Michael Faust’s “secret” Project Lantern Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Withdrawals have been disabled due to “significant losses”. [Continue reading…]

Four days into his trial, Alan Friedland has settled fraud allegations with the CFTC.

This one is a bit unusual, as typically we see settlements reached before trial. I think this is the first MLM fraud trial I’ve seen where a settlement was reached during trial. [Continue reading…]

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

StakeBNB’s website domain (“stakebnb.io”), was initially registered in June 2021.

The private registration was last updated on November 23rd, 2021.

Traffic to StakeBNB’s website picked up in early January 2022. Alexa currently ranks Togo as the only notable source of traffic (30%).

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…]

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

Batman’s website domain registration details are shielded by the .LI registrar.

Batman’s website defaults to Russian. Russian and English are the only two native available languages provided.

Alexa currently ranks Russia as the top source of traffic to Batman’s website (24%), followed by Ukraine (6%) and Algeria (5%).

On February 4th the Bank of Russia issued Batman a pyramid scheme warning.

Batman also has an official vKontakte profile. vKontakte is Russia’s largest social network.

All of this points to Batman being run by Russians. The Ukraine is also a possibility.

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…]

Luca Di Donna, an Italian lawyer with ties to former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, is under investigation for OneCoin money laundering. [Continue reading…]

CashFX Group has been declared an illegal business in Italy.

As a result CONSOB, Italy’s top financial regulator, has ordered CashFX Group’s website be blocked nationally. [Continue reading…]

Marketing Boost provides no information about who owns or runs the company.

To get that information you need to click off-site to Marketing Boost’s webinars. There it’s revealed Marco Torres is Marketing Boost’s founder.

On one of Torres’ many FaceBook profiles, we additionally learn Marketing Boost launched in 2017.

The company is tied to Digital Experts LLC.

According to another of Torres’ profiles, he’s based out of Florida. There is a Digital Experts LLC incorporated in Florida, which I’m assuming is one and the same company.

Advertising Boost appears to be a clone launch of Marketing Boost:

Not sure what the story is there but Advertising Boost doesn’t exist anymore. A visit to Advertising Boost’s website domain redirects to Marketing Boost.

Advertising Boost’s website domain registration was last updated on January 31st, 2022.

While he does have a marketing history, I wasn’t able to pin down whether Torres has an MLM history.

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

Drip Network provides no verifiable information about who owns or runs the company on its website.

Drip Network’s website domain (“drip.community”), was privately registered on March 22nd, 2021.

The registration was last updated on December 28th, which correlates with an uptick in Drip Network website traffic throughout December 2021.

While it doesn’t provide any verifiable ownership information, Drip Network’s website attributes company ownership to the aliases “Forex_Shark” and “BB”.

These correspond to the Telegram accounts “Forex_Sh4rk” and “BBbest123” respectively.

A few hours ago the YouTube channel “Crypto Atlas” uploaded an interview with “Drip Network & Animal Farm Creator Forex Shark”.

Forex Shark is represented by an image. He does however have a North American accent.

Perusal of Drip Network’s official whitepaper reveals one of the admins behind it goes by “Mark”.

Alexa currently ranks top sources of traffic to Drip Network’s website as the US (41%), Australia (7%) and Canada (5%).

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…]

In December 2020 BehindMLM published an article titled “Ash Mufareh still stalling OnPassive launch after 2.5 years”.

We’re now at around three and a half years and… OnPassive still hasn’t launched.

So what’s founder Ash Mufareh been up to since our 2020 update?

GoFounders has been renamed to O-Founders.

Yeah uh, that’s pretty much it. [Continue reading…]

About a week ago BehindMLM started receiving reports of new checks sent to Zeek Rewards victims.

Today the Receiver confirmed these were final distribution payments. [Continue reading…]