Crowd1 affiliate investors have been given a glimpse of how the company plans to respond to regulatory action.

By throwing them under the bus and abandoning them. [Continue reading…]

About a week ago BizzTrade, a Ponzi continuation of the BizzTrek pyramid scheme, announced it was jumping on the crypto fraud bandwagon.

And so we have BizzCoin, another shitcoin that gullible Ponzi investors will eventually be exit-scammed through. [Continue reading…]

Amid the worst global pandemic in a century, one group of scammers in the US are targeting the newly unemployed for a secret gifting scam.

And they’re not above shamelessly exploiting slavery either. [Continue reading…]

PureTrim’s website does have an “about” section, however no information about who owns or runs the company is disclosed.

Instead, aside from mentioning a launch “just over 3 years ago”, PureTrim uses the page to market itself.

PureTrim’s Policies and Procedures document states the company is “a division of Awareness Corp.”

This lead me to PureTrim’s original company name, AwarenessLife Worldwide. The name-change appears to have taken place on or around May 2014.

Further research reveals PureTrim and Awareness Corp are owned by Mark Tahiliani (right).

Tahiliani is CEO and President of PureTrim. Within the company (except on PureTrim’s website), Tahiliani goes by “Dr. Marc”.

Why Mark Tahiliani isn’t featured on PureTrim’s website is unclear.

One possibility (which ties into “Dr. Marc”) is Tahiliani ran BigSmart, a pyramid scheme sued by the FTC in 2001.

Rather than defend himself, Tahiliani settled the FTC’s fraud allegations in March 2001.

Operators of an Internet-based business opportunity that promised easy income for investors in an Internet shopping mall network have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their scheme was an illegal pyramid operation.

Under the terms of the settlement, Bigsmart.Com L.L.C. and principals Mark and Harry Tahiliani will provide up to $5 million in consumer redress and post a $500,000 performance bond before engaging in any new multi-level marketing activity.

The defendants also are prohibited from engaging in any illegal pyramid schemes.

Whereas BigSmart was ecommerce themed, PureTrim operates in the nutrtional supplement and weight loss MLM niches.

Outside of PureTrim, Tahiliani cites himself as a “puppy photography specialist”.

Tahiliani styles his social media accounts with a profile photo of Don Emeka, a Nigerian victim of gang violence in Italy who featured in a Vice documentary.

No idea what the story is there.

Whatever the reason Tahiliani keeps himself off PureTrim’s website, the end-result is a faceless corporation.

Not a good look for an MLM company.

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

A few weeks back a reader review request came in for EvolvHealth.

I began researching the corporate side of the company earlier this week. Today I planned on finishing the review, so I started with EvolvHealth’s products.

Confusion arose because when I clicked EvolvHealth’s products I was being redirected to a different website, Alovea. [Continue reading…]

Plaintiffs in the OneCoin class-action have convinced the Judge to reopen the case.

On April 28th a joint letter informed the court of both the plaintiff’s and defendant’s current positions. [Continue reading…]

On March 23rd Success by Health’s attorneys filed a motion to withdraw.

At the time attorneys represented the Success by Health corporate entities, as well individual defendants James D Noland, Jr, Lina Noland, Thomas Sacca and Scott Harris.

Stated reasons in the withdrawal motion are as follows:

1. The clients have failed to substantially fulfill their obligations to the Firm regarding the Firm’s services and has been given reasonable warning that the Firm would withdraw unless the obligation is fulfilled; and

2. Continued representation will result in an unreasonable financial burden on the lawyer or has been rendered unreasonably difficult by the client.

Rules 1.16(a) and 1.16(b) of the Arizona Rules of the Supreme Court were also cited. [Continue reading…]

Alcore Betting Company provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

Alcore Betting Company’s website domain (“alcore.club”) was privately registered on October 16th, 2019.

On YouTube Alcore Betting Company has this guy playing founder and CEO William Copper:

The man representing Copper has an eastern European accent, making him likely a Boris CEO actor.

Supporting this is Alcore Betting Company’s promo videos appearing to be shot in bare rented offices.

Also supporting this is the presence of Russian web assets used in Alcore Betting Company’s website source-code:

Behind the US, Alexa cites Russia as the second largest source of traffic to Alcore Betting Company’s website (9%).

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…]

GoArbit provides no information about who owns or runs the company on their website.

GoArbit’s website domain (“goarbit.com”) was privately registered on January 26th, 2020.

In their compensation material, GoArbit cites Maximo Martinez as founder and CEO of the company:

Martinez is supposedly based out of the Dominican Republic.

Possibly due to language barriers, I was unable to find an MLM history on Martinez.

His GoArbit corporate bio is generic and doesn’t provide anything that can be independently verified.

I was close to writing Martinez off as a Boris CEO actor but he does appear GoArbit marketing videos.

Past MLM companies Martinez has been involved in remain unknown.

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

Oslo police have decided it’s not worth pursuing an investigation into Lyoness.

Audun Kristiansen, a prosecutor at the joint unit for intelligence and investigation, told E24

In light of the current situation and that the case will require considerable resources over a long period of time, we consider it necessary to allocate resources elsewhere.

Last October the Gaming Board filed a report with the Oslo Police department, detailing ongoing Lyoness activity in Norway. [Continue reading…]