Xifra Lifestyle has been fined $985,820 MXN for securities fraud violations in Mexico. [Continue reading…]

My Daily Choice, Arieyl and its “launch team” distributors have reached a settlement.

The settlement resulted in a stipulation of voluntary dismissal filed on May 17th.

On May 18th the court granted the stipulation, bringing My Daily Choice’s lawsuit to an end. [Continue reading…]

Andre Vaughn’s Feb 2022 Chapter 7 bankruptcy has resulted in a settlement agreement with Youngevity. [Continue reading…]

HyperTech co-founder Sam Lee, on the run from liquidators in Australia, is purportedly holding meetings in Dubai.

Lee and various scamlords are plotting the launch of HyperOne. They’re aiming to get smaller scammers and victims under them on board. [Continue reading…]

Spellbound, aka The Spellbound Co, operates in the personal care MLM niche.

Spellbound’s website represents the company is based out of the UK…

This website and our communications are created for access in the UK.

…but no specific corporate address is provided.

Spellbound initially launched in late 2020. In mid 2021 the company went through a “relaunch”:

Then in March 2022, Spellbound relaunched again;

As of 25/03/2022 at 8pm, we are extremely excited to announce that Spellbound has become the UK and Northern Ireland’s newest Direct Sales company!

After years of experience and passion behind our incredible products as well as a successful affiliate pilot programme, we invite you to join as a Spellbound Ambassador, share these luxury products and participate in our outstanding career plan.

Spellbound’s third iteration is the MLM company we are looking at today.

Heading up Spellbound are mother and daughter team Caroline Ray and Chanelle Fry.

Caroline Ray doesn’t appear to have any MLM experience, at least not recently. Ray’s Spellbound corporate bio credits here with

a long, successful career in education and (she) previously worked in media.

Chanelle Fry made a name for herself in PlanNet Marketing, a travel MLM opportunity she marketed under “The Travel Tribe”.

Fry also incorporated coaching into her MLM business, marketing herself

It’s no secret that COVID-19 obliterated the travel industry worldwide in 2020.

In late 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to wreak havoc across the world, Fry attempted to resuscitate her travel business with an “Ignite 2020” marketing campaign.

That would turn out to be premature, prompting a direction change with Spellbound circa November 2020.

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

ZetBull has received a pyramid fraud warning from the Central Bank of Russia. [Continue reading…]

Following his appearance in HyperOne marketing material, Kalpesh Patel has denied any involvement in HyperOne.

Patel, one of HyperFund’s and Hyperverse’s top earners, claims HyperOne has nothing to do with Hyperverse. [Continue reading…]

I wasn’t sure if HyperOne was a joke at first.

Update 17th May 2022 – Turns out my spidey sense was dead on, HyperOne doesn’t appear to have anything to do with HyperTech, HyperFund or Hyperverse.

Kalpesh Patel has confirmed he has nothing to do with HyperOne in a recently published social media video.

I’ll leave this review up as a record of what HyperOne was pitching. /end update

The first video uploaded to HyperOne’s official Youtube channel is an old 2018 blockchain bro video featuring Sam Lee.

Lee, along with Ryan Xu, are HyperTech’s co-founders. They’re on the run from liquidators in Australia and are believed to be hiding out in Dubai.

You probably won’t hear much of Xu and Lee, if at all, in HyperOne’s marketing.

Instead we have two of the few people left promoting Hyperverse, Kalpesh Patel…

…and his sidekick Keith Williams:

There are some other names in HyperOne’s marketing but I wasn’t able to confirm involvement so I’ll leave them out for now.

Like Lee and Xu, Kalpesh Patel fled to Dubai to cement his Ponzi legacy.

Patel travels back to the UK from time to time to visit family. The UK is almost as lax as Dubai when it comes to MLM securities fraud regulation.

Keith Williams joins Patel on his Hyper* Ponzi webinars. Williams’ LinkedIn profile places him in the UK.

The other top earner in recent Hyper* Ponzis is Rodney Burton, a US citizen.

As far as I can tell he’s cashed out and isn’t coming back. Burton now spends his time walking around Dubai in his pajamas:

Hyperverse saw Xu and Lee hire an actor to play CEO Steven Reece Lewis.

Lewis is nowhere to be seen with HyperOne. He appears to have been paid off but the content bot is still posting social media cringe on his Twitter account:

HyperOne’s website domain (“hcash.one”), was registered on April 26th, 2022. “Hyper One” is listed as the owner, through the Cayman Island. All other domain ownership details are redacted.

As to HyperTech, it’s a Ponzi factory created by Sam Lee and Ryan Xu.

First we had HyperCapital, then HyperFund, then Hyperverse (short-lived) and now HyperOne.

All MLM crypto Ponzi schemes and, except for HyperOne, all have collapsed.

So with mounting losses and executives in hiding, what’s HyperOne’s marketing schtick?

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

Aleksey Muratov’s Prizm and Roy Club Ponzi schemes have collapsed.

Both the Prizm and Roy Club websites have been pulled. Muratov continues to string PRIZM investors along with “Prizm Space”. [Continue reading…]

Gym Network provides no executive or ownership information on its website.

Instead Alberto Mera, Lewis Mhlanga and Timur Ozturk are presented as low-tier staff to represent the company:

Further research reveals affiliates citing Claudio Catrini as Gym Network’s CEO:

Why Catrini isn’t on Gym Network’s website is unclear.

Catrini claims to be a “crypto lover”. This is a relatively new development that took place over the past year.

More recently still, Catrini has gotten into the “passive income” crypto niche:

As far as the MLM crypto space goes, passive income is typically code for investment fraud.

Prior to reinventing himself as a crypto bro, Catrini was involved in digital marketing. This has primarily been through Trendda and “Claudio Catrini Akademie GmbH.

Catrini co-founded Trendda in 2019.  Claudio Catrini Akademie has been around since 2003.

On the MLM side of things Catrini co-founded Athletic Factory in mid 2021:

Athletic Factory was a German fitness themed MLM (fitness appears to be a running theme for Catrini).

Athletic Factory’s website is still up but traffic to it is dead. Athletic Factory’s official FaceBook page was abandoned in November 2021, suggesting the company has been abandoned.

Gym Network’s website domain (“gymnetwork.io”), was privately registered on December 13th, 2021.

Also Supporting Athletic Factory collapsing is Catrini relocating from Germany to Bulgaria around the same time:

Bulgaria has a horrendous track record when it comes to MLM regulation.

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