Things were pretty quiet last month reporting wise on the Samoan uFun Club fraud case, however we did get an update yesterday on the current case status.

Through their participation in uFun Club and recruitment of local Samoan investors, Nicolas Giannos, Rosita Stanfield and an unidentified 74-year-old Pastor were initially charged with seven counts of “receiving money by deception”.

Five of those counts have since been withdrawn, with the reason why not entirely clear. [Continue reading…]

Possibly hoping that, if he can’t be found, he might escape facing up to his part in defrauding investors of $850 million dollars, Oscar Hubert Brown is on the run.

With the 120 day deadline to serve Brown looming, the Zeek Receiver has requested additional time to track him down. [Continue reading…]

Interesting times ahead, with Canadian Zeek Rewards net-winners now facing an April 2016 trial.

Together, Catherine Parker, Xiaomei Wang, Beverley Dawn Trca-Kitchen, Bin Xu, Joel Broughton, Feng Guang Wu, Don Fitz-Ritson, Ruth Konig, Buan Jun Zhang, Leon Killam, Guo Hua Liang, Sandra Gavel, Yong Sheng Wang, Devey Dejong, The estate of Bruce Richard Foeller, Brian Fussey, Shao Zhang Huang, James Macelwain, Eugene Veinotte, 0937702B.C. LTD, Michael Gallup, Jia Yu Wang, Ying Liu, Jane Ferguson, Zahid Ali and Mei-Ping Liang made off with $2.91 million of Zeek victim’s funds. [Continue reading…]

Residual Income In A Box (RIIAB) is a downline builder owned by Randy Garrard.

A plethora of shady MLM underbelly schemes feature on the site, with the idea being that, through Residual Income In A Box, people sign up under Garrard’s downline in each of them.

The RIIAB Members work as a community to advertise or promote 1 website.

RIIAB then recommends multiple programs for the RIIAB members to join at a very small 1 time out of pocket expense per program.

Schemes advertised on the RIIAB website include Decide Your Path (recruitment), Super 2×7 (cycler Ponzi), All In One Profits (cash gifting), 4 Corners Alliance Group (recruitment), Rockin Residual (recruitment), Paradise Payments (cash gifting), iMarketing Fast Track (cash gifting), CashBotClub (Ponzi scheme), Five Dollar Funnel (matrix recruitment), Lead Lightning (recruitment) and Magnetic Gratitude (Ponzi investment).

Garrard (right) was also an affiliate in Paul Darby’s YouGetPaidFast $28 gifting scheme.

Residual Income In A Box Feeder Matrix is a newly launched opportunity. The idea behind the feeder is to raise funds for affiliates to participate in on the various schemes Garrard advertises on the main RIIAB website.

With a premise like that you can probably already guess where this review is going, but if you want to know more…

Read on for a full review of the Residual Income In A Box Feeder Matrix MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

In addition to facing criminal charges for wire fraud, DFRF Enterprises’ CEO Daniel Filho also faces concurrent SEC enforcement.

Through a civil complaint filed in early July, the SEC allege DFRF Enterprises was a fifteen million dollar Ponzi scheme.

With Filho in custody on criminal charges, the SEC’s civil case should now proceed smoothly enough, with a scheduling conference now set for September 29th. [Continue reading…]

Despite affiliates advertising HopRocket as a “brand new JM Ocean Avenue opportunity” as early as last month, we thought it odd that there was no official tie in or promotion on the JM Ocean Avenue website.

Fred Ninow was listed as the owner of the HopRocket website domain yet, despite his obvious involvement in JM Ocean Avenue, Ninow was not listed as management on their website.

Following a recently discovered notice dated July 1st, we can now reveal Ninow and a bunch of JM Ocean Avenue staff have resigned.

HopRocket apparently has nothing to do with JM Ocean Avenue. Well, at least not officially… [Continue reading…]

Last Friday saw the conclusion of a five day trial which saw Lyoness defend pyramid scheme allegations, brought about by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

At the conclusion of the trial Justice Flick reserved judgement. And while I had hoped we might see a judgement handed down this week or the next, it’s been revealed his decision is not expected till around the end of the month.

What we can provide you in the meantime though is a brief summary of the proceedings as they occurred. [Continue reading…]

Following the SEC shutdown of eAdGear last September, two months later in December owners Charles Wang and Francis Yuen were indicted by a grand jury on a count of conspiracy.

For those unfamiliar with the company name, eAdGear were behind the 2013 Ponzi scheme GoFunRewards.

Last we checked in Wang and Yuen were facing 5 years imprisonment (possible 3 years supervised release) and a $400,000 fine, with a status conference scheduled for January 21st, 2015.

As the case has slowly been progressing  since then, today we take a look at where things are currently at. [Continue reading…]

Identified as CEO and owner of the company on the 2by2 For You website is Doc Lett.

Doc Lett, Owner and CEO,  has been part of the Referral Marketing Industry since he was in college.

While working a minimum wage job during college, he was introduced to network marketing and soon found his passion.

He discovered that anyone with a desire to create their own path, could make a substantial income by referring others to opportunities.

Lett, real name Ken or Kenneth Lett first appeared on BehindMLM as the CEO and Founder of Phase 4 Global.

Phase 4 Global launched back in mid 2012 and saw affiliate pay $110 to enter a four-tier matrix cycler. Commissions were paid out as subsequent affiliates were recruited and also purchased matrix positions.

Phase 4 Global still appears to have been active early to mid last year, however Alexa traffic estimates reveal the opportunity has since collapsed.

Two years before Phase 4 Global, Lett launched Freeway to Success. Freeway to Success was another recruitment-driven opportunity similarly having collapsed before Lett went on to launch Phase 4 Global.

Now with Phase 4 Global all but over, we have 2by2 For You.

Read on for a full review of the 2by2 For You MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Game Loot Network operate in the mobile gaming MLM niche and went into prelaunch in May 2015.

According to the Game Loot Network LinkedIn profile, the company is based out of the US state of Arizona. The contact page of the Game Loot Network contradicts this however, instead providing an address in Missouri.

Further research reveals a number of seemingly unrelated businesses operating out of the supplied Missouri address, so I’m not too sure what the story is there.

Adding further confusion to the mix is Game Loot Network’s “website terms and conditions”, which mentions a third state, Georgia:

Any claim relating to (Insert business name here) web site shall be governed by the laws of the State of Georgia without regard to its conflict of law provisions.General Terms and Conditions applicable to Use of a Web Site.

(insert business name here) appears multiple times in the terms and conditions, suggesting Game Loot Network have just copy and pasted a boilerplate template from a third-party.

For reasons unknown, there is no information on who owns and operates Game Loot Network on their website.

The Game Loot Network website domain (“gamelootnework.com”) was first registered on the 16th of December 2014. The registration was last updated on the 30th of March 2015, suggesting that might be when the current owner(s) acquired the domain.

Lance Baker of Game Loot LLC is listed as the domain owner. Baker is cited as the author of a $2.99 eBook titled “Game Loot: Grab Your Piece of the Mobile Gaming Revolution” on multiple websites, but other than that I was unable to establish his relationship with or role within Game Loot Network.

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…]