A $3.2 million settlement between the JRJR33 Trustee and several executives has been approved. [Continue reading…]

Family First Life operates in the life insurance MLM niche.

The company was founded in 2013. A corporate address in Connecticut is provided.

Heading up Family First Life is CEO and President Shawn Meaike.

As per Meaike’s LinkedIn profile;

After I graduated with my Masters Degree I obtained a job with the state of CT as a social worker and I also obtained a real estate license to supplement my income.

For 15 years I worked two jobs to just keep my head above water.

When I was introduced to this opportunity, I was excited about one thing at first.

NAA had thousands of leads that we’re filled out and signed by clients that WANTED insurance and I got paid on average $550 for each person I helped.

In 2008 I worked part time with NAA and earned $296,000 in my first 12 months… I was FIRED up!!

I quit both my jobs and worked with NAA full time and the year after I earned $602,000.

This past year I 1099’d 1.4 million dollars.

I never dreamed about being a millionaire, I just wanted to help people and I was afraid to be broke.

Andy Albright the president and CEO of NAA personally mentored me and taught me how to follow the very simple system NAA has in place.

“NAA” is National Agents Alliance, another life insurance MLM.

While Maike’s LinkedIn profile might sound rosy, his split with NAA in 2013 was messy.

As alleged by NAA;

On December 12, 2013, Meaike notified NAA that he was terminating his employment.

NAA asserts that prior to Meaike ending his employment with NAA, Meaike formed FFL and actively recruited other agents employed by NAA to join FFL.

Later in December 2013 NAA’s parent company, Superior Performers, filed suit against Maike and several former NAA agents.

In their lawsuit, NAA alleged;

The solicitation of NAA’s agents was a violation of the Agent Agreements by each Defendant.

Upon information and belief, Meaike, (Marc) Meade, and (Bryant) Stone have also each violated the non-competition provisions in their Management Agreements.

Meade is a top Family First Life affiliate. I couldn’t find any current information on Bryant Stone.

NAA’s lawsuit against Meaike was lengthy, coming in at just under 400 filings.

The case was settled following mediation proceedings in January 2017.

In May 2014 NAA filed an additional trademark infringement lawsuit against Family First Life.

That case was dismissed relatively early on in February 2015.

Naturally it follows that Meaike’s time at NAA influenced the launch of Family First Life.

That said Meaike appears adamant in marketing presentations that he’s running the company his own way.

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

Success by Health’s bid to overturn summary judgment via a motion for reconsideration has been denied.

The FTC was granted liability summary judgment against Success by Health in September.

In their motion for reconsideration, the SBH defendants focused their attention on VOZ Travel. [Continue reading…]

Due to the complex nature of the case, the Bitcoiin criminal trial has been pushed back to March 14th, 2022. [Continue reading…]

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

Tronconomy’s website domain (“tronconomy.com”) was privately registered on April 12th, 2021.

At time of publication, Alexa ranks Russia as the only notable source of traffic to Tronconomy’s website (37%).

This suggests whoever is running Tronconomy is based out of Russia.

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…]

Uulala operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche. The company is based out of California in the US.

Heading up Uulala is CEO Oscar Garcia, a resident of California.

As per Garcia’s LinkedIn profile;

For the past 20 years as an entrepreneur, Mr. Garcia has built companies, and accelerated the growth of small businesses.

Mr. Garcia has over 20 years in technology and web development.

Circa 2014 Garcia held the Executive Vice President position at the Lucrazon Global Ponzi scheme.

Prior to Lucrazon Global, Garcia was a Melaleuca affiliate.

In January 2014 Garcia was a named defendant in a lawsuit filed by Melaleuca.

In the suit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Pocatello, Melaleuca is alleging that one of its former “marketing executives,” Oscar Garcia, now a vice president with Lucrazon Global, a network marketing e-commerce company based in Irvine, Calif., is pitching his newest business to current and former Melaleuca marketing executives.

“Lucrazon seeks to swell the ranks of its brand partners by raiding Melaleuca’s marketing executives,” the suit alleges.

In October 2016 Garcia settled with Melaleuca. A $5000 judgment was entered against him.

Lucrazon Global collapsed by the end of 2014. As revealed in a civil lawsuit filed in 2016, Lucrazon Global targeted elderly victims and fleeced them out of millions.

After Lucrazon Global Garcia reinvented himself as a crypto bro. This brings us to Uulala’s launch in 2017.

Uualala’s original business model saw the company sell UULA and EUULA tokens.

The company’s ICO raised over $9 million dollars.

In August 2021 the SEC announced a civil complaint against Uulala, Garcia and co-founder Matthew Loughran.

From December 2017 through January 2019, Uulala sold UULA tokens, which were allegedly to be used to record transactions in a financial application (“app”) that Uulala was developing and promoting to those without access to traditional banking services.

Uulala, Garcia, and Loughran made materially false and misleading statements to investors throughout their offering of UULA about having “patent pending” technology that had been incorporated into their app and having a proprietary algorithm to assign credit scores to users of their app.

Uulala, Garcia and Loughran settled the lawsuit.

Uulala, Garcia and Loughran respectively paid civil penalties of $300,000, $192,768 and $50,000.

If you’re wondering why those amounts are tiny compared to the $9 million raised, Ualala claims;

The revenue generated from the ICO was put back into the company to continue to enhance our technology, to pay our employees, our operating expenses and to help sustain us during the first three years of our business.

Today there is no mention of Matthew Loughran on Uulala’s website. The SEC’s complaint states Loughran stood down as Uulala’s Chief Marketing Officer shortly before it was filed.

Whether Loughran is still involved with Uulala is unclear.

Despite its initial UULA and EUULA token scheme being “dismantled”, Uulala is still around and operating as an MLM company.

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

The AntUSDT Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Withdrawals have been disabled and AntUSDT has deleted its social media accounts. [Continue reading…]

Trujivan (pronounced “true-jivan”), operates in the magic plastic disc and nutritional supplement MLM niches.

The company provides a corporate suite address in Las Vegas on its website. Further research reveals this address belongs to a UPS store.

Whether Trujivan has any physical ties to Nevada is unclear.

Heading up Trujivan are co-founders Stefan Hostettler (CEO) and Jerry Yerke (President).

According to their respective social media profiles, Hostettler and Yerke are based out of Switzerland and California respectively.

Trujivan’s marketing material states they launched in the US. The company plans to expand to Europe in November.

Reading between the lines, Hostettler will likely head up Trujivan’s European operations. Yerke will head up US operations.

BehindMLM first came across Stefan Hostettler as the face of the Tycoon69 Ponzi scheme.

Tycoon69 launched in 2019. In July 2020 Swiss regulators cracked down on the Ponzi scheme, leading to its collapse.

Austrian authorities issued a Tycoon69 securities fraud warning a few months later.

Today Tycoon69 still has a website up but the business is effectively dead.

Jerry Yerke has been involved in MLM for over a decade.

In the early 2010s Yerke promoted Lyoness and then Dubli. In 2015 Yerke was appointed Dubli’s Chief Network Officer.

Yerke held that position until at least mid 2018. In August 2019 Yerke signed on as Director of Business Development at Jeunesse.

Although he’s not mentioned anywhere on Trujivan’s website, someone else worth noting is Shane Morand.

As per a press-release issued on September 17th, Morand has signed on as Trujivan’s Strategic Advisor and Sales Leader.

Morand is one of the co-founders of Organo Gold. Morand quietly left Organo Gold after its brief Ponzi scheme romance in 2018.

I don’t have an exact date for when he left but Morand was still fronting Organo Gold in 2019.

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

Norwegian authorities have issued a third CashFX Group fraud warning.

The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway’s notice follows a warning from the Lotteries Authority earlier this year. [Continue reading…]

The Kripto Future Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Affiliates are reporting withdrawals are disabled and nobody has seen CEO Jeffer Ribera in a month. [Continue reading…]