The collapse of MMM Nigeria in as many months continues to wreak havoc in the lives of those who invested.

The latest casualty is a mother of two from Benue, a state in Nigeria’s south-east.

On the eve of December 28th, Gloria Samson

bade her children bye and apologised for any wrongdoing she might have committed against them.

Samson then reportedly left the house and did not return. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Crypto 24×7 website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Crypto 24×7 website domain (“crypto24x7.com”) was privately registered on January 22nd, 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…]

Following a guilty plea for wire fraud conspiracy back in 2015, Achieve Community co-owner Kristi Johnson has been stuck in sentencing limbo.

As per a court order November, 2015 court order, Johnson’s sentencing was postponed until the resolution of Troy Barnes’ criminal proceedings. [Continue reading…]

Back in late 2015 the SEC filed a lawsuit against TeamVinh. In their lawsuit, the SEC alleged TeamVinh was a $3 million dollar Ponzi scheme.

Last we checked in on the case was March of last year, at which time a consented judgement against TeamVinh and owner Vu H. Le (aka Vinh H. Le) was made. [Continue reading…]

Real Destinations International was initially supposed to launch on February 1st. For reasons unknown, the launch has now been delayed until February 14th.

No explanation for the delay is provided on the Real Destinations International website. One possible reason however is a lack of interest, reflected in the company’s current Alexa ranking of over two million.

For those unfamiliar with the company, Real Destinations International is your typical travel niche MLM opportunity.

Real Destinations International affiliates pay $275 to $3500 for access to travel discounts. Whether they use the discounts or not doesn’t matter, with commissions of up to $300 paid on the direct recruitment of new affiliates.

There’s also cycler commissions, turning an initial investment of $275 to $3500 into a $2675 to $102,700 ROI.

The current Alexa ranking for the Real Destinations International website suggests interest has been luke-warm at best. With those affiliate numbers, cycling will stall within a week or so and prompt a collapse. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Team1Bitcoin website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Team1Bitcoin website domain (“team1bitcoin.com”) was privately registered on January 6th, 2016.

If you visit the Team1Bitcoin website a message at the top of the page informs you you’ve been “invited by admin”. If you then click register your referring affiliate is “rescue hutton”.

This is a static referral link and appears to be the Team1Bitcoin admin account.

Further research reveals “rescue hutton” is actually “Hutton Rescue”, an Ultimate Cycler affiliate.

Rescue (right) is based out of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria. In addition to participating in the Ultimate Cycler Ponzi scheme, Rescue is also an affiliate with MMM West Africa and MMM Nigeria (both clones of the collapsed MMM Global Ponzi scheme).

Rescue coordinates his scamming through the website Rescue Nigeria (pun probably intended). Somewhat curiously, Team1Bitcoin is not advertised on the site.

Read on for a full review of the Team1Bitcoin MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Wealth Mason Partners website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Wealth Mason Partners website domain (“wealthmasonpartners.com”) was privately registered on January 6th, 2017.

Alexa currently estimate that 65% of all traffic to the Wealth Mason Partners website originates out of Nigeria.

The Wealth Mason Partners website counts eighty-four affiliates in Nigeria. There are twenty counted affiliates from the rest of the tracked countries combined.

This strongly suggests that Wealth Mason Partners is likely being run out of Nigeria.

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…]

Following a lengthy analysis of 20,219  victim claims totaling $99 million, the Zhunrize Receiver has determined $41 million across 2858 claims is actually payable.

Along with nine vendor claims totaling $338,254, the Receiver has asked the court to approve the distribution of funds on these claims. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Asirvia website indicating who owns or runs the business.

Infact at the time of publication, the Asirvia website is nothing more than an email capture page.

The Asirvia website domain (“asirvia.net”) was registered on December 10th, 2016. Donald LaPlume is listed as the owner, with an address in the US state of Vermont also provided.

Further research reveals LaPlume is one of three Asirvia co-founders, along with Don Smith and Kevin Marino.

Prior to founding Asirvia, all three co-founders were involved in Saivian.

Saivian launched in late 2015. Affiliates paid $125 every 28 days and based on recruitment of new Saivian affiliates, were able to earn a daily ROI of up to $3000.

About a year after launch Saivian appears to have stalled, prompting LaPlume, Smith and Marino to jump ship and launch Asirvia in late 2016.

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

BehindMLM initially reviewed Panvoya back in May of 2015.

A few days ago “Panvoya Support” left a comment on the review informing me that the compensation plan has since changed.

The Panvoya compensation plan we reviewed in 2015 saw Panvoya affiliates sign up, pay a fee and get paid to recruit new affiliates who did the same.

Today we review Panvoya’s updated compensation plan and see if anything’s changed. [Continue reading…]