Convicted fraudster Josip Heit is under investigation in Croatia for money laundering. [Continue reading…]

While Blockchain Sports has always represented itself to be based out of Dubai, scammers behind the Ponzi scheme appear to be operating from Russia. [Continue reading…]

Attorneys representing Now Mining defendants Jeremie Sowerby and Luis Ortega have bailed.

This has pushed back the Now Mining criminal trial, as well as Sowerby’s upcoming Dunamis Mining and Softek and Justice Capital trials. [Continue reading…]

SageMaster has received a fraud warning from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).

As per the CSSF’s October 16th, 2025 SageMaster warning; [Continue reading…]

SuperOne token bagholders (promoters of the Ponzi scheme), are still looking for new victims.

SuperOne’s latest marketing grift is jumping on the AI bandwagon. [Continue reading…]

Bellator Life has received a securities fraud warning from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

ASIC added Bellator Life to its Investor Alert List on October 23rd, 2025. [Continue reading…]

Sean Robertson, a purported trader who worked for Blue Ocean Society, has sued the Ponzi scheme’s owners. [Continue reading…]

Every villain has an origin story.

While we might not ever know how deep the rabbit hole goes, we now know, for a few years at least, Josip Heit and an associated gang of criminals pickpocketed train commuters in Luxembourg.

Following a previous report on Heit’s criminal activity in Luxembourg, today BehindMLM is publishing full details of the case, conviction and sentencing. [Continue reading…]

BehindMLM reviewed Unicity as Unicity International back in 2013.

We weren’t impressed with what amounted to a $125 a month autoship recruitment scheme.

At the request of a reader, today we’re revisiting Unicity for an updated review. [Continue reading…]

PTGR AG operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

PTGR AG’s website domain (“ptgr.io”), was privately registered on January 26th, 2025.

Heading up PTGR AG we have founder and CEO Pan Gross-Ruyken.

Things get a little bit strange here. In addition to running PTGR AG, Gross-Ruyken is also a professor at the Swiss School of Management (SSM), Barcelona:

Gross-Ruyken’s SSM bio acknowledges his role at PTGR AG;

Currently serving as the CEO of PTGR AG in Zug, Switzerland, Dr. Grosse-Ruyken spearheads the company’s focus on digital finance solutions for private and institutional clients.

This doesn’t match up with PTGR AG as presented on its .IO domain – but it does match what PTGR AG offers on a second domain, “ptgr.ch”.

PTGR AG on the .CH domain does offer investing services, but its by consultation only. Additionally, general crypto services and consultancy is offered.

I thought someone might have hijacked the PTGR AG name but, if you click on the “$PTGR token” link at the top right of the PTGR AG .CH website, you get redirected to the .IO domain.

PTGR AG’s .CH website domain was privately registered on June 9th, 2021. The company is named after its founder, Pan Theo Gross-Ruyken.

Putting all of this together, it appears Pan Gross-Ruyken reinvented himself as a crypto bro circa 2021 but continued to work as an academic.

PTGR AG was the usual failed crypto bro scheme (might have even been a COVID-19 project), so now Grosse-Ruyken has added a PTGR token investment scheme.

We’ll delve into the legalities of this in the conclusion of the review.

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