UB Football provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

UB Football’s website domain (“ubfootball.com”), was first registered back in 2018. The registration was last updated on September 5th, 2022.

Prior to September 2022 UB Football’s domain was for sale, so this is when the current owners purchased it.

If we look at the source-code of UB Football’s website, we can see it is localized to Chinese:

This strongly suggests whoever is behind UB Football has ties to China.

SimilarWeb currently tracks top sources of traffic to UB Football’s website as Russia (84%) and Ukraine (16%).

This tracks with UB Football’s website defaulting to Russian (despite the Chinese HTML localization).

Based on additional language options provided on UB Football’s website, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan are also being targeted.

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…]

Dubai Stocks fails to provide ownership or executive information on their website.

Dubai Stocks’ website domain (“dubaistocks.club”), was privately registered on September 22nd, 2022.

Although it’s likely bogus, Dubai Stocks provides a corporate address in Kampala, Uganda on its website.

Although its website defaults to English, Dubai Stocks’ website currently only provides a Ugandan localization option.

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…]

Ardu Prime, the brokerage that Freeway represented was an integral part of its business model, is now pretending it had nothing to do with the company. [Continue reading…]

The Freeway Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

The admins running the scam have cashed out, plunging FWT token off a cliff. [Continue reading…]

Success Factory’s offices in the Netherlands were raided last Tuesday.

FIOD, who investigate financial crimes in the Netherlands, conducted the raid on behalf of Estonian authorities. [Continue reading…]

XtreamFX Global Academy fails to provide ownership and/or executive information on its website.

Instead, XtreamFX Global Academy’s website is populated with stock photos and videos.

XtreamFX Global Academy’s website domain (“xtreamfx.global”), was first registered in 2020. The private registration was last updated on February 7th, 2022.

XtreamFX Global Academy is incorporated as XtreamFX Global LLC in Wyoming.

As to when XtreamFX Global Academy launched, the company’s official private FaceBook group was created on December 31st, 2020.

Admins of XtreamFX Global Academy’s official FaceBook group are Tanny Delia Gonzalez, Ragan Lynch, Travis Trice, Jacob Faheem Mickle, Quiana McConnell, Linda Rogers-Brown, Julie M Trice, Rodney Christopher Burris and Seven Hues.

Xtream Global Academy co-founders I was able to confirm are Jacob Mickle and Adrian Sloan.

Jacob Mickle and Adrian Sloan are former Tradera pyramid scheme promoters.

In a lawsuit against payment processor iPayout, filed after Tradera collapsed, Mickle and Sloan disclosed they were

high-level distributor(s) with Tradera who, until approximately a week ago, earned substantial monies in commissions from their downline and other marketing efforts.

Ragan Lynch (as Ragan Lynch Simmons) was also a Plaintiff in the lawsuit. Mickle and Sloan were in Lynch’s Tradera downline.

I suspect Lynch (right) is also an XtreamFX Global co-founder.

Filed in December 2020 (the same month XtreamFX Global Academy launched), the lawsuit was confidentially settled following arbitration in March 2021.

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

Xcelerate International fails to provide company ownership or executive information on its website.

I’m aware of Xcelerate International operating from two domains, “xcelfuel.com” and “xceleratefueltabs.com”.

“Xcelfuel.com” appears to be mostly broken so we’ll assume “xceleratefueltabs.com” is the primary domain.

Said domain was privately registered on May 7th, 2022.

The only corporate information we get on Xcelerate International’s website is

Xcelfuel is a registered trademark of Triformx LLC DBA Xcel Fuel.

Triformx appears to be the original abandoned name of the company:

Further research reveals Xcelerate International marketing citing Dan Maltais as owner of the company.

Maltais states he created Xcelerate International because

We were involved in another company that had a fuel additive product.

And I simply couldn’t get the answers that made me feel comfortable in introducing that product to someone else.

It doesn’t matter what other people are saying, I need that documentation and comfort level for myself.

Even though I felt comfortable with the company we were with, the technology that they were talking about, the results, the manufacturing process … when they kept giving me the runaround with these questions that I have.

“Does it have this ingredient? How is this processed? What’s the EPA registration number? Where’s the safety data sheets?” Those types of things, I just couldn’t get any straight answers.

Until finally I spoke with the engineer from the company that supposedly manufactured the products. And the engineer said, “I didn’t even know we had a fuel tab.”

And at that point, that was it.

So we did some research and I never ended up sponsoring a single person in that company.

We did some research and in that research I found these patents. And in the patents I found contact information.

And I reached out to several people. And maybe an hour and a half after reaching out to one company, the owner of the company actually called back.

We had a great conversation. I told him what my concerns were, what company, manufacturing etcetera. And he just basically shook his head, and he told me the whole story.

Long story short, this company has the patent since 2011, been manufacturing the product, initiated the patent application in 2006.

And this patent is something that they’ve defended … since 2006. Other products have to circumvent the patent.

And you’ll see, the one company for example that we were looking at, they had products starting to stick together in the packaging.

They had different tones when you open the packaging. They had different colors of the different tabs in there. Different thicknesses.

I can’t 100% confirm which company Maltais is talking about but the only other fuel tab companies I’m aware of that launched recently are Dan Putnam’s B-Eco earlier this year, and Lawrence Conrad’s Govvi spinoff.

In any event, Maltais wasn’t happy with the fuel tabs of whatever company he’d just joined and went on to launch Xcelerate International with a different tab supplier.

Maltais claims to have been involved in MLM for “thirty something years”.

I was able to backdate Maltais’ career to the launch of Synaura in the 2000s. In 2010 Maltais tried to get Elur off the ground but, after announcing prelaunch, the company was abandoned.

Synaura collapsed in late 2010, purportedly due to financial difficulties.

I get the sense Maltais has deleted most of his publicly available MLM related activity post 2010.

Between 2010 and now Maltais might have been promoting Infinii (DS Domination’s securities fraud followup), an unspecified MLM travel opp and NewULife.

Maltais has definitely promoted NuYuGen (circa 2018) and Arego Life (also 2018).

Maltais is based out of Florida, meaning Xcelerate International is also operated from Florida.

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

As Sam Lee gears up to defraud consumers with his new StableDAO Ponzi, proceedings in Australia are providing insight into his earliest crypto scams. [Continue reading…]

In contrast to the crime infested cesspool that is Dubai, a court in Ras Al-Khaimah recently heard a case brought by a OneCoin victim.

Judgment was found in favor of the victim (shocked pikachu face). [Continue reading…]

The Future Trade Ponzi scheme has collapsed for a second time.

The Russian scammers behind it are hoping to transition to TFT Metaweb. [Continue reading…]