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Following a hearing on December 7th, the Temporary Restraining Order My Advertising Pays had sought against VX Gateway has been denied.

I checked the docket earlier and as of yet there’s no news regarding today’s TRO and preliminary injunction hearing. In the last twenty-four hours however, VX Gateway has filed a response in opposition to My Advertising Pay’s motion.

While scammers are happy to defraud the general public out of millions of dollars each year, turns out they themselves don’t like being scammed. Yeah I know, shocking…

My Advertising Pays initially launched in 2013. The business model was simple: My Advertising Pays affiliates invested $49.99 on the promise of an advertised $60 ROI. By the end of 2015 My Advertising Pays began to show signs of collapse. The company kept itself afloat however by paying US affiliates a fraction of the $60 [Continue reading…]

The next chapter in the TelexFree Trustee, PaymentWorld, Payza and VictoriaBank saga is an opposition filing by PaymentWorld. As far as the TelexFree Trustee is concerned, PaymentWorld US, PaymentWorld Limited and PaymentWorld LTD SRL are all the same entity. PaymentWorld US and PaymentWorld Moldova have the same management and oversight personnel. PaymentWorld US however are [Continue reading…]

The Zeek Rewards, Payza and VictoriaBank dispute has been running for some time now. At the center of the dispute is $13 million dollars in stolen Ponzi funds, currently frozen in a Bank of New York Mellon account. The Zeek Receiver wants these funds returned to Rex Venture Group, in order for them to be [Continue reading…]

Following the regulatory shutdown of Liberty Reserve in May, 2013, co-founder Vladmir Kats was the first executive to enter a guilty plea. In November, 2013, Kats plead guilty to “money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business”. Commenting on the plea at the time, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara [Continue reading…]

In what I believe is the first case of a payment processor founder being criminally charged since I started BehindMLM, Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, founder of Liberty Reserve, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

This one’s a bit messy, so bear with me. Following on from our February article “How Payza & friends are screwing Zeek Rewards investors“, efforts to recover funds from Zeek Reward’s shady banking operations continue. Our players in this story are: Payza – a payment processor synonymous with the MLM underbelly Payment World – a Hong [Continue reading…]

Yesterday BehindMLM reported on a court order directing Payza, Payment World and VictoriaBank to return $13.1 million dollars in funds stolen through Zeek Rewards. Today the Zeek Receiver’s filed accompanying Memorandum has also been unsealed, shedding light on the games the three entities have been playing over the past three years.