In response to authorities announcing a preliminary investigation, Lyoness has suspended investment from Italy. [Continue reading…]

It’s no secret that Africa is a hotbed of MLM cryptocurrency fraud.

Perpetrators, primarily from the US and Europe, have no scruples when it comes to targeting and exploiting uneducated (and often poor) investors in Africa.

On an almost daily basis BehindMLM receives emails from people with distinctly African names. More often than not they’re begging for access to their account in whatever MLM crypto scam of the day has done a runner on them.

Naturally I can’t help these people and so their emails go unanswered.

One African nation, Uganda, is struggling to cope with the current MLM cryptocurrency crime wave.

Concerned that youth and women are being preyed on by scammers, three Ugandan Members of Parliament have pleaded with authorities to do more. [Continue reading…]

Changing the Future Outcome began as Chew the Fat Off.

Initially a weight loss niche MLM company, Chew the Fat Off was perhaps better known as “CTFO”.

Changing the Future Outcome appears to be an awkward attempt to shoehorn a new company name into established acronym branding.

Website statistics (Alexa) suggest the Changing the Future Outcome name-change occurred earlier this year in or around January.

Management wise nothing has changed. Changing the Future Outcome is headed up by Founder Stuart Finger. His brother Steve Finger serves as CEO.

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

Since our last update on Munafa Network Marketing in May, Pakistani authorities have arrested an addition thirty-four suspects.

As of May 2018, authorities had arrested five suspects. Further investigation has revealed Munafa Network Marketing was spearheaded by over 271 primary promoters. [Continue reading…]

Artius Club provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Artius Club website domain (“artiusclub.com”) was first registered in 2014. The domain registration details were last updated in September 2016.

Unfortunately the Artius Club website domain registration is private and provides no information about ownership.

On their website, Artius Club claims to be a “private enterprise … located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic”.

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…]

Following on from our coverage two days ago of Craig Grant’s phonecall from the SEC, he’s since made some of evidence he provided to the SEC public.

In two separate videos Craig Grant has revealed detailed chat logs between himself, Glenn Arcaro and Trevon James.

The chat logs are from Facebook messenger and span early 2017 to December. It is not known whether these are the only chat logs Grant provided the SEC.

Having sat through the over two hours of footage Grant uploaded, I’ve categorized the more interesting tidbits into numbered bullets below. [Continue reading…]

Axxa Global appears to be headquartered in Singapore and operates in the health and wellness MLM niche.

Heading up Axxa Global is CEO Danny K. Pang.

According to Pang’s Axxa Global corporate bio, he has “more than 26 years of experience” in the MLM industry.

Danny’s network marketing career started in the United States of America twenty four years ago where it developed into a global network spanning across 22 countries with more than 100,000 distributors.

I wasn’t able to establish Pang’s MLM roots, however prior to Axxa Global he is commonly cited as a co-founder of Rain International (circa 2010).

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

Top BitConnect promoter Craig Grant has confirmed he received a phone call from the SEC on September 26th. [Continue reading…]

Indian authorities have filed for seizure of almost $6 million in property assets tied to the GainBitcoin and GB21 Ponzi schemes. [Continue reading…]

Having evidently taken their sweet time about it, the North Dakota Securities Division issued BitConnect a cease and desist on September 19th. [Continue reading…]