NortheStar operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

The company doesn’t provide a corporate address but its Policies and Procedures cites both Texas and Nevada.

The State of Texas is the place of the origin of this Contract.

Any controversy or claim relating to the business relationships arising between Independent Affiliates shall be resolved by mandatory, final, binding, nonappealable arbitration in Las Vegas, Nevada.

NortheStar’s legal disclaimers reference Northe Star LLC, a Delaware corporation.

Heading up NortheStar are co-founders Ricky Villanueva and Demitrius Siruno.

As of May 2021 Ricky Villanueva (right) was a Green Diamond in Digital Profit.

As per BehindMLM’s published Digital Profit review, Green Diamond is the highest affiliate rank within the company.

Digital Profit run a trading bot investment opportunity spanning four layers of securities fraud.

In late August it was revealed Digital Profit’s trading bot had caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

Villanueva appears to have left Digital Profit shortly after ranking at Green Diamond in May. NortheStar’s website domain was registered on June 23rd.

Prior to Digital Profit Villanueva promoted Modere and B-Epic.

Demitrius Siruno (right) appears to have started out in Kyani. He worked with Villanueva in both B-Epic and Digital Profit.

B-Epic has some sort of shady deal with Digital Profit. Digital Profit markets B-Epic products, likely in exchange for funneling B-Epic affiliates into Digital Profit.

I imagine that funneling was how Villanueva and Siruno signed up as Digital Profit promoters.

As per his Facebook profile, Ricky Villanueva resides in New York. Demitrius Siruno’s LinkedIn profile pegs him to Utah.

It thus follows that NortheStar is in fact operated from New York and Utah.

Any operational connections NortheStar has to Texas, Nevada and Delaware appear to be superficial.

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The FTC has been granted a motion requesting spoilation sanctions against Success by Health defendants Jay Noland, Lina Noland, Thomas Sacca and Scott Harris.

In May 2019 a bank subpoena was inadvertently passed on to Success by Health. [Continue reading…]

The FTC has been granted summary judgment as to liability against the Success by Health defendants. [Continue reading…]

NBH Finance provides no verifiable executive or ownership information on its website.

NBH Finance claims to be part of “NBH Group” but fails to provide any further details.

Analysis of NBH Finance’s provided executive information reveals made-up names and stolen/stock photos:

NBH Finance’s website domain (“nbhfinance.com”) was privately registered on June 25th, 2021.

Analysis of NBH Finance’ compensation document reveals it was authored by someone going by “Anton”:

Anton appears to have modeled NBH Finance’s compensation document on that of Karatbars International.

Karatbars International was a crypto Ponzi scheme that imploded in late 2020.

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…]

Mined operates in the education package MLM niche.

The company launched on July 24th. Promotion of Mined however dates back to at least April 2021.

Mined’s primary website domain (“mined.world”), was privately registered on March 4th, 2021.

Mined fails to provide any information about who owns or runs the company on its website.

Further research reveals the company was founded by Daniel Cueva Rodriguez.

Cueva is based out of Peru and prior to founding Mined, was an IM Mastery Academy promoter.

Based on his social media activity, Cueva stopped promoting IM Mastery Academy mid to late 2020.

Mined primarily targets Spanish speaking countries, particularly across Central and South America.

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Take a breath, you haven’t accidentally left your incognito window on the ‘Hub open.

Today we’re reviewing KOK Play, a cryptocurrency MLM company that represents it is based out of South Korea.

“KOK” stands for Keystone of Opportunity & Knowledge. The abbreviation is pronounced exactly as it looks.

Probably one of those instances you should have run the name by a native English speaker, but I digress.

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

KOK Play’s website domain (“kok-play.io”) was first registered in August 2019.

The registration was last updated in on August 21st, 2021. “TheMedium” through an incomplete address in Seoul, South Korea is listed as the owner.

Further research reveals KOK Play marketing crediting Jiwon Kang as CEO of the company.

Kang was appointed on or around January 2021.

In addition to running KOK Play, Kang appears to own SuperAcid.

SuperAcid is a failed gaming company that first attempted to jump on the crypto bandwagon in 2018:

Davinci Coin was dumped on public exchanges in late 2019. Apart from a few brief pump and dump spikes nothing much happened.

I also found KOK Play marketing citing Kang as CEO of WeredSoft, another failed gaming company.

It seems Jiwon Kang is determined to be a crypto bro, and so now we have KOK Play with its own KOK token.

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IAM Worldwide operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

The company is based out of the Philippines and was launched in or around 2016.

Heading up IAM Worldwide are co-founders Aika Lorraine Uy (Vice-President) and Allen Marvin Eder (President).

In 2008 Allen Eder co-founded The Filipino Dream (TFD).

TFD was some kind of franchise MLM mashup:

The company collapsed in 2015.

IAM Worldwide co-founder Aika Uy was a TFD affiliate:

Note that while IAM Worldwide operates and is primarily marketing in the Philippines, the company does have a limited global presence:

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The hearing to decide official classify Mirror Trading International as a pyramid scheme has been delayed.

What was a relatively straight-forward case, albeit slow-moving, has since devolved into a circus. [Continue reading…]

Three top Finiko promoters have been arrested in Kazan, Russia.

In local media coverage, Ilgiz Shakirov (right) is cited as a Finiko Vice President.

In BehindMLM’s May 2020 Finiko review, the affiliate rank Vice President didn’t exist. It appears to have been added as a higher rank sometime after. [Continue reading…]

BlackOxygen Organics operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

The company is based out of Canada and headed up by founder and CEO, Marc Saint Onge.

Note that a US corporate address in Wyoming is provided on BlackOxygen Organics’ website.

This address belongs to Registered Agents Inc., who sell shell company incorporation services.

BlackOxygen Organics has its roots in Golden Moor, a mud company Saint Onge started in 1986.

As Saint Onge claims on his LinkedIn profile;

For 26 years, I built this business into a mutlit national [sic] export company selling mud all over the world.

I brought this company public in 2010 and sold it 2 years later.

BlackOxygen Organics was launched in June 2012.

I created this innovative delivery system in a tube for our famous blackoxygen drink containing our propriatery [sic] fulvic acid formula.

I believe the MLM side of the business was launched on or around 2015.

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