Yesterday I was contacted Huron Consulting Group, Financial Advisor to the TelexFree Trustee, requesting assistance in getting word out about the victim claims process.

In addition to covering the claim portal going live last week, here’s a copy of the official Notice of Deadline For Filing Electronic Proofs of Claim and Claims Procedures. [Continue reading…]

The Exitus Elite website lists Paul Stevenson as the sole owner and operator of the company.

On his Facebook profile, Stevenson lists his location as Brighton in the UK. This is presumably where Exitus Elite is being operated from.

As per Stevenson’s Exitus Elite corporate bio;

Paul has spent over 25 years in the Sales and Home-Based Business arena and is considered to be an expert in the field of making money online. He has worked at both a corporate level and as a distributor/affiliate.

Having decided that “High Ticket” was the fastest way to make serious income, Paul left the MLM industry behind and looked for the best opportunity he could find.

There were NOT that many. He actually joined most of them and made good money, but realized that all of them still had something lacking.

In the summer of 2014, while living in Florida, the idea of Exitus was formed. Today, it is one of the most dynamic “high-income” opportunities available online.

The Exitus Eite website domain was registered on February 26th, which contradicts the claim it was “formed” in 2014.

The reason for that is Exitus Elite began life as Exitus Network.

Exitus Network was a $500 to $12,000 cash gifting scheme. Today it no longer exists, with the Exitus Network doman redirecting to “exituslifestyle.com”.

There’s nothing on Exitus Lifestyle domain domain except an affiliate login form.

Prior to launching Exitus Network, Stevenson was co-owner of Prosperity Cash Machine.

Prosperity Cash Machine saw affiliates $175 for matrix positions, with commissions paid when they recruited others who do the same.

It seems Exitus Network collapsed sometime after its 2014 launch, with Stevenson now relaunching it as Exitus Elite.

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

uFun Club was an MLM cryptocurrency scheme launched around 2012.

Under the pretense of offering the uToken cryptocurrency, uFun Club adopted the Ponzi points model pioneered by Zeek Rewards.

In April of 2015 Thai authorities shut the company down and began arresting uFun Club investors.

In an effort to salvage the scheme, uFun Club management fled to Malaysia and rebranded as Unascos.

Starved of new investment, Unascos didn’t go anywhere and promptly collapsed.

Now, it appears uFun Club investors are being targeted in a third reincarnation of the scheme. [Continue reading…]

Following the creation of an English OneCoin Wikipedia entry back in March, no less than one hundred and eight edits have been made.

A large number of these have been broad revisions to the original article, which remove information critical of OneCoin and replace it with uncited marketing material.

Since May 20th twenty-eight edits have been made. The revision history for the OneCoin Wikipedia article reveals most of these are censorship attempts and their corresponding reverts.

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by Wikipedia staff, who today banned OneCoin affiliates from further vandalizing the page. [Continue reading…]

Earlier this year BehindMLM reported on the closure of bank accounts identified with MMM Global investor activity.

Now, in an interview with South African media, details of the scope of the freeze have emerged.

Speaking with Fin24, Capitec Bank CEO Gerrie Fourie revealed the bank froze over 2000 accounts. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the GrandRevShare website specifically identifying who owns or runs the business.

On their website GrandRevShare claim the company is “owned by grandclickers.com”, however there’s no ownership information on that website either.

Both the GrandRevShare and GrandClickers website domains however are owned by Mihkel Einaste. An address in Valencia, Spain is also provided.

The GrandClickers website contains links to three paid-to-click (PTC) opportunities, all of which Alexa estimate are on the decline traffic wise.

The collapse of his previous schemes has likely prompted Einaste to launch GrandRevShare.

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

Back in April Vemma’s insurer, Hanover Insurance, refused to fund Vemma’s legal defense against the FTC.

Hanover Insurance acknowledged that Vemma had a $5 million liability police with them, but argued the FTC action wasn’t covered because pyramid scheme allegations had been made dating back to 2012.

According to Hanover, the ‘policy applies only to claims first made against the insured during the policy period‘.

The matter is currently playing out in court, with Hanover seeking a court ruling stipulating they don’t have to cover Vemma’s legal fees.

On May 15th, Vemma filed their response to Hanover’s lawsuit. In it, Vemma not surprisingly mostly deny Hanover’s claims.

On the same day they filed their response, Vemma also went on the offensive and filed a counterclaim. [Continue reading…]

One of the major deterrents against MLM litigation is discovery.

Closet skeletons are abundant in this industry, with it only taking a few queries from “someone in the know” to potentially destroy a company or budding career.

One MLM company currently fighting to keep its skeletons tightly locked up is Jeunesse. [Continue reading…]

Following a warning issued by New Zealand’s Financial Markets Authority earlier this month, now the Central Bank of Malaysia has also issued a warning against FX United. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Freedom5 website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The company claims only that it is run by a

team of honest, professional and transparent Canadians with years of online marketing and business experience.

The Freedom5 website domain (“freedom5.net”) was registered on the 16th of March 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.

A marketing video on the Freedom5 website is hosted on a YouTube channel bearing the name “J Vandenbrink”.

Further research reveals Freedom5 affiliates identifying Jason Vandenbrink and Wally Lumley as owners of the company:

“Years of online marketing experience” for Jason Vandenbrink is apparently how he describes being an affiliate in the MMM Global Ponzi scheme.

MMM Global was a Ponzi scheme launched by convicted felon Sergey Mavrodi. The scheme collapsed last month with most investors losing money.

In January 2016 Vandenbrink claimed MMM Global wasn’t a Ponzi scheme because ‘you are not asked to invest. You are asked to give.‘

Other Ponzi schemes Vandenbrink has signed up as an affiliate with include Zukul Ad Network, My Paying Ads ($1 to $50 adcredit Ponzi scheme), Ultimate Revenue Share ($4 adcredit Ponzi scheme), Traffic Monsoon (collapsed single-level Ponzi) and My Advertising Pays.

Wally Lumley’s MLM history is a more low-key, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s followed Vandenbrink into one or more of the above schemes.

Read on for a full review of the Freedom5 MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]