A number of streambox MLM companies have launched in the last few months, all marketing on the idea that customers can cancel their cable TV bill and instead access unlicensed content through the internet.

The streambox these companies sell make this possible, with the companies themselves selling the boxes preloaded with the required software and plugins.

Kodi is the software of choice used, with third-party plugins bundled with the streamboxes.

It is these plugins that have landed Kodi in hot water with Amazon, with the retail giant today removing Kodi from their app store. [Continue reading…]

Last weekend there was supposed to be some sort of uFun Club event taking place in Chengdu, China.

Despite it being almost mid-week, details of what this event actually was have remained sketchy.

What we can reveal today is that following the publication of photos of event taking place, that it appears to have had nothing to do with uFun Club. [Continue reading…]

Hopes that the TelexFree criminal trial might get underway in June were optimistic, with production and analysis of discovery continuing to delay scheduling.

The latest rescheduling motion will now see the next status conference take place in August. But that’s not to say things haven’t progressed. [Continue reading…]

The latest country to begin investigating uFun Club is Indonesia, with Indonesian police today meeting with their Thai counter-parts.

The meeting came about after it was widely publicized that uFun Club had purportedly invested in an Indonesian nickel mine. [Continue reading…]

Lyoness’ Wikipedia entry was created on November 18th, 2009. It read:

Lyoness is an independent international shopping community, linked by a single country- and sector-spanning customer card that enables Lyoness customers to get their “money back with every purchase” benefit.

Hubert Freidl took up this inspired business idea, and many business partners soon joined him. In July 2003, he established the Lyoness Holding Europe AG. Today, Hubert Freidl is the CEO of Lyoness Holding Europe AG. He inspires the company and is its driving power.

On the 9th of December the entry was removed altogether, with the reason given that Lyoness was not notable enough to warrant its own Wikipedia page.

In January 2012 the entry was recreated, with a short statement and link to Lyoness’ corporate website:

Lyoness is an independent international shopping community extending across economic sectors. Hubert Freidl founded Lyoness in July 2003.

Today he is the CEO of Lyoness International AG and spearheads ideas as the driving force in the company.

That entry was nuked four days later due to ‘spam-like changes with notability issues‘.

Another entry was attempted a year later in March 2013, but was once again nuke citing Lyoness’ lack of notability.

In June 2013 someone calling themselves “Lyoness Expert” created another entry, and this time it stuck. [Continue reading…]

A “Gerhard” is credited as Founder and CEO of Fast Perpetual Cash Cyclone on the company’s website.

The Fast Perpetual Cash Cyclone website domain registration reveals this to be Gerhard Rempel.

The domain itself (“fastperpetualcash.com”) was registered by Rempel on the 23rd of April 2015, using an address in Manitoba, Canada.

Rempel (right) first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar back in 2013, as co-owner of Belizers.

Belizers, now long since collapsed,  saw affiliates invest between $10 and $25 on the promise of an advertised 150% ROI.

According to Rempel’s Facebook profile, he’s still living in Belize. Why he registered the Fast Perpetual Cash Cyclone website domain with an address in Canada then is unclear.

In addition to Belizers, other opportunities Rempel has advertised on his Facebook profile include PM RevShares (reboot of Hourly RevShare Ponzi scheme), Automatic Mobile Cash (app market Ponzi scheme), Tsu (social network) and Flip Your Profits (Gerhard launched this himself in January 2015, appears to be a collapsed revenue-sharing scheme).

In 2014 Rempel launched United Group International, which saw affiliates gift payments of $10 to existing participants.

Further research reveals Rempel also having advertised Empower Network and x100K (matrix-based Ponzi scheme).

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

There is no information on the Money Bags 775 Pro (MB775Pro) website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Money Bags 775 Pro website domain (“realwealthsolution.com/mb”) was registered on the 9th of April 2011. Lorna Thurston is listed as the domain owner, along with an address in the US state of Idaho.

Presumably this is where MMB775Pro is being run out of.

A promotional video on the Money Bags 775 website is hosted on the YouTube account “ultrawealth”.

Other videos published on the account, which bears the name “Lorna Thurston”, promote GooBets ($310-$1350 Ponzi scheme), Silver4u2 (recruitment), Total Life Changes (diet tea), MyNyloxin (revenue-sharing), AndThanks2U (cash gifting) and KingUni ($100-$1999 Ponzi scheme).

Marketing for Qbule also exists on the “realwealthsolution.com” domain, suggesting Thurston was an affiliate in that opportunity too.

Qbule launched in 2014 and was based on the survey-based Speak Asia Ponzi model. The scheme has since collapsed.

Thurston also appears on a list of US net-winners who made more than $1000 in Zeek Rewards:

Zeek Rewards was an $850 million dollar Ponzi scheme, shut down by the SEC in 2012. How much Thurston stole from Zeek victims is unclear.

Read on for a full review of the Money Bags 775 Pro MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

National Wealth Center began as Infinity100, which in itself was a reincarnation of The Infinity Downline.

Infinity100 was a $100 cash gifting scheme, which began to collapse in early 2014.

In mid 2014 the scheme was relaunched as National Wealth Center.

As one Infinity 100 affiliate explains in their marketing material;

National Wealth Center was launched on July 7th, 2014 by Peter Wolfing as the new Infinity Downline 2.0.

Infinity Downline has been one of the Peter Wolfing’s greatest and stable home based business opportunities and that opportunity has now evolved and gotten 100x better with National Wealth Center.

Another writes;

With the new National Wealth Center program, which is the Infinity Downline revamp and relaunch, there is always going to be a certain amount of confusion that sets in with any new program launch.

Peter Wolfing remains at the helm of the scheme, serving as Founder of the original Infinity Downline and CEO of National Wealth Center.

Wolfing (right) first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar back in 2012, as the admin of Turbo Cycler ($200-$1000 matrix-based Ponzi scheme).

Since then we’ve also reviewed two more of Wolfing’s opportunities, Business ToolBox and Ultimate Cycler, two similar matrix cycler Ponzi schemes launched in October 2014.

Of these businesses, National Wealth Center appears to be the most prevalent.

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

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

The Lazy Matrix website domain (“lazy-matrix.com”) was registered on the 3rd of May 2015, with an “Ivan S Mihailov” listed as the owner. An address in Russia, Moscow is also provided.

The name Ivan S Mihailov only appears online in connection with the Lazy Matrix domain registration. Whether or not Mihailov actually exists, as represented in the Lazy Matrix domain registration, is unclear.

Alexa currently estimate that some 69.3% of traffic to the Lazy Matrix domain originates out of Russia. Neighboring Ukraine is the second largest source of traffic, coming in at 14.4%.

Of note is that Lazy Matrix uses the name-servers of Zama Host. ProAdzCycler is another scheme that launched recently using the same Zama Host name-servers.

This is unlikely to be a co-incidence.

An official VKontakte social-media group is linked off the Lazy Matrix website. The group currently has over a thousand members and is being run by a “Sergey Buzykin”.

Whether or not Buzykin is the actual admin of Lazy Matrix is unclear.

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…]

The Monetary Authority of Brunei Darussalam (MABD) operate as the central bank of Brunei.

Established in 2010, MABD are responsible for ‘the stability of the financial system, in particular by formulating financial regulations and prudential standards‘.

Within that context MABD yesterday issued  a warning advising against investment in uFun Club. [Continue reading…]