About a month ago Organo Gold announced a partnership agreement with Digital Skynet.

The partnership agreement will see the launch of an as of yet unnamed joint-venture between the two companies.

Also part of the agreement, and what caught the attention of many, was Holton Buggs appointment as ‘executive advisor to Digital SkyNet’s ‘Ormeus’ subsidiary and the newly formed strategic joint venture company owned by ORGANO and Digital SkyNet‘.

Has Holton Buggs been bitten by the MLM crypto Ponzi bug and will he drag Organo Gold down with him?

Here’s what we know… [Continue reading…]

MWR Financial appears to be a new division of the MWR umbrella of companies.

MWR started off as My Warranty Rewards in late 2013. The company is founded by Jay Tuerk and Yoni Ashurov.

In 2015 My Warranty Rewards was rebooted as MWR Life. In addition to the original warranty plan, MWR Life added several additional phone-based services.

I initially figured MWR Financial was another reboot. MWR Life however is still operating under Yoni Ashurov as CEO.

The primary difference between MWR Life in 2015 and today is that it appears to have switched to the travel niche.

Neither Ashurov or Tuerk are mentioned on the MWR Financial website. And outside of having “MWR” in its name, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two companies aren’t related.

The Florida corporate address provided on both company websites however is the same, confirming MWR Financial is, at least on paper, part of Ashurov and Tuerk’s MWR brand.

Cited as CEO of the company on MWR Financial’s website is Brian House (right).

On his LinkedIn profile, House additionally credits himself as a co-founder of MWR Financial.

House does have MLM executive experience through Youngevity. The only MWR connection I was able to make pre MRW Financial though was a livestream recorded two years ago:

Note that the stream itself is unavailable so we only have the title above to go on.

The exact ownership structure of MWR Financial isn’t clear, but I suspect Ashurov and Tuerk are unnamed co-founders.

Well they’d have to be, otherwise this is all one unbelievable coincidence.

MWR Financial could of course clarify all of this on their website but for whatever reason have chosen not to.

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

In what will probably be looked back on as a judicial mistake, OneCoin has wrangled €3 million EUR in Ponzi funds from German prosecutors. [Continue reading…]

Overnight a reader sent me a link to a YouTube video, in which a seemingly resurrected Sergey Mavrodi smiled awkwardly and help up a sign.

On first viewing I knew something was off about the video but initially I couldn’t figure out what.

I felt like I was watching a CGI video, but only so far as the awkward smile and head movements went. The rest of the video lent itself to being real.

Then it dawned on me… I was watching a Deepfakes video. [Continue reading…]

Hand of Heaven identifies Peter Wolfing, Scott & Christina Thompson and Steve Parson as “contributors” of the company.

Of the three, Peter Wolfing appears to be running the show. This is based on Wolfing’s past history of running scams and Hand of Heaven marketing videos being hosted on his personal Vimeo account.

Peter Wolfing (right) first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar back in 2012, as the admin of Turbo Cycler ($200-$1000 matrix-based Ponzi scheme).

Other MLM underbelly schemes launched by Wolfing over the years include Turbo Cycler (cash gifting), Ultimate Cycler (Ponzi cycler), Business Toolbox(chain-recruitment), Infinity 100 (cash gifting), National Wealth Center (cash gifting) and Pay Me Forward (cash gifting).

Despite being launched in 2013 and long-since collapsed, in 2016 Ultimate Cycler Ultimate was revived by Nigerian scammers. Wolfing redesigned the Ultimate Cycler website to cater to Nigerian affiliates and rode the wave.

Wolfing’s last recorded launch was Ueconomy in mid 2017.

Ueconomy was yet another cash gifting scam. Alexa traffic estimates for the Ueconomy website suggest it has long-since collapsed.

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

Magnus Capital Center provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Magnus Capital Center website domain (“magnuscapitalcenter.com”) was privately registered on September 12th, 2018.

Further research reveals the majority of Magnus Capital Center marketing is in French.

Alexa also currently cites France as the top source of traffic to the Magnus Capital Center website (64%).

It is highly probable that whoever is running Magnus Capital Center is based out of France and/or of French origin.

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…]

Hedgefinity provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

The Hedgefinity website domain (“hedgefinity.com”) was privately registered on July 20th, 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…]

The Plus Token Wallet website identifies a co-founder of the company as “Mr. Leo”.

Other than a small grainy photo of someone wearing a baseball cap standing behind a podium, no information about Leo is provided.

The Plus Token Wallet website domain was privately registered on September 19th, 2018.

Plus Token Wallet appears to be primarily promoted across Asia.

The Plus Token Wallet website provides a graphical roadmap in Chinese and showcases a recent event in Japan.

There’s also reference to a “grand opening” in South Korea last month.

Offered languages on the Plus Token Wallet website include English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Vietnamese, German and Japanese.

The “latest news” section of the website boasts of “two China guys reach million monthly income club”.

Update 23rd October 2018 – The owner of the “plustokenwallet.com” domain has informed us he or she is only an affiliate.

At least for now, Plus Token Wallet doesn’t appear to have a problem with affiliate’s using misleading domain names.

The official Plus Token Wallet website domain is “pltoken.io” and is pretty useless.

The default website language is Korean and other than generic blockchain waffle, doesn’t provide any information about the company. /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…]

Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi is wary of attempts to promote OneCoin locally.

So much so that for a second time he’s personally issued a warning against OneCoin investment. [Continue reading…]

So the saying goes; the wheels of justice turn slowly.

Honestly, sometimes in the MLM world it feels like they don’t move at all.

Back in 2014 BehindMLM published our MyNyloxin review.

MyNyloxin served as the official network marketing arm for Nutra Pharma.

Steve Gewecke headed up the company, which combined cobra venom pain relief with a “media unit” investment opportunity.

While Nutra Pharma was registered with the SEC at the time, the company failed to declare MyNyloxin’s media units.

By January 2015 MyNyloxin had collapsed. A reboot company Lumaxa was launched but didn’t last long.

Nutra Pharma itself “never turned a profit” and as of December 2016, was losing around $3.5 million annually.

Now, almost four and a half years since our MyNyloxin review, the SEC has filed a lawsuit against Nutra Pharma Corporation. [Continue reading…]