US Business World LLC provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

The US Business World LLC website domain (“usbwllc.com”) was first registered in 2015.

The domain registration was last updated on September 12th, 2018.

Bhupinder Singh is listed as the owner, through an address in Idaho. Further research reveals the supplied address is actually that of a hotel.

If you go to the “packages” section of US Business World LLC’s website, you’ll notice “JD Coin” bundled with them.

JD Coin is presented as a separate company with its own website, however it’s obvious the two companies are linked.

JD Coin’s website domain (“jdcoin.us”) was registered on January 17th, 2018.

Jhon Banga is listed as the owner, through the same Idaho hotel address.

According to Banga’s LinkedIn profile he owns Nampa Inn and Suites, the hotel address used for both US Business World and JD Coin.

Banga’s LinkedIn profile also cites him as a “Managing Partner” of JD Coin.

US Business World LLC’s marketing material cites “Arthur Tailor” as CEO of the company.

I couldn’t find any additional information on Tailor and am therefore unsure if he actually exists.

Despite Jhon Banga’s Idaho connection, US Business World LLC and JD Coin otherwise appear strongly tied to India.

Most of the US Business World marketing out there is in Hindi. Alexa also pegs the majority of traffic to the company’s website out of India too (74%).

For all intents and purposes US Business World and JD Coin appear to be Indian companies run by Indians.

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BrixTrades provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

The BrixTrades website domain (“brixtrades.com”) was privately registered on November 4th, 2018.

A “sectional address” on BrixTrades website appears on a number of other websites; StockFX Pro, Apex Trade 247 and TradeOption 247.

These companies all use the same website template (Trade Option 247 is slightly varied), and are all investment related.

Website traffic to these websites is non-existent, suggesting each company has either yet to launch or already collapsed.

Further research reveals Denis Derkash promoting BrixTrades on his Instagram account.

As far as I can tell, this is the only public promotion of BrixTrades that exists.

Persual of Derkash’s social media profiles reveals that alongside BrixTrades, he is also involved in the BitClub Network Ponzi scheme.

According to Derkash’s Facebook profile, he’s based out Chicago in the US.

I also found an “Edward C Baker” promoting BrixTrades on Instagram.

Outside of that account though I couldn’t find any further information.

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…]

BitTrain provides no verifiable information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The company does provide a series of random names it claims are management, however there is nothing to support these people exist as represented.

For example, BitTrain’s co-founders are supposedly Allen Coko (CEO) and John Kin.

Allen Coko doesn’t exist outside of BitTrain. John Kin’s social media profiles were only recently set up in December 2018.

Kin’s Twitter profile hasn’t been used for anything other than BitTrain promotion.

The BitTrain website domain (“bittrain.info”) was privately registered on February 15th, 2019.

Despite BitTrain not existing up until a few months ago, the company claims it has been in business since at least May 2018.

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…]

Following the SEC filing for default judgment back in February, a $17.8 million final judgment has been made against DFRF Enterprises.

Heriberto Perez Valdes, an individual defendant in the case, also received a separate $1.2 million judgment. [Continue reading…]

Following withdrawal of Richard Maike’s attorney back in April, he was given thirty days to find new counsel.

Maike is a named defendant in the DOJ’s Infinity2Global criminal case, which is scheduled to go to trial on July 22nd.

In a new motion filed on June 10th, Maike advises the court he’s found a new attorney.

Problem is the attorney will only represent Maike if the trial is delayed to February 2020. [Continue reading…]

A defendant in the FTC’s case against Redwood Scientific Technologies has agreed to a permanent injunction and suspended monetary judgment. [Continue reading…]

Keeping track of Antony Norman’s various scam launches is no easy task.

In our recently published Wellmont Capital review, we documented Norman’s acquisition of John Barksdale’s failed InnerQuest Global Limited Ponzi scheme.

In its dying days, InnerQuest’s last hurrah was IQ Legacy.

Norman (right) rolled IQ Legacy into Wellmont Capital. He also simultaneously launched IQ5050 which, less than a month out of launch, has already collapsed.

In a June 9th press-release, Sprinkle Group announced it had acquired InnerQuest Limited.

Sprinke Group is a company that only came into existence earlier this year.

Since then they’ve “entered into an agreement” with Wellmont Capital, tying Antony Norman to all three companies.

Call me cynical but there’s a good chance Norman has a thumb in Sprinkle Group too.

In any event, after Norman sold IQ5050 back to himself through Sprinkle Group, the company announced it will be ‘rebranded to the Bakuhatsu.io brand owned by Sprinkle‘. [Continue reading…]

BizKniz provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

BizKniz’s website domain (“bizkniz.com”) was first registered in 2013. The domain registration was last updated in July 2018.

BizKniz’s website domain registration is private and provides no information on its owner.

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…]

Vibe Direct provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

Vibe Direct’s website domain (“vibe.direct”) was registered on August 26th, 2018.

Dan Robison is the registered owner, through a residential address in the US state of Florida.

Robison lead me to a defunct Vibe Direct signup page, which according to Google cache contained the following paragraph:

Vibe Direct LLC was founded in 2018 by three business partners with over 100+ years of direct sales and social marketing experience.

Dan Robison, Todd Wallace and Jerry Lambert joined forces to bring together competitive priced services with a state of the art backoffice support system.

Vibe Direct’s current signup page does not provide this information. No idea why.

Dan Robison and Todd Wallace appear to have been working together for some time.

A 2005 press-release notes they were both appointed to Y-Tel International’s Board of Directors.

Surprisingly, Robison doesn’t have much of a digital footprint. I did find a Dan Robison in Ambit Energy but I’m not 100% sure it’s the same guy.

A resume on Todd Wallace’s website cites him as COO of TruConnect Direct from 2013 to 2016.

TruConnect Direct is a wireless service MLM company. Traffic statistics for TruConnect Direct’s website suggest there’s not much activity going on.

I couldn’t find any MLM related information on Jerry Lambert.

Update 10th June 2019 – A reader in the comments below mentioned Lambert was in Excel Communications.

According to Lambert’s LinkedIn profile, he was a “Senior Manager” in Excel from 1995 to 1997.

Lambert’s professional background otherwise seems to be heavily communications oriented. /end update

Considering these three claim to have “over 100+ years of direct sales experience”, it’s odd they haven’t been very public about it.

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It appears the FTC’s fraud case against Thomas Dluca, Louis Gatto, Eric Pinkston and Scott Chandler may have been settled.

On May 24th a Settlement Conference was scheduled for June 4th.

“All parties” were required to attendance the conference, which ran as scheduled. [Continue reading…]