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

LeoTrade’s website domain (“leotradeltd.com”) was privately registered on February 24th, 2021.

Despite only existing for about a month, LeoTrade falsely claims that it has “More than 2 Years in Business” [sic].

LeoTrade provides a corporate address in the US state of California on its website.

Given LeoTrade’s website was registered through a European registrar, the company is unlikely to have any ties to the US.

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…]

Update 6th June 2021 – Based on information provided to BehindMLM after publication of this article, we believe Karl-Joonatan Mets was innocently hired by an Estonian/Russian production agency.

Based on BehindMLM’s own research, we have concluded that this production agency was working with and continues to work on behalf of Russian scammers.

We have published our findings in a followup article.

The original article tying Mets to Benjamin Reynolds, as published on March 25th, is preserved below for archival purposes. /end update

Control Finance Boris CEO Benjamin Reynolds has been outed as Karl-Joonatan Mets.

Why does that matter?

Because earlier this month the CFTC secured a $571 million dollar judgment against Reynolds. [Continue reading…]

Silver Partners for Profits’ front-facing webpage doesn’t provide any company ownership information.

At the end of the website’s “Terms, Conditions, & Privacy Policy” however, T,J, Rohleder of The Direct Response Network is cited as the company owner.

A PO Box address in Goessel, Kansas is also provided.

Elsewhere on the internet Rohleder (right) claims to have

launched the Direct Response Network in 1996 with an emphasis on teaching direct response marketing strategies.

Rohleder refers to himself as “America’s Blue Jeans Millionaire”.

Before Silver Partners for Profits Rohleder was promoting the MOBE pyramid scheme.

The FTC alleged MOBE was a pyramid scheme, through which promoters such as Rohleder “bilked consumers out of over $125 million.”

After the FTC shut down MOBE in mid 2018, Rohleder showed up on BehindMLM to defend the scam’s owner Matt Lloyd.

MOBE is a truly great company. Matt Lloyd is one of the most brilliant entrepreneurs I have ever met. He and his company will pull out of this and be victorious.

In March 2020 the FTC secured a $318 million dollar fraud judgment against MOBE and Lloyd.

Read on for a full review of Silver Partners for Profits’ MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

The CFTC has secured a $571 million dollar judgment against Control Finance CEO Benjamin Reynolds.

There’s just one problem… Benjamin Reynolds doesn’t exist. [Continue reading…]

In an endorsed memo filed on March 18th, convicted OneCoin money launderer Mark Scott has requested his sentencing be delayed indefinitely. [Continue reading…]

CashFX Group has received a securities fraud warning from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC).

Just so we’re clear, that’s Jersey the UK dependency not New Jersey in the US. [Continue reading…]

Last November Maskcara rebranded as Seint.

The exact date Maskcara’s official Facebook page was rebranded Seint was November 7th.

On Seint’s website the following explanation is provided; [Continue reading…]

Forsage has been issued a securities fraud cease and desist from Montana’s Commissioner of Securities and Insurance. [Continue reading…]

Touchstone Success operates in the personal development MLM niche.

The company is based out of Virginia and headed up by founder Danny Pollard (right).

Curiously, Pollard cites his location as North Carolina on his personal LinkedIn profile.

According to said profile, Touchstone Success started back in 2011.

Prior to 2011 Pollard was a distributor in something called Message of the Month.

Message of the Month distributors paid $25 a month and received a personal development audio CD.

As far as I can tell, MOM’s messages were recorded by Tom Danley. In creating Touchstone Success, Pollard simply replaced Danley with himself.

Over the past ten years, Pollard doesn’t appear to have done much online outside of Touchstone Success.

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

Q1 2021 has been a disaster for Griddy and its attached MLM opportunity, Griddy Pro.

In the lead up to Winter Storm Uri, Griddy recommended customers leave it because of its volatile business model.

During Winter Storm Uri Griddy customers were hit with massive bills. This led to Electric Reliability Council of Texas cutting Griddy off from the power supply.

A billion-dollar consumer class action was also filed against the company.

On March 15th, Griddy announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [Continue reading…]