Back in September Seacret Direct, formerly a personal care MLM company, rebranded itself as Viago and Club Viago.

Seacret Direct’s former website now redirects to a Viago branded website. Somewhat confusingly, there’s also a separate Club Viago website set up to market the same company.

To keep things simple I’m going to refer to Viago as the MLM company and Club Viago as the product service offering.

On either website, Viago fails to provide consumers with company ownership or executive information.

All you can do on both of Viago’s websites is sign up as an affiliate and/or Club Viago member (the Club Viago redirects to the Viago website if enrollment is initiated).

Seacret Direct was founded in 2011 by co-founders Izhak Ben Shabat (CEO, right) and Mody Ben Shabat.

Prior to the Viago rebrand, Seacret Direct listed its co-founders as Izhak Ben Shabat and Dani Solomon.

Viago does not provide a corporate address on either of its websites. Opening hours however appear to be based on Arizona time.

Of note is shortly after the rebrand, Viago announced a merger with Stemtech in November 2024.

Stemtech was an MLM company that sold stem cell nutritional supplements. Following bankruptcy in 2017, Stemtech went on to generate millions in losses annually.

While they didn’t acquire a profitable business, what Viago did get from Stemtech was a public listing. Stemtech is/was publicly listed through a 2021 merger with Globe Net Wireless, a failed Chinese telco and app development company.

At time of publication Stemtech maintains its own independent website and executive management team.

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

Family First Life and Tiffany Tranghese have reached a settlement.

Details are still being finalized but the settlement is expected to resolve Tranghese’s allegations of sexual harassment as a former Family First Life employee. [Continue reading…]

AI Profit USDT fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI Profit USDT operates from two known website domains; aiprofitusdt.vip and aiprofitusdt.org. Both domains were privately registered on November 3rd, 2024.

AI Profit USDT has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued an AI Profit USDT pyramid fraud warning on December 4th, 2024.

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…]

GrowthClub Life fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

GrowthClub Life’s website domain (“growthclub.life”), was privately registered on May 7th, 2023.

Courtesy of off-site marketing, two names we can attach to GrowthClub Life are Victor Louis Tolulope, aka Victor Louis Adegunloye (Nigeria) and Kamran Abbasi (UK).

Both Tolulope and Abbasi are former NextGen Academy Ponzi scammers.

Tolulope was a NextGen Academy promoter, Abbasi was part of the executive team.

NextGen Academy was a Ponzi scheme run by the notorious Gohar brothers; Rehan and Rizwan.

The Gohar brothers’ crime spree began in 2019 with the BizzTrek pyramid scheme. After BizzTrek collapsed the Gohar brothers launched BizzTrade later that same year.

BizzTrade collapsed twice under its own name over the next few years. In late December 2021 a third BizzTrade reboot was launched at BizzTrade Pro.

BizzTradePro lasted until April 2022, prompting the Gohar brothers to launch NextGen Academy.

NextGen Academy began to collapse by early 2023, prompting the launch of My Car Club in March 2023.

Following a regulatory enforcement action in Australia tied to money laundering, NextGen and My Car Club collapsed in or around May 2023.

Adegunloye and Abbasi began promoting GrowthClub Life a few months later, in or around September 2023.

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…]

Marco A. Ruiz Ochoa has settled civil iComTech fraud charges with the CFTC.

As per the terms of the settlement, Ochoa is [Continue reading…]

OakSmart has initiated an OAK USD Coin Ponzi exit-scam.

OakSmart’s exit-scam was announced two days after BehindMLM reviewed OakSmart, and California’s DFPI issued an OakSmart securities fraud desist and refrain order. [Continue reading…]

The Swag Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Italian media are reporting Swag withdrawals have been disabled, affecting “almost 30,000” investors. [Continue reading…]

Glory Assurance fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Glory Assurance operates from two known website domains; gloryassurance.com (marketing) and hashkingdom.com (app).

Both of Glory Assurance’s website domains were privately registered on February 2nd, 2024.

If we look at the source-code of both of Glory Assurance’s websites we find Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running Glory Assurance has ties to China.

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…]

Visalus, owned by Texas-based LaCore Enterprises, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

As per the filing, signed by Niklas Sarnicola, Visalus owes “less than $3,024,725” to “more than 100,000 creditors”. [Continue reading…]

Blue Electric Technology Limited, aka BETL, has collapsed.

The “click a button” app Ponzi heavily targeted Bulgarians, reportedly resulting in thousands of investors losing millions of dollars.

BETL’s “click a button” ruse was portable phone chargers. [Continue reading…]