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

Upnomix’s website domain (“upnomix.com”) was privately registered on January 24th, 2021.

Upnomix provides two corporate addresses on its website; one in Costa Rica and one in South Africa.

The Costa Rica address is a virtual office owned by Regus. The South Africa address belongs to an unrelated clothing company.

As to where Upnomix is actually being operated from, Alexa currently ranks India as the only notable source of traffic to Upnomix’s website (45%).

Upnomix’s official Facebook page is also operated from India.

Thus is appears whoever is running Upnonix is based out of India.

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…]

Prime International Club operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

The company doesn’t provide a corporate address on its website.

Supposedly heading up Prime International Club is CEO Victor Janowitz.

Janowitz doesn’t have a digital footprint outside of Prime International Club.

This is a red flag in and of itself, but also suggests Victor Janowitz might be an alias.

According to his Prime International corporate bio, Janowitz was

born in Poland and radicalized [sic] in Brazil and Autralia [sic].

Official Prime International Club marketing videos are hosted by Charleston “Charles” Silvestre.

Silvestre appears to have gotten involved in MLM through Noni International.

Prior to promoting MLM cryptocurrency schemes, Silvestre was giving relationship advice on YouTube:

Silvestre is believed to have dual US and Brazilian citizenship. As per Silvestre’s Facebook profile, he normally resides in Massachusetts.

Based on his social media activity, Silvestre is believed to currently be travelling through Espirito Santo, Brazil.

On August 19th a video was uploaded to Prime International Club’s official YouTube channel featuring both Silvestre and Janowitz in the same room.

Thus it appears Prime International Club is being run out of Espirito Santo, Brazil.

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The Mark Scott sentencing circus continues, with Scott now asking his OneCoin fraud sentencing be postponed indefinitely. [Continue reading…]

The Prosperity Grid provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

The Prosperity Grid’s website domain (“theprosperitygrid.com”) was registered on March 6th, 2021.

The mostly private registration only reveals the domain was registered with a South African address.

This syncs with The Prosperity Grid marketing videos, which predominantly feature participants with South African accents.

This suggests that The Prosperity Grid is being run from South Africa and primarily promoted to South Africans.

I did note that one woman who seems to be a The Prosperity Grid admin claimed to be in Dubai.

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Better Globe provides two corporate entities tied to the company, Better Globe AS (Norway) and Better Globe Forestry Ltd. (Kenya).

Both entities appear to be shell companies operating out of PO Boxes.

On its website Rino Solberg is cited as Better Globe’s Chairman of the Board, founder and principal owner. I have also seen Solberg credited as Better Globe’s CEO.

On LinkedIn Solberg cites his location as the “greater Oslo region”. This suggests Solberg operates Better Globe out of Norway.

Better Globe began as Green Planet in 2003. The company was founded by Helge Normann, incorporated in the UK but run out of Norway.

Prior to Green Planet, Normann was a promoter of the GreenStar pyramid scheme.

Normann had joined GreenStar in October 2000, and more than 2,000 Nordic members were quickly recruited to the company.

When GreenStar collapsed as a result of prosecution in Australia, Normann saw his move to bring both the business concept and the membership base into a new company he himself controlled.

Green Planet’s business model focused on charitable causes in Africa.

Under the slogan Making Money Doing Good , members were recruited with promises to contribute to the reduction of deforestation in Africa in parallel with the opportunity to earn money by recruiting new members.

In 2005 the Norwegian Gaming Board investigated Green Planet and found it to be a pyramid scheme.

That decision was later amended ‘it was found probable that a significant part of the company’s activities were based on sales of goods or services.’

This sounds like the old “we have products, we can’t be a pyramid scheme!” defense, which doesn’t hold up today.

Green Planet collapsed in 2006, purportedly resulting in millions in losses.

Towards the end of Green Planet’s run the company partnered up with Rino Solberg’s company Child Africa.

Solberg was appointed Green Planet’s Chairman of the Board.

Following Green Planet’s collapse, victims were ‘offered membership in Solberg’s new company Better Globe.’

Better Globe launched in 2006. It has not been the subject of a regulatory investigation to date.

Solberg himself has been involved in network marketing since the 1970s with the Holiday Magic pyramid scheme.

As a result of his involvement in Holiday Magic, Solberg was charged with fraud and violations of the Norwegian Lottery Act.

Although Holiday Magic was a pyramid scheme, resulted in widespread losses and at least one Norwegian victim committed suicide as a result of said losses, Solberg would go on to be acquitted.

You can read more about Holiday Magic, Green Planet and Better Globe on their respective Norwegian Wikipedia pages.

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Common Sense Wellness Worldwide provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

Common Sense Wellness Worldwide provides a corporate suite address in Texas on its website.

A Google search reveals this address actually belongs to the Shumway Van law firm.

Sumway Van are listed as the registered agents for Common Sense Wellness Worldwide LLC.

Richard O’Brien is listed as the sole manager of the company.

There are a few Richard O’Brien’s in the MLM industry, so I’m not sure which one is behind Common Sense Wellness Worldwide.

Note that any MLM company intentionally failing to provide company management and ownership details is an automatic red flag.

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The SEC filed suit against top BitConnect promoter Craig Grant back in May.

Rather than defend himself, Grant fled the US for Jamaica. [Continue reading…]

Two QNet affiliates in Ghana have been arrested following a hostage recruitment situation. [Continue reading…]

Safir International provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

Safir International’s website domain (“safir.com”) was first registered in 2002. The private registration was last updated on January 26th, 2021.

On its website Safir International provides a corporate address in Dubai, UAE.

On its own this is a major red flag. Dubai is currently the MLM scam capital of the world and has been for some time.

On its website Safir International cites Zeniq Coin as a product:

Zeniq Coin is run by Zeniq Technologies and operates from its own website domain. “Zeniq.com” was privately registered on April 2nd, 2021.

On Zeniq Coin’s website we learn Erwin Dokter is CEO of Zeniq Technologies:

Although there’s no mention of him on its website, Dokter is also CEO of Safir International:

What you’re looking at there is a promo for Safir International and Juwelis Digital Systems, circa late 2020.

Dokter is of course also CEO of Juwelis Digital:

Marketing material suggests the original plan was to launch Safir International with Juwelis Digital and Juwelis Coin in late 2020.

Juwelis Digital and Juwelis Coin flopped, so Dokter rebooted Safir International with Zeniq Technologies and Zeniq Coin.

Based on registration of Zeniq Technologies website domain, the reboot launched sometime after April 2021.

Erwin Dokter is from Austria and on Instagram claims to be a former professional swimmer.

Dokter appears to have gotten involved in cryptocurrency schemes in mid to late 2020.

Sometime recently Dokter moved to Dubai, from where he runs both Safir International and Zeniq Technologies from.

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Level Up 247 provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

The company’s website advises Level Up 247 is in “worldwide prelaunch”. The prelaunch timer however has reached zero.

A marketing video on Level Up 247’s website features Jordan Lear:

This marketing video reveals Level Up 247’s official launch was supposed to take place on July 31st.

On Facebook Jordan Lear goes by “Jordan JL Wright”. She is married to Dave Lear.

The Lears live in the US state of Maryland, which is where Level Up 247 operates from.

I’m not familiar with Jordan Lear (she married in 2020), but Dave Lear has featured on BehindMLM before.

Lear (right) last appeared on BehindMLM in 2018, as co-founder of A Great Life.

A Great Life was a weight loss tea MLM company focused on autoship recruitment.

Prior to A Great Life Lear co-founded The Elite Networker in 2015.

Earlier that same year Lear and the other The Elite Networker co-founders launched Total Takeover.

Both The Elite Networker and Total Takeover operated as pyramid schemes and collapsed shortly after launch.

In 2020 what was left of A Great Life was sold off to Total Life Changes, another weight loss tea MLM company.

By that stage Dave and Jordan were together. At the time of the merger Jordan Lear stated “TLC was everything they have been looking for in a company”.

That was May 2020. Fast forward a year and now we have Level Up 247.

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