Back in late March a Kripto Future Ponzi reboot was announced.

About a month and a half later, here’s how it’s going… [Continue reading…]

Back in March BehindMLM covered the Antares Trade 2.0 Ponzi reboot.

Aleksey Zhirovkin, playing Boris CEO Alex Richter, was resurrecting his 2020 Ponzi scheme for a second time.

Part of the Antares Trade reboot was Alpin Launchpad, which was marketed with its own “multi-level referral program”.

As such I flagged Alpin Launchpad for its own review. When it came up today I headed over to Alpin Launchpad’s website, only to discover… well, nothing much. [Continue reading…]

A typical component of an FTC lawsuit against an MLM company is deceptive or unfair earnings claims.

Last year the Supreme Court, in a decision that sided with payday loan scammers, limited the FTC’s ability to regulate MLM fraud.

Specifically, the FTC was barred from seeking “equitable monetary relief under section 13(b) of the FTC Act “.

For decades, injunctions obtained via Section 13(b), has seen the FTC recover ill-gotten gains from scammers and impose additional monetary penalties.

In light of the Supreme Court’s AMG decision leaving it unable to do so within the existing framework of the FTC Act, the regulator is exploring ways it can continue to effectively regulate fraud.

As part of those efforts, the FTC is seeking public comment on a proposed “Earnings Claims” rule. [Continue reading…]

A Telephonic Status Conference held on April 15th has edged Mindset 24 defendants towards an SEC settlement.

As per the order, individual ex parte phone conferences with the court are to be scheduled. The April 15th order states this is ‘in order for the Court to determine if further ADR is appropriate‘.

“ADR” being Alternative Dispute Resolution which, if successful, will lead to a settlement between the parties. [Continue reading…]

A reader reached out wondering if Modere had rebooted itself as “Shifting Retail” (sometimes “social retail”).

I looked into it and found it was just a new marketing campaign:

Figuring BehindMLM’s original Modere review was published back in 2014, I figured it was a good excuse to revisit the company.

One of the key criticisms I had back in 2014 was Modere’s focus on autoship recruitment. Shifting Retail sounds like the company might have evolved.

Let’s find out. [Continue reading…]

OmegaPro has received a securities fraud warning from Nicaragua’s Superintendencia de Bancos y de Otras Instituciones Financieras (SIBOIF). [Continue reading…]

Metafi Yielders provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Metafi Yielders provides a random residential address in NSW, Australia.

Metafi Yielders’ website links to an official private FaceBook group.

The one admin of the group is CEO “Michael Daher”, represented by a blank newly created FaceBook account.

Admins of Metafi Yielders official FaceBook group are Robin Shanks, Rabbia Akmal, Huzaifa Naseeb, Chigozie Anthony Ezubelu, Femi Adeyemi and Leanna Sippel.

Metafi Yielders’ website also contains an embedded marketing video, titled “METAFI YIELDERS Facebook Live Presentation and Q&A”.

The video features Michael Daher, who has a distinctly Australian accent.

Further research reveals Daher’s actual name is Michel Daher. He also goes by Micho Nicolas.

Daher, or Nicolas, is a long-time resident of Perth, Australia. For reference, Perth is on the western coast of Australia. Blacktown in Sydney is on the east coast.

Prior to reinventing himself as the CEO of an MLM company, Daher fancied himself a vlogger and “amateur experimental chef and lover of food“.

Circa 2015, Daher was working as a photographer for The Shed Studios Australasia:

Up until very recently, the photo used to represent the new “Michael Daher” FaceBook profile was used on Michel Daher’s YouTube channel:

As far as I can tell, Daher/Niholas has no prior MLM corporate experience.

Taking a step back, Metafi Yielders has all the calling cards of a Russian Boris CEO Ponzi scheme. You have a template website, Telegram support, CEO nobody has ever heard of and random residential address.

What’s missing is the usual rented office videos. What gives?

Metafi Yielders’ website domain (“metafiyielders.com”), was privately registered on March 16th, 2022.

Russia invaded Ukraine a few weeks earlier in mid February. Heavy sanctions soon followed.

I imagine finding English-speaking foreign nationals in Russia presently can’t be easy. And so we have what appears to be the first budget Boris CEO Ponzi.

That is to say Micho Nicolas has been hired to front Metafi Yielders. He’s been sent a tshirt and rocks up to Metafi Yielders webinars on a webcam from his residence in Perth.

A far cry from the rented office studio production videos Boris CEO Ponzis usually deliver.

Alternatively Daher/Nicolas is some random schmuck who woke up one day and decided to launch his own MLM company.

Maybe someone can ask him about this on the next Metafi Yielders webinar?

Alexa currently ranks top sources of traffic to Metafi Yielders’ website as Vietnam (19%), the US (18%) and Colombia (13%).

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…]

Having unofficially collapsed in December 2020 with the launch of Electric Cash and subsequent failed shitcoins, Mining City has now officially collapsed.

As per an email sent out by CEO Greg Rogowski, Mining City has implemented withdrawal restrictions. [Continue reading…]

Congo Republic’s Director General of National Financial Institutions, Jean-Pierre Nonault, has stated OmegaPro is a “Ponzi type scam”.

The declaration follows arrest warrants issued against two national OmegaPro managers. [Continue reading…]

With its Digital Partners Network Ponzi in tatters, Crowd1 has revealed its next Ponzi play: Metaversy.

Metaversy is a new blockchain based trading game where you as a player can trade virtual shares in companies which only exist in the Metaverse!

This will be the most revolutionary game you’ll ever play! At the cutting edge of the digital frontier, where crypto and blockchain meets the Metaverse, this is a game as exciting and rewarding as Wall Street, but without the suits!

Metaversy, a crypto stock market through which Crowd1 will continue to offer unregistered securities and defraud consumers. [Continue reading…]