Launched in 2008, Healthy Coffee USA operates out of California in the US. As the name suggests, Healthy Coffee USA market what they call ‘healthy coffee’ that comes in a variety of blends which ‘are blended in Malaysia with quality ingredients from different parts of the world‘.

Currently in their fourth year of operation, Healthy Coffee USA (also known as Healthy Coffee International) state that their primary goal is ‘to attain 5 Million Independent Distributors within 10 years‘.

Whilst I’m always weary of membership-orientated goals (a far better goal to be would be to achieve a dollar sales figure), if the company itself has a solid compensation plan and product that people actually want to buy, five million members globally isn’t entirely impossible.

So how does Healthy Coffee USA stack up? Read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

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

The domain ‘proshare.info’ however was registered on the 14th September 2011 with the registration information listing ‘Richard Harrold’ as the owner.

Harrold (photo right) appears to operate out of New York in the US and has recently run into some financial difficulties:

There are currently six (6) of us living in our home. Myself & My Fiancé and our 4 children.

The problem we are having is that our house is in FORECLOSURE. I have held the bank off for over 2 years but we are running out of time.

I have to admit that this is totally my fault.

I was a Pharmaceutical Representative for almost 9 years and was earning around $100,000 per year and made one of the dumbest mistakes in my life… I DRANK ALCOHOL and DROVE.

I lost a great job and cannot get it back. I, also, lost my driver’s license. I just got my license back 4/5/2011. It took 3 + years.

I had to cash out my entire 401k to help my family survive. But that has been fully depleted for over a year. And now I owe the IRS over $9,000.

The bills have been piling up for a while now and as stated the house is in foreclosure and at risk of being auctioned and ripped away from my family.

I am currently in debt well over $200,000. To pay off my mortgage completely I need $113,000+. I am currently over $45,000 behind on my mortgage payments and they will not accept any payments unless I pay off the entire past due amount or more.

Additionally, Harrold also appears to be involved in cash gifting scams:

This is bar none the best Gifting Program that I have personally encountered.

You receive Gifts after just getting One Person below you (whether it is from you or your upline)!

One would assume Harrold’s serious financial position is behind the launch of ProShare. [Continue reading…]

Roughly three weeks ago now Zeek Rewards members in Serbia, Slovenia, Belarus, Egypt, Croatia and Macedonia woke up to find their Zeek Rewards account deactivated.

No explanation was given for almost a week, whereupon Zeek Rewards support staff started to mention “sanctions” were in effect for members in the six named countries above:

We do not have total knowledge of what happened. What I do know is that it is something with your countries government policies (not the Serbian people itself), that has required us to not list your country anymore.

Obviously a woefully inadequate response when members’ accounts had been terminated, the mention of “government policies” as the reason for the bans raised some concerns.

Of particular interest was the inclusion of Slovenia, who are a member of the European Union. Business wise, the EU operates as a central body for all member states so with the banning of Slovenia, one would assume that if it was indeed for political reasons, that all European Union member states would be banned.

This however was clearly not the case. [Continue reading…]

Initially launching on the premise of giving free stuff offers away and charging a monthly membership fee, That Free Thing quickly learnt that once you ran out of new members to recruit, people start to leave in droves.

As such, four months after launching That Free Thing lost 25% of their members… which I suppose in hindsight wasn’t really all that surprising when you consider that the company launched worldwide, despite failing to provide any free offers in the majority of countries it was operating in.

With members in these countries only paying the monthly membership fee for the privilege of recruiting others and earning commissions… sooner or later that was going to fall apart – and it did.

Seeking alternative revenue sources, That Free Thing then launched a vendor network in October 2011. The vendor network doesn’t appear to have turned into the cash cow That Free Thing hoped it would, with the company recently announcing it is branching out into blogs and getting their members to write for them.

Unfortunately whereas the vendor network was a departure from the membership driven commissions That Free Thing initially offered, the Blog Network appears to be a return to the recruitment based commission structure roots the company launched with.

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

There is no information on the Daily Profit Always website indicating who owns or runs the company.

The domain ‘dailyprofitalways.com’ was registered on the 30th March 2012 however 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…]

There is no information on the World Rewards Network website about who owns or runs the company.

The domain ‘worldrewardsnetwork.com’ was registered on the 3rd 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…]

International Silver Network (otherwise known as ISN Coins) are the network marketing division of ‘ISN Modern Coins’.

ISN Modern Coins claim to be ‘one of the largest modern coin dealers in the United States headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana‘.

ISN Coins launched in mid 2010 and is headed up by founder and CEO Matt Barkes (photo right).

Prior to 2010 there isn’t all that much of a history on Barkes but he seems to have been involved with the now defunct website ‘silver-lining-group.com’ and was publishing ads on the internet advertising Silver Lining Group as a business opportunity:

In 2008 Barkes listed himself was the company President of ‘Silverline Market Corporation’, which also now appears to be defunct. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Infinity Degrees website indicating who runs or owns the company.

The domain ‘infinitydegrees.com’ was registered on the 27th February 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…]

The Adsactly website doesn’t mention who is running or owns the company, but it does give the following address under the company’s logo on website:

18912 West Hickory Street, Mundelein, Illinois 60060.

The domain ‘adsactly.com’ was registered on the 4th August 2011 using the same address,

Registrant:
WMT Hosting
WMT Hosting (custsrvc@wmthosting.com)
18912 W Hickory St
Mundelein
IL,60060
US
Tel. +0.2244401720

only it lists another company as being at the same address, WMT Hosting.

The address ‘18912 West Hickory Street, Mundelein, Illinois 60060’ appears to be a residential address:

This is a Single-Family Home located at 18912 West Hickory Street, Mundelein IL.

18912 W Hickory St has 1 bath and approximately 1,248 square feet. The property was built in 1930.

But it’s unclear whether this is where WMT Hosting operate out of.

WMT Hosting now appear to be a stock standard web hosting company but back in 2010 they offered an affiliate program that utilised a matrix compensation structure, paying out commissions primarily upon the recruitment of new members ($21 monthly membership fee and commissions paid each month for having members in the matrix).

Again there is no information on the WMT Hosting website as to who actually owns or operates the business.

The WMT Hosting Facebook page however identifies the owners of Adsactly as Randy Howard (click to enlarge).

Cathy Howard appears to be Randy’s wife and both are listed as the CEO of Adsactly and WMT Hosting.

Apart from WMT Hosting’s matrix opportunity from 2010, this appears to be the Howards only other MLM venture. With WMT Hosting being recruitment based opportunity, I’m assuming the lack of new recruits is what prompted the launch of Adsactly. [Continue reading…]

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

The domain ‘strayex.com’ was registered on the 27th March 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…]