Corey Price’s Smart Desktop AI pyramid scheme has collapsed.

Earlier this month Smart Desktop AI’s website was replaced with the following admin message: [Continue reading…]

SquareOne co-founder Travis Bradley Martin has been arrested on child sex charges.

Martin was arrested on January 8th, 2025 by the Lehi PD in Utah. [Continue reading…]

The FTC is seeking public comment on proposed changes to the Business Opportunity Rule, as well as a newly proposed Earnings Claim Rule.

While deceptive income claims are already illegal as per the FTC Act, the FTC states the proposed changes

would allow the FTC to seek strong relief – including money back for consumers and civil penalties – from covered companies making deceptive claims.

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AI Cambridge fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI Cambridge’s website domain (“cambridgeai.xyz”), was privately registered on December 16th, 2024.

AI Cambridge’s official marketing features Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running AI Cambridge has 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…]

Avlitex operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche. On its website, Avlitex represents it is based out of Canada.

The provided corporate address however belongs to Regus, a virtual office retailer. This means it is unlikely Avlitex has any actual ties to Canada.

Supporting this is Avlitex providing a registration certificate for Avlitex Limited, a shell company purportedly registered in Ontario.

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.

Avlitex is supposedly headed up by CEO Raymond Norbury:

Norbury doesn’t exist outside of Avlitex’s website, making him a prime Boris CEO candidate.

Further confirming this is the actor playing Norbury appearing in a marketing video on Avlitex’s official YouTube channel.

In the video, shot at a rented office, the actor playing Norbury features an eastern European accent.

This tracks with the majority of Boris CEO schemes being run by eastern European scammers (Russians and Ukrainians).

Other executives are listed on Avlitex’s website. These executives appear to be represented by AI-generated photos. Notably, none of them appear in Avlitex’s marketing videos.

Avlitex’s website domain (“avlitex.com”), was first registered in 2011. The private registration was last updated on September 21st, 2024.

Although it has only existed for a few months, on its website Avlitex falsely claims its “story began in 2020”.

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 clown show surrounding Leonardo Cositorto’s Generation Zoe trial in Argentina continues.

The latest is Cositorto announcing plans to marry a fellow prisoner. [Continue reading…]

On January 3rd BehindMLM reached out to AlixPartners seeking an update on the continuously delayed victim claim portal.

Hi,

This is the second email I’m sending as the first went unanswered back in September.

Can you provide an update to victims of GSB as to why the victim claim portal is being continually delayed? Thanks.

-Oz

On January 13th we received a response, citing “additional time to work with regulators and GSB” as the reason behind delays. [Continue reading…]

Lindt Mall fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Lindt Mall’s website domain (“fa.arabianmall.vip”), was

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…]

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

IconX’s website domain (“iconx.tech”), was privately registered on March 9th, 2024.

The only names disclosed on IconX’s website are Danyal Islam, Rado Mulej and Hind el Hadaj, purportedly members of a “community trustees council”.

Further research reveals Islam, Mulej and Hadaj are promoters who are part of IconX’s marketing.

Salman Butt is another name we can add to the list.

As to who’s actually running IconX, further research reveals ties to Dubai’s Al-Maktoum ruling family (click to enlarge):

• Saeed bin Hasher Al-Maktoum – IconX’s Chairman
• Solaiman Al-Rifai – IconX Board Member
• Ram Alsridi – IconX Managing Director and Board Member
• Ali Abuzinjal – IconX Community Director

Al-Maktoum, Al-Rifai and Abuzinjal are Dubai-based MLM crypto fraudsters. All three were previously involved in Safir International’s Zeniq Coin Ponzi scheme.

Safir International went on to collapse in 2023.

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

AI Quantify fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI Quantify operates from two known website domains; trx6.vip and trx5.cc. Both of AI Quantify’s domains were privately registered on December 30th, 2024.

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…]