GreatLife Worldwide hides ownership and upper executive information from consumers.

I say “hide” because while GreatLife Worldwide provides executive information on its website, it caps out at COO David Knappert.

Further research reveals GreatLife Worldwide marketing citing Greg Gunderson as founder of the company.

Funnily enough Gunderson is presented on GreatLife Worldwide’s website, but only as a “network marketing consultant”.

Why Gunderson is hiding ownership of GreatLife Worldwide is unclear.

In any event, Greg Gunderson is known to BehindMLM as founder and CEO of American Dream Nutrition.

BehindMLM last reviewed American Dream Nutrition in 2018. Across our first (2012) and second American Dream Nutrition reviews, autoship recruitment remained an unresolved compliance issue.

At time of publication American Dream Nutrition’s website is still up. For December 2023 however, SimilarWeb tracked just ~23,000 monthly visits.

A visit to American Dream Nutrition’s website reveals GreatLife Worldwide is a reboot.

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

BehindMLM first reviewed Manifest FX back in March 2022. We raised securities fraud concerns, owing to marketing of an unregistered forex trading bot scheme.

Co-founder and CEO Jimmy Bennett’s ties to Dubai was also a due-diligence red flag.

Shortly after our review was published, co-founder Josh Felts bailed and Manifest FX shortened its name to Manifest.

This appeared to be a cosmetic rebranding so BehindMLM didn’t publish an updated review.

Around mid 2023 we noted a trend where Bennett would put one of his underlings in charge of a shell company.

Said company would be promoted as a standalone entity, but underneath pointed back to Manifest.

BehindMLM documented two examples of this, Simply Success and The Latest Wave.

Simply Success collapsed. The Latest Wave’s website is still up but, over the past three months, SimilarWeb has tracked negligible website traffic.

Just shy of two years since our original Manifest FX review, a reader wrote in requesting an update.

Today we’re revisiting Manifest to see what Jimmy Bennett is up to in 2024. [Continue reading…]

Serial Ponzi scammer Sam Lee’s response to his criminal indictment is that victims “lied to regulators”.

Lee’s assertion was made on a recent webinar, amid reports Lee is gearing up to launch a new Ponzi. [Continue reading…]

A NovaTech FX investor has filed a RICO class-action in the Southern District of New York. [Continue reading…]

GSPartners has received a fraud warning from New Zealand.

As per the Financial Markets Authority’s February 7th warning, the regulator [Continue reading…]

Athene Network fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Athene Network’s website domain (“athene.network”), was privately registered on July 5th, 2023. Athene Network launched five months later in December.

Despite only existing for a few months, on its website Athene Network falsely backdates its roadmap to 2021.

As of December 2023, SimilarWeb tracked top sources of traffic to Athene Network’s website as Indonesia (18%), the US (15%), Benin (14%), India (14%) and Canada (7%).

Over on Athene Network’s official YouTube channel, we have AI avatar robodubbed marketing videos.

MLM companies using AI avatars is typical of low-effort scams.

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…]

OmegaPro.IN has received a securities fraud warning from Spain.

As per the Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores’ February 5th warning, OmegaPro.IN [Continue reading…]

Paid Per Letter fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Paid Per Letter operates from at least three known website domains:

1. paidperletter.com – privately registered on December 13th, 2023
2. paidperletters.com – privately registered on December 14th, 2023
3. getpaidperletter.com – privately registered on December 27th, 2023

Further research reveals Dustin Mansell citing himself as Paid Per Letter’s CEO.

Dustin Mansell is a Nevada resident and serial promoter of fraudulent MLM opportunities.

Mansell first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar in late 2022, as owner of Matrix Empire.

Matrix Empire was a pyramid scheme that fed into other pyramid schemes Mansell was promoting at the time.

We came across Mansell again in early 2023, this time as owner of Text ALN. Text ALN is another collapsed MLM pyramid scheme.

Instead of fronting Paid Per Letter and disclosing his involvement, Mansell hides behind AI robodubbed marketing videos.

Paid Per Letter’s website also contains testimonials from fictitious people represented by AI-generated profile photos.

Someone else to note in the marketing video screenshot above is “inventor Lisa Kryml”.

On FaceBook Kryml cites herself as a California resident and owner and CEO of Paid Per Letter.

Not sure how both Kryml and Mansell can be Paid Per Letter CEOs but sure.

As far as I can tell Kryml doesn’t have a verifiable MLM history. She seems to be behind Paid Per Letter’s bundled course.

Finally if we look in Paid Per Letter’s website source-code, we find a reference to Web Marketing Tool.

On its website Web Marketing Tool sells membership websites for $275 and then $25 a month.

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…]

TranzactCard DBOs who were duped into paying $495 are being denied refunds.

As part of TranzactCard rebooting as FinMore, DBOs were told they’d be entitled to refunds. This claim has been publicly parroted by promoters of the scheme.

While TranzactCard DBO refunds are available in some instances, unfortunately there’s a major catch. [Continue reading…]

PartyLite has announced it is “transitioning” away from its MLM model.

In its place PartyLite will sell directly to consumers, cutting their MLM distributors off from downline commissions. [Continue reading…]