Star Network has received a fraud related desist and refrain order from California.

As per the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s June 5th order; [Continue reading…]

MTFE Global, aka Metaverse Foreign Exchange Global, has received a securities fraud warning from the UK.

As per the Financial Conduct Authorities’ June 11th warning, MTFE Global [Continue reading…]

MetaMax has received a securities fraud warning from the Philippines.

As per the Philippine SEC’s June 25th warning, MetaMax [Continue reading…]

P&G Group fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

P&G Group’s website domain (“pguk-mall.com”), was registered with bogus details on June 2nd, 2024.

Of note is P&G Group’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

P&G Group has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued a P&G Group pyramid fraud warning on June 14th, 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…]

Intellexa is a reboot of the collapsed BuddyX Ponzi scheme.

BehindMLM came across Intellexa as part of our research into BuddyX’s collapse.

BuddyX operated from the domain “buddyx.io”, which now redirects to “buddyex.com”. Here we have a continuation of the fraud started with BuddyX, although you won’t find any mention of Intellexa (sometimes spelt Intellaxa) on BuddyEx’s website.

Nonetheless, a visit to BuddyEx’s social media channels reveals plenty of Intellexa marketing since Buddyx collapsed.

BuddyX was a reboot of the collapsed Buddy Corp Ponzi scheme. Timeline wise we have:

Buddy Corp –> BuddyX –> BuddyEx (Intellexa)

All iterations of the Buddy named Ponzi schemes are run by serial fraudster Mahesh Sharma.

Sharma is an Indian national hiding out in Dubai. There is no mention of him on BuddyEx’s website.

Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Intellexa, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

RT-AI fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

RT-AI’s website domain (“rt-ai.vip”), was registered with bogus details on June 6th, 2024.

Of note is RT-AI’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

RT-AI has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued a RT-AI pyramid fraud warning on June 16th, 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…]

Sol People emerged about a fortnight ago. At the time all we knew was Sol People was an Awakend reboot, headed up by co-CEOs Ashlee Headlee James and Whitney Rose.

Although he’s put others in charge through executive title, Awakend owner Rodney James is believed to still own and ultimately call the shots within Sol People.

Awakend was one of the more memorable MLM launches over the past few years.

Originally a silly NFT gimmick combined with a product whose right to manufacture was still hotly disputed, by the time Awakend resembled a “ready to launch” MLM company the damage was already done.

Danelle Meoli, the face of Awakend, disappeared and the company limped along rudderless for most of 2022 and 2023. The bungled Q Sciences acquisition appears to have been the final nail in Awakend’s coffin.

As to Sol People’s new co-CEOs, Ashlee Headlee is known to BehindMLM as the person who put together Awakend’s doctored Zenith study.

Whitney Rose stars in Bravo’s Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (RHoSLC). Rose’s  RHoSLC bio cites her as “a descendant of Mormon royalty”.

On the MLM side of things Whitney is married to Justin Rose, former President of Awakend. Prior to Awakend Rose was Chief Sales Officer at LifeVantage.

In 2018 a class-action was filed against LifeVantage. The suit alleged Lifevantage was a pyramid scheme selling snake oil. The suit fizzled out in April 2022 after class-certification was denied.

On a 2022 episode of RHoSLC, Justin told Whitney Lifevantage had fired him over concerns about the reality show.

On The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Justin was seen telling Whitney that he had been let go and that his boss at LifeVantage had expressed “concerns” about Whitney’s fame due to her role on the TV show.

“He said how much he appreciated the work I had done but, ‘With Whitney being a public figure, I just didn’t see how we were going to be able to make this continue to work,'” he said. “That was how the conversation started.”

Justin also has prior executive experience at Shaklee and Nu Skin and Shaklee.

Sol People, its founder and executives are all based out of Utah in the US.

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

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

UKFarm’s website domain (“ukfarm.vip”), was privately registered on June 2nd, 2024.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, UKFarm cites a clothing store and the “Red Tractor Assurance Scheme” as regulatory authorities:

This is false on both counts.

UKFarm has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued a UKFarm pyramid fraud warning on June 14th, 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…]

Olive Tree People operates in the personal care and nutritional supplement MLM niches.

The company provides two corporate addresses on its website, one in California (Olive Tree People Inc.) and one in Germany (Oliveda Deutschland GmbH).

Oliveda has been around since 2003 and manufacturers personal care products. Olive Tree People launched in March 2023.

It seems rather than run an MLM company under its own name, for some reason Oliveda has gone with Olive Tree People.

Olive Tree People and Oliveda are headed up by founder Thomas Lommel (right).

In his Olive Tree People corporate bio, Lommel claims he came up with the idea for the company in a treehouse in his olive grove.

Lommel doesn’t appear to have any MLM executive experience prior to launching Olive Tree People.

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

Josip Heit has abandoned four GSB Gold Standard Corporation related companies.

From UK Companies House records; [Continue reading…]