Meme Club has received a pyramid scheme fraud warning from Russia. [Continue reading…]

Malaysian police have arrested ten individuals connected to GCG Asia.

One of the arrested individuals is GCG Asia founder Darren Yaw. [Continue reading…]

TINA has published a disturbing report, framing Youngevity as a continuation of BlackOxygen Organics. [Continue reading…]

A group of Italian Traffic Monsoon investors fell for the old “pay your upline instead of the company” MLM Ponzi ruse.

The upline was Fabiano Santos, aka Maurizio Longo, who directed his victims to invest upwards of $1 million through his shell company Advertising Corp.

Doubling down on his fraud, Santos filed investor claims with the Receivership on behalf of his downline.

Santos’ victims also filed claims, creating a headache for the Receiver. [Continue reading…]

OnPassive’s Dubai “mega event” has come and gone, nothing has been launched and affiliates are getting restless again.

For the most part, Mufareh’s hours long waffle session webinars aren’t cutting it anymore.

Cue Mufareh’s next shiny ball, OnPassive sponsoring the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

Oh and apparently OnPassive is under investigation in the US. Or at least that’s what Mufareh recently implied. [Continue reading…]

EvoRich investors are now being funneled into an NFT grift.

“Dragon Man” NFTs are the latest in a series of scams targeting what’s left of Andrey Khovratov’s EvoRich Ponzi scheme. [Continue reading…]

Back in 2020 payment processor ePayments announced it was the subject of a freeze order.

The freeze order was issued by the FCA, tying up over £100 million in client funds. Those funds are still frozen.

Now ePayments has announced it’s shutting down. [Continue reading…]

Following being found guilty of every count on his Infinity2Global fraud indictment, Richard Maike requested he be released pending sentencing.

The court denied the request, ordering Maike remanded to custody.

On September 9th Maike filed a motion for reconsideration, asking the court to reverse its earlier decision. [Continue reading…]

Awakened hasn’t had the smoothest of launches.

The company pre-launched with an NFT cash grab, potentially grifting affiliates out of tens of millions.

Awakened’s flagship supplement Zenith has also been dogged by controversy, pertaining to a rights dispute between Vietal Nutrition and First Fruits Business Ministries.

I did my best to wade through the Zenith patent mess on September 1st. I came to the conclusion that, while Vietal Nutrition had a 2013 judgment against FFBM and owner Roger Catarino, practically speaking it was meaningless.

FFBM had clearly been manufacturing Trisynex supplements for well over a decade, regardless of any judgments Vietal Nutrition had obtained.

Zenith’s key ingredient is Trisynex, which falls under the patent 6,899,892. Anyone can look it up up and see it was assigned to FFBM in 2011.

The patent expired earlier this year, with the cynic in me believing this is why Awakend has launched with Zenith now.

Key to Awakend’s launch was the claim that it had worldwide exclusivity to Trisynex. This was supposedly purchased from Vietal Nutrition, which made no sense in light of the ‘892 patent.

After publishing that exploratory article I was contacted by Roger Catarino, who informed me he’d sent Awakend a cease and desist.

After covering the Awakend cease and desist, Vietal Nutrition’s attorney, Reid Winthrop, reached out.

Winthrop initially repeated the claims I was already mostly aware about and weighed as practically meaningless – for the reasons covered above.

No matter how many legal documents and judgments were provided, FFBM’s name was on the expired ‘892 patent and they continued to manufacture Trisynex.

Unless there was any substantial developments, it appeared Vietal Nutrition had sold the rights to a supplement formula they didn’t, practically speaking, own.

On September 13th the “substantial development” I was looking for happened. A California Judge ordered a Receiver take control of FFBM. [Continue reading…]

25X CLub is owned and operated by serial scammer Troy Mason.

BehindMLM last came across Mason only a few months ago with Our Gas Club.

Our Gas Club was a $79.95 a month pyramid scheme.

BehindMLM’s Our Gas Club review was published on April 16th, 2022. Mason abandoned the scheme and launched 25X Club on or around April 29th.

At time of publication Our Gas Club’s old website domain now redirects to 25X Club’s website. Our Gas Club itself was only launched in March 2022.

Mason is believed to be a US citizen operating out of Texas. To that end US regulators caught up with Mason in June 2021:

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas against Troy Mason of Houston, Texas and his Texas-based company, ZTegrity, Inc., charging them with fraudulent solicitation and failing to register with the CFTC as required by the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).

The complaint alleges that from at least October 2019 to the present the defendants used various websites and social-media platforms to fraudulently market their forex trading pool as a version of a savings account that offered a greater yield with similarly low or no risk.

The defendants called this forex trading pool “The Black Club” and “The Forex Savings Club,” which their website claimed had received over $460,000 from 411 participants.

The complaint further alleges the defendants induced participation in their forex trading pool by falsely claiming to “guarantee” to repay participants the funds they contributed to their individual “Forex Savings Accounts” and falsely offered participants “with a 100% certainty” portions of the “substantial profit[s]” to be generated using participants’ pooled funds to trade forex.

Ztegrity was the precursor to Our Gas Club. It was originally a forex scam, after which Mason rebooted it as a gas themed pyramid scheme.

As of September 2022, the CFTC’s case against Mason continues.

Read on for a full review of 25X Club’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]