Finnish authorities were among the first to announce a police investigation into OneCoin.

Unfortunately that investigation focused on whether or not OneCoin was a legitimate cryptocurrency. That saw the investigation stall when became apparent Finnish authorities had no way to verify if OneCoin had a cryptocurrency.

That was a year and a half ago, with Finnish authorities today revealing a new criminal investigation into OneCoin is well underway. [Continue reading…]

Bitcoiners Hub provide no information about who owns or runs the company on their website.

The Bitcoiners Hub website domain (“bitcoinershub.com”) was privately registered on August 11th, 2017.

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…]

Huajian Wu and his company Yuanhao Inc. and stole $500,000 from victims of the WCM777 Ponzi scheme.

Efforts to recover stolen funds saw Wu return $400,000, with $100,000 outstanding.

During settlement negotiations back in 2015, Wu represented to the Receiver that he ‘had no significant assets against which recovery could be pursued’.

The Receiver later discovered that was baloney. [Continue reading…]

Money Maker Group and Talk Gold are two of the oldest and largest MLM underbelly promotion platforms on the internet.

Both websites are updated regularly with new MLM Ponzi and pyramid scheme launches.

Without explanation, in the last twenty-four hours both websites were pulled offline within minutes of each other. [Continue reading…]

Pacific Affiliate provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Pacific Affiliate website domain (“pasaff.com”) was privately registered on May 22nd, 2017. The registration was recently updated on August 14th.

An infographic on the Pacific Affiliate website ties Pacific Affiliate to “Pacific Network”, which includes Pacific Advertising.

Pacific Ads is a Ponzi scheme run by Shakeel Babar (right) out of Malaysia.

Pacific Ads launched a few months ago and sees affiliates purchase positions in various Ponzi cycler plans.

It is likely recruitment activity in Pacific Ads has begun to stall, prompting Babar to launch Pacific Affiliate.

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

Traffic Share Partners provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Traffic Share Partners website domain (“trafficsharepartners.com”) was privately registered on March 3rd, 2017. The registration was recently updated on August 18th.

The official Traffic Share Partners Facebook group has one admin, Linda Gomez.

Linda Gomez’s Facebook profile has no content other than a few profile photo changes since 2016.

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…]

Obtanix operates in the MLM niche and cite Alvey Gomer as their CEO.

No information on Alvey Gomer is available, either on the Obtanix website or via a third-party.

The Obtanix website domain (“obtanix.com”) was registered on August 19th, 2016. The registration was last updated on March 10th, 2017.

Darin Hadwin of Obtanix Holdings APS is listed as the owner, with an address in Copenhagen, Denmark also provided.

Hadwin’s name only appears online in connection with the Obtanix domain registration. As with Alvey Gomer, there is no third-party information about Hadwin available.

This suggests Alvey Gomer and Darin Hadwin, as represented by Obtanix, probably don’t exist.

Alexa meanwhile cites only two sources of traffic to the Obtanix website, India (61%) and Bangladesh (1%). Also of note are three questions in the Obtanix FAQ which are in Indonesian (looks like someone forgot to auto-translate the last three questions into English).

Back in June Obtanix published a job offer on Upwork, with the company’s location cited as Jakarta, Indonesia:

It is highly probable that whoever is actually running Obtanix is based out of India and/or Indonesia.

Update 1st June 2021 – A BehindMLM reader has linked me to a video showing footage of Tarun Trikha entering as CEO at an Obtanix event:

The video depicts an Obtanix event held in New Delhi. It was uploaded to YouTube back in 2018.

Tarun Trikha is of course the notorious scammer behind the TVI Express pyramid scheme.

Trikha is facing multiple criminal investigations for his role as founder of the scam. As I understand it Obtanix was Trikha’s first transition into MLM cryptocurrency fraud. /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…]

God Gift Matrix provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The God Gift Matrix website domain (“godgiftmatrix.biz”) was privately registered on August 8th, 2017.

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…]

Akashic3 provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Akashic3 website domain (“akashic3.com”) was privately registered on August 9th, 2017.

A marketing video on the Akashic3 website is hosted on a YouTube account bearing the name “opitimusx”:

OpitimusX is an alias of Sherm Mason.

Sherm Mason first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar as the admin of Magnetic Builder.

Magnetic Builder was a $29.95 recruitment scheme launched in 2011.

In 2015 Mason (right), launched at least five dubious schemes:

• Paradise Payments (February 2015) – a $2 to $1000 cash gifting scheme
• Magnetic Gratitude (April 2015) – a $580 matrix-based Ponzi scheme
• Summer Fun Matrix (July 2015) – a $22 three-tier Ponzi scheme and
• 3×9 Millionaire Machine (September 2015) – a $3 in, $435 million dollars out Ponzi scheme
• Instant Pay Christmas (November 2015) – a $5 to $800 cash gifting scheme

In 2016 Mason doubled down on his efforts and launched Elite Pay Alliance (matrix-based cash gifting), 5 Dolla Money Lines (pass-up chain-recruitment), Adstraordinary (matrix-based cash gifting) and Cash Rally GPS(Ponzi cycler).

So far this year Mason has launched Easy Odds, Just Got Bitcoin, 1 Big Bitcoin Team and Stack My Bits, BitQwik and I Like Bits. All of Mason’s MLM underbelly launches this year have either flopped at launch or collapsed.

Read on for a full review of the Akashic3 MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Forex Entourage provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Forex Entourage website domain (“forexentourage.net”) was first registered on July 16th, 2013. The registration was recently updated on July 14th, 2017.

Sawicki Tomasz is listed as the owner, through an address in Roubaix, France.

Further research reveals this address has been used to register multiple website domains, suggesting it’s virtual in nature.

Forex Entourage provide two corporate addresses on their website, one in the US state of Utah and the other in the UK.

The UK address is a forwarding address. I couldn’t establish whether the Utah address was virtual

A BBB listing for Forex Entourage LLC was created on December 15th, 2016. The Utah address provided for Forex Entourage LLC in the BBB listing is different to that of their website.

The Forex Entourage LLC BBS listing cites Paul A Romero as “Managing Member” and Pablo Romero as “Coowner”.

These names lead me to Forex Entourage’s Instagram account, which names “Paul Rome” as CEO of the company.

Romero goes by his actual name on Facebook, as does Pablo Romero. Both their Facebook profiles cop out in early 2016, revealing nothing about their MLM or forex histories.

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…]