The 1 Online Business website provides no information about who owns or runs the company.

If you visit the website without a referral code however, you are automatically assigned Jeff Long as your referring affiliate.

Jeff Long has the affiliate referral id “1”, which is the first affiliate account created in the system. The marketing video shown on the 1 Online Business website is also hosted on a YouTube channel bearing Jeff Long’s name.

Finally, the 1 Online Business website domain (“1onlinebusiness.com”) was registered by Long on July 12th, 2016.

Jeff Long (right) first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar as the founder of AutoXTen, a recruitment scheme launched in 2011.

AutoXTen collapsed a few months after launch, with Long going to launch SMS Dailies. It too didn’t last long.

Long resurfaced in late 2015 with Get Paid Social, a Facebook spam pyramid scheme.

Alexa traffic statistics for the Get Paid Social website show a steady decline throughout 2016. This has likely prompted Long to launch 1 Online Business.

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With affiliates unable to withdraw their Ponzi points, the stakes for OneCoin have never been higher. The 2018 date for going public has bought the company some time but alone isn’t enough to placate affiliates who’s invested and lost money.

Enter the glitzy global event in Macau, which serve as a distraction from the predicament OneCoin affiliates find themselves in.

On April 27th the German website Gerlach Report published an article titled “OneCoin: Meeting in Macau prohibited by China” (auto translate).

This was followed up on May 1st with another article titled, “OneCoin: Macau police want to arrest leadership”.

I covered the initial report here on BehindMLM. I was a bit skeptical of the second article though, because the alleged methodology of the Macau police struck me as odd.

Yesterday evening OneCoin held its May 7th Macau event and, at least as far as we know, no police were present. Certainly there have been no reports of any arrests being made.

This prompted me, along with many of you sure, to turn to the Gerlach Report for an explanation. Unfortunately as at the time of publication, none has been provided. [Continue reading…]

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

The Collective Finance website domain (“collectivefinance.net”) was registered on the 14th of March, 2017. Fedor Nikolov is listed as the owner, with an address in Saratov Oblast, Russia also provided.

Possibly due to language-barriers, I was unable to find any additional information on Nikolov.

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…]

Ultimate Bitcoin Builder provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Ultimate Bitcoin Builder website domain (“ultimatebitcoinbuilder.com”) was privately registered on March 3rd, 2017.

The official Ultimate Bitcoin Builder Facebook group has one admin, Mindy Davis.

Having only been created a few days ago on May 2nd and featuring a stock image profile image, the account appears to be bogus.

Further research reveals the Ultimate Bitcoin Builder website uses name-servers of the “m2mfunds.com” domain.

M2M Funds was a cash gifting scheme launched by someone who goes by the name “omclub” on social media. In addition to Mindy Davis, omclub also goes by John Williams.

Omclub first popped up on BehindMLM back in 2015 as the admin of Super 2×7 Matrix.

Super 2×7 Matrix was a cycler Ponzi, followed up by M2M Funds in early 2016. M2M Funds saw affiliates invest funds on the promise of a daily ROI of up to 2%.

M2M Funds collapsed soon after launch and was replaced by Quick Cycler, another Ponzi cycler, in mid 2016. Quick Cycler launched in May and collapsed two months later in June.

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

Following the filing of an appeal by Charles Scoville, there’s been some uncertainty as to the status of the court-appointed Receivership.

In particular, whether or not recovery efforts would continue while the appeal was being decided on.

While distribution payments might not be possible pending the outcome of the appeal, the good news is the Traffic Monsoon Receivership will still continue to work towards recovering investor losses. [Continue reading…]

Zenith Gold operate in the gold MLM niche and name Lenny Bruce as Operations Director of the company.

No specific information about Bruce is provided, but the company does claim he has

extensive experiences in the fields of exploration, finance, development, mining & marketing (and a) proven track record of success in grassroots discovery in acquiring and developing undervalued assets and in building corporation.

I myself was unable to find any third-party information about Bruce with respect to Zenith Gold.

Further research reveals these claims are copy and pasted from a 2008 Lydian International press-release:

As far as I can tell Lydian International is a legitimate mineral exploration company that has nothing to do with Zenith Gold.

The word “companies” in the original copy above was replaced by “corporation” by Zenith Gold. Once can safely assume the rest of the content on the Zenith Gold website is also spun from other sources.

The Zenith Gold website domain (“zenithgolds.com”) was privately registered on July 21st, 2014.

Given the lack of information provided about Lenny Bruce and the stolen copy and paste content, it’s highly likely that Zenith Gold’s Lenny Bruce doesn’t actually exist.

A corporate address in the British Virgin Islands is provided on the Zenith Gold website, however this appears to belong to a shell company provider.

Alexa currently estimate that 92% of traffic to the Zenith Gold website originates out of Malaysia. It follows that whoever is actually running Zenith Gold is thus also based out of Malaysia too.

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…]

Chris Principe had a budding career going in to bat for MLM underbelly Ponzi schemes.

Having already enjoyed exposure of his Financial IT magazine for running a cover story on OneCoin and speaking at a company event, Principe was cozying up to Skyway Capital for his next gig.

Like OneCoin, Skyway Capital is also a Ponzi scheme.

Despite this, Skyway Capital pulled the pin on Principe’s deal after they became aware of his previous connection to OneCoin.

Skyway did not want to be associated with Principe because of the adverse effect it would have on Skyway’s business, reputation and ability to find investors.

In 2017, Skyway canceled its agreement with Principe because Skyway found statements … on the Internet linking Principe directly as a promoter of a Ponzi scheme and (Skyway Capital) did not want to be associated with Principe.

Talk about irony…

Now, in an April 4th lawsuit in which he claims losses in excess of $75,000, Principe is out for blood. [Continue reading…]

Be Granted provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

The Be Granted website domain (“be-granted.com”) was privately registered on November 11th, 2016.

According to Alexa, Nigeria is currently the largest source of traffic to the Be Granted website domain (26%).

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…]

Truevine Net Connect provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Truevine Net Connect website domain was registered on April 5th, 2017. Adebayo Samuel from McElyon Nigeria Limited, with an address in Kaduna, Nigeria also provided.

As far as I can tell, McElyon appears to be a Nigerian wood export company that has nothing to do with MLM.

Possibly due to language barriers, I was unable to put together an MLM history on Samuel.

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…]

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

In fact at the time of publication, the Fairty Life website is only accessible with an affiliate referral link, and even then it’s nothing more than an affiliate login/sign up page.

The Fairity Life website domain was registered on February 28th, 2017 and appears to contain bogus information. An address in Antarctica for “John Karna” is provided as ownership details.

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…]