Organo’s mushroom coffee is being promoted as a cure-all for multiple diseases.

These include cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and “most chronic diseases”. [Continue reading…]

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

Reminiscience’s website does have an “about us” page, however it’s only used to market the company.

Reminiscience’s website domain (“reminiscience.com”), was first registered in November 2018.

The mostly private registration was last updated in May 2022, listing Acti Laboratories through a UK address as the owner.

Acti Laboratories goes by “Acti-Labs”, or at least they did.

A visit to Acti-Labs’ website today reveals the company now goes by Urban Retreat:

A visit to Urban Retreat reveals a message claiming the company’s

central distribution center was totally destroyed by fire on the 13th March 2023.

As a result Urban Retreat plans is in “full recovery mode”, with plans to relaunch out of France.

We are moving our business operations to operate entirely to France.

Our teams are working intently and our goal is to relaunch in early September 2023.

If Urban Retreat owns Reminiscience I’d assume this also affects their operations. At time of publication however there’s no mention of a disruption on Reminiscience’s website.

Nor is there any indication anything is amiss on Reminiscience’s official FaceBook page, dating back to March 2023.

What I did notice though is that almost all of Reminiscience’s products are out of stock.

On its website Urban Retreat claims to be a “family run business” servicing Russia.

Initially created as a small, bespoke manufacturer of luxury professional products for a number of exclusive Spas across the world, but primarily in Russia.

Following a transition to “sell its products direct to consumers”, Urban Retreat claims “all money had run out” by 2011.

ActiDerm was launched in the UK in June 2011 with just 11 great skincare products.

The brand quickly became popular enough to achieve our goal of keeping the production staff employed.

We are eternally thankful to the founding sellers who joined us at the beginning, and we are very proud to say that a good number of them are still with us today.

Oddly, there is no mention of Reminiscience on Urban Retreat’s website. There is also no mention of Urban Retreat on Reminiscience’s website.

Urban Retreat is headed up by co-founder John Miller. James Miller (John’s son?) is co-founder and CEO of Urban Retreat’s French operations.

Last October a BehindMLM reader informed me that Caius Hale was fronting Reminiscience.

Caius Hale and the seriously awful CEO of Acti-Labs, now Urban Retreat have relaunched TS-Life as ‘Reminiscience’.

What’s interesting is that the ‘leaders’ are trying to make out that this is new and not affiliated to TS-Life, whereas it’s been devised by exactly the same two directors under a different name.

Cutesy packaging, bold claims of sustainability, but essentially the same cheap shit under a different name.

TS-Life was a nutrition niche MLM company launched in 2018. The company was abruptly shut down without warning in early 2022.

I am aware of claims TS-Life was operating illegally and Hale fled Ireland following its collapse. I wasn’t able to independently verify these claims.

That said, here’s what I can verify.

After TS-Life shut down Hale disappeared. Hale scrubbed his FaceBook profile of content, before remerging on the platform in December 2022.

This coincides with Reminiscience’s launch in October 2022.

Hale ran TS-Life with Corporate Response Manager Jade Coyle.

On Jade Coyle’s FaceBook page we learn she is engaged to Hale.

Coyle also cites herself as a founder of Reminiscience.

On April 9th Coyle posted this photo to her FaceBook account:

In the bottom left of the photo there’s a menu for McCafferty’s Irish Pub.

McCafferty’s has multiple locations across the UK, Ireland, Spain and… Dubai.

I was able to pinpoint Coyle to McCafferty’s Al Furjan over Easter weekend:

What remains unclear is whether Caius Cale and Jade Coyle are visiting Dubai or living there.

Dubai is the MLM crime capital of the world. Cale and Coyle fleeing Ireland would support claims the pair escaped an investigation.

The murkiness surrounding Reminiscience’s corporate structure suggests Cale and Coyle don’t want to associated with the company on its website.

FaceBook posts notwithstanding, scrubbing one’s profile typically isn’t something you do unless you’re trying to hide something…

…like, for example, Reminiscience being a reboot of TS-Life.

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…]

As limited withdrawals continue to back up, weekly returns drop to a fraction of a percentage and regulators close in, Cynthia Petion is leaning more heavily into NovaTech FX’s religious undertones.

Petion, who stylizes herself as NovaTech FX’s “Reverend CEO”, is now threatening to “rain down on” investors “greater than the wrath of God”. [Continue reading…]

NovaTech FX has received a securities fraud cease and desist from Wisconsin’s Department of Financial Institutions.

DFI’s notice details allegations of fraud, and includes proposed restitution and civil penalty orders. [Continue reading…]

Scammers behind the Trade Coin Club Ponzi scheme are evading service by the SEC.

In an April 6th Status Report, the regulator detailed efforts to serve Keleionalani Taylor, Douver Braga and Joff Paradise. [Continue reading…]

Eyebrows were raised when California issued a Metafi Yielders securities fraud warning, four months after the Ponzi scheme collapsed.

Now Canada has done them one better, issuing its own Metafi Yielders securities fraud warning eleven months later. [Continue reading…]

CloudFi fails to provide ownership or executive information its website.

CloudFi’s website domain (“cloudfi.app”), was privately registered on January 10th, 2023.

At time of publication, SimilarWeb ranks top sources of traffic to CloudFi’s website as Slovakia (62%), Italy (23%), Greece (3%) and Bangladesh (3%).

Slovakia stands out as an odd top source of traffic.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, CloudFi provides an incomplete corporate address in Hong Kong on its website.

Whether CloudFi has any actual ties to Hong Kong is unclear.

Update 6th June 2023 – Serial Ponzi promoter Jan Gregory has emerged as CloudFI’s CEO.

Jan Gregory Cerato (aka Jan Strzepka) is a Canadian national who, over the past few months, has fronted a number of Ponzi schemes.

These include Maxpread Technologies (collapsed), CoinMarketBull (collapsed), Vortic United and SureX. /end update

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…]

Capital Share Limited provides bogus executive information on its website.

Under fictional aliases, Mark and Tammy Smith are presented as Capital Share Limited’s CEO and co-founder:

The Smiths are co-owners of DreamTrips, a travel themed MLM company that has nothing to do with Capital Share Limited.

Capital Share Limited’s marketing videos feature a robodubbed AI generated spokespersons.

Capital Share Limited’s website domain (“capitalshareltd.com”), was privately registered on November 17th, 2022.

If we look at Capital Share Limited’s website source-code, we find a reference to Lacore Payments:

LaCore Payments is a US-based payment processor owned by Terry LaCore. Like the Smiths, it’s unlikely LaCore is involved in Capital Share Limited.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Capital Share Limited provides a corporate address in Dubai on its website.

This is an instant red flag due to Dubai being 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.

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…]

Chinese USFIA investors have until April 30th to make sure their payment details are correct.

Failing which, sometime after May 30th their USFIA victim claims will be rendered invalid. [Continue reading…]

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

Bitonite’s website domain (“bitonite.com”), was privately registered with a redacted Austrian address on January 19th, 2023.

Further research reveals Bitonite marketing material citing three co-founders:

• Tanyel Tahtaci – CMO
• Mertkan Boyraz – CEO
• Denis Muric – CSO

Other than he’s a crypto bro from Turkey, I wasn’t able to put together an MLM history for Tanyel Tahtaci. Same story with Mertkan Boyraz, originally from Austria.

Denis Muric is a crypto bro from Germany.

Prior to co-founding Bitonite, Muric was promoting the MarketPeak Ponzi scheme.

At some point all three Bitonite co-founders have left their native countries for Dubai.

Bitonite provides a shell company corporate address in the Marshall Islands on its website. With all three co-founders based out of Dubai though, it’s obvious the UAE is where Bitonite is being run from.

Bitonite having ties to Dubai is an automatic red flag, owing to Dubai being 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 Bitonite, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]