Solvasa appears to run two websites, which is a little confusing.

There’s Solvasa Beaty and Solvasa Life. Solvasa’s “beauty” website predates the “life” website.

Visitors to Solvasa’s “beauty” website are provided the following message at the top of the page:

Returning Customer? We have securely moved your account information to our new website.

When you click on the provided link however, you stay on the Solvasa Beauty website.

Of the two websites, Solvasa Beauty is the MLM opportunity with products.

Solvasa Life is basically a Solvasa owned blog/podcast website.

Why Solvasa can’t just host its blog and podcast on its primary website I don’t know.

Things get even more messier when you consider Solvasa’s Facebook page, which links to the “life” website – which contains no information about Solvasa’s MLM opportunity or products.

Solvasa’s marketing identity is a bit all over the place.

To keep things simple I’m going to pretend Solvasa Life doesn’t exist. This review is based on Solvasa Beauty, which I believe is the MLM company.

Solvasa operates in the personal care and nutrition MLM niches. The company is based out of California in the US.

Heading up Solvasa is co-founders Lori Bush and Ritu Chopra.

So the story goes;

A diagnosis of breast cancer led beauty industry executive, Lori Bush, to Dr. Ritu Chopra for reconstructive surgery.

It also led to deep discussions between patient and doctor about a major need-gap in the skincare market: products and practices to help manage the impact of stress and inflammaging on appearance and overall well-being.

With a mission to address this universal need, Solvasa Integrative Beauty was born.

Lori Bush has a history in the personal care industry dating back to 1993.

As per her LinkedIn profile, Bush’s MLM executive career began in 2000 as President of Nu Skin.

• Feb 2000 – Jan 2006, President of NuSkin
• Sep 2007 – Jan 2016, President and General Manager of Rodan & Fields
• Aug 2018 – Jul 2019, Chairman of Board of Managers at Avon

Solvasa was founded in May 2018, so there’s a bit of overlap between it and Bush’s Avon role.

Ritu Chopra runs a plastic and reconstructive practice in California. As far as I can tell Solvasa is his first MLM venture.

One name on Solvasa’s executive list that caught my eye was Chairman of the Board of Directors, Truman Hunt.

BehindMLM is familiar with Truman Hunt as the former long-standing CEO of NuSkin (2003 to 2016).

During Hunt’s tenure NuSkin’s Chinese bribery shenanigans came to light.

In a nutshell, in 2014 Chinese authorities announced they thought NuSkin was a pyramid scheme. Wheels were greased and the investigation went away.

This didn’t sit right with US authorities. In late 2016 the SEC began proceedings against NuSkin.

NuSkin settled the SEC’s bribes and corruption allegations for $765,688.

Shareholders filed their own lawsuit pertaining to NuSkin’s misconduct in China. This resulted in a $47 million dollar settlement in October 2016.

Truman Hunt resigned as NuSkin CEO two months later in December 2016.

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

Ghanaian authorities seem to be having a hard time reining in QNet scammers.

Despite multiple arrests and deportations, QNet recruitment efforts persist. [Continue reading…]

The recently rebranded QubitLife has launched the final stage of its Ponzi scheme: QDT.

QDT is a token QubitLife is selling to the public through a “QICO”. [Continue reading…]

Following a request by the SEC on February 18th, the iPro Network civil trial has been delayed for a fifth time.

As revealed in a subsequent stipulation, this time the delay is attributable to the use of gift cards in iPro Network. [Continue reading…]

Back in April 2020 the CFTC filed charges against Alan Friedland (right) and his companies Fintech Investment Group and Compcoin.

BehindMLM didn’t cover the lawsuit because it was unrelated to the MLM industry.

In light of Friedland being outed as the architect behind the recently launched NRGY smart-contract Ponzi scheme however, I felt it worthwhile to examine the CFTC’s case against him.

Given the similarities between the CFTC’s alleged misconduct and NRGY, by the end of this article you’ll understand why. [Continue reading…]

In its ongoing case against Success by Health and owner Jay Noland, the FTC has moved for summary judgement with respect to liability.

As summarized by the FTC, their case against SBH and Noland is as follows: [Continue reading…]

In an attempt to overturn the granted preliminary injunction against Success by Health and owner Jay Noland, one hundred and eight SBH affiliates submitted filed declarations.

Ignoring the FTC’s legal arguments, some SBH affiliates instead raised allegations of racism.

The Court considered Defendants’ arguments about those allegations and stated:

“This is a frivolous argument and the Individual Defendants’ counsel should be ashamed for raising it.”

Consequently that effort to overturn the granted preliminary injunction failed.

Now a much smaller group of affiliates, numbering thirty-three and assumed to be among Success by Health’s top earners, are seeking to intervene.

This follows a previous attempt a few months ago to join the case as defendant parties.

The SBH affiliate’s intervention motion is once again an attempt to overturn the granted preliminary injunction.

In opposition to the requested intervention, the FTC has provided some remarkable revelations. [Continue reading…]

Afghanistan’s Ministry of the Interior has banned QNet nationwide.

Forty QNet staff and promoters in Kabul have also been arrested on fraud charges. [Continue reading…]

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

EtherConnect’s website domain (“etherconnect.co”) was privately registered on January 12th, 2021.

From its company logo to its marketing material, EtherConnect represents itself as a reboot of the notorious BitConnect Ponzi scheme.

The following is from EtherConnect’s official marketing presentation;

As everyone knows that Bitconnect limited closed it operation around the world due to Government Regulation in 2018, But now Bitconnect is back with complete legal registration in Estonia & United Kingdom with its strong community.

Bitconnect is launching its new updated platform Etherconnect.

Although it’s likely that whoever is behind EtherConnect was involved in BitConnect, I’m doubtful its the same owners.

BitConnect was an MLM crypto Ponzi scheme launched in 2016.

In early 2018 BitConnect attracted the attention of US regulators in Texas and North Carolina, prompting its top US promoter Glenn Arcaro to flee.

Arcaro, who is believed to have stolen millions through BitConnect, remains in hiding.

A week after Arcaro fled, BitConnect collapsed.

Over the coming months Trevon James, one of Arcaro’s accomplices, confirmed an FBI investigation into BitConnect.

Craig Grant, another of Arcaro’s accomplices, later confirmed the SEC were also investigating.

In late 2018 a report out of India suggested US authorities were looking to recover $5.6 billion from Indian nationals Satish Kumbhani and Divyesh Darji.

Kumbhani and Darji are believed to be the architects of BitConnect.

Darji was arrested by Indian authorities in August 2018. Satish Kumbhani was arrested in June 2019.

Reports out of India revealed the FBI had sent agents to interrogate Kumbhani following his arrest.

In February 2019 the FBI directly reached out to BitConnect victims.

Since 2019 there have been no significant public developments from US authorities with respect to BitConnect.

The current status of any ongoing US investigations into BitConnect is unknown.

Given this, I’m highly doubtful any of the BitConnect OG crew are behind EtherConnect.

They already stole billions. It makes no sense to return with a clone scam.

At the time of publication Alexa ranks the US as the primary source of traffic to EtherConnect’s website (85%).

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

Within an hour or so of our NRGY smart-contract Ponzi review going live, Duane Noble showed up in the comments below to aggressively defend it.

This seemed kind of odd, as Duane seemed to take NRGY being correctly identified as a Ponzi scheme personally.

Anyway, courtesy of Chris Hawk Jones, mystery solved. [Continue reading…]