Glean Mining Pro fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Glean Mining Pro’s website domain (‘gleantrading.com”), was first registered in September 2019. The private registration was last updated on September 14th, 2022.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Glean Mining Pro provides “certificate of incorporation” and “business license” links in its website FAQ.

At time of publication both links are broken.

Of additional note is Glean Mining Pro’s website YouTube link pointing to MineXone:

MineXone is a collapsed crypto mining ruse Ponzi that launched in 2019. It appears the same scammers are behind Glean Mining Pro.

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…]

Instead of just doing a runner then and there, Keep It 100’s original collapse and exit-scam was short-lived.

On or around July 29th, Keep It 100’s website went down for unscheduled “upgrades and maintenance”.

The website returned a few days later, touting a new 25% a month model.

I opined Keep It 100 would exit-scam again within 120 days (25% * 4) and, well sure enough here we are. [Continue reading…]

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

MEC’s website domain (“mecbm.com”), was privately registered on June 14th, 2023.

If we look at MEC’s website source-code, we find Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running MEC 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…]

UltimateLine Global fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

UltimateLine Global’s website domain (“ultimatelineglobal.com”), was first registered in January 2023. The private registration was last updated on March 17th.

The one UltimateLine Global marketing video featured on its website is an AI avatar robodub effort:

This is typical of non-native English speaking admins.

Although it claims to be a “UK-based, professional forex and cryptocurrency trading firm”, UltimateLine Global provides a corporate address in Switzerland on its website.

It’s presumed UltimateLine Global has nothing to do with either the UK or Switzerland.

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…]

Otter Spot fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Otter Spot’s website domain (“otterspot.io”), was privately registered on May 18th, 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…]

Knowledge Era fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Knowledge Era’s website domain (“h5.knowledgeeraltd.com”), was privately registered on June 7th, 2023.

Note that Knowledge Era operates off a “h5” subdomain. Knowledge Era’s website root domain is disabled.

If we look at Knowledge Era’s website source-code, we see the native language is set to Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running Knowledge Era 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…]

Charles Scoville’s Traffic Monsoon indictment has been dismissed.

On August 22nd the DOJ moved to dismiss the indictment. The court granted the motion on August 23rd. [Continue reading…]

Passivo (aka Passive Hub), operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

Passivo is known to operate from three primary website domains:

1. passivo.com – private registration last updated on February 2nd, 2023
2. passivohub.com – privately registered on July 7th, 2023
3. passivo.io – private registration last updated July 4th, 2023

Heading up Passivo is CEO Jan Lubberding.

I wasn’t able to put together an MLM history on Lubberding. This is a potential red flag.

A definite red flag is Lubberding appearing to be a German crypto bro hiding out in Dubai:

Instead of acknowledging it’s being run from Dubai, Passivo provides shell company details for Passivo Ltd. on its website.

Passivo Ltd. is purportedly registered in Seychelles, a known tax-haven with no active MLM securities related regulation.

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

The Onewiex Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Earlier today Onewiex’s website went down. Onewiex has also deleted its YouTube, FaceBook, Instagram and Telegram accounts. [Continue reading…]

GMB Group (aka GMB eCommerce), fails to provide credible ownership or executive information on its website.

GMB Group does provide executive details, however these are fictional names represented by stock photos:

Known GMB Group website domains include:

• gmbapp.org – privately registered on April 27th, 2023
• gmbapp.shop – privately registered on May 24th, 2023

Despite only existing for a few months, on its website GMB Group falsely claims it “was established in Denver, USA” in 2018.

To support its fictional backstory, GMB Group provides incorporation certificates for GMB E-Commerce Co. Ltd for Colorado.

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.

Aside from paying a small fee to register a shell company there, GMB Group is unlikely to have any actual ties to the US.

Supporting this is GMB Group’s oddly named official FaceBook Group:

This suggests GMB Group is being run by a non-native English speaker. And if we look at GMB Group’s website source-code, sure enough we find Chinese:

This suggests whoever is actually running GMB Group has ties to China.

Marketing wise GMB Group appears to primarily be targeting the Netherlands.

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…]