Wealth4AllTeam Ponzi reboot collapses after 2 mths

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Back in late December 2012 Wealth4AllTeam announced that they were rebooting the infamous 10 day ROI scheme. This scheme collapsed around August 2012, with Wealth4AllTeam launching a new opportunity under the “Primus Hub” brand.

Guaranteeing a 1.6% daily ROI sourced from “new deposits”, Wealth4AllTeam described the reboot as ‘a total passive investment only program‘ that accepted investments between $10 and $10,000 from its members.

Now, barely two months after the launch of Wealth4AllTeam 2.0, the company has once again shut its doors. [Continue reading…]


BidXcel bites the dust

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In what can only be described as yet another blow to the MLM penny auction niche, BidXcel quietly closed their doors last week.

Launched in late 2012, the company’s website (“bidxcel.com”) and penny auction (“xcelbids.com”) were pulled offline a few days ago with no official explanation provided regarding the closure.

Both websites currently announce to visitors that they will be ‘will be unavailable until further notice‘:

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CEO Andrew Bracken is nowhere to be found and it doesn’t appear as if the “privately held” ownership are going to make an announcement anytime soon either. [Continue reading…]


Empower Network blog is 67% affiliates, 33% retail

Not all multilevel marketing plans are legitimate. If the money you make is based on your sales to the public, it may be a legitimate multilevel marketing plan.

If the money you make is based on the number of people you recruit and your sales to them, it’s not. It’s a pyramid scheme.

US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Multilevel Marketing, November 2012

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A few days ago Empower Network crossed the 100,000 mark for what they’re calling “blogging customers”.

On the surface this sounds impressive and whilst I don’t question the accuracy of the milestone (or try to take anything away from it, well done guys), what I found far more relevant and revealing was a short update published the day before.

In the update CEO David Wood broke down Empower Network’s current blogging platform affiliate to retail customer ratio.

Upon seeing the figures I’d like to say I was pleasantly surprised… but unfortunately that wasn’t the case. [Continue reading…]


Restart Your Life Review: Beta Glucan supplements

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Restart Your Life market dietary supplements and are based out of South Carolina in the US.

Launched in Mid-2011, Restart Your Life was founded by Joyce Cordell and A.J. Lanigan, who serve as CEO and the company’s “Product Manufacturer” respectively.

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Referring to MLM as something she was “exposed” to, Cordell (photo right) entered the MLM industry back in 1993.

Surprisingly, I wasn’t able to find any additional background information on Cordell, with her Restart Your Life executive bio only stating that she ‘earned the top position with a world-wide telecommunications company‘.

Somewhere along the way Cordell was diagnosed with breast cancer and as a result met A.J. Langian.

Going through this health challenge heightened her awareness of her body and the importance of the immune system.

She (Cordell) became aware of Beta Glucan through A.J. Lanigan.

As she began taking the product her knowledge and belief in it solidified and she felt strongly that launching it through the network marketing model could bring life changing benefits to the masses.

A partnership between Cordell and Laniganis how Restart Your Life came about in 2011.

Restart Your Life first popped up on my radar when I was doing research into a newly announced MLM company, “Level 9 App“. The Level 9 App website lists “Restart Your Life” as the domain registrant, indicating that the company owns it.

Rather than launch as a product however, it appears as if Level 9 App is launching as a separate company. The exact nature of the relationship between the two companies is currently not clear.

Read on for a full review of the Restart Your Life MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]



GoFunRewards Review: “Lifestyle Dollars” investing

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I’m not sure exactly when it happened but sometime in the last few weeks Go Fun Rewards has removed the “Now in prelaunch!” notice on their website, indicating that the business has officially launched.

With the Go Fun Rewards compensation plan readily available, I figured it was time for a review.

Go Fun Rewards operate in the “revenue sharing” MLM niche and provide a corporate address on their website in the US state of California.

Go Fun Rewards first popped onto my radar as yet another MLM penny auction startup back in mid 2012. Back then they were headed up by President Randy Williams however he recently left the company to sign on over at JubiRev (no review yet as they haven’t made their compensation plan public).

Not too sure what the story was as neither JubiRev, Williams or Go Fun Rewards has publicly commented on it but from what I gather it was due to ongoing disagreements between Williams, some top affiliates in Go Fun Rewards and eAdGear’s Chinese based management.

Although only referred to as a “100 million dollar plus debt free company” on the Go Fun Rewards website, eAdGear pretty much supply the backend for Go Fun Rewards operations and own the company.

eAdGear used to run the eAdBid penny auction (now defunct), which is where Go Fun Rewards root in penny auctions originates.

As for who’s running things now, the Go Fun Rewards website doesn’t divulge any information at all.

Our vision is to be a major force in advancement of the network marketing and travel industries worldwide.

GoFun Places consists of some of the best and most successful, knowledgeable and hard working executives around.

We’ve assembled a team of experts to expand and support our growth and development as a company.

Similarly, eAdGear’s website contains no specific information as to who is running things over there either.

Further research into Go Fun Rewards however reveals that affiliates are naming a “Glen Jensen” (photo right) as William’s replacement.

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Glen Jensen’s first MLM venture was “Synergy Worldwide” (MLM nutrition) in 1999. After selling Synergy 2000 Jensen (photo right) stayed on as company President for a few years but eventually resigned.

Returning to the MLM industry in late 2004 Jensen launched “Agel Enterprises” (MLM nutritional supplements). Citing a “hostile takeover“, Jensen claims he was kicked out of Agel as CEO in 2010:

A Venture Capital company took a minority share in 2005 to finance the amazing growth. In June 2007 I paid them 100% back.

However Agel continued to grow fast from $8 million per month in August to $12.5 million in September 2007, basically growing from $100 million to $150 million a year with all signs of even higher growth figures.

So I teamed back up again with the Venture Capital (VC) Company. They wanted me to slow down the growth of Agel, which in my opinion, was a very bad decision.

The problem with these Venture capitalists is that they have minimal understanding of the Network Marketing Industry and did not understand how precious momentum is.

They insisted on, and demanded control. Until that point, I was in control, but now the VC controlled 2 of 3 Board seats and my ownership units were dropped below 50%.

In late 2010 the VC insisted on closing 12 countries with $47 million in revenue. I could not accept this, so the VC decided to replace me.

We are still in a legal battle over this decision.

Offering somewhat of a different take on Jensen’s claims that he was kicked out of Agel for not wanting to slow the company’s momentum, MLM attorney Kevin Thompson writes:

On December 22, 2010, Agel filed a lawsuit against its CEO, Glen Jensen. Basically, the lawsuit alleges that Jensen violated the employment agreement by allegedly leveraging his position with Agel to build a competing company.

The lawsuit levies some serious allegations. According to Agel, they’re arguing that Glen was looking to split the company and take some key leaders to another opportunity.

Agel explicitly accused Jensen of lying to the company, conspiring against the company, abusing his authority as CEO and misusing company funds.

Mysteriously, just 3 days later Thompson observed Jensen on Facebook claiming “I am Agel – Always!!!”.

That sentiment was shortlived however, with Jensen going on to file a lawsuit in Utah against Ash Capital and Agel, demanding the company be dissolved and a receiver appointed.

Jensen accused Ash Capital (the aforementioned “venture capitalists”) of “misapplying and wasting” Agel’s assets and “improperly taking over Agel”, defaming Jensen and failing to pay him commissions owed as a distributor.

I was unable to ascertain what the final outcome was of the above two lawsuits and ongoing disputes between Jensen and Agel. Save to say that Jensen seemingly has nothing to do with Agel these days.

Meanwhile Jensen moved on in the industry and launched a “forex MLM” called “Uprize” in early 2012.

Uprize is not just a company, a program, or a product – it is a movement.

People all around the world are realizing they can no longer trust their financial future to the bankers, brokers, and the “economic elite”. It is time to join the movement and take responsibility for your financial freedom”

We’ve turned the direct marketing value proposition on its head. While most direct marketing companies inate their prices to cover their multi-tiered commission plan, Uprize has done just the opposite.

Our exclusive arrangements with key vendors allow us to offer a full institutional data feed, the Uprize Intellitrader System, and professional training at a fraction of the cost of comparable products, creating an irresistable value for our members.

Again I don’t know what happened there but today Uprize doesn’t exist.

Now in 2013, Jensen’s appears to be making yet another return to the MLM industry as President 0f Go Fun Rewards. Read on for a full review of the Go Fun Rewards MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]


MyRightAd Review: “AdCentral” based Ponzi scheme

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No information is provided on the MyRightAd website indicating who owns or runs the business.

In the MyRightAd “Privacy Policy”, the company refers to itself as ‘MyRightAd, H.K, a Hong Kong corporation‘.

A search over at Hong Kong’s “Integrated Companies Registry Information” however indicates that no such company exists:

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The MyRightAd website is hosted on what appears to be a public hosting server, along with a number of additional websites seemingly owned by different people. All of the hosted websites target an Indian audience so one would assume this is where the owner(s) of MyRightAd are actually based.

Finally, the MyRightAd website domain (“myrightad.net”) was registered on the 28th of June 2012 but the domain registration information is set to private.

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. [Continue reading…]


Pure Leverage Review: GVO tries 100% commissions

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Pure Leverage is the latest division of Global Virtual Opportunities (GVO) and founder Joel Therien.

Launched in 2009, GVO have launched a number of MLM business opportunities that typically revolve around internet marketing training.

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Two of the prior GVO business opportunities that have been reviewed on BehindMLM include HostThenProfit (recruitment driven web hosting) and 7 Minute Workout (retail focused fitness program).

What I’ve observed with GVO opportunities is every so often Therien (photo right) launches a new opportunity, which a loyal team of GVO distributors set about marketing.

Sometimes these opportunities bring new ideas to the table (such as 7 Minute Workout), but from what I’ve seen they’re usually just a rehash of GVO’s internet training and marketing properties, attached to different MLM compensation plans and business models.

Today we take a look at GVO and Therien’s latest offering, Pure Leverage. Read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]



Herbalife to track wholesale customers in April

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As good an admission as any that there are some serious problems with Herbalife’s current compensation plan and business model, the company announced today that it ‘will more clearly identify the wholesale customers among its 3.2 million distributors from April’.

The big questions?

Will Herbalife actually cut off these wholesale customers from the income opportunity (making them true customers) and will said wholesale customers stick around after being cutoff from earning anything? [Continue reading…]


Gerry Nehra fails basic TelexFree due diligence?

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Last Saturday night I received an out-of-the-blue email from attorney and well-known MLM figure Gerry Nehra.

Somewhat cryptic in nature, Nehra’s email simply stated:

I wish to talk to and email with a person or persons controlling this web site about a recent posting. I am an Attorney specializing in the direct selling industry.

Gerald Nehra

Sending off what I thought would have been obvious given the above email was sent via BehindMLM’s “contact” form, I replied:

I’d be that person, fire away.

-Oz

I didn’t hear anything back on Sunday but yesterday morning Nehra replied, giving me a clearer picture of what it was he wanted to discuss.

A reply that left me scratching my head and wondering just how much due diligence MLM lawyers actually put into the clients they choose to represent. [Continue reading…]


Empower Network to sue YouTube video flaggers?

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In what was a completely random discovery during my daily MLM industry news and research trawl, a few days ago I stumbled across information indicating that Google might have begun cracking down on Empower Network videos uploaded to YouTube.

Following the banning of one Empower Network affiliate’s YouTube account, a thread on the Google product forums with the ensuing discussion strongly hinting at YouTube specifically targeting Empower Network.

Over the last few days I’ve been looking into the matter more and after further research, turns out this one Empower Network affiliate getting banned from YouTube was just the tip of the iceberg. [Continue reading…]