The Dollar Sharing Review: Serial bitcoin cash gifting scammers
There is no information on The Dollar Sharing website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The Dollar Sharing website domain (“dollarsharing.com”) was registered privately on the 10th of June, 2016.
The official The Dollar Sharing Facebook group was created by Krzysztof Tymoteusz (right) on September 14th.
A post on Tymoteusz’s personal profile on the 13th of November reads;
The second Big project from TDV coming. Who wants to join Early?
The “project” referred to is The Dollar Sharing. “TDV” refers to The Dollar Ventures, a cash gifting scheme launched late last month.
At the time of publication The Dollar Ventures website was non-responsive, suggesting the scheme has already collapsed.
Based on posts in the official Facebook group, Krzysztof Tymoteusz appears to be running The Dollar Sharing with Simon Hykins and Mia Melania.
Krzysztof Tymoteusz and Mia Melania are based out of Poland. Simon Hykins is operating out of Texas in the US.
I am noting that the Mia Melania profile is likely fake. It uses a stolen profile photos and was only recently created on October 10th.
Simon Hykin’s Facebook profile also uses a stolen image of the musical artist Dawen.
Recently Krzysztof Tymoteusz was promoting Crypto Ads (adcredit Ponzi scheme), ZarFund (cash gifting), Viral Crypto (cash gifting), Matrix War (cash gifting), BitDonix (cash gifting), BitRising (cash gifting), LifeBTC (Ponzi scheme), TrafficNBitcoin (cash gifting) and FortAdPays (collapsed Ponzi scheme).
In a Facebook post dated November 10th, Tymoteusz credits The Dollar Ventures admin team with also running 3×2 Core, 2×2 Funds and 2×4 Club.
All three are bitcoin-based cash gifting schemes launched in the past month.
Simon Hykins and “Mia Melania” have similar promotional histories as Krzysztof Tymoteusz.
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Sh8pe Club Review: Pay-to-play gaming autoship recruitment
Sh8pe Club sometimes refer to themselves as “Shape Club”, “Shape Entertainment” and “Sh8pe Entertainment”. For the purpose of this review I’m referring to the company as “Sh8pe Club”.
Sh8pe Club identify Paul Michael Baber as CEO of the company. Beyond that no actual information about Baber is provided.
The Sh8pe Club website domain (“sh8pent.club”) was privately registered on the 14th of March, 2016.
In his Facebook profile, Baber (right) cites his location as Queensland, Australia. Sh8pe Club however claim to be ‘operating under a Government License issued by the country of Costa Rica‘.
Throwing a third location into the mix, Sh8pe Club also provide a “registered office” address in Gibraltar.
Both Gibraltar and Costa Rica, as far as the MLM industry goes, are shady locations for incorporation.
The Gibraltar address provided by Sh8pe Club actually belongs to Fidelity Corporate Services. With Baber based out of Australia, it appears Sh8pe Club exists in both Costa Rica and Gibraltar in name only.
As far as I can tell, Sh8pe Club is Baber’s first MLM venture as an executive.
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Bitcoinfinite Review: Queue-based bitcoin cash gifting
There is no information on the Bitcoinfinite website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The Bitcoinfinite website domain (“bitcoinfinite.com”) was registered privately on the 16th of November, 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…]
Bitcoin Hive Review: Four-tier bitcoin based cash gifting
There is no information on the Bitcoin Hive website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The Bitcoin Hive website domain (“bitcoinhive.net”) was registered privately on the 10th of November, 2016.
If you visit the Bitcoin Hive website without an affiliate referral code, the site informs you that have been “invited by Bitcoin Hive Admin”.
If you then click on the yellow “register” button at the top of the page, the site then informs you that ‘you were invited by Lorraine du Plessis‘.
This is the only name that comes up when “Bitcoin Hive Admin”is the referring affiliate.
I was unable to find anything further regarding this individual in relation to Bitcoin Hive.
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…]
My Adsino Review: StarCoin ad credit Ponzi scheme
There is no information on the My Adsino website specifically identifying the individual or individuals who own or run the company.
The My Adsino Terms and Conditions state that My Adsino is
a registered trademark in the European Union which is operated by Red Deck Entertainment Ltd (HE 266289), a company established on the 22nd of April 2010 in Cyprus.
MyADSino is regulated by the laws of Curacao (formerly Netherlands Antilles).
Red Deck Entertainment was indeed incorporated in Cyprus in 2010. Kliridis Charalampos is listed as the sole Director of the company.
No information on this person exists outside of the Red Deck Entertainment Cyprus incorporation.
Why My Adsino claim to be regulated by the laws of Curacao is also unclear.
Cyprus is not known for stringent regulation of MLM underbelly schemes and is a favorite of European-based scammers.
Curacao meanwhile has a reputation for being an offshore tax-haven with little to no regulation.
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…]
Zukul Gold Review: Jeremy Rush’s Eagle Aurum Team downline feeder
Zukul Gold was initially announced earlier this year but quickly vanished.
Earlier this month it appears to have resurfaced and is being touted as an entirely new opportunity.
Today we take a look at Zukul’s latest offering. Read on for a full review of the Zukul Gold MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]
AutoxAds Review: Five-tier matrix cycler Ponzi
There is no information on the AutoxAds website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The AutoxAds website domain (“autoxads.com”) was privately registered on October 28th, 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…]
Crypto Wealth Review: Cash gifting & downline feeder
There is no information on the Crypto Wealth website indicating who owns or runs the business.
The Crypto Wealth website domain (“cryptowealth.net”) was registered on the 7th of August, 2016. Joe Jansen is listed as the owner through an address in Johannesburg, South Africa.
At the time of publication Alexa estimate that South Africa is the largest source of traffic to the Crypto Wealth website (60%).
I was unable to find any further information on Joe Jansen with respect to Crypto Wealth, which I’m flagging as suspicious.
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…]
Infinium Wireless to return $7500 to TelexFree Ponzi victims
It hasn’t been a good month for MLM Ponzi settlements.
Earlier this month the Zeek Rewards Receiver settled with Gary Bessoni for $175,000. Through Zeek Rewards, Bessoni had stolen around $3.3 million dollars from Ponzi victims.
Now news of a settlement between the TelexFree Trustee and Infinium Wireless, through which less than 1% of the disputed amount will be returned. [Continue reading…]
Eagle Gates Group Review: Package-based Ponzi investment
Eagle Gates Group name Eddy McClough as Founder and CEO of the company.
Has over 12 years of diversified financial services experience holding senior management roles spanning investment banking, private equity, investment management, and real estate in global financial services brands such as KPMG, Bank of America Securities and Merrill Lynch.
Distinguished speaker who has presented numerous keynote speeches globally ranging from macroeconomic issues, investment techniques and risk management at various international investment conference and summits.
As to the company itself;
Founded on February 2005 in the United States, Eagle Gates Group is now one of the world’s leading index futures investment and asset management company.
While the Eagle Gates Group website domain was first registered back in 2005, research reveals it hosted content that had nothing to do with Eagle Gates Group until earlier this year.
In early March the Eagle Gates Group domain registration changed, reflecting when McClough likely took possession of it.
Prior to March, the domain was redirected to an unrelated electrical gate retailer.
The Eagle Gates Group website as it is today went live sometime after March, 2016.
With respect to Eddy McClough (right), no information about him exists outside of what has recently been published in connection with Eagle Gates Group.
There is an obviously staged “CNN interview” doing the rounds, in which McClough is fed softball questions from a paid actor.
The interview is shot in a small studio with harsh lighting (McClough appears saturated in sweat) and echoey sound.
Quite obviously the segment didn’t air on CNN.
If you pay particular attention to McClough’s eyes, you can see he’s reading off a script (when he finishes his eyes dart back to the interviewer). There’s also two clocks on-screen which go out of sync at [3:13].
Who McClough actually is I have no idea. His LinkedIn profile claims he’s based out of New York but other than that there’s no reliable information publicly available about him.
Bit strange for someone who’s purportedly a ‘distinguished speaker who has presented numerous keynote speeches globally‘.
Eagle Gates Group provide a corporate address in New York on their website. Further research however reveals this is a “virtual office business center” ($99 a month).
It appears Eagle Gates Group (and probably Eddy McClough), exists in New York in name only.
At the time of publication Alexa estimate that 72.5% of traffic to the Eagle Gates Group originates out of Thailand. This suggests Thailand is likely where Eagle Gates Group is being operated from.
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