On May 1st the Zeek Receiver filed his first quarter Status Report for 2017.

The report covers settlements received, US and foreign net-winner clawback litigation, various insider lawsuits and the aggregate amount paid out to Zeek affiliates thus far. [Continue reading…]

Amazing Living launched late last year and combined soursop tea with affiliate autoship recruitment.

Alexa statistics for the Amazing Living website suggest that after an initial recruitment boom, the company went into rapid decline.

In what appears to be an attempt to revive Amazing Living, National Sales Trainer Larry Williams has appeared in a “concept video”. [Continue reading…]

When I reviewed Vitae Global last week, one of the things I picked up on was the company’s supplier, Advanced Laboratories International and owner Louis Volpe, were also credited with supplying competitor Valentus with their SlimRoast coffee.

With Volpe also a named co-founder of Vitae Global, surely there was or was going to be a conflict of interest as, through Advanced Laboratories, he was directly supplying a competitor.

Turns out there’s a saga behind the formation of Vitae Global, dating back to early 2016.

Today we take a look at the origins of the beef between Valentus and Volpe, starting with a lawsuit filed by Advanced Laboratories on December 21st, 2016. [Continue reading…]

Mama Captain launched in October, 2015 and operate in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

The company does have an “about us” page on their website, however no information about who owns or runs Mama Captain is provided.

The Mama Captain website domain (“mamacaptain.com”) was privately registered on October 14th, 2014.

According to Alexa, traffic to the Mama Captain domain is predominantly from Malaysia (55%) and China (42%).

This pretty much guarantees that whoever is running Mama Captain is based out of Malaysia, China or both.

Update 3rd May 2017 – An incorporation document for “Mama Captain Gold Enterprise” from the Companies Commission of Malaysia reveals Chong Cia Yong is the sole proprietor of the business.

Yong is cited as a Malaysian citizen with a residential address in Penang, Malaysia. /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…]

Trudy Gilmond’s theft of over $2 million dollars from Zeek Rewards victims saw the SEC file legal action against her in 2015.

The case progressed throughout 2015 and in early 2016 Judge Mullen scheduled a trial for September, 2017.

Not much has happened since then, prompting the SEC to file for a suspension of the current trial schedule. [Continue reading…]

Following the arrest of eighteen OneCoin affiliates in Mumbai, India last weekend, a Judicial Magistrate remanded the accused to judicial custody.

As I understand this limits police access to the accused, Mumbai police filed a petition to have the scammers remitted to police custody. [Continue reading…]

Last year the mystery of why OneCoin were using stock video footage to represent their blockchain was solved.

OneCoin had no blockchain and were simply recording script-generated Ponzi points allocation on a SQL database.

The revelation was made public following a OneCoin blockchain development job offer to Bjorn Bjercke.

Bjercke is a professional blockchain developer and, not happy someone with someone with actual technical experience going around countering their own technology claims, OneCoin have now threatened Bjercke with legal action. [Continue reading…]

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

The BitConnect website domain (“bitconnect.co”) was privately registered on February 9th, 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…]

Back in January the Zeek Rewards Receiver filed for summary judgment against Canadian net-winners.

Beverly Dawn Trca-Kitchen was one such net-winner, with the Receiver alleging she stole $314,228 from victims of the scheme. This figure was arrived at after forensic accounting was conducted on the Zeek Rewards backend.

Trca-Kitchen however paints a different picture. [Continue reading…]

VIP Turbo Cycler provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The VIP Turbo Cycler website domain (“vipturbocycler.com”) was privately registered on April 6th, 2017.

At the time of publication, the VIP Turbo Cycler is little more than an affiliate signup page.

Further research reveals VIP Turbo Cycler material appearing on a YouTube channel bearing the name “The VIP Team”.

As per our review published in 2015, The VIP Team is a downline feeder run by Lieven VanNeste (right).

At the time The VIP Team was feeding affiliates into VanNeste’s Exitus Network downline.

In addition to The VIP Team, VanNeste also launched the PM RevShares Ponzi scheme in 2015.

Read on for a full review the VIP Turbo Cycler MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]