High Ticket Income System operate out of Pennsylvania in the US and claim to be ‘backed by Dps Marketing Group LLC‘.

DPS Marketing Group is owned by Dale Payne-Sizer, who first appeared on BehindMLM as the admin of Infinity Profit System in 2016.

Infinity Profit System was a two-tier cash gifting scheme that collapsed a few months after launching.

Dale Payne-Sizer has a long history of association with MLM underbelly cash gifting schemes.

The same Pennsylvania corporate address provided on the High Ticket Income System website also appears on the Reverse Commissions website.

The Gift Me Bitcoins website uses the name-servers of the Reverse Commissions domain, tying both companies to DPS Marketing Group and Dale Payne-Sizer.

Both Reverse Commissions and Gift Me Bitcoins are recently launched cash gifting schemes launched. Alexa traffic statistics suggest Gift Me Bitcoins has already collapsed, with Reverse Commissions headed in the same direction.

The collapse of both has likely prompted Payne-Sizer to try again with High Ticket Income System.

Read on for a full review of the High Ticket Income System MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

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

The Gain Bitcoin website domain (“gainbitcoin.com”) was on March 26th, 2013. Mark Lee is listed as the owner, with an address in Singapore also provided.

Other than a suspiciously empty LinkedIn profile that credits Lee as CEO of Gain Bitcoin, there is no information available that ties him to the company.

Of note is Mark Lee’s location of New Delhi, India on his LinkedIn profile. It is highly unlikely the CEO of a Singapore company would be based in India.

It is also highly likely that Mark Lee, as represented in the Gain Bitcoin domain registration, doesn’t actually exist.

The Gain Bitcoin Terms and Conditions state the company belongs to the Singapore company VariableTech PTE LTD.

Things get even more murky upon consideration of a “Team and Company Information”, which links to a PDF file about Amaze Mining and Research LTD.

In addition to Gain Bitcoin, VariableTech also run The Bitex.

We provide flagship Bitcoin related services in the field of exchange, cloud mining, eCommerce, utility payments across different countries in Asia.

Amazing Mining and Research LTD claim on their website that they have ‘produced up to 200% yearly returns on the investment in Alt-coin Mining‘.

Amazing Mining and Research is headed up by CEO Amit Bhardwaj (right), who is based out of India.

An since deleted Gain Bitcoin marketing video featuring Amit Bhardwaj published earlier this year was archived by Coin Journal. In the video Bhardwaj touts a 10% monthly ROI through Gain Bitcoin.

Why Bhardwaj is not openly credited as the owner of Gain Bitcoin, which very much appears to be an Indian operation with no ties to Singapore, is unclear.

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…]

Yesterday we covered a lawsuit filed by Valentus’ former SlimRoast coffee supplier, alleging they were owed $3.18 million dollars.

In response to the lawsuit Valentus mostly denied the accusations. They also filed a counter-claim of their own, which alleges their former supplier Advanced Laboratories International

engaged in a deliberate and calculated campaign to misappropriate Valentus’ goodwill, raid its distributors, and destroy its business.

Valentus’ counter-claim has also dragged Vitae Global into the fray as a named counter-defendant. [Continue reading…]

On May 1st the Zeek Receiver filed his first quarter Status Report for 2017.

The report covers settlements received, US and foreign net-winner clawback litigation, various insider lawsuits and the aggregate amount paid out to Zeek affiliates thus far. [Continue reading…]

Amazing Living launched late last year and combined soursop tea with affiliate autoship recruitment.

Alexa statistics for the Amazing Living website suggest that after an initial recruitment boom, the company went into rapid decline.

In what appears to be an attempt to revive Amazing Living, National Sales Trainer Larry Williams has appeared in a “concept video”. [Continue reading…]

When I reviewed Vitae Global last week, one of the things I picked up on was the company’s supplier, Advanced Laboratories International and owner Louis Volpe, were also credited with supplying competitor Valentus with their SlimRoast coffee.

With Volpe also a named co-founder of Vitae Global, surely there was or was going to be a conflict of interest as, through Advanced Laboratories, he was directly supplying a competitor.

Turns out there’s a saga behind the formation of Vitae Global, dating back to early 2016.

Today we take a look at the origins of the beef between Valentus and Volpe, starting with a lawsuit filed by Advanced Laboratories on December 21st, 2016. [Continue reading…]

Mama Captain launched in October, 2015 and operate in the cryptocurrency MLM niche.

The company does have an “about us” page on their website, however no information about who owns or runs Mama Captain is provided.

The Mama Captain website domain (“mamacaptain.com”) was privately registered on October 14th, 2014.

According to Alexa, traffic to the Mama Captain domain is predominantly from Malaysia (55%) and China (42%).

This pretty much guarantees that whoever is running Mama Captain is based out of Malaysia, China or both.

Update 3rd May 2017 – An incorporation document for “Mama Captain Gold Enterprise” from the Companies Commission of Malaysia reveals Chong Cia Yong is the sole proprietor of the business.

Yong is cited as a Malaysian citizen with a residential address in Penang, Malaysia. /end update

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…]

Trudy Gilmond’s theft of over $2 million dollars from Zeek Rewards victims saw the SEC file legal action against her in 2015.

The case progressed throughout 2015 and in early 2016 Judge Mullen scheduled a trial for September, 2017.

Not much has happened since then, prompting the SEC to file for a suspension of the current trial schedule. [Continue reading…]

Following the arrest of eighteen OneCoin affiliates in Mumbai, India last weekend, a Judicial Magistrate remanded the accused to judicial custody.

As I understand this limits police access to the accused, Mumbai police filed a petition to have the scammers remitted to police custody. [Continue reading…]

Last year the mystery of why OneCoin were using stock video footage to represent their blockchain was solved.

OneCoin had no blockchain and were simply recording script-generated Ponzi points allocation on a SQL database.

The revelation was made public following a OneCoin blockchain development job offer to Bjorn Bjercke.

Bjercke is a professional blockchain developer and, not happy someone with someone with actual technical experience going around countering their own technology claims, OneCoin have now threatened Bjercke with legal action. [Continue reading…]