The Capital Markets Tribunal has ruled NovaTech FX committed securities fraud in Ontario.

Following analysis of evidence submitted by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), CMT published its findings on July 22nd, 2024. [Continue reading…]

Following non-payment of salaries for six months, two hundred OnPassive employees in India have gone on strike.

Sakshi reports that the OnPassive strike is accompanied by a report filed a Madhapur police station in Hyderabad. [Continue reading…]

HFTX fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

HFTX’s website domain (“hftx.cc”), was privately registered on July 4th, 2024.

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…]

Following years of delays, there is finally some movement on the SEC’s BitConnect promoter case. [Continue reading…]

Scorpio fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information on its website.

Supposedly Scorpio is headed up by CEO Willard Chapman.

Chapman doesn’t exist outside of Scorpio’s marketing. I suspect, along with Scorpio’s other executives, that these are AI generated profile photos.

If you look closely at Chapman’s body, you’ll see his arm is wonky inside his suit and he’s crossed his arms at the pectoral level. Chapman’s left hand is also missing.

All three Scorpio executives are also posed in exactly the same manner at exactly the same angle with weird non-uniform lighting. Together these observations are indicative of AI-generated images.

Scorpio’s website domain (“scorpiovc.com”), was registered on October 10th, 2023. The private registration was last updated on July 2nd, 2024.

Through the Wayback Machine, the earliest version of Scorpio’s current website was tracked in mid January 2024. Scorpio’s official FaceBook group was created in November 2023.

Despite being nine months old at the latest, on its website Scorpio falsely claims it “started its journey in 2018”.

It’s also worth noting Scorpio’s FaceBook page is adminned by “Isabel Snyder”. The Snyder account has is populated with what appears to be stolen photos and otherwise has no content.

As of June 2024, SimilarWeb tracks top sources of traffic to Scorpio’s website as Hungary (68%), Germany (19%) and Switzerland (6%).

As opposed to website representations Scorpio is based out of the US and Hong Kong, whoever is actually running it likely has ties to Europe.

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…]

TLC Trading has cut off its Hungarian investors.

Attempts to log in to TLC Trading from within Hungary now return an error: [Continue reading…]

Bombardier USDT fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Bombardier USDT’s website domain (“usdtbombardier.top”), was registered with bogus details on July 8th, 2024.

Of note is Bombardier USDT’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

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…]

Incufi fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Incufi’s website domain (“holdonfordearlife.io”), was privately registered on May 4th, 2024.

There are references on Incufi’s website to “NaN”, “AKITA” and NFTs. This corresponds to Akita Rider.

Akita Rider operates on the domain (“akitarider.com”), privately registered on April 14th, 2024.

Like Incufi, Akita Rider fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

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…]

ZokoCloud fails to provide verifiable ownership or executive information its website.

While ZokoCloud does provide a long list of executives on its website, none of the individuals exist.

The photos used to represent ZokoCloud’s fictional executives are believed to be stolen profile photos and/or AI generated images.

ZokoCloud’s website domain (“zokocloud.com”), was first registered in 2017. The private registration was last updated on June 30th, 2024.

If we look in ZokoCloud’s website source-code, we find Chinese:

As opposed to its fictional presented executives, it appears whoever is running ZokoCloud has ties to China.

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…]

HB Naturals, aka Heart & Body Naturals and Green Organics LLC, operates in the nutritional supplements and essential oils MLM niches. The company is based out of Ohio in the US.

Heading up HB Naturals we have co-founders Paula Scarcella (CEO), Ben Scarcella and Alexandria Brighton (formulator).

BehindMLM first came across Paula Scarcella in 2016, as CEO of goDesana.

goDesana’s website is still up and lists Paula Scarcella as founder and CEO. Alexandria Brighton is also the formulator of goDesana’s products.

There is considerable overlap between goDesana and HB Naturals, leading me to wonder why the Scarcellas and Brighton are running two MLM companies. More on that in the conclusion below.

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