There is no information on the Quick Cash Ads website indicating who runs or owns the business.

The Quick Cash Ads website domain (‘quickcashads.com’) was registered on the 15th August 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

A Quick Cash Ads marketing video on YouTube is hosted by a ‘David Lockwood’.

Lockwood appears to be linked with the serial promotion of several dubious income opportunities, including Daily Profit Always (250% ROI Ponzi scheme), Wealth 4 All Team (defunct 10 day ROI Ponzi scheme), Alert 2 Pay (30 day Ponzi scheme), Fast Cash Mega (Ponzi/pyramid scheme), Profit Clicking (Ponzi scheme), The Golden Path (defunct recruitment scam), and Unstoppable WhirlWind (defunct recruitment scam):

Curiously, someone who refers to themselves as “Tom” mentions elsewhere that they are the admin of Quick Cash Ads (ironically, complaining about being scammed by HYIP monitor site admins):

In a later post in the same thread, Tom goes into some detail about his dodgy income opportunity activities:

I am FOR REAL and not one of the many scammers out there.

I am currently a member of DPA, LTP and LDI. I just wanted to get that out of the way so everyone that reads this knows exactly where I am coming from.

I currently have close to $3,900 worth of withdrawals in DPA, $27,000 in LTP and $1000 in LDI. I am unloading my dirty laundry just so you know that I feel your pain and that I am one of you.

Referring to his scam site losses as “dirty laundry”, Tom then divulges how Quick Cash Ads came about:

I was sitting around with a buddy of mine and we were talking about all the money we had coming to us.

Also we were talking about if we owned a program…how we would run it, how we would treat our members, how we liked speedy admin response and NO lengthy pending withdrawals.

Putting two and two together, after suffering heavy losses in multiple scam opportunities, Tom and his “buddy” have launched Quick Cash Ads with the intention of making some of that money back.

The problem?

Despite losing thousands of dollars, it appears Tom hasn’t really learnt anything from his experience. Well, except perhaps that money wise it’s much better to be running scams than participating in them. [Continue reading…]

Claiming they are ‘a global debt-free company founded in 2006‘, there is no information on the Alive Matrix website indicating who owns or runs the business.

The company’s website domain (‘alivematrix.com’) was registered on the 19th May, 2007, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Despite the company claiming to be 7 years old and having a five year old domain, the Alive Matrix opportunity was only launched in late August, 2012 (source-code of Alive Matrix website, image right).

As always, if a 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…]

Usually when I review a less than legitimate looking opportunity they tend to focus on one particular business model.

Some require you to recruit like crazy to earn anything, some require you to invest money and pay you out a ROI over time, some want you to purchase bucketloads of product each month on the expectation your purchases will fund other member’s commissions and some try to hide the fact that they use any one of these models by adding fluff to the business model (posting ads, removing signup fees, getting you to rub your tummy once a day etc.).

Rare is it though that I run across a company that tries to incorporate every dodgy MLM business model out there into one neat little package.

Enter Global Ads Biz.

Infact, if I wasn’t none the wiser I’d even go so far as to suggest that when coming up with the business model, the owners literally just copy and pasted together as many dodgy business models as they could get their hands on.

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

I first looked at Blue Bird Bids back in early September and in the process of researching the company established links between it and Dwayne Golden’s ‘Green Apple Fridays’ penny auction site.

Presumably using the same backend Blue Bird Bids now appears to be a separately launched company, with Green Apple Fridays still running.

Curiously however Dwayne Golden’s name does not appear on the Blue Bird Bids website, with the company crediting a ‘Mardy Eger’ as being the founder.

Just a few short months ago in June of this year Eger (right), credited with being a ‘top 26 income earner in the home based business industry‘, joined MLM company “Chews-4-Health International”.

I’m not sure what happened there but it appears Eger has moved on with the launch of Blue Bird Bids.

Quite clearly through the source-code of Blue Bird Bids it’s clear that Golden has some involvement with Blue Bird Bids, however why this is not disclosed on the company website is a mystery.

In a post on his personal website, Eger writes:

“Mardy Eger’s Longstanding Association With Dwayne Golden”

Mardy Eger has association with industry professionals of the highest integrity within the Home Business industry.

One such association is with Dwayne Golden, who has maintained a reputation for high achievement and high success for those who work with him.

Mardy and Dwayne collaborate and Mastermind on a considerable number of projects and often spur each other on toward good things.

Mardy has consistently challenged Dwayne in the area of innovation and Dwayne has responded with higher levels of product development.

Dwayne has challenged Mardy in the area of higher powered success coaching and Mardy has responded with success programs that rival professionals that have been there for years.

Because of their Iron sharpening Iron relationship, both Mardy and Dwayne continually spiral higher toward more successful endeavors.

Given this “long-standing association” and the obvious links to the Green Apple Fridays penny auction, there’s a strong implication that Eger and Golden are working together on Blue Bird Bids.

One other point of note is that Blue Bird Bids initially launched with a corporate address in North Carolina:

Blue Bird Bids, Inc., 2302 NASH ST N, STE E. WILSON, NC 27896

For reasons unknown, this has now been changed to a virtual mailing address in the US state of Nevada:

Blue Bird Bids
3960 Howard Hughes Parkway
Suite 500
Las Vegas, NV, USA 89169

Meanwhile the company’s terms and conditions still states that

this Terms & Conditions Agreement and Your use of Blue Bird Bids shall be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of North Carolina.

Without in any way limiting the “Dispute Resolution” requirements set forth above, any court proceeding related to this website or these Terms & Conditions may be brought only in a federal or state court sitting in Oklahoma.

No idea what’s going on there.

Read on for a full review of the Blue Bird Bids MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

The first thing that struck me about Shopping Sherlock was its remarkable similarities with the failed MLM opportunity, My Shopping Genie.

Not surprisingly, after a bit of poking around I soon learnt that this was due to the fact that Shopping Sherlock has been built using My Shopping Genie’s assets.

Although the idea of an affiliate shopping toolbar is nothing new, there has only been one prominent company that’s combined it with an MLM compensation plan.

Launched in late 2007, My Shopping Genie was run by ‘MyNetUniverse’ and attracted a significant affiliate base, however overall didn’t really seem to gain any solid traction over the years.

By September 2011 reports were coming in that My Shopping Genie hadn’t paid affiliates for 6 months in some cases and by May 2012, the company had shut it doors and closed down.

Come early June, reports broke out that My Shopping Genie assets (primarily the backend for the shopping toolbar, had been bought by Michael Wiedder, founder of MLM company ‘Best in U’.

I’d give you a bit more information about Best in U, but their company website is currently giving me ASP errors when I try to view the compensation plan or ‘our team’ webpages.

That said, I do note the company is based and operated out of the US state of California.

Moving on, just a few days after the acquisition was announced, news then  broke that Wiedder (photo right) was launching Shopping Sherlock which, if you take a look at the software, is quite obviously built on the My Shopping Genie technology.

One of the biggest problems with My Shopping Genie was that, despite the business opportunity revolving around the idea that those using the software would attract shoppers and earn commissions off their purchases, the reality of the business was that My Shopping Genie affiliate commissions were primarily driven by recruitment.

In analysing the business, I suspected that My Shopping Genie failed to attract retail users of the tool (which was given away for free), was due to the fact that the software at best was just a price comparison tool linked to a pool of affiliate programs parent company MyNetUniverse were members of. These affiliate programs weren’t exclusive and as such anyone could join them.

Thus the only reason to participate in My Shopping Genie was the recruitment commissions paid out by attracting new affiliates to the scheme.

In launching Shopping Sherlock, I note that a lot of the marketing spiel sounds pretty similar to what My Shopping Genie were pushing out back in the day. The big question of course is how similar are the business models between the two companies.

We already know the business model My Shopping Genie was using has proven to be non-viable, so has Michael Wiedder come up with something new or will Shopping Sherlock run into the same problems My Shopping Genie had?

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

Back in July I reviewed the newly launched MLM company, Zubaduba.

Launching with your typical “you get access to our e-book library” pyramid scheme business model, Zubaduba charged $8 for membership and using a 1-up style compensation plan and paid out $5 from monthly membership fees.

Just two months after launch, the Zubaduba pyramid scheme has collapsed with the company announcing a new business model on September 9th.

Whereas running a pyramid scheme failed for them, Zubaduba seem to now be pinning their hopes of success on an “ad pack” Ponzi scheme model. [Continue reading…]

When you visit the Community Commerce Group (CCG) website, it isn’t long before some guy walks out from the right side of the screen and starts on you with the hard sell:

Hello. I’m about to share with you the most important information of your lifetime.

By becoming a member and participating in our program…you can put extreme wealth in your own pocket.

Our affiliate program can build you an income from eighteen thousand to over one million dollars a year, with as little as four days effort.

Sadly enough there would be the doubters who would foolishly throw away a million dollars… but if one million dollars plus excites you, as it certainly does me, then join us today.

Given the lack of formal introduction or mention of any position with Community Commerce Group, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest this is simply a paid actor.

A quick look at the Community Commerce Group source-code reveals a script pulled from ‘yourwebsitespokesperson.com’:

And sure enough, in the ‘make model’ section of the YourWebsiteSpokesperson website, there’s our guy – “Darron S.”:

For a modest monthly fee, anyone can have Darron S. feature on their website marketing pretty much anything.

So who then is running Community Commerce Group?

Unfortunately there is no information on the Community Commerce website indicating who runs or owns the company.

The company website domain (‘ccggo.com’) was registered on the 14th March 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Community Commerce Group do provide the following corporate address on their website:

501 Darby Creek Rd. Ste. 56A, Lexington, KY 40509

But a Google search reveals multiple businesses operating out of this address, meaning it’s most likely nothing more than virtual office space.

Update September 14th, 2012 – After failing to pay their hosting bills, the following message briefly appeared on the Community Commerce Group website:

This account is on hold due to a past due payment.

Community Commerce Group LLC (Josh Walden), Please contact JWM Marketing & Web Design to remedy this issue.

Josh Walden (also known as ‘Joshua Walden’) cites himself as being ‘the president of Community Commerce Group’ on the support forums for ‘Post Affiliate Pro’ (an affiliate program backend).

Coupled with the notice from JJWM Marketing & Web Design above, it appears Josh Walden is behind Community Commerce Group.

I was unable to find any further information on his history in MLM so I’m not sure if this is his first foray into network marketing and running a company. /end update

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

The “Welcome from YaGooft Owner” page on the Yagooft website displays little else than a cheesy 45 second marketing video featuring what appears to be a company theme song:

Update 3rd August 2021 – As at the time of this update the video featuring the Yagooft theme song has been marked private.

As such I’ve removed the previously accessible YouTube link. /end update

The rest of the Yagooft website contains no information indicating who runs or owns the business.

The Yagooft domain (‘yagooft.com’) was registered on the 18th February 2012, however the domain registration is set to private.

I did note that the YouTube videos that feature on the Yagooft website were uploaded to the account “wagoti wagoti”, but I was unable to find any further information on this name, or whether the name was connected to whoever is behind Yagooft.

As always, if a 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…]

Just days after the Zeek Rewards collapse Blaine Williams and Paul Skulitz launched Wealth Creation Alliance.

Accepting investments of $2 and guaranteeing a ROI of $3.25 per investment made with the company (an effective 162% ROI), Wealth Creation Alliance managed to rack up an alleged 20,000 investors in just three short weeks.

Somewhat abruptly, a few days ago it was announced that Wealth Creation Alliance would be changing their name to ‘World Consumer Advocates’ due to “scam reports”.

Considering Wealth Creation Alliance’s blatantly obvious Ponzi-like business model, turns out there’s somewhat of an irony to the scam reports WCA are running away from. [Continue reading…]

There is no information on the My PC Business website indicating who owns or runs the business. Infact there’s not much you can do at the My PC Business website other than sign up or read some disclaimers.

The company domain (‘mypcbusiness.com’) was registered on the 20th June 2012, however the domain registration information is set to private.

Someone called ‘Holly Bowen’ has published all the topics in the My PC Business knowledgebase, but I was unable to locate any further information on this person and/or their position within the company.

As always, if a 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…]