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People Getting Paid Review: $5 pyramid with upsells

Oct.04, 2025 in MLM Reviews 3 Comments

People Getting Paid fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Instead, marketing videos on People Getting Paid’s website feature an AI-generated avatar.

People Getting Paid’s website domain (“peoplegettingpaid.com”), was privately registered on July 18th, 2025.

Update 5th October 2025 – Following a reader tip off in the comments below, I was able to confirm Jeffrey Long Long is behind People Getting Paid.

Long, aka Jeff Long, first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar as the founder of AutoXTen, a recruitment scheme launched in 2011.

AutoXTen collapsed a few months after launch. Long went on to launch SMS Dailies, which also collapsed shortly after launching.

Long resurfaced in late 2015 with Get Paid Social, a Facebook spam pyramid scheme.

Get Paid Social went into decline throughout 2016, prompting Long to launch 1 Online Business in mid 2017.

1 Online Business combined a cycler Ponzi business model with social media spam. Alexa traffic estimates for the 1 Online Business show a brief hype period followed by a collapse leading into 2018.

Long launched and began promoting Luvv, a pyramid scheme, around April, 2018. Luvv is believed to have collapsed a few months after its launch.

In early 2019 Long launched NewU Financial, a shady MLM gifting scheme promising investors a 200% ROI. That lasted barely a few months before NewU Financial collapsed.

Within weeks of NewU Financial collapsing Long launched Abundance Network, another illegal gifting scheme.

A few weeks later Long’s partner merchants pulled the plug, citing pyramid scheme concerns.

This led to a pyramid scheme model reboot in August 2019 that, not surprisingly, was also short-lived.

Long’s last appearance on BehindMLM was in April 2024, as owner of Internet Income System.

Internet Income System was a $100 a month gifting pyramid scheme. I’m not sure exactly when it collapsed but today Internet Income System’s website domain is disabled. /end update

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…]

Pop Max Ponzi collapses, Nivex’s Luma Protocol reboot

Oct.03, 2025 in companies 3 Comments

The Pop Max Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Victims of the scheme are now being funneled into a “Luma Protocol” reboot. [Continue reading…]

DOJ moves to raise Carlos Reynoso’s contempt to $20K a day

Oct.03, 2025 in OmegaPro, regulation Leave a Comment

The DOJ has requested Juan Carlos Reynoso’s contempt penalty be increased to $20,000 a day. [Continue reading…]

Crowd1 victims being funneled into Tag Markets fraud

Oct.02, 2025 in Crowd1 8 Comments

Crowd1 Ponzi victims are being funneled into an unregistered trading scheme run through Tag Markets. [Continue reading…]

NovaTech FX’s Petions may be hiding in Dubai, says SEC

Oct.02, 2025 in NovaTech FX, regulation 5 Comments

Having failed to locate NovaTech FX co-founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion in Panama, the SEC now opines the Petions may have fled to Dubai.

The SEC’s latest disclosure was made in a September 29th filed declaration exhibit. The exhibit was attached to a motion seeking permission to serve the Petions via alternative service. [Continue reading…]