Former top Iyovia promoter Alex Morton has consented to a preliminary injunction.

Morton, one of nine defendants sued by the FTC and State of Nevada in May, stands accused of misappropriating over $76 million through Iyovia (formerly iMarketsLive and IM Mastery Academy). [Continue reading…]

OmegaPro’s Michael Shannon Sims and Juan Carlos Reynoso have been arrested. [Continue reading…]

Nueva, aka Nueva Life, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Nueva’s website domain (“nuevalife.com”), was first registered in 2005. The private registration was last updated on April 14th, 2025.

While Nueva’s website doesn’t disclose ownership or executives, it does state the company is a “reinvention of Social Retail”.

The business we built… the community we nurtured… the income we created — all disappeared overnight.

“Social retail” was a marketing campaign of Modere. Modere collapsed in April 2025, which coincides with Nueva’s website domain being registered the same month.

In a June 2025 video titled, “Nueva scam exposed: They don’t want you to see this Zoom meeting“, Julie Anderson comments on an official Nueva marketing webinar:

Left to right and clockwise we have; DJ Barton, Tony Zolecki and John Melton.

• DJ Barton – co-founder of Levarti
• Tony Zolecki – former Modere promoter
• John Melton – former Modere promoter

Pending Nueva disclosing ownership and/or executive details (failing to do so is an ongoing violation of the FTC Act (disclosures)), Barton, Zolecki and Melton appear to be the face of Nueva for now.

Update 9th July 2025 – A May 2025 article from BusinessForHome names Brian McMullen as Nueva’s founder.

This is supported by a May 2025 FaceBook post from Mullen, stating he “was asked to buy Modere” but “turned them down”.

A marketing brief for a 2018 Association of Network Marketing Professionals event cites McMullen as an “influential network marketing leader for 25+ years”.

Mr. McMullen has business interests all over the world, both inside and outside of network marketing, financed by the earnings he has generated over his 25-year career in the profession.

McMullen’s previous MLM ventures aren’t disclosed but we do know one of them is Vemma:

McMullen was part of Alex Morton’s “Young People Revolution” Vemma downline. From the cited video above’s description;

Brian McMullen is a YPR leader who earns over than 1 million per year today, but his life was kind of a misery before he joined YPR.

No body thought he can become as successful as he is now, but YPR movement gave him an opportunity to start over and his life really totally changed because of YPR.

The FTC filed suit against Vemma in 2015. The federal regulator alleged Vemma was a $200 million pyramid scheme.

Vemma settled the FTC’s case for $238 million in 2016. As part of the settlement, Vemma agreed to cease operating as a pyramid scheme.

After Vemma McMullen appears to have followed Morton over to Jeunesse. Truth in Advertising cites McMullen as a former Monavie promoter (Jeunesse acquired Monavie in 2015).

Social media discussion around Nueva suggests McMullen also has a long history with Modere;

Why McMullen isn’t disclosed as Nueva’s founder on its website is unclear. /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…]

The FBI is seeking information from victims of the OmegaPro Ponzi scheme. [Continue reading…]

The Texas State Securities Board’s Billionico and Auratus emergency fraud order has been dismissed. [Continue reading…]

LSSC, or Lightning Scooter Shared Company, has received a securities fraud warning from the Financial and Consumer Services Commission of New Brunswick (FCNB).

As per FCNB’s June 24th LSSC fraud warning; [Continue reading…]

LSSC, or Lightning Scooter Shared Company, has received a securities fraud warning from the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC).

As per ASC’s June 19th LSSC fraud warning; [Continue reading…]

BNP Paribas USDT fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

BNP Paribas’ website domain (“catousd.com”), was registered with bogus details on June 12th, 2025.

Of note is BNP Paribas’ website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

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…]

Finance Pro Plus originally launched circa April 2024 on the domain “financeproplus.com”.

That domain was abandoned, with Finance Pro Plus now operating from “financepropartner.com”.

“Financepropartner.com” was privately registered on January 3rd, 2025. Why Finance Pro Plus changed website domains is unclear.

Heading up Finance Pro Plus is CEO Josh Felts.

BehindMLM first came across Josh Felts in March 2022 as co-founder of Manifest FX:

Manifest FX is a collapsed fraudulent investment scheme co-run with Jimmy Bennett.

Felts is understood to have bailed out of Manifest FX around the time BehindMLM’s review was published.

A few months later, in May 2022, BehindMLM noted Felts reappearing as CEO of Pro Trade Club.

In addition to Felts, Felts’ brother Jason Felts and Fotis Papatheofanous were named Pro Trade Club executives.

Although their respective photos appear on Finance Pro Plus’ website, neither Jason Felts or Fotis Papatheofanous are not named.

At time of publication Pro Trade Club’s website is disabled. For all intents and purposes, Finance Pro Plus appears to be a rename reboot of Pro Trade Club.

Given the website change, technically Finance Pro Plus itself has already been rebooted once.

One thing that caught my eye was Finance Pro Plus claiming to be a 2024 NASCAR sponsor:

It doesn’t add any legitimacy to the company, but it does appear Finance Pro Plus sponsored car #44, run by NY Racing Team last year.

Prior to Manifest FX, Josh Felts promoted Silver Star Live and Epic Trading.

Silver Star Live’s founder was fined $15.6 million for commodities fraud in 2021. Epic Trading is a collapsed MLM pyramid scheme.

Both Finance Pro Plus and Josh Felts appear to be based out of Florida in the US.

Read on for a full review of the Finance Pro Plus MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Dubai Holding USDT fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Dubai Holding USDT’s website domain (“q.f1inwlu.cyou”), was privately registered on January 27th, 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…]