BehindMLM’s initial Nimbus Platform review was published last August.

At the request of a reader last month, who claimed “things (have) changed”, today we revisit Nimbus Platform for an updated review. [Continue reading…]

In a new marketing video, Boris CEO Matias Lappo claims Wiseling has “signed a contract with the Central Bank of Finland and EU”.

Lulz! [Continue reading…]

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

Troncase’s website domain (“troncase.io”) was privately registered on September 9th, 2020.

Official marketing videos on Troncase’s YouTube channel reveal whoever made them is using an Estonian language-based phone.

This suggests whoever is running Troncase has ties to Estonia.

Update 16th February 2021 – Two individuals have emerged as likely Troncase admins; Martin Karus and Erik Nurm.

On February 8th, serial scammer Ryan Conley uploaded a video interview citing Karus and Nurm as Troncase’s Master Distributors.

Being Master Distributors, Karus and Nurm have positions at the top of the Troncase smart-contract. In the absence of anyone higher, that at the very least makes them admins.

Both Karus and Nurm are from Europe, which ties in with the Estonian connection.

As per his LinkedIn profile, Karus started in MLM with Amway in 2010.

In his own words he “made little success” at Amway, prompting him to join and promote MLM Ponzi schemes.

These include Lyoness, Questra World, Cloud Horizon and Crowd1.

In 2016 a BehindMLM reader tied Erik Nurm to the Nano Club Ponzi scheme.

More recently Nurm worked closely with Karus to scam people through Cloud Horizon and Crowd1.

As per Martin Karus’ Facebook profile, he’s currently hiding out in Malaysia. Erik Nurm’s Facebook profile has him hiding out in Thailand. /end update

At the time of publication Alexa ranks the top two sources to Troncase’s website as Pakistan (48%) and the US (21%).

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…]

iX Global launched last year and is headed up by co-founders Anita Davis (COO), Helen Boyle (CCO) and Joe Martinez (CEO).

On iX Global’s website Martinez is presented as the sole founder of the company. Davis and Boyle appear in the customer testimonials section, which is disingenuous seeing as it’s their company.

Prior to co-founding iX Global, Joe Martinez (right) was promoting Kuvera Global.

Kuvera Global is/was part of Investview, who have been openly committing securities fraud in the US for years.

After multiple collapses the scheme finally fell apart early last year. Kuvera has since rebooted itself as iGenius.

iX Global’s website domain (“ixglobal.us”) was registered in January 2020, one month prior to the official collapse.

Helen Boyle also appears to have been a Kuvera Global affiliate.

Other than her abandoned motivational videos YouTube channel, I wasn’t able to find anything MLM related on Anita Davis.

That said, Kuvera Global seems to be the common link between the three.

Update 23rd February 2021 – It appears prior to IX Global Anita Davis was involved in “IGOnline” (Dec 2017 – Dec 2019).

As per an IGOnline investor, IGOnline marketed an “forex automation service”.

The Facebook group IGOnline was renamed IX Global UK in March 2020:

As far as I can tell, IGOnline appears to be the precursor of IX Global. /end update

Both Boyle and Davis are based out of the UK. Joe Martinez is from the US.

iX Global doesn’t provide a corporate address on its website. iX Global’s website terms and conditions however state:

all aspects of the Website and Company Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Utah.

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

I received an email this morning from SP Ting, seeking to distance Snap Innovations from Torque Trading.

This promoted me to ask… who is Snap Innovations? [Continue reading…]

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

In fact as I write this, Elixoo’s .NET website is nothing more than an affiliate login portal.

Elixoo is also believed to own the .COM version of their domain, however that’s currently parked.

Heading up Elixoo is founder Dennis Nowak. According to his LinkedIn profile, Nowak is based out of Zurich, Switzerland.

Nowak appeared on BehindMLM’s radar in mid 2019, as a suspect into a Swiss investigation into MyCryptoWorld, Infinity Economics and We Go Crypto.

MyCryptoWorld was an MLM shitcoin pump and dump scheme. Infinity Economics and We Go Crypto were non-MLM crypto fraud schemes.

Unfortunately the outcome of the Swiss investigation is unclear.

After his stint as a crypto bro, Nowak fell back on his position in LavyLites.

LavyLites is a Hungarian MLM company that appears to have been in decline for most of 2020.

Circa mid 2016 BusinessForHome clocked Nowak’s LavyLites income at $80,000 a month.

We figure that’s no longer the case if he’s going off on his own.

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

Remember Wazzub?

BehindMLM initially reviewed Wazzub in 2011. Back then the company was a cliched “we’re gonna be the next Google and pay you!” type affair, which was a common enough ruse at the time.

Of course the business model flopped, leading to a transition to a failed mobile app and fraudulent virtual shares investment scheme.

By 2016 Wazzub had rebranded itself as “Perfect Internet”. This was originally a name for the failed search platform, eventually it became its own brand.

In early 2016 Wazzub, through Perfect Internet, launched Cashback Marketing. Charging $30 a pop for “marketing units”, Cashback Marketing was a simple enough Ponzi scheme.

Today Perfect Internet and Cashback Marketing have long since been abandoned.

One would figure Wazzub too has run its course but that might not be the case. [Continue reading…]

Amplifei operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche. The company is headed up by Founder and CEO Robert Oblon.

On its website Amplifei provides a UPS store address in Indiana.

According to Oblon’s Facebook profile he’s based out of California. I assume this is where Amplifei is actually run from, as opposed to out of a UPS store in Indiana.

Robert Oblon (right) put Amplifei together after falling out with his previous company, Elepreneurs.

Elepreneurs has its roots in Elevacity, a travel booking engine themed MLM Oblon launched on or around 2014.

We’ll go into a bit more detail below, but the following is from Amplifei’s website;

After launching in December 2017, (Elepreneurs) became the fastest growing company in the world for 2018.

Unfortunately, due to circumstances that cannot be shared as of this writing, Robert ended up settling disputes with the companies he created in February of 2020 and decided to create a new company that launched June 1st, 2020.

The new company is called Amplifei International.

In researching what happened prior to publication of our updated September 2020 Elepreneurs review, I came across a quote from long-time MLM industry veteran Troy Dooly;

Robert Oblon was removed from the Board of Directors and stripped of his position of authority as a result of gross financial misconduct.

He voluntarily resigned to avoid punitive legal actions arising from his malfeasance.

In February 2020, Elepreneurs itself accused Oblon of “gross financial misconduct”.

Unfortunately whatever settlement was reached between Oblon and Elepreneurs was never made public.

“Circumstances that cannot be shared” suggests a confidentiality agreement was part of the settlement.

Oblon’s other MLM claim to fame is co-founding WorldVentures, a recently collapsed travel-themed pyramid scheme.

Perhaps tellingly, Oblon’s relationship with WorldVentures also ended in a lawsuit.

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

After losing their original website domain because reasons, the Cloud Token scammers have returned with a new domain.

Cloud Token’s new website domain (“cloudv2.io”), was privately registered in May 2020.

The new website however only went live recently, as per a February 11th announcement. [Continue reading…]

Last year Jeunesse top-earner Theresa Gregory was busted for tax fraud by the IRS.

After pleading guilt to the charges in August 2020, Gregory was earlier this week sentenced to 36 months in prison. [Continue reading…]