Globally Positioned Partners launched in December 2014 and are headed up by CEO Ken Howard.

No location information is provided on the Globally Positioned Partners website, however the company’s website domain lists a contact address in the US state of Florida. Presumably this is where the company is based.

On the MLM side of things Howard (right) doesn’t appear to have any corporate MLM experience. His Globally Positioned Partners bio does however credit him with ‘having served in the Mechanical Trades over 37 years’.

Ken retired from Steamfitters Local 602, Washington DC in 2013, after a 37 year career and has since sold his HVAC Company, Ken Howard Mechanical in Northern Virginia in 2014.

Globally Positioned Partners has come about following a partnership forming between Howard and CeraCoat Direct founder Elio Keller.

CeraCoat Direct primarily concentrate on marketing the company’s products in Europe, with Howard looking to establish the brand in the US.

Ken recently acquired the Global Exclusive Master Distributor Marketing License for a revolutionary nano technology ceramic coating, invented and manufactured by a 26 year old debt free Swiss Nano Tech company called Ceracoat Ceramic International.

Since acquiring the Global Exclusive Master Distributor Marketing License for this revolutionary nano technology ceramic coating, Ken Founded Globally Positioned Partners.

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

Mega Holdings claim to be incorporated in both Dubai and Hong Kong.

Prior to that the company was “relocated to Malaysia” in 2005, which matches the company’s website domain registration (Feb 2005).

The Dubai and Hong Kong certificates of registration provided on the Mega Holdings website are dated 2010 and 2011 respectively, indicating that this is likely around the time the current incarnation of the company began.

Credited as founder of Mega Holdings is Michael Cheng Tiau Kiat, with “S. S. Bon” (aka San Sian Bon) serving as CEO (right).

In his Mega Holdings corporate bio, Kiat is credited with being ‘a world-renowned net worker, a millionaire entrepreneur, a great mentor and mathematician‘ who ‘at 26, was already an independent business owner making megabucks‘.

Despite the mention of Kiat being a “world-renowned net worker”, I was unable to find an MLM history for him prior to Mega Holdings. Ditto San Sian Bon.

As such, it appears Mega Holdings is both Kiat and Bon’s first MLM outing on the executive side of things.

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

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

We, NEEDS GLOBAL, INC. is a leader in online Forex trading since Dec 2004.

We do provide services including Bank Guarantee (BG), Stand-By Letter of Credit and Medium Term Notes (MTN).

We are having highly experienced staff of 25 Social Media Experts that provide on demand, instant and convenient way to deliver solutions to your social needs. Also we are making sure your orders are processed perfectly.

The language above (grammar) suggests NeedsLike is likely run by Indians.

The NeedsLike website domain (“needslike.com”) was registered on the 26th of September 2014 and lists a “Melissa Medina” from “Needs Global INC” as the owner. An address in Panama is also provided.

The address provided for Needs Global is “The Century Tower Building Ricardo J Alfaro Street, Panama”. Research reveals other business supplying floor and suite numbers in this building, indicating that NeedsLike is not actually based at this address.

Furthermore the name “Melissa Medina” does not appear anywhere on the internet in conjunction with NeedsLike or Needs Global INC, save for the registration of the NeedsLike website domain.

Alexa also currently estimates that 38.5% of all traffic to the NeedsLike website is from India.

Promotional material from NeedsLike affiliates reveals Indian names being used to push the scheme, with at least one affiliate comparing the company to Speak Asia:

Speak Asia was one of India’s largest MLM Ponzi schemes to date. The multi-million dollar fraud was shut down by Indian regulators back in 2011.

Given all of the above, it’s highly probable that Melissa Medina doesn’t exist, along with NeedsLike’s purported office in Panama.

NeedsLike is being run out of India by Indians who, for reasons known only unto themselves, do not want you to know who they are.

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 story so far:

May 2013 – Norwegian Gaming Board announces investigation into World Ventures. The company is suspected of operating a pyramid scheme.

Feb 2014 – Norwegian Gaming Board finds World Ventures to be a pyramid scheme.

The Gaming Board concludes that World Venture’s activities in Norway are an illegal pyramid game because revenues almost exclusively come from recruiting members and not the sale of travel residence.

An enforcement directive sees World Ventures immediately required to “stop all activity” in Norway.

In response, a World Ventures attorney told Nigerian media that the company

disputes the basis the ban is imposed on. The company looks forward through the legal process to a thorough and objective review of the basis on which the Gaming Board has made their decision.

It is our opinion that the Authority’s basis in both fact and law is untenable.

In light that an appeal is to be filed, the Gaming Board voluntarily suspends their enforcement action. This means World Ventures is free to operate after the filing of an appeal.

May 2014 – World Ventures files an appeal challenging the Gaming Board’s investigation.

In a press-release the company states

a number of the factual and legal aspects of the Gaming Board report (are) unfounded and associated with failure.

WorldVentures considers that there are no reasons for banning business.

November 2014 – Over the past five months or so Lotterinemnda, the government department in charge of overseeing and deciding on Gaming Board appeals, has been going over World Ventures appeal.

Supporting documents have been filed by World Ventures throughout September and October, but unfortunately they were filed under seal and are not publicly available.

After reviewing all the information provided to them however, Lotterinemnda advised World Ventures that they would make a decision no later than the 24th of November.

Late last week saw the 24th of November come and go, with Lotterinemnda’s decision being made available on their website late last week.

The verdict? [Continue reading…]

Good news for those who lost money in the WCM777 Ponzi scheme, affiliate claims could be processed and paid out as early as mid to late 2015.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg in the court-appointed Receiver’s “Third Interim Report”.

Reading like a movie script at times, here’s what’s been going on behind the scenes as the Receivership struggles to make sense of Phil Ming Xu’s WCM777 Ponzi empire. [Continue reading…]

The clunkily named Marketing and Networking University bills itself as “the number one educational site for online success”.

Launched a couple of weeks ago, the company lists Beau Buckley, Steve Lawson, Fred Mandl and Aron Prins as co-founders on its website.

Beau Buckley’s Facebook profile contains promotional material for ViewTrakr:

ViewTrakr is a video-sharing opportunity that focuses on affiliate recruitment. Launched earlier this year, ViewTrakr appears to have gone into decline shortly after launch.

Alongside ViewTrakr, 2014 saw Buckley also promoting M&G Home Business:

M&G Home Business sees affiliates pay $49.95 a month to join and then receive commissions for recruiting new affiliates.

In addition to also being involved in ViewTrakr, Steve Lawson was recently promoting the MLM social network Tsu.

Prior to that Lawson was involved in the Internet Lifestyle Network (recruitment-focused feeder for Global Resorts Network), Visalus, DS Domination, Xplocial and Empower Network.

Fred Mandl was promoting Staged on YouTube a few months ago (a platform the “hijacks” video content and plasters it with ads).

In addition to Staged Mandl has been involved in ViewTrakr, Internet Lifestyle Network and Empower Network. Two marketing videos targeting Herbalife affiliates also appear on Mandl’s YouTube channel.

Earlier this year Aron Prins (right) launched IM Suite ($497 WordPress plugin library).

Launched around May 2014, today the IM Suite website advertises that it has 29 registered users. Prins is/was also an Empower Network affiliate.

It’s obviously no co-incidence that Marketing and Networking University’s four founders have been in a lot of the same MLM companies. After finding limited success, it appears they’ve gotten together and decided the best approach going forward is to launch their own opportunity together.

Two corporate addresses appear on the Marketing and Networking University website, one in Australia and one in the UK. This would appear to correspond with where three of the four co-founders are located.

Read on for a full review of the Marketing and Networking University MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Been getting the odd comment from people a bit lost over there Zeek Rewards claim. I typically tell them to get in contact with the Receivership but that doesn’t really help when the Receivership apparently isn’t responding to every email sent in.

Well, good news for affiliate victims stuck in this situation. [Continue reading…]

As per the EveryoneCycles website, the company is purportedly owned by a “Phillip Maccord”.

The program is owned by Phillip Maccord and is operated by an experienced admin team!

The name “Phillip Maccord” does not appear in relation to the MLM industry outside of mention of EveryoneCycles.

Given the mention of an “experienced admin team”, I find this highly suspect and am flagging Phillip Maccord as a possible pseudonym.

Why the other admins of EveryoneCycles are not named on the company website is a mystery.

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Three weeks ago payment processor Payoneer pulled the plug on the Achieve Community.

This unexpected and abrupt severing of ties threw Achieve into turmoil, with untold sums of money trapped in the system and those who had invested left with no way to access their funds.

Quick to promise relief by bringing a new processor on board, twenty days later and Achieve are still struggling to pass compliance regulations for payment processors they’ve approached.

Careful not to reveal who they’ve thus far approached until a contract has been signed, the latest update from Achieve Community attempts to plant the seed that complaining affiliates are behind the delays. [Continue reading…]

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

A corporate address in the UK is provided on the Exitus Network website, however further research reveals this to be the address of “Complete Formations”.

Complete Formations offer a virtual mailing addresses for 97 GBP ($152 USD). It would appear that Existus Network exists in the UK in name only.

Meanwhile the Exitus Network domain was registered on the 9th of September 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…]