United Power Up fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

United Power Up’s website domain (“unitedpowerup.com”), was privately registered on June 14th, 2022.

Further research reveals affiliates citing Sverker Caron as United Power Up’s CEO:

Up until early 2022, Sverker Caron was Head of Product Development for the Crowd1 Ponzi scheme.

Caron was a regular Crowd1 promoter until he was promoted to Miggster.

They needed a project leader for Miggster, so I started with Miggster immediately.

But as I have a Crowd1 background, I’ve been at almost every event that we’ve had, the Philippines, in South Africa, and now in Dubai.

I do two shifts, I work with Miggster but I’m also out meeting the leaders and telling them about Crowd1.

Miggster was part of Crowd1’s ongoing attempts to legitimize investment fraud with attached products and services.

Initially pitched as a mobile gaming platform, when that ruse ran dry Planet IX was launched.

Like all the other Ponzi ruses it came up with, nobody in Crowd1 was interested in PlanetIX. The ruse fell apart in March 2022 through a staged sell off.

Crowd1 has all but collapsed amid ongoing withdrawal delays. The scammers that were tied to its gaming ruses, like Sverker Caron, have gone on to launch their own scams.

Star Horizon is one BehindMLM recently reviewed, headed up Emerge Gaming CEO Gregory Stevens. United Power Up appears to be another one.

On the corporate side of things, United Power Up is incorporated as Soniqeflow OÜ in Estonia. Beyond shell incorporation, United Power Up doesn’t appear to have any ties to Estonia.

Sverker Caron’s social media profiles cite him as a Swedish national living in Spain.

Prior to Crowd1, Caron promoted the World Games Inc,  Enwire/Spinglo pyramid scheme, and Wenyard and Nasgo Ponzi schemes.

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

Attorneys representing OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova, have filed a claim on an otherwise abandoned £13.5 million penthouse in London. [Continue reading…]

Last month OmegaPro revealed the end of its Ponzi exit-scam; Broker Group.

If we look at the source-code for Broker-Group’s website, we notice something strange:

There are fifty-three references to the domain “evolve.markets”.

Evolve Markets is a cryptocurrency trading platform that seemingly has nothing to do with OmegaPro or Broker Group.

A BehindMLM reader contacted Evolve Markets, who confirmed as much via email. [Continue reading…]

Bank of America has secured an $831,505.83 default judgment against Tori Belle.

BoA’s lawsuit was filed in September 2022. In their complaint, BoA alleged non-payment of a $500,000 credit debt. [Continue reading…]

Back in September Plaintiff Suhanna Jens was awarded an individual $10,000 judgment. It appeared at the time that her intended class-action was off the table.

Since then a class has been certified and, more recently, Jens won summary judgment against Tori Belle with respect to additional damages. [Continue reading…]

Awakend has announced it will ship out replacement Zenith after identifying solubility issues with its capsules. [Continue reading…]

Bulgarian authorities have raided the offices of the Nexo crypto Ponzi scheme.

That itself is just another day in crypto but authorities are apparently alleging Nexo’s founders had ties to OneCoin. [Continue reading…]

800 victims of the BitConnect Ponzi scheme are set to receive a share in $17 million recovered through restitution. [Continue reading…]

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

eSelfie’s website domain (“eselfie.co.za”), was registered in January 2021. The private registration was last updated on December 18th, 2022.

Tying in with eSelfie’s South African domain is a provided corporate address in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Update 13th Janaury 2023 – Corporate records from South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Properties Commission reveal Edward Carney Thwaits is a director of eSelfie (click to enlarge):

eSelfie was incorporate in South Africa in February 2022.

Beyond this corporate record, confirming Thwaits is in South Africa, I wasn’t able to pull up any further information. /end update

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…]

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

In fact, as I write this, SuperAventure’s website is nothing more than an affiliate login form:

SuperAventure’s website defaults to French, thus appearing to target French speaking regions.

SuperAventure’s website domain (“superventure.xyz”), was privately registered on June 30th, 2022.

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…]