There is no information on the NevoMx company website indicating who runs or owns the business.

The company domain (‘nevomx.com’) was registered on the 30th August 2012, however the registration information is set to private.

As always, if a 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. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Your Web Book Matrix indicating who runs or owns the business.

The company domain (‘yourwbm.com’) was registered on the 10th November 2011 and lists ‘The Edwards Family Trust’ as the registrant, operating out of the state of New South Wales in Australia.

Your Web Book Matrix claim to be a ‘reputable Australian business’ but an Australian Business Number search didn’t turn up anything.

The Your Web Book Matrix Terms and Conditions mentions a “The Digital Web Book Matrix SA BN05394521”, however nothing came up for that company either.

I did try an ABN search of the Edwards Family Trust but it returned over 2000 results, so I didn’t look into it any further. It is worth noting however that the domain WHOIS provides a PO box address in “North Sydney”, however the Your Web Book Matrix Terms and Conditions make reference to South Australia:

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Australia, Australia and each party submits to the jurisdiction of the courts of South Australia, Australia.

This strongly indicates that the owners of Your Web Book Matrix are operating out of South Australia.

As always, if a 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. [Continue reading…]

Ocean Avenue is an MLM company operating in the health and nutrition niche of the industry.

The company operates out of Utah in the US but reportedly will also launch with satellite offices in Canada and Indonesia with prelaunch scheduled to kick off in about a week.

Heading up Ocean Avenue are co-founders Fred Ninow and Ken Dunn (photo right).

Ninow, credited as being a ‘a self made entrepreneur and former Investment Banker’ with 29 years experience. MLM wise Ninow’s biggest accomplishment would easily be co-founding Max International (also known as “Max GXL”, their flagship product).

Max International launched in early 2007 and market products focused on ‘glutathione’ distribution to the body. As a co-founder, Ninow is credited with leading Max International’s sales team to generate ‘over 100 million in revenue in 3 short years’.

I’m not entirely sure what happened after those three years as I was unable to find any information on why or specifically when (ballpark 2010) Ninow left Max International.

Ken Dunn on the otherhand is credited on the Ocean Avenue website as being invovled in ‘mortgages, importing, property management and investigative policing’.

MLM wise Dunn initially worked with Ninow in Max International as the “master distributor” but in 2010 (around the same time Ninow departed) left Max to join MLM company ‘EvolvHealth’.

In an EvolvHealth official company blog post, Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Gilliam wrote

After a thorough review of more than 100 companies, the addition of Mr. Ken Dunn and his business partners, all top earners in the network marketing industry “is a tremendous win for the company and our Members” (partly quoting EvolvHealth founder Trey White).

Again, no idea why or when Dunn left EvolvHealth but it appears to have been only recently. Another post on the EvolvHealth company blog, dated late February 2012, credits Dunn as being a finalist in something called the “e84 Fuel Challenge”.

Read on for a full review of the Ocean Avenue MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Seemingly out of the blue, last friday writ 383 which had been heard in the Supreme Court of India for just under a year was withdrawn, leaving the case disposed of by the court.

Speak Asia’s supporters scrambled to make the best of the news, assuring everyone that “nothing negative” had been said about the company and to wait for the SC order to be published.

The All India Speak Asia Panelist Association, who usually rush to publish anything remotely positive hours after a court appearance, were noticeably subdued. AISPA released a statement a few hours after the disposal that they would only publish something after the order was out.

Meanwhile whoever runs the Speak Asia “corporate marketing” blog, assured their followers there was nothing to worry about. A post put up on the 21st September reads

While our department for corporate affairs analyzes these latest developments, we would like to assure all our panelist in India that the company remains committed to solving this impasse and is very keen to re-start the business at the earliest opportune moment.

Of particular note was the change in tone, in opposition of any agency that did not comply with the Speak Asia agenda:

The company assures full cooperation with any agency or authority that has the jurisdiction on this situation and wishes to fulfill its commitment to refunding the subscription amounts to all those who have opted for the exit option of the company.

To the best of my knowledge to date no government agency has committed to the refund of subscription amounts, a business restart or even the mere entertaining of the Speak Asia “exit option”.

The CID however have filed a criminal chargesheet against the company, the Enforcement Directorate have filed a money laundering case, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stated Speak Asia was “akin” to a “money circulation scheme” in a cautionary it sent to Indian banks in May 2011 and the EOW have labelled the Speak Asia Ponzi scheme “the largest fraud case they’ve ever seen”.

Earlier today those behind the Speak Asia “corporate marketing” blog felt the need to publish a clarification to their earlier statements, which despite allegedly referring to itself made several references to “the company” and appeared strikingly similar to the baseless and full of rhetoric “news” that has been published on Facebook, AISPA and Speak Asia Mobi-Club (all run by senior panelists acting as defacto local management) over this past year and a half.

The company has been fighting its battle for survival for more than a year’s period and at this stage, your cooperation and patience in this battle is highly appreciated. We would urge the same deliberation from all of you for times to come.

With all the efforts in line we are bound to overcome the difficult times.

Along with the above statements are a series of wishful thinking dreams which, given the gravity revealed by the publishing of the Supreme Court order for the writ 383 disposal hearing on the 19th September, seem all the more unlikely.

Taking on a tone that suggested they’d been misled by Speak Asia and its senior panelists behind the writ until the ‘Investigating Officer, Economic Offences Wing (III), Crime Branch, C.I.D., Mumbai‘ filed an affidavit on March 3rd 2012 to clear things up, the SC most strikingly admit that the matter of payment to the 115 signed petitioners of the writ is ‘not a matter which could be resolved by way of mediation‘.

Two primary reasons are given for this, the first being that whereas writ 383 pertains only to the 115 signed petitioners (Speak Asia management and senior panelists have been falsely claiming the writ covered all panelists), the SC wholly acknowledge that in passing any order under writ 383 in regards to payments, that they ‘cannot turn a blind eye if other investors also come with a similar petition‘.

Why is that such a big deal?

The answer lies in the Supreme Court’s views and acceptance of the affidavits filed by Indian authorities. [Continue reading…]

Skippy Cash Matrix appears to be based in Melbourne Australia and was launched mid 2012.

Heading up the company is President Greg Turcanu (also known as Grigore Turcanu) and CEO Marian Craiu.

Turcanu (photo right) claims to have built up a team of “38,000” in MLM coffee company Gano Excel, but left due to ‘a vision to build his own Company and help people who are struggling‘.

As late as July 2012 Turcanu was advertising MLM business opportunity EPXBody on Twitter, however since then he’s only been promoting Skippy Cash Matrix and his other company “Skippy Traffic” (traffic exchange).

In his Twitter marketing spiel, Turcanu claims that Skippy Cash Matrix is ‘guaranteed to work 4 anyone‘:

Read on for a full review of the Skippy Cash MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Quick Cash Ads website indicating who runs or owns the business.

The Quick Cash Ads website domain (‘quickcashads.com’) was registered on the 15th August 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

A Quick Cash Ads marketing video on YouTube is hosted by a ‘David Lockwood’.

Lockwood appears to be linked with the serial promotion of several dubious income opportunities, including Daily Profit Always (250% ROI Ponzi scheme), Wealth 4 All Team (defunct 10 day ROI Ponzi scheme), Alert 2 Pay (30 day Ponzi scheme), Fast Cash Mega (Ponzi/pyramid scheme), Profit Clicking (Ponzi scheme), The Golden Path (defunct recruitment scam), and Unstoppable WhirlWind (defunct recruitment scam):

Curiously, someone who refers to themselves as “Tom” mentions elsewhere that they are the admin of Quick Cash Ads (ironically, complaining about being scammed by HYIP monitor site admins):

In a later post in the same thread, Tom goes into some detail about his dodgy income opportunity activities:

I am FOR REAL and not one of the many scammers out there.

I am currently a member of DPA, LTP and LDI. I just wanted to get that out of the way so everyone that reads this knows exactly where I am coming from.

I currently have close to $3,900 worth of withdrawals in DPA, $27,000 in LTP and $1000 in LDI. I am unloading my dirty laundry just so you know that I feel your pain and that I am one of you.

Referring to his scam site losses as “dirty laundry”, Tom then divulges how Quick Cash Ads came about:

I was sitting around with a buddy of mine and we were talking about all the money we had coming to us.

Also we were talking about if we owned a program…how we would run it, how we would treat our members, how we liked speedy admin response and NO lengthy pending withdrawals.

Putting two and two together, after suffering heavy losses in multiple scam opportunities, Tom and his “buddy” have launched Quick Cash Ads with the intention of making some of that money back.

The problem?

Despite losing thousands of dollars, it appears Tom hasn’t really learnt anything from his experience. Well, except perhaps that money wise it’s much better to be running scams than participating in them. [Continue reading…]

Claiming they are ‘a global debt-free company founded in 2006‘, there is no information on the Alive Matrix website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The company’s website domain (‘alivematrix.com’) was registered on the 19th May, 2007, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Despite the company claiming to be 7 years old and having a five year old domain, the Alive Matrix opportunity was only launched in late August, 2012 (source-code of Alive Matrix website, image right).

As always, if a 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. [Continue reading…]

Usually when I review a less than legitimate looking opportunity they tend to focus on one particular business model.

Some require you to recruit like crazy to earn anything, some require you to invest money and pay you out a ROI over time, some want you to purchase bucketloads of product each month on the expectation your purchases will fund other member’s commissions and some try to hide the fact that they use any one of these models by adding fluff to the business model (posting ads, removing signup fees, getting you to rub your tummy once a day etc.).

Rare is it though that I run across a company that tries to incorporate every dodgy MLM business model out there into one neat little package.

Enter Global Ads Biz.

Infact, if I wasn’t none the wiser I’d even go so far as to suggest that when coming up with the business model, the owners literally just copy and pasted together as many dodgy business models as they could get their hands on.

Read on for a full review of the Global Ads Biz MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

I first looked at Blue Bird Bids back in early September and in the process of researching the company established links between it and Dwayne Golden’s ‘Green Apple Fridays’ penny auction site.

Presumably using the same backend Blue Bird Bids now appears to be a separately launched company, with Green Apple Fridays still running.

Curiously however Dwayne Golden’s name does not appear on the Blue Bird Bids website, with the company crediting a ‘Mardy Eger’ as being the founder.

Just a few short months ago in June of this year Eger (right), credited with being a ‘top 26 income earner in the home based business industry‘, joined MLM company “Chews-4-Health International”.

I’m not sure what happened there but it appears Eger has moved on with the launch of Blue Bird Bids.

Quite clearly through the source-code of Blue Bird Bids it’s clear that Golden has some involvement with Blue Bird Bids, however why this is not disclosed on the company website is a mystery.

In a post on his personal website, Eger writes:

“Mardy Eger’s Longstanding Association With Dwayne Golden”

Mardy Eger has association with industry professionals of the highest integrity within the Home Business industry.

One such association is with Dwayne Golden, who has maintained a reputation for high achievement and high success for those who work with him.

Mardy and Dwayne collaborate and Mastermind on a considerable number of projects and often spur each other on toward good things.

Mardy has consistently challenged Dwayne in the area of innovation and Dwayne has responded with higher levels of product development.

Dwayne has challenged Mardy in the area of higher powered success coaching and Mardy has responded with success programs that rival professionals that have been there for years.

Because of their Iron sharpening Iron relationship, both Mardy and Dwayne continually spiral higher toward more successful endeavors.

Given this “long-standing association” and the obvious links to the Green Apple Fridays penny auction, there’s a strong implication that Eger and Golden are working together on Blue Bird Bids.

One other point of note is that Blue Bird Bids initially launched with a corporate address in North Carolina:

Blue Bird Bids, Inc., 2302 NASH ST N, STE E. WILSON, NC 27896

For reasons unknown, this has now been changed to a virtual mailing address in the US state of Nevada:

Blue Bird Bids
3960 Howard Hughes Parkway
Suite 500
Las Vegas, NV, USA 89169

Meanwhile the company’s terms and conditions still states that

this Terms & Conditions Agreement and Your use of Blue Bird Bids shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of North Carolina.

Without in any way limiting the “Dispute Resolution” requirements set forth above, any court proceeding related to this website or these Terms & Conditions may be brought only in a federal or state court sitting in Oklahoma.

No idea what’s going on there.

Read on for a full review of the Blue Bird Bids MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

The first thing that struck me about Shopping Sherlock was its remarkable similarities with the failed MLM opportunity, My Shopping Genie.

Not surprisingly, after a bit of poking around I soon learnt that this was due to the fact that Shopping Sherlock has been built using My Shopping Genie’s assets.

Although the idea of an affiliate shopping toolbar is nothing new, there has only been one prominent company that’s combined it with an MLM compensation plan.

Launched in late 2007, My Shopping Genie was run by ‘MyNetUniverse’ and attracted a significant affiliate base, however overall didn’t really seem to gain any solid traction over the years.

By September 2011 reports were coming in that My Shopping Genie hadn’t paid affiliates for 6 months in some cases and by May 2012, the company had shut it doors and closed down.

Come early June, reports broke out that My Shopping Genie assets (primarily the backend for the shopping toolbar, had been bought by Michael Wiedder, founder of MLM company ‘Best in U’.

I’d give you a bit more information about Best in U, but their company website is currently giving me ASP errors when I try to view the compensation plan or ‘our team’ webpages.

That said, I do note the company is based and operated out of the US state of California.

Moving on, just a few days after the acquisition was announced, news then  broke that Wiedder (photo right) was launching Shopping Sherlock which, if you take a look at the software, is quite obviously built on the My Shopping Genie technology.

One of the biggest problems with My Shopping Genie was that, despite the business opportunity revolving around the idea that those using the software would attract shoppers and earn commissions off their purchases, the reality of the business was that My Shopping Genie affiliate commissions were primarily driven by recruitment.

In analysing the business, I suspected that My Shopping Genie failed to attract retail users of the tool (which was given away for free), was due to the fact that the software at best was just a price comparison tool linked to a pool of affiliate programs parent company MyNetUniverse were members of. These affiliate programs weren’t exclusive and as such anyone could join them.

Thus the only reason to participate in My Shopping Genie was the recruitment commissions paid out by attracting new affiliates to the scheme.

In launching Shopping Sherlock, I note that a lot of the marketing spiel sounds pretty similar to what My Shopping Genie were pushing out back in the day. The big question of course is how similar are the business models between the two companies.

We already know the business model My Shopping Genie was using has proven to be non-viable, so has Michael Wiedder come up with something new or will Shopping Sherlock run into the same problems My Shopping Genie had?

Read on for a full review of the My Shopping Sherlock MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]