People Getting Paid fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Instead, marketing videos on People Getting Paid’s website feature an AI-generated avatar.

People Getting Paid’s website domain (“peoplegettingpaid.com”), was privately registered on July 18th, 2025.

 

Update 5th October 2025 – Following a reader tip off in the comments below, I was able to confirm Jeffrey Long Long is behind People Getting Paid.

Long, aka Jeff Long, first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar as the founder of AutoXTen, a recruitment scheme launched in 2011.

AutoXTen collapsed a few months after launch. Long went on to launch SMS Dailies, which also collapsed shortly after launching.

Long resurfaced in late 2015 with Get Paid Social, a Facebook spam pyramid scheme.

Get Paid Social went into decline throughout 2016, prompting Long to launch 1 Online Business in mid 2017.

1 Online Business combined a cycler Ponzi business model with social media spam. Alexa traffic estimates for the 1 Online Business show a brief hype period followed by a collapse leading into 2018.

Long launched and began promoting Luvv, a pyramid scheme, around April, 2018. Luvv is believed to have collapsed a few months after its launch.

In early 2019 Long launched NewU Financial, a shady MLM gifting scheme promising investors a 200% ROI. That lasted barely a few months before NewU Financial collapsed.

Within weeks of NewU Financial collapsing Long launched Abundance Network, another illegal gifting scheme.

A few weeks later Long’s partner merchants pulled the plug, citing pyramid scheme concerns.

This led to a pyramid scheme model reboot in August 2019 that, not surprisingly, was also short-lived.

Long’s last appearance on BehindMLM was in April 2024, as owner of Internet Income System.

Internet Income System was a $100 a month gifting pyramid scheme. I’m not sure exactly when it collapsed but today Internet Income System’s website domain is disabled. /end update

 

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.

People Getting Paid’s Products

People Getting Paid has no retailable products or services.

Promoters are only able to market People Getting Paid promoter membership itself.

People Getting Paid promoter membership provides access to adcredits. Acredits can be used to show advertising to other People Getting Paid promoters.

People Getting Paid’s Compensation Plan

People Getting Paid promoters pay $6.50 and then $5 a day.

Commissions are paid when they recruit others who do the same.

Recruitment Commissions

Each People Getting Paid promoter fee paid generates a $5 recruitment commission.

People Getting Paid pays recruitment commissions via a 1-up compensation structure, tracked through a unilevel team:

The 1-up compensation structure sees a People Getting Paid promoter pass-up even numbered recruitment commissions up to ten.

  • first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh and every recruit onward = $5 commission paid per promoter fee paid
  • second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth recruit = $5 commission passed up

Passed-up recruitment commissions are paid to whoever recruited the promoter.

In turn, recruited promoters must pass up their second to tenth even recruitment commissions.

Depending on who recruits who when, this potentially allows for a People Getting Paid promoter to earn on recruitment activity anywhere in their downline.

Upsell Commissions

People Getting Paid promoters earn a 50% commission when personally recruited promoters pay $25 and $100 upsell fees.

Joining People Getting Paid

People Getting Paid promoter membership is $6.50 and then $5 a day.

Upsells cost $20 and $100, which must be purchased to earn commissions on these tiers.

People Getting Paid Conclusion

People Getting Paid is a simple $5 a day adcredit pyramid scheme.

$5 is paid between People Getting Paid (cash gifting), with the anonymous admin keeping $1.50 per recruit. That’s on top of pass-ups through pre-loaded admin positions.

Typically in a pyramid gifting scheme it is the admin who steals the most money. They are closely followed by early joiners and/or top recruiters.

The $25 and $100 upsells manipulate who gets assigned new People Getting Paid promoters who don’t have a direct referrer. Those who pay $25 have more chance of receiving a non-referred recruit than those that don’t.

Those that pay $100 have a higher chance still, or so People Getting Paid’s website states. With zero transparency or accountability the system is ripe for internal abuse.

As they don’t with Ponzi schemes, bundling adcredits to pyramid gifting scheme payments doesn’t make a fraudulent business model legal.

As with all MLM pyramid gifting schemes, once recruitment dries up so too will daily $5 commissions.

This will see those at the bottom of the pyramid eventually stop paying $5 a day. This in turn means those above them stop getting paid.

Unless new suckers are found fast, these promoters will also stop paying $5 a day.

Once enough People Getting Paid promoters stop paying $5 a day, an irreversible collapse is triggered.

As per People Getting Paid’s refund policy:

You have read and agreed to our Refund Policy and understand that all payments are final.

Math guarantees that when a pyramid gifting scheme collapses, the majority of participants lose money.