payment processors @ BehindMLM

The ongoing battle between the Zeek Rewards Receiver and Payza looks set to heat up, with the filing of a contempt motion on February 12th. The motion requests the court order Payza, Payment World and VictoriaBank turn over stolen Ponzi funds, or in the alternative they be found in contempt.

Back in May 2015, a joint-operation between US, Spanish and Costa Rican authorities saw Liberty Reserve shut down for money laundering. At the time, Liberty Reserve was the payment processor of choice for much of the MLM underbelly. Providing a platform for relatively anonymous money laundering, Liberty Reserve was also widely popular with criminals outside [Continue reading…]

In Zeek Rewards’ heyday, NxPay (NxSystems) was the ewallet of choice by the company. Content to turn a blind eye to the hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud taking place through its processor systems, NxPay was instrumental in Zeek’s ongoing business operations. In acknowledgement of this, the court-appointed Receiver filed a clawback lawsuit against [Continue reading…]

This is going a while back, but last we checked in the Department of Homeland Security had seized Payza funds deposited with Ultralight FS (dba Obopay Inc). The US Department of Homeland Security has seized all MH Pillars dba Payza money on deposit with UltraLight FS. Additional information will be published as we receive it. How [Continue reading…]

It’s a common enough belief in the MLM underbelly that hiding offshore is protection enough. You’re off in your little hidey-hole, there’s no way known US regulators are going to come after you… right?

Yesterday saw Argent Global Network issue a rather strange communication to their affiliates. In it, the company claimed they had been requested information from their payment processor since November 2014, with information only recently having been provided to them. AGN also claimed that, due to legal reasons, they were “unable to further expand” on the [Continue reading…]

Following the suspension of ewallet services to Argent Global Network last week, the company now claims its been left in the dark. Why information wasn’t being communicated to AGN is still a mystery, but here’s what we know at the moment.

Just days after Argent Pay Global floated a series of useless poll ideas, news broke today that their payment processor has now suspended the scheme’s ewallet services.

Maxim Chukharev was one of the seven individuals indicted in connection to the Liberty Reserve payment processor. A hotbed of MLM underbelly fraud, among other things, Liberty Reserve was shut down for money laundering mid last year.

In its heyday, Liberty Reserve was the darling of countless scams that populated the MLM underbelly. And that was only a fraction of the fraud they got up. The argument that the payment processor was simply trying to be the next Paypal was never going to hold up in court. Yet that’s the excuse that [Continue reading…]