Happy Life Affiliates Review: 3×8 matrix marketing tool recruitment
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.
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Global Game Arena Review: GGA Ponzi points + illegal gambling
Global Game Arena runs four websites that I’m aware of:
- globalgamearena.biz
- globalgamearena.com
- globalgamearena.info and
- 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.
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RB Global Bank initiates RB Global Coin exit-scam
Amid ongoing RB Global Bank withdrawal delays, Laurie Suarez has revealed his RB Global Coin exit-scam strategy. [Continue reading…]
Devide Ponzi rages against Swedish media after investigation news
Rolling coverage of Devide by the Swedish publication Sydsvenskan has enraged the company, prompting a protest and complaint with the Press Ombudsman. [Continue reading…]
OneOkada Review: Black garlic supplement toxic to cancer cells?
OneOkada operates in the supplement MLM niche and is based out of Quezon City in the Philippines.
Heading up OneOkada is Alexander Salvador, who cites himself as “emperor” of the company.
In Salvador’s OneOkada corporate bio he’s credited with
decades of his experiences in both traditional and network marketing businesses.
Possibly due to language barriers, I was unable to verify Salvador’s MLM history.
Update 3rd April 2019 – A February 16th Manila Standard article identifies Alexander Salvador as an architect by trade.
The article identifies Forever Living and GoldQuest (later rebranded QNet) as companies Salvador promoted in the 1990s.
Two years later, Salvador along with 80 leaders from GoldQuest established another company called Power Homes Unlimited Corp. which was later ordered closed by the Securities and Exchange Commission for soliciting investments from the public.
In 2011 Salvador launched OneGoal.
OneGoal was an MLM company selling Gravitrol, touted as a cancer treatment. It collapsed in 2012. /end update
What I was able to verify is that in addition to launching OneOkada, Salvador (right) also runs the Cut & Fix hair salon chain in the Philippines.
On the OneOkada website, Salvador is cited as
the man behind the success of the most profitable salon brand for the past 5 years, the CUT & FIX INTERNATIONAL SALON.
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Dunamis Mining Review: Crypto mining unregistered securities Ponzi
Dunamis Mining provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the business.
The Dunamis Mining website domain (“dunamismining.com”) was privately registered on October 26th, 2018.
Further research reveals Dunamis Mining affiliates naming Jeremie Sowerby (right) as CEO of the company.
According to Sowerby’s personal Facebook profile, he’s based out of Ontario, Canada.
Despite this, Dunamis Mining represents that it is an Arizona Limited Liability Company.
A search of the Arizona Corporation Commission does reveal an entry for Dunamis Mining LLC, however it as has been inactive since January 17th, 2019.
The stated reason for Dunamis Mining LLC’s inactive status is “incomplete formation”.
As such, outside of a non-active US shell company, Dunamis Mining doesn’t appear to have any registered business operations in the US.
Owing to Jeremie Sowerby being based out of Canada, it is assumed Dunamis Mining is also being operated out of Canada.
In 2017, Jeremie Sowerby was promoting My Trader Coin.
My Trader Coin touted $550 day returns through cryptocurrency trading. In reality it was a Ponzi scheme and collapsed around six months after launch.
Prior to getting involved in cryptocurrency scams, Sowerby was a Kyani affiliate through Team Fusion.
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NZ schools force oil diffusers onto students, parent threatens to sue
Someone in New Zealand has come up with a novel way to push doTerra products.
The unnamed affiliate convinced a bunch of local schools that placing a doTerra diffuser in classrooms, would “stop the spread of viruses and keep children focused at school”.
Not everyone is on board though, with one parent going so far as to threaten to take the school to the High Court. [Continue reading…]
SEC moves to drop securities fraud claims against Faith Sloan
In a March 27th filing, the SEC has moved to voluntarily dismiss two claims of securities fraud against TelexFree defendant Faith Sloan. [Continue reading…]
Payza settles $13.1 mill Zeek clawback with consent judgment
Payza, one of the three parties the Zeek Receiver is pursuing over a $13.1 million clawback, has agreed to a consent judgment for the full amount owed. [Continue reading…]
AloeVeritas Review: Aloe vera pain relief, nutrition & personal care
AloeVeritas launched in the US in late 2017 and operates in the nutritional supplement and personal care MLM niches.
The company is based out of Texas and is headed up by AloeVeritas founder and CEO, Chris Hardy.
Hardy’s AloeVeritas’ corporate bio states he’s
an expert in global operations and aloe vera. He spent 8 years on the Board of Directors for the International Aloe Vera Science Council, was elected by his peers to be the President of the IASC in 2009, serving as the Chairman of the Board in 2011-2012.
As per Hardy’s LinkedIn profile, he’s also the CEO of HW&B Enterprises.
HW&B Enterprises seems to be an umbrella corp for AV Europe GmbH (Germany) and Aloe Veritas SE Asia.
AloeVeritas appears to have initially launched as a German MLM company in 2016. That doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere though.
I couldn’t find a record of AloeVeritas in south-east Asia, so either that also flopped or is still in the planning stages.
AloeVeritas’ 2017 entry into the US market caught the attention of Nerium International (now Neora).
In a lawsuit filed on October 30th, 2017, Nerium alleged
AloeVeritas has little, if any, name recognition in the United States. Nor does it have any track record of success selling cosmetic products.
So AloeVeritas instead decided to hijack Nerium’s product names, Nerium’s product packaging, and Nerium’s track record of success, stating on its website that it has launched a “New Nerium,” and that the “bestselling day and night creams” are “better than ever!”
Worse yet, AloeVeritas has even attempted to hijack the science that proves the effectiveness of Nerium’s products, copying the results of a clinical study from Nerium’s website and suggesting to consumers that its products yield the same results.
All of this is false.
As of June 2018 AloeVeritas was still defending the matter. The case however appears to have been confidentially settled between June and early August 2018.
On the surface AloeVeritas appears to have dropped any reference to Nerium in their products and marketing.
Before launching AloeVeritas in the US, Chris Hardy was Vice President of World Manufacturing at Forever Living Products (2005-2013).
Perhaps not so surprisingly, Forever Living Products is also an aloe vera focused company.
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