When Ludaxx first popped up on my radar, I hoped it would be some sort of alien spaceship fusion with network marketing. I have no idea what that actually means, but with the Ludaxx website refusing to divulge any information about the business unless I clicked an affiliate link I let my imagination run wild with all sorts of ideas.

When I bypassed Ludaxx’s silly affiliate referral system, things looked promising as a dramatic score started playing and the Ludaxx marketing video rolled tape (actual screenshot below):

There is a threat…

An epidemic is here…

Everyone is at risk…

It’s in our food…

It is in our drinks…

It is toxic to our body…

We loved it as kids…and became addicted…

But it can hurt us… and destroy our lives…

They had me hooked. Just what on Earth had these aliens done and what was Ludaxx going to have me selling to fight back with? Food and drink cleaning pills? Teleportation devices?! FREAKING LASER GUNS?!? I DON’T CARE, WHATEVER IT TAKES JUST SIGN ME UP NOW!

Moments later however I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Ludaxx had nothing to do with little green men from outerspace, much less an alien invasion.

Well, at least not unless they were invading Earth running around force-feeding everyone sugar. Read on for a full review of the Ludaxx MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Gob (noun): A lump or clot of a slimy or viscous substance.

Gobza probably isn’t the smartest choice for a MLM company name and possibly an indication as to why it’s unclear as to who owns or runs the company.

The Gobza privacy policy mentions that anyone who has questions about Gobza should write to ‘Tops Global Inc, One Riverway, Suite 1700 Houston, TX 77056’.

I wasn’t able to find any further information on Tops Global Inc., however a search of ‘One Riverway, Suite 17000 Houston, TX 77056’ reveals a number of businesses using this address, strongly indicating it’s a virtual office.

The domain ‘gobza.com’ was registered on the 19th August 2010, however the domain registration is set to private.

The server that hosts the Gobza website (50.63.46.1) appears to be a private hosting machine with a number of websites on it owned by a ‘Joanne Nicholls’, operating out of New South Wales in Australia.

Websites hosted on the same server as Gobza include:

• toptotoesalon.com (domain offline, registered in 2008 by Nicholls)
• bodaciouskids.com (website discontinued, domain registration set to private)
• toptotoespa.com (Nicholls listed as ‘Spa Director’ on website and owner of the domain)
• instantgiftvouchers.com (website contact address in NSW Australia, domain owned by Nicholls)
• salonsuccessclub.com.au (domain owned by Nicholls)

The exact relationship between Gobza, Top Global Inc. and Joanne Nicholls isn’t clear however it appears as if she is at the very least somehow involved in Gobza.

Why this isn’t mentioned or clarified on the Gobza website is a mystery. Read on for a full review of the Gobza MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Dubai Fun Club website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The domain ‘dubaifunclub.com’ was registered on the 14th October 2011 however the domain 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 Surf Daily Ads website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The domain ‘surfdailyads.com’ was registered on the 15th April 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

The hosting machine the Surf Daily Ads website runs on (IP: 208.91.132.108) appears to be a private hosting machine and has previously hosted the website ‘JesusBux’ (jesusbux.com).

JesusBux was a MLM opportunity that paid members to view ads as well as any ads viewed by members they recruited into the scheme (.03 – .08 cents per ad). The JesusBux opportunity launched in May 2011 and appears to have collapsed shortly after.

The domain jesusbux.com came up for renewal at the end of May 2012 but was not renewed by the owner.

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…]

The domain ‘profitadz.com’ was registered on the 31st May 2012 however the registration information is set to private.

The ProfitAdz website claims that

ProfitAdz is owned by Thomas Sullivan and was developed along with his business partner Robert Scott.

Thomas Sullivan has been a successful affiliate and program owner for many years online. Robert Scott is a successful online affiliate who has collaborated with Thomas Sullivan on many of his programs and marketing campaigns.

As a result of their successful collaboration they have now created Thomas Scott Enterprises.

I was unable to find any further information on either Thomas Sullivan, Robert Scott (too generic a name) or Thomas Scott Enterprises.

Typically when the owner of a MLM opportunity doesn’t want you to know who is running it they use made up generic Christian sounding names and pending any further information (such as company location or further information on Thomas Scott Enterprises), this appears to be the case with ProfitAdz.

Update 6th July, 2012 – BehindMLM reader ‘Gabe‘ found a Thomas Sullivan on Youtube promoting ProfitAdz (no referral link but the actual opportunity itself), as well as another website called ‘A Better Relationship’:

The WHOIS registration for the domain ‘abetterrelationship.net’ reveals Sullivan is operating out of Heathridge, Perth in Australia.

Previous MLM opportunities run by Sullivan include:

• Power of 3 (powerof3.org) – a matrix based pyramid scheme (recruitment based)
• Adzpays (adzpays.com) – $10 Ponzi scheme that offered a 200% ROI. Started in late 2011 and appears to have slowed down (Sullivan used the email address ‘admin@adzpays.com’ to register abetterrelationship.net with)

No doubt the pending collapse of Adzpays has prompted Sullivan to start ProfitAdz, which appears to share an extremely similar business model. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Seven Targets website indicating who runs or owns the business (also known as ‘Seven Targets International’, formerly ‘Seven Targets Limited’).

The domain ‘7tgs.com’ was registered on the 7th October 2010 however and lists a Gohn Mickal as the registrant, operating out of the state of Colorado in the US.

The listed street address, 44 Cook St. in Denver, appears to be a virtual office. This throws into question the overall credibility of the information provided.

Seven Targets describe themselves as ‘an internationally acclaimed direct selling company‘ with ‘a business model faster than thoughts and payable beyond your imagination‘.

Despite my best efforts, I was unable to find any information regarding any international acclaim Seven Targets has been credited with. Nor was I able to find any hard statistics on just how fast their business model runs in order to verify their claims that it runs “faster than thoughts”.

As for payable beyond my imagination… unless Seven Targets is a purely hypothetical business, that claim seems entirely unlikely.

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

There are so many terrible things that happen to children all over the world.

Right now a little boy is dying of hunger, a little girl just got sold by her mother and is being forced into life as a sex slave.

Right now children are being physically abused and then there’s so many children who are just left by themselves and there’s no one there to love or care for them.

I dunno why bad things happen to innocent little children but they do. But here’s what I do know, all of us can do something about it.

You see, that’s our number one purpose. This company was founded to be a true partnership between those children, the childrens charities it supports and its affiliates who make it all happen.

– Randy Jeffers, founder of BidsThatGive

No doubt we’ve all heard the emotional sales pitches of the various charities that attempt to solicit donations from us to put towards the various causes they represent.

Today we look at one MLM company who hope to use these same emotionally appealing sales pitches to get you to join and participate in their penny auction business:

Our company, BidsThatGive – where every bid helps a kid, is a “global business model” designed to help underprivileged children with every bid that is purchased or given away.

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

There is no information on the TVC Matrix website indicating who runs or owns the business.

The domain ‘tvcmatrix.com’ was registered on the 14th February 2005 and lists ‘TVC Marketing’ as the domain owner, operating out of the state of Oklahoma in the US.

The TVC Marketing domain (tvcmarketing.com) simply redirects back to the TVC Matrix and provides no further indication as to ownership and/or management of the company.

From what I’ve been able to gather, TVC Matrix started back in 2004 as a 3×8 matrix program (paying out commissions on membership) and at some point has switched over to what appears to be a unilevel compensation plan.

On one of the pages on the TVC Matrix the name ‘Virgil Coffee’ appears as a signatory and further research reveals that he is the founder and CEO of the company.

Why this information is not clearly presented on the TVC Matrix website is a mystery. [Continue reading…]

These days most of the lawsuits we hear about in the MLM industry are from former members suing a company they used to belong to, or government agencies bringing cases against a particular MLM company that was doing something they shouldn’t.

Despite the constant legal threats, death threats, legal action, insults and accusations that those of us who attempt to cover the MLM industry endure to provide the general public with reliable and up to date information, thankfully we’re for the most part left alone to get on with what we do.

Unfortunately however this isn’t always the case and today we look at one such recent example involving Norwegian Xocai members and a local blogger who dared to analyse and raise concerns about the business. [Continue reading…]

WakeUpNow was founded in 2009 by Troy Muhlestein who I believe serves as Company Director with WakeUpNow operating out of the state of Utah in the United States.

Muhlestein claims that he founded WakeUpNow following “a corporate merger” that left him “looking in from the outside”.

According to ‘Business Week’, this company was ‘Longview Fibre, a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.‘

Today Kirby Cochran serves as WakeUpNow’s CEO (since 2011), increasing his role in the company from being an investor and advisor.

Recently WakeUpNow seems to have gone through somewhat of a relaunch after announcing a partnership with That Free Thing:

The primary reason cited for the partnership on a company call back in May 2012 by That Free Thing co-founder Matt Goettsche was that “at $10 a month, there’s not a whole lot of money to be made for an average person…that makes it worth your time, money and effort building it“.

I initially suspected that offering free stuff as a business model wasn’t really viable in the long-term and with That Free Thing having attached their name to a series of opportunities over the past six months along with Goettsche’s admission above, that appears to be the case.

In October 2011 That Free Thing launched a Daily Deal coupon style site with “Vendor Network” and then in March of this year tried again with blog-hosting via “Blog Network“. Both opportunities never really seemed to take off and gain any traction.

If I had to make an educated guess, it appears that the partnership between That Free Thing and WakeUpNow is the latest in a series attempts to generate a long-term viable revenue-stream for That Free Thing’s memberbase, which allegedly numbers in the hundreds of thousands.

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