There’s probably no group more salty in MLM  right now than TelexFree victims with approved claims.

The TelexFree claim portal went live back in mid 2016. Almost three years later, not one distribution payment has been made.

Now, a Status Report filed by the Trustee on April 12th, provides insight into why. [Continue reading…]

The National Reserve Bank of Tonga has issued a warning against participation in WorldVentures. [Continue reading…]

Pure began as Genesis Pure, an MLM company launched in 2009.

Heading up Genesis Pure was CEO and Chairman Lindsey Duncan, until the FTC went after Duncan for fraud in 2014.

In the wake of the FTC’s lawsuit, Genesis Pure scrubbed any mention of Duncan from their website.

Duncan settled the FTC’s allegations for $9 million in January, 2015.

I’m not exactly sure when Genesis Pure was renamed Pure. but the first Pure branded video appeared on their company’s YouTube channel on June 23rd, 2017.

Today Pure is headed up by Daren Hogge.

Hogge first appeared on BehindMLM in June 2016, as founder, President and CEO of Q Sciences.

In August 2018 we published an updated Q Sciences review, noting Hogge was nowhere to be found.

There’s no mention of Darren Hogge and whether he’s still involved with Q Sciences is unclear.

I did try to research if he’d left and why but turned up nothing.

Further research reveals Hogge was appointed CEO of Pure in December, 2016.

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

AloeVeritas appear to be selling expired Drink Gel product in the US, dating as far back as July 2017. [Continue reading…]

A few weeks back I came across news that the Pakistan SEC had shut down ‘at least nine companies dealing in cryptocurrencies and offering Ponzi/MLM, referral marketing, pyramid business/schemes‘.

Although this was MLM related news, I didn’t recognize any of the company names and so left it at that.

A reader has now informed me that one of the companies the SEC shut down was Dan Andersson’s LEO. [Continue reading…]

The Global Game Arena Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Rather than admit they’ve run out of money though, GGA’s admins are blaming affiliate investors.

As if blaming investors (most of whom are victims) wasn’t bad enough, GGA is hiding its collapse behind imaginary compliance. [Continue reading…]

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

What Utopian Global does provide is the claim the company was “founded in 2008”.

This is pretty obviously not true, considering the company website was only registered in October, 2017.

Alexa registered measurable traffic to Utopian Global’s website from January 2019, which seems to be about the time the company launched.

Not withstanding these due-diligence red flags, Utopian Global claims to be “credible, transparent (and) accountable”.

Buried in Utopian Global’s Terms and Conditions is the revelation that Utopian Global is offered through “the companies New Golden Life DMCC & Royal Golden Enterprise GmbH”.

This lead me to Swiss Gold Global, which is headed up by Bill Rowell (right).

Bill Rowell is an Australian entrepreneur with a history of business success and a passion to expand the lives of others.

In 2008 he founded Joseph Wealth Systems a Swiss Company with the objective of putting Gold the money of Kings into the hands of Ordinary People.

Today the Company is called Royal Golden Enterprise GmbH and New Golden Life DMCC trading as Swiss Gold Global and continuing to provide global Wealth Solutions for all people.

Sure enough when I attempted to visit Swiss Gold Global’s website, I was presented with the following message:

SWISS GOLD GLOBAL HAS TRANSITIONED TO THE TRADE NAME UTOPIAN GLOBAL.

BehindMLM first reviewed Swiss Gold Global in July 2016. Based on its business model, we concluded a high probability the company was operating as a pyramid scheme.

In February 2017 we revisited Swiss Gold Global, only to find the company was now offering a fraudulent investment scheme.

In March 2018 Swiss Gold Global was issued a securities fraud cease and desist by the US state of South Carolina.

Swiss Gold Global didn’t challenge the notice, which was eventually made permanent.

The reboot into Utopian Global appears to be a belated response to a decline in interest throughout the rest of 2018 (Alexa).

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

Envy TV operates in the streaming MLM niche. Instead of an actual corporate address, Envy TV provides a virtual office address in Nevada on its website.

Cited as co-founders of Envy TV are Clay Sampson and Eddie Freeman.

Beyond names however Envy TV fails to provide any information on either founder.

My own research lead me to Clay Sampson’s LinkedIn profile. At first I wasn’t sure this was Envy TV’s Sampson, but I was able to later confirm it with an Envy TV launch prelaunch marketing video.

Curiously, Envy TV is not listed on Sampson’s LinkedIn profile.

Instead he pitches his “TheClayCode” marketing company, which Sampson states

partner(s) with industry-leading direct selling organizations to empower sales professionals with smart, automated technology marketing solutions that drive recruiting, product sales, and client engagement.

Alexa traffic estimates for The Clay Code website suggest the business isn’t doing too well.

Between 2002 and 2007 Sampson was promoting World Leadership Group, a mortgage based MLM company.

World Leadership Group went under in 2008.

Last year Sampson was promoting Nui:

He appears to have bailed around the time Nui was sued by Texas for securities fraud in July.

Up until mid 2018 Eddie Freeman (right) was promoting KZ1, a supplement based MLM company.

Prior to October 2017 KZ1 was known as eXfuze. Freeman seems to have been with eXfuze for some time.

In the description of a 2012 eXfuze marketing video, Freeman claims to have already had 20 years experience in network marketing.

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

GTI-Net lost its appeal against an investment fraud warning issued by Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA).

The company responded by “shutting down”, only to reboot itself with a new name and website. [Continue reading…]

With the clocking ticking down towards her TelexFree trial, now news that Faith Sloan has reached a settlement with the SEC. [Continue reading…]