Veribella operates in the personal care MLM niche and is based out of Colorado in the US.

Heading up Veribella is CEO Dave Fiala. Note however that Veribella marketing material cites Kirk Elliott as founder and President of the company.

No information about either Fiala or Elliott is provided on Veribella’s website.

Veribella isn’t the only company Fiala and Elliott work together in. They are both credited as founders of Spark Capital.

Note that this is not the Spark Capital that is based out of Boston and was founded in 2005.

They are two separate companies and the following information pertains to Fiala’s and Elliott’s Spark Capital.

As per Spark Capital’s website, they

strategically partner with some of those most creative and gifted people on the planet so they can fulfill their calling, focus on their gifts, and together we create products and services that are changing the world.

Spark Capital brands featured on their website include More (e-commerce, skin care and cosmetics), IQ (e-commerce) and Timberline Forestry Service (logging and mining).

Curiously, Veribella is not listed as a Spark Capital brand.

As far as I can tell Veribella is the first MLM venture Dave Fiala and Kirk Elliott have launched.

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On March 15th the Zeek Receiver filed his Status Report for the fourth quarter of 2018.

Among other things, the Receiver revealed 44.2% of net-winner payments have been successfully clawed back. [Continue reading…]

Just before the FTC moved to shut it down, Digital Altitude transferred over half a million dollars to Paradise Media Ventures.

There doesn’t appear to have been any legitimate reason for the transfer, and so now the Receiver is demanding the funds back. [Continue reading…]

Earlier today a man describing himself as an “ordinary white man” opened fire on two New Zealand mosques.

As I write this, forty-nine people are dead.

The gunman has been identified as Australian citizen Brenton Tarrant.

Not only did Tarrant livestream his attack, he also published a 73 page manifesto before his arrest.

In the first page of Tarrant’s manifesto, he states he made money in BitConnect. [Continue reading…]

BizzTrek’s website provides no information about who owns or runs the company.

The BizzTrek website domain (“bizztrek.com”) was privately registered on August 2nd, 2018.

BizzTrek provides multiple office locations on their website, all of which are virtual addresses.

The only “team member” listed on BizzTrek’s official Facebook page is Chief Marketing Officer Ababil Sher.

Sher is based out of the UK and on Twitter describes himself as a “cerebral shapeshifter”.

Whether Sher is working alone or with others to run BizzTrek is unclear.

Update 8th May 2019 – Ababil Sher has been in touch and claims he’s “no longer working with BizzTrek”.

Even though they had me down as their ‘Chief Marketing Officer’, I never took on the role in an official capacity.

I was actually working with them as a marketing consultant doing their videos and presentations, but when they launched on March 24th, I pulled out.

Sher didn’t provide a reason as to why he “pulled out”.

Sher claims that BizzTrek is run by three co-founders; Rehan Gohar, Rizwan Gohar (brothers) and Gurpreet Dhaliwal.

All three BizzTrek co-founders appear to be based out of the UK. /end update

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…]

The CryptoMonsoon website provides no information about who owns or runs the business.

The CryptoMonsoon website domain (“cryptomonsoon.io”) was registered on November 3rd, 2018.

No registrant is given or address details of the owner, other than the country Panama.

The official CryptoMonsoon Facebook page lists two admins; Ukari Obene and Aakash Munch.

Ukari Obene resides in Nigeria and cites himself as an Alliance in Motion Global affiliate on his Facebook profile.

Aakash Munch resides in London in the UK and of the two seems to be running the show;

Prior to CryptoMonsoon Munch appears to have been running some sort of forex trading scheme.

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CBM Global’s website provides no information about who owns or runs the business.

The CBM Global website domain (“cbmglobal.io”) was registered on April 4th, 2018.

Force International is listed as the domain owner, through an address in Antwerp, Belgium.

The CBM Global Terms and Conditions states that CBM Global is

owned by Force International CVBA.

Force International also operates under the following brand names:

CBM Global, TradeLand, MicroMaxCash, TradeUnity, Nexitrade, WhiteRavenFX, Brandologic, VAIOX, CherryFile, IrisCall, The People’s Web, Eticketbooker.

Websites are provided for each of these entities, however each website is dead traffic-wise (Alexa “unranked”).

Furthermore while some of the domains are aged, they all appear to have been acquired in mid 2018.

I picked three at random and found:

• BrandLogic’s website domain registration was last updated on July 20th, 2018
• Trade Unity’s website domain registration was last updated on August 30th, 2018
• Micro Max Cash’s website domain registration was last updated on July 20th, 2018

This is presumably when whoever is Force International itself bought the domains.

Force International’s own website was initially registered in January, 2016. The domain registration was last updated on January 13th, 2019.

Force International’s website does list a management team, although something is off about each of Force Management’s listed executives.

They seem to exist in that they each have digital footprints (there are multiple photos of each person associated with various online profiles), but I can’t find anything concrete on the company itself.

Force International as a business is dead, its website has no traffic. Furthermore the website states Force International has something to do with telecommunications and business tools.

Force International is a young startup, taking its first big steps in the technology sector.

Force consists of different business units, embracing all kinds of industries.

Both internal and external projects are being worked out to the letter until they’re ready to conquer the market

CBM Global doesn’t feature on the site as a “product”, nor does it fit into the business description above.

There is definitely something weird going on here.

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Grossbyte operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

The company states on its website that it is headed up by “Thomas Patrick”.

A cropped image of Patrick appears on the Grossbyte website. Patrick however has no digital footprint outside of the “about us” page on Grossbyte’s website.

Furthermore, it appears Patrick’s entire Grossbyte corporate bio is rewritten content stolen from other executives.

Given this, it’s highly likely that neither Thomas Patrick or any of the other executives listed on the Grossbyte website actually exist.

Grossbyte provides an incorporation number that corresponds with Grossbyte LTD in the UK.

UK incorporation is dirt cheap and for the most part unregulated. It is a favorite for scammers looking to incorporate dodgy companies.

Incorporation certificates for Grossbyte are also provided for Seychelles and Ras Al Khaimah, two additional dodgy jurisdictions.

Whoever is actually running Grossbyte has a poor command of English, as evidenced by numerous paragraphs like this on their website;

Online investment attraction is that the best way to build our business grow quicker.

At the time of publication Alexa estimates Nigeria (31%), Ghana (18%) and Tanzania (14%) are the largest source of traffic to the Grossbyte website.

It’s highly likely (but not certain) that whoever is actually running Grossbyte is based out of Africa itself.

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…]

The DOJ has secured the detention of Konstantin Ignatov, pending his facing charges in New York. [Continue reading…]

Authorities in Hyderabad, India, have shutdown the long-running eBiz pyramid scheme.

Two eBiz representatives have been arrested;

1. Hitak Malhan, son of eBiz Managing Director Pavan Malhan; and
2. eBiz Director Anitha Malhan, wife of Hitak Malhan.

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