Plus5 Club fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Plus5 Club’s website domain (“plus5.co.za”), was privately registered on June 21st, 2023.

Despite seeming to have ties to South Africa, for February 2024 SimilarWeb tracked ~319 monthly visits to Plus5 Club’s website. 100% of that traffic is reported to have originated from Japan.

In any event, up until very recently Plus5 Club represented it was based out of South Africa.

The above is from a recently deleted “Privacy Policy” page on Plus5 Club’s website.

Further research reveals official marketing citing Patrick Moon as Plus5 Club’s CEO.

On LinkedIn Moon (full name: Patrick Michael Moon), cites his location as Durban, South Africa.

Corporate records reveal Moon in fact registered Plus5 Club as a company in South Africa in July 2023. Why this is now being covered up is unclear.

Along with Daniel Jack McBride and two other admins, Moon was also behind Power8Biz.

Power8Biz seems to have launched circa 2021. It appears to be a fraudulent investment scheme that pitched investors on daily passive returns:

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…]

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has issued an official warning against two Validus promoters.

The NZCC operates as New Zealand’s FTC equivalent.

In addition to the Financial Markets Authority’s investigation, which led to Validus being banned nation-wide last July, the NZCC opened up its own Validus investigation in late 2022.

As reported by NBR on March 14th, the NZCC concluded its investigation into Validus last December. At the time the NZCC’s findings were not made public. [Continue reading…]

A few days after BehindMLM reported on Billionico being a suspected secret GSPartners backdoor, a paid press-release popped up on a random website.

Supposedly authored by “T. Chandler”, the headline for The Fort Worth Press article reads:

BEHINDMLM BLACKMAIL WITH ANONYMOUS SLANDER ON THE INTERNET

What follows is typical of unsubstantiated nonsense scammers upset with BehindMLM’s reporting come up with.

In the ever-growing digital world, police, prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies face the challenge of keeping up with the increase in defamation and slander on the internet, especially when it is committed by mafia structures and criminal organizations like the creators of behindmlm.com.

These harmful actions can destroy the lives of individuals and undermine trust in online communication and divide society.

Facing this threat, law enforcement agencies around the world have stepped up their efforts to combat defamation and slander, as well as extortion through “behindmlm” on the internet.

Within 24 hours syndicated paid press-releases were claiming GSB Gold Standard Corporation had filed a lawsuit against BehindMLM.

These articles and press-releases all point back to The Fort Worth Press article.

So what’s going on here? [Continue reading…]

EmpiresX, currently under Receivership as Empires Consulting, has settled commodities fraud charges with the CFTC.

The proposed settlement against Empirex details a permanent injunction and $32.1 million civil monetary penalty. [Continue reading…]

GSPartners has disabled its website.

Attempts to visit GSPartners’ previously accessible website at “gspartners.global” now returns a “domain parked” message: [Continue reading…]

Following his arrest on March 13th, CBI Global owner Coenie Botha contacted attorney Afrika Jantjies to represent him.

When Botha and Jantjies presented at court, Jantjies was promptly arrested as a CBI Global accomplice. [Continue reading…]

The Texas State Securities Board has confirmed GSB Gold Standard Corporation is still banned across the state.

On March 13th TSSB Enforcement Director Joe Rotunda posted the following to Twitter; [Continue reading…]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief in support of BehindMLM.

The brief is part of ongoing litigation initiated by GSB Gold Standard Corporation. [Continue reading…]

Coenie Botha has been charged by the Bank of Namibia (BoN).

New Era were first to note Botha’s appearance “Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on a charge of fraud” yesterday.

As per a subsequent press-release issued by the Bank of Namibia earlier today; [Continue reading…]

Aiscend’s first red flag is failure to disclose ownership or executive information on its website.

Aiscend’s website domain (“aiscend.io”), was privately registered on July 25th, 2023.

In researching Aiscend I kept coming across references to B-Epic. This saw me return to Aiscend’s website, where I found mention of B-Epic in its Terms and Conditions: [Continue reading…]