Nordea Partners has misappropriated the corporate identity of Nordea.

Nordea is a multi-billion European bank headquartered in Finland. Nordea Partners has nothing to do with Nordea but misappropriates the company’s name, Finnish headquarters and executives.

There are some cracks in Nordea Partners’ facade on its website. One obvious mistake is the use of a UK company certificate to represent Nordea’s Finnish company registration.

Whereas Nordea operates from “nordea.com”, Nordea Partners operates from “nd-limited.com”.

Nordea has been around since 1820. Nordea Partners’ website domain was only recently registered on September 27th, 2023.

If we look at the source-code of Nordea Partners’ website, we find references to “hyipcustomize.com”.

HYIP Customize sells Ponzi scripts to scammers for $299 to $599. Who runs HYIP Customize is unclear.

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…]

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

SmartSteps’ website domain (“smartstep.live”), was privately registered on January 9th, 2023.

SimilarWeb tracked ~11,500 monthly visits to SmartSteps’ website as of November 2023. Three sources of traffic were identified; Canada (93%), the US (4%) and the UAE (2%).

If we look at the source-code of SmartSteps’ “powered by GitBook” whitepaper, we can see it was set up in Chinese:

While I can’t say for sure, SmartSteps appears to be anonymous Chinese admins in Dubai targeting Canada and the US.

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…]

Following a January 3rd article from the Guardian trying to uncover Hyperverse CEO Steven Reece Lewis, I couldn’t help but revisit the collapsed Ponzi scheme.

There wasn’t much to go on. I tracked Lewis to Thailand’s nightlife but couldn’t find anything definitive to publish.

Someone else who read the Guardian’s article is “Nobody Special” of the “Nobody Special Finance” YouTube channel.

On January 5th, Nobody Special Finance published a video titled “BUSTED: Fake HyperVerse CEO Who Stole $1.3 Billion Unmasked!“.

In the video, “Steven Reece Lewis” is outed as Thailand resident Steve Harrison. [Continue reading…]

ShareTheWinnings operates in the gaming MLM niche.

Heading up the company is Jeremy Duncan, who cites himself as ShareTheWinnings’ owner.

Duncan’s FaceBook profile locates him in the US state of Indiana.

Prior to My Traffic Powerline, Duncan (right) was promoting Got Backup? and Against All Odds.

As far as his own launches go, we have M80 Advertising in early 2023 and The Rocket Recruiter circa April/May 2023.

Both M80 Advertising and The Rocket Recruiter are MLM pyramid schemes bundled with advertising and digital products.

M80 Advertising and The Rocket Recruiter collapsed shortly after launch. This prompted Duncan to launch My Traffic Powerline in August 2023.

Website traffic tracking from SimilarWeb reveals My Traffic Powerline collapsed in Q4, 2023.

In September 2023 there were ~860,000 monthly visits to My Traffic Powerline’s website. By November 2023 this plummeted to ~166,000.

As My Traffic Powerline was collapsing, Duncan registered ShareTheWinnings’ website domain on September 29th, 2023.

This marks the fourth MLM launch of Duncan’s since he popped up on BehindMLM’s radar last year.

Read on for a full review of ShareTheWinnings’ MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

BehindMLM initially reviewed Exitus Elite back in 2016. It was a reboot of Exitus Network, a gifting scheme run by Paul Stevenson.

Exitus Elite collapsed in 2017, prompting Stevenson to launch Exitus 500.

Exitus 500 didn’t last long, prompting another rebrand to Exitus Elite 2018. Not really sure what happened after that but at some point Stevenson rebranded back to Exitus 500.

Today Exitus 500 doesn’t exist. It seems Stevenson (right) at some point again reverted back further to Exitus Elite.

Assuming the current iteration of Exitus Elite hasn’t collapsed since Exitus 500 was abandoned, this would be Stevenson’s fifth reboot.

Following renewed marketing efforts, a BehindMLM reader recently reached out to request an updated Exitus Elite review.

Today we revisit Exitus Elite for an updated review. [Continue reading…]

A reader recently wrote in about Shane Morand promoting “PureCafe” on YouTube.

They figured it was some new coffee MLM and asked me to look into it. [Continue reading…]

DQF, aka Defi Quantify or DQF Quantization, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

DQF’s website domain (“defiquantify.com”), was privately registered on December 12th, 2023.

It should be noted that DQF has disabled web access on its primary domain. DQF’s website has to be accessed on a “h5” subdomain.

This is a common implementation of “click a button” app Ponzis run by Chinese scammers.

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…]

Warren Finance fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

In a corresponding GitBook, Warren Finance claims the “masterminds” behind the scheme are individuals who go by “Moonshot Max”, “Math” and “Nomad”.

Only Telegram user accounts are provided as points of contacts for these individuals. This is an immediate red flag.

Moonshot Max has a YouTube channel and, at least based on his accent, appears to be a US national.

MoonShot Max uses his YouTube channel to promote various fraudulent crypto investment schemes. Notable is Drip Network, which has collapsed and been rebooted numerous times.

Warren Finance’s website domain (“warren.finance”), was privately registered on November 10th, 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…]

Federal Stock Bond fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Federal Stock Bond’s website domain (“federalstockbondinc.com”), was privately registered on January 14th, 2023.

If we look at the source-code of Federal Stock Bond’s website, we find it is a mirror of “crosstrade-uk.com” and “federalstockbond.com”.

This is typical of scammers using a template across multiple cloned websites.

Despite only existing for a year at best, on its website Federal Stock Bond falsely claims it has been around since 2018.

We are actively in business for 4 years. Though our inception was in 2018.

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…]

Roxxtter Club fails to disclose ownership or executive information on its website.

In fact as I write this, Roxxtter Club’s website is nothing more than a “coming soon” placeholder.

This can be bypassed by going to subdomain “app.roxxtter.com”, which allows affiliates to sign in. In other words, Roxxtter Club has indeed launched.

Roxxtter Club’s website domain (“roxxtter.com”), was registered in December 2022. The private registration was last updated on December 5th, 2023.

Although she doesn’t appear to be running Roxxtter Club, one name we can associate with the company is Vera Peters.

Peters’ company BusinessArt is working “in cooperation with” Roxxtter Club through their Business Academy offering.

Business Academy is a typical education platform offered by MLM companies.

On her BusinessArt website, we learn Vera Peters is a “management consultant and business coach”.

With over 25 years of management experience, most notably at Deutsche Lufthansa AG, she is a real power woman in the business world.

Peters is based out of Germany. Although Roxxtter Club’s domain registration is private, the registration country is also set to Germany.

From this it’s highly likely that whoever is running Roxxtter Club has ties to Germany.

As of November 2023, SimilarWeb tracked top sources of Roxxtter Club website traffic as Belgium (60%), the UK (25%) and South Africa (15%).

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…]