Elevana operates in the vaping MLM niche. The company operates from two known website domains:

1. myelevana.com – privately registered on March 27th, 2025
2. info4elevana.com – privately registered on June 30th, 2025

The only executive Elevana discloses on its websites is Global Director “Felix Anthony”:

Felix Anthony is an alias of serial fraudster Philip Piccolo (right).

Piccolo, who now stylizes himself as a Pastor, also goes by Felix Angelo Piccolo, Felix Phillip Angelo, Felice DeAngelo, Johnny d’Angelo, Johnny Dangelo, Phillip Angelo P., Joseph Stevens, Don Johnson, John Nocton.

In one Elevana webinar, Piccolo messed up by showing his WhatsApp account. In one of the chats someone addressed “Felix” as “Phil” (click to enlarge):

Piccolo has likely also used other aliases not listed above.

Piccolo’s latest grift appears to be “Kingdom Community”, a religious community targeting Filipinos. Through Kingdom Community, Piccolo has promoted multiple scams.

The most recent of these scams is MemeGames, a fraudulent MLM crypto investment scheme run by serial offender Eric J. Dalius.

In Kingdom Community marketing videos, Anthony represents himself to be Meme Games’ number one promoter:

For some reason there are also numerous references to dodgy crypto schemes in Elevana’s “myelevana” website source-code:

These are assumed to be past scams Piccolo has either run or promoted.

Piccolo is primarily known to BehindMLM for his involvement in the Vista Network Ponzi scheme. Piccolo was also a promoter of the notorious Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme.

As part of the Vista Network civil lawsuit fallout, Piccolo filed for bankruptcy in late 2022.

Piccolo is known to reside in Florida but at time of publication this couldn’t be confirmed.

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Anubi Webkey fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Anubi Webkey’s website domain (“webkey.vip”), was privately registered on July 12th, 2024.

Anubi Webkey’s official marketing documentation is named in Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running Anubi Webkey has ties to China.

Supporting this are staged Anubi Webkey marketing events, featuring song and dance productions typical of Asian scams:

Rather than front Anubi Webkey themselves, “Yaniv Porslekov” is presented as CSO:

Porslekov’s only digital profile are Twitter and LinkedIn profiles, both created in August 2024 (around the time Anubi Webkey launched).

Porslekov is obviously played by an actor. Typically we’d classify him as a Boris CEO but he’s not presented as running the company.

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…]

R1Life fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

R1Life’s website domain (“r1life.com”), was privately registered on March 21st, 2025.

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…]

BehindMLM first reviewed Essens back in 2017. Following a reader request back in May, today we’re revisiting Essens for an updated review. [Continue reading…]

Bit Klever Token, aka BKT, fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

Bit Klever Token represents it is headed up by CEO “Alan Clarke”.

Clarke doesn’t exist outside of Bit Klever Token’s own marketing (also note none of the above social media links work).

In official Bit Klever Token marketing videos, which appear to be shot on a cell phone, Clarke is portrayed by a man with an eastern European accent.

All of this combined, “Alan Clarke” is a strong Boris CEO candidate.

Boris CEO schemes are where an actor is hired to front a scam. They are typically run by eastern European scammers (Russia, Ukraine and/or Belarus).

Update 22nd July 2025 – A reader in the comments below has provided us information confirming “Alan Clarke” is a Boris CEO.

Clarke is played by Vladimir Dolgosheya, a Russian national in his twenties:

In addition to Bit Klever Token, Dolgosheya fronted Ultra Arb as “Thomas Wilson”:

Ultra Arb is a collapsed MLM crypto Ponzi scheme launched earlier this year. /end update

Bit Klever Token’s website domain (“bitklever.com”), was privately registered on November 11th, 2024.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Bit Klever Token provides a company registration certificate for “Bit Klever Limited”. Bit Klever Limited was registered in the UK on November 22nd, 2024.

An MLM company operating or claiming to operate out of the UK is a red flag.

UK incorporation is dirt cheap and effectively unregulated. On top of that the FCA, the UK’s top financial regulator, do not actively regulate MLM related securities fraud.

As a result the UK is a favored jurisdiction for scammers looking to incorporate, operate and promote fraudulent companies.

For the purpose of MLM due-diligence, incorporation in the UK or registration with the FCA is meaningless.

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

DigitalBot’s website domain (“digitalbot.app”), was privately registered on an unknown date.

Further research reveals offsite marketing citing Antonio Salas as DigitalBot’s founder.

Salas, a Brazilian national, is behind the recently collapsed Optimus VIP Ponzi scheme.

Optimus VIP collapsed in March 2025. BehindMLM covered the collapse on March 25th and noted a DigitalCredit reboot.

DigitalCredit appears to have already collapsed. DigitalCredit’s website domain now redirects to “migrationoptdc.com”, which funnels victims into DigitalBot.

Salas is believed to run his MLM crypto Ponzi schemes from Brazil.

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…]

On June 25th Plaintiff Ogale Erandal Ray (aka Randy Ray), filed a “show cause” motion seeking an order holding defendant Kevin Giguere in contempt.

Ray alleges Giguere has engaged in witness tampering, including but not limited to a murder threat. [Continue reading…]

TGI AG, aka Trust Gold International, operates in the gold investment MLM niche.

The company provides a corporate address in Lichtenstein on its website, however TGI AG doesn’t appear to have any actual ties to Lichtenstein.

Heading up TGI AG we have founder Helmut Kaltenegger.

Other names attached to TGI AG are Michael Ewy (Managing Director) and Katarina Kaltenegger (majority shareholder and Helmut’s wife).

Helmut Kaltenegger appears to be an Austrian national, and it is from Austria that TGI AG is actually run from.

We can further confirm this by examining TGI AG’s official FaceBook page:

TGI AG operates from three known website domains:

1. tgi.gold – privately registered on February 24, 2024
2. tgi.li – first registered on October 29th, 2020, private registration last updated on an unknown date
3. tgi-academy.gold – privately registered on March 13th, 2024

From these registration dates we can surmise TGI AG launched in early 2024.

Prior to TGI AG, Helmut Kaltenegger was running GGMT.

GGMT launched as GGMTrading in 2018 and appears to have collapsed around February 2024. This means TGI AG was launched shortly after GGMT collapsed.

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iGenius promoters in Poland have been hit with civil fraud charges.

Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) filed the charges on April 22nd, coinciding with an iGenius securities fraud warning in March. [Continue reading…]

iGenius has received a caution from New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA).

As per the FMA’s July 4th iGenius caution; [Continue reading…]