Digital Partners Network claims reporting on its partnership with Crowd1 is defamatory. [Continue reading…]

Despite being only a few months old, Futures Trade is beginning to feel the Ponzi withdrawal crunch.

Hardly surprising when you consider the scam touted a 150% ROI in just 6 days. [Continue reading…]

Following on from the SEC subpoenaing Investview for information on their iGenius opportunity, the company has come out with new compliance documentation.

There is of course no reference to iGenius’ passive returns trading bot. In fact iGenius flat out lies about the offering altogether. [Continue reading…]

Last November GSPartners threatened US-based YouTube channel Grit Grind Gold with a lawsuit.

On December 16th, GSPartners filed a harassment lawsuit against Grit Grind Gold and owner Chris Saunders. [Continue reading…]

EmpiresX has received a securities fraud warning from Spain’s Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores.

As per the CNMV’s January 17th warning, EmpiresX [Continue reading…]

GSPartners has stopped whatever they were doing to peg G999’s public trading value at around 5 to 7 cents.

Consequently G999’s trading volume and value has plummeted. [Continue reading…]

Futures Trade provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

Futures Trade’s website domain (“futurestrade.io”), was privately registered on November 6th, 2021.

Futures Trade’s official marketing presentation was authored by Aziz Samoon on January 2nd, 2022.

Samoon (right) owns Visionitive Media, a “social media and digital marketing agency” based out of Dubai.

Other names attached are the three admins of the official Futures Trade’s FaceBook group; John Botting, Alonso Alonso and Dylan Carnell.

According to his FaceBook profile, John Botting (right) is from the UK.

Botting first taste of cryptocurrency fraud appears to have been iHub Global mid last year.

In October 2021 Botting tried Lifevantage:

That doesn’t seem to have worked out.

Alonso Alonso is a career scammer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

BehindMLM last came across Alonso in relation to Up2Give, a 2019 bitcoin gifting scheme.

Perusal of Alonso’s FaceBook profile reveals he’s still neck-deep in fraud.

Dylan Carnell is from Manchester in the UK. He’s currently hiding out in Bali, Indonesia.

In official marketing videos, Carnell introduces himself as CEO of Futures Trade.

Carnell’s digital footprint prior to FuturesTrade is virtually non-existent, which I’m flagging as suspicious.

On the money side of things Carnell is laundering invested funds through the UK shell company Futures Trade Holdings LTD.

Futures Trade Holdings LTD was incorporated November 25th, 2021.

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.

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

Targeting investors desperate to cash out any way they can, Hyperverse has set up a series of BTC pools.

Payouts from the pools will see deposited HVT pay out cents on the dollar. [Continue reading…]

Hyperverse claims its created “a virtual metaverse comprising of millions of planets”, through which it will allow investors to enter “the age of interstellar migration”.

With that in mind and remembering Hyperverse supposedly has “1000 IT professionals” slaving away 24/7, news of manually approved withdrawal requests is baffling. [Continue reading…]

A December 2020 FXChoice support ticket reveals Johann Steynberg, or someone impersonating him, attempted to access 1282 BTC from MTI’s then seized account.

The ticket also reveals Steynberg evidently had a warped understanding of securities regulation in the US. [Continue reading…]