VizConnect launched in mid 2013 and operate within the mobile niche of the MLM industry.

No corporate address is provided on the VizConnect website, however the company’s website domain (“vizconnect.com”) provides an address in the US state of Massachusetts.

VizConnect also make reference to Massachusetts in their Terms and Conditions:

GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND VENUE

This Agreement and access to the Website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, exclusive of its choice of law rules and matters affecting copyrights, trademarks and patents under U.S. federal law.

Heading up VizConnect is Founder Edward Carroll (right). According to Carroll’s VizConnect corporate bio,

A 20-year+ veteran of media, Mr. Carroll leverages his video and media savvy to help businesses and entrepreneurs take advantage of video and mobile marketing.

Ed launched his own production company in 2005 developing special marketing pieces for the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and Bosse Sports Clubs as well as other web-based videos for smaller companies.

Seeing the explosive growth in mobile marketing and the need for businesses to access customers on their mobile devices, Ed was instrumental in the architecture of the Company’s software platform.

I couldn’t find any further information on Carroll’s involvement in the MLM industry prior to VizConnect, so VizConnect would appear to be his first MLM venture on the executive side of things.

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

WCM777 first popped up on my radar back in June of this year. In formally reviewing and analysing the WCM777 business model and compensation plan, I discovered the company offered affiliates 100 day ROIs over five investment levels.

With invested affiliate funds the only source of revenue on the MLM side of the business, quite obviously WCM777 was operating as a Ponzi scheme.

Based out of Hong Kong and officially registered in the British Virgin Islands, a known tax-haven, WCM777 expanded operations into the US around the same time I initially reviewed the opportunity.

On Monday the 17th of June WCM777 held a “grand opening” at the Pacific Palms Hotel in Los Angeles, California. On their website WCM777 claim that over 500 affiliate investors attended the event, with twenty of them being given awards for their financial contribution and recruitment of new affiliate investors into the scheme.

The company also claimed to have ‘received great support from the California government‘, accepting a “Certificate of Recognition” from the City of Walnut.

Fast forward five months and WCM777’s offices have been abruptly shutdown, with rumours emerging that suggest an FBI investigation was behind the decision.

While I personally can’t confirm the existence of an FBI investigation into WCM777 at this time, what I can confirm is that last week the company did indeed decide to suddenly abandon its US operations and retreat back to Hong Kong. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Split2All website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Split2All website was registered on the 19th of September 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

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…]

Following the SEC shutdown of the $600M Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme, a group of merry net winners bandied together and began fleecing their downlines for money.

These net winners formed the cream of the crop of Zeek Rewards net winners, led by Captain Robert Craddock, a Zeek Rewards affiliate himself and former second in command of the company’s “threatening of critics” department.

The money ZTeamBiz fleeced from affiliates who donated was originally gathered to be used to defend all Zeek Rewards affiliates who donated against impending SEC litigation. Shortly after the bulk of the money that would be donated was donated however, this changed to the offering of a cookie-cutter attorney letter, provided at an additional cost.

Where did the rest of the money go?

It is widely believed that the bulk of it went towards financing the legal defences of the Zeek Rewards net winners that formed ZTeamBiz. In the months following the SEC shutdown, a number of legal initiatives were launched by ZTeamBiz affiliates to try to thwart attempts to recover funds they stole from their fellow affiliates.

To date, every single one of these actions has failed.

It is believed the rest of the money was put towards the launch of OfferHubb, which was touted as a viable Zeek Rewards replacement for disenfranchised affiliates.

OfferHubb sought to resurrect Paul Burks’ Ponzi points business model, replacing Zeek Rewards’ penny auction front with that of a daily deals platform.

At least that was the initial plan. When the litigation filed by Zeek Rewards’ top net winners was filed, with the rest of the ZTeamBiz affiliates watching on with bated breath, OfferHubb took a back seat.

Once said litigation was revealed to fruitless, with net winners and affiliates of ZTeamBiz likely having to pay back the bulk of their Ponzi proceeds, OfferHubb resurfaced and eventually launched a few months ago.

With nobody interested in Zeek Rewards v2.0 except those who made the most money in v1.0, OfferHubb all but flopped.

Facing impending clawback litigation from the Zeek Rewards Receivership, the ongoing failure of Offer “Zeek Rewards 2.0” Hubb and the widespread acceptance by non net-winners that Zeek Rewards was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme, it seems the folks at ZTeamBiz are launching one final effort to convince whoeever will listen to follow them into “new opportunities”.

In a notice titled “update on the events after Zeek Rewards” published on October 10th, Robert Craddock ZTeamBiz wrote

As you know, August 16, 2012 (the day Zeek Rewards was shut-down) seems like a long time ago, and many things have happened, alleged to have happened, and honestly — just never could have happened.

Sadly we have seen rumors and attempts to confuse all Zeek Affiliates and separate them from their hard-earned money. Please understand that the purpose of this email is to provide you with some valuable updates and help you navigate the mountain of information (and disinformation) that has circled the web over the last 14 months.

The circulation of disinformation? I’ll say. Could it be Robert Craddock and the Craddock 12 are finally going to come clean and atone for the mountains of bullshit they pushed onto Zeek Rewards affiliates?

Nah. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Unetenet website indicating who owns or runs the business. At the time of publication, visitors to the Unetenet website are only able to either submit their email address or login as a company affiliate.

The Unetenet website domain was registered on the 12th of March 2009 and lists “Union Business Online” as the owner, operating out of New York in the US.

A Google search of the provided address, “3691 Rt 9, Cold Spring, New York 10516”, revealed a large solitary warehouse type building in the middle of nowhere:

No mention of Unetenet or Union Business Online features on the tenant directory placed at the property entrance.

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…]

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

The AdExperts website domain (“adexperts.com”) was registered on the 12th of July 1996, listing “AD EXPERTS MEDIA LLC” as the domain owner and an address in Belize.

A Google Maps search of the address AdExperts used to register their domain, 135 Nerot Street in Belize City, does not exist.

On the AdExperts website, the company claims to have ‘partnered with a high-end Home Business Magazine called Home Business Giant‘.

Home Business Giant appears to be little more than a blog, with the domain registration for “homebusinessgiant.com”, registered on the 26th of June and listing a “Melinda Moore” of AdExperts Media LLC as the domain owner.

A magazine exists on the Home Business Giant website, however it appears to be little more than the rehashing of blog posts published on the site.

As with AdExperts own domain, the supplied address for the Home Business Giant website domain, 135 Davie Street in Belize City, also does not exist.

Given this I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that in all likelihood Melinda Moore doesn’t exist either.

Curiously, the homepage of AdExperts bandyies about the name “Mathew Toren”, crediting him with being behind Home Business Giant. Toren is a fairly well known marketer who runs a series of websites amongst other things.

No mention of AdExperts is made on Toren’s Twitter feed or website properties. Additionally no mention of Toren exists on the Home Business Giant website.

Unless I’m missing something obvious, outside of the AdExperts website there is no publicly acknowledged business relationship between Matthew Toren and AdExperts, AdExperts Media LLC and Home Business Giant.

One final note, whether it indicates laziness or some attempt at a sense of humor I can’t say, but it’s noted that the supplied street name used to register AdExpert’s domain spells out Matthew Toren’s surname backwards (Nerot). AdExpert’s Income Disclaimer has also been copy and pasted from Empower Network:

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…]

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

The Casharead website domain (“casharead.com”) was registered on the 26th of August 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

One thing that struck me as odd was the inclusion of the word “paluwagan” in the Casharead website meta keywords:

Paluwagan refers to an investment scheme that originated out of the Philippines. In a nutshell, a group of people play an operator a fixed sum of money periodically. Over a pre-designated period of time, the money in the fund is paid out to one of the participants until everyone has been paid.

The use of this specific words indicated that the owner(s) of Casharead are likely based out of the Philippines, or at the very least are of Philippine descent.

Further research revealed that the Casharead support services are tied to the Yahoo messenger account “naglarok”:

In October of 2012 a Jeffrey Manalaysay used the following advertising copy to market the Alliance in Motion MLM opportunity on Facebook:

For more information and detailed explanation, please call or text JEFFREY @ 09179102010 YM: naglarok.

With “YM” of course standing for Yahoo Messenger and the same account name being used, it appears Jeffrey Manalaysay (right) is the admin behind Casharead.

On his Facebook profile, Manalaysay lists his location as Pangasinan, a province of the Philippines. Manalaysay also has links to the well-known but now collapsed Ponzi schemes Profit Clicking and Just Been Paid.

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

Alliance in motion claim on their website to have launched in 2006, however the company’s website domain (“allianceinmotion.com”) was first registered in September 2009.

As per the Alliance in Motion website,

Alliance In Motion Global, Inc., is Nature’s Way exclusive multi-level marketing company product distributor in the Philippines and other countries in the world.

With its head office in Pasig City in the Philippines, Alliance in Motion primarily appears to target the local Philippine market.

On their website Nature’s Way claim to be ‘America’s leader in herbal medicine for over 40 years‘, however the exact nature of the relationship between Alliance in Motion and the company is unclear. I found no mention of Alliance in Motion anywhere on the Nature’s Way website.

I thought perhaps the Alliance in Motion “Disclaimer” might yield further information on the relationship, however when I clicked on the disclaimer link on their website all I got was this:

Heading up Alliance in Motion is CEO and President, Eduardo Cabantog (right). On his Alliance in Motion corporate bio the company writes

Eduardo Cabantog is a graduate of Medicine from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, a pioneer, leader, and model institution of higher learning in the Philippines.

After acquiring his license as a Medical Doctor and serving as a company physician in one of the well-known local medical and clinical services provider for a couple of years.

He ventured into the networking business and joined other networking companies before instituting Alliance In Motion Global, Inc. in 2006.

What MLM opportunities Cabantog was involved in prior to Alliance in Motion is not clarified. I was unable to find any further information myself as there’s no online information on prior to 2006.

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

According to the company’s Twitter account, FGXpress are set to launch in March of 2014. That said the company already appears to have prelaunched, with a fully operational website online and several uploaded testimonials.

On the FGXpress website, the company advises that it is ‘powered by ForeverGreen‘. ForeverGreen is an MLM company that was launched in 2004 and is headed up by Founder and CEO Ron Williams.

FGXpress appears to be a child company of the parent ForeverGreen MLM business opportunity, with the FGXpress Terms and Conditions stating that FGXpress is ‘a division of ForeverGreen International, LLC‘.

Why ForeverGreen have chosen to launch a new division rather than integrate FGXpress’ product line into their existing opportunity however is not clarified.

All FGXpress company information presented on their website, including that of the executive management, has been copy and pasted directly from the ForeverGreen website.

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

As dubious schemes pop up in the MLM industry there’s usually an accompaniment of silly arguments explaining how said scheme is infact not dubious.

These arguments usually begin with the claim that anyone who thinks otherwise is “uneducated” or “just doesn’t get it”, followed by any number of fallacy-ridden arguments.

“We’re legal because we haven’t been shut down!”, “we have a product!”, “you’re just jealous!”, “my upline said…” are just some of the more commonly used arguments we frequently see here on BehindMLM.

(Editorial note: Even as I sit here and write this article, someone just now tried to pull the “we’re legal because we haven’t been shut down!” argument elsewhere on the site…)

Last month Paul Darby launched YouGetPaidFast, a gifting scheme in which participants send each other $7 money orders via the US postal service.

Upon signing up an affiliate is given 4 names and addresses to send the money orders to, after which the recipients mark the money as received. When this happens the newly recruited affiliates moves up the list and is eligible to receive $7 money orders from those they recruit and the new affiliates those recruited recruit and so on. [Continue reading…]