On their website, Growing Circle claim they’re ‘not like other network marketing companies‘.

We’re committed to having the best compensation plan, affordable and effective services, systems that keep our customers coming back, and the best culture of any company.

When you join growing circle, you get much more than our outstanding services. You’ll experience our culture of fun, family, success, growth, passion, and integrity that will bring out the best in you and inspire you to help bring out the best in others.

In addition to providing a corporate address in Colorado, US (a residential property), Growing Circle International also provide addresses for offices in Nigeria and Ghana.

Heading up the company is Ben Mueller (right), who serves as Growing Circle International’s CEO.

On his YouTube channel, Mueller has been promoting Fuxion, a health and wellness MLM opportunity.

The last Fuxion video uploaded to his channel was three days ago, suggesting Mueller is still active in the company.

Prior to Fuxion Mueller was an affiliate with LifeForce International, a nutritional MLM company.

Over the past four years Mueller has been uploaded internet marketing training videos to his YouTube channel. He doesn’t seem to have much of a following however, with most videos having a viewcount under thirty.

Growing Circle International would appear to be Mueller’s first MLM venture as an executive.

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

At the time of publication, the Fashion Global website is little more than a placeholder for an affiliate registration form.

The Fashion Global website domain (“1fashionglobal.net”) was registered on the 20th of November, 2015. “Diamond MLM LTD” is listed as the domain owner with an address in the London, UK also provided.

Despite the same address provided on the 1Fashion Global website, the address actually belongs to Virtual Office MadeSimple.

Virtual Office MadeSimple is one of the leading virtual office providers in the UK.

We’ve been providing mail forwarding, telephone answering and fax forwarding services for over 10 years.

The use of a virtual mailing address suggests 1Fashion Global exist in the UK in name only.

Further research reveals 1Fashion Global affiliates naming three co-founders of the company; Esther Padilla, Juan Andres Campos and Francisco Gomez Leon.

Esther Padilla (right) is the CEO of the company appears to be running the show. Her Facebook and LinkedIn profiles list her location as Barcelona, Spain, which is presumably where 1Fashion Global is actually being run out of.

As far back as 2014, Padilla was involved locally in Spain as a lead affiliate in American Commodities Traders.

Alexa ranking for the American Commodities Traders website suggests the scheme has collapsed, but from what I’ve been able to suss out it was some sort of binary options scheme.

In 2014 Padilla was actively promoting two Ponzi schemes, Wish Club and Lucrazon Global.

Not sure what this is, but here’s what Padilla was up to in mid 2013:

Have you ever seen that with a single investment of € 150 (guaranteed, never lost) can win € 3500 over and over again.

Well, yes, it’s real and it’s happening. I can show you my accounts without problems. (it’s not MLM, we speak of investment).

If you would like information send to your email.

I’m sure it was a legitimate opportunity whatever it was…

For the rest of 2013, Padilla was promoting Global Mobile Network, a recruitment-based MLM opportunity. Before that she was an affiliate with Talk Fusion, marketing video communication packages for thousands of dollars.

1Fashion Gobal appears to be Padilla’s first MLM venture as a company owner.

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There is no information on the 25 Dollar Legacy website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The 25 Dollar Legacy website domain (“25dollarlegacy.com”), currently redirects to a Google form that prospective affiliates are expected to fill out.

The only information provided on the page is a one and a half minute 25 Dollar Legacy promotional video.

The 25 Dollar Legacy website domain itself was registered on the 10th of March, 2016. Ramon Escalera (right) is listed as the owner, with an address in the US state of North Carolina also provided.

The promotion video on the 25 Dollar Legacy Google form is hosted on a YouTube account bearing Escalera’s name. He is also one of two admins of the official 25 Dollar Legacy Facebook group.

Escalera’s MLM underbelly journey appears to have started around 2014.

In addition to 25 Dollar Legacy, Escalera’s YouTube channel also features promotional videos for Enviralizer (chain-recruitment), Paid Daily Lifestyle (matrix recruitment), Four Corners Alliance Group (chain-recruitment), Opportunity Launch (MLM underbelly downline builder), Sharing Abundance Worldwide With Passion (cash gifting), Click Ad Pays (Ponzi scheme) and Lead System Network (cash gifting).

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Icanget2 launched earlier this year and operate in the mobile app MLM niche.

Heading up Icanget2 is Founder and CEO, Michael Glaspie.

Glaspie has been marketed on the internet for a number of years. Numerous marketing material around the internet (likely published by Glaspie himself) claims his online marketing career dates back as far as 1998.

Glaspie’s marketing beginnings appear to have started with a company called Webnet.

Reads one “CEO bio” for Glaspie (right):

Michael T. Glaspie is Chairman and Founder of one of the nation’s largest privately held internet service companies.

He started Webnet International as the foundational organization for the development of independent, yet synergistic Internet companies covering the gamut of advertising resources commonly used for effective, targeted web advertising.

Marketing companies attributed to Glaspie include Spam Terminator, MySiteInc, BannersGoMLM, Banner Co-op, Free Links Network, Free Marketing Info and Block Spam Now.

Having previously built a telecommunications organization from scratch to an $18 million+ per annum success story, Michael now devotes himself to helping others “figure it out” by teaching hopeful “netpreneurs” how to market any product, service, program or opportunity on the net.

More recently, Glaspie was “helping others figure it out” through Team Vinh. The Team Vinh website states Glaspie was “a friend and equity partner” in the company.

A Team Vinh newsletter cites Glaspie as being on Team Vinh’s Board of Directors, as head of their “marketing consortium”.

Late last year the SEC shut down Team Vinh, revealing it to be a $3 million dollar Ponzi scheme. How much money Glaspie made in Team Vinh is unclear.

The Icanget2 Facebook page was created on or around February 5th, 2016. This suggests that the company only came about following regulatory action taken against Team Vinh.

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There is no information on the 100K Race website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The 100K Race website domain (“100krace.com”) was registered on March 7th 2016, with Darcy Allen (right) of Elite Legacy Creators listed as the owner. An address in the US state of California is also provided.

The Elite Legacy Creator website is little more than a splash page. So reads the Elite Legacy Creators motto, “success is our oxygen… failure is not an option”.

An Elite Legacy Creators presentation dated 2nd of March 2016 states the company

is an exclusive private membership club which provides a supportive environment for like-minded business people.

The only two public videos on the Elite Legacy Creators YouTube channel are marketing videos for 100K Race, suggesting it is the first opportunity launched within the Elite Legacy Creators brand.

Darcy Allen meanwhile appears to be an MLM Ponzi veteran.

Allen appears on a list of net-winners in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme who stole $1000 or more. She was also an investor in TelexFree, a $3 billion dollar Ponzi scheme.

Other MLM companies Allen has been involved in include Nerium (2014), Paycation (2014) and Le-vel (2015).

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Good news for Zeek Rewards victims, not so good news for banks who think they can get away with providing financial services to Ponzi schemes.

As part of the Zeek Receiver’s ongoing efforts to hold accountable service providers and vendors who provided services to Zeek Rewards, a $10 million dollar settlement with NewBridge Bank has been reached. [Continue reading…]

Following a hearing on March 17th, Sann Rodrigues looks set to be released from jail.

Rodrigues has been incarcerated for contempt since January, after he repeatedly failed to adhere to the terms of a previously granted preliminary injunction.

Thos breaches have resulted in Rodrigues now owing the SEC $474,503.

The March 17th order to release Rodrigues was made following the dismissal of two of his motions, attempting to prohibit a recent filing by the SEC from being entered on record.

At the conclusion of the hearing, both the SEC and Rodrigues’ attorney were ordered to file an “amended proposal for a payment plan”. [Continue reading…]

Just shy of eight months ago, police in the UK raided sellers of stream-capable piracy boxes. Two arrests were made and over one thousand streamboxes seized.

Working with police was the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). Now working with the UK police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit, another joint-operation has seen an additional six streambox sellers arrested. [Continue reading…]

A few days ago we reported on OneCoin’s abrupt suspension of Mastercard processing and card loading.

In effect, cards issued to OneCoin affiliates are currently useless “until further notice”.

Seemingly out of the blue, the suspension raised a few eyebrows and prompted further research.

That research lead to a copy of OneCoin’s Mastercard service agreement.

Among other things, the two-page document reveals North International Bank LTD as the bank attached to the card issuing merchant.

The issuing merchant is identified as Zala-Group LTD, a “client” of North International Bank.

Zala-Group LTD is a private company, registered in the UK with a rented mailbox address.

Corporate records list Martin Henry Beckett as the sole Director of the company.

Yesterday, Martin Henry Beckett was convicted for his role in a £24 million drug ring. [Continue reading…]

Isagenix launched in 2002 and operate in the nutritional supplements MLM niche.

The company is based out of Arizona in the US and is headed up by founders John Anderson (Master Formulator), Jim Coover (President) and Kathy Coover (Executive Vice-President).

As per Jim Coover’s Isagenix corporate bio;

With more than 30 years’ experience, Jim Coover is widely considered a pioneer in the weight-loss and nutrition industry.

He successfully led numerous network marketing companies throughout his career, serving more than 7 million customers and exceeding $1 billion in sales.

Those are some pretty impressive numbers, yet when I began researching Coover’s MLM history prior to Isagenix, nothing came up.

Seriously, there’s not even one result for the keywords “jim coover mlm” prior to 2002 and Isagenix. Nothing comes up for “kathy coover mlm” either.

Post 2002 all you’ll find is vague references to past success like this:

Jim and Kathy Coover have spent most of their adult life in the Arena of Network Marketing. Jim Coover, President and CEO of Isagenix, led one of the fastest-growing and most popular weight-loss companies in history, serving more than seven million customers and exceeding $1 billion dollars in sales.

As President of two successful Network Marketing companies and a sought-after consultant to many companies in the industry, Jim’s contributions have helped shape the Network Marketing industry.

I’m not saying there’s any dishonesty going on, but the lack of information available indicates Coover’s quoted MLM history might be a tad overstated.

If anyone has any detailed information on Jim or Kathy Coover’s MLM history (specifially what companies they worked with and in what capacity), feel free to leave it in the comments below and I’ll add the information to the review.

On the legal side of things, for a company launched fourteen years ago, Isagenix has had a pretty good run. What litigation Isagenix has been involved in has mostly been related to their products (see below).

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