When we last checked in with the MLM industry’s fight for legitimacy over in India, the various government agencies involved were engaged in ongoing discussion as to what constitutes a legitimate MLM company.

In response to the multitude of scams operating within the MLM industry and local authorities seemingly all but powerless to regulate them, the Department of Consumer Affairs established a committee back in July of last year to establish guidelines to separate legitimate MLM companies from the scams.

A deadline was initially set in “early 2013” however it passed without the committee reaching its goal. As such a new deadline was set for April 30th, which has also now come and gone.

Whether the Department of Consumer Affair’s committee reached a conclusion or not I’m not sure but since the April 30th deadline, the issue seems to have quietly progressed behind the scenes.

In somewhat of a departure from establishing guidelines to define legitimate MLM companies, reports are now stating that the Indian government is looking to ban the entire MLM industry. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the Brright Echelon Ad website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The Brright Echelon Ad website domain (“brrightecehelonad.com”) was registered on the 7th of March 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…]

Initially touted as a Zeek Rewards investment reload sheme, Wealth Creation Alliance was launched by Paul Skulitz and “Coach” Blaine Williams in September of 2012.

The original Wealth Creation Alliance compensation plan saw the company accept $2 investments from affiliates and guaranteed a $3.25 (162%) ROI on each investment, sourced from new affiliate investments.

Roughly a week after launching, Wealth Creation Alliance announced, somewhat ironically, that it was changing its name due to “scam reports” surfacing.

Turns out some guy called “Chuck Hughes” had launched his own “World Consumer Alliance” financial scam prior to Blaine and Skulitz and, not happy with the reputation the name had, decided to change WCA’s name to World Creation Alliance.

The $2 “micro-Ponzi” scheme business model was retained however in addition to it William’s also promised affiliates an upcoming business directory, an online shopping mall, something called “WCA University” and daily coupon details.

I’m not sure exactly when but WCA seems to have brought these new components online sometime in the first quarter of 2013. Along with the new components came a new compensation plan and that’s where this review comes in.

Along with the added components to the business, read on for a full review of the World Consumer Alliance compensation plan v2.0. [Continue reading…]

I never told anyone to invest more money than they could afford, I didn’t tell them to do that. Never.

It’s their fault. Not mine. Don’t blame me.

– Paul Burks, CEO of Zeek Rewards

Amidst several ongoing challenges by Zeek Rewards affiliates who profited from the massive $600M Ponzi scheme, the court-appointed Receivership went live today with the long awaited affiliate claim form.

Affiliates who suffered losses as a result of participation in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme, which if the SEC did not shut down was poised to collapse within months, have until September 5, 2013 to file their claims.

Failure to timely submit a Claim Form, submitting an incomplete Claim Form or submitting a Claim Form without supporting documentation may result in the complete disallowance of your Claim.

The Claim submitted on the Claim Form remains subject to a determination of the allowable amount, if any, of the asserted Claim. The requests for information on this Claim Form do not constitute and shall not be considered the basis for the determination of any Claim or distribution.

Note that, as previously discussed, Zeek Rewards affiliates will not be compensated on their Ponzi points balances.

Regardless of what an affiliate’s upline might have told them, the entire points system was simply monopoly money that didn’t exist.

Money invested by new Zeek Rewards affiliates was simply passed up and paid out to previous investors, on the assumption that new investors would continue to invest in the scheme to pay out those who invested before them. [Continue reading…]

The Green Label Network website was registered on the 30th of December 2010 and lists a “Tham Dai Dee, Co. Ltd.” as the domain owner.

The administrative contact provided is a Domonic Mongello, with a supplied address in Chonburi, Thailand.

Further research revealed a YouTube video featuring Mongello, where he is credited along with host Richard Weberg (both respectively on the right) crediting Mongello as a co-founder of Green Label Network.

Update 21st May 2013 – Since the publication of this review, Weberg has got in contact and denied any involvement with Green Label Network as a co-founder:

I am not the co-founder of Green Label, nor ever have been. Dominic is my friend, and I have done some videos with him, for the launch of Green Label.

I have never owned or founded any part of Green Label (nor do I own any stake in the company and had nothing to do with its creation).

Other than appear to be closely linked to Mongello and appearing in several “early-bird” promotional videos for Green Label network, all we’ve got to go on is Weberg’s word.

Seeing as no other co-founders are mentioned in the “early bird” videos Weberg and Mongello appear in, I’ve requested Weberg identify the other co-founder(s) and if I get a response I’ll publish it here. /end update

Not being familiar with “Tham Dai Dee, Co. Ltd.”, I punched it into Google and was surprised to see BehindMLM pop up in the search results.

Turns out the company has previously come up in a discussion in January 2012 relating to an investigation into Wealth Masters Interational by New Zealand’s Commerce Commission.

The relevant discussion starts around comment #11, with BehindMLM readers attempt to get to the bottom of some of Wealth Master’s marketing operations in Norway.

The domain “EcoEcoNow.com” pops up in relation to the marketing efforts of some of WMI’s former Norwegian affiliates, after Wealth Masters was banned in Norway.

In comment #12 BehindMLM reader “B.F.” wrote:

Hmmm. Maybe they try to cover the WMI activity in Norway behind a new company name?

Actually, EcoEcoNow is the new WMI marketing platform, with the domain ecoeconow.org hosted in Pattaya.

Which was followed up in comment #14 by “Aussie”:

Strange…EcoEcoNow seems to be a ‘conservation’ front with an ‘online marketing system’ called “PCFmojo” or “Perpetual Conversion Funnel”.
The EcoEcoNow.org website is useless – same (out of date?)page for every tab. They claim to support ‘Conservation International’, yet I cannot find any official affiliation between them.

To which B.F. responded in comment #15:

The comments at the site ecoeconow.org are mostly made by WMI M3 consultants.

The domain pcfmojo.com is registered by Tham Dai Dee Co., Ltd., but both sites seem to be runned from servers in Montreal.

Linking Domonic Mongello directly to EcoEcoNow and PCFMojo is this affiliate’s account, published in March of this year:

Domonic Mongello created a marketing system called PCF mojo (perpetual conversion funnel) and a home based business opportunity to market it called eco eco now.

In doing research I discovered he started taking people’s money back in 2010 and still has not delivered the product or launched ecoeconow.org.

Domonic Mongello admitted he did not have the capital to create , run , and support this kind of business and presented his concept called a “Social Movement Model” where all the people who joined would contribute their time and talents for free to build his company.

He presented a great concept of a portion of money from direct sales and monthly fees would save an acre of rain forest through Conservation International so it sounded attractive that this company had a social conscious.

I have learned that there are fellow victims of Mongello’s vested partner scam that have sent from $1,000.00 to $3,600.00.

There are over 120 people that have sent him money and the marketing system has never been delivered nor has the opportunity launched. It is one excuse after another and one broken promise after another for new launch dates.

The excuses for not launching have gone on for over a year for me and for some they have never received what they paid for in two years.

The one of a kind marketing software (PCF) that was supposed to change internet marketing does not work and is so complicated it would take a top IT person to try and use it.

Domonic promoted this marketing software as something that even a newbie could use. Definitely not true! I had some experienced internet marketers look at the PCF system and they said it was the most complicated overpriced software they had ever seen.

I guess it was priced like an MLM where the price is inflated to pay commissions. The basic system is $997.00 and $97 monthly and the highest level was $9,995.00 and $995 monthly.

That is how he fooled all of us to pay a one time fee of $3,600.00 and get the highest price system and never have to pay the $997.00 monthly.

It has been about two years since Mongello marketed the PCF mojo marketing system and no one has ever used it or seen one marketing anything.

The PCFMojo logo can be seen “powering” the Green Label Network website:

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

Whilst the Rippln hype-train rolls on at full steam ahead (the company just announced it had clocked up 500,000 signed affiliates this last weekend), the dilemma of none of the company’s affiliates knowing what it is exactly that they’ve signed up for.

Apart from a Rippln branded mobile app that the company claims is ‘set to make waves around the world‘, since retracting their previously released compensation plan material, the company has thus far failed to inform those signing up of the finer points of Rippln. Namely the compensation plan the company will be using and how affiliates will earn money.

Meanwhile a few days ago Rippln announced an upcoming “Rippln Huddle”, to be held on May 16th.

When Rippln initially announced the huddle, affiliates were simply told that it was an “official event” that would have several corporate staff of Rippln’s in attendance, along with some top-affiliates.

No further information was provided, leaving many (myself included), left scratching our heads as to what the contents of the huddle would be.

Possibly picking up on this, Rippln put out a followup announcement today and provided a little more detail on what will be covered at the huddle:

-Hear a state of play for Rippln

-Get a glimpse into what’s ahead in the upcoming weeks through the rollout

-Learn more about the Rewards System for Players

-Have FUN socializing with fellow RIPPLE MAKERS!

That third point in particular is of importance, as for the hundreds of thousands of affiliates who have signed up to the company, it’s the first glimpse they’ll get of the revised compensation plan.

While it’s great to see Rippln finally provide affiliates with some compensation plan and commission information, there is a catch. [Continue reading…]

Money Tel are based in Zimbabwe with the company’s website providing a corporate address in the country’s capital, Harare.

No specific information is provided on the corporate structure of the company, however the provided Harare address belongs to “Fagnol Investments” who appear to be the parent company of Money Tel.

A LinkedIn profile for Money Tel exists, naming a “Takwana Hove” as the CEO and founder of the company.

I wasn’t able to find an MLM history for Hove, however the Money Tel’s LinkedIn profile states that

the Co-Founders of Money Tel (have) combined years of experience in Direct Sales, Retail, Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) and Customer Services.

No further information is provided.

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

Just wanted to thank you for the review. I have had a ton of marketers ask about this particular opportunity and will be directing them to this review.

The company should make things a little more clear on what it is all about, just because it is FREE does not make it better. Thank you for the review and I will be linking to it shortly…..

-David J. Boozer, endorsing BehindMLM’s review of Wazzub (January 2012)

Paul Burks, CEO of Zeek Rewards, achieved a number of things in his long MLM career, but what most people in the industry are going to remember him for is introducing a whole new generation of MLM marketers to the Ponzi scheme.

Not only that, but he also seemingly managed to convince a great deal of them that the model works.

In the aftermath of Burks legacy the MLM industry has seen wave after wave of ex-Zeek Rewards affiliates pushing the latest Zeek Rewards clones, all eager to carve out their own slice of the emerging “revenue-sharing” MLM Ponzi scheme hybrid niche.

With most investors in the various revenue-sharing companies operating today having begun their Ponzi careers in Zeek Rewards, it’s no surprise that we’re starting to see some of the all-too-familiar terminology used to market such schemes emerge.

The latest? JubiRev is provides “guaranteed profit”. [Continue reading…]

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

The Triple Match website domain (“triplematch.me”) was registered on February 11th 2013, however the domain registration is set to private.

Triple Match’s “Privacy Policy” mentions several other domains,

Welcome to the TripleMatch.me, TripleMatch.com, www.TripleMatch.me, www.TripleMatch.com, or BitIncome.me, BitIncome.com, www.BitIncome.me, www.BitIncome.com (the “Site”), a Site provided by TripleMatch, Inc. and/or BitIncome, Inc. (“we”, “us” or “our”).

but all of them are privately registered and apart from “triplematch.me”, were non-operational at the time of publication.

Interestingly enough, all four Triple Match and BitIncome domains are hosted on the same private server as Global One’s “iGoBidWin” and “iPayFire” websites (image right).

After noting possible involvement and ownership of Triple Match by Global One I was contacted by a James Hill, who clarified his ownership of Triple Match and why the company shares the same hosting server as Global One’s various susidiary companies:

Oz,

I am the sole owner. I have been very open about that on my calls with leaders. However, I do like my privacy and many in this industry do not respect that concept. This is why I do not have my private information attached to the URLs.

The GlobalOne owner, staff, etc. are unaware of TripleMatch and BitIncome. They have nothing to do with our program. Absolutely nothing! There is NO connection, what so ever.

The server they are using is NOT private. It is simply a shared server. My developer will attest to this fact.

I asked my developer why we are on the same server as GlobalOne and he said that they had downgraded their servers and our program is certainly not ready for a dedicated server.

My attorney would (also) verify that there is no association with TripleMatch/BitIncome and GlobalOne, its owner, nor any of its company staff.

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

In what I’m hoping isn’t going to become a regular launch trend, another company has recently launched (pre-launched, alpha-launched, whatever) itself and looks to want to follow in Rippln’s “we made everyone sign an NDA to watch a publicly available YouTube video” footsteps.

Rippln’s hype marketing machine hit MLM airwaves in mid April and although the company initially looked as if it was going to launch on your standard “affiliate fees & recruit more affiliates to earn more money” platform, once compliance lawyers got involved things appear to have stalled.

By then the hype marketing machine was in full effect and with thousands of people already spamming the internet with affiliate invites, containment was not an option.

So as the weeks drag on with nobody any wiser as to the specifics of Rippln’s business model and compensation plan…how’s that working out for them? [Continue reading…]