DP Quant AI fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

DP Quant AI’s website domain (“dpquantplatform.com”), was privately registered on April 30th, 2025.

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Cirrus Networks fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Cirrus Network’s website domain (“cirrusnetworks.io”), was privately registered on July 18th, 2024.

In Cirrus Networks’ compensation documentation, we find reference to “Gnodi”;

The Cirrus Networks Cloud-9 Compensation Plan is crafted to recognize and reward the efforts of our Affiliates and Associates in empowering individuals to embrace the Gnodi Decentralized Ecosystem.

Further research reveals Juuva pitching itself as “a marketing arm of the Gnodi Blockchain”:

Juuva is a dietary supplement MLM company run by co-founders Grant Pace and Frankie Kiow.

In BehindMLM’s 2020 Juuva review, we found kooky products combined with a recruitment focused compensation plan.

Juuva’s Grant Pace is at the center of Juuva’s Gnodi marketing:

Juuva’s Gnodi marketing website is hosted on the domain “juuvagnodi.com”, privately registered on February 14th, 2025.

On Juuva’s Gnodi marketing website we find a video titled, “Interview – Founding Visionary of the Gnodi Blockchain”.

In the video Craig R. Pickering is presented as Gnodi’s founder:

This tracks with Pickering filing a US trademark application for Gnodi in October 2024:

With this information I was able to confirm Pickering is also the CEO of Cirrus Networks:

Pickering is best known in the MLM industry for defrauding consumers through iMall in the 1990s.

Pickering and business partner Mark R. Comer settled iMall fraud allegations brought by the FTC in April 1999.

Internet commerce site iMall and two former principals have agreed to pay $4 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false earnings claims for Internet-based businesses they promoted and that they violated the Franchise Rule.

Craig R. Pickering and Mark R. Comer, two past presidents of iMall, also would be barred for life from selling any Internet or pay-per-call business opportunity; barred for 10 years from selling franchises; required to post a $500,000 bond before selling certain types of business opportunities; and barred from violating the Franchise Rule.

iMall will pay $750,000 and Pickering and Comer will pay a total of $3.25 million in consumer redress.

iMall would be permanently barred from violations of the Franchise Rule and from misrepresenting material facts about any business opportunity it promotes.

The iMall Opportunity Program offered investors the opportunity to become “consultants” and make money selling webpages on the iMall site.

The Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) program offered investors the opportunity to make money selling advertising space on the IYP website contained within the iMall site.

Typically, the seminar presentations claimed that for a $2,995 fee and as little as five to 10 hours investment a week, iMall consultants could make between $2,000 and $20,000 a month.

Potential IYP investors were told that for a $2,000 investment and a five to 10 hour commitment a month, they could earn between $2,000 and $5,000.

According to the FTC, the earnings claims were false and misleading in violation of federal laws.

“A deceptive claim is a deceptive claim, whether it’s on the Internet or in your local newspaper,” said Jodie Bernstein, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

“This case sends two important messages: Marketers, back up your earnings claims. It’s the law. Consumers, don’t buy a pig in a poke. Check out business opportunities to make sure they’re everything they claim to be.”

We learn more about Pickering in a 2021 KwikClick SEC filing;

Craig Pickering is an affiliate of the Company through indirect ownership of 16,668,035 shares of our common stock which constitutes 14.38% of our outstanding stock.

For at least the past 20 years, Mr. Pickering is a self-employed angel investor and business consultant.

For several years between 2012 and 2018, Mr. Pickering served as the Company’s CEO.

Mr. Pickering served on the Company’s board of directors until June 10, 2020 when he resigned from the board in connection with the Company’s acquisition of KwikClick, LLC. Mr. Pickering was closely involved with the acquisition of KwikClick, LLC.

Mr. Pickering was closely involved in the founding of Ariix International in 2011.

Ariix was a dietary supplement company that was sold to NewAge Beverages in 2020.

NewAge filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September 2022. KwikClick was at the center of sabotage and extortion allegations by NewAge’s then Chief Restructuring Officer.

Pickering wasn’t a named defendant in legal proceedings initiated against NewAge executives in 2023.

In addition to Pickering, other Cirrus Networks executives include Bob Steed (CMO), Craig Smith (COO), Dewey Mackay (CFO), Cat Bonhar (Advisory Board, Compliance) and David Hunt (Advisory Board, Legal).

In 2019 a BehindMLM reader tied Craig Pickering to Ormeus Global founder John Barksdale.

I wasn’t able to verify a direct connection between Pickering, Barksdale and Ormeus Global, so I wasn’t going to mention it.

Bob Steed, Cirrus Networks’ CMO, however was Ormeus Global’s Chief Mining Consultant:

Ormeus Global was a $124 million plus MLM crypto Ponzi built around Ormeus Coin (ORME).

Barksdale was indicted on Ormeus Global fraud charges in March 2022. The SEC filed civil Ormeus Global fraud charges against Barksdale the same month.

As of May 2025, Barksdale remains a wanted fugitive hiding out in Dubai.

Prior to US authorities going after Barksdale, Bob Steed’s name came up in a report to Thai police in 2019. The report led to Barksdale’s detainment and subsequent fleeing to Dubai.

This is from the description of a Cirrus Networks marketing video;

Mr. Pickering, Bob Steed and a few partners put together one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the world.

We know Steed was heavily involved in the marketing side of Ormeus Global. How deep Pickering was involved has not been publicly disclosed.

If a BehindMLM reader brought up Pickering’s Ormeus Global involvement in 2019 however, it appears the information is out there.

Other than Dewey Mackay being tied to Ariix, I didn’t find anything of particular interest with the rest of Cirrus Networks’ executives.

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AI Invest Robot fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI Invest Robot operates from two known website domains; ai-eth.com and ai-ar.vip. Both of AI Invest Robot’s domains were privately registered on March 31st, 2025.

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Fast Start Profits fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Fast Start Profits’ website domain (“faststartprofits.com”), was privately registered on August 13th, 2024.

Further research reveals official Fast Start Profits marketing videos featuring Jeremy Duncan:

It should be noted Duncan appears to be trying to hide his ownership of Fast Start Profits. Marketing videos on Fast Start Profits’ website redirect to a YouTube channel bearing the name “Ken Wasiewicz (owners)”.

Ken Wasiewicz’s Fast Start Profits account is “ezbuilder33”:

Wasiewicz’s social media reveals he’s based out of Birmingham, Alabama:

Jeremy Duncan is a serial fraudster. To date BehindMLM has documented five of Duncan’s pyramid schemes:

1. M80 Advertising (early 2023)
2. The Rocket Recruiter (April/May 2023)
3. My Traffic Powerline (August 2023)
4. ShareTheWinnings (January 2024)
5. Split The Winnings (December 2024)

Chronologically, Fast Start Profits appears to have been launched between ShareTheWinnings and Split The Winnings.

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…]

OneCoin scammers Mark Scott and Karl Sebastian Greenwood have had their judgment appeals denied.

Both Mark’s and Greenwood’s United States Court of Appeals mandates were filed on May 14th. [Continue reading…]

Wanted fugitive Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov’s Holiverse Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Roughly a fortnight ago, Okhotnikov and accomplice Sofi Zotova, a Ukrainian model studying at Tbilisi State Medical University, announced a Meta Whale reboot.

Unfortunately for investors dating back to Forsage wondering where their money went, Meta Whale is more of the same nonsense. [Continue reading…]

The EminiFX Receivership has returned $76.8 million to Eddie Alexandre’s victims.

In a filed April 30th Status Report, the Receiver informed the court the EminiFX victim claim distribution will see “approximately $100,000,000” dispersed. [Continue reading…]

Following the revelation that Brent Kovar launched another Ponzi while on release for Profit Connect fraud, a court has imposed additional restrictions.

The DOJ had pushed for Kovar’s bail to be revoked, however the court stopped short of the request. [Continue reading…]

Cory Kromray, owner and CEO of Driven Trading, has been indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges. [Continue reading…]

365 AI fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

365 AI’s website domain (“365-ia.net”), was privately registered on April 30th, 2025.

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