A second lawsuit pertaining to robocall fraud has been filed against Family First Life in Michigan.

Plaintiff Mark Dobronski initially filed suit against Family First Life and several defendants on August 31st, 2022.

Dobronski originally secured an Entry of Default on Family First Life in November 2022.

This was overturned on February 8th, 2023. The court found that Family First Life was improperly served notice of the lawsuit.

On February 22nd, Dobronski filed an Amended Complaint. [Continue reading…]

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

In fact as I write this, Residual’s website is nothing more than an affiliate signup/login form.

Residual’s website domain (“residual.energy”), was privately registered on February 26th, 2023.

Official Residual marketing material features Russian:

This strongly suggests whoever is behind Residual has ties to Russia and/or eastern Europe.

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…]

The SEC has secured judgment against Nasgo Ponzi defendant James Hardy.

The SEC filed for judgment against Hardy on February 28th.

The court granted the motion and ordered judgment on March 7th. [Continue reading…]

Agri Marine Ventures fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Agri Marine Ventures’ website domain (“agrimarineventures.com”), was privately registered on January 8th, 2023.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Agri Marine Ventures provides an incorporation certificate for “Agrimarine Harvesting Services National” on its website.

Agrimarine Harvesting Services National was purportedly incorporated in the Philippines on January 5th, 2023.

Whether the company has anything to do with Agri Marine Ventures is unclear.

Regardless, scammers are easily able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details. For the purpose of MLM due-diligence, basic incorporation in any jurisdiction is meaningless.

Still, it appears Agri Marine Ventures might indeed have ties to the Philippines. On February 28th, the Philippine SEC issued an Agri Marine Ventures securties fraud warning.

The aforementioned scheme of AGRI MARINE VENTURES vis-à-vis ART BERROYA seems to be fraudulent as it is involved in the solicitation, offering, and/or selling of unregistrable securities from the public.

The activity of AGRI MARINE VENTURES vis-à-vis ART BERROYA does not have the requisite secondary license and the said schemes can never secure the necessary license or permit for such offering and/or selling of securities to the public and that the same is in violation of Sections 8, 12 and 26 of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC).

The Philippine SEC names Art Capunitan Berroya as Agri Marine Ventures’ President and CEO. This same name appears on the Agrimarine Harvesting Services National incorporation certificate.

Art Berroya does correspond to a FaceBook profile of the same name…

…but there’s nothing on the profile except two recently uploaded photos. This suggests the profile was either wiped or purposefully created to market Agri Marine Ventures.

Berroya is purported to feature in a marketing video, uploaded to Agri Marine Ventures’ official YouTube channel on January 18th, 2023:

The video features Berroya pretending to be a farmer and appears to have been shot in the Philippines.

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…]

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

MetaVarious’ website domain (“metavarious.live”), was privately registered on December 21st, 2022.

As of February 2023, SimilarWeb tracks top sources of traffic to MetaVarious’ website as Russia (54%), Ukraine (19%), India (16%) and Algeria (11%).

Whoever is running MetaVarious is likely from one of these countries.

Certainly, language on MetaVarious’ website suggests the owner is a non-native English speaker;

Meta Various is giving you to build your global business and open global account opening opportunity.

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…]

Northway Investments fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

What appears to be random names are presented as Northway Investment’s Board of Directors:

Northway Investments’ website domain (“northwayinvestmentsltd.com”), was privately registered on July 24th, 2022.

Through the Wayback Machine, we can ascertain that Northway Investments’ website went live on or around October 2022.

Despite only existing for a few months at best, Northway Investments falsely claims it “was founded on 17th December 1992”.

Northway Investments has a private FaceBook group, which appears to be a hijacked/stolen existing group.

I’m basing this on the group being created in 2021, while Northway Investments’ two dummy profiles were only created in September and October 2022.

Group admins also appear to be hijacked FaceBook accounts, likely populated with stolen content.

Again, I’m basing this on artificially inserted timeline posts referencing Northway Investments before it existed:

Considerable effort has gone into editing four hijacked FaceBook profiles to appear legitimate at a glance.

In line with made-up executives and hijacked social media accounts, the two marketing videos Northway Investments have put out feature stock footage with a robo voiceover.

In further attempts to appear legitimate, Northway Investments provides a corporate address in Canada on its website.

The address doesn’t exist.

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…]

Ride to Three Future, sometimes abbreviated as “R3F”, operates from a non-functional website.

Links are broken and the website template hasn’t been updated from stock content.

Ride to Three Freedom’s website domain (“ridetothreefreedom.com”), was first registered in March 2022. The private registration was last updated on February 2nd, 2023.

As of February 2023, SimilarWeb tracked Sri Lanka as the only source of traffic to Ride to Three Freedom’s website.

This strongly suggests whoever is running Ride to Three Freedom is in, or at the very least has ties to Sri Lanka.

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…]

Anonymous Trading fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Anonymous Trading’s website domain (“anonymoustrading.io”), was registered back in August 2021. The private registration was last updated on Match 19th, 2022.

SimilarWeb currently tracks top sources of traffic to Anonymous Trading’s website as the Czech Republic (32%), Germany (16%), Spain (12%), Venezuela (11%) and Italy (8%).

Whoever is running Anonymous Trading likely speaks German. This is based on the naming of Anonymous Trading official marketing PDF; “Anonymous-Trading-Standart-Program.pdf”.

It’s worth noting that despite being the second largest source of Anonymous Trading website traffic in January 2023, Germany was also down 67% month on month.

This suggests Anonymous Trading was being primarily promoted in Germany before recruitment recently collapsed.

Despite only existing since 2021 at the earliest, Anonymous Trading falsely represents it was “established after the economic collapse of 2009”.

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…]

After his profiting from the Crowd1 Ponzi scheme came to an end, Mark Seyforth re-launched Cforth in May 2022.

BehindMLM reviewed Cforth in October 2022, at the time noting the majority of Cforth’s website traffic originated from the Philippines.

Today traffic to Cforth website has dropped to just a few thousand visits a month. This has prompted Seyforth to reboot the MLM side of Cforth as StoplightGo. [Continue reading…]

In addition to Pablo Renato Rodriguez, all five other defendants have also pled guilty.

On the chopping block we have:

• Gutemberg dos Santos – AirBit Club co-owner
• Karina Chairez – AirBit Club Master Council promoter
• Cecilia Millan – AirBit Club Master Council promoter
• Jackie Aguilar – AirBit Club National Entrepreneur promoter and
• Scott Hughes – Californian attorney who acted as an accomplice

[Continue reading…]