no one removes this post.
How about doing true due diligence. Not just on this start up rather all companies.
Reach out and ask to interview the owner. If they decline, that’s on them.(Ozedit: snip, derails removed)
BehindMLM doesn’t publish a review unless I’ve got what I need. Nelo Life was on my radar for a few days but I waited till I had enough to put together a complete review.
BehindMLM reviews are also researched and written from the perspective of the average public consumer. Tipping people off can lead to deleted evidence.
This review covers Nelo Life’s compensation plan and products, as well as an analysis of both within the context of the MLM opportunity.
Additional background information on the co-founder is provided, as this is important for complete due-diligence. Anyone coming from TranzactCard who ignored Richard Smith’s history should have learnt an important lesson.
You can’t talk your way out of running a pyramid scheme, so what good would an interview with Sorensen, Allen and Lane do? I certainly don’t have any questions to ask them.
If you reply, make it specific to Nelo Life. General whinging and butthurt = spam-bin.
Since their compensation plan hasn’t been released yet to the public, how did you get a final copy. no one can enroll or purchase anything yet.
I always prefer to review a companies official doc’s vs hearsay from people who do not have the accurate details. You ASSUME it is a pyramid scheme.
Why not interview them and let the people decide? Give one good reason why the people who follow you shouldn’t be allowed to make their own decision? (Ozedit: derails removed)
If I have access to the compensation plan it’s been released to the public.
Cool. This review isn’t about you. If my breakdown of exactly what’s in Nelo Life’s compensation plan is too hard for you to follow, not my problem.
MLM company + no retail = pyramid scheme. Problem? Take it up with the FTC.
I couldn’t give a crap what “the people” think about pyramid schemes. Again, not my problem.
Also what’s this bullshit about people being “allowed to make their own decision”. Listen, I don’t care what you do or don’t do. And BehindMLM publishing a review doesn’t stop anyone from joining Nelo Life.
My job is to break down Nelo Life and provide an accurate review of its business model, which I’ve done.
As it stands Nelo Life is a pyramid scheme. If you sign up to get flogged again after TranzactCard/FinMore, best of luck with the scamming.
If you are truly committed to honest and accurate reporting/evaluation (Ozedit: derails removed)
This review is an accurate and honest review of Nelo Life. You have provided no evidence to the contrary.
Feel free to do so, anything else from you will be marked as spam. Best of luck with the scamming.
Scott Kufus must be a smart guy to discover that other countries besides the US run businesses.
It’s amazing someone can listen to that “marketing” and come to the conclusion that they should sign up to be in their downline.
In a Zoom call a few days ago Randy Schroeder mentioned something about a pending forex product of some sort. Will Nelo Life branch out into securities fraud?
Stay tuned to this channel.
I don’t mean to impugn the character and integrity of these aforementioned “leaders,” but an enormous red flag of this NELo life “business” is that several of these top leaders are now on their third, fourth, or fifth network marketing business over a two to four-year span.
I got wind of NELo through a mutual Facebook acquaintance, and one of the leaders of this NELo business is still claiming that Finemore is still viable and that he is still a leader in Finemore even though he is now an owner with NELo.
Not sure how you can own a network marketing business and at the same time, attempt to build another one. When you recruit, what vision do you plan to sell them on?
How in the world do these people keep recruiting people after a series of epic failures, with Tranzact being the most recent? It boggles the mind.
FYI-This was a compelling YouTube video that I found today. I think this guy was also a Tranzact guy.
youtu.be/3UiE8X9gCTU?si=lgc1oMU6IsdyHQai
Randy Schroeder was in fact a TranzactCard guy.
Notably, Schroeder had a meltdown when BehindMLM reported on TranzactCard’s red flags.
https://behindmlm.com/companies/nui/randy-schroeder-has-a-meltdown-over-tranzactcard-reporting/
That led to Schroeder profiting off his downline, who were predictably cheated out of their money through a bait and switch.
Until Schroeder addresses that (quietly deleting videos out of embarrassment doesn’t count), I would take anything he says about any MLM company with a grain of salt.
please keep up the great work oz. thank you and i’m glad you are accepting donations now. stef
This may help …..
I heard that the O is for Orkan Arat ……
Huh …..
I have lived abroad in Europe, Mexico, and Asia. I have seen profound MLM’s that dwarf most of what we have here in the States. Friends of mine with downlines of hundreds of thousands of people!
It was astonishing, and it woke me up. Made me realize that the world is so much larger than I realized, and that it would be wise to build internationally.
To me, this just makes smart business sense. If I could expand my business to the world instead of just the US, then obviously the business grows, helps more people, and makes more profit.
The purpose of Network Marketing is to level the playing field. Give the average person access to an opportunity. To a financial vehicle to profit from. While obviously selling a product or service that is valuable to consumers.
It makes sense to me that expanding across the globe just serves more people
So I’m curious, would you consider my experiences and conclusions to be, “…exploiting third-world countries.”?
By expanding my business beyond the US and growing it globally, would you consider my business a “….vehicle to evade US regulatory compliance.”?
I guess I’m rather confused by your interpretation of Scotty Kufus. It seems like I’ve had similar awarenesses, and come to similar conclusions.
Curious your perspective. Thanks
You’re talking about scams Scott. Scams that proliferate outside of the US due to a lack of regulation.
Go ahead, name these “profound MLMs”.
Also I didn’t “interpret” Kufus, he said what he said.
Go ahead Scott. Please tell us all about the of these “profound MlM’s”.
Scott, it’s not some revolutionary idea that the US and international markets combined are bigger than the US market alone.
Research all these guys, they are serial MLMers.
Eric was one of the top guys running with Ponzi scheme WorldVentures. Larry has been with a few crypto ponzi schemes. Nick has had his share of MLMs from Happy Coffee, crypto, shakes and more.
I saw they were going to pay the reps with crypto in one video, the fees keep changing etc.
They are in this for themselves for a huge money grab as they sit at the top bringing all their Finmore/Tranzact teams onboard to reap the financial benefit off their disappointment off of the Tranzact fail.
Those teams cried about $50 a month, this is $59 a month! Research this before you jump in, there are a lot of holes in this plan.
Read about the past travel mlms. This company is going to get involved in crypto and trading? Are the 4 owners sitting on the top of legs earning or are they out of the genealogy tree taking a percentage?
All 4 of the owners have a history of being in less than ethical companies.
I’ll have an update out on Nelo Life later today.
Exactly Misfit. And that’s the point. And that’s all I heard in Kufus’s quote. It was pretty simple and straightforward. Oz, of course, likes to spin things. Everybody knows that.
Oz, I’m talking about scams? What are you talking about? (Ozedit: derails removed)
Put up or shut up Scott. Either name the MLM companies or spam-bin.
And stop being disingenious about Scott Kufus;
There are no challenges. Securities and wire fraud is illegal in the US and comparitve to the rest of the world actively regulated.
It’s right there in plain English.
One of the NELO leaders was pitching Eric Bechtold’s Follow Funding cash gifting scheme a few years ago.
Article updated to note $55 affiliate membership has become $59 a month for access to the discount travel platform and video library.
Retail access to wholesale supplements is $20 a month and Nelo Life has also added a passive returns trading investment opportunity.
Nelo Life affiliate membership is now $75 (one-time?).
A mutual acquaintance took a screenshot of this post from someone who has been involved in numerous red-flag business ventures.
This guy milessegersonline.com was involved in Empower Network. He was also briefly affiliated with World Ventures when WV attempted to bring over the entire Empower Network database.
I can’t confirm that he is involved in NELO LIFe, but here is the message posted on his Facebook page.
This smells like NELO, but again, I can’t confirm.
Scam Detector gives NeloLife a 3.7/100 score.
scam-detector.com/validator/nelolife-com-review/
these 3 idiots are renegade networkers, scam til you cant scam no more then repeat with many of the same fools who think these 3 idiots are someone to look up to.
and then bring a whole new legion of fresh fools who’ve never been scammed before and pop their chery, welcome to mlm with fools…
Is it true that the “O” in NELO stands for “OnPassive”?
No, it’s the fourth co-founder. OnPassive is dead.
Lo these many months later and the total membership of the official Nelo life facebook community has stalled at just better than four thousand.
For comparison the main TranzactCard facebook group peaked at over 28K.
No one ever expected for Nelo to be as big of a flash in the pan as Tranzact but there has been a depressing lack of growth for many weeks.
Come on Eric Allen Et al, this is your turn to prove how well you can wrangle your lemmings. Richard Smith must be embarrassed for you.
Maybe they will rejoin Peter and Melinda and Jeremy as they raise Finmore from the ashes. According to Jeremy Peter predicted that it will happen in 2024.