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

The HashRevShare website domain (“hashrevshare.com”) was registered on the 14th of April 2016, with Ruby Hoffman listed as the owner. A residential address in South Yorkshire, England is also provided.

The HashRevShare Facebook group lists two admins, Hoffman and John Tadiosa.

Hoffman’s linked Facebook profile is pretty suspicious, with Hoffman’s location listed as Barcelona, Spain. Content wise Hoffman’s profile contains a profile photo update in August 2010, and then nothing until a few days ago – what appears to be a launch announcement for HashRevShare.

Due to the generic nature of “Ruby Hoffman”, nothing definitive comes up for an MLM history search – and of course none is provided by HasRevShare.

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…]

There is no information on the RevShare Works website identifying owns or runs the company.

The only clue as to company ownership is buried in the RevShare Works Terms and Conditions:

RevShareWorks is a web property and business activity owned and operated by METALEVEL CONSULTING INC, an S-Corporation.

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration,

An S corporation (sometimes referred to as an S Corp) is a special type of corporation created through an IRS tax election.

An eligible domestic corporation can avoid double taxation (once to the corporation and again to the shareholders) by electing to be treated as an S corporation.

MetaLevel Consulting Inc is a domestic profit corporation registered in the US state of Georgia in February, 2016.

Terrence Brannon is listed as the sole agent of the company. Brannon is also listed as the owner of the RevShare Works website domain (registered on December 11th, 2015).

Of note is the RevShare Works domain registration lists an address in Ohio. Why MetaLevel Consulting and RevShare Works have addresses in different states is unclear.

Terrence Brannon meanwhile appears to have a long history of participation in Ponzi schemes:

Under the affiliate account “princepawn”, Brannon was an investor in Zeek Rewards, Just Been Paid and Banners Broker.

Brannon was also an affiliate with MPB Today, a pyramid scheme shut down in late 2012.

On his blog “I want you to prosper”, Brannon is currently promoting

• MMM Global (cash gifting Ponzi scheme that recently collapsed)
• Match Rate Plus (merchant account leads)
• Lyoness (AU investment scheme)
• Wealth Builders Network (recruitment cycler)
• Traffic Monsoon (adcredit HYIP Ponzi)
• Adsactly (recruitment scheme that recently launched a Ponzi)
• Ambit Energy (utility MLM)
• Infinii (dropshipping)
• My Advertising Pays (adcredit Ponzi scheme)
• HQ Revshare (HYIP Ponzi)
• Mobrabus (adpack Ponzi scheme)
• My Paying Ads (HYIP Ponzi)
• Vizionary (recruitment scheme) and
• OneCoin (Ponzi points)

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

The Gold Miners website domain was registered on the 15th of January 2016, however the domain registration is set to private.

According to Panamanian registration documents provided on the Gold Miners Facebook page, the company is owned by David Aleman, Henry Aquiles Fonseca and Pedro Lara (President).

A PO Box address in Panama is provided on the Gold Miners website, suggesting the company exists there in name only.

I wasn’t able to find any additional information on Fonseca or Aleman, but Pedro Lara does have an active Facebook account. In it, he claims to be currently living in Panama City, Panama.

Here’s the thing though, Lara’s Facebook page was only created on or around April 6th, 2016. The only content published by the account is marketing material for Gold Miners.

What I also found was that pretty much all of the available promotional material about Gold Miners on the internet is in Russian.

This corresponds with traffic to the Gold Miners website, which Alexa currently estimates 53% of which originates out of Russia.

Much of the content on the Gold Miners website is in Spanish, so there’s probably also at least one link to a Spanish-speaking country in there somewhere too.

In any event, the combination of

• two admins no information is available on
• a suspicious newly-created Facebook profile for a third admin
• Russian marketing and traffic and
• company registration in a tax-haven with lax regulation

strongly suggests Gold Miners is likely being run out of Russia itself by person(s) unknown.

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…]

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

InstantAdBuzz is owned by Instant Advert Buzz Limited and is the sole owner of the program.

The InstantAdBuzz website domain (“instantadbuzz.com”) was registered on the 11th of September 2015, however the domain registration is set to private.

According to the InstantAdBuzz website, the company is registered in the UK:

InstantAdBuzz is owned by a fully registered company in UK since 2015 in the name Instant Advert Buzz Limited with Registration number 0980140.

A search for that registration number returns an entry for “Instant Advert Buzz Limited“, incorporated in September 2015. Andrea is cited as CEO of Instant Advert Buzz Limited.

A UK company registration requires payment of a £20 GBP or so fee and a UK-based address.

At the time of publication over thirty businesses use the address cited in the Instant Advert Buzz Limited registration, suggesting it is little more than a mail forwarding address.

A UK registration with mail forwarding address in MLM is typically a calling card of scammers.

The InstantAdBuzz Facebook page has one admin, Brkanic Andrea. Andrea’s Facebook page only became active earlier this year, with it mostly used to promote InstantAdBuzz.

Of note is Andrea claims to be a co-admin of InstantAdBuzz on her Facebook timeline, however no other admins are referenced.

InstantAdBuzz affiliates are claiming someone called “Jaime Oscar” is the other co-admin, however I was unable to independently verify this information.

Given the otherwise lack of information available on Brkanic Andrea and Jaime Oscar, I’m flagging them both are likely bogus profiles.

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…]

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

The Adsactly Hits website domain (“adsactlyhits.com”) was registered on the 28th of November 2012, with Micah Wallace listed as the owner. An address in Ontario, Canada is also provided.

Micah Wallace is one of the co-founders of Adsactly, a recruitment-driven adcredit scheme launched in early 2012. Randy Howard was the other known co-owner of the company.

Update 8th April 2017 – Randy Howard advises he gave his

share of Adsactly over to Micah in the beginning of 2012 and stepped away from Adsactly.

What Micah has done with the site and business has nothing to do with me. I have not had anything to do with Adsactly since left.

/end update

Today the Adsactly website redirects to “adsactlycrypto.com”, suggesting the scheme has collapsed.

The AdsactlyCrypto website appears to be tracking a fund for investment into “AdsactlyKing”. At the time of publication, the fund’s value is listed as $58,348.

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

There is no information on the 5000 Families website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The 5000 Families website domain (“5000families.com”) was registered on the 2nd of April 2016, however the domain registration is set to private.

A few days ago BehindMLM reader “Me” left a comment suggesting Faith Sloan was behind the opportunity.

FYI Faith Hijacked that program with her tech skills. She is running it herself. ELC and 100k aka 5000families is in faith’s hands alone.

In an attempt to verify this information, my first port of call was the 100K Race website.

For those unfamiliar with the scheme, 100K Race was a cash gifting scheme launched by Elite Legacy Creators last month.

As at the time of publication, the 100K Race website was offline.

On YouTube, Sloan can be observed promoting 5000 Families, with one video in particular referencing it as “presented by 100K Race”:

Of note is Sloan’s provided link to 5000 Families in the description of her YouTube video does not contain a referral link.

This is typical of an admin promoting an opportunity, as they capture new recruits who sign up without a referral link by default.

Sloan also appeared on an official 5000 Families webinar yesterday, in which she repeatedly refers to the opportunity in the possessive.

That said this isn’t definitive proof Sloan is running 5000 Families. Pending further information being made available however, for now it certainly seems so.

Read on for a full review of the 5000 Families MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

On April 18th all parties involved in the SEC vs. Achieve Community civil case filed a joint motion to vacate the scheduled December 5th trial date.

Citing judicial efficiency, the motion requested the

court vacate the current trial date of December 5, 2016 in light of the ongoing criminal proceedings against Defendants Barnes and Johnson, which are expected to proceed to trial sometime in late 2016.

On April 20th Judge Blackburn granted the motion, ordering that the SEC’s civil action be administratively closed. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Website2Share website indicating who owns or runs the business.

On the Website2Share FAQ the company claims to be a “legal certified company based in the UK”. This corresponds with a provided corporate address in the UK.

Further research reveals a number of businesses listed as operating out of the same address. This suggests it is just a rented mailbox, with Website2Share having no actual physical presence in the UK.

Registering a company in the UK costs about £20 GBP ($28 USD) and requires at a minimum a UK-based mailing address.

The Website2Share website domain (“website2share.com”) was registered on the 15th of March 2016 and lists Bystrik Stefak as the owner.

Prior to launching Website2Share, Stefak (right) was promoting the Get Paid Social recruitment scheme. Before that he was an affiliate with Wazzub (Perfect Internet), a failed search portal MLM.

Today Stefak is an affiliate with FutureNet, a matrix cycler that recently launched an ad-credit Ponzi scheme.

According to Stefak’s FutureNet profile he is based out of Slovakia, which is presumably where Website2Share is actually being operated from.

Read on for a full review of the Website2Share MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

In another blow to TelexFree’s Brazilian based Ympactus, the company has been fined $1.5 million for “crimes against the economy”.

The fine stems from a National Bureau of Consumer Law (Senacon) investigation, which found Ympactus operated as a “Ponzi pyramid scheme”. [Continue reading…]

The Superintendency of Societies is a government regulator in Colombia charged with overseeing companies operating in the country.

Citing a new law introduced earlier this year in January, the Superintendency of Societies has issued a warning against OneCoin. [Continue reading…]