Awakend fails to provide ownership and corporate information on its website. The company also fails to provide a corporate address.

On the “contact us” section of their website, Awakend states it has “limited support”. Any questions are to be directed to Awakend uplines.

Awakend entered prelaunch in early August. This is cited as a reason for limited support.

Contact Us

We are in an exciting prelaunch phase with limited support! Please contact your upline leader with any questions.

Two months in and that excuse is stretching thin.

Company ownership and corporate details, support and at the very least where you’re operating from are basic requirements for due-diligence.

If you’re accepting distributor enrolments this information should be ready to go before you prelaunch.

BehindMLM covered Awakend’s prelaunch on August 18th. Given Awakend’s disclosure failures, we’re relying on my previous research.

Awakend’s prelaunch corporate marketing efforts are headed up by Danelle Meoli and Chip Macgill.

On social media Meoli refers to Awakend as her company. Such to the extent there are other Awakend owners and co-founders, they haven’t been publicly disclosed.

In August BehindMLM noted eight admins of Awakend’s official corporate FaceBook group. Today that’s been whittled down to four; Danelle Meoli and husband Scott, David R Teodosio and Ashlee Headlee.

Under the Meolis you have a bunch of their former Exp Realty and NewULife downlines.

As far as I can tell, everyone who was positioned before Awakend’s public prelaunch is tied to Meoli through her past MLM companies.

While Meoli is based of of Connecticut, Awakend may be primarily operating out of Texas.

I’ll update if Awakend ever gets around to providing consumers with a clear picture of company ownership and its ownership team.

Failing which:

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…]

Both the SEC’s and CFTC’s civil cases against EmpiresX and its owners have been administratively stayed. [Continue reading…]

Youngevity’s foray into forex trading popped up on BehindMLM’s radar back in January.

We didn’t have a company name but knew Sal Leto was involved. Leto’s past raised a red flag but we didn’t see anything overtly out of compliance.

In July 2022 Youngevity’s forex offering was given the name 8 Minute Trader. A launch date was eventually scheduled for September 1st.

Just over a month later and with the compensation plan now public, BehindMLM revisits 8 Minute Trader for a formal review. [Continue reading…]

Antares Trade has deleted its official YouTube channel.

In what appears to be an attempt to mask the second stage of its exit-scam, Antares Trade falsely claimed YouTube suspended the account. [Continue reading…]

Upon learning of an investigation into his Ponzi scheme Mining Capital Coin, Luiz Capuci Jr. abandoned his life in the US and fled to Brazil.

It was a calculated move, with Capuci believing Brazil’s policy of not extraditing its citizens would protect him from justice.

Unfortunately that hasn’t quite panned out.

While the DOJ’s criminal case against Capuci is in a stalemate (Capuci remains a wanted fugitive in hiding), the SEC is pushing forward its civil case through alternative service.

Something Capuci is definitely not happy about. [Continue reading…]

Following its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, DreamTrips emerged as the successor to WorldVentures about a year ago.

DreamTrips came about as a result of Verona International Holdings acquiring WorldVentures’, namely the MLM company and Rovia (WorldVentures’ in-house travel services provider).

BehindMLM reviewed DreamTrips in November 2021, following a November 16th launch announcement.

A reader recently wrote in to advise that DreamTrips had revised its compensation plan in July 2022.

Today we revisit DreamTrips for an updated review. Not only on the compensation side of things, but also as to who exactly owns the company. [Continue reading…]

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

Dmining’s website domain (“dmining.top”), was privately registered on March 1st, 2022.

SimilarWeb currently ranks top sources of traffic to Dmining’s website as Italy (79%), Rwanda (11%) and Croatia (10%).

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…]

Trust Your Universe operates in the trading MLM niche.

Trust Your Universe operates as Universe Trading LLC, a shell company incorporated in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines is not a jurisdiction active in MLM regulation, meaning consumers have no recourse against scammers.

Any MLM company incorporated in St. Vincent and Grenadines raises a red-flag.

Trust Your Universe’s website domain (“tyu-trade.com”), was privately registered on August 14th, 2022.

It should be noted that Trust Your Universe initially launched on the German domain (“trust-your-universe.de”), on or around early June 2022.

Curiously, on its website Trust Your Universe provides a corporate address in New York. This appears to be a virtual address (read on to learn why).

Heading up Trust Your Universe is founder and CEO Dada Pey.

On a recent Trust Your Universe webinar, Pey introduces himself as being “from Stuttgart in Germany”.

Dada Pey appears to have gotten started in MLM with the since collapsed pyramid scheme WorldVentures:

After that he began promoting iMarketsLive, through his downline group “Global Achievers”.

In an attempt to distance itself from a CFTC commodities fraud fine issued in 2018, iMarketsLive rebooted as IM Mastery Academy in September 2019.

Pey appears to have left iMarketsLive by late 2019 (he was promoting IM Mastery Academy in December 2019).

In an Instagram post dated January 7th, 2020, Pey stated;

Just 24 hours after ours Launch we are with GA in the TOP 15 of the new company we work with, in the entire German-speaking area.

“GA” refers to Global Achievers but Pey doesn’t name the MLM company. It appears to be an AI trading opportunity.

Whichever company it was, it seems to have fallen apart sometime in 2021. That brings us to Trust Your Universe in 2022.

I believe what’s left of Global Achievers makes up most of Trust Your Universe’s launch affiliate-base.

On Pey’s Instagram account we learn he has ties to Dubai:

Putting all of this together, we can confirm Trust Your Universe has no physical ties to either St. Vincent and the Grenadines or the US.

Trust Your Universe is run by Dada Pey from Dubai, 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 Trust Your Universe, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

Emris International was co-founded in late 2019 by Matthew Harris, Ilean Harris and Aspen Emry.

BehindMLM published its initial Emris International review in June 2020.

Shortly after launch, Emry left the company and went on to launch Bravenly Global.

Husband and wife Matthew and Illean Harris continued to run Emris International. The company today however looks nothing like it did back in 2019.

On the corporate side of things, Emris International launched as a Florida corporation. Today Emris International’s website provides a corporate address in South Africa.

The Harris’ however still appear to be based out of Miami, Florida.

Today we’re revisiting Emris International to see what’s changed since BehindMLM’s initial 2020 review. [Continue reading…]

Validus has received a securities fraud warning from New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority (FMA).

In their September 15th warning, the FMA advises they [Continue reading…]