goDesana originally launched as Green Organics International in 2011 and are based out of Ohio in the US.

The company operates in the essential oils MLM niche and is headed up by Founder and CEO, Paula Scarcella.

The goDesana website domain was registered in 2013, suggesting this is when Green Organics International rebranded.

I did try to ascertain why Green Organics International rebranded as goDesana but came up blank.

Paula Scarcella’s Green Organics International executive bio claims she got involved in MLM back in the 1990s.

Over the past 20 years Paula discovered a disconnect between company owners and their distributors.

After experiencing for herself the lack of integrity and dishonesty from company owners she decided to start her own company based on honesty, integrity and transparency.

From her experience as a distributor, Paula saw that the average person needed help, support and the right tools to reach that same success she did.

Based on this philosophy she started Green Organics to help propel people into reaching their goals and dreams.

Prior to launching Green Organics International, Scarcella was an affiliate with Essante (health and wellness) and Ultra International (essential oils). Whether either of these companies is referred to in Scarcella’s bio above is unclear.

In 2010 Scarcella launched Cycle for Wealth, a $45 matrix cycler Ponzi scheme.

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

Last week OneCoin announced they were introducing a new €188,888 EUR “Supreme Trader” package.

On top of that they’ve now introduced a Super Combo package, coming in at a whopping €225,500 EUR. [Continue reading…]

A proposed $47 million dollar settlement in a pyramid scheme lawsuit, filed by disgruntled Nu Skin shareholders, has been approved.

Rather than fight the pyramid scheme allegations in court, Nu Skin will pay the shareholders $47 million dollars. Judge Parrish also awarded shareholders $13.6 million dollars in legal fees. [Continue reading…]

OneCoin’s use of shell companies is almost comical at this point.

As soon as one bank account is shut down, OneCoin opens up a new one in another country with a new shell company name.

Last month, after losing a Deutsche Bank account, OneCoin created an account in Italy under the name “Educamax Services SRL”.

That account was shut down within 24 hours of OneCoin announcing it. A few weeks later OneCoin announced they’d opened up a new account in Hong Kong, using the name “Foshan Everbright Import & Export Company Limited”.

An eagle-eyed investigator over at TruffaCoin has discovered a connecting link between the two companies. [Continue reading…]

It is increasingly looking like Roman Balanko has made off with $13.1 million dollars of stolen Zeek Rewards Ponzi funds.

Last we checked in it appeared Balanko had lied to the Zeek Receivership about his ownership of PaymentWorld Hong Kong.

In filed sworn declarations, Balanko claims he was the CEO of PaymentWorld LLC in the US and had no direct control over PaymentWorld Limited in Hong Kong.

Balanko claims there’s a distinction between Payment World LLC and PaymentWorld Limited.

PW-USA and PW-HK operated as two distinct, independent entities without any authority to act on behalf of or control the other.

This is important because, if true, it separates PaymentWorld LLC in the US and Balanko from the $13.1 million dollars the Zeek Receiver is trying to recover.

Balanko maintains that the $13.1 million in question was invested with Rex Ventures Group, transferred to Payza who sent the funds to PaymentWorld SRL in Moldova.

After the SEC busted Zeek Rewards, PaymentWorld SRL transferred the $13.1 million to Tusar Bank in Russia.

Balanko maintains that PaymentWorld LLC only oversaw the transaction and at no time had direct control over the funds.

The problem for Balanko is that in a leaked 2012 Service Agent agreement he signed off as the sole Principal of PaymentWorld Limited (Hong Kong).

Another representation Balanko has made is that PaymentWorld LLC only ever had an agreement with PaymentWorld Limited.

At no time did PW-USA have a contractual relationship with either Victoriabank or Tusar Bank.

PW-USA only contracted with PW-HK, who in turn contracted with PW-SRL, who in turn contracted with Victoriabank.

As per a new leaked agreement seen by BehindMLM, this also appears to be a lie. [Continue reading…]

A year ago the Zeek Rewards Receiver sued disgraced Ponzi lawyer Gerry Nehra for $100 million.

Two months later Nehra settled with the Receiver for $100,000 and acknowledged Zeek Rewards was a Ponzi scheme.

In their case against TelexFree co-owner James Merrill, the DOJ have called Nehra up as a government witness.

In a motion filed late last week, the DOJ claim Nehra’s Zeek settlement is “not relevant to Nehra’s credibility”.

The regulator is requesting an order preventing Merrill from bringing up Nehra’s settlement at trial. [Continue reading…]

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

The BTCxCanada website’s “about us” page has a spiel that suspiciously sounds like MMM Global Ponzi cult garbage:

This is a community of ordinary people, selflessly helping each other, a kind of the Global Fund of mutual aid. This is the first sprout of something new in the modern soulless and ruthless world of greed and hard cash.

The goal here is not the money. The goal is to destroy the world’s unjust financial system. Financial Apocalypse!

Before you join, be sure to be acquainted with our IDEOLOGY!

The BTCxCanada website domain was registered on the 13th of July 2016, however the domain registration is set to private.

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…]

Open HYIP refer to themselves as an “MLM Investment Club”.

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

The Open HYIP website domain (“openhyip.net”) was registered on the 21st of September 2016, however the domain registration is set to private.

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…]

BehindMLM first reviewed Paid 2 Save in April, 2013. Back then the company paired a “discount card program” with an MLM compensation plan.

From a regulatory standpoint, Paid 2 Save had no actual products of their own and were simply selling access to third-party discounts.

Last month it was announced Paid 2 Save would be rebooting, complete with a new prelaunch.

Today we take a look at Paid 2 Save and review the company’s new offering. [Continue reading…]

Surebets Win claims to have been

founded by two sports entrepreneurs Mike Allen the CEO and William Burwell the Operations manager.

I was unable to find any further information on these two individuals in connection with Surebets Win.

Somewhat curiously, elsewhere on the Surebets Win website the company refers to itself as Surebet Pro;

SureBet Pro limited was started in year 2015 by of [sic] sports arbitrage experts.

Whether SureBet Pro is linked to Surebets Win is unclear.

SureBet Pro isn’t an MLM opportunity and has been around for some time.

SureBets Win’s website domain (“surebets.win”) was only registered back in July and the MLM opportunity has only just been launched.

A corporate address provided on the Surebets Win website belongs to a pub called The Victoria.

Finally, on their website Surebets Win claim to have 1.6 million customers.

The current Alexa ranking for the Surebets Win website is 8.1 million, which means the customer claim is porky pies.

The lack of information available about Surebets Win’s purported founders (along with the suspicious generic Anglo-Saxon names), reference to SureBet Pro, fake customer claims and bogus corporate address suggests information presented on the Surebets Win website is made up.

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…]