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

The Global Traffic Takeover website domain (“globaltraffictakeover.com”) was registered on the 23rd of October 2015, with Bruce Gerlach listed as the owner. A residential address in the US state of New Jersey is also provided.

Bruce Gerlach (right) is co-founder of Xtreme Lifestyles Network. On the company website, Xtreme Lifestyles Network advertise a “marketing system” and website traffic.

Xtreme Lifestyles Network is also apparently used as a downline builder. Gerlach’s YouTube channel contains Xtreme Lifestyles Network branded advertising for Pro Travel Plus (a travel-based recruitment scheme), National Wealth Center (cash gifting) and 4 Corners Alliance Group (a matrix-based recruitment scheme).

On his LinkedIn profile, Gerlach also lists himself as a current Solavei affiliate. Solavei collapsed late last year.

Gerlach co-founded Xtreme Lifestyles Network with Paul Della Penna, who is listed as an admin on the official Global Traffic Takeover Facebook group.

Della Penna recently featured on BehindMLM following a refund dispute with Seth Fraser, CEO of Pro Travel Plus.

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

WellStar launched in 2004 and is headed up by Founder and CEO, Christian Wiesner.

As per Wiesner’s WellStar corporate bio;

Christian looks back to more than 10 years international experience as an active networker.

He was one of the industry´s most successful leaders in Europe with an overall team size of 120,000 customers.

Possibly due to language-barriers (German), I was unable to ascertain what company/companies Weisner was active in prior to 2004.

In 2015 WellStar lost top affiliate Kari Wahlroos, which resulted in a public spat between the two parties.

Wahlroos left WellStar to promote OneCoin, a points-based Ponzi scheme. WellStar responded by accusing Wahlroos of engaging in “criminal behaviour”.

Wahlroos countered by claiming he left WellStar because the ‘company will never deliver on the promises you make‘.

Wahlroos claimed that when he approached Weisner about fixing WellStar’s “endless problems”, he was simply to told to “recruit more” affiliates.

The administration of Wellstar remains a disgrace.

Products flaws. A product returns system that does not work. Non-existent of customer support, terrible partner support.

We both know that so many leaders have quit because they don’t earn any money so you have to launch a new country every 3 months.

The worst issue with Wellstar is the financial matters, especially delayed commission payments.

Countless leaders, and especially me, have suffered from delayed and incorrect commission payments. And because the Wellstar model is only about recruiting ‘in the fast start’, the plan does not work so no-one earns any money.

Weisner dismissed Wahlroos’ claims as “lies and false and cheap accusations”.

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

O2 Worldwide began life as Let Us Close back in mid 2015, with the Let Us Close website now redirecting to that of O2 Worldwide.

O2 Worldwide is today advertised as being ‘powered by the Let Us Close marketing system‘.

Let Us Close itself was a marketing system attached to a $40 or so recruitment scheme. Launched in May 2015, Let Us Close flopped shortly after launch.

October 2015 saw The Elite Networker launch, which also claimed to be ‘powered by Let Us Close‘.

The Elite Networker was headed up by Wallace Nunez, Dave Lear and Val Smyth, otherwise known as the guys behind the failed Total Takeover opportunity.

The Elite Networker also flopped shortly after launch, with the company’s website today redirecting to O2 Worldwide.

Listed as the CEO and Founder of O2 Worldwide on their website is Dan Putnam (right).

Affiliate marketing material linked Putnam to Let Us Close through EPX Body. It follows that he was also involved in The Elite Networker.

With the Let Us Close marketing system having failed twice now, O2 Worldwide appears to be a third attempt to attach the platform to something worthwhile.

Read on for a full review of the O2 Worldwide MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

The future of Visalus appears to be on the rocks, following the revelation last Friday that 87 positions will be made redundant in March.

In a letter to the State of Michigan dated January 5th, Visalus wrote

ViSalus, Inc. has decided to substantially reduce its operations at its office located at 340 East Big Beaver Rd., Suite 400, Troy, Michigan 48083. As a consequence, ViSalus expects to eliminate 87 positions in this office on March 5, 2016.

Hardest hit are inbound and outbound affiliate support agents (51 positions), suggesting an overall slump in affiliate activity. [Continue reading…]

Running a scam out of Europe that’s about to collapse?

Before you do a runner and make off with everyone’s money, you might want to get in contact with OneCoin and see if they’ll buy you out.

In what we hope isn’t the emergence of a disturbing trend, OneCoin appears to have acquired OPN and SiteTalk. [Continue reading…]

With an affiliate-base of almost two million and an estimated three billion dollars invested, TelexFree is undoubtedly the biggest MLM Ponzi scheme we’ve seen yet.

Now, as we near the two-year anniversary of the scheme’s shutdown, the first round of clawback litigation has been filed against its top investors. [Continue reading…]

Last September Craig Jerabeck resigned as President and CEO of 5Linx. Following his departure, Jerabeck signed up with Paycation.

Paycation was founded in 2014 and operate a recruitment-driven travel niche opportunity.

5Linx went on to file a lawsuit against Jerabeck, alleging he ‘breached a contractual pact by enticing a number of 5Linx top employees to join him at‘ Paycation. [Continue reading…]

The emergence of a new Temporary Restraining Order in the TelexFree civil case has left me stumped.

I’m still trying to suss out what’s going on, but for now here’s a breakdown of what we know. [Continue reading…]

The long-running contempt feud between the SEC and Rodrigues looks set to be resolved one way or another, with a decision on whether Rodrigues should be incarcerated before the court.

Working against a January 15th repayment deadline, Rodrigues on the 14th filed a proposed stay of the contempt proceedings against him. Submitted with the proposal was a payment plan, which suggested Rodrigues could pay off $474,503 by selling motivational books and videos.

The FTC has staunchly opposed Rodrigues plan in a response filed earlier today, labeling it “ill-defined” and “too little too late”. [Continue reading…]

In November last year BK Boreyko requested court-approval to sell of his share in AZPACK Properties LLC.

The FTC objected to the proposed sale, on the ground that AZPACK Properties was a holding company for real-estate properties. The FTC contended that the sale of Boreko’s share in AZPACK violated the terms of the Vemma preliminary injunction in place, which prohibit Boreyko from selling off real-estate.

Boreyko argued that he was just selling shares in an LLC, which in and of itself was not tied to any specific real-estate.

Judge Tuchi finally made a ruling on the matter earlier today, denying Boreyko’s proposed sale in full. [Continue reading…]