Earlier this month news broke that Trading Standards was cracking down on the illegal sale of Valentus products in the UK.

Trading Standards are an enforcement regulator who, among other things, regulate health and safety regulation in the UK.

On or around late July or early August, Valentus affiliate Charlotte Thompson received a visit from Trading Standards at her home.

The agents purportedly informed Thompson that Valentus wasn’t registered as an MLM opportunity in the UK, making sale of their products illegal.

Valentus to date have no publicly commented on the matter. Privately however Valentus have been holding webinars for their affiliates.

In one leaked webinar a member of Valentus corporate advises affiliates to ignore Trading Standards and continue to market Valentus products illegally. [Continue reading…]

Advduo claim to be part of Duo Business Limited, an “advertising and marketing management company”.

Duo Business Limited is owned by Samuel Sullivan an enthusiastic online marketer and an entrepreneur who has a lot of experience in managing marketing solutions.

No specific information about Sullivan is provided. There is also no third-party information linking Sullivan to either Advduo or Duo Business Limited.

Duo Business Limited was incorporated in the UK on July 17th, 2017. Samuel Director is listed as the sole Director of the company.

An address in London is provided, however this appears to belong to a supermarket.

It is unlikely Samuel Sullivan, as represented by Advduo and Duo Business Limited, actually exists.

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…]

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

Of note is the Freedom Dollar website is hosted on the Trinity Funnel System website.  The Trinity Funnel System website domain was privately registered on February 21st, 2017.

Trinity Funnel System appears to be a traffic exchange. Given Freedom Dollar appears to be running off the website domain itself, it seems whoever owns Trinity Funnel System likely also owns Freedom Dollar.

Other than claiming to be part of Trinity Marketing Group, who owns Trinity Funnel System is not disclosed on the company website.

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…]

SwisCoin launched in late 2015 and saw affiliates invest in “tokens” on the promise of a ROI.

SwisCoin’s business model also incorporated pyramid fraud, with existing affiliate investors paid to recruit new investors.

On August 21st authorities in the Ukraine announced the arrest of SwisCoin ringleaders and seizure of over $500,000. [Continue reading…]

Finnish authorities were among the first to announce a police investigation into OneCoin.

Unfortunately that investigation focused on whether or not OneCoin was a legitimate cryptocurrency. That saw the investigation stall when became apparent Finnish authorities had no way to verify if OneCoin had a cryptocurrency.

That was a year and a half ago, with Finnish authorities today revealing a new criminal investigation into OneCoin is well underway. [Continue reading…]

Bitcoiners Hub provide no information about who owns or runs the company on their website.

The Bitcoiners Hub website domain (“bitcoinershub.com”) was privately registered on August 11th, 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…]

Huajian Wu and his company Yuanhao Inc. and stole $500,000 from victims of the WCM777 Ponzi scheme.

Efforts to recover stolen funds saw Wu return $400,000, with $100,000 outstanding.

During settlement negotiations back in 2015, Wu represented to the Receiver that he ‘had no significant assets against which recovery could be pursued’.

The Receiver later discovered that was baloney. [Continue reading…]

Money Maker Group and Talk Gold are two of the oldest and largest MLM underbelly promotion platforms on the internet.

Both websites are updated regularly with new MLM Ponzi and pyramid scheme launches.

Without explanation, in the last twenty-four hours both websites were pulled offline within minutes of each other. [Continue reading…]

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

The Pacific Affiliate website domain (“pasaff.com”) was privately registered on May 22nd, 2017. The registration was recently updated on August 14th.

An infographic on the Pacific Affiliate website ties Pacific Affiliate to “Pacific Network”, which includes Pacific Advertising.

Pacific Ads is a Ponzi scheme run by Shakeel Babar (right) out of Malaysia.

Pacific Ads launched a few months ago and sees affiliates purchase positions in various Ponzi cycler plans.

It is likely recruitment activity in Pacific Ads has begun to stall, prompting Babar to launch Pacific Affiliate.

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

Traffic Share Partners provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Traffic Share Partners website domain (“trafficsharepartners.com”) was privately registered on March 3rd, 2017. The registration was recently updated on August 18th.

The official Traffic Share Partners Facebook group has one admin, Linda Gomez.

Linda Gomez’s Facebook profile has no content other than a few profile photo changes since 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…]