Mind Capital has received a securities fraud emergency cease and desist order from Texas.

As per the Texas State Securities Board’s order, Mind Capital (Mind Capital OU, Mind Capital Tech SL) is not registered to offer securities in Texas. [Continue reading…]

Trust Investing operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche. The company provides a corporate address in Panama on its website.

Whether Trust Investing has any actual physical operations in Panama however is unclear.

A search of the provided address returns multiple businesses, suggesting Trust Investing presence in Panama is only virtual (shell company).

Heading up Trust Investing is CEO Diego Chaves (right).

According to Chaves’ Trust Investing corporate bio, he has “over 10 years of experience in the Network Marketing market”.

Personally I wasn’t able to verify Chaves’ MLM history prior to Trust Investing, although I’m willing to put that down to language-barriers.

As per Chaves’ official Facebook profile, he resides in Malaga, Spain. Trust Investing’s official Facebook page meanwhile is primarily managed from Brazil.

Either way, as opposed to Panama, Trust Investing is likely being operated out of Spain, Brazil or both.

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

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

A corporate address in Sao Paulo, Brazil is provided in the footer of Intense Live’s website.

It’s worth noting that the Intense Live’s official marketing materials provide an “administrative headquarters” in Orlando, Florida.

When you punch this address into Google however, it comes up as a virtual office address belonging to Regus.

Intense Live’s website domain (“intenselive.com”) was was first registered in 2018. The registration is currently private and was last updated on February 17th, 2020.

Further research reveals Intense Live’s official Facebook page citing Max Bispo as the company’s CEO.

Marketing videos on YouTube also credit Bispo as Intense Live’s founder:

Why this information is not presented on Intense Live’s website is unclear.

On Facebook Bispo credits himself as an “MLM leader” and “dream seller”.

Four years ago Bispo was promoting Unidain, which claimed to be a “university of intelligence”.

Whatever Unidain was, today it doesn’t exist.

Possible due to language-barriers, I was unable to peg Bispo to any other MLM opportunities.

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…]

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

In TwentyXPro’s website FAQ, the company claims it’s “a project created by the educational company Interconnectica Ltd”.

Interconnectica LTD appears to be a Cyprus shell company.

Interconnectica LTD has a website up at “interconnectica.com”. The domain was first registered in 2018. The private registration was last updated on February 8th, 2020.

TwentyXPro’s website domain (“twentyxpro.com”) was privately registered in November 2019. The domain registration was last updated in April 2020.

Further research reveals Alexis Thomas presenting himself as TwentyXPro’s CEO on social media.

Thomas is supposedly from Cyprus. On Facebook he markets himself as an entrepeneur.

Thomas’ timeline marks various cryptocurrency expos and awards for unnamed business ventures.

On the MLM side of things I was able to peg Thomas to Jeunesse and Sunrise Travel Club.

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

Rypex Trade provides no credible information about who owns or runs the company on its website.

Cited as CEO of Rypex Trade is Phillip Orr, who doesn’t exist outside of a brief mention in Rypex Trade’s marketing.

A video uploaded to Rypex Trade’s official YouTube channel features CFO Albert Parson.

The interview takes place in a spotless virtual office. Both the interviewer and actor playing Parson have better than average masked eastern European accents.

You can tell English is not their native language if you listen closely (pronunciation and grammar).

Both Phillip Orr and Albert Parson are prime Boris CEO candidates.

On its website, Rypex Trade presents itself as “a British company”. To support that facade, the company provides a UK incorporation certificate for Rypex Trading Limited.

UK incorporation is dirt cheap and effectively unregulated. It is a favored jurisdiction for scammers looking to incorporate dodgy companies.

Rypex Trade also misrepresents their meaningless UK incorporation as an investment services license.

The base of successful and secure investments is a reliable business partner. This depends on how legal your partner’s business is.

In the case of Rypex, you get an absolutely reliable investment partner, which you can convince yourself.

Licence 12699421 given at Companies House, Hardiff, on 26th June 2020.

For the record, Companies House has a Cardiff office. Hardiff doesn’t exist.

At the time of publication, Alexa estimates the top three sources of traffic to Rypex Trade’s website are Vietnam (32%), Bangladesh (13%) and Turkey (5%).

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…]

Silverchief Mint operates in the precious metals MLM niche.

The company is based out of South Africa and headed up by founder Brandon Marriott.

Prior to founding Silverchief Mint, Marriott was promoting WorldVentures.

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

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

Smarts News’ website domain (“smarts.news”) was privately registered on April 14th, 2020.

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…]

Two OneCoin promoters have been found in Mazatlan, Sinaloa.

The bodies of Oscar Brito Ibarra and Ignacio Ibarra (no relation), were stuffed into suitcases and dumped in a vacant lot.

An examination determined suffocation as the cause of death.

Local Mexican authorities are treating the deaths as homicide and an investigation is underway. [Continue reading…]

Jay Noland has dodged contempt sanctions for violating his NetForce Seminars fraud injunction.

The FTC sued Noland and NetForce Seminars back in 2000.

NetForce Seminars was found to be a pyramid scheme and an injunction prohibiting Noland from engaging in any pyramid sales scheme” was issued.

The FTC sued Noland and Success By Health for being a pyramid scheme in January 2020.

With that lawsuit came a motion in the NetForce Seminars case, requesting contempt sanctions against Noland for violating his Netforce injunction. [Continue reading…]

BehindMLM reviewed Mining City just over a year ago last June.

Since launching as an unregistered securities investment opportunity, Mining City is now offering returns in bitcoin and bitcoin vault.

The compensation plan has also been updated, prompting readers to request a review update.

Today we revisit Mining City’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]