Vestige Marketing operates in the ecommerce MLM niche. The company was founded back in 2004 and is based out of New Delhi, India.

Heading up Vestige Marketing are co-founders Gautam Bali (Managing Director), Kanwar Bir Singh (Director) and Deepak Sood (Director).

As per Bali’s corporate bio, he

laid the foundation stone of Vestige, which he is successfully leading as a helmsman with his unmatched domain expertise and business acumen.

Bali is credited with “playing key roles in various direct selling companies as CEO and advisor for decades”, although no specifics are provided.

Bali’s LinkedIn profile cites him as a National Sales Manager for Modicare from 1996 to 2001, and then Chief Marketing Officer for Elken from 2003 to 2004.

Modicare is an Amway style MLM company that markets a range of grocery items, personal care products and nutritional supplements.

Elken is a Malaysian Amway style MLM company, offering products across healthcare, personal care and home appliances.

At the time of publication Vestige Marketing is active in India, the UAE, Nepal, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

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

A previously ordered stay on BitClub Network criminal proceedings has been extended through to May 30th. [Continue reading…]

Following two years of mostly inaction, a Florida Judge has dismissed the BitConnect victim class-action lawsuit. [Continue reading…]

After using CloudFlare for years, the reverse-proxy provider started showing phishing scam warnings for OneCoin back in January.

As reported by BehindMLM readers, affected websites include OneCoin’s own, OneLife and DealShaker.

Not all jurisdictions were affected, but it was widespread enough to hinder recruitment efforts. [Continue reading…]

The Zeek Rewards Receiver has provided an update on last partial distribution payments.

In his April 20th update, the Receiver states: [Continue reading…]

ACN and Trump family defendants have failed to force arbitration in the ongoing case against them.

Both the Trump family and ACN had moved to compel arbitration, with orders denying the request made on April 8th and 9th respectively. [Continue reading…]

The CFTC has dropped their case against Control Finance.

On April 6th the court accepted the FTC’s motion to voluntarily dismiss Control Finance as a defendant.
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1 Click Trading operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

The company appears to be headed up by co-founders Doyle Shuler and Richard Hornshaw.

Doyle Shuler (right) is based out of South Carolina in the US.

Circa 2010-2011, Doyle was promoting gold themed opportunities; ISN Coins and Preservation of Wealth.

ISN Coins lent itself to affiliate autoship recruitment. Preservation of Wealth was a flat out pyramid scheme.

From around 2016 onward, Shuler stopped promoting gold themed MLM opportunities. He appears to have jumped on the cryptocurrency bandwagon in or around 2018.

This culminated with Shuler promoting several cryptocurrency MLM Ponzi schemes from late 2019.

Since October 2019 Shuler has promoted Sports Trading BTC, My Passive Trades and Kangot.

Richard Hornshaw (right) is based out of the UK. In 2017 he was promoting World Global Network.

In 2018 Hornshaw ditched World Global Network to promote MLM cryptocurrency scams.

The earliest example I was able to find was World Cryptocurrency 101 in August 2018.

By October 2018 Hornshaw had jumped ship for Karatbars International, who by then had also jumped on the cryptocurrency fraud bandwagon.

In January 2019 Hornshaw was promoting HGFX Online, a collapsed forex trading scheme, and the GoFounders pyramid scheme.

That appears to be it up until 1 Click Trading’s launch.

Read on for a full review of 1 Click Trading’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Coin-Gen provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

Coin-Gen’s website domain (“coin-gen.com”) was privately registered on February 26th, 2020.

On its website, Coin-Gen claims to have been running for 685 days. Given the age of the website domain, this and the rest of the stats provided are assumed to be bogus.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Coin-Gen provides a grainy UK incorporation certificate for “Coin Gen Limited”.

A search of UK Companies House records reveals no such entity is registered.

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…]

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

OneLink’s website domain (“onelinknetwork.com”) was privately registered on March 5th, 2020.

For those following the OneCoin Ponzi saga, it’s an open secret that former OneLife “Captain” Simon Le is behind OneLink.

You can find Le on YouTube hosting OneLink marketing presentations:

Simon Le (actual name Le Quoc-Hung) is believed to have joined OneCoin at or around the company’s launch.

Le is primarily responsible for recruitment of OneCoin victims in Vietnam.

During OneCoin’s run Le was a prominent top earner in the company. After CEO Konstantin Ignatov’s arrest early last year, OneCoin all but came to a grinding halt.

What was left of OneCoin promoted Le to Captain of OneLife on or around December 2019.

Throughout December 2019, Le continued to solicit investment into OneCoin:

Although OneLink’s website domain wasn’t registered till March 2020, Le had to have begun planning his new business while still at OneCoin.

Le resigned as OneLife’s Captain in early April, roughly a month after he registered OneLink’s website domain.

Over the course of his six years promoting the Ponzi scheme, how much Le stole from OneCoin victims is unknown.

Le is believed to be hiding out in either Vietnam or Dubai, neither of which have an extradition treaty with the US.

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