Big Coin Machine provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Big Coin Machine website domain (“bigcoinmachine.com”) was privately registered on March 2nd, 2017.

The Big Coin Machine Terms and Conditions mentions “CryptoAd”:

Promotion and Misrepresentation

When offering or arguing the Bigcoinmachine chance or the CryptoAd Ad Pack Plan …

This appears to be a reference to Crypto Adz, with the Big Coin Machine website itself pulling resources from the Crypto Adz hosting account:

Crypto Adz was a bitcoin gifting Ponzi hybrid launched late last year by Bilal Hadi.

Today the Crypto Adz website is non-responsive, suggesting the scheme has collapsed. This has likely prompted Hadi to try again with Big Coin Machine.

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

The RobinHood Global website domain (“robinhood.global”) was privately registered on October 1st, 2016.

The official RobinHood Global Facebook page was created on March 21st by a bogus “Robin Green” account, which itself was only created on October 17th, 2016.

As far as I can tell RobinHood Global is being run by someone from Russia or the Ukraine. Evidence supporting this is an active VKontakte social network profile (published in Russian), Russia being the third-largest source of traffic to the RobinHood Global website (Alexa) and the use of Yandex to track RobinHood Global website analytics.

Up until late March, RobinHood Global was also using a Telegram bot to coordinate affiliate investment. The use of a Telegram bot has thus far only been used by Russian and Ukrainian Ponzi schemes.

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Despite being cut off by their supplier, Juenesse has vowed to continue selling Instantly Ageless unless a court order prohibits them from doing so.

The announcement was made in an April 12th statement provided to BehindMLM, which I’ve reproduced below in full. [Continue reading…]

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

The BeFargo website domain (“befargo.com”) was privately registered on September 4th, 2016.

Much is made of BeFargo being a purported US company in affiliate marketing material, however the BeFargo website Terms and Conditions states:

For all legal purposes, these Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws applicable in the UK. You agree and hereby submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the UK for the resolution of any disputes arising from these Terms of Use.

Most of the BeFargo affiliate marketing material I came across was in Russian.

The main speaker at BeFargo’s California event was some guy who goes by Robert Steenburgh.

Steenburgh (right) was presented as a “cryptocurrency expert” and spoke at length about the proof of stake model FargoCoin is based on.

The man hosting the event was Koryaka Eli who, at least going by his accent, appears to be European.

The only other speaker name-tags I was able to ascertain were James Booze and Joe Reyes. I wasn’t able to find any footage of them speaking though so I’m not sure what his relationship to BeFargo is.

Outside of the BeFargo event, I was unable to find any information on Steenburgh, Eli, Booze or Reyes. This is highly suspicious.

Whether BeFargo is being run by Russians or someone in the US remains unclear.

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One of Jeunesse’s most recognizable products is Instantly Ageless. Marketed as an anti-aging “micro cream”, Instantly Ageless is manufactured by Anti Age Technologies LLC.

Following allegations that Jeunesse has “committed several uncured material breaches of the Agreement” between the two companies, on April 3rd, 2017, Anti Age Technologies wrote to Jeunesse to advise they were terminating the agreement. [Continue reading…]

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

The Bitcoin Bank Cycler website domain (“bitcoinbankcycler.com”) was privately registered on January 25th, 2017.

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Bitcoin 4 Ever provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Bitcoin 4 Ever website domain (“bitcoin4ever.biz”) was privately registered on March 28th, 2017.

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Buy Time claim to be a holding company incorporated in the UK as Buy Time Incorporated LLP.

Further research reveals Buy Time Incorporated LLP was incorporated on October 19th, 2016.

The address used to incorporate Buy Time Incorporated LLP is used by over a hundred companies, suggesting Buy Time Incorporated LLP exists in the UK in name only.

Two shell companies are listed as “officers” of Buy Time Incorporated LLP; Buy Time Incorporated LTD (Seychelles) and Damitra Group LTD (Seychelles). Both companies appear to have been incorporated in Seychelles with virtual addresses.

Damitra Group is tied to the Richmond Berks Ponzi scheme as a Managing Partner with power of attorney.

Serguiu Valuta signed the document on behalf of DamitraGroup LTD on January 9th, 2016:

Richmond Berks launched in late 2016 and promised investors a 1.6% daily ROI. Reader comments on BehindMLM’s Richmond Berks review suggest the company has ceased paying investors.

Buy Time identify Dmitrijs Lutovs as CEO, President and founder of the company. No information about Lutovs is provided.

This is inline with Richmond Berks, who named the owners of the company but also failed to provide any additional information.

Dmitrijs Lutovs is listed as the owner of the Buy Time website through an address in Riga, Latvia:

Lutovs does have a social media presence on Facebook, however the account was only created on December 31st, 2016, a day after the Buy Time website domain was registered.

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German authorities began investigating OneCoin mid last year. In the immediate aftermath of the investigation announcement, OneCoin lost its Deutsche Bank account.

The conclusion of the investigation, led by the country’s top financial services regulator, saw remaining known bank accounts in the name of IMS International Marketing Services GmbH ordered frozen on the 17th and 20th of February.

As acknowledged by BaFin, IMS International Marketing is one of the many shell companies OneCoin use to launder invested funds around the world. [Continue reading…]

EarlyBird Academy operate in the financial services niche and provide a corporate address in Curaçao on their website.

Further research reveals EarlyBird Academy’s provided corporate address actually belongs to Intertrust Group.

Intertrust Group offer jurisdictional fiduciary services in Curaçao, which includes “off the shelf” incorporation. As such it appears EarlyBird Academy exists in Curaçao in name only.

The EarlyBird website identifies Kalpesh Patel as CEO of the company.

Kalpesh Patel (right) first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar in 2015, as a named net-winner in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme. As alleged by the Zeek Rewards Receiver, Kalpesh stole $140,842 from Zeek Rewards victims.

Later in 2015 Patel reemerged as co-founder of Xip4Life. By all appearances, Xip4Life was an attempt to relaunch the Zeek Rewards’ penny auction Ponzi model from within the UK.

The Xip4Life website is still online today, however Alexa traffic statistics suggest the company has long since collapsed.

In 2008 the UK’s Mirror referred to Patel as a “habitual purveyor of crackpot get-rich-quick schemes”.

Patel is based out of the UK, which is presumably where EarlyBird Academy is actually being operated from.

EarlyBird Academy presentations name First United Capital Group as their parent company. Tony Berntsen is identified as CEO on the First United Capital Group website.

Prior to it being set up as a shell company in Curaçao, Bernsten registered the First United Capital Group website through an address in Østfold, Norway.

No specific information about Bersten is provided on the First United Capital Group website. Possibly due to language barriers, I myself was unable to find any additional information.

Regardless, it appears EarlyBird Academy is being run out of the UK, with ties to Norway through First United Capital Group.

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