Initially it was thought the SEC complaint filed against Daniel Filho on July 3rd was the first regulatory action taken against DFRF Enterprises.

Turns out over a week prior a criminal case was also filed. [Continue reading…]

Things are heating up for Daniel Fernandes Rojo Filho and his DFRF Enterprises.

Following civil proceedings filed by the SEC against Filho and DFRF, BehindMLM can now confirm Filho is also the subject of a criminal investigation. [Continue reading…]

Four more uFun Club scammers were arrested in Thailand are to be arrested later today, but the more pressing news is once again the involvement of international authorities. [Continue reading…]

The Real Time Pain Relief website domain (“rtpr.com”) was registered on the 21st of September 2006, with “RTPR LLC” listed as the domain owner. An address in the US state of Arkansas is also provided.

Although not directly credited in any official capacity on the Real Time Pain Relief website, press-releases uploaded to the site credit a Ron Snodgrass as co-founder and CEO of the company.

According to one such press-release:

Real Time Pain Relief has been primarily marketed online and in January 2011 RTPR, LLC launched their direct sales division.

Somewhat curiously, Snodgrass (right) only appears to talk about (and thus reference his involvement in) Real Time Pain Relief through company press-releases.

Tim Flatt appears to be Snodgrass’ other half in Real Time Pain Relief, with Flatt listing himself as “Founder” of the company in his LinkedIn profile.

Flatt again only appears on the Real Time Pain Relief website cited in press-releases and reports.

Why a corporate bio for either co-founder does not appear on the Real Time Pain Relief website is a mystery.

Flatt (right) appears to have been involved in the MLM industry for some time, with forum posts placing him as CEO of various lead generation companies in the early 2000s.

Both Snodgrass and Flatt’s names come up in conjunction with Global Traffic Matrix, with a press-release dated 2009 reading:

Tim Flatt, President of GTM, and Ron Snodgrass, the President of GibLink have come up with what is going to be the biggest business opportunity the net has seen in years.

GTM Is The FASTEST MONEY Making Vehicle EVER Created For Advertising and Income!

Global Traffic Matrix itself appears to have involved recruitment of affiliates, tracked through a 3×9 matrix.

Giblink meanwhile launched around 2007 and was a social network with an attached “revenue sharing” MLM opportunity.

The gibline Straight Line Revenue Sharing Program is a revolutionary new system designed to “leave no one behind”. If you join the program “you will be paid”.

Through what the company referred to as a “gibline”, GibLink Affiliates signed up, paid membership fees and were paid commissions out of fees paid by subsequently recruited affiliates.

Both schemes had well and truly collapsed by 2011, which saw the launch of Real Time Pain Relief’s MLM opportunity.

Read on for a full review of the Real Time Pain Relief MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

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

An address in Singapore is provided on the Asia Formula website, with further research revealing at least one virtual office space provider operating out of the same street address.

Whether or not Asia Formula has a physical presence at the supplied address is unclear.

The Asia Formula website domain meanwhile was registered on the 20th of November 2014. Lim Beng Hai is listed as the domain owner, with the same address provided on the Asia Formula website.

Possibly due to language barriers, I was unable to find any further information on this individual. As it stands, Lim Beng Hai’s role within Asia Formula is unclear.

What I did find however was a number of recently set up websites, which appear to look set to support Asia Formula (likely as shell companies):

• Bionics Global (“bionicsglobal.com”) appears to be health and wellness related
• SnB Garments (“snbgarments.com”) looks like lingerie and
• Esvara Global (“esvaraglobal.com”) mentions “property investment” on the site

All three website domains were recently registered privately, with the sites uploaded to the domains currently little more than placeholders for a countdown timer.

Exactly how many of these satellite sites have been set up is unknown, with there being no mention of either Bionics Global, SnB Garments or Esvara Global on the Asia Formula website.

Ditto who’s running the sites, why they were set up and their explicit relationship to Asia Formula.

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…]

A Leisure Life launched in 2014 and are based out of the US state of Utah.

Heading up the company is CEO Kim Rimmasch, who has a noticeably vague corporate bio on the A Leisure Life website:

Mr. Rimmasch brings years of CEO experience to the A Leisure Life team. His experience and expertise brings an outstanding amount of strength and leadership to an exceptional executive management team.

At the time of publication, no less than seven social profile links below Rimmasch’s A Leisure Life bio were non-functional.

In an A Leisure Life marketing video, Rimmasch (right) shares that he’s

been in the vacation business for over thirty-three years. I started in 1980.

I’ve been able to develop some of the finest resorts in the country. Locally here in Utah I’ve developed East Canyon, Kimble, condos, Power Ridge Village, Bear Lake.

I’ve developed condos in Wolf Creek and St George, Yellowstone. I’ve had an opportunity to develop condos up and down the pacific coast.

I’ve had an opportunity to be a consultant in the business for many years. I started right on the line as a sales-person, with a company with hundreds and hundreds of sales people.

One of the largest vacation businesses in the country, and was able to be pretty good. I worked my way up to manage a store and later over three stores, later over six stores.

I Became the Vice-President of that company and I’ve pretty much been the Chief Executive Officer, the CEO or Executive Vice-President since then, of many companies.

I wasn’t able to find an MLM history for Rimmasch, suggesting A Leisure Life is his first MLM venture.

Read on for a full review of the A Leisure Life MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Three weeks before the SEC shut down Zeek Rewards, Sales Director Darryle Douglas vanished from the public eye.

The official reason cited for Douglas’ departure was “personal reasons”, but in reality he’d done a runner.

That was three years ago almost to the day, with Douglas neither seen nor heard from in public since…

…until now. [Continue reading…]

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

The BitFlowBot website domain (“bitflowbot.com”) was registered on the 28th of April 2015, 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…]

Customize Cash was launched earlier this month and lists Frederick Spears as operator, owner and CEO.

Through his company “I Wanna Be Rich”, Spears operates out of Ontario, Canada.

Late last year Spears launched The Viral Franchise, which saw participants gift each other $7 payments.

This model is obviously dependent on new recruits signing up, with a decline likely prompting the launch of Customize Cash.

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

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

The Traffic Lagoon website domain (“trafficlagoon.com”) was registered on the 30th of March 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.

Further research reveals a public Traffic Lagoon Facebook group, in which a Ravi Kirran (right) markets the opportunity in the possessive:

Traffic Lagoon is one of the best way to advertise your business.

We are professional group in the field of marketing and advertising and we have come up with most amazing way of advertising your business and turn your website in to a money making machine by attracting quality traffic from all over the world.

On his own Facebook profile page, Kirran lists his location as Delhi in India, which is presumably where the Traffic Lagoon is being run out of.

I was unable to put together an MLM history on Kirran, suggesting that Traffic Lagoon might be his first venture.

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