Rain International launched around 2009 and lists several global office locations on its website, with its US office located in the state of Utah.

Heading up Rain International is Founder and President, Byron Belka.

Widely known as a successful top distributor in the industry, Byron brings over ten years of field experience to the Rain International corporate team.

At the prodigious age of 28, Byron reached top commission level with his first direct sales company and has remained in the industry’s elite class ever since.

Belka (right) initially worked in the mortgage industry before switching over to MLM. Company wise his most recent venture as an affiliate before Rain was eXfuze (multi-botanical beverages), having joined around 2008 I believe.

Prior to Exfuze, Belka was a distributor of Nu Skin. I’m not sure when he joined the company but Belka was credited as a “top 20 Bonus Pool Earner” back in 2003.

Both of these associations appear to have been restricted to an affiliate role, with Belka not entering the executive management side of things until he signed on as Rain International’s Executive Vice-President of Global Sales and Marketing back in August 2011.

I’m a little confused as to how Byron Belka is credited as a founder of Rain International, as he appears to have come on board long after its establishment.

Adding a bit more confusion to the mix that same year (2011), Rain International bought out a company called Rain Nutrition, who at the time were marketing what appears to be Rain International’s product line today.

According to a press-release Rain International put out in late 2011,

Rain International partnered with Rain Nutrition in 2010. Since that time, Rain Nutrition’s proprietary research on seed nutrition supported Rain International’s efforts.

The acquisition will further enhance Rain International’s position as a leader in the seed nutrition industry by bringing Rain Nutrition, a company based on many years of seed research, in house.

“This announcement is a huge milestone in the history of Rain International,” said Executive Vice President, Byron Belka. “This announcement dispels the buzz regarding the acquisition of Rain Nutrition by another MLM company.

We are alive and well, ready to grow globally and are excited to partner with people all over the world. Additionally, this purchase allows Rain International to open its doors to the North American markets giving us the opportunity to accelerate the growth of Rain International locally like we are doing in our other markets around the world.”

Read on for full review of the Rain International MLM business opportunity as it operates today. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Centurion Profits website indicating who owns or runs the company.

The Centurion Profits website domain (“centuronprofits.com”) was registered on the 14th of November 2012, however the domain registration is set to private.

Further research on various social media platforms however uncovers the following two names credited as admins of the company, Keith Curtis and Frank Dillon.

Keith Curtis operates out Indiana in the US and has previously launched the scheme PowerCycle13.

PowerCycle13 launched in August of 2012 and promised participating affiliates 137-200% ROIs on investments. By January 2013 PowerCycle13 had officially run out of money, with Curtis advising affiliates that the company was ‘just about out of funds to keep up with the current shares owned‘.

We regret to inform you that PowerCycle13 is forced to shut its doors. Unfortunately, we cannot continue. I truly am sorry if this has caused any inconvenience to our members.

I have refunded accounts who put in new money the past month starting with the most recent and going backwards. Our accounts are now drained.

There is no way to continue with only 10 percent of the accounts/members actually participating in our program.

As PowerCycle13 was on the verge of organic collapse, Curtis touted a number of possibilities going forward – one of which was

refund(ing) the new money, (closing) down PC13 then do(ing) another program (one that starts off better than this one – I know it was a mess at the beginning) with a new design and new name and more! with the outside programs also linked and more!

Launched in late July 2013, Curtis’ new “program” would appear to be Centurion Profits.

Meanwhile a Frank Dillon appears to be involved in Primerica, but whether or not that’s the same Frank Dillon Keith Curtis has partnered with to admin Centurion Profits is unclear.

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

In yet another blow for the MLM revenue-sharing niche, news came in today that the Vice President of AddWallet has officially bailed from the company.

Whether an official announcement will be made remains to be seen, however social media buzz from AddWallet affiliates suggest Bradshaw left because he did ‘not want to relocate to South America‘. [Continue reading…]

Womsta stands for “Word of Mouth Socially Targeted Advertising” and launched in August 2013.

Womsta appear to be based out of Queensland in Australia and state on their website that the company was founded by Warren and Wendy Hickey, however no corporate or management structure is clarified.

Warren and Wendy Hickey (right) started their MLM career in Monavie, dating back to January 2009 and reaching the rank of “Diamond Executive”.

On their respective LinkedIn profiles, Wendy lists participation in Monavie up until January 2013, with Warren leaving the company in December 2011.

In addition to Monavie Warren also lists participation as an affiliate in the Numis Network from December of 2011 to the present date.

On the management side of things, Womsta appears to be the first MLM venture for both Warren and Wendy Hickey.

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

You knew it was coming. I knew it was coming.

After nine previous appeal denials in court it seems the only people who refused to believe it was game over were TelexFree investors outside of Brazil still trying to convince people to invest, and those in Brazil who had invested their money with the company.

In what must have been a rather short hearing, once again upon consideration of evidence presented both by TelexFree and the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Acre, TelexFree has lost yet another appeal in court.

The hearing was for an interlocutory hearing and was held to decide once and for all whether the injunction barring TelexFree from paying commissions and its affiliates recruiting new investors should be lifted. [Continue reading…]

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

The Partners Pay website domain (“partnerspay.com”) was registered on the 12th of March 2013, with the domain registration listing an “Adela Wex” as the owner.

An address of “St Clair” in the US state of Alabama is provided, however this appears to be either false or incomplete. A St Clair Road does exist in Moody, Alabama but is not sufficient on its own as the address of a company.

Today the Partners Pay website is hosted on a private server, however records show that in the past it was hosted on the same server as the short-lived DailyPaidProfit scheme:

DailyPaidProfit was a Ponzi scheme that launched on May 10th 2013 and offered affiliate investors a daily ROI of 1.5-2%. Payment receipts listed an “Adela Rivis” as the company owner, indicating that the name “Adela Wex” used in the Partners Pay domain registration is fake.

On May 14th Adela Rivis made an announcement to DailyPaidProfit affiliates advising that

Very SOON wit AVN and daily Paid Profit will offer you Master Card.

By May 24th DailyPaidProfit had collapsed with the website going offline.

The acronym “AVN” used by Adela in her announcement stands for “Ads Visit Network” (anonymous domain registration, registered on the 9th March, 2013).

Ads Visit Network guaranteed affiliate investors returns of 2-3% daily over 60-70 days. The company launched in March and would appear to be the pre-cursor to DailyPaidProfit.

An undated announcement on the Ads Visit Network website advises

Transfer AVN To DPP !!!!!!

Transfer AVN to Daily Paid Profit has been Completed, And Crooks Account has been Delete, We Start Ads Visit Network Again with Long term Plans.

Putting all of this together, it appears Adela Rivis / Adela Wex (who probably doesn’t exist) initially launched AVN back in March. When that collapsed he or she launched DailyPaidProfit, which too collapsed shortly after launch.

Taking some time off to let the heat die down from disgruntled affiliates of the past two schemes, now Adela is back with Partners Pay.

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Zinzino launched in 2007 and are based out of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Exclusively targeting the European market (Norway is Zinzino’s primary revenue source, accounting for 35% of company-wide sales revenue), Zinzino operate using a parent company / subsidy structure.

The company Zinzino AB is the parent and in each country Zinzino operate in a separate child subsidiary company is formed.

Provided in the Zinzino 2012 Annual Report is a “brief history of the company”:

Business activities commenced in autumn 2007. The principal activity of the business is to own and develop companies in direct marketing and related businesses.

In 2009, Zinzino Nordic AB was acquired through both a directed issue in kind to shareholders in Zinzino Nordic AB and through the rights issue Zinzino Nordic conducted in December 2009. This gave Zinzino AB control over 97% of votes and 92% of capital in Zinzino Nordic AB.

By December 31, 2012, participating interest had increased to 93% of capital.

Since September 20, 2010, Zinzino AB has been listed on the Aktietorget stock exchange. Stock performance has been very positive, particularly over the past year.

In 2011, the Group expanded with companies in Estonia and Lithuania. In 2012, companies were also launched in Latvia and Iceland. Unlike previous group structures, the new subsidiaries are directly owned by Zinzino AB.

Heading up Zinzino is CEO Dag Bergheim Pettersen (right), who wrote in the aforementioned 2012 Annual Report:

All Zinzino employees and distributors are well aware that our real boss is the customer, and everyone is familiar with our goal of 1 million customers by 2020.

I wasn’t able to find a history on Pettersen MLM industry wise, indicating that Zinzino is his first venture on the executive management side of things.

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

Echoing the Facebook ban of Empower Network links when users of the social network got fed up of the spam and started complaining, now it appears Rippln are being subjected to the same fate.

Earlier this week Rippln affiliates began to complain that their “Rippln Blitz” links were being blocked by Facebook.

Other than jealousy anyone have an idea why FB blocked my rippln blitz link from my own rippln fan page??

(in response to the above) FB blocked my rippln blitz link also

For those of you wondering what Rippln Blitz is, a few weeks back Rippln decided to do away with the drip-feed invite system and just effectively give everyone unlimited invites, provided via a “blitz link”.

If you want to get technical about it, rather than each invite being allocated a time sensitive activation code within the system, blitz links allow affiliates to mass-recruit affiliates with a single code.

As with any recruitment-drive, this resulted in copious amounts of Rippln recruitment spam hitting the internet (again). Rippln cites this reason themselves as the cause of the Facebook ban, officially responding to affiliate complaints with the message below: [Continue reading…]

Blissophere launched in July 2013 and appears to be based out of Bangkok in Thailand.

Management wise the company names a Jay Tanathip Sinrachtanant as CEO and Founder.

With 4 years of marketing experience and an ambitious vision of delivering premium health products while creating an income opportunity that elevates the quality of people’s lives around the world, Jay founded Blissophere in May 2013.

Jay is also a certified distributor and strategic partner in a health company known as CEO Corporation 2012.

Together with CEO 2012, he aims to reach new heights of the network marketing module by building not only “business” but also “people”.

CEO 2012 is further credite as the ‘product manufacturer and strategic partner for Blissophere‘, with the same products used in both opportunities.

Launched in December 2012, CEO 2012 is primarily targeted at a Thai speaking market, offering affiliates a binary based compensation plan that revolves around the sale of the company’s personal care, coffee and weight loss products.

Additionally in the Blissophere FAQ states

Although Blissophere is not yet a registered company, Blissophere is a registered legal e-commerce identity. We are a certified distributor and strategic partner for a registered CEO Corporation 2012.

CEO 2012’s CEO, Manij Warapak is featured on the Blissophere website but other than CEO 2012 being named a “strategic partner” of the company, the extent of Warapak’s personal involvement in Blissophere (if any) is not clarified.

MLM history wise, as above, Sinrachtanant credits himself with four years of marketing experience. On his Facebook page (where he omits the “t” from his surname for some reason), Sinrachtanant claims participation in something called NCD Wellnesceuticals (no longer exists), the Ponzi scheme JSS Tripler2 (Frederick Mann) and short-lived pyramid scheme Huge Yield (2012).

I don’t know about four years but these three companies, including CEO 2012 as of May 2013 appear to be the extent of Sinrachtanant’s involvement in the MLM industry.

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

The ViewTrakr website domain (“viewtrakr.com”) was registered on the 22nd of June 2012, however the domain registration is set to private.

The only name I was able to attach to ViewTrakr was “Duane Stamp”, as provided in the ViewTrakr Terms of Service:

Pursuant to the DMCA, ViewTrakr has designated an agent to receive notification of alleged copyright infringement occurring on the ViewTrakr website. If you believe that  copyrighted work is being infringed on our website, please notify our designated agent, preferably by email, at:

Administrator: Duane Stamp

(email address removed)

Other than the title “administrator”, Stamp’s role within ViewTrakr isn’t immediately clear.

That said, back on the 2nd of April a trademark application for ViewTrakr was filed in the US state of Texas.

The trademark was granted on the 22nd of July (85893036), with the application listing Duane Stamp as the “correspondent” for the filing.

Stamp provides an address in Texas and also associates himself with the company name JurisWord LLC.

This led to Stamp’s LinkedIn profile, where he credits himself as a “Managing Member” of JurisWord and describes the company as offering

legal services for ecommerce and web-based businesses and entrepreneurs.

JurisWord also have a website (“jurisword.com”), on which they provide the following description of the business:

JurisWord is the general counsel legal and business consulting service of JurisWord LLC. Our expertise is providing high quality– and cost-effective– legal services to small and mid-sized businesses.

Stamp is one of two staff members of JurisWord listed on the website.

Given the above it’s unlikely that Stamp owns or runs ViewTrakr, with ownership of the company remaining unclear.

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…]