ZYIA Active operates in the clothing MLM niche, specifically marketing activewear.

ZYIA Active is an active lifestyle brand. It is also a culture that believes in embracing activity with excitement, vigor and delight.

ZYIA Active operates in the US, Canada and Australia. The company doesn’t provide a corporate address on its website.

ZYIA Active’s website Terms and Conditions however points to a Draper, Utah mailing address.

Heading up ZYIA Active are co-founders Erin and Jeremiah Badley.

Erin Bradley serves as ZYIA Active’s CEO. Jeremiah Bradley is Chairman of the Board.

Erin Bradley claims she and her husband created ZYI Active because they

wanted to create something that would get women out there together to become healthier, more active and to feel more purpose in life.

I realized that one of the best ways for me to stay energized and positive was to get outside with my friends and do something active or adventurous, or preferably both.

It led me to want to be more active with my own family. It helped me be more productive in other areas of my life as well and I found myself becoming closer to being my best self.

Being active and getting outside helped my family get away from electronics and distractions.

I wasn’t able to establish whether Erin Bradley had an MLM history prior to ZYIA Active.

Jeremiah Bradley first appeared on BehindMLM in 2015, as then co-CEO of Agel.

Jeremiah Bradley started with Agel Enterprises from the beginning after finishing his college degree in International Studies at Brigham Young University.

Agel launched in 2005. In 2013 it was sold of CVSL. CVSL rebranded itself to JRJR33 and went on to collapse in July 2018, dragging Agel down with it.

It seems Jeremiah Bradley got out a few years before JRJR33’s collapse (possibly while Agel was in decline), with ZYIA Active launching in 2016.

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

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

Fundsz’s website domain (“fundsz.com”), was first registered in 2020. The private registration was last updated on May 5th, 2022.

Fundsz’s official FaceBook Group has two moderators; Kim Diaz and Rene Larralde (right).

Kim Diaz is a fake profile represented by a stock photo. Rene Larralde’s FaceBook profile places him in the US state of Florida.

Prior to Fundsz Larralde ran Maxous:

As per the marketing slide above, Maxous was a membership based pyramid scheme.

The other five Fundsz admins are revealed in an official marketing presentation:

JP Valcarce appears to head up Fundsz as Chairman of the Board.

Juan Pablo Valcarce (right) is also based out of Florida. I wasn’t able to establish whether Valcarce has an MLM history under either of his aliases.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Valcarce was Vice President of Sales as an industrial products firm from Feb 2019 to June 2021. He then accepted his current position, as Marketing Liason for Encompass Health.

Read on for a full review of Fundsz MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

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

FullBNB’s website domain (“fullbnb.net”), was registered on March 25th. “Luis Angel Montes” is listed as the owner, through a random address in Argentina.

The email used to register FullBNB was also used to register BNBglend.

BNBglend appears to be a clone of FullBNB, running the same website backend script.

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…]

Coenie Botha’s latest legal grift in Namibia has seen him claim running his Ponzi scheme costs $62,150 a month.

This is based on a March carve-out, which saw the Bank of Namibia required to unfreeze enough for CBI Global to meet its “day-to-day operations”.

CBI Global is a collapsed MLM crypto Ponzi scheme run by one man. What operations and what expenses? [Continue reading…]

The PerRank Ponzi scheme is demanding more money from its investors.

Withdrawals have been disabled and those who don’t hand over funds will be terminated. [Continue reading…]

BlackFort Wallet fails to disclose who owns or runs the company on its website.

Instead, BlackFort Wallet represents it is incorporated in Estonia and the BVI;

BlackFort Wallet & Exchange is the trading name of the company incorporated in the Republic of Estonia under the name BlackFort Tech Estonia OU and comprises of the following sister company.

BlackFort Inc (BVI) – Is part of global OP setup. It operates the creation and concepting of the BXF token economy as well as the rights to it.

It also serves the purpose of a possible expansion to other jurisdictions.

Although it’s less common today, a few years back Estonia was marketing itself a blockchain bro paradise.

This saw scammers incorporate their crypto scams there to gain access to banking channels.

With respect to BlackFort Wallet, this likely ties into BlackFort Exchange.

BlackFort Wallet Services provided by Blackfort Tech Estonia OÜ, Cryptocurrency Wallet & Exchange License number FVT000100.

BlackFort Exchange is accessed through an app and serves as BlackFort Wallet’s online presence.

The domain (“blackfort.exchange”) was first registered in 2019. The private domain registration was last updated in July 2021.

BVI needs no introduction as a scam-haven. BlackFort Inc. is another shell company, incorporated in the BVI for nefarious purposes.

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…]

YDYS Trading provides no information about who owns or runs the company on its website.

In fact as I write this, YDYS Trading’s website is nothing more than an affiliate log in form:

YDYS Trading’s website domain (“ydyscrypto.com”), was privately registered on February 19th, 2022.

On April 21st the Philippine SEC issued a YDYS Trading securities fraud warning.

The records of the Commission show that YDYS TRADING OPC is registered with the Commission on 01 March 2022 as a One Person Corporation.

However, as indicated in its Certificate of Incorporation, it clearly states that it is NOT AUTHORIZED to solicit investments from the public.

The regulator identified cited Mar Albert Pondang Hidalgo as “head” of YDYS Trading.

On social media Hidalgo goes by “Mar Albert Hidalgo”. He is based out of the Philippines.

Perusing Hidalgo’s FaceBook profile, it appears YDYS is his first MLM venture as an executive.

Circa 2020 Hidalgo was shilling whacky COVID-19 “therapy equipment”:

In 2021 Hidalgo was promoting PMS Prime 98 Select:

PMS Prime 98 Select is an MLM company that makes all sorts of bogus health claims about its products:

The promo photo above was posted to Hidalgo’s FaceBook page in late December 2021.

By February 2022 Hidalgo had reinvented himself as a crypto bro and launched YDYS Trading.

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

COTP Ponzi victims are being targeted with a reload Ponzi.

COTP Safer Miner has popped up on the domain “cotp.finance”.

The domain was privately registered on May 24th, 2022. COTP Safe Miner appears to have launched on or around June 9th. [Continue reading…]

Back in April Karatbars International affiliates reported receipt of an email from AcuaWellington.

AcuaWellington represented they’d “taken over all receivables and liabilities of the Karatbars group of companies”.

Further research reveals Acua Wellington is in all likelihood a recovery scam. But not your typical recovery scam. [Continue reading…]

Emile Parfait Simb, owner of the Liyeplimal Ponzi scheme, was arrested in Cameroon last month.

Cameroonian authorities apprehended Simb as he attempted to board a plane bound for Morocco.

Despite being charged with “serious fraud”, Simb was released on condition he hand over his passport.

Upon being released, Simb and his family promptly fled Cameroon. (Curb Your Enthusiasm theme.mp3)

Initial reports tracking Simb claimed he had fled to the Cenral African Republic. The latest is Simb turning up in Russia. [Continue reading…]