When you visit the Community Commerce Group (CCG) website, it isn’t long before some guy walks out from the right side of the screen and starts on you with the hard sell:

Hello. I’m about to share with you the most important information of your lifetime.

By becoming a member and participating in our program…you can put extreme wealth in your own pocket.

Our affiliate program can build you an income from eighteen thousand to over one million dollars a year, with as little as four days effort.

Sadly enough there would be the doubters who would foolishly throw away a million dollars… but if one million dollars plus excites you, as it certainly does me, then join us today.

Given the lack of formal introduction or mention of any position with Community Commerce Group, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest this is simply a paid actor.

A quick look at the Community Commerce Group source-code reveals a script pulled from ‘yourwebsitespokesperson.com’:

And sure enough, in the ‘make model’ section of the YourWebsiteSpokesperson website, there’s our guy – “Darron S.”:

For a modest monthly fee, anyone can have Darron S. feature on their website marketing pretty much anything.

So who then is running Community Commerce Group?

Unfortunately there is no information on the Community Commerce website indicating who runs or owns the company.

The company website domain (‘ccggo.com’) was registered on the 14th March 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Community Commerce Group do provide the following corporate address on their website:

501 Darby Creek Rd. Ste. 56A, Lexington, KY 40509

But a Google search reveals multiple businesses operating out of this address, meaning it’s most likely nothing more than virtual office space.

Update September 14th, 2012 – After failing to pay their hosting bills, the following message briefly appeared on the Community Commerce Group website:

This account is on hold due to a past due payment.

Community Commerce Group LLC (Josh Walden), Please contact JWM Marketing & Web Design to remedy this issue.

Josh Walden (also known as ‘Joshua Walden’) cites himself as being ‘the president of Community Commerce Group’ on the support forums for ‘Post Affiliate Pro’ (an affiliate program backend).

Coupled with the notice from JJWM Marketing & Web Design above, it appears Josh Walden is behind Community Commerce Group.

I was unable to find any further information on his history in MLM so I’m not sure if this is his first foray into network marketing and running a company. /end update

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The “Welcome from YaGooft Owner” page on the Yagooft website displays little else than a cheesy 45 second marketing video featuring what appears to be a company theme song:

Update 3rd August 2021 – As at the time of this update the video featuring the Yagooft theme song has been marked private.

As such I’ve removed the previously accessible YouTube link. /end update

The rest of the Yagooft website contains no information indicating who runs or owns the business.

The Yagooft domain (‘yagooft.com’) was registered on the 18th February 2012, however the domain registration is set to private.

I did note that the YouTube videos that feature on the Yagooft website were uploaded to the account “wagoti wagoti”, but I was unable to find any further information on this name, or whether the name was connected to whoever is behind Yagooft.

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…]

Just days after the Zeek Rewards collapse Blaine Williams and Paul Skulitz launched Wealth Creation Alliance.

Accepting investments of $2 and guaranteeing a ROI of $3.25 per investment made with the company (an effective 162% ROI), Wealth Creation Alliance managed to rack up an alleged 20,000 investors in just three short weeks.

Somewhat abruptly, a few days ago it was announced that Wealth Creation Alliance would be changing their name to ‘World Consumer Advocates’ due to “scam reports”.

Considering Wealth Creation Alliance’s blatantly obvious Ponzi-like business model, turns out there’s somewhat of an irony to the scam reports WCA are running away from. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the My PC Business website indicating who owns or runs the business. Infact there’s not much you can do at the My PC Business website other than sign up or read some disclaimers.

The company domain (‘mypcbusiness.com’) was registered on the 20th June 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Someone called ‘Holly Bowen’ has published all the topics in the My PC Business knowledgebase, but I was unable to locate any further information on this person and/or their position within the company.

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…]

When I think stem cells I envisage dark and mysterious research labs slaving away to perfect cloning techniques so that we can grow our own body parts from existing body cells.

Ultimately the goal appears to be to develop rejuvenating cells that can be grown to replace failing organs. For more information, we turn to Wikipedia;

Stem cells are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms, that can divide (through mitosis) and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types and can self-renew to produce more stem cells.

In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing adult tissues.

Pluripotent adult stem cells are rare and generally small in number but can be found in a number of tissues including umbilical cord blood.

Bone marrow has been found to be one of the rich sources of adult stem cells which have been used in treating several conditions including Spinal cord injury, Liver Cirrhosis, Chronic Limb Ischemia and Endstage heart failure.

Now I’m not a doctor but, being cells of the body I’d have thought stem cells would replenish themselves within the usual nutritional avenues made available to the rest of the body’s cells.

Turns out that whilst that might be true, there’s one company who believes there’s still room for improvement. Enter Stemtech International with their patented brand of ‘one-of-a-kind stem cell nutrition products’.

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Lifestyles International was founded in 1989 and operates as an MLM company within the health niche.

Lifestyles was founded by Chairman and CEO David DeBora. Having started Lifesyles well before the internet age as we know it today, details of DeBora’s history prior to Lifestyles come from the company itself:

David has enjoyed successful careers in real estate and construction, working long hours to build family homes.

(David) was introduced to Network Marketing by a friend. Within a year after he began to work in Network Marketing, David was the company’s number one Distributor in Canada.

David soon realized the extraordinary power of Network Marketing, and his focus turned to building a Network Marketing company of his own.

In 1989, David founded Lifestyles International.

Not strictly business but money related nonetheless, it seems Debora (photo right, looking slightly creepy) holds the distinguished record for having been ordered to pay out ‘the largest legal awards in Canadian divorce history‘.

Mr. Debora, who failed to fully disclose his assets to former wife Miriam Graham, was ordered to pay her $2.55 million to cover her legal and forensic accounting expenses.

Together with the matrimonial property award, the amount is close to $12 million.

(Debora) failed to make financial disclosure, which persisted to the end of the trial. He was deliberately untruthful both on discovery and at trial,” Judge Backhouse noted.

12 million? Ouch! One would hope Debora doesn’t run Lifestyles in the same way he ran his 9 year long divorce proceedings.

Aside from divorce proceedings, Lifestyles International (under ‘Lifestyles Canada’) themselves as a company were convicted in 2001 for ‘failure to disclose important information to the participants in their recruitment efforts in 1999-2000‘.

This conviction resulted in Lifestyles being

fined $95,000 after pleading guilty, in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, to four criminal charges under the Competition Act‘s multi-level marketing plan provisions.

From what I can gather, the conviction (scroll down to the middle of the page for court documents) primarily revolves around Lifestyles and its members making “unfair and unreasonable” representations of the company’s compensation plan and a Lifestyle member’s income potential.

Legal dramas aside, after initially selling high-fibre cookies and based out of Canada, over the next twenty two years Lifestyles expanded their product range and available markets, primarily into Asia, and slowly evolved and developed into the company as it’s known today.

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

There is no information on the Wealth Creation Alliance website indicating who runs or owns the company.

The company domain (‘wcarev.com’) was registered on the 19th August, 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

The server Wealth Creation Alliance is hosted on appears to be private and is also home to a number of other MLM business opportunities.

• Mega 2×2 – a recruitment driven 2×2 matrix opportunity, launched February 2010
• Prosperity 3×2 – a recruitment driven 3×2 matrix opportunity, launched May 2010
• Mega Money Maker 3 – a $60 signup and $20 a month recruitment driven scheme paying out commissions with membership fees, launched in mid 2010 (now defunct)
• Leverage 2 Prosperity – $10 recruitment driven 2×2 matrix opportunity, launched February 2011
• Straight Line Autobuilder – $30 recruitment driven opportunity, launched July 2011
• Super 2×2 – $10 a month recruitment driven opportunity , launched December 2011
• Leverage 2 Prosperity 2 – $50 recruitment driven 2×2 matrix opportunity, launched December 2011

Out of the above companies, Mega 2×2, Prosperity 3×2 ownership is credited to Rob Nunes and Paul Skulitz. Leverage to Prosperity, Straight Line Autobuilder and Super 2×2 ownership is solely credited to Skulitz.

Given the above, there’s a strong indication that Paul Skulitz is running and owns Wealth Creation Alliance. Whether Rob Nunes is involved is unclear but given past partnerships between Nunes and Skulitz, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was also involved in some way.

Update 8th September, 2012 – In a comment left on this article, Skulitz has confirmed his ownership of Wealth Creation Alliance along with three unnamed “very good partners” (further information has been requested).

Skulitz also confirmed that Nunes ‘is not part of this (WCA) and will not be part of it‘. /end update

One other Skulitz-owned MLM opportunity, previously reviewed on BehindMLM, is Biz Power Extreme, a $29.95-$39.95 recruitment driven opporunity launched in Jaunuary 2012.

Why Skulitz does not disclose ownership of Wealth Creation Alliance on the company website is a mystery.

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There is no information on the Asian Affiliation website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The domain ‘asianaffiliation.com’ was registered on the 7th July 2012 however the domain registration information is set to private.

Despite the company website domain having only been registered two months ago, Asian Affiliation claim to have been founded in 2006:

Founded in 2006, Asian Affiliation is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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 Cloud 2×2 website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Cloud 2×2 company domain (‘cloud2x2.com’) was registered on the 7th June, 2012 with the domain registration information set to private.

In Cloud 2×2 training videos however, Todd Hirsch is named as a co-owner and co-creator of the company. No other co-owners or co-creators are named.

Todd Hirsch was a member of the recently stopped $600 million Ponzi scheme Zeek Rewards and is also a self-described “top earner” member of Bidify. Hirsch currently claims to be the “#4 top earning” affiliate in Bidify.

Bidify, a penny auction (Bidsson) attached to an MLM business opportunity had a similar Ponzi points compensation plan to Zeek, which was immediately changed following SEC action against Zeek Rewards.

Hirsch (photo right) recently claimed in a video that he was involved in promoting Zeek Rewards and recruiting new investors knowing full well it was a Ponzi scheme.

Hirsch also recently claimed on Troy Dooly’s MLMHelpdesk that he is a member of the suspected Ponzi investment scheme, ‘Banners Broker’.

Describing himself as a “program jumper” on his blog, Hirsch claims he’s

in about seven different programs at this time and (that he’s) joined and been apart of maybe over 50+ programs since (he) started in online marketing in early 2010.

In non-official company marketing material, I came across Cloud 2×2 members mentioning ‘Mike Lavoie’ as being the other co-founder and owner of the company.

Back in 2010 Lavoie previously launched “Revolutionary Matrix”, a now defunct 2×2 matrix recruitment dependent MLM opportunity.

In 2011 Lavoie launched a similar and also now defunct matrix opportunity called “Social Power Network” (the Social Power Network domain now redirects to something called “ricishares”).

Averaging the launch of one matrix based opportunity a year, Cloud 2×2 appears to be Lavoie’s 2012 MLM matrix company attempt.

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When BidXcel first popped up on my radar not much information was out about the upcoming penny auction opportunity.

From information available at the time though, it seemed as BidXcel was going to be a continuation/relaunch of the failed outdoor niche orientated ‘Win The Hunt’ penny auction, but this time with an attached MLM compensation plan.

That was a few weeks ago now and since then Win The Hunt has been completely shut down and BidXcel compensation plan details have been released. Read on for a full review of the BidXcel MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]