Charles Scoville is currently at the center of regulatory action against the Traffic Monsoon Ponzi scheme.

After the granting of a preliminary injunction against Traffic Monsoon, based on the likelihood of the SEC winning at trial, Scoville filed an appeal.

The appeal is still playing out in court, with a decision expected to be many months off yet.

In the meantime, a month or so ago Scoville announced he was gearing up to launch a new business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Starbit International has one of the worst designed websites of an MLM company I’ve ever seen.

The homepage has just under 20 megabytes of images and on average takes twenty to thirty seconds to load.

For visitors who don’t get annoyed and click away while it’s loading (the page has to load in full before you can see anything), they’re then presented with a site that has no information about who owns or runs the company.

The Starbit International website domain (“starbit.com”) was first registered in 2012. The registration was recently updated on April 13th, 2017, suggesting this is when the current owner took possession.

Iliah Kokh is listed as the domain owner, with an address in Dubai also provided. The address is a building with no street or suite number, suggesting it might be virtual (or non-existent).

The email Kokh used to register the Starbit International domain points to another domain, on which the following message is published:

CRYPTONETWORK EVOLVES

Cryptonetwork’s months of activity have produced a series of market information and findings that fully focused on the preliminary phase goals.

From May 2017, the initiative enters directly in the new operational phase, managed at an international level, with an even wider structure.

All agreemeents [sic] in place remains valid until regular deadline.

A link to the Starbit International website is also provided.

The domain in question, “cnt.network”, was used to promote Centurion Network prior to the message above being displayed.

Centurion Network was headed up by Sunitkumar Patel, Pascal Federle, Vincent Piscitello, Gianvito Ricciardone, Benedetto Cancemi, Fabrizio Di Silvio and Nicole Ganier, all members of the “Centurion Foundation”.

Centurion Network was a cryptocurrency MLM opportunity that revolved around Centurion Coin.

Centurion Coin is your typical pump and dump MLM altcoin.

Initially launched as Ponzi points, Centurion Coin launched with a publicly traded value of 6.5 cents in March.

Today the value is 3.8 cents and now that Centurion Coin is no more, likely to collapse even further.

Other than Luana Sicari serving as Chief Sales Officer, Starbit International has not made its executive structure or information about who owns the company public.

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…]

While I’ve come to accept it’s pretty much “anything goes” in the MLM underbelly, even after almost a decade I still come across stories I find perplexing.

Zhang Jian’s latest escapades in Malaysia are one such instance. [Continue reading…]

Subash George Manuel owns and operates Bee-One, a UK corporation.

In addition to Bee-One Manuel operates Bee International, an immigration company specializing in immigration to Canada.

Manuel is also active in the Indian cryptocurrency scene through the website Crypto Carbon.

On June 3rd, 2017, BehindMLM received a DMCA take-down notice from Bee-One UK, sent on behalf of Manuel. [Continue reading…]

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

The Raging Bitcoin website domain (“ragingbitcoin.com”) was registered on May 19th, 2017. Robert Reel is listed as the owner, with a residential address in the US state of Indiana also provided.

According to Reel’s LinkedIn profile, where he goes by “Robb Reel”, he’s actually based out of Texas. This is presumably where Raging Bitcoin is being operated from.

In between posting an endless parade of motivational and American flag memes on Facebook, last year Reel was promoting United Games Marketing.

United Games Marketing launched with big promises and hype, but ultimately didn’t seem to go anywhere.

Alexa traffic estimates for the United Games Marketing website show a steady decline in interest throughout 2017.

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

Royal Dragon Traders provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Royal Dragon Traders website domain (“royaldragontraders.com”) was privately registered on April 20th, 2017.

The Royal Dragon Traders Terms and Conditions states the company is “operated by MaGABEL” from Dubai. I was unable to find anything further on this company.

There is a Magabel Services that operates out of Belgium, however it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Royal Dragon Traders.

Further research reveals Royal Dragon Traders affiliates naming Bjorn Hauge and Gary Granello as co-founders of the company, with Johnny Dalini as CEO.

Note that I wasn’t able to independently verify this information.

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…]

Asirvia went into prelaunch with a compensation plan that borrowed heavily from that of Saivian.

Not surprising when you consider all three Asirvia co-founders were Saivian affiliates.

The model saw affiliates pay a monthly fee and recruit others who do the same. Recruit enough monthly fee-paying affiliates and you earn a daily ROI.

The sale of retail subscriptions was possible but unlikely, given it was far more lucrative to pitch the business opportunity for a monthly fee.

Over the last few months Asirvia’s original business model collapsed, with the company scrapping its subscription service and compensation plan.

Armed with a new business model, product and compensation plan, today we take a look at and review Asirvia’s new offering. [Continue reading…]

Although appearing to be based out of Spain, Questra World has ties to Russia and Africa through Atlantic Global Asset Management.

Questra World claim to be an “advertising broker” with “exclusive rights” to promote Atlantic Global Asset Management.

In addition to Questra World’s own Ponzi scheme, Atlantic Global offer weekly ROIs of 6.47% on deposits of up to €500,000 EUR.

The activities of both companies has caught the attention of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), who have added both Questra World and Atlantic Global to their public warning list. [Continue reading…]

Following the revelation that the Mauritian Independent Commission Against Corruption has been investigating OneCoin since March, further details of the company’s operations in Mauritius have emerged. [Continue reading…]

Worldwide Earning operate in the advertising MLM niche and name Ahsan Abbas and Andrea Burriesci as joint owners of the company.

A Companies House (UK) incorporation document is provided on the Worldwide Earning website for “B Solutionss Limited” (not a typo).

B Solutionss Limited was incorporated on August 22nd, 2016. Both Abbas and Burriesci are listed as Directors of the company, through a residential address in London, UK.

According to Abbas’ Facebook profile, B Solutionss is a web hosting and development company. Other than being owned by Abbas, it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the Worldwide Earnings MLM opportunity.

Limited appears to be a shell company filed with bogus information.

Both Abbas and Burriesci cite their country of residence as UK in B Solutionss Limited incorporation documents.

Ahsan Abbas however provides a contact address in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on the Worldwide Earning website. Andrea Burriesci meanwhile claims to be living in Mezzojuso (Italy) on his Facebook profile.

The B Solutionss Limited incorporation appears to be a shell company, with neither it or Worldwide Earnings having any actual operations in the UK itself.

In addition to running Worldwide Earning, Andrea Burriesci is also an affiliate of the FutureNet Ponzi scheme.

In a Facebook post dated November 25th, 2016, Ahsan Abbas listed the bitcoin gifting scams ZarFund, BitDonix, Super Matrix and Reality Gift as his “favorite matrix” opportunities of the year.

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