UpCapital Review: Boris CEO MLM crypto Ponzi

UpCapital fails to provide ownership or executive information on its websites.

UpCapital operates from two known website domains:

  1. upcapital.tech – privately registered on April 9th, 2025
  2. upcapital.ai – registered in August 2024, private registration last updated on April 2nd, 2025

Further research reveals offsite UpCapital marketing material citing “Oscar Buhler” as UpCapital’s CEO:

Buhler doesn’t exist outside of UpCapital’s own marketing, making him a primary Boris CEO candidate.

Starting around three months ago, marketing videos featuring Jaime Morales were uploaded to the YouTube channel “Juan Smart”:

On June 20th a video was uploaded featuring UpCapital’s Oscar Buhler.

Buhler, or the actor playing Buhler, speaks in Spanish. This ties into SimilarWeb tracking 100% of UpCapital’s website traffic from Chile as of August 2025.

While Boris CEO schemes are typically run by eastern European scammers, it’s likely whoever is running UpCapital has ties to Chile and/or other Spanish speaking countries across Central and South America.

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…]


Coinplex Ponzi promoters arrested in Poland

Nine promoters of the Coinplex Ponzi scheme have been arrested in Poland. [Continue reading…]


HW Mall Review: Stolen identity “click a button” Ponzi

HW Mall fails to provide ownership or executive information on any of its websites.

HW Mall operates from four known website domains:

  • smartminingusdt.mom – privately registered on July 16th, 2025
  • hw-mall.com – privately registered on July 17th, 2025
  • hw-mall.vip – privately registered on July 17th, 2025
  • hwusdt.com – privately registered on July 17th, 2025

HW Mall has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued a HW Mall pyramid fraud warning on September 9th, 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…]


OmniWinAI Review: AI grift MLM crypto pyramid scheme

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

OmniWinAI’s website domain (“omniwinai.com”), was privately registered on May 24th, 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…]



Omnisphere Review: Staking model MLM crypto Ponzi

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

Omnisphere’s website domain (“omnisphere.org”), was privately registered on December 3rd, 2024.

Over on FaceBook we find Omnisphere’s official group is managed from the Philippines:

This strongly suggests whoever is running Omnisphere has ties to the Philippines.

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…]


E-Estate Review: Boris CEO MLM crypto Ponzi

E-Estate fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

E-Estate’s website domain (“e-estate.co”), was privately registered on September 9th, 2024.

While E-Estate does provide a list of corporate executives, none of them are real people:

Instead E-Estate’s co-founders, Brandon Stephenson and Mike Hamilton, appear to be robo-dubbed actors or AI-generated avatars.

For Brandon Stephenson, if we compare a September 6th E-Estate marketing video with one from April 9th, we find completely different AI-generated voices used.

I suspect this video evidence will disappear shortly after this review is published. I’ll leave an inline update here when that happens.

We can also observe the obvious use of AI in E-Estate marketing videos featuring serial promoters of MLM Ponzi schemes:

It’s also somewhat telling that E-Estate’s co-founders only feature in solo marketing videos. Surely by now they’d have made an appearance on these promoter videos?

To aid with deceiving consumers, E-Estate has created fictional digital footprints for its co-founders.

Brandon Stephenson only began posting on his FaceBook account on January 28th, 2024 – a few months after E-Estate’s website domain was created.

E-Estate represents “Brandon Stephenson” is founder of the Association of Real Digital Realtors.

The Association of Real Digital Realtors is set up on the website domain (“association-rdr.com”). The domain was first registered in 2020 but it’s private registration was only recently updated on March 31st, 2025.

Through the Wayback Machine we can see the Association of Real Digital Realtors’ domain was dormant until the current website was uploaded in or around February 2025.

The Association of Digital Realtor’s website PDFs (“terms and conditions” etc.), were created in December 2024.

This suggests the domain was acquired by the scammers running E-Estate sometime after E-Estate’s own website domain was registered a few months prior.

Despite only existing as a website for a few months, on its website the Association of Real Digital Realtor’s falsely represents it was created in 2020.

“Mike Hamilton” appears to be a US resident residing in Florida. Marketing videos shot by Hamilton on a cell phone are filmed with a horizontal reverse filter at the mouth of the Miami river:

Note the Aston Martin Residences are still under construction in the Google Maps section of the image above (circa 2020).

As an additional aside, you can clearly see the Mike Hamilton actor’s eyes reading a script in each video he features in.

Like Stephenson, E-Estate created/purchased a FaceBook profile for Mike Hamilton in December 2024.

We can see the two posts before this date, have been retrospectively added (probably in December 2024), as denoted by the clock symbol on both posts:

E-Estate represents Hamilton is owner of “Eli Property Company, Inc.”. A website has been set up for Eli Property Company on the domain “eliproperty.com”.

The domain was first registered in 1998 but its private registration was last updated on September 6th, 2024. This is three days prior to E-Estate’s own domain being registered.

Again through the Wayback Machine, we can see the Eli Property domain was for sale until purchase in late 2024.

In February 2025 The WayBack Machine captured what appears to be a hosting error:

As above, E-Estate’s scammers appear to have mistakenly uploaded the Association of Real Digital Realtor website content to the Eli Property domain.

The current Eli Property website domain went live sometime between late February and April 4th, 2025.

The Eli Property website PDFs were created on the same date as the Association of Digital Realtor website PDFs, suggesting it was a batch job.

Despite again only existing for a few months as a website, the E-State scammers falsely represent Eli Property “started” in 1970. Eli Property’s first website was purportedly “launched” in 1993. This is patently false.

While the actor playing “Mike Hamilton” appears to be a Florida resident, Boris CEO schemes are typically run by eastern European scammers (Russia, Ukraine and/or Belarus).

This could tie in to the use of an AI robodub to mask the accent of the Brandon Stephenson actor. It would also explain why Stephenson and Hamilton don’t make a joint appearance in the same room in any of E-Estate’s marketing videos.

One final red flag with E-Estate is the representation it is based out of Panama.

While it’s unlikely E-Estate has any actual ties to Panama, it should still be noted the country is a scam-friendly jurisdiction with lax regulation.

We’ll go over E-Estate’s regulatory compliance failings in the conclusion of this review.

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…]


55 NeoLife & QNet trafficking victims deported from Ghana

Another fifty-five victims of MLM human trafficking have been deported from Ghana. [Continue reading…]



Nexxano Review: AI grift Roxxtter Club pyramid reboot

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

Nexxano operates from three known website domains:

  1. nexxano.com – privately registered on June 20th, 2025
  2. nexxano.app – privately registered on an unknown date
  3. nexx.site (root domain disabled, used for promoter referral URLs) – privately registered on June 13th, 2025

On Nexxano’s .APP website, we find an “imprint” page. This brings up Nexxano L.L.C.-FZ, a purported Dubai registered company:

“Imprint” website pages are a legal requirement in German-speaking countries. This suggests whoever is running Nexxano has ties to a German-speaking county.

One name we can attach to Nexxano is Martin Stein.

As above, Nexxano marketing material presents Stein as a “TUV Rheinland certified AI consultant”. He’s also the CEO of Proxxolut GmbH, a German company purportedly based out of Cologne.

The Nexxano marketing slide above specifically credits Stein with “management and coordination of [Nexxano’s] internal AI expert team”.

In this management role Stein is claimed to be

responsible for the development of [Nexxano’s] AI software, AI agents and technical implementation.

Nexxano popped up on BehindMLM’s radar courtesy of preliminary research by reader Melanie.

Nexxano marketing material cited by Melanie back in mid July, suggests Roxxtter Club promoter details had been transferred over to Nexxano.

those of you, who have registered with NEXXANO already correctly – via the ROXXTTER Club backoffice – should by now have received their voucher code for their FREE FAST START PACK in the value of $295,00 – congratulations!

All you have to do now is follow the instructions you have received by email from ROXXTTER.

Roxxtter Club was a murky MLM pyramid scheme feeder launched in early 2024.

In March 2024 Melanie tied Martin Stein’s company Proxxolut GmbH to Roxxtter Club.

Based on all of this, it’s not unreasonable to suggest Martin Stein was probably behind Roxxtter Club, and is most likely behind Nexxano.

Company names with a “double X” seems to be Stein’s thing.

As for Nexxano hiding behind a Dubai shell company; Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

  1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
  2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Nexxano, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]


BuildGiver Review: “Private activity” illegal gifting scheme

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

Instead, visitors to BuildGiver’s website are presented with low-effort AI-generated slop:

A marketing video featured on BuildGiver’s website is an unlisted video hosted on a YouTube channel named “BuildGiver”. If we look at the channel description, we find a FaceBook group link:

The linked FaceBook group is named “Focus Invite Codes”. The group is private with one admin; “Roem BuildGiver”.

On the Roem BuildGiver profile we find more BuildGiver marketing:

The profile has been renamed at least three times and has been used to promote scams for over a decade.

If we look at the photo history of the profile we find its owner:

On Roem Emverda’s correctly named FaceBook profile we find more BuildGiver marketing:

Instead of being honest and owning up to owning and running BuildGiver, Emverda appears to be publishing “creator” updates using the initials “M.R.”:

Scams Emverda promoted prior to launching BuildGiver include Focus (failed crypto social network), Empower Life (pyramid scheme) and OnPassive (securities fraud):

The SEC sued OnPassive and founder Ashraf Mufareh for fraud in 2023. Mufareh settled with the SEC for $32 million in August 2025.

As per his FaceBook profile, Emverda is based out of California in the US. It’s assumed this is where Build Giver is also being operated from.

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Infinite X Review: Quantitative trading “click a button” Ponzi

Infinite X fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Infinite X marketing materials cite “Ethan Cate” as the company’s CEO.

“Ethan Cate” of course doesn’t exist. The scammers running Infinite X have stolen a profile photo of Roland Kickinger, an Austrian actor and bodybuilder.

I’m noting here that the scammers behind Infinite X have gone so far as to create AI-generated marketing videos featuring Kickinger as “Ethan Cate”.

Kickinger has nothing to do with Infinite X. His identity has been misappropriated.

Despite the obvious fraud above, Infinite X feigns legal compliance by presenting a FinCEN MSB license as proof of legitimacy.

The certificates are for “Infinite X Foundation LTD”, represented to be a Colorado registered company.

Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence these certificates are meaningless.

FinCEN isn’t a financial regulator. MSB registration of a shell company with FinCEN is equally meaningless.

If we look at the source-code of Infinite-X’s website, we find Chinese:

As opposed to the US, this suggests whoever is behind Infinite X has ties to China.

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