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

Brainstorm’s website domain (“brainstorm.market”), was privately registered on September 12th, 2024.

Further research reveals Brainstorm marketing material citing CEO Jubbaer Miah:

Miah appears to be some random crypto bro from the UK, now residing in Dubai:

On its official YouTube channel, which for some reason isn’t linked from Brainstorm’s website, the native language of marketing videos is French.

Of note is Brainstorm marketing a “trading bootcamp in Dubai” last month:

From this we can ascertain Brainstorm is likely being run by French scammers in Dubai, hiding behind Jubbaer Miah as CEO.

Further supporting this is, as of February 2025, SimilarWeb tracking 100% of Brainstorm’s website traffic from France.

Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

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Vestas Mall fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Vestas Mall’s website domain (“vestasmall.com”), was registered with bogus details on February 28th, 2025.

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Sirius Energy fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Unnamed individuals represented by presumable stolen and/or AI-generated photos are presented as Sirius Energy executives:

Sirius Energy’s website domain (“serius-energy.co”), was privately registered on April 3rd, 2024.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Sirius Energy provides New York company registration documents on its website.

Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence these certificates are meaningless.

As of February 2025, SimilarWeb tracked 100% of Sirius Energy’s website traffic from Kazakhstan.

As opposed to the US, whoever is running Sirius Energy is also likely based out of Kazakhstan.

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South Africa’s courts have beaten the Hawks to the punch.

Mirror Trading International suspected owner and confirmed primary beneficiary, Clynton Marks, has been arrested for contempt of court. [Continue reading…]

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

TronSoy operates from two known website domains:

1. tronsoy.xyz – registered in October 2024, private registration last updated on February 20th, 2025
2. tronsoy.vip – privately registered on October 8th, 2024

If we look at the website source-code on TronSoy’s website, we see it is localized to Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running TronSoy has ties to China.

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E1ULife fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

E1ULife’s website domain (“e1ulife.com”), was first registered in December 2021. The private registration was last updated on November 19th, 2024.

Further research reveals E1ULife marketing videos citing David Golden as its owner and CEO:

As per his LinkedIn profile, Golden is based out of Florida in the US:

In the experience of his LinkedIn profile, Golden cites CoinLogiq and Ingreso Cybernetico.

CoinLogiq is a collapsed bitcoin ATM scheme that targeted Colombia. Ingreso Cybernetico is a collapsed MLM pyramid scheme.

Both CoinLogiq and Ingreso Cybernetico were run by serial fraudster Dwayne Golden (right).

I wasn’t able to pin down specifics but it’s not unreasonable to suggest a family connection between David and Dwayne Golden.

Dwayne Golden was indicted in 2022 on charges related to his involvement in multiple MLM crypto Ponzi schemes.

Golden pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in September 2024.

Golden has already consented to forfeiture of $2.46 million, with sentencing expected to be scheduled later this year.

Separately, the CFTC filed parallel civil fraud charges against Golden in 2022. The outcome of the CFTC’s case has been stayed pending Golden’s sentencing.

Even if he’s not related, David Golden was very much part of Dwayne Golden’s crime spree from at least 2013 to 2020.

Also with Dwayne Golden out on bail pending sentencing, we can’t rule out him being unofficially involved in (and/or actually running) E1ULife.

Update 10th March 2025 – I was able to independently confirm a family connection between David and Dwayne Golden.

/end update

Update 11th March 2025 – I was able to independently confirm Dwayne Golden has been involved in E1ULife since launch in 2021:

/end update

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AItoCap, or AItoCapital, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its websites.

AItoCap operates from two known website domains, “aitocap.co” and “aitocap.com”. Both domains were registered with bogus details on February 7th, 2025.

Of note is AItoCap’s website domains being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

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UniLive fails to provide ownership or executive information on either of its websites.

UniLive operates from two known website domains:

1. unilive.io (marketing website) – privately registered on August 11th, 2024
2. h.lulin.top (affiliate login/signup) – registered in September 2023, private registration last updated on November 11th, 2024

Instead of being honest about its founders and management, in its marketing material UniLive presents fictional executives represented by cartoons:

Over on social media UniLive ditches the cartoons…

…but we’re still only left with CEOs “Steve” and “Hunter” represented by photos of unknown origin.

A UniLive rented office marketing video doing the rounds looks like someone hired out an AirBNB and put up temporary UniLive signage.

UniLive’s marketing represents the company is based out of Singapore:

Chinese also features on UniLive’s websites:

And UniLive’s website domain uses Alibaba name-servers.

Putting all of this together, we can likely ascertain UniLive is being run by:

1. Singaporean admins;
2. Chinese admins operating out of Singapore; or
3. Singaporean and Chinese admins working together out of Singapore.

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Patek Mall fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Patek Mall’s website domain (“patekmall.vip”), was registered with bogus details on February 15th, 2025.

Of note is Patek Mall’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

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Treasure Island fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Treasure Island operates from three known website domains:

1. treasureislandnetwork.com – registered in October 2023, private registration last updated on September 18th, 2024
2. ticoin.io – registered in July 2024, private registration last updated on February 25th, 2025
3. watchtreasureisland.com – registered in May 2021, registration last updated June 1st, 2024 by owner Connect Social through Manitoba, Canada address

As per its LinkedIn profile…

…Connect Social LLC is

an Innovative Digital Marketing Company helping retailers to make/save money by growing their customer base.

The website domain provided on Connect Social’s LinkedIn profile is disabled but the company appears to have moved to “iamconnect.com”.

“Iamconnect.com” was registered in January 2018. The registration was last updated on January 6th, 2025 and lists Connect Social LLC, through a Nevada address, as the domain’s owner.

Heading up Connect Social is Manitoba resident Brett Nicholson:

Over on LinkedIn Nicholson also cites himself as “owner and COO of Treasure Island Productions LLC”:

I am proud to be a partner in an innovative new Reality Television show – Treasure Island.

Nicholson doesn’t appear to have an MLM history. Prior to Connect Social and Treasure Island, Nicholson appears to have been involved in real-estate and building supplies.

Why Nicholson’s ownership of Treasure Island is not disclosed on the company’s website is unclear.

Update 22nd March 2025 – Turns out Brett Nicholson is working with Jeff Dyck, the actual founder and CEO of Treasure Island.

Dyck, who now goes by Jeff Jeffries, is a convicted tax fraudster who’s served time in Canada. /end update

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