The Skainet Systems Ponzi scheme has collapsed.

Instead of just being honest about running out of new investment to pay withdrawals, Skainet Systems has announced a baloney Cermak reboot.

Skainet Systems was an MLM crypto Dubai Ponzi fronted by serial fraudster Michael Baur. [Continue reading…]

RadPowerBikes VIP fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

RadPowerBikes VIP’s website domain (“q.yylfc.vip”), was privately registered on May 15th, 2025.

RadPowerBikes VIP also operates as a Telegram Ponzi bot at @Raduubot:

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…]

Retra fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Retra operates from two known website domains:

1. retraglobal.com – registered in 2022, private registration last updated on August 20th, 2024
2. retranews.com – privately registered on February 1st, 2024

In the footer of Retra’s “global” website we have the familiar LaCore Enterprises address in Melissa, Texas. Retra website footer also reveals Retra’s parent company is GNO Holdings.

Corporate records name three GNO Holdings Directors:

1. Terry Lacore – LaCore Enterprises’s owner
2. Jenifer Grace – Lacore’s long-time attorney
3. Mark Jarvis – Retra’s CEO

Mark Jarvis (right) is the founder and former CEO of Zurvita, a religious heavy MLM built around its Zeal dietary supplement drink.

Zurvita filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2024. What was left of Zurvita was sold off to Zinzino for $9.4 million in February 2025.

Jarvis partnership with Terry LaCore dates back to 2019. From the Bondoro bankruptcy link in the above paragraph;

In 2019, Mark Jarvis, a former co-CEO, sought to start a business venture in Asia leveraging loyalty to the Zurvita brand.

Following negotiations, the Board licensed Zeal for Life to GNO Holdings, Inc. (“GNO”), an entity owned by Terry LaCore, for exclusive sale in Asia. In exchange, Zurvita would receive a 1% commission on sales, and Zurvita retained 25% ownership in GNO.

GNO violated the agreement by selling rebranded Zeal for Life products in the United States. Concurrently, Jarvis allegedly harmed the Company’s reputation and recruited Field Consultants.

[Zurvita] initiated multiple litigations against GNO, Jarvis, and other entities, citing breach of contract, fiduciary duty violations, misappropriation of trade secrets, and trademark infringement.

From the sounds of it, Jarvis went off on his own. Teamed up with Terry LaCore and began pillaging Zurvita, eventually leading to bankruptcy. There were likely other factors contributing to Zurvita’s bankruptcy but as far as Jarvis’ history with the company goes, that’s what we get from bankruptcy filings.

Why neither Jarvis or LaCore are disclosed as company owners on Retra’s website is unclear.

Another name we can attach to Retra is Mark McKnight:

McKnight is a co-founder of Globallee, another dietary supplement MLM company. According to his LinkedIn profile, McKnight is still Globallee’s CEO.

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…]

In order to avoid publishing multiple articles with respect to changing GSB & Apertum Texas fraud case scheduling, this article will be updated with the latest on both proceedings. [Continue reading…]

BitClub Network Ponzi scammer Joby Weeks has spent $40,000 lobbying the US Senate, House of Representatives, DOJ and White House.

A public disclosure filing, covering January to March 2025, reveals Weeks hired JM Burkman & Associates to lobby on his behalf. [Continue reading…]

A Spanish court has sentenced GetEasy’s Tiago Fontoura Miranda to ten and a half years in prison.

GetEasy was a 2014 MLM Ponzi scheme built around a “GPS tracker” ruse. GetEasy represented it was based out of Macau but was operated from Europe. [Continue reading…]

ABB AI fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

ABB AI’s website domain (“cccocom.com”), was registered in September 2024. The private registration was last updated on May 19th, 2025.

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…]

Athena Group fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Athena Group’s website domain (“athenagroupai.com”), was privately registered on July 10th, 2024.

An official marketing video on Athena Group’s website names “Aderly Dupont” as President of the company.

Aderly Dupont is a former top Mavie Global (Ultron) Ponzi scammer:

Dupont’s FaceBook profile cites him as originally from Peru but now living in Quebec, Canada.

Quebec’s AMF issued a Mavie Global fraud warning in June 2024. Mavie Global’s Ultron Ponzi scheme went on to collapse later that same month. Athena Group’s website domain was registered a few weeks later.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Aderly Dupont directs his fraud at primarily Spanish-speaking consumers:

Accomplices of Dupont who also feature in Athena Group marketing videos are Julian Lopez F and Paula Franco.

In the footer of Athena Group’s website we find an address in Ajman Free Zone, UAE.

Within the context of MLM due-diligence, the Ajman Free Zone allows scammers to set up shell companies outside of active law enforcement. Athena Group is purportedly tied to the UAE shell company AthenaGroup FZC.

The Ajman Free Zone is also a stones throw from Dubai, the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Athena Group, read on for a full review. [Continue reading…]

ZQ AI fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

ZQ AI operates from two known website domains; “zqai.xyz” and “zq88.shop”. Both of ZQ AI’s website domains were privately registered on May 20th, 2025.

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…]

Helping Hearts fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Helping Hearts’ website domain (“helpinghearts.co”), was privately registered on February 19th, 2025.

As of April 2025, SimilarWeb tracked 100% of Helping Hearts’ website traffic from South Africa.

This strongly suggests whoever is running Helping Hearts is also based out of South Africa.

Supporting this is citation of a South African shell company in Helping Hearts’ website footer;

This website is owned and operated by HELPING HEARTS INTERNATIONAL (PTY) LTD Randburg, Guateng.

Update 28th May 2025 – A reader comment below led me to “Coach Bernard”, aka Bernard Buchweitz.

Buchweitz, a serial promoter of gifting scams, in turn led me to a Helping Hearts marketing certificate:

The certificate cites Buchweitz as a Helping Hearts “executive leader”. The certificate also cites Stefan Pienaar as Helping Hearts’ founder.

Stefan Pienaar (right) is a serial fraudster from South Africa.

BehindMLM has previously come across Pienaar in Super 6 Group (crypto pyramid scheme), Dynamic Travel Network (travel ruse MLM pyramid scheme), and Crypto Wealth (MLM crypto gifting scheme).

Also worth noting are Bernard Buchweitz’s Helping Hearts marketing partners; Pastor John Kelch, Linda Method Hartley and Pierre Schoeman.

Buchweitz has since deleted and/or disabled public access to his Helping Hearts marketing efforts. Buchweitz is now promoting Givas, another gifting scheme.

Buchweitz moving on to a new scam suggests Helping Hearts has already collapsed. This would be Helping Hearts’ second collapse, the first iteration was hosted on a .BIZ website domain. /end update

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