No doubt frustrated at the amount of legal setbacks the company has experienced in Brazil’s courts, TelexFree today announced that they were initiating legal action against the media company Globo.

Globo, who have been diligently reporting on TelexFree’s ongoing legal failures over the past few months through their online news portal “G1”, are the largest media group in Latin America and ranked 17th in the world for global media ownership.

Last Tuesday the topic of TelexFree came up on “Mais Você”, a television show hosted by Ana Maria Braga on the Globo television network.

With the discussion reflecting the obvious Ponzi scheme nature of the business evident to anyone who hasn’t invested money in the company, at one point during the three-minute segment Braga jokingly asked “whether or not TelexFree’s affiliates were bandits”.

Cue internet firestorm from TelexFree and its affiliates. [Continue reading…]

A welcome message published on the HybridAdz website has the name “Deirdre L. McCormick” attached to it, credited as HybridAdz’s CEO. Outside of HybridAdz itself however, I was unable to find an MLM history for McCormick (either as an affiliate or executive).

The HybridAdz website domain (“hybridadz.com”) was registered on the 14th of August 2013 but the domain registration is set to private. Of note is that the HyrbidAdz domain uses the name servers of Auflo, which appears to be some sort of app marketplace with an attached MLM income opportunity.

Auflo launched in July 2013 with a “Tim Hays” (also goes by Timothy Hays) named as the owner of the scheme by affiliates on social media.

Auflo charged affiliates $2.40 for matrix positions and required a constant influx of new members to purchase positions to keep matrices cycling. Affiliates were charged $2.40 for a “subscription”, with each subscription generating a new matrix position each week.

On September 3rd Auflo attempted to launch a revenue sharing scheme, however the scheme collapsed and was shut down by the company on September 14th.

Explaining the emergence of HybridAdz, Hays sent out the following email to affiliates on September 7th:

Introducing our first white label website by Deirdre McCormick

Hybridadz was built using a similar structure to AUFLO, except that it has a SUPER FAST 2×2 with double re-entries!!! 5X FASTER! – LIGHTNING SPEED! – $1.00 DAILY Subscriptions”

Call me cynical but with their revenue-sharing scheme failing it appears Hays is in need of new funds to keep Auflo going, hence the launch of HybridAdz and the script recycle “white label” cover story.

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

The RevShareCycler website domain (“revsharecycler.com”) was registered on the 6th of August, however the domain registration is set to private.

RevShareCycler claims to be run by a ‘responsive, trusted and well known admin‘ and buried at the bottom of the RevShareCycler FAQ, the company reveals who is behind the opportunity:

RevShareCycler is owned by two experienced partners. Andrew William Carleton and Williams Alderson both in United Kingdom.

Andrew William Carleton handles the technical aspect of the program and Williams Alderson a well known online market leader handles the admin section.

Curiously, it appears RevShareCycler’s Terms and Conditions have been copied and pasted from the failed scheme JubyAdShare:

JubyAdShare launched in mid July 2013 and accepted deposits from affiliates ranging from $10 to $1000. In turn, JubyAdShare promised affiliates a ROI of between 120-135%, depending on how much money they deposited into the system.

No mention is made of who is running JubyAdShare on the company website (“jubyadshare.com”), however affiliates name a “Jade Edswill” as the scheme owner on various social media sites.

By Mid August the JubyAdShare scheme had collapsed, with the company losing it’s Payza account and the usual claims of “DDOS attacks”.

At the same time JubyAdShare collapsed Edswill launched its successor, JubyAdBank. At the time of publication, JubyAdBank is having problems with payment processor SolidTrustPay and recently implemented a forced 50% re-investment rule.

As per the source-code of the JubyAdShare and RevShareCycler websites, we can see that they are running the same backend script:

On the JubyAdShare FAQ, this backend script is revealed to be “ShadowScript”:

WHAT SCRIPT ARE YOU USING AND HOW SECURED IS YOUR SYSTEM?

A: Our program runs on licensed ShadowScript specially customized for our profit share system.

The JubyAdBank website source-code is slightly different to JubyAdShare and RevShareCycler’s, however at the bottom of the JubyAdBank website the company credits ShadowScripts as a “technical partner”:

On their website, ShadowScripts claim to be “the trusted HYIP software suite”, providing ‘the best HYIP, Private Investment, AutoSurf, Referral, Matrix and Re-Cycler management software‘.

HYIP of course standing for “High Yield Investment Program” and being synonymous with Ponzi schemes in the MLM industry.

Getting back to RevShareCycler and its admins, I was unable to find any information on Andrew William Carleton. Williams Alderson however has popped up previously on BehindMLM as the admin of Diamond Wealth Club, which was found to be hosted on the same server as Matrix Cycler.

Matrix Cycler was a $30 a position pyramid scheme that launched in May 2013 and went into decline shortly after launch.

Note that Williams Alderson credited himself as Andrew Williams Alderson in his Diamond Wealth Club affiliate emails, whereas he appears to be omitting “Andrew” from his name in RevShareCycler.

Also worth noting is the suspicious similarity between the names “Andrew William Carleton” and “Andrew Williams Alderson”. It has been my experience that co-incidences of that magnitude are a rarity in MLM circles, and are usually the attempt at covering up information that is not meant for public consumption.

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

Infinity 2 Global appears to have launched in early 2013 and are based out of the US state of Kentucky.

Heading up Infinity 2 Global (I2G) is President and CEO, Rick Maike.

Rick has been involved in the Network Marketing Industry for the past 25 years.

He has been a successful distributor and has owned and operated two Network Marketing companies that have generated over $100 Million in sales. Both of those companies are still in business today.

As President/CEO of I2G, Rick brings a tremendous amount of both Domestic and International experience in the network marketing and general business arena.

As a former top earner in the field, he has a great perspective on what is needed to be successful and from the corporate side he has a proven track record that is second to none.

The two companies mentioned in Maike’s I2G company bio are Healing America (1997-2010) and Velocity International Marketing (2007-2011), both in which Maike (right) served as CEO and President.

Despite the claim that Healing America is “still in business today”, unless I’m missing something obvious the company appears to be defunct (the domain “healingamerica.com” does not resolve).

As for Velocity International, they also no longer exist. As per Maike’s LinkedIn profile,

we were able to build a very successful company primarily in Asia and merged it into a top 100 MLM company.

That “top 100 MLM company” was bHIP Global, which Maike served as Asia-Pacific President from 2011 up until April 2013.

bHIP Global operate in the health, wellness and personal care) and was launched in 2007. Founded and owned by Terry Lacore, bHIP has had its fair share of controversy since launch.

Presumably upon leaving bHIP Global earlier this year, that’s when Maike set about launching Infinity 2 Global.

Before we get on with the review I think it’s worth noting that in the I2G website domain registration, a “Mary Ann Alford” is listed as the domain owner. Despite my best efforts I was unable to find any further information on Alford and what her connection to or specific role is within I2G.

Read on for a full review of the Infinity 2 Global MLM business opportunity. [Continue reading…]

With TelexFree themselves seemingly having exhausted their injunction appeal options over no less than thirteen separate appeals, all unanimously denied, the company’s affiliates have taken up the slack in the hope that they can convince a judge to lift the Acre injunction.

The Acre injunction, granted to Public Prosecutors back in June, prohibits TelexFree from paying affiliates in Brazil or signing up new affiliate investors.

Fifty-two TelexFree affiliates filed an application for an injunction against the Acre injunction. The group of affiliates claimed that the decision to effectively put a stop to TelexFree’s Brazilian operations is illegal because it infringed on their right to participate in the opportunity and earn from it. [Continue reading…]

In yet another blow to TelexFree’s non-Brazilian operations, today Global Payroll Gateway announced that they were dropping the company.

Global Payroll Gateway’s announcement comes on the back of weeks of commission delays for TelexFree’s affiliates, with the company itself failing to pay affiliates for close to a month now. [Continue reading…]

Revision Network launched in mid 2013 and are based out of the US state of Nebraska.

That said, the Revision Network Terms and Conditions are bit confusing, with the company stating that

These Terms and Conditions shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of California, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law.

But then in the next sentence,

You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in Gage County, Nebraska, USA in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the Site or Service.

I’m not expert in law but I’d assume trying to apply Californian law in a Nebraskan court might bring with it some issues.

In a marketing video on the Revision Network website (“revisionnetwork.com”), the company claims to be owned by “JPB Publications”.

JPB Publications (“jpbpublications.com”) claim to be ‘the premier resource center for internet and network marketers’, with the company having been ‘family owned and operated since 2006‘.

Heading up JPB Publications is Brian Barnhouse (right). Featured on the JPB Publications website are a series of websites the company owns, which primarily offer network marketing advertising and training services.

Revision Network appears to be Barnhouses first fully fledged MLM company venture.

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

The AdShareWin domain (“adsharewin.com”) was registered on the 25th of July 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

On the AdShareWin website, the company names a “Johny Blend” as the company’s CEO but fails to go into any detailed specifics.

Personally I have reason to believe that Johny Blend doesn’t actually exist. For starters back in August AdShareWin were claiming Johny Blend lived in Melbourne, Australia:

Whereas today, Blend now apparently lives in New York:

Further suspicion arises when it is revealed that the copy used to market Johny Blend appears to be ripped off of other websites.

For instance the AdShareWin Blend bio contains the following paragraph:

Johny Blend is a marketing expert from 1999, living now in New York, USA, professional speaker and team builder! Marketing, a marketing strategy firm dedicated to making thought-leading entrepreneurs and executives more successful.

That bolded sentence? Doesn’t really make much sense, does it.

That’s because it’s been ripped from the LinkedIn profile of Do It! Marketing’s David Newman:

David runs a marketing strategy firm dedicated to making thought-leading entrepreneurs and executives more successful.

They simply replaced “David runs a” with the word “marketing”, added a comma and then apparently forgot to proof-read the poor copy and paste effort.

The final nail in the coffin was the surfacing of what appears to be an early prototype of the AdShareWin website, surfacing on the Skippy Advertising domain and featuring a GMSeven logo:

Hosted on the “mail.skippyadvertising.com” domain, the AdShareWin prototype is no longer online, however Google Cache cached the site back on the 25th of August.

Skippy Advertising is the successor of Skippy Cash Matrix, which were both owned and operated by Grigore Turcanu (also known as Greg Turcanu).

Skippy Cash Matrix launched in mid 2012 and under the guise of selling advertising, paid affiliates to recruit new affiliates via a series of matrices.

By October things seemed to be in decline with Turcanu (right) rebranding the company as Skippy Advertising and attempting to relaunch it.

GMSeven is again the successor to Skippy Advertising and was launched in May of 2013.

All three of Turcanu’s company’s used a recruitment-driven matrix-based compensation plan, charging affiliates a monthly fee and paying commissions based on affiliate recruitment.

In addition to running his own companies, Turcanu has also promoted several dubious schemes as an affiliate. In his APSense profile, Turcanu can be seen promoting the now defunct Ponzi schemes JSSTripler and JustBeenpaid.

I also couldn’t help but notice that in his APSense profile, Turcanu lists himself as being “from Melbourne, Australia”.

Johny Blend is supposedly from Melbourne, Australia too… make of that what you will.

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

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

The GlobalAdShare website domain however was registered on the 21st of July and lists an “Asher Winata” as the domain owner. An address is also provided in the US state of California, however GlobalAdShare appears to be actually based out Texas.

As per the GlobalAdShare Terms and Conditions:

All arbitration must occur in The State of Texas, in The USA.

Winata also lists his location as Houston, Texas in various social media profiles.

In one such profile, Winata describes himself as having

always been an entrepreneur and own(er of) several online/offline businesses. I jumped into online ventures a few years ago because of the challenge to help the 98% who never make any money online.

I started a computer software company in 1982 and was a consultant for several Oil & Gas companies, which includes Shell Oil, Conoco, Exxon Mobil, Fluor Daniel, and Global Marine.

I developed a well-mapping software, an inventory control software, and a mooring stability software which is still in use today.

In addition to his non-MLM ventures, Winata has also launched at least two MLM business opportunities in the last year.

The first was a Facebook clone called “Affiliate Community”. Launched in late 2012, Affiliate Community was your typical MLM social network that led with free membership but offered “premium (gold) membership” to affiliates who ‘want to earn more income‘.

Free members have the same access and privileges as premium members, the only difference is premium members can earn more income from the community.

Up to 75% of our profit will be donated to charities and distributed among members (10% to homeless charities, 10% to animal charities, 20% to free members, and 35% to upgraded members).

Our revenue comes from advertisements, product sales and membership fees.

With Affiliate Community failing to gain any traction Winata then launched Oodle Ads in July of 2013.

Oodle Ads charged $25 for affiliate membership, with affiliates then able to make $25 investments with the company on the promise of a 150% ROI.

We share 100% of the sale profits that is generated from members who purchased our advertising packages back to our members.

As per the above, which is taken from the Oodle Ads FAQ, the company simply takes new money from affiliates and pays it back out to existing investors.

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

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

The AdTelligent website domain (“adtelligent.com”) was registered on the 23rd of August 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

It’s also worth noting that at the time of publication, McAfee’s site advisor has classified the AdTelligent website as a “malicious site”:

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…]