As part of their lawsuit against Arieyl and founders Kristen and Travis Butler, My Daily Choice filed a notice of related cases on March 1st.

Cases detailed in the notice pertain to individual lawsuits filed against Arieyl “launch team” distributors. [Continue reading…]

After being indicted in Texas last July, prosecutors in New York have now filed a second indictment against Kristijan Krstic. [Continue reading…]

In a nutshell, Corsair Group is what’s left of Cloud Horizon.

Cloud Horizon was a Ponzi scheme launched by Frank Ricketts in early 2019.

Ricketts scamming goes back years. BehindMLM first records of it dates back to 2011 with Unaico and SiteTalk; a combination of pyramid and investment fraud.

When those scams collapsed, Ricketts rebooted the business as The Opportunity Network.

In early 2016 Ricketts sold off The Opportunity Network’s list of investors to OneCoin.

In addition to an undisclosed sum of money, Ricketts was also gifted a OneCoin Black Diamond investment position.

Behind the scenes Ricketts is believed to have been instrumental in setting up OneCoin’s shell company money laundering network.

When OneCoin collapsed in 2017 Ricketts disappeared. He resurfaced in mid 2018 as CEO of the AuLives Ponzi scheme.

AuLives flopped, prompting Ricketts to register the Cloud Horizon website domain on November 30th, 2018.

Cloud Horizon was essentially Ricketts’ own version of OneCoin, complete with ORT and ORTP Ponzi points imported from Orientum, another collapsed Ponzi scheme Ricketts had a behind-the-scenes hand in.

Cloud Horizon initially targeted victims in south-east Asia, many of them victims of OneCoin.

This flopped, prompting Ricketts to shift focus to the UK, again targeting the former OneCoin community there.

By mid 2019 or so Ricketts cashed out and bailed, leaving failed OneCoin scammer Staffan Liback in charge.

Under Liback’s leadership Cloud Horizon continued to flounder. One initiative Liback attempted was Crypto Community World.

Crypto Community World was a new ruse to replace the Thailand plastic recycling = magic money original ruse nobody was buying. It failed to gain any traction.

By late 2019 Liback was begging Ricketts to come out of hiding and resume executive leadership.

Ricketts returned as “Captain” of Cloud Horizon in January 2020.

At some point the ORT and ORTP Ponzi points from Orientum were ditched. They were replaced with FLP, another non-publicly traded Ponzi token.

Ricketts also introduced new recycling ruses, supposed “polypetron plants” in France.

In May 2020 Cloud Horizon as a brand was abandoned. The domain was briefly  redirected to Crypto Community World’s website. It was then redirected again to Amplivo’s website.

Amplivo is a shell company Ricketts set up to further push the Thailand recycling plant narrative behind Cloud Horizon.

In June 2020 FLP were downgraded to a gateway to ISF tokens.

ISF tokens were launching in conjunction with Mountain Wolf Bank, a resurrected attempt to attach an internal exchange to Ecovo-Amplivo (what Cloud Horizon had been rebranded as at this point).

Mountain Wolf Bank gave Ricketts a launching pad for future shitcoin launches. The first of which was ECO in September 2020.

ECO’s launch coincided with Corsair Group, a new brand to replace Ecovo-Amplivo branding (the concepts behind which never went anywhere).

Technically speaking Corsair Group was Socium Holdings renamed. Socium Holdings being another shell company Ricketts set up as part of Cloud Horizon.

Sometime in Q3 2020 Staffan Liback cashed out and disappeared. His last known location was Thailand.

He did surface briefly in December 2020 as a promoter of OmegaPro, another Ponzi scheme albeit unrelated to Cloud Horizon.

Corsair Group saw the introduction of SusNova tokens, which were no different to the other Ponzi tokens launched before it.

After setting up Corsair Group Frank Ricketts once again cashed out and disappeared.

Jussi Saloranta, an old associate of Staffan Liback’s and Rickett’s chosen frontman for Sepco Industries, was left in charge as Corsair Group’s CEO.

Today Corsair Group operates from the domain “corsairnow.com”. Things have deteriorated to the point traffic to Corsair Group’s website isn’t measured by Alexa.

Jussi Saloranta has promoted himself to Corsair Group’s Chairman of the Board.

Corsair Group markets itself as “an International Consortium of Companies”, which is a fancy term given to the shell company’s Frank Ricketts set up to launder invested funds through.

These include Sepco, Socium Holdings, Ecovo, Amplivo, EltronX and Plastic Waste Solution.

No doubt there are others I’ve missed and those kept secret to set up bank accounts through (one of Frank Rickett’s specialties).

To keep things simple Rickett’s Cloud Horizon shell companies are grouped under Corsair Group.

Naturally Corsair Group provides no indication it’s an MLM company on its website.

In fact Corsair Group explicitly prohibit their affiliates from giving the game away to potential recruits:

The Introducer is NOT allowed to:

1. Give a business presentation or present a Investment Memorandum.

2. Provide a lead with company information or documents other than that what is provided via the website.

Bollocks to that. Read on for a full review of Corsair Group’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

The Beurax Ponzi scheme has collapsed, following an announcement that withdrawals are suspended effective immediately. [Continue reading…]

Following on from Beurax’s CMO being outed as a Russian actor from Moscow, CEO Brandon Watts has also been outed as a Russian model. [Continue reading…]

The future of Griddy Pro is looking dire, following two significant developments over the past two days:

1. Griddy Pro’s parent company Griddy has been banned from the Texas power market; and
2. a $1 billion class action lawsuit has been filed against the company.

Griddy Pro offered variable rate electricity through Griddy, so getting locked out of their only utilities market is a pretty big blow. [Continue reading…]

BehindMLM can confirm the current face of Beurax, CMO Susan Pope, is a Russian actor.

We suspected as much anyway but here’s the proof… [Continue reading…]

With the future of VPL Medical hanging in the balance, on January 25th CEO Jason Cardiff

told the Court that VPL “is currently talking to HHS and other federal and state agencies and believes that it is very close to landing some major contracts….”

As revealed in a joint operating report filed one month later however;

As of February 24, 2021, no new sales contracts have been executed.

But never fear, the VPL brain-trust has a backup plan. [Continue reading…]

QubitTech AI has been declared an illegal business in Italy.

Consequently CONSOB, Italy’s highest financial regulator, has ordered access to QubitTech AI’s website be blocked. [Continue reading…]

Xelliss operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

Xelliss was formerly known as Natura4Ever. Based on Xelliss’ official Facebook group name-change, the rebrand took place in mid 2020.

BehindMLM reviewed Natura4Ever in July 2019. We identified pay to play and expressed concern over autoship recruitment.

Along with checking for product updates, this will be a core focus in the conclusion of this review.

Natura4Ever in 2019 was based out of Luxembourg. The company was headed up by Eric Masson (right).

This hasn’t changed with the Xelliss rebrand. Mason still runs the company as “Chairman of the Xelliss Supervisory Board”.

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