Alcor Trade owner Aleksey Zhirovkin has announced the launch of ANTd token.

Zhirovkin made the announcement in a September 7th video. [Continue reading…]

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

Other than marking Telepreneur Corp’s purported ninth anniversary in business, there isn’t much information on anything provided.

Featured on Telepreneur Corp’s website is a rotating carousel of marketing videos.

As above, the current prominent video features Sajiron R. Dayao, Telepreneur Corp’s Vice President for Sales and Marketing.

What those videos do lead to is Telepreneur Corp’s official YouTube channel. There various marketing videos reveal the company’s full executive lineup:

As above, heading up Telepreneurs Corp is owner, CEO and President Lorenzo B. Rellosa.

In addition to Telepreneurs Corp, Rellosa also owns and runs Leur Lauren International.

Leur Lauren International is a personal care MLM company.

Lueur Lauren International Corp. (LLIC) is a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM), Direct Selling Company founded on September 8, 2019 that focuses on giving our customers high quality health and beauty products that offer satisfying results and nurtures one’s self-esteem.

Rellosa’s stated goal with Luer Lauren International and Telepreneur Corp is to provide

a stable source of income while spreading beauty and love all over the country.

Rellosa runs both companies from the Philippines.

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

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

In fact as I write this, AntUSDT’s website is nothing more than an affiliate registration and login form. Links to unofficial apps are also provided.

Perusal of AntUSDT’s website source-code reveals Chinese text.

This strongly suggests a Chinese admin or at the very least someone fluent in Chinese is running AntUSDT.

This is further supported by early AntUSDT marketing videos, which are narrated in Chinese.

Two videos depict advertising billboards in random places in Taiwan.

We could also have Russian scammers utilizing a Chinese/Taiwanese dev team.

On June 27th AntUSDT uploaded a video to its official YouTube channel titled “ANTUSDT Cryptocurrency Mixer Awarded a prize of US $200,000 by the headquarter in London, UK”.

The video is your typical Boris CEO affair, featuring the usual cast of characters with eastern European accents.

The video does appear to be shot in the UK, likely because on July 19th the UK opened up as per its “Freedom Day” policy.

The closest I got to a pinpoint location was when the actors were in a small conference room. A sign reading “Y4 Office Space” can be seen through the window in certain shots.

I wasn’t able to progress any further than that.

Update 7th September 2021 – A reader has provided business details for Y4 rented offices in Kiev, Ukraine.

The building adjacent to Y4 Office Space, where AntUSDT shot their video, is the business “Hub 4.0”.

Hub 4.0 also sells office space, with meeting rooms starting at 300 Hryvnia (UAH) an hour (~$11 USD).

Here’s the gate outside the Hub 4.0 building, as seen on Google Maps (2019):

Here’s the same gate, as used in AntUSDT’s marketing video but shot from the other side (2021):

Note that Y4 Office Space hasn’t moved into the building across the road, it’s still boarded up in the Google Maps screenshot.

A complete floor plan of Hub 4.0 is available, however it also predates Y4 Office Space moving in.

I went looking for the exact room AntUSDT used on the first or second floor and couldn’t find it. I then went up to some windows and noted the same pre Y4 Office Space boarded up building.

The dining footage in AntUSDT’s video was shot next door to Hub 4.0 at “Italian from Beirut”.

Here’s a shot inside from the restaurant’s TripAdvisor page (Nov 2018):

Here’s the same seating in AntUSDT’s marketing video, shot from the opposite angle (2021):

The only difference is the indoor tree has been moved towards the window, and the chairs in front of the couch have been pushed back against the tree.

Together these shots provide conclusive evidence that AntUSDT’s marketing video was shot in Kiev, Ukraine.

The take-away from this is Ukranian scammers are behind AntUSDT. The link to Taiwan remains unclear.

Note that neither Hub 4.0 or Italian from Beirut are implicated. They are third-party businesses that have nothing to do with AntUSDT. /end update

AntUSDT’s Boris CEO is “Andy”, played by this guy:

I wasn’t able to pin down a name but “Andy” is a prolific stock photo model with a very obvious Russian accent.

Here he is playing a pilot, a guy in a taxi and a family man:

At the time of publication Alexa ranks top sources of traffic to AntUSDT’s website as Russia (33%), Ukraine (11%) and Sri Lanka (7%).

Russia and the Ukraine contributing 44% of AntUSDT website traffic supports the Russians working Asian devs theory.

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…]

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

Areons’ website domain (“areons.io”) was privately registered on June 16th, 2021.

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…]

Paparazzi held a ten year anniversary celebration in Las Vegas last month.

Unofficial tracking on social media suggests it might have been a COVID-19 super-spreader event.

The verified attendee death tally currently sits at eleven. [Continue reading…]

OneCoin defendants in Argentina have put up a strawman defense in a bid to avoid conviction.

The scammers argue that because they recruited four police officers into OneCoin, that somehow absolves them of legal liability. [Continue reading…]

Skyway Capital has received a securities fraud warning from Spain’s Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV). [Continue reading…]

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

In an attempt to appear legitimate, CoinChain Digital provides a UK incorporation certificate on its website.

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.

CoinChain Digital’s website domain (“coinchaindigital.ltd”) was privately registered on November 20th, 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…]

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

HybridTech Global’s website domain (“hybridtechglobal.com”) was privately registered on July 18th, 2021.

HybridTech Global’s social media accounts were created a few days after.

Despite the company being barely a few months old, HybridTech Global’s official Twitter account has already been suspended for violating Twitter’s rules.

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…]

PGI Global Ponzi scheme has announced initiation of its reboot.

On September 1st PGI Global announced former President Helen Louise Graham will head up the Ponzi scheme as CEO. [Continue reading…]