Pop Max fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Pop Max’s website domain (“popmax.io”), was privately registered on December 23rd, 2024.

In a July 6th Pop Max marketing video from serial Ponzi promoter Sal Khan, “Nick” is represented to be a Pop Max co-founder.

I’m not 100% sure but Nick appears to have a Singaporean or Chinese accent. Whever he’s from, Nick’s actual name is not disclosed.

Update 7th August 2025 – A reader in the comments below has identified Pop Max’s “Nick” as Nicholas Wan, aka Ruicheng Wan (万睿诚).

Prior to co-founding Pop Max, Wan was co-founder and CFO/CMO of IntelliShare.

Intellishare was a Chinese “blockchain technology” pump and dump scheme built around its INE token.

Launched in 2018, Intellishare defrauded primarily Chinese investors before collapsing in 2020. /end update

Another name we can attach to Pop Max is CMO Magnus Larsson:

Larsson is a serial promoter of MLM Ponzi schemes. In 2018 Larsson was promoting LeoCoin:

After LeoCoin Larsson went on to become a top promoter of the Crowd1 Ponzi scheme:

Crowd1 stopped paying investors in 2022. This prompted Larsson to ditch Crowd1 towards the end of the year.

In 2023 Larsson remerged as co-founder of the Dubai-based Alacor Ponzi scheme. Today Alacor’s website is no longer available.

In Sal Khan’s “Nick” interview video, it’s revealed Pop Max is also based out of Dubai.

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

The head of myWorld Spain has been arrested on pyramid fraud charges.

Spain’s National Police confirmed the arrest in a July 31st press-release. [Continue reading…]

Pruvit and CEO Brian Underwood have been sued for sex discrimination and assault.

Plaintiff Clarissa Jones filed suit against Pruvit and Underwood on July 14th in Jefferson Circuit Court, Kentucky. [Continue reading…]

Sosana operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

Four co-founders, represented by AI-generated avatars, are named on Sosana’s website:

• Dave Track – Chief Shiny Object Officer
• Mark Ross – Chief FOMO Officer
• Brian Lyles – Senior Consultant of Token Regret
• Andrew Belofsky – Chief Illegal Officer
• Reggie Sullivan – Director of Never-Ending Hope

Dave Track, aka David Track, first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar as founder and President of PrepayCPA in 2011.

Circa 2019 Track was Senior Vice President of Tryp, an MLM pyramid scheme with an illegal unregistered stock offering.

Track reinvented himself as a crypto bro in 2020. Crypto fraud inevitably followed; Bitlocity in 2020 and Tectum in 2022.

Mark Ross appears to be a random crypto bro who followed David Track over from Tectum:

Brian Lyles was appointed Sales Director for North America for Cerule in 2020.

Apparently that didn’t work out and sometime after Lyles turned to crypto fraud. A month ago Lyles was promoting Cryptex, an MLM crypto Ponzi scheme:

Andrew Belofsky and Reggie Sullivan appear to keep a low-profile, I wasn’t able to find anything definitive.

Promoters of Sosana to note are Muhammad Zidan (aka Mack Zidan, Mack Mills), Tracy Le Mont Silver (aka T. Lemont Silver, “The Professor”), Mark Hamlin and Peter Ohanyan.

Muhammad Zidan is a serial promoter of fraudulent MLM schemes, dating back to at least 2012 with Empower Network.

Mills continues to defraud consumers through various schemes, primarily through AI-generated slop content.

Tracy Le Mont Silver is another long-time fraudster. Silver made a name for himself as a top promoter of the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme.

Instead of manning up when he was caught and facing a $2.3 million clawback, LeMont uprooted his then young family and fled to the Dominican Republic.

For the past thirteen years Silver has continued to defraud consumers through various fraudulent schemes. BehindMLM last came across Silver about a year ago with Billion Dollar Mind.

In his capacity as a promoter of the Forsage series of MLM crypto Ponzi schemes, the SEC charged Mark Hamlin with securities fraud in 2022.

Hamlin settled the SEC’s charges in August 2022. As part of Hamlin’s Forsage settlement, he was prohibited from committing further violations of federal securities laws.

Over on YouTube Hamlin has continued to promote fraudulent MLM schemes:

E1ULife is an MLM gifting cycler. BizNet College is an MLM pyramid scheme.

Peter Ohanyan is… you guessed it, another serial fraudster.

BehindMLM last came across Ohanyan a few months ago as a Corporate Leader at Booster.

Sosana’s operates from the website domain “sosana.io”, privately registered on November 26th, 2024.

Sosana’s website footer suggests Sosana is being operated through Nosey Pepper Inc., a purported Wyoming shell company.

Finally we’re noting that Sosana originally launched around April 2025.

Sosana’s original launch flopped, prompting it’s co-founder to reboot with an MLM compensation plan earlier this week.

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

As per a July 31st order, the Texas State Securities Board has opted to set aside its Apertum Foundation emergency order.

The order, issued on March 20th, pertains to ongoing alleged securities fraud. In addition to Apertum Foundation, TSSB’s order named Josip Heit, Dirc Zahlmann, Bruce Innes Wylde Hughes and Dennis Christopher Loos as respondents. [Continue reading…]

Back March BehindMLM received a reader request for an updated MWR Life review:

Then, another reader reached out in late May claiming MWR Life had a new compensation plan:

MWR Life has made its way up the review list with an update due soon. In the meantime, I couldn’t have predicted what happened next. [Continue reading…]

Following the arrest of top OmegaPro Ponzi promoter Juan Carlos Reynoso on June 30th, the DOJ was initially denied a motion seeking pre-trial detention.

The DOJ filed an emergency motion challenging the order on July 3rd. The court stayed Reynoso’s release and held a second hearing on the matter on July 23rd.

Following the hearing, on July 30th Reynoso was denied pre-trial release. [Continue reading…]

Apertum Foundation has been denied a preliminary injunction by Frankfurt’s Main Regional Court.

The injunction was requested as part of preliminary proceedings against BE Conflict Management (BEKM), following a cease and desist earlier this year. [Continue reading…]

LeeAnn Harper, a purported CryptoProgram investor, has filed suit against founder Edward Anthony Zimbardi (aka Ed Zimbardi). [Continue reading…]

iGenius’ unregistered CoinPro investment scheme has been quietly switched over to 3Commas.

BehindMLM first came across CoinPro a year ago. The then newly launched unregistered investment scheme was “powered by CoinRule”.

As of July 2025 CoinRule still holds itself out as a UK-based “smart trading bot for cryptocurrency platforms”. This ties into iGenius’ promoters pitching consumers on passive returns through CoinRule and associated schemes CoinPro and CForce.

As per an “iGenius Overview” Youtube video, uploaded by iGenius promoter Anthony Napolitano on July 26th, CoinPro is now “powered by 3Commas”:

The official reason for switching to 3Commas is iGenius “outgrew CoinRule”. 3Commas appears to have been brought on either earlier this month or late last month.

So who is 3Commas? [Continue reading…]