The ‘Contact Us’ section of the Daily Pay website names the owner of Daily Pay as Christopher Young, trading as Ad Pay Daily LLC operating out of Kansas in the US.

Ad Pay Daily was launched in 2010 and appears to be an ad rotator + recruitment scheme.

Members had to recruit advertisers to spend money advertising on Ad Pay Daily, and in turn members had to visit 20 websites a day (via the advertising) to earn commissions.

These commission were paid out at a percentage of a member’s accumulated ad points (members obtained ad points by attracting advertisers).

This sounds all well and legit, until you take into consideration that Ad Pay Daily members themselves could purchase advertising. In effect, members would invest in the company by “purchasing” advertising to increase their ad points. The larger the amount of ad points a member had, the larger their share of the daily profits.

Where were the daily profits coming from? Said investments of Ad Pay Daily members.

The Ad Pay Daily scheme looks to be mostly dead in the water (as all Ponzi schemes eventually wind up) and it’s failure is presumably what has prompted the launch of Daily Pay.

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

According to Wikipedia,

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work.

Throw in some “Christian principles and values”, weight-loss, heart pills and juice… and you’ve pretty much got the gist of new home-based business upstart American Dream Nutrition.

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

There is no information about who runs or owns the Mint.bz opportunity on the company website.

The domain ‘mint.bz’ was registered on the 1st of March 2011, however the domain registration is set to private.

A custom CSS temple hosted on the Mint.bz domain however reveals the following text:

background-image: url(“http://www.detroitventures.com/interface/images/custom_bar.png”);

Mint.bz is pulling an image from the domain ‘detroitventures.com’, indicating the two domains are owned by the same person.

Detroit Ventures appears to be some kind of investment website set up to attract investors to… well I’m not entirely sure what but presumably invest in something. The source code for the domain indicates that it’s running some sort of Tumblr –> standalone website conversion script (Tumblr is a microblog platform).

The HTML subdirectory structure of both websites is also identical.

Whereas Mint.bz’s domain registration is private however, the domain registration for detroitinvestors.com is public and names a registrant:

Domain Name: DETROITVENTURES.COM

A Chen valuecreation@hotmail.com
1 Embarcadero Ctr
SkyDeck
San Francisco
CA
94111
US

Whoever this A Chen person is, by owning Detroit Ventures they also appear to be behind Mint.bz and operates out of California in the US.

Despite the Mint.bz domain being registered for nearly a year, this appears to be the first incarnation of Mint.bz as a MLM income opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Daily Wealth Ads website about who runs or owns the company.

The domain dailywealthads.com was registered on the 7th 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…]

It’s no secret that women make up an overwhelming majority of online retail purchasing power on the internet.

Aiming to carve their share of retail sales and advertising sales in the diet, health and beauty across the women ages 29-49 demographic, comes Minerva Rewards.

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

If you visit the Royal E-Kutir company website, you’re presented with a poorly designed flash-loaded site that doesn’t really explain all that much about the company.

Let alone any MLM business opportunity attached to it.

Probably better known as ‘Get Job Desk’, Royal Job Desk claim to be the ‘member referral program’ of Royal Ekutir Technology with the company functioning as an independent MLM business.

Read on for a full review of the Royal JobDesk income opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Two of the big buzzwords currently being tossed around the MLM industry are ‘compaliance‘ and ‘being compliant’. Or in other words, attempting to ensure that a company is legal and won’t be shut down for being a thinly veiled Ponzi or pyramid scheme.

Typically compliance issues are related to US-based MLM businesses (or offshore businesses who plan to do the bulk of their business in the US. The latter of course being all the more alarming because in the absence of management or a company presence, it’s the members themselves who are held responsible should regulators decide to investigate a company and take action.

In theory, compliance is a good thing. I mean, there’s no such thing as being too compliant right? Why not do everything you can to ensure your business model is compliant and as legal as possible?

This part of compliance of course I have no issues with. The problem however is that of late there’s been a few high-profile instances of companies launching obviously dubious business models, attracting large amounts of membership and only then deciding to give a crap about compliance.

Today we’re going to explore this topic in more detail. Why are MLM companies adopting this approach, what typically happens when a company decided to make compliance a priority and what it means for their members. [Continue reading…]

The name ‘Your Ad Pays’ implies that if you have an advertisement with Your Ad Pays, that it is this advertisement that pays you.

Unfortunately though when you get into the nuts and bolts of it, Your Ad Pays just winds up being a simple advertising + recruitment matrix combination.

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

A few days ago I reviewed a new MLM investment opportunity called 12 Daily Profit. The basic idea was that you invest in the scheme and the company pays you out a 12% daily ROI on your investment.

In my review of 12 Daily Profit I uncovered that the company had been launched previously in 2009 and that its current incarnation appeared to be a relaunch with a slightly modified compensation plan.

Just days later after 12 Daily Profit was launched another scheme bearing a strikingly similar name and compensation plan has also been launched.

Read on for a full review of the 12 Daily Income MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Given that the Solomon James writ 383 case lodged in the Supreme Court is a civil case revolving around the recovery of money from Speak Asia, I myself have maintained that there is little chance it will have any bearing on the criminal investigations into the company.

I wrote the above a few days ago and it pretty much illustrates my thoughts on the Solomon James writ 383 case currently being heard in the Supreme Court.

Ask a Speak Asia panelist (one of the few left who still believe they’re going to get paid thousands of dollars for recruiting people) about the criminal investigations into Speak Asia and your most likely to be told that the Supreme Court will decide everything, criminal or otherwise pertaining to Speak Asia.

Furthermore many believe that it is on the basis of the Solomon James writ 383 case that Speak Asia’s business operations will restart – despite as yet unresolved criminal investigations launched by various agencies (most visibly the EOW and CID).

After publicly failing to clarify the status of their investigation themselves since the Solomon James writ 383 case was launched last year, today finally the EOW have made public how the 383 writ affects their investigations.

The short answer?

It doesn’t. [Continue reading…]