There is no information on the Crowd2Funding website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Crowd2Funding website domain (“crowd2funding.com”) was registered on the 2nd of August 2014, however the domain registration is set to private.

In the Crowd2Funding Terms and Conditions, the following address is provided for refunds:

Crowd2Funding.com
c/o The Whale Club, LLC
7900 International Drive, Suite 300
Bloomington, MN 55425
United States

Putting aside that this is a virtual office address provided by OffiCenters, the mention of “The Whale Club LLC” would appear to correspond to the website “thewhaleclub.com”:

As above, the club appears to have previously launched several business opportunities.

The Whale Club vision is to build a Billion Dollar Company by enriching Millions of Affiliates Worldwide to attract Millions of Customers via our word of mouth team attraction Network Marketing model.

This simply is done by combining three of the largest online industries in the World; Home Based Business/Network Marketing, Online Casinos and Rewards Programs (Penny saved, is a Penny earned).

All recession proof economy building Globally accepted markets.

They also apparently sell $4995 travel memberships:

After none of those ideas or the selling of ridiculously priced travel memberships went anywhere, now The Whale Club has launched Crowd2Funding.

As to company ownership, The Whale Club LLC website advises that it is based out of the US state of Minnesota and founded by Mark Enderson:

In his Whale Club bio, Enderson claims to have ‘21 years total Network Marketing Experience‘, however no specific examples are provided.

I did try to research Enderson’s MLM history on my own, but outside of failed Whale Club ventures didn’t find anything.

Why Mark Enderson’s name doesn’t appear anywhere on the Crowd2Funding website is a mystery.

Read on for a full review of the Crowd2Funding MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

Thanks to the diligent efforts of Don@ASDUpdates to catalog the vast swath of legal documents pertaining to Zeek Rewards litigation, much of what is discussed in the Receiver’s 4th quarter Status Report has already been covered.

In going over the 16 page report, filed on January 30th, there is however some new information that the Receivership shares. [Continue reading…]

Maxim Chukharev was one of the seven individuals indicted in connection to the Liberty Reserve payment processor.

A hotbed of MLM underbelly fraud, among other things, Liberty Reserve was shut down for money laundering mid last year. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Trinity Lines indicating who owns or runs the business.

The company does have an “about us” section on their website with the company claiming that Trinity Lines is ‘an innovative team based in the UK and Ireland’.

The Trinity Lines website domain (“trinitylines.com”) was registered on the 5th of December 2014, however the domain registration is set to private.

One possible clue as to who owns Trinity Lines ownership can be found over at the website domain “mytestplace.info”:

This appears to be a test domain, hosting a 1:1 clone of the Trinity Lines website in its current state. It’s likely it was used to test Trinity Lines before it went live on its current domain.

The “mytestplace.info” website domain is registered to Dean Heading (through the trade name “Huba Gold Kft”), who resides in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in Australia.

Other than his domain hosting a clone of the Trinity Lines website, I was unable to find any further connection between Heading and the company.

The explicit nature of the relationship between Heading and Trinity Lines is unclear. Ditto why, when Huba Gold Kft provide an address in Hungary and Heading in Australia, why Trinity Lines claims to be operated out of the UK and Ireland.

Further research reveals Trinity Lines affiliates claiming that

The owner is an offline business owner,who funded the start of the business, and he asked Dominic Butler and James Hart to run the program, so technically, Dominic and James are the admins.

I’ve also seen some Trinity Lines affiliates referring to Butler as “Dominic J. Purcell”. Not sure what the story is there.

Dominic Butler would appear to be running the show, with his name appearing on payment receipts issued to Trinity Lines affiliates:

Videos hosted on a YouTube channel owned by Butler (right) also appear on the Trinity Lines website.

Other MLM videos appearing on Butler’s YouTube channel include promotional material for Crowd4x (a forex-based Ponzi launched by the notorious Wealth4AllTeam scammers) and Strategic Wealth Alliance.

Strategic Wealth Alliance charged affiliates $25 a month to participate and offered them a 280% 90-day ROI on investments made with the company.

Strategic Wealth Alliance collapsed shortly after it launched back in mid 2014.

For all intents and purposes, it appears Dominic Butler is the admin behind Trinity Lines. Why this is not disclosed on the Trinity Lines website however is a mystery.

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

Back in October of 2014 the Texas AG filed a lawsuit against Lindsey Duncan.

In the lawsuit, it was alleged that Duncan had been falsely representing himself as a doctor.

Mr. Duncan’s acts and practices mislead the public into believing that he is disseminating health advice or knowledge, but such advice or knowledge is based on educational background and training which he does not have and when his underlying motivation is to sell products in which he has a financial interest.

Separately, and news to me, was that the FTC had also been investigating Duncan. [Continue reading…]

Just a quick update today today regarding the status of the Paul Burks criminal case.

A while Paul Burks’ attorney put in a Motion to Continue, citing the large volume of discovery they need to sift through before the commencement of a trial.

An order granting the motion was published on the 16th of January, with Judge Cogburn Jr. reasoning that [Continue reading…]

My Daily Choice launched earlier this year and are based out of the US state of Maryland.

Bringing together a team of the most successful entrepreneurs, marketers, and consultants coupled with the top formulators in the industry, at MyDailyChoice, we are a legacy company that you can call “home.”

Credited as the Founder and President of the company is Josh Zwagil.

Zwagil (right) was previously involved in Syntek Global (fuel additives) as an affiliate. On his LinkedIn profile, Zwagil also credits himself as a member of Syntek’s “advisory board”.

Through his company “MLMTeamSystems”, Zwagil has also been involved in MLM marketing tools (lead generation):

MLM Team Systems is an organization that helps Network Marketing companies develop the right internet marketing system to create maximum duplication.

Zwagil was with Syntek Global since 2009, why he left the company to launch My Daily Choice is unclear.

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

Sure to add to the legal stress TelexFree owners are already currently under, news today that regulators in Brazil have filed another criminal case against the company.

The new case revolves around regulatory issues surrounding TelexFree’s VOIP offering in Brazil, and is the culmination of a criminal investigation that began back in 2013. [Continue reading…]

Just twenty-four hours after the publication of our comprehensive iGetMania review, Canadian regulators have now issued a warning against investing in the company.

Officially titled “Warning – Caution regarding GetEasy and iGetMania investment program”, the notice was published on the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) website on January 26th. [Continue reading…]

GetEasy took off in the wake of the regulatory shut down of TelexFree.

Seeking to scoop up disenfranchised investors who lost funds in the billion dollar Ponzi scheme, GetEasy successfully attracted a significant number of investors from Portugal, Spain and to a lesser extent, South America and greater Europe.

Following a few months of growth, as is typical in Ponzi schemes in their initial traction phase, things began to fall apart in GetEasy after it was announced police in Portugal were investigating the company.

The investigation was announced in October last year, with ROI payments grinding to a halt after the Bank of Portugal issued a warning the following month.

As I understand it, GetEasy was primarily laundering stolen investor funds through Portuguese banking channels. Following the Bank of Portugal’s warning, GetEasy was left unable to secure legitimate banking channels to continue to pay off its investors.

That left GetEasy in limbo for a few months, with an announcement towards the end of last year revealing the company’s plans to operate their own bank.

Details on the specifics of this plan are sketchy at best, with one claim made by GetEasy already debunked by a regulator in Luxembourg.

What we do know however is that these new plans are to be implemented under the brand iGetMania, with GetEasy hoping to elude regulatory suspicion under a new name (because it’s apparently that easy to cover your tracks…).

Initially GetEasy announced their bank would be live in the first week or so of January, but that deadline came and went. We’re still following that story but in the meantime the iGetMania compensation plan has been released.

So today we take a look at GetEasy 2.0. Is it still a global Ponzi scheme offering ridiculous returns, or is there something to GetEasy’s investment bank plans?

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