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

The Tuned Hosting website domain (“tunedhosting.com”) was registered on the 20th of April 2015, with Rick Weston listed as the owner. An address in the US state of Oregon is also provided.

In 2013 Rick Weston (right) appeared on BehindMLM via comments on our My Fun Life review (comment #3 onwards).

My Fun Life, a recruitment-driven travel opportunity, was in decline for most of 2015. In March, 2016, CEO Dan Edwards announced the My Fun Life affiliate database had been sold to WorldVentures.

Prior to My Fun Life, Weston was an affiliate with North American Power.

North American Power was a recruitment-orientated utility MLM. The company terminated its MLM operations in 2015.

Weston also owns WP-MLM, a WordPress plugin that promises to ‘change how you MLM recruit online forever‘.

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

Volishon is an MLM travel opportunity that officially launched earlier this year.

The company is headed up by CEO Joel Santiago and based out of Georgia in the US.

As is common with MLM travel opportunities, the core focus of Volishon is affiliate recruitment. Six or so months in, today we take a look at where Volishon is at. [Continue reading…]

TPP Success (also known as Hulian International and TPP Global) provide no information on their website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The TPP Success website extols “the secret of the Chinese millionaires”. Beyond that, it is little more than an email capture page.

The TPP Success website domain (“tppsuccess.com”) was registered on the 20th of May 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…]

DexCar was a matrix cycler scheme launched in 2014.

You’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of it, I hadn’t either. Promotion for DexCar in English is non-existent.

Through a series of six 2×3 matrices, each requiring fourteen positions to be filled, DexCar affiliates recruited their way towards use of a car.

Each matrix position cost €390 EUR, with cars available starting with economical hatchbacks to Maserati and Porsche models after the sixth matrix tier.

DexCar affiliates also received cash bonuses (ROIs) when they cycled out of the six matrix cycler tiers.

As I understand it, DexCar provided the cars for use along with insurance, maintenance and tire changes. Everything else is paid by the qualifying affiliate.

The problem?

After two years and more than €10 million EUR spent, only 84 out of 23,000 DexCar affiliates received a car to drive.

Following an investigation, a fortnight ago Italian authorities moved in and shut the scheme down. [Continue reading…]

Lucrazon Global was a Ponzi scheme launched in late 2013.

By late 2014 the scheme had begun to collapse, leaving most investors out of pocket.

One of those investors was Josef Kofman, a seventy-one year old resident of California.

Over the course of three years, Kofman invested over $1.3 million dollars into Lucrazon Global and other ventures operated by owner Alexy Pitt.

Despite “revenue-sharing” promises made by Lucrazon, Kofman has nothing to show for his investment.

In a few short years he has lost everything and is facing creditor collections, is about to be homeless, and owes the IRS substantial sums.

In addition, instead of being able to retire, Mr. Kofman has had to continue working even though he is in his 70s.

He owes more than $100,000 on credit cards with no ability to repay.

Under California’s “elder financial abuse” law, Kofman is now suing Pitt and Lucrazon Global. [Continue reading…]

Paul Burks’ criminal trial is a go for July 5th.

As per judicial procedure, the DOJ has filed a 49 page trial brief. The brief lays out the DOJ’s gameplan for court.

In the brief the DOJ provide ‘a summary of some of the points that the Government anticipates are
likely to arise at trial‘, pretty much spanning everything they want to nail Burks for.

The entire brief is too much to cover in lengthy detail so I’ve put together excerpts that highlights the important bits.

I’ve previously gone over every angle of Zeek Rewards’ Ponzi fraud. That was a few years ago though, with the DOJ’s trial brief serving as a convenient and timely refresher. [Continue reading…]

Two of Paul Burks’ recent filings saw him request a tax fraud indictment count be dismissed and evidentiary hearing pertaining to privileged communications.

A decision on both Burks’ motions has been reached. [Continue reading…]

The next chapter in the TelexFree Trustee, PaymentWorld, Payza and VictoriaBank saga is an opposition filing by PaymentWorld.

As far as the TelexFree Trustee is concerned, PaymentWorld US, PaymentWorld Limited and PaymentWorld LTD SRL are all the same entity.

PaymentWorld US and PaymentWorld Moldova have the same management and oversight personnel.

PaymentWorld US however are claiming they have nothing to do with the two other PaymentWorlds.

So you’re probably wondering then, how did the three entities wind up with virtually identical names? [Continue reading…]

Vemma’s second quarter report for 2016 was filed on June 20th.

The good news? Net losses are on the decline and there might light at the end of the tunnel yet. [Continue reading…]

Following an investigation by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Counter Terrorism Unit, two OneCoin investors have been arrested in Bangladesh. [Continue reading…]