Use fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Use’s website domain (“usegz.com”), was privately registered on June 14th, 2023.

If we look at Use’s website source-code we find Chinese:

This strongly suggests whoever is behind Use has ties to China.

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MyDaina stylizes itself as “MydA.Ina”. That’s awkwardly stupid though so we’ll run with MyDaina instead.

MyDaina fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

MyDaina does provide three fictional executives, none of whom exist outside of MyDaina’s own marketing.

MyDaina’s CEO, “Joaquin Canal”, appears to be BitBCN shitcoin CTO Juan Manuel Lanuza Belmonte:

“Rawad Nassar”, MyDaina’s VP of Sales, is definitely UK national Thaher Miah:

Miah is a Regional Director/Manager at Coinstore, a crypto exchange headquartered in Singapore.

I wasn’t able to confirm Juan Belmonte but Thaher Miah has committed to playing a fictional MyDaina executive:

Of the four videos on MyDaina’s YouTube channel, two are English presentations featuring Miah. The other two videos are a Korean presentation and marketing event held in Vietnam.

MyDaina doesn’t specify where it is operating from on its website.

MyDaina’s website domain (“mydaina.com”), was privately registered on July 22nd, 2023.

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A September 21st sentencing guideline has recommended Michael Glaspie be sentenced to 46 to 57 months in prison (3.8 to 4.7 years).

Joint restitution of $54.6 million has also been tabled. [Continue reading…]

The thrice collapsed Gigamax Ponzi scheme is rebooting as Terramax.

Gigamax victims were migrated over between 3rd and 15th of September. Recruitment of new victims is scheduled to kick off in early October. [Continue reading…]

HappyLook fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

HappyLook’s website domain (“hglg.net”), was privately registered on March 14th, 2023.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, HappyLook provides a Colorado incorporation certificate for “HappyLook Limited”:

Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence these certificates are meaningless.

If we look at HappyLook’s website source-code we find Chinese:

This strongly suggests whoever is running HappyLook has ties to China.

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Pluritec fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

Pluritec’s marketing material cites “Miroslav Jogevic” as its founder.

Miroslav Jogevic doesn’t exist outside of Pluritec’s marketing. That’s because he’s played by a Ukrainian singer/actor.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to pin down the actor’s name. Circa 2018-2019 though he was a singer/instrumentalist for Singwell, a Ukrainian singing school.

Update 23rd September 2023 – Based on the blue text on the Singwell display above, the actor playing “Miroslav Jogevic” appears to be named Ivan Podkalyuzin. /end update

Prior to hiring the actor playing Jogevic, Pluritec’s marketing videos were hosted by robodubbed AI avatars.

Typically Boris CEO schemes are the work of Russians. It’s unclear whether the actor playing Jogevic was hired by Russians or Ukrainians.

On August 23rd Pluritec uploaded a staged event video that, as far as I can tell, was held in London.

Surprisingly, the actor playing Jogevic wasn’t there. The hired cast appears to be a mix of eastern Europeans and Londoners.

Pluritec’s website domain (“pluritec.co”), was privately registered on June 18th, 2023.

Update 14th November 2023 – After collapsing on their .CO domain, Pluritec has rebooted on “pluritec.ltd”.

Pluritec’s .LTD domain was privately registered on November 10th, 2023. /end update

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Pluritec provides a shell company certificate for “Pluritec Limited”, purportedly incorporated in the UK on June 23rd, 2023.

Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence these certificates are meaningless.

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Halo Charge fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Halo Charge’s website domain (“halocharge.life”), was registered with bogus information on September 4th, 2023.

If we look at Halo Charge’s website source-code we find Chinese:

This strongly suggests whoever is running Halo Charge has ties to China.

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L7Dex fails to provide ownership or executive information on either of its websites.

In fact, at least as far as I can tell, L7Dex’s websites are nothing more than a gateway to the company’s app.

L7Dex operates from two known website domains:

1. l7dex.com – privately registered on May 25th, 2023
2. l7dex.finance – privately registered on June 30th, 2023

On YouTube L7Dex marketing videos are hosted by someone going by “Nick”:

Nick (assumed to be an alias) speaks Chinese. This suggests Chinese admins are behind L7Dex (possibly Singapore).

As to who is being targeted, SimilarWeb currently tracks top sources of traffic to L7Dex’s websites as Germany (33%0, Italy (13%), the Netherlands (12%), Hungary (11%) and the UK (9%).

This tracks with someone with a German accent presenting L7Dex’s official English presentation on YouTube.

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Digital Savings (aka Digital Savings Investment and Digital Investment), fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

In fact as I write this, Digital Savings’ website is nothing more than an affiliate log in form:

Digital Savings’ website domain (“dg-t.savings.co.ke”), was registered with bogus details on August 15th, 2023.

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The Blockchain Era, aka “Jose Gordo’s latest scam”, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

The Blockchain Era’s website domain (“tbe.io”), was first registered in 2016. The private registration was last updated on August 19th.

Through the WayBack Machine we can ascertain that The Blockchain Era’s current website went live in late July 2023. It’s likely The Blockchain Era website domain was purchased either in June or July 2023 too.

Further research reveals The Blockchain Era marketing featuring LyoTrade and LyoWallet:

LyoTrade and LyoWallet are part of the thrice collapsed WeWe Global Ponzi scheme.

WeWe Global launched in 2021. The first iteration was as simple MLM crypto Ponzi built around WEWEX tokens.

When the WEWEX Ponzi collapsed, WeWeGlobal introduced LyoFI and LyoPay (presumably LyoTrade came along at some point too).

This reboot also saw Luiz Goes come out of the shadows, as CEO of the Lyo* companies.

The second iteration of WeWe Global was the same Ponzi scheme, this time built around LYO tokens. When that collapsed towards the end of 2022, a third reboot was launched through LFI token.

Following a securities fraud from New Zealand in February 2023, WeWe Global’s third Ponzi reboot collapsed in August 2023.

If you note The Blockchain Era timeline, Goes had WeWe Global’s fourth reboot ready to go as the third reboot was collapsing.

After three reboots “WeWe Global” as a company name was so toxic it was dropped in favor of The Blockchain Era.

Goes and The Blockchain Era are based out of Dubai, the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

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