Cloud Horizon operates in the MLM cryptocurrency niche and claims it is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

On the management side of things Cloud Horizon discloses it is ‘wholly owned (by) Mr. Frank Ricketts who is the actual CEO of the company‘.

Rickett’s MLM claim to fame is Unaico and SiteTalk, a combination of investment and pyramid fraud. When those scams collapsed, Ricketts rebooted the business as The Opportunity Network.

In early 2016 Ricketts sold off The Opportunity Network’s list of investors to OneCoin.

In addition to an undisclosed sum of money, Ricketts was also gifted a OneCoin Black Diamond investment position.

Behind the scenes Ricketts is believed to have been instrumental in setting up OneCoin’s shell company money laundering network.

When OneCoin collapsed in 2017 Ricketts disappeared. He resurfaced in mid 2018 as CEO of the AuLives Ponzi scheme.

AuLives flopped, prompting Ricketts to register the Cloud Horizon website domain on November 30th, 2018.

Despite only existing as an MLM opportunity as of a few months ago, on its website Cloud Horizon claims it ‘was incorporated in June 2013 in the Cayman Islands‘.

As previously stated, Ricketts was instrumental in setting up OneCoin’s money laundering network. This involved dozens upon dozens of shell companies.

While it feasible that Cloud Horizon is just one of the many companies Ricketts set up to launder money through, it was launched as a standalone MLM opportunity on or around late January, 2019.

Naturally beyond possible being incorporated in the Cayman Islands, Cloud Horizon has no actual physical operations there.

Since OneCoin collapsed Ricketts is believed to primarily hide out in south-east Asia and Dubai.

At the time of publication Ricketts is busy promoting Cloud Horizon in Vietnam.

As above, Ricketts is working with former OneCoin scammers Nattchaphan Sornsirenan and Staffan Liback.

Nattchaphan Sornsirenan launched her own OneCoin Ponzi clone late last year.

Orientum, like AuLives and pretty much every other OneCoin clone, went nowhere and flopped.

The Orientum website currently has an Alexa ranking of 2.7 million, up recently from 3.9 million (the higher the number the less visitors a site has)

Either figure is as good as dead for an MLM Ponzi scheme.

Staffan Liback’s MLM history is mostly unremarkable. But if you want you read about his recent exploits we did feature Liback in our OneCoin Ponzi Wall of Shame.

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4Wealth Resources provides no information about who owns or runs the business on their website.

In fact as I write this, the 4Wealth Resources is nothing more than a compensation pitch with a sign up form.

I did not a hosted 4Wealth Resources marketing video is narrated by “Dave”, but wasn’t able to ascertain who this person is or what their role within 4Wealth Resources is.

The 4Wealth Resources website domain (“4wealthresources.com”) was privately registered on July 17th, 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…]

Two OneCoin promoters have been arrested in Singapore, on the charges related to “pyramid selling”. [Continue reading…]

The Free BTC Club website provides no information about who owns or runs the business.

On its website Free BTC Club states it is

a legal BTC earning and wealth management company incorporated and headquartered in Asia.

No specific details are provided.

The Free BTC Club website FAQ goes on to state

Free BtcClub is a subsidiary derived from a collaboration of global companies owned by crypto expert CEO’s.

…whatever that means.

Further research reveals Free BTC Club marketing emails citing Michael Merino as Free BTC Club’s “program developer”.

In a Free BTC Club marketing video, Merino discloses he got into the MLM industry twenty-two years ago through Herbalife. He claims to have since been involved in eight MLM companies.

Three years ago Merino (right) was promoting BetterBid, which he presents as a recruitment-driven MLM opportunity.

I did try to research for independent information on BetterBid but came up blank. Whatever BetterBid was it appears to have long-since collapsed.

Over the past two years Merino states he has transitioned into the MLM crypto niche.

As far as I can tell Merino is based out of California in the US.

The link to Asia appears to be solely dependent on running Free BTC Club from “servers in Singapore”.

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

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.

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

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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