Affiliate Institute operates in the marketing tools MLM niche. The company provides a corporate address in Toronto, Canada on its website.

Heading up Affiliate Institute we have founder Kameron George (right).

As per George’s Affiliate Institute corporate bio;

Over ten years ago he was an electrical apprentice when he was first exposed to the idea of digital marketing.

After years of relentlessly chasing every system, “guru”, trick and hack – he finally put the pieces together for himself and it changed his life.

The Affiliate Institute isn’t just a brand, it’s the embodiment of Kameron’s personal philosophy that anyone who is willing to learn and do the work can truly live the life of their dreams.

Circa 2013 George was heavily pushing something called iGlobalPros.

Over the years George has been heavily involved in digital marketing but, at least as far as I could see, not the MLM type.

Circa 2022 George reinvented himself as a crypto bro.

No idea what George got up to in the crypto space. Regardless since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, AI has been replacing crypto as the “grift of choice” for marketers.

This brings us to Affiliate Institute.

Affiliate Institute’s website domain (“affiliateinstitute.com”), was first registered in 2008. The private registration was last updated on December 24th, 2023.

Read on for a full review of Affiliate Institute’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

The SEC has filed suit against NovaTech FX’s founders and several top promoters.

As per the federal regulator’s August 12th filed lawsuit, Cynthia and Eddie Petion ran a $650 million plus Ponzi scheme.

In addition to NovaTech FX’s Petion co-founders, the SEC has also sued promoters Martin Zizi, Dapilini Dunbar, James Corbett, Corrie Sampson, John Garofano and Marsha Hadley. [Continue reading…]

Seven years after she disappeared, Bulgarian authorities have indicted OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova. [Continue reading…]

Nadec VIP fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Nadec VIP’s website domain (“nadecvip.top”), was registered with bogus details on August 5th, 2024.

Of note is Nadec VIP’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

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…]

Rich Kropto, which sometimes refers to itself as “Rich Crypto”, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Rich Kropto’s website domain (“richkropto.pro”), was privately registered on July 6th, 2024.

Rich Kropto has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued a Rich Kropto pyramid fraud warning on July 24th, 2024.

In an attempt to appear legitimate, Rich Crpypto provides fake UK incorporation details for “Rich Kropto Investment”.

The provided details correspond with Bremby LTD, a UK company that was dissolved in June 2023.

Also note that despite only existing for a month, Rich Kropto falsely claims it has been in operation for just under two years.

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…]

The Banker Quotes Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Withdrawals are disabled and the company has trotted out a “software glitch” exit-scam. [Continue reading…]

UIOT VIP fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

UIOT VIP’s website domain (“vipuiot.top”), was registered with bogus details on August 5th, 2024.

Of note is UIOT VIP’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore).

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…]

Shoply came across my desk back in late June. At the time the company was running a “The Last Dance” prelaunch.

Since then Shoply as a company name has been revealed, and Shoply has been set up on the domain “shoply.com”.

Shoply’s domain, an old 2003 domain privately renewed on March 3rd, 2024, is currently an August 15th launch placeholder:

Shoply itself is a LaCore Enterprises company owned solely by Terry LaCore.

As with most LaCore Enterprises companies, LaCore (right) isn’t fronting Shoply.

Confirmed names attached to Shoply include Nick Sarnicola, Rod Larsen and Ron Williams.

Nick Sarnicola is best known in the MLM industry as one of the co-founders of Visalus.

• in 2013 Visalus was accused of orchestrating an espionage campaign against Ocean Avenue, following the departure of several high-profile Visalus distributors
• in 2015 Visalus’ alleged espionage campaign led to indictments and arrests
• in July 2017 Visalus was sued for allegedly running a secret Amazon retail racket, placing the company in direct competition with its distributors
• in August 2017 Visalus was sued for allegedly screwing founding distributors out of promised share dividends

In 2019 what was left of Visalus was quietly sold off to Pruvit, another LaCore Enterprises company.

Rod Larsen made a name for himself in the MLM industry as the CEO of Zija. Zija was sold off to Isagenix in 2020.

In 2021 Larsen was appointed Chief Operating Officer at Jeunesse. Jeunesse was sold off to LaCore Enterprises in January 2023.

Ron Williams started his MLM executive career off with Brain Garden in 1998.

The company was sold a few years later with Williams going on to launch ForeverGreen in 2004.

• in 2015 LaCore Enterprises, through Pruvit, sued ForeverGreen for breach of contract and fraud
• Williams resigned as CEO and President of ForeverGreen in 2017
• in 2018 LaCore Enterprises rebooted its Foru International acquisition as Uforia Science, Ron Williams was appointed CEO
• Williams appears to have left Uforia Science after a failed 2020 merger with MaVie
• in August 2021 Williams resurfaced as the President of SuperDraft Pro
• in July 2022 Williams resurfaced again, this time as CEO of LaCore Enterprises’ PlayCare Health

Terry LaCore and LaCore Enterprises are based out of Texas in the US.

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…]

GMarket9 fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

GMarket9’s website domain (“gmarket9.com”), was privately registered on August 1st, 2024.

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…]

Xera Pro launched in Dubai back in January 2024.

The “mega Ponzi” was a combination of three then recently collapsed Dubai Ponzis; Safir International (aka Neo ZenTech), Success Factory and The Blockchain Era (aka WeWe Global, LyoPay, LyoTrade and LyoWallet).

The serial fraudsters behind these collapsed Ponzi schemes took up prominent positions as Xero Pro’s “formation team”:

• Henk Diepbrink – Xera Managing Director, Dutch national and former Managing Director of Safir
• Werner Kaiser – Xera Global Vice President, part of Safir’s “Elite Circle of Trust” and former Lyoness Ponzi promoter
• Diego Endrizzi – Xera Head of Global Sales, top Italian promoter of WeWe Global and The Blockchain Era
• Gorka Buces – Xera Chief Visionary Officer, former CVO of the collapsed Xifra and Decentra Ponzi schemes
• Nils Grossberg – Xera Head of Global Partnerships, founder and CEO of collapsed DagCoin and Success Factory Ponzi schemes

Following a Xero Pro securities fraud warning issued by Australia on April 23rd, affiliates began reporting withdrawals problems on or around July 15th.

This coincided with a “service update” announcement on the same day:

On August 3rd, Xera Pro announced it was rebooting as Homnifi.

Homnifi sees the scammers behind the collapsed XeraPro feeder Ponzis scuttle further into the background. Gorka Buces and Jose Gordo have been retconned as Xera Pro co-founders.

Jose Gordo, a former OneCoin Ponzi promoter who is on the run from Argentine authorities, entered Xera Pro as a WeWe Global and The Blockchain Era Ponzi promoter.

Gorka Buces has been promoted from Chief Visionary Officer to a Xera Pro co-founder.

Wener Kaiser has been demoted from Global Vice President to “Client Relations Specialist”.

Charbel Zalaquett and Goran Hemstrom are The Blockchain Era and WeWe Global Ponzi promoter imports.

Before his hasty fall-guy promotion to Homnifi “Head of Operations”, Zalaquett was still referring to himself as a Xera Pro “independent promoter” last month.

Someone else worth mentioning is Erwin Dokter, who’s behind “LayerK” and “WalleK”.

LayerK and WalleK are the cryptocurrency side of Xera Pro and now Homnifi.

Dokter is of course one of the scammers behind Safir International and its attached Zeniq Coin Ponzi scheme.

Homnifi has been set up on the domain (“homnifi.com”), privately registered on June 10th, 2024.

Xera Pro’s website is still up but seeing as it now serves no purpose, will probably be quietly disabled at some point.

On its website Homnifi represents it operates out of Homnifi International LTD, a British Virgin Islands shell company.

Like Xera Pro and its feeder Ponzis, Homnifi and its associated companies are all in fact operated from Dubai.

Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Homnifi, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]