Although they were ordered unsealed last week, details of criminal charges against Alex Dee and Brian Kaplan remain under seal.

Jerry Maurer’s case has been unsealed though, and through it we gain insight into the 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle criminal case.

There’s also reference to a fourth “co-conspirator”, suggesting four 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle arrests might have been made. [Continue reading…]

What was left of the original RICO class-action over Donald Trump’s promotion of ACN has been dismissed. [Continue reading…]

Mevi AI fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information.

On its website, Mevi AI cites “Timon Dellis” as its CEO:

In official Mevi AI marketing videos however, Dellis is represented by a different man:

Dellis, the video version, is played by Fivver actor “Luis”.

I am an on-camera actor and voice over actor. I have a wide range of accents and character voices that I can perform in both Spanish and English.

In conclusion, Mevi AI CEO “Timon Dellis” doesn’t exist.

Other Mevi AI marketing videos feature low-budget shoots in people’s living rooms:

Mevi AI’s website domain (“mevi.ai”), was privately registered on September 9th, 2023.

As of December 2023, SimilarWeb tracked top sources of traffic to Mevi AI’s website as Poland (60%), India (12%), Vietnam (9%) and Bulgaria (6%).

Poland sticks out like a sore thumb here. It’s possible that whoever is actually running Mevi AI has ties to Poland.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Mevi AI provides corporate addresses in New Zealand and the UK on its website. Both of these addresses belong to co-work spaces that have nothing to do with Mevi AI.

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, not to be confused with the notorious Dubai-based OmegaPro Ponzi, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

OmegaPro.IN’s website domain (“omegapro.in”), was privately registered on May 11th, 2023.

In the footer of its website, OmegaPro.IN provides a PO Box address in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. For what should be obvious reasons, this is meaningless.

Further attempts to appear legitimate by OmegaPro.IN include:

• a Polish shell company certificate (this is backdated to 2020 and appears to be doctored)
• an insurance document provided by Renaissance Insurance (this is backdated to 2015 and is obviously doctored) and
• a UK shell company certificate for Omega-Pro LTD

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.

Furthermore, OmegaPro.IN markets itself as an MLM cryptocurrency investment scheme. The UK’s FCA outright banned MLM cryptocurrency investment schemes on October 8th, 2023.

Further to OmegaPro.IN’s regulatory problems, France’s AMF added OmegaPro.IN to its investment blacklist on December 5th, 2023.

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 Austrian Supreme Court has ruled that Lyoness’ affiliate contract and compensation plan are illegal.

The decision follows legal action taken by the Austrian Association for Consumer Information (VKI).

In Austria’s lower courts, VKI argued

47 contractual clauses that were part of Lyconet agreements and so-called Lyconet compensation plans … (lacked) transparent regulations and … clarity.

VKI’s lawsuit was decided in its favor. The Supreme Court’s ruling reaffirms earlier rulings and is final. [Continue reading…]

Some top earners at least pretend to be remorseful about the millions they stole through OneCoin.

Then there’s Kari Wahlroos, who in an upcoming documentary tells OneCoin victims to “kiss my ass”.

Wahlroos, a Finnish national who describes himself as “one of the grandmaster orchestrators” of OneCoin, is set to feature in “OneCoin – The inside man”. [Continue reading…]

The EchoOne Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

EchoOne initiated its exit-scam on Saturday, December 23rd. The ruse of choice was a “transition to litecoin”. [Continue reading…]

The LGreen Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Problems began roughly five weeks ago with withdrawals delays. These culminated in LGreen’s website being pulled offline over the weekend. [Continue reading…]

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

JUFB’s website domain (“jufb.top”), was first registered in July 2006.

The private registration was last updated on October 26th, 2023 through a Chinese registrar. Note that this is around the time the current owners took possession of the domain.

If we click through to JUFB’s official support link, we find Chinese in the source-code:

Together with the Chinese registrar, whoever is running JUFB appears to have ties to China.

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…]

Alyx Union fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Alyx Union’s website domain (“alyxunion.com”), was privately registered on October 30th, 2023.

Web access to Alyx Union’s root domain is disabled. Instead the MLM opportunity is hosted on a “dapp” subdomain.

At time of publication this is nothing more than an affiliate sign up page:

Despite only existing for a few months, Alyx Union held a staged “year end celebration event” in December.

The event was held in Chinese at the Regal Airport Hotel in Hong Kong…

…and featured a bunch of token white guys playing fictional executives.

The ringleader of the bunch is CEO “Ryan Stasser”, played by this guy:

Naturally Strasser doesn’t exist outside of Alyx Union marketing. This includes a repurposed Twitter profile, full of retweet spam backdated to 2021.

And a fake LinkedIn profile:

I wasn’t able to pin down a name but did tie whoever is playing Strasser to China.

What you’re looking at there is a promo photo on A Heart For China’s website.

A Heart For China is a Shenzen based charity run by Belgian national Ronny Verdoodt. The guy playing Ryan Strasser appears to have volunteered at A Heart for China circa 2017.

The Chinese scammers actually running Alyx Union are likely based out of Hong Kong or Singapore.

Dubai, the MLM crime capital of the world, is another possibility.

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 Alyx Union, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]