There’s no information on the Ezi Net Income website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Ezi Net Income website domain (“ezinetincome.com”) was registered on the 23rd of October 2014, and lists a “Dena Mullens” as the owner. An address in NSW, Australia is also provided.

While Mullens name doesn’t appear ton the Ezi Net Income website itself, Google has picked up a page featured on what appears to be some sort of Ezi Net Income traffic rotator:

Clicking through this result brings visitors to the website of “Retire Early Team”, also owned and operated by Mullens.

Describing her involvement in MLM as “years of disappointment”, Mullens introduces herself and explains what Retire Early Team is:

Hi, I am Dena Mullens owner and creator of the Retire Early Team and I would like to thank you for stopping by and viewing this website.

Our program can best be described as a Downline Builder program, that concentrates on building teams in several different programs.

Not surprisingly, Retire Early Team is a money-spinner for Mullens herself. Two paid membership levels are offered, each increasing the advertising exposure for the opportunities Mullen’s recommends through Retire Early Team.

Members of Retire Early Team are also paid commissions to recruit new members into the downline builder.

Through Retire Early Team and in addition to Ezi Net Income, the MLM companies Mullens is currently promoting include

• Four Corners Alliance ($29.95 a month recruitment scheme)
• Paradise Payments ($2 three-tier matrix recruitment scheme)
• Its5Bux ($5 two-tier matrix recruitment scheme)
• Direct Pay Biz ($9 two-tier matrix recruitment scheme) and
• MyNyloxin (matrix opportunity coupled with a “Media Unit” Ponzi investment scheme)

Every member that joins the Retire Early Team must purchase a level 1 position in the Ezi Net Income Program.

This program, whilst standing on its own merits in the market place, primarily serves as a feeder program for the Four Corners Alliance Program and the Retire Early Team Gold Member program.

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

Before we go any further, I’m just going to go ahead and say it: paid video communication services today are entirely redundant.

I mean really, $125 plus $20 a month ($365 annually) for video email? Is this some kind of joke?

Quite obviously, nobody is paying Talk Fusion thousands of dollars for video communication services. Considering what’s available today for free in this niche, not even by a long shot.

–BehindMLM Talk Fusion Review (August 2014)

Meet Minh Ho and Julie Campagna. Together they own and operate MJ Rich Media Corp. and joined Talk Fusion in 2007.

During their time with Talk Fusion, Ho and Campagna achieved the rank of “Presidential Blue Diamond. Not an easy thing to do, considering they claim to be the only Talk Fusion affiliates “out of millions” to ever qualify.

Earning roughly $2 million annually, Ho and Campagna were suspended as affiliates on October 10th.

Talk Fusion terminates distributors based on the selective and arbitrary application of the one-sided, unfair, vague, and unenforceable terms and provisions contained in the Policies.

On December 10th, Ho and Campagna’s affiliate status with Talk Fusion was formally terminated.

Now, in a lawsuit alleging fraud and injustice, the gloves have come off. And if Ho and Campagna are to be believed, how Talk Fusion is being operated and managed is cause for serious concern. [Continue reading…]

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

Using an annoying “infinite scroll” design template, the Preiscoin website only offers up that the company is purportedly based out of Switzerland:

The Swiss Preiscoin Emission System is based in Switzerland!

Can you think of anything more reliable when it comes to money?

Me personally? Well, yeah – such as who owns Preiscoin for a start… But for whatever reason, Preiscoin don’t want you to know that.

The owner of the Website and the Service Provider is PRS Group AG based in Buchs, 35 Churerstrasse, 9470 Buchs, Switzerland registered in the Commercial Registry of the Canton of St. Gallen under the number CHE-218550229.

Supporting their claim that Preiscoin is based out of Switzerland is the listing off all currencies on the site being in Swiss Francs (CHF).

I can’t see an MLM company not based in Switzerland going out of their way to use Swiss Francs, so at least this much suggests whoever is running Preiscoin is based in Switzerland (or somewhere close in Europe).

One possible suspect is “Mateusz Kurleto”, who the Preiscoin website domain is registered to. Kurleto appears on the Preiscoin domain registration with an address in the Pomorskie region of Poland.

The email address used to register the domain points to the company “Neoteric”, which appears to be a Polish software development company.

In the absence of clear information detailing Preiscoin’s management stucture on their website, whether Kurleto is directly involved in Preiscoin is unclear.

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…]

The Cycles 24/7 website domain (“cycles247.com”) was registered on the 19th of November 2014, however the domain registration is set to private.

Buried in the Cycles 24/7 FAQ is the claim that a “Richard Fleming” is the owner of the scheme.

I’m going to flag this is a likely fraudulent creation, based on the broken English used on the Cycles 24/7 website.

Here are just a few examples of the many grammatical errors that feature on the site:

We only charge a fee on withdrawals which is 5%.

If withdrawal went as pending please don’t panic.

We have set a daily withdrawal limit per payment processor once it reached all further withdrawal requests will become pending.

Experience would have me suggest the use of an Anglo-Saxon name and broken English indicates an Indian admin. These characteristics are typical of less than legitimate schemes operating out of India.

Alexa estimates that the top two countries traffic-wise to the Cycles 24/7 domain are the US (22.5%) and India (11.4%). I’d explain the US appearing first as it being a major source of promotion.

Note that an Indian admin is only a suggestion based on my experience having reviewed hundreds of MLM opportunities. What I am sure of however is that it’s more than likely “Richard Fleming”, as portrayed on the Cycles 24/7 website, doesn’t exist.

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…]

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

The Reach Society website does have an “about us” page, but only the following vague marketing copy is provided:

We are a group of entrepreneurs, networkers, and independent thinkers who believe that the path to true success can be found by striving to reach our goals by creating and offering opportunity to help others reach their goals.

We are founded on the principle that transparency and honesty, in the grand scheme of things, are more valuable and meaningful than hype and empty promises.

At the bottom of Reach Society’s “about us” page there’s an image of a woman:

No mention is made on the page explaining who this person is, but the filename for the image is “jhen_image_trs.jpg”.

Further research reveals that the woman in the image is Jhen Tripp.

The Reach Society website domain was registered on the 19th of November 2014, and lists Tripp (credited as Jenalyn Cabanag Tripp) as the owner of the domain.

On one of her Facebook profiles, Tripp lists her location as the US state of South Dakota.

Another Facebook profile bearing Tripp’s likeness is registered under the name “Myjhen Cabanag”:

There’s no mention of Reach Society on either of Tripp’s Facebook profiles, however her picture appearing on Reach Society’s “about us” page and name on the domain registration all but confirms she owns the company.

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

Sannderly Vasconcelos Rodrigues (Sann Rodrigues for short), was one of the top investors in the billion dollar Ponzi scheme, TelexFree.

For his part in stealing over three million dollars from investors who joined after him, Rodrigues (right) saw himself named as a defendant in an April 2014 SEC complaint.

As part of that case, which is on hold until the criminal case against TelexFree’s founders is concluded, Rodrigues saw himself slapped with a preliminary injunction back in May.

Among other things, this injunction saw Rodrigues ‘ordered to cease conducting any further fraud involving securities or otherwise‘.

Today I thought I’d raise the question of whether Rodrigues is meeting this court-ordered obligation. [Continue reading…]

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

The BonanzaU website does have an “About Us” section, with vague marketing copy suggesting the company is headquartered in Hong Kong:

BONANZA SYSTEMS.LTD’s holding company PRIME MARKET SERVICE.LTD is established in Hong Kong.

If that is to be believed, then it’s likely that those running BonanzaU are from Hong Kong itself (Chinese).

The BonanzaU website domain (“bonanzau.com”) was registered on the 18th of July 2014, however the domain registration is set to private.

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…]

Back in October we covered an update from the Zeek Rewards Receivership regarding funds withheld for tax purposes.

Shortly after the Receivership announced that victim checks would be going out on September 30th, reports surfaced about 30% of payouts being withheld by the Receiver.

Clarifying why the funds were held back, the Receivership put out an update a few weeks later explaining that they were waiting on clarification from the IRS regarding potential tax issues.

I have heard from many of you that this withholding should not have been made because these distributions are not taxable. The tax laws on this issue are not entirely clear.

We have attempted to get a definitive opinion from the IRS but have not yet been able to do so. Given this uncertainty we acted on the side of caution and made the withholding.

As of the time of publication of this article, the Receivership still hasn’t heard back from the IRS. Why that’s taking so long I have no idea, but in the meantime the Receivership has decided to release the funds being held anyway. [Continue reading…]

PlanB4You launched earlier this year and targeted Europeans.

Soliciting 40 EUR investments from its affiliates, PlanB4You advertised an a 50 EUR ROI – dependent on new affiliate funds flowing into the scheme (see BehindMLM PlanB4You review).

Legally registered in the Netherlands, it wasn’t long before PlanB4You attracted the attention of local regulators. [Continue reading…]

We initially reported on the SEC shutdown of Zhunrize back in late September.

Over the last few months the case has slowly progressed, culminating in a settlement agreement reached yesterday. [Continue reading…]