Earlier this year it emerged TelexFree scammer Sann Rodrigues fled Brazil with the aid of a lawyer and two former police officers.

Rodrigues remains at large, however the attorney and one of the police officers involved were arrested back in February.

The pair were released a day later and have been out on bail since.

On Wednesday July 1st the Superior Court of Justice revoked bail.

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Be marketing began in late May, early June 2020. The company is a reboot of Melius.

Melius launched in late 2018, on the idiotic premise of giving out $50,000 real money trading accounts for $3000.

The company was publicly headed up by CEO and co-founder Jeremy Prasetyo.

Initially Melius’ other co-founders weren’t publicly acknowledged on the company’s website.

The main reason for that is because Melius’ other co-founders were Monir and Moyn Islam.

The Islam brothers made a name for themselves scamming people out of millions in OneCoin.

Originally from the UK, most of the Islam brother’s victims were ethnic minorities. As OneCoin began to collapse the brothers fled to Dubai.

Although not an outwardly obvious Ponzi scheme like OneCoin, Melius shared the scheme’s securities fraud roots.

Melius appears to have begun collapsing in late December 2019.

Be’s website domain (“befactor.com”) was acquired on March 26th, 2020. Promotion of Be began in mid to late May.

Melius’ website and social media profiles have since been deleted.

Be’s website cites Moyn Islam (President and CEO), Monir Islam (CVO) and Ehsaan B. Islam (CTO) as co-founders of the company.

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

Sponsoo operate in the sponsorship platform MLM niche.

The company is based out of Hamburg, Germany and headed up by CEO Andreas Kitzing.

As per Kitzing’s corporate bio, he

came up with the idea of Sponsoo during his MBA at the University of Cambridge.

Before that, he had been working as a management consultant and a project manager.

I wasn’t able to pin Kitzing down to any other MLM company, so this appears to be his first MLM venture.

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

Praetorian Group International goes by PGI Global and operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

The company is headed up Ramil Ventura Palafox, who goes by RV Palafox in PGI Global marketing.

A press-release published in January 2018 cited Palafox as President of AI Trade.

AI Trade was a Ponzi scheme fronted by Mark Davis. Davis is credited as PGI Global’s Vice President and COO.

The same 2018 press-release ties Palafox to a number of MLM Ponzi schemes;

RV’s extensive involvement with numerous Crypto Currency based companies such as Bitclub Network, Airbit, USI Tech, CWE and Trade Coin Club made him one of the pioneers of the Crypto currency world.

BitClub Network, AirBit Club, USI Tech, CWE and Trade Coin Club have all been reviewed here on BehindMLM.

Palafox is believed to operate from the Philippines. Mark Davis resides in Australia.

This fits with PGI Global’s official Facebook group being primarily managed from the Philippines and Australia.

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

To the best of my knowledge Lion’s Share doesn’t have a website.

The MLM opportunity is promoted primarily through social media, namely Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp and YouTube.

The face of Lion’s Share marketing is James Ward.

James Ward (right) first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar in 2010, as the CEO of LGN Prosperity.

LGN Prosperity marketed travel vouchers, with each voucher generating a position in a matrix 2×2 cycler.

Following months of affiliates not getting paid, in mid 2011 LGN Prosperity morphed into LGN International.

This name-change brought on the addition of commissions paid on travel services booked through LGN.

LGN International eventually collapsed in mid to late 2013, with Ward heading up iBizWave as CEO and co-founder in early 2014.

In 2015 Ward launched 2SL Start Living, which saw him return to the travel MLM niche.

2SL Start Living was short-lived, prompting Ward to launch Pangea in 2016.

Pangea’s original business model was a matrix cycler hiding behind travel.

By early 2017 Pangea had collapsed. Ward rebooted Pangea with a new compensation plan.

The only material difference was the cycler expanded to three tiers, so it’s not surprising that Pangea 2.0 also didn’t last long.

In late 2019 Ward resurfaced with Sports Trading BTC, a crypto Ponzi scheme.

Sports Trading BTC collapsed by December 2019, prompting Ward to reboot the scheme as Global Credits Network.

As per website traffic charts provided by Alexa, Global Credits Network collapsed in or around April 2020.

Promotion of Lion’s Share began in late June 2020.

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

Elysium Capital has received a securities fraud warning from Estonia’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA). [Continue reading…]

Six Sigma Trade provides no reliable information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

Six Sigma Trade claims to be headed up by Sura Bianca.

Six Sigma is the brainchild of Sura Bianca a tech-savvy “Goddess” with a passion for trading and crypto currency.

Bianca doesn’t exist outside of Six Sigma Trade’s marketing material.

Whereas questionable marketing videos usually pretend to be shot anywhere but Russia, Six Sigma Trade uploaded a video titled “Six Sigma Trade Russia Pre Launch Event”, to their official YouTube channel on December 29th, 2019.

The event features what appears to be a bunch of young actors standing in front of a branded board, before sitting down for a catered meal.

Sura Bianca doesn’t appear in the video. CEO missing the launch event of her own company? Yeah, nothing suss.

Bianca makes her first appearance on the channel in March 2020.

Bianca is a prime candidate for a Boris CEO, meaning she as the actual person represented in Six Sigma Trade marketing doesn’t exist.

Six Sigma Trade’s website domain (“6sigmatrade.com”) was registered on September 27th, 2019.

Domain registration details are private, save for the registrant’s provided country being New Zealand.

Despite Six Sigma Trade’s obvious Russian origins, in its official marketing material the company claims to be headquartered in New Zealand:

A search of that address reveals it belongs to Servcorp, a virtual office provider.

At the time of publication Alexa cites Russia as the primary source of traffic to Six Sigma Trade’s website (39%).

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 recent rulings have seen

1. Jason and Eunjung Cardiff’s contempt appeal denied; and
2. Jacques Poujade found to be in contempt.

Redwood principals Jason and Eunjung Cardiff were found in contempt back in April.

This marked the second time the Cardiffs were found in contempt. They were spared prison time owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. [Continue reading…]

On June 19th the FTC filed a fresh motion requesting sanctions against Jason and Eunjung Cardiff.

As alleged by the FTC, the Cardiffs have failed to comply with a filed March 31st contempt order.

This was followed up by an emergency ex-parte application for a TRO, filed on June 23rd.

The FTC’s application was initially filed under seal. It was unsealed via July 2nd court order. [Continue reading…]

Fok Fook Seng, better known as Fred Fok, has been fined $71,000 for promoting the OneCoin Ponzi scheme in Singapore. [Continue reading…]