As part of the order staying discovery in the TelexFree civil case until criminal proceedings are concluded, the court requested that the Department of Justice file a report on the status of the criminal proceedings on January 15th.

As per this order, the DOJ’s filed status report sheds some light on the current progress of the criminal case against Telexfree. [Continue reading…]

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

Infact, at the present time the Morning Ignition website serves as little more than an information capture page for the company’s prelaunch.

No actual launch date is provided, so how long Morning Ignition’s prelaunch is expected to drag out for is unclear.

The Morning Ignition website domain (“morningignition.com”) was registered on the 27th of January 2013. Jason Spurlock is listed as the domain owner, with an address in the US state of Kentucky also provided.

Spurlock (right) first appeared on BehindMLM’s radar as the owner of Network Marketing VT.

Network Marketing VT saw affiliates pay a $98 monthly participation fee, which was gifted in full to the affiliate who recruited them.

Amid a sea of complaints related to non-payment of commissions to affiliates, a year later after launch Network Marketing VT collapsed.

A few months later Spurlock launched MMB60, which again saw affiliates gift $98 a month to the affiliate who recruited them.

Today the MMB60 website redirects to that of Morning Ignition, indicating that sometime in the last year it too collapsed.

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

On their website, Uno Premier claim to be

a dynamic marketing company that was derived from the foundation of a very long history of Leadership, Management and Entrepreneurism.

UNO Premier’s Mother Company UNO started its rising 8 years ago and blossomed throughout the network marketing Industry like rapid fire.

Wanting to expand into the international market is the primary reason cited for the creation of Uno Premier.

Identified as the President of Uno Premier is William Barbo (right), who serves as company President.

William from a very young age put himself thru school as a working student and graduated as a Mechanical Engineer.

After finishing college not able yet to find an opening for the course he completed, he worked as a bartender for the next 5 years.

Shortly afterwards thru this rough journey, he stumbled upon Network Marketing and for next 17 years he not only learned the trade but became one of the most known and respected outstanding leaders and Top Earner of the industry.

I did try to search out an MLM history for Barbo prior to his involvement with Uno, but turned up nothing.

Meanwhile Uno Premier claim on their website that they have

created over 800 Philippine millionaires over the short span of 8 years, which in itself is a natural phenomenon and today has over 100 offices spread out nationwide throughout the Philippines.

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

For some months now an alleged business relationship between Lyoness and Mastercard has been used as a major marketing point by Lyoness and their affiliates.

As with most third-party brand promotions, the idea is to create the illusion of legitimacy through association with an otherwise reputable company.

In the case of Lyoness, they don’t want you focusing on the questionable legality of their accounting unit investment scheme. I mean hey, if Mastercard have jumped on board surely everything Lyoness do is above-board right? [Continue reading…]

News today from Chuck King, who has been going after Rick Maike and Global1Entertainment for some time now.

As of yesterday morning (Wednesday) at 1:15, sometime in the AM, the FBI contacted Rick Maike and (his) G1E company.

Oh my… [Continue reading…]

Identified as the founders of FiveDollarFunnel in the company’s terms and conditions are Tom Cellie and Bill Ebert.

No corporate address is provided, however the US state of Missouri is mentioned.

On his Facebook profile, Tom Cellie (below, with Ebert) lists his current living location as Kansas City in Missouri, so this is likely where FiveDollarFunnel is being operated out of.

On the MLM history front, Cellie was involved in the Ponzi scheme Bidify:

Bidify was modelled on Zeek Rewards, an $850M Ponzi scheme. Bidify saw investors invest in penny auction bids on the implied promise of a ROI, funded by subsequent affiliate investment.

Cellie also runs a website where he offers MLM software and “web services”.

Bill Ebert on the other hand appears to be involved in a marketing co-op named “Unlimited Profits”. This company is tied to Gano Excel training (ganoderma coffee), but whether or not Ebert himself is a Gano Excel affiliate is unclear.

I also found some Gano Excel training calls featuring Cellie. Again not sure if he is/was an affiliate with the company but Gano does serve as a link between FiveDollarFunnel’s two founders.

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

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

The AdReverts website domain was registered on December 6th 2014, however the domain registration is set to private.

Further research reveals AdReverts affiliates naming an “Enrico Villanueva” as the owner of the company. Note that I wasn’t able to verify this information independently though.

It’s worth noting that the same name was used to promote Ads Davao, a $2 micro Ponzi scheme launched back in 2013.

As always, if a 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…]

In response to clawback litigation being filed against them, several of Zeek’s top net-winner investors filed counter-claims against the Receiver.

In total around a million dollars was requested, mostly by way of unpaid Ponzi ROI earnings. This was done via claiming that Zeek Rewards had contracts with the net-winners, and that unpaid ROI earnings should be paid out. Funds seized from Zeek’s payment processors were also requested.

And as ridiculously trollish as it all sounds, I kid you not that’s what was filed.

Not surprisingly, an order issued on the 14th of January has seen every one of these counter-claims rejected. [Continue reading…]

As per the Worldwide Solutionz website, the company appears to have shut down on or around January 15th:

Kindly note that WorldWide SolutionZ will no longer be conducting business, effective immediately. Please refer to the email sent to all members on January 15, 2015.

The email sent to affiliates offers up some more information, suggesting that the company has shut itself down in the face of a regulatory investigation: [Continue reading…]

Sometime in the last twenty four hours North American Power announced that they are terminating their MLM business opportunity.

Effective immediately, Independent Representatives will be unable to refer new customers or representatives to Thrive or North American Power.

All referral sites have been disabled.

Additional information has been provided to North American Power affiliates via email: [Continue reading…]