The ID Identification website contains no information about who owns or runs the company.

Further research reveals “Phoenix Shield Group Holdings” and PSC Investments” touted as related ID Identification companies.

These are borrowed names from existing companies, none of which are based out of Dubai.

Whether ID Identification’s related companies even exist is unclear. What we do know is that if they do exist, they’re nothing more than shell corporations set up to deceive.

You can confirm this yourself by visiting the ID Identification website privacy policy, which provides a corporate PO Box address.

The ID Identification website domain (“ididentification.org”) was registered on 18th December, 2018.

Phoenix Shield Group LLC is listed as the owner, through an incomplete address in the United Arab Emirates.

In the “our companies” section of their website, ID Identification lists a series of websites suggesting links to Brazil.

The source-code language of the ID Identification website is also riddled with Portuguese, Brazil’s official language.

This all strongly suggests that whoever is running ID Identification is likely based out of Brazil itself.

Either there or Russia, which Alexa currently pegs as the top source of traffic to the ID Identification website (30%).

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…]

Amare Global launched in 2016 and operates in the nutritional supplement MLM niche.

The company is headed by founder and CEO Hiep Tran. Rich Higbee, Mike Brown, Mark Nguyen and Shawn Talbott are also credited as “founding executives”.

So the story goes, Tran (right) founded Amare Global

because of his journey with his own health & wellness.

Although he had achieved a high level of success in the business world, he did so at the expense of his own physical and mental health.

It was out of these hardships that the ideas for Amare began to take shape.

Tran is based out of California and, as far as I’ve been able to ascertain, doesn’t have an MLM corporate history.

As per Tran’s LinkedIn profile;

In 2008, I was co-founder and principal of Meritus Payment Solutions.

Meritus was acquired by Optimal Payments in 2014.

I then became CEO of payment processing for Paysafe (Formerly Optimal Payments) until resigning in 2016.

Later that year Tran launched Amare Global.

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

Back in February Dish Network filed for default judgment against defendants 247 SmartLife, TVizion and owner Ferras Jim Pshehalouk.

On April 1st, final judgment in the amount of $5,959,000 was granted. [Continue reading…]

When I added Crypster to our review list, the company was operating from two domains; “crypster.eu” and “crypster.rocks”.

The EU domain has since been abandoned. The ROCKS domain is still up but not accessible through a US IP address.

Crypster’s website provides no information on who owns or runs the business.

Crypster marketing videos feature Volker Wainig, who on LinkedIn identifies himself as Crypster’s founder.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Wainig (right) is based out of Austria.

Prior to founding Crypster, Wainig was Executive Sales Chief for Trevo and CEO of the FlexKom pyramid scheme’s US division.

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The Bitcoin Frontiers website provides no information about who owns or runs the company.

In fact the website itself is nothing more than an email capture landing page.

Visitors to the Bitcoin Frontiers website through an affiliate referral link, are told they can make “$1000+ A DAY with bitcoin”.

The Bitcoin Frontiers website domain (“bitcoinfrontiers.com”) was privately registered on October 14th, 2018.

Further research reveals that a few months ago, Clay Montgomery was seeking a freelancer artist to create logos for Bitcoin Adventurer and Crypto Mastery.

These are the two buy-in gifting tiers for Bitcoin Frontiers.

This lead me to confirm Clay Montgomery is behind Bitcoin Frontiers, and apparently he’s working with Franco Gonzalez.

Clay Montgomery (right) first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar in 2017, as admin of the short-lived Speed Feeder Ponzi cycler.

Outside of his own launches, Montgomery is a serial promoter of various MLM underbelly scams. These include Digital Altitude and Exitus Elite.

Judging from Bitcoin Frontiers bitcoin theme, it seems now Montgomery is focused on cryptocurrency scamming.

Update 7th April 2019 – Whereas Clay Montgomery represents he is based out of Oklahoma in the US on his personal social media profiles, turns out he’s relocated to the Philippines.

Montgomery moved to the Philippines to meet a local he met online on or around December, 2018.

Note the above video has since been deleted or marked as private.

I was able to confirm however that as of March 31st, 2019, Montgomery is still residing in Quezon City, Philippines (in or around Eastwood City). /end update

Franco Gonzales (right) first featured on BehindMLM in 2011, as part of the AutoXTen Ponzi cycler collapse fallout.

At the time Gonzales was working closely with Jeff Long, leading to the launch of the SMS Dailys pyramid scheme shortly after AutoXTen’s collapse.

These days Gonzales markets the various schemes he’s in through his “Franco Simple Freedom” team.

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

Years of Ponzi scamming through OneCoin is catching up with scammers.

Following news of €400,000 in tax fraud in Romania, now OneCoin affiliates are being arrested in Finland for the same crime.
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Happy Life Affiliates provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.

The “contact info” section of the website however details Charis Papadopoulos, who is credited as an “Internet MI Marketer”.

Papadopolous (right) also features in numerous videos on the official Happy Life Affiliates website.

On his Facebook page Papadopoulos confirms he is the owner of Happy Life Affiliates.

Papadopolous resides in Thessaloníki, Greece, which is presumably also from where Happy Life Affiliates is operated from.

Possibly due to language barriers, I was unable to put together Papadopolous’ MLM history prior to Happy Life Affiliates.

The Happy Life Affiliates YouTube channel suggests Papadopolous is heavily into online marketing.

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

Global Game Arena runs four websites that I’m aware of:

1. globalgamearena.biz
2. globalgamearena.com
3. globalgamearena.info and
4. globalgamearena.net

Neither website provides any information on who owns or runs the company.

Further research reveals Global Game Arena disclosing Frode Jorgensen as co-founder of the company, and Daniel Grenon as Chief Marketing Officer.

Frode Jorgensen first appeared on BehindMLM in 2012, as suspected owner of the Bidify Ponzi scheme.

Even then Jorgensen had a history of involvement in several fraudulent business opportunities.

Bidify launched as a Zeek Rewards Ponzi clone. Not surprisingly, we uncovered Jorgensen was likely a Zeek Rewards investor himself.

After the SEC shut down Zeek Rewards, Bidify renamed itself MyCenterBid.

By then the penny auction Ponzi game was up. MyCenterBid limped along for a while before collapsing in 2013.

Flush with whatever he’d managed to steal from Zeek Rewards, Bidify and MyCenterBid investors, Jorgensen went underground for two years.

In 2015 he reemerged at a Crypto 888 Club Ponzi leadership event in the Philippines.

That was the last we saw of Jorgensen, although admittedly we haven’t been tracking him closely.

Daniel Grenon made a name for himself scamming people in OneCoin.

Following OneCoin’s collapse in early 2017, Grenon hitched his wagon to Ed Hartley’s Worldwide Cryptocurrency Investment.

Hartley passed away shortly after WCI’s launch. This prompted a company name-change to Worldwide Cryptocurrency International, of which Grenon was cited as a co-founder.

By early 2018 Grenon had gone underground. Like Jorgensen, he is believed to have done a runner with whatever he managed to steal from WCI affiliates.

WCI itself collapsed and was rebooted as Fintegri in late 2018.

Global Game Arena’s other co-founders aren’t publicly disclosed.

Given the pedigree of the company’s named executives however, it’s a safe bet they’ve all probably got long histories of scam involvement too.

On the corporate side of things Global Game Arena provides multiple corporate addresses.

The first is for GGA Holding Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. The provided address belongs to a virtual office merchant, so it’s a safe bet GGA Holding is nothing more than a shell company.

In the footer of their other websites, Global Game Arena provides:

All GGA products and games are jointly operated by Global Game Arena Ltd. and Novus Solutions Curacao N.V.

Registered address: Heelsumstraat 51,E-Commerce Park Curaçao, a company licensed and regulated by the laws of Curacao.

Like Global Game Arena Pte. Ltd., these also appear to be shell corporations.

In February 2019 the Norwegian Gaming Board contacted Global Game Arena.

The Gaming Board expressed concern that, through Global Game Arena, Norwegians were being exposed to

unlawful offers, marketing and dissemination of lotteries and gambling games that are not permitted in Norway.

The Gaming Board cited promotional activity in Norway.

Jorgensen, originally from Norway, has since relocated to Thailand.

It is believed Global Game Arena is being operated out of Thailand itself, although there’s probably some logistics handled from within Europe.

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

Amid ongoing RB Global Bank withdrawal delays, Laurie Suarez has revealed his RB Global Coin exit-scam strategy. [Continue reading…]

Rolling coverage of Devide by the Swedish publication Sydsvenskan has enraged the company, prompting a protest and complaint with the Press Ombudsman. [Continue reading…]