Stella & Dot launched back in 2003 and operate in the fashion and jewelry MLM niche.

The company was founded by Jessica Herrin and originally began life as Luxe Jewels.

According to an interview with The Everygirl, Herrin came up with the idea for Luxe Jewels in an elevator at a Mary Kay convention.

it wasn’t until Jessica met fellow Stanford grad, Blythe Harris, at an alumni event that they realized with Jessica’s original vision and Blythe’s creativity that they could re-launch this social-selling model under a new name, Stella & Dot (named after their grandmothers).

Herrin (right) serves as Stella & Dot’s CEO, Harris as Chief Creative Officer.

Prior to Stella & Dot Herrin created the bridal registry themed website, which was purchased by the Wedding Channel website (in turn sold to The Knot five years later for $78 million).

I wasn’t able to confirm if Herrin was a Mary Kay affiliate herself. At the time she launched Stella & Dot Herrin was working as a Marketing Manager for Dell.

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Big Profit System provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Big Profit System website domain (“bigprofitsystem.com”) was initially registered on June 17th, 2012. The registration was last updated on June 3rd, 2016.

The Big Profit System domain was registered privately, so it provides no information on who owns it.

As per the Big Profit System terms and conditions, the company feeds signups into a third-party business.

The Company referenced in the BPS videos is an independent entity and BPS simply provides a marketing system for that company’s Independent agents to use to assist them in producing sales.

The name of the business is not disclosed on the Big Profit System 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…]

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

The WelFunding website domain (“welfunding.com”) was first registered on the 5th of March, 2016. The registration was recently updated on the 13th of March, 2017.

The WelFunding domain has been registered privately and doesn’t provide any information on who owns it.

At the time of publication Alexa estimate the top two sources of traffic to the WelFunding website are Japan (69%) and Germany (14%).

It is highly likely that whoever is running WelFunding is also based out of Japan and/or Germany.

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…]

Back in January a proposed $145.4 million dollar settlement between Steve Chen and the SEC was filed.

On March 13th Judge Klausner approved the settlement proposal and ordered Final Judgement against Chen. [Continue reading…]

Remember when Zeek Rewards’ net-winner affiliates were running around telling the people they scammed the US government and Receiver were just looking to keep invested funds for themselves?

In a March 15th press-release, the Zeek Receiver has announced that, following a third distribution, Zeek victims have now received back up to 75% of their losses. [Continue reading…]

Hidden Gem provides no information on its website as to who owns or runs the business.

The Hidden Gem website domain (“hiddengem.cash”) was privately registered on February 3rd, 2017.

A marketing video on the Hidden Gem website is hosted on a YouTube account bearing the name “Dana Owens”.

Dana Owens (right) first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar last year, as admin of the Connect 4 cycler Ponzi.

At the time of publication the Connect 4 website domain was unresponsive.

Other MLM opportunities promoted on Owen’s YouTube channel over the past year include Vida Divina (autoship recruitment), Nspire Network (negative-ion period pads) and iPro Network (OneCoin Ponzi clone). Owen is also an affiliate of The Billion Coin Ponzi scheme (non-MLM).

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Donation To You provide no information on their website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Donation To You website domain (“donationtoyou.com”) was privately registered on November 30th, 2016.

At the time of publication Alexa estimate Spain is the largest source of traffic to the Donation To You domain. Also of note is that the Donation To You website uses name-servers hosted in Brazil.

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…]

Super Cash Pay provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Super Cash Pay website domain (“supercashpay.biz”) was privately registered on February 20th, 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…]

Simple Health International provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Simple Health International website domain (“simplehealthint.com”) was privately registered on February 4th, 2017.

The Simple Health International domain currently uses the name-servers of TPSU (“tpsu.biz”).

The TPSU website reveals the CEO of the company is John Dierksmeier.

John Dierksmeier (full name John Dierksmeier Quesada) first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar in 2015 as the owner of 2×2 Wealth, a matrix cycler.

Other MLM opportunities Dierksmeier has since launched include Only7Bucks, Cafe Nopal, Eco Plus Network, My Secret Fortune and EZAdsNet and Amazing Pre Builder.

Earlier this year In January Dierksmeier launched Fund Your Success, a $10 Ponzi cycler.

Alexa traffic estimates suggest that while Fund Your Success hasn’t collapsed yet, it’s probably not getting enough new signups to sustain itself.

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BTC Madness provide no information on their website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The BTC Madness website domain (“btcmadness.biz”) was privately registered on December 27th, 2016.

The official BTC Madness admin group lists four admins;  Jayguar W, Helina Kebede, Steve John and Jane Smith.

Steve John first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar earlier this month as the admin of 2×9 BitMax gifting scheme. The Steve John Facebook account has no content on it prior to December 2016 and is believed to be fake.

Meanwhile why BTC Madness is being launched just a few weeks after BTC Madness 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…]