Fuxion operate in the health and nutrition MLM niche and appear to be based out of Peru.

The company was founded in 2006 by Frank Michell, Derek Michell, Rafael Zuñiga Benavides and Alvaro Zuñiga Benavides.

Fuxion officially launched in the US in 2015 and also has offices in Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Mexico, Panama, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Alvaro Zuñiga Benavides (right) heads up Fuxion as CEO.

As per Benavides Fuxion corporate bio;

he has more than 20 years as an entrepreneur in the food and dairy products industry.

He has actively participated in the creation and development of several companies in the area of commerce, fabrication of supplies, and most importantly, in the development of innovative products and services directed to the area specialized in nutrients.

I wasn’t able to put together an MLM history on Benavides, suggesting Fuxion is his first MLM venture as an executive.

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

As I write this, official confirmation of Ruja Ignatova’s arrest has yet to surface.

Reports out of Germany are conflicting, with authorities yet to issue an official statement. [Continue reading…]

In an attempt to support claims of misconduct as the reason affiliates left Youngevity for Wakaya Perfection, the latter began exploring rumors of insider trading.

These rumors were explored in depositions of Youngevity affiliates, during which Wakaya pressed them on

questions concerning securities laws of the United States or facts germane to whether any federal securities laws have been violated.

Youngevity wasn’t happy about this and filed for a protective order prohibiting Wakaya from further exploring the alleged violations. [Continue reading…]

Despite OneCoin being in turmoil following a disastrous ICO that’s not an ICO announcement, there hasn’t been a peep out of management.

With Pierre Arens walking out last month, it was expected that at some point Ruja Ignatova would come out of hiding to address OneCoin affiliates.

That hasn’t proven to be the case, with a media report out of Bulgaria now claiming she was arrested in Germany a week ago. [Continue reading…]

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

The BitFundZA website domain (“bitfundza.co”) was privately registered on August 16th, 2017.

Further research reveals The BitFundZA website uses a favicon hosted on the Loop and Beyond website domain:

A visit to the Loop And Beyond website reveals it to be a 1:1 clone of the BitFundZA website.

The Loop and Beyond website domain was registered prior to BitFundZA on July 6th, 2017, suggesting it was a staging site before the main site went live.

The Loop and Beyond website domain is registered to Ketan Singh through an apartment address in the US state of New Mexico.

Whether Singh, as represented on the Loop and Beyond domain registration, exists is unclear. The name is that of a well-known Indian actor and the Loop and Beyond domain uses Indian name-servers.

BitFundZA is likely on the same server as Loop and Beyond, however it’s behind CloudFlare so I can’t verify for sure.

No information connecting Singh to BitFundZA outside of the domain registration is available, so it’s entirely possible he doesn’t exist. In that case whoever is actually running BitFundZA is likely based out of India itself.

The UK is another possibility, with Alexa currently estimating the country is the largest source of traffic to the BitFundZA website (23%).

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…]

Although not directly referenced, various testimonials and promotional material on The ICANetwork website identify Michael Glaspie as Founder and CEO of the company.

Glaspie first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar as founder and CEO of Icanget2 last year.

Glaspie (right) has been marketed on the internet for a number of years. Numerous marketing material around the internet (likely published by Glaspie himself) claims his online marketing career dates back as far as 1998.

Prior to Icanget2 Glaspie was “helping others figure it out” through Team Vinh. The company credited Glaspie as “a friend and equity partner”.

A Team Vinh newsletter cites Glaspie as being on Team Vinh’s Board of Directors, as head of their “marketing consortium”.

In late 2015 the SEC shut down Team Vinh, revealing it to be a $3 million dollar Ponzi scheme. How much money Glaspie made in Team Vinh is unclear.

Alexa traffic estimates show a sharp decline in traffic throughout 2017 to the Icanget2 website.

Glaspie appears to have launched ICANetwork and Icanget2 around the same time.

In August this year Glaspie announced he was merging the InvitationToJoin affiliate database with that of The ICANetwork.

InvitationToJoin is a matrix-based recruitment scheme also launched by Glaspie in early 2017.

By merging InvitationToJoin with ICAN, Glaspie claimed he’d created a “new The ICANetwork”.

Read on for a full review of The ICANetwork MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

One would think a legitimate MLM company with nothing to hide would be open to interviews, especially when they themselves initiated a request for one.

Not so with PM International, who after requesting Norwegian media interview their CEO in Luxembourg, presented them with a list of outrageous demands. [Continue reading…]

A marketing video on the Infinity TrafficBoost website identifies Frank Bauer as co-founder of the company.

The Infinity TrafficBoost website title and marketing copy is also prefaced with “Frank Bauer recommends…”

Further research reveals official Infinity TrafficBoost marketing videos citing Frank Bauer as co-founder of the company:

In a comment left on our Infinity Push review earlier this year, Bauer claimed he is “the person that runs the site.”

A video featured on the Infinity TrafficBoost website is hosted on a YouTube channel bearing the name “Frank VU Bauer”.

Through Add2it Marketing Pty Ltd, Bauer also runs the internet marketing ViralURL, ViralInbox ViralHosts, ViralNetworks and ViralPLR websites.

A PO Box contact address in New South Wales, Australia is provided in the Infinity TrafficBoost Privacy Policy. The same address appears in the Infinity TrafficBoost website domain registration.

On his personal website, Bauer claims to have been living in Sydney since 2005.

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

While I’ve been unable to accurately follow the Nerium Skincare legal dispute due to sealed filings, a few recently unsealed filings reveal Nerium Skincare and Nerium International attempted mediation in mid October. [Continue reading…]

James Aboltin and Pamela Knight filed their RICO pyramid scheme lawsuit against Jeunesse back in July, 2016.

I’d been loosely following the case, with recent developments warranting its addition to my tracking roster.

Aboltin and Knight’s lawsuit seeks to recover losses as a result of signing up as Jeunesse distributors.

Both plaintiffs claim they were

deceived by Jeunesse’s misleading business opportunity, falsely believing that it was a legitimate way to earn money.

Aboltin and Knight allege Jeunesse is a pyramid scheme and names the company, MLM Mafia, Inc., Online Communications, LLC, company owners Wendy Lewis and Randy Ray, Chief Visionary Officer Scott Lewis, and top former and current Jeunesse distributors Kim Hui, Jason Caramanis, Kevin Giguere, and Alex Morton as defendants. [Continue reading…]