TAR Global Review: MLM crypto Ponzi

TAR Global fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

TAR Global operates from two known website domains:

  1. targlobal.org – privately registered on January 8th, 2025
  2. targlobal.info – privately registered on March 6th, 2025

Of note is TAR Global’s official Facebook page being managed from the Philippines:

This suggests that whoever is running TAR Global has ties to the Philippines.

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…]


TraydAI Review: Boris CEO MLM crypto trading Ponzi

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

Clicking the “our team” link of TradyAI’s website redirects to Crunchbase. There TraydAI provides a cast of fictional executives represented by what appears to be AI-generated or stolen avatars:

Over on YouTube we find an actor with an eastern European accent pretending to be CEO “Davey Osorio”:

“Davey Osorio” is a Boris CEO played by Satskov Andrey Evgenievich (Сацков Андрей Евгеньевич).

Evgenievich is a freelance translator based out of Moscow.

TraydAI’s website domain (“tradyai.org”), was privately registered on October 30th, 2024.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, TradyAI provides a corporate address in Ontario, Canada on its website.

The address is owned by Davinci Virtual Office. This appears to be an attempt to hide TraydAI’s ties to Russia.

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…]


PassPass Review: Daily giveaways + savings platform

PassPass operates in the ecommerce discounts MLM niche.

The company is based out of the US and headed up by co-founders Edgel Groves Jr. (CEO) and Kristopher Groves (President).

As far as I can tell, Edgel Groves doesn’t have any prior MLM experience. Kristopher Groves is a former Kyani promoter.

PassPass is run through PassPass LLC, a purported Texas registered company.

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


Thrive99X Review: Marketing courses pyramid scheme

Thrive99X fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Thrive99X operates from two known website domains:

  1. thrive99x.com – privately registered on December 26th, 2024 (already abandoned)
  2. thrive99x.io – privately registered on April 8th, 2025

Thrive99X launched on or around April 22nd. The company maintains social media profiles on both Instagram and TikTok. All of Thrive99X’s promotional content is in Spanish.

In one marketing video, purportedly showing off a Thrive99X marketing event held in Panama last month, we find Juan Carlos Reynoso.

Juan Carlos Reynoso is a serial fraudster, primarily responsible for losses across Central and South America.

Reynoso was a top promoter of the collapsed OmegaPro Ponzi scheme, which led to his arrest in Florida on June 30th.

In court filings, the DOJ noted Reynoso last used his Peruvian passport on June 13th. It’s assumed this is related to the recent Thrive99X marketing event.

Prior to OmegaPro, Reynoso was involved in AirBit ClubCrypto World EvolutioniComTech and TeaMiner.

Another attendee of Thrive99X’s June 2025 marketing event was Alejandra Viteri.

On social media, Viteri cites herself as a “digital creator”, “investor” and “manifestor”.

Viteri is also behind Viteri Studio, an “eyebrow specialist” business based out of Medellin, Colombia.

Viteri Studio appears to have been abandoned in or around 2022.

One last name worth noting is Noach Kettler Yakowitz.

From 2018 to 2022, Yakowitz was a General Manager at Ecoondas SAS, a Colombian wholesale precious metals retailer.

Circa 2022 Yakowitz reinvented himself as a crypto bro. In August 2022 Yakowitz co-founded Alternun, a crypto scheme that claims it wants to “revolutionize the gold mining industry”.

As of January 2025, Yakowitz is also Chief Business Officer at Futswap.

On its website Futswap states it

offers a variety of products such as Trust account and digital asset management, payment processors, digital wallets, custodian and financial cards.

Whether Futswap is providing financial services to Thrive99X is unclear.

Also unclear is whether Juan Carlos Reynoso is working with Russians.

Towards the bottom of the “marketing system” section of Thrive99X’s website, we find a link to a “ready to go marketing system”:

If we follow this link we’re sent to “sx3digital.com”. The root domain is disabled but a registration page remains active:

The marketing platform is of little interest. What’s of note is the “welcome to profitclub.io” message on the top right.

That domain is disabled. Through the WayBack Machine though, we can see it was once a crypto investment scheme pitching up to 52% annually.

As you can see above, Profit Club’s website defaulted to Russian. This suggests whoever Reynoso is working with has ties to eastern Europe (typically Russia, Ukraine and/or Belarus).

In the footer of Thrive99X’s website we find a message claiming “design, development and hosting by GorillaSH.com”. That domain is defunct so the message is likely a red herring.

Just to cover my bases, a visit to the Wayback Machine reveals when the GorillaSH domain was active, it was represented to offer “custom web-based software designed and developed in the USA since 2011.

No ownership details were provided.

In what might be another red herring, Thrive99X’s website Terms and Condition state:

This agreement is governed by the laws of California. Any disputes must be resolved in California courts and conducted in English.

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…]



MetaMask flags DAO1 website as “potentially deceptive”

Metamask has flagged DAO1’s website domain as “potentially deceptive”.

Metamask, a US-based software company, markets itself as the “leading crypto wallet platform”.

Consumers can connect their Metamask wallets to participate in DAO1’s unregistered investment scheme.

In or around early to mid July, Metamask began flagging DAO1’s website as “might be harmful”. [Continue reading…]


Thrive Life collapses, announces Aug 2025 MLM shutdown

Thrive Life has collapsed.

As per a notice published on Thrive Life’s website, the company “will be closing” on August 31st. [Continue reading…]


Skainet Systems Ponzi reboot Cermak collapses

Cermak, a reboot of the collapsed Skainet Systems Ponzi scheme, has collapsed.

Cermak, aka CermakFX, was a trading ruse Ponzi scheme launched shortly after Skainet Systems collapsed last month.

Skainet Systems victims were pitched on a typical trading bot ruse, wherein they were promised 50% of generated profits. [Continue reading…]



Jeremy Roma pitches Daisy victims on new EndoTech AI grift

With BioLimitless failing to recapture Daisy Ponzi victims, co-conspirators Jeremy Roma, Eduard Khemchan and Ilya Martin have come up with a new ruse.

On July 21st Roma fronted a “Daisy updates” webinar, pitching Daisy Ponzi victims on a new AI grift from EndoTech. [Continue reading…]


Elevana Review: Phil Piccolo, vapes & securities fraud

Elevana operates in the vaping MLM niche. The company operates from two known website domains:

  1. myelevana.com – privately registered on March 27th, 2025
  2. info4elevana.com – privately registered on June 30th, 2025

The only executive Elevana discloses on its websites is Global Director “Felix Anthony”:

Felix Anthony is an alias of serial fraudster Philip Piccolo (right).

Piccolo, who now stylizes himself as a Pastor, also goes by Felix Angelo Piccolo, Felix Phillip Angelo, Felice DeAngelo, Johnny d’Angelo, Johnny Dangelo, Phillip Angelo P., Joseph Stevens, Don Johnson, John Nocton.

In one Elevana webinar, Piccolo messed up by showing his WhatsApp account. In one of the chats someone addressed “Felix” as “Phil” (click to enlarge):

Piccolo has likely also used other aliases not listed above.

Piccolo’s latest grift appears to be “Kingdom Community”, a religious community targeting Filipinos. Through Kingdom Community, Piccolo has promoted multiple scams.

The most recent of these scams is MemeGames, a fraudulent MLM crypto investment scheme run by serial offender Eric J. Dalius.

In Kingdom Community marketing videos, Anthony represents himself to be Meme Games’ number one promoter:

For some reason there are also numerous references to dodgy crypto schemes in Elevana’s “myelevana” website source-code:

These are assumed to be past scams Piccolo has either run or promoted.

Piccolo is primarily known to BehindMLM for his involvement in the Vista Network Ponzi scheme. Piccolo was also a promoter of the notorious Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme.

As part of the Vista Network civil lawsuit fallout, Piccolo filed for bankruptcy in late 2022.

Piccolo is known to reside in Florida but at time of publication this couldn’t be confirmed.

Read on for a full review of the Elevana MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]


Anubi WebKey Review: Web3 phone ruse Ponzi scheme

Anubi Webkey fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Anubi Webkey’s website domain (“webkey.vip”), was privately registered on July 12th, 2024.

Anubi Webkey’s official marketing documentation is named in Chinese:

This suggests whoever is running Anubi Webkey has ties to China.

Supporting this are staged Anubi Webkey marketing events, featuring song and dance productions typical of Asian scams:

Rather than front Anubi Webkey themselves, “Yaniv Porslekov” is presented as CSO:

Porslekov’s only digital profile are Twitter and LinkedIn profiles, both created in August 2024 (around the time Anubi Webkey launched).

Porslekov is obviously played by an actor. Typically we’d classify him as a Boris CEO but he’s not presented as running the company.

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…]