Wantage One claims to be ‘operated by a Swedish Credit Union‘.

Its operations are managed by Wantage One AB, a subsidiary of Wellmont Capital Group N.V.

Wellmont Capital is part of Antony Norman’s current stable of shell company schemes.

Norman first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar in 2014, as CEO of ViralAngels.

ViralAngels was a short-lived pyramid scheme with a securities fraud backend.

In January 2017 the Angel Business Club Ponzi emerged, and appeared to be a new iteration of the ViralAngels scam.

Norman didn’t publicly front Angel Business Club, but is believed to have been involved through its Angel Equity International (incorporated around the time ViralAngels collapsed).

Angel Business Club as the Ponzi scheme we reviewed in 2017 was again short-lived.

Today it still exists as part of Angel Equity International, but only as a “private equity community”.

Today Angel Business Club claims membership provides “free shares in our exciting portfolio of companies”.

Wantage One appears to be one of those companies. Other companies tied to Wellmont Capital include Bakuhatsu and the The Sprinkle Group.

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

Back in February default was entered against Matt Lloyd and the MOBE corporate defendants.

Citing communication misunderstandings, Lloyd managed to get his entry of default set aside in April.

Default against the MOBE corporate defendants still stood however, prompting the FTC to file for default judgment in early May.

In a July 1st order the court denied the FTC’s motion, citing technicalities pertaining to potentially conflicting judgments. [Continue reading…]

Mark Scott’s attempts to hide evidence from the government continues…

At issue now are documents Scott claims are privileged, despite having been cleared by an independent taint team. [Continue reading…]

One Way Trading provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

One Way Trading’s website domain (“onewaytrading.live”) was privately registered on February 1st, 2019.

At the time of publication Alexa pegs Brazil as the largest source of traffic to the One Way Trading website (67%). The US is the second largest at 11%, followed by Mexico at 10%.

Given the dominance of Brazilian traffic, it is highly likely that whoever is running One Way Trading is based out of Brazil itself.

On its website One Way Trading represents it’s based out of Bahrain, which for some reason is sometimes spelt “Bahrein”.

One Way Trading is also marketing a future event to be held in Dubai at some point.

While it’s possible someone from Brazil is hiding out in the middle east, it’s unlikely. Any ties One Way Trading has to Bahrain and Dubai appears to be smoke and mirrors.

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…]

BitCryptoGame provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

BitCryptoGame’s website domain (“bitcryptogame.com”) was privately registered on June 5th, 2019.

Most of BitCryptoGame’s marketing material is in Spanish.

Although not conclusive, this suggests that whoever is running the company is from Spain or a Spanish-speaking country.

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…]

Sometime over the past 24 hours the Weenzee Ponzi scheme collapsed.

Since then the company’s admins have done a runner and pulled Weenzee’s website offline. [Continue reading…]

In a desperate bid to prop up its ethereum-based KaratGold Coin shitcoin, Karatbars International held a “Gold Independence” event on July 4th.

Since the event, KaratGold Coin has dumped from a July 3rd 12.6 cent high, down to 4.9 cents. [Continue reading…]

The Massachusetts Securities Division has issued a securities fraud cease and desist against CryptoBit and one of its executives. [Continue reading…]

Maskcara was founded in 2013 and operates in the personal care MLM niche.

The company is based out of Utah and headed up by founder Cara Brook.

Brook (right) is cited as a “beauty blogger/makeup artist”.

Despite her origins in social media however, it seems of late Brook’s social media presence has been neglected.

Brook’s original blog, Maskcara, hasn’t been updated since June 2017. The official Maskcara YouTube channel’s last video was uploaded seven months ago.

Brook is still relatively active on Instagram, having posted fifteen photos this year.

Maskcara’s official Facebook page is also regularly updated with content.

Mind you I’m not having a go at her, it’s just that social media is the only reference point I have to gauge how active Brook is.

I’m unaware of Brook having any MLM corporate experience prior to founding Maskcara.

A 2014 New York Times article states that prior to Maskcara (the company), Brook was selling “her own Maskcara-branded” makeup through her website.

The line, Ms. Brook said, is the fulfillment of a childhood dream that would not be possible without the support of her readers.

“They’re so intelligent, down to earth and sweet,” she said.

She was so broke when she started writing, she said, her early blog posts were based on samples of products she got from Sephora on walks with her young son.

“I never bought anything, but they’d give me samples of everything,” she said.

It appears Maskcara is the natural evolution of Brook’s marketing efforts, into a fully-fledged business opportunity.

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

On July 2nd the 8 Figure Dream Lifestyle defendants sought relief from a court-ordered asset freeze.

The defendants argued that their use of the frozen assets to pay lawyers and personal expenses

outweigh(ed) any public interest in preserving frozen assets for deceived consumers.

Not surprisingly, the motion was denied. [Continue reading…]