Andrew Leonard is a photographer of stem cells.

Leonard takes photographs of stem cells using electron microscopes.

Leonard obtains cell samples from doctors, scientists, and researchers and pays a scientific research institution to use an electron microscope to photograph the cells.

The images first appear in black and white, and Leonard uses his “artistic judgment” to enhance the photos in color.

Only a few photographers engage in this highly technical type of photography.

Leonard’s photos are typically licensed non-exclusively through his company APL Microscopic. Licensing fees are typically between a few hundred dollars and several thousand dollars.

Back in May 2006, Stemtech approached Leonard about using one of his images. [Continue reading…]

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

The Pebbles Fund website domain (“pebblesfund.com”) was privately registered on October 26th, 2016.

Pebbles Fund appears to be connected to a number of scams. The websites of AloBit, Donor’s Club and Fund My Cause are hosted on the same private server as Pebbles Fund:

All three opportunities are bitcoin-based cash gifting schemes.

Whether the admin of Pebbles Club is the same as AloBit, Donor’s Club and/or Fund My Cause 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…]

MX World is the latest MLM opportunity from James Lee Valentine.

The MX World website domain (“mx.world”) was registered on the 1st of September, 2016. An MX World marketing video on the company website was uploaded to YouTube on September 13th, suggesting this was about the time MX World was launched.

Valentine (right) operates out of the Philippines and first popped up on BehindMLM’s radar as the owner of Supreme Wealth Alliance, a $55 chain-recruitment pyramid scheme.

In 2013 Valentine resurfaced with MX Fast Money, a feeder for Valentine’s primary MillionaireX Ponzi cycler.

Earlier this year Valentine launched MX Revshare, a 110% ROI Ponzi scheme.

Alexa traffic estimates for the MX Revshare website show a decline beginning in late October. MX Revshare not meeting Valentine’s expectations likely prompted the launch of MX World.

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

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

The Crypto Adz website domain (“cryptoadz.com”) was privately registered on October 5th, 2016.

If you visit the Crypto Adz website without an affiliate referral code, the site displays you’ve been ‘invited by Crypto Adz’.

This is the Crypto Adz admin account. And if you proceed to sign up, the referring affiliate is set to Bilal Hadi.

This account is static as the admin referrer and does not change, suggesting Hadi is running Crypto Adz.

Other income opportunities Hadi has recently promoted include Viral Crypto (cash gifting), 2×4 Club (cash gifting), BitDonix (cash gifting), Bitcoinfinite (cash gifting), Bitcoin4U (cash gifting) and The Ads Team (Ponzi scheme).

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

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

The Profit Race website domain (“profit-race.com”) was privately registered on November 1st, 2016.

Up until November 18th, the Profit Race website was presented in Russian. The Profit Race website references “Moscow Time”:

What happens to the queue at night?

At night, (at 1 am GMT+4:00 (Moscow time)), the purchasing a place in the queue is unavailable, it becomes available again at 10 am GMT+4:00 (Moscow time).

Alexa currently estimates Russia is the largest source of traffic to the Profit Race website domain (33.3%). Part of the Profit Race website is also coded in Russian.

Quite obviously whoever is running Profit Race is likely based out of Russia itself.

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…]

Earlier today BehindMLM reported on a criminal complaint filed in Belgium, related to the promotion of OneCoin.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged former politician Laurent Louis with pyramid selling, fraud, money laundering and violation of common and banking laws.

As of yet the criminal complaint is in the early stages. La Libre however report that the judge who heard the case yesterday, prohibited the complainant from participating in ‘any activity related to virtual currency and network marketing‘. [Continue reading…]

Despite having no actual physical presence there, OneCoin up until recently claimed to be a Gibraltar corporation.

This was set up as OneCoin Limited, who Ruja Ignatova’s mother, Veska Ignatov, laundered money through via Pegaron Invest Limited, a Bulgarian company.

OneCoin’s virtual office address was formerly provided by AMS Company Management Limited.

On February 2nd, 2016, AMS Company Management Limited issued a statement declaring OneCoin “does not have authority” to use their mailing address. [Continue reading…]

Laurent Loius was a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 2010 to 2014.

In 2014 Louis received a suspended sentence ‘for slander relating to accusations of pedophilia he had made against public figures’.

In 2015 Louis was banned from running for office for six years.

Earlier this year Louis began promoting OneCoin, which eventually prompted a criminal investigation by Belgian authorities.

That investigation yesterday culminated in a criminal complaint filed against Louis. [Continue reading…]

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.

Read on for a full review of The Dollar Sharing MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

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.

Read on for a full review of the Sh8pe Club MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]