Thrive99X fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Thrive99X operates from two known website domains:

1. thrive99x.com – privately registered on December 26th, 2024 (already abandoned)
2. thrive99x.io – privately registered on April 8th, 2025

Thrive99X launched on or around April 22nd. The company maintains social media profiles on both Instagram and TikTok. All of Thrive99X’s promotional content is in Spanish.

In one marketing video, purportedly showing off a Thrive99X marketing event held in Panama last month, we find Juan Carlos Reynoso.

Juan Carlos Reynoso is a serial fraudster, primarily responsible for losses across Central and South America.

Reynoso was a top promoter of the collapsed OmegaPro Ponzi scheme, which led to his arrest in Florida on June 30th.

In court filings, the DOJ noted Reynoso last used his Peruvian passport on June 13th. It’s assumed this is related to the recent Thrive99X marketing event.

Prior to OmegaPro, Reynoso was involved in AirBit Club, Crypto World Evolution, iComTech and TeaMiner.

Another attendee of Thrive99X’s June 2025 marketing event was Alejandra Viteri.

On social media, Viteri cites herself as a “digital creator”, “investor” and “manifestor”.

Viteri is also behind Viteri Studio, an “eyebrow specialist” business based out of Medellin, Colombia.

Viteri Studio appears to have been abandoned in or around 2022.

One last name worth noting is Noach Kettler Yakowitz.

From 2018 to 2022, Yakowitz was a General Manager at Ecoondas SAS, a Colombian wholesale precious metals retailer.

Circa 2022 Yakowitz reinvented himself as a crypto bro. In August 2022 Yakowitz co-founded Alternun, a crypto scheme that claims it wants to “revolutionize the gold mining industry”.

As of January 2025, Yakowitz is also Chief Business Officer at Futswap.

On its website Futswap states it

offers a variety of products such as Trust account and digital asset management, payment processors, digital wallets, custodian and financial cards.

Whether Futswap is providing financial services to Thrive99X is unclear.

Also unclear is whether Juan Carlos Reynoso is working with Russians.

Towards the bottom of the “marketing system” section of Thrive99X’s website, we find a link to a “ready to go marketing system”:

If we follow this link we’re sent to “sx3digital.com”. The root domain is disabled but a registration page remains active:

The marketing platform is of little interest. What’s of note is the “welcome to profitclub.io” message on the top right.

That domain is disabled. Through the WayBack Machine though, we can see it was once a crypto investment scheme pitching up to 52% annually.

As you can see above, Profit Club’s website defaulted to Russian. This suggests whoever Reynoso is working with has ties to eastern Europe (typically Russia, Ukraine and/or Belarus).

In the footer of Thrive99X’s website we find a message claiming “design, development and hosting by GorillaSH.com”. That domain is defunct so the message is likely a red herring.

Just to cover my bases, a visit to the Wayback Machine reveals when the GorillaSH domain was active, it was represented to offer “custom web-based software designed and developed in the USA since 2011.

No ownership details were provided.

In what might be another red herring, Thrive99X’s website Terms and Condition state:

This agreement is governed by the laws of California. Any disputes must be resolved in California courts and conducted in English.

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…]

Metamask has flagged DAO1’s website domain as “potentially deceptive”.

Metamask, a US-based software company, markets itself as the “leading crypto wallet platform”.

Consumers can connect their Metamask wallets to participate in DAO1’s unregistered investment scheme.

In or around early to mid July, Metamask began flagging DAO1’s website as “might be harmful”. [Continue reading…]

Thrive Life has collapsed.

As per a notice published on Thrive Life’s website, the company “will be closing” on August 31st. [Continue reading…]

Cermak, a reboot of the collapsed Skainet Systems Ponzi scheme, has collapsed.

Cermak, aka CermakFX, was a trading ruse Ponzi scheme launched shortly after Skainet Systems collapsed last month.

Skainet Systems victims were pitched on a typical trading bot ruse, wherein they were promised 50% of generated profits. [Continue reading…]

With BioLimitless failing to recapture Daisy Ponzi victims, co-conspirators Jeremy Roma, Eduard Khemchan and Ilya Martin have come up with a new ruse.

On July 21st Roma fronted a “Daisy updates” webinar, pitching Daisy Ponzi victims on a new AI grift from EndoTech. [Continue reading…]

Elevana operates in the vaping MLM niche. The company operates from two known website domains:

1. myelevana.com – privately registered on March 27th, 2025
2. info4elevana.com – privately registered on June 30th, 2025

The only executive Elevana discloses on its websites is Global Director “Felix Anthony”:

Felix Anthony is an alias of serial fraudster Philip Piccolo (right).

Piccolo, who now stylizes himself as a Pastor, also goes by Felix Angelo Piccolo, Felix Phillip Angelo, Felice DeAngelo, Johnny d’Angelo, Johnny Dangelo, Phillip Angelo P., Joseph Stevens, Don Johnson, John Nocton.

In one Elevana webinar, Piccolo messed up by showing his WhatsApp account. In one of the chats someone addressed “Felix” as “Phil” (click to enlarge):

Piccolo has likely also used other aliases not listed above.

Piccolo’s latest grift appears to be “Kingdom Community”, a religious community targeting Filipinos. Through Kingdom Community, Piccolo has promoted multiple scams.

The most recent of these scams is MemeGames, a fraudulent MLM crypto investment scheme run by serial offender Eric J. Dalius.

In Kingdom Community marketing videos, Anthony represents himself to be Meme Games’ number one promoter:

For some reason there are also numerous references to dodgy crypto schemes in Elevana’s “myelevana” website source-code:

These are assumed to be past scams Piccolo has either run or promoted.

Piccolo is primarily known to BehindMLM for his involvement in the Vista Network Ponzi scheme. Piccolo was also a promoter of the notorious Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme.

As part of the Vista Network civil lawsuit fallout, Piccolo filed for bankruptcy in late 2022.

Piccolo is known to reside in Florida but at time of publication this couldn’t be confirmed.

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

Anubi Webkey fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Anubi Webkey’s website domain (“webkey.vip”), was privately registered on July 12th, 2024.

Anubi Webkey’s official marketing documentation is named in Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running Anubi Webkey has ties to China.

Supporting this are staged Anubi Webkey marketing events, featuring song and dance productions typical of Asian scams:

Rather than front Anubi Webkey themselves, “Yaniv Porslekov” is presented as CSO:

Porslekov’s only digital profile are Twitter and LinkedIn profiles, both created in August 2024 (around the time Anubi Webkey launched).

Porslekov is obviously played by an actor. Typically we’d classify him as a Boris CEO but he’s not presented as running the company.

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…]

R1Life fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

R1Life’s website domain (“r1life.com”), was privately registered on March 21st, 2025.

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…]

BehindMLM first reviewed Essens back in 2017. Following a reader request back in May, today we’re revisiting Essens for an updated review. [Continue reading…]

Bit Klever Token, aka BKT, fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

Bit Klever Token represents it is headed up by CEO “Alan Clarke”.

Clarke doesn’t exist outside of Bit Klever Token’s own marketing (also note none of the above social media links work).

In official Bit Klever Token marketing videos, which appear to be shot on a cell phone, Clarke is portrayed by a man with an eastern European accent.

All of this combined, “Alan Clarke” is a strong Boris CEO candidate.

Boris CEO schemes are where an actor is hired to front a scam. They are typically run by eastern European scammers (Russia, Ukraine and/or Belarus).

Update 22nd July 2025 – A reader in the comments below has provided us information confirming “Alan Clarke” is a Boris CEO.

Clarke is played by Vladimir Dolgosheya, a Russian national in his twenties:

In addition to Bit Klever Token, Dolgosheya fronted Ultra Arb as “Thomas Wilson”:

Ultra Arb is a collapsed MLM crypto Ponzi scheme launched earlier this year. /end update

Bit Klever Token’s website domain (“bitklever.com”), was privately registered on November 11th, 2024.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Bit Klever Token provides a company registration certificate for “Bit Klever Limited”. Bit Klever Limited was registered in the UK on November 22nd, 2024.

An MLM company operating or claiming to operate out of the UK is a red flag.

UK incorporation is dirt cheap and effectively unregulated. On top of that the FCA, the UK’s top financial regulator, do not actively regulate MLM related securities fraud.

As a result the UK is a favored jurisdiction for scammers looking to incorporate, operate and promote fraudulent companies.

For the purpose of MLM due-diligence, incorporation in the UK or registration with the FCA is meaningless.

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…]