Flex operates in the AI spam MLM niche.

The company’s website names Robert Sacco and Dan Putnam as Flex’s co-founders.

In its compensation documentation, Flex identifies itself as “a B-Epic company”.

Putnam (right) owns B-Epic and attached MLM companies B-Eco and Govvi (suspected owner based on exclusivity representation).

Other MLM companies Putnam owns/owned include O2 Worldwide, LurraLife and Against All Odds.

Putnam is also a serial Ponzi scammer.

The SEC sued Putnam and Angel Rodriguez, his partner in crime, for securities fraud in 2020.

Through various scams, the SEC alleges Putnam and Rodriguez defrauded consumers out of at least $12 million.

Putnam settled the SEC’s Ponzi fraud charges back in January. Monetary penalties and ordered restitution remain pending.

Robert Sacco’s FaceBook profile cites him as a Pruvit distributor.

In 2021, Sacco fell down the crypto bro rabbithole:

CluCoin was a typical short-lived pump and dump shitcoin scam:

Sacco (right) also owns BitJar Labs, which claims it

fill(s) the voids and solve the pressing issues faced by ALL DIRECT SELLING companies.

As per Sacco’s BitJar Labs’ corporate bio;

For the past 20 years President and Founder, Robert Sacco, has seen back office development in the network marketing industry fail to answer the most pressing issues.

Robert has built large organizations in the industry and has been a Master Distributor 5 times.

He has led in corporate roles as VP of Marketing, VP of Business Development, VP of international Expansion and President of multiple International Direct Selling companies.

He has consulted numerous companies in back office development, international expansion, and IT throughout the industry and has written and collaborated on many compensation plans that are live in the industry today.

One of BitJar Labs’ projects is Selfles, launched last year.

Selfles combined a humanitarian frontend, silicone bands and an NFT grift backend.

As of August 2023, Selfles appears to have flopped.

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

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

EmpowerLife’s website domain (“empowerlife.club”), was privately registered on July 5th, 2023.

Further research reveals Empower Life’s marketing videos are hosted by a CEO going by Alex Thomas.

Alex Thomas is actually Alexis Thomas, believed to be from Cyprus.

BehindMLM came across Thomas in 2020 as CEO of TwentyXPro.

TwentyXPro was a simple MLM matrix-based Ponzi cycler.

TwentyXPro’s website is still up today. SimilarWeb tracks negligible traffic to its website however, confirming TwentyXPro has collapsed.

In addition to TwentyXPro, Thomas also runs Digital Club United.

On its website, Digital Club United pitches “passive income with crypto”.

As tracked by SimilarWeb, Digital Club United saw an uptick in website traffic for May 2023. In June 2023 however traffic collapsed again, dropping 71% month on month.

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…]

Almost two years after CashFX Group collapsed, whoever is left running the Ponzi scheme is still stringing investors along.

The latest ploy is CFX Legacy, a new website set up for CashFX Group investors to log in to.

CFX Legacy has been set up by Ron Pope and his company The Conversion Pros, suggesting Pope might be running the show. [Continue reading…]

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

GluTech’s official website domain (“glutech.io”), was privately registered on May 29th, 2023.

Over on GluTech’s official YouTube channel, we find marketing presentations hosted by “Grant … from our marketing department at GluTech.”

Grant Holmes is an American actor and voice over artist.

Online Grant markets himself as “The Webinar Guy”:

As a full-time voice over actor, I use over 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, and advancing profitability to make your work stellar.

I have significant career experience in marketing, fundraising, strategic planning, team building, business analysis, and finding appropriate solutions for my clients.

My superpower is making you and your business look and sound good.

At time of publication Holmes has hosted two GluTech marketing presentations; one on July 27th and one on July 29th.

On August 2nd, GluTech uploaded a new “business presentation” featuring a different host:

I don’t have a name but, based on what I was able to find, I believe this person works as a virtual assistance from 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…]

The CFTC has secured an Entry of Default against four iComTech Ponzi scammers.

Following their failure to respond to the CFTC’s lawsuit, Entry of Default was entered against David Brend, Moses Valdez, Marco Ruiz Ochoa and Juan Arellano Parra on July 20th. [Continue reading…]

ETFore operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

On its website, ETFore claims “Christopher Valentini is the founder of ETFore Limited”.

As far as I can tell, ETFore’s Valentini doesn’t exist.

ETFore launched in early May and operates from two known website domains:

• growetfore.company – privately registered on April 21st, 2023
• etfore.com –  privately registered on March 31st, 2023

Despite existing for only a few months, on its .COM website ETFore falsely claims it “operates business from 2016”.

Further research reveals ETFore’s official marketing presentation was created by Kenneth Lacey.

On social media, Lacey pitches himself as a “socialist influencer” from Poland.

Lacey was also a “leader” in the Model Farming Ponzi scheme.

Launched in 2021, Model Farming collapsed in mid 2022.

On August 13th 2022, Lacey pitched a reboot going by MFL Mart.

Whatever MFL Mart was, it’s long gone too.

While Lacey appears to have just been a promotional leader in Model Farming, him putting together Etfore’s marketing material suggests deeper involvement.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, ETFore provides a bogus address in New York on its website (the postcode is Canadian).

ETFore also provides shell company incorporation certificates for Hong Kong and New York:

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.

One last thing to note is ETFore might also have links to My BTC Mining:

My BTC Mining was a short-lived “staking” crypto Ponzi that collapsed in late 2022.

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…]

WishM, or Wish Mall, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

WishM operates from at least four known website domains:

• wishm.pro – privately registered on June 2nd, 2023
• wishm.cloud – privately registered on June 4th, 2023
• wishm.shop (already abandoned) – privately registered on June 2nd, 2023
• wishm.tv – privately registered on July 19th, 2023

Note this list is likely incomplete and subject to change.

If we look at the source-code for the “wishm.pro” domain, we find Chinese:

All three of WishM’s website domains were also registered through Alibaba’s Singapore division.

This strongly suggests whoever is running WishM has ties to China, and is possibly based out of Singapore.

Despite only existing for a few months, on its website and in its app WishM falsely claims it was “founded in Colorado in 2014”.

WishM is a data communications company founded in Colorado in 2014 and is the largest data promotion company in the United States.

WishM isn’t old enough to have generated any definitive website tracking data yet. Nearly all of the marketing I saw for it though was from people with African accents.

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…]

Michael Rutherford’s “Brian Underwood is a bully trying to steal my money!” lawsuit, has come to an unceremonious end.

On July 19th Rutherford, Underwood and Pruvit informed the court; [Continue reading…]

Restitution against Ponzi scammer Ryan Ginster has been dropped because none of his victims came forward. [Continue reading…]

iX Global, its CEO and several promoters have been sued for securities fraud by the SEC.

Between iX Global and its Debt Box ruse, the SEC’s July 26th filed Complaint names eighteen defendants. [Continue reading…]