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BuilderDefi Review: Alan Friedland’s third NRGY Ponzi scheme

Despite settling his CFTC CompCoin fraud settlement last week, Alan Friedland is still pushing crypto Ponzis. Not billed as such but quite obviously an NRGY sequel, today we’re looking at BuilderDefi.


Life Activated Brands Review: LaCore Ent. multi-niche opp

Life Activated Brands operates in the nutritional supplement, weight loss and CBD MLM niches. Life Activated Brands don’t provide a corporate address on their website. Company documents however list an address in Melissa, Texas. This address belongs to LaCore Enterprises. LaCore Enterprises  is owned and operated by Terry LaCore (right). Over the past few years [Continue reading…]


StakeBNB Review: 200% ROI “staking yield farm” Ponzi

StakeBNB provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company. StakeBNB’s website domain (“stakebnb.io”), was initially registered in June 2021. The private registration was last updated on November 23rd, 2021. Traffic to StakeBNB’s website picked up in early January 2022. Alexa currently ranks Togo as the only notable source of traffic [Continue reading…]


Batman Review: 201.6% every 6 hours Russian Ponzi

Batman provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company. Batman’s website domain registration details are shielded by the .LI registrar. Batman’s website defaults to Russian. Russian and English are the only two native available languages provided. Alexa currently ranks Russia as the top source of traffic to Batman’s website (24%), [Continue reading…]


Marketing Boost Review: Free vacations as a marketing tool?

Marketing Boost provides no information about who owns or runs the company. To get that information you need to click off-site to Marketing Boost’s webinars. There it’s revealed Marco Torres is Marketing Boost’s founder. On one of Torres’ many FaceBook profiles, we additionally learn Marketing Boost launched in 2017. The company is tied to Digital [Continue reading…]


Drip Network Review: 1% a day DRIP token Ponzi scheme

Drip Network provides no verifiable information about who owns or runs the company on its website. Drip Network’s website domain (“drip.community”), was privately registered on March 22nd, 2021. The registration was last updated on December 28th, which correlates with an uptick in Drip Network website traffic throughout December 2021. While it doesn’t provide any verifiable [Continue reading…]


Zallevo Review: Nutritional supplements + weight loss

Zallevo operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche. The company provides a corporate address in Utah on its website. Zallevo provides no ownership or corporate information on its website. To get that information you need to turn to the Zallevo’s marketing documentation. This reveals Brandon Broadwater cited as Zallevo’s founder and CEO. On Twitter Broadwater [Continue reading…]


Ride2Success Review: 360% ROI in 60 days Ponzi

Ride2Success, which also goes by “R2SInternational”, launched in late 2021. The company’s website domain (“r2sinternational.com”), was registered on November 14th, 2021. Heading up Ride2Success is Ariel Sunga (right). Sunga’s FaceBook profile places him in Manila, Philippines. Sunga appears to have a history of running Ponzi schemes: Team Boss Manager touts a passive 270% to 400% [Continue reading…]


Bob Schafer’s unnamed mail fraud pyramid scheme

Earlier this month a reader reached out with details of a business opportunity run by Bob Schafer.   Update 6th April 2022 – A reader in the comments has let me know Schafer also goes by “Bob Shaffer”. Bob and Jan Shaffer (his wife) run their scam out of their modest home in upstate New York. [Continue reading…]


KIWIsmart Review: Crypto trading bot securities fraud

KIWIsmart provides no information about who owns or runs the company on its website. KIWIsmart’s website domain (“kiwismart.org”), was privately registered on August 20th, 2021. At time of publication KIWIsmart’s website advises a “zoom launch event” taking place on January 29th. This seems odd, seeing as KIWIsmart promotion videos started going up four months ago: If [Continue reading…]