Immigration officials in Ghana have arrested 36 scammers, accused of participating in a recruitment sweatshop.

As reported by My Joy Online on October 6th;

Most of the suspects are West African nationals alleged to have arrived in Ghana under the pretext of securing jobs in different companies.

They were later recruited to engage in network marketing.

To make ends meet, the suspects lure other people to fall victim to the alleged scam.

The MLM company the scammers were recruited into themselves isn’t named. [Continue reading…]

Just over a year after it launched, Mfinity Global has been sold off to Kannaway’s parent company, Medical Marijuana. [Continue reading…]

QNet has received a pyramid scheme fraud warning from Russia.

As per the Central Bank of Russia’s October 6th warning, QNet exhibits “signs of a financial pyramid” scheme. [Continue reading…]

Back in July 2020 Mark Seyforth hitched his company LifeTRNDS to Crowd1.

Crowd1 is a Dubai-based Ponzi scheme run by Swedish national Jonas Werner.

Seyforth getting into bed with Crowd1 was a mutually beneficial arrangement; Crowd1 crowed about having products, Seyforth received a cut of money stolen through the Ponzi.

As of mid 2021, Seyforth was still on the Crowd1’s Ponzi payroll:

In an October 2021 Crowd1 marketing video, Seyforth suggested he was going to attach Cforth to Crowd1.

A lot of the people in Crowd1 don’t realize right now, that we’re in the middle of transitioning to a new platform after the first of the year. Now now.

We’ve taken, we’ve changed the platform a little bit. We’ve made it a little more robust, we’ve got a little more hotels and resorts in there.

Whatever plans for Cforth integration Seyforth had for Crowd1 had in late 2021, appear to have fallen through.

Today there’s no mention of Seyforth, LifeTRNDS or Cforth on Crowd1’s website.

From this we can conclude that Seyforth and LifeTRNDS quietly left Crowd1 sometime between late 2021 and early 2022.

Seyforth originally launched Cforth in Q2, 2021.

Circa May 2022, Seyforth rebooted Cforth with a “grand opening”:

Crowd1 doesn’t feature in the thirty-five Cforth launch video. Nor is there any mention of Crowd1 on Cforth’s website.

Crowd1 hasn’t mentioned LifeTRNDs or Seyforth on its official FaceBook page since September 2021:

Joining Seyforth in running Cforth is former Crowd1 Business Development Director Fredrik Stael von Holstein.

Seyforth appears to have poached von Holstein and appointed him CEO of Cforth.

Cforth doesn’t provide a corporate address on its website but Seyforth is believed to operate out of Florida.

Supporting this is Cforth’s website Terms and Conditions;

Jurisdiction and venue of any matter not subject to arbitration shall reside exclusively in Leon County, State of Florida. The Federal Arbitration Act shall govern all matters relating to arbitration.

The law of the State of Florida shall govern all other matters relating to or arising from the Agreement.

Seyforth’s MLM history dates back to 1975. Prior to getting involved in MLM Ponzi scamming, Seyforth founded One24 (2010), Day 1 (2012) and Goodlife USA (2016).

LifeTRNDS was essentially an extension of Goodlife USA, with both companies offering access to travel discounts.

Today both LifeTRNDS’ and Gooflife USA’s respective websites have been abandoned.

LifeTRNDS throws up a perpetual error and Goodlife USA was taken down prior to Seyforth partnering up with Crowd1

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

Approval has been granted to sell NewAge off to original Morinda co-founder John Wadsworth. [Continue reading…]

Phillip Piccolo has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, resulting in the long-running Vista Network civil lawsuit being stayed. [Continue reading…]

I’m not sure when exactly it happened but earlier this year, possibly in late 2021, Total Life Changes founder and CEO, Jack Fallon, fancied himself a crypto bro.

To that end, Total Life Changes put out an ad looking for an “NFT/ Crypto Specialist”: [Continue reading…]

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…]