There is no information on the Anahera website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Anahera website domain (“anahera.info”) was registered on the 30th of November 2015, with Daniele Penna listed as the owner. An address in Sihanoukville, Cambodia is also provided.

Daniele Penna is also the listed owner for the defunct domain “danielepenna.com”. The domain registration for this second domain attached Penna to an address in Ciampino, a  province of Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Anahera appears to exist in Cambodia in name only, with Italy far more likely where the company is being operated out of.

This coincides with Italian and English presented as the only language options on the Anahera website, as well as Alexa estimating that 84.4% of all traffic to the Anahera website domain originates out of Italy.

On his Facebook page, Daniele Penna describes himself as ‘a researcher, writer, trainer and traveler.‘

The earliest involvement of Penna in the MLM industry I was able to find, is a forum post dated May, 1997. In it, Penna claims to be the President of the Italian Network Marketing Association.

I tried to obtain recent information about this association but it doesn’t appear to exist anymore.

On his YouTube channel, Penna markets Anahera as a “community game”.

Penna’s YouTube channel is fairly active, containing a mixture of internet marketing and lifestyle videos.

No video other than a few on Anahera ties Penna to any particular MLM opportunity (the channel goes back four years).

Penna’s LinkedIn profile goes back as far as 2010, citing him as the author of the book Sveglia (“Wake Up”) in 2010. He is also credited as the CEO of something called the “Quantum Jump Free Knowledge Project”.

Despite mentioning his involvement in “the field of Network Marketing for several years”, I was unable to verify Penna’s joining or running of an MLM company.

It should be noted that, despite my best efforts, this might be due to language-barriers (Italian).

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

To date OneCoin have had a tough time independently verifying their legitimacy.

The company, through Ponzi points, uses newly invested funds to pay off existing investors. Thus far this has proven to be a hard-sell to anyone they haven’t paid off.

Paid advertorials are of course the videos OneCoin uploads to their YouTube channel, as well as paid advertising in Forbes BrandVoice and Financial IT.

One last bastion of purported independent coverage is a “legal opinion”, published by the German law firm Breidenbach Rechtsanwalte back in 2014.

Now, new information suggests that even this document might have been financially motivated. [Continue reading…]

Kavita Badala, a twenty-seven year old woman from Mumbai, had not been seen or heard from since May 15th after she left for work.

On Monday May 16th, her father received a ransom call demanding Rs 3,000,000 ($44,494 USD) and 3 kg of gold.

He reported the matter to Arnala police, who tracked down the suspects after they traced the ransom call.

With the cooperation of Badala’s father, Kishanlal Kothari, Arnala police set up a sting meeting between the two parties and apprehended four suspects.

As Mohitkumar Bhagat, Shiv Sharma, Ramavtar Sharma and Unnika Sarvanandan were being questioned, Vangoan police received a report

about a body stuffed in a suitcase and set on fire at Sakra Ghat around 5am the same day.

When pressed by Arnala police, Mohitkumar Baghat confessed they had

set Kavita on fire and her body was dumped in a suitcase near a Dahanu jungle.

A woman has been brutally murdered, four suspects arrested and a father left to grieve the loss of a daughter.

What on Earth happened? [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Phoenix Power Rising website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Phoenix Power Rising website domain (“phoenixpowerrising.net”) was registered on the 21st of July 2012, with “Terri Petty” listed as the owner. An address in the US state of California is also provided.

Despite Petty appearing to be based out of California, the Phoenix Power Rising Terms and Conditions state:

This site (excluding third party linked sites) is controlled by the Company from its offices within the State of Nevada, United States.

Petty first launched Phoenix Power Rising back in June of 2012.

The scheme initially launched as a three-tier matrix cycler, with an advertised $850 ROI on each $100 investment.

The initial incarnation of Phoenix Power Rising collapsed around late 2012 / early 2013. The scheme was relaunched in April, 2016, with the current iteration the opportunity this review is based on.

Prior to Phoenix Power Rising, Petty ran “Project 4 Freedom 2010”. Launched in late 2010, Project 4 Freedom 2010 promised investors ROI of up to 400%.

By early 2011 the scheme had collapsed, with most investors losing money in the scheme.

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There is no information on the TBM Revolution website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The TBM Revolution website domain (“tbmrevolution.com”) was registered on the 11th of March 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.

At the time of publication, Alexa estimates that Russia is the source of approximately 50% of all traffic to the TBM Revolution website.

The TBM Revolution website defaults to Italian, with English and Italian the only offered languages. Italy is also the third-largest source of traffic to the TBM Revolution website, coming in at 12%.

Given this, it’s highly probably that TBM Revolution is being out of either Russia or Italy.

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…]

There is no information on the Kibo Partners website advising who owns or runs the business.

The Kibo Partners website domain (“kibopartners.com”) was registered on the 23rd of July 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.

A Russian domain registrar has been used, which corresponds with Alexa estimating that Russia is the largest source of traffic to the Kibo Partners website (58.4%).

Kibo Partners’ lottery site, KiboLotto also defaults to the Russian language.

In all likelihood Kibo Partners is being run by an admin or admins in Russia. Why they don’t disclose who they are on the Kibo Partners website is a mystery.

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…]

Some affiliates claim they haven’t been able to withdraw funds out of OneCoin for weeks. Others claim they haven’t been paid for months.

For a select few, there doesn’t appear to be any payment problems at all. Yet the growing caucus of disgruntled investors who are unable to execute withdrawals requests cannot be denied.

With most withdrawal complaints deleted shortly after they are posted, what we’re left with is a fraction of the true scope of the problem.

Here are some recent comments published to the OneCoin Facebook page this week, that have thus far managed to slip through the censorship cracks;

it’s becoming uncomfortable with almost all the members in.my country,they never execute r sells in a month only 3x so 3days out of more dan 20days..so sad

one coin not good at all! cannot sell it! nobody want to buy our onecoin and yet still asking people to join?!

hello, at least let us able to sell some of our onecoin per week to boost up our confident. haha, useless onecoin, nobody want to buy.

holding so many onecoin for what? useless. hell founder, at least buy back from us to proof to us onecoin is valuable.

REALLY? What’s happening hear. why ONE COIN doesn’t execute our sell, always pending and expired, and they are claimiy it.as.d no2 crtptocurrency worldwide.

please execute our sell, we need our money id we need them.

Dr Ruja must face this problem. Some people can sell coin in every several days. But my account being waiting longer than 3 weeks. How’s possible?

I need DR Ruja solve this problem other it can lead to a severe hight risks and trust’s building.

While investors struggle to withdraw the money OneCoin represents to them they’ve earned, at the other end of the company there appears to be no such blockage. [Continue reading…]

A marketing video on the Premier Financial Alliance website identifies David Carroll as CEO and Founder of the company.

Somewhat curiously, Carroll’s name does not appear anywhere on the Premier Financial Alliance website.

According to the “about us” page on the Premier Financial Alliance website, the company claims to have been in business for “over three decades”.

For over three decades, PFA has provided thousands of people from all walks of life the opportunity to start their own business and gain the financial freedom to live their dreams.

As an innovative leader in the financial services industry, PFA has continuously transformed people’s lives by giving them the tools they need to create successful careers.

Despite this claim, the Premier Financial Alliance website domain (“pfaonline.com”) was only registered on the 27th of August, 2009.

David Carroll (right) is listed as the owner of the domain, with an address in the US state of Georgia also provided.

A LinkedIn profile for “Premier Financial Alliance SEAL Team” exists, which links directly to the Premier Financial Alliance website.

The founding date for the company is cited as the year 2000, which again conflicts with the information provided on the PFA website.

David Carroll only lists his position as CEO and Founder of Premier Financial Alliance on his LinkedIn profile.

I was unable to put together an MLM history for Carroll, which is certainly strange considering the claims made on the Premier Financial Alliance website.

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here, but between claims PFA is thirty years old and a lack of general information about David Carroll available, I’m flagging Premier Financial Alliance’s corporate history as suspicious.

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In an attempt to offer pseudo-legitimacy to their scheme, FX United registered themselves as a corporation in New Zealand.

The idea was that nobody would ask questions and FX United’s anonymous admins could run the scheme from an undisclosed location.

Things started to fall apart earlier this month, after the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) issued a warning against the company. [Continue reading…]

A few days ago BehindMLM published a review on AirBit Club.

Since then we’ve confirmed ViziNova co-founder Gutemberg dos Santos also co-founded AirBit Club.

The other co-founder(s) of AirBit Club have not been publicly disclosed. Several sources have written in to us however claiming Renato Rodriguez, dos Santos’ partner in Vizinova, is involved.

To date I haven’t been able to independently verify this, but now through a cease and desist the plot thickens… [Continue reading…]