World Ventures a pyramid scheme in Norway
Whilst it’s true that World Ventures don’t directly financially compensation you for bringing others to the business itself, you still have to bring others to the Rovia business to get anywhere in the...
View ArticleWood’s training would exhaust EN within a month?
There’s been somewhat of a recent trend in MLM to collectively refer to affiliates and retail customers as just “customers”. No doubt the brainchild of a PR firm and compliance team conceived in a dank...
View ArticleGlobal Unity: Kingdom777 Ponzi rebooted (again)
It’s getting rather difficult to keep up with the continuous changes Phillip Ming Xu keeps making to his global Ponzi empire. After regulators around the world began to target Xu and his WCM777 Ponzi...
View ArticleBritish police issue TelexFree scam warning
TelexFree has recently been attempting to make inroads in Europe. In addition to heavily promoting the investment scheme throughout Russia, the company’s affiliate investors have also targeted western...
View ArticleFusion Shopping Network Review: FuseBucks deals
Fusion Shopping Network launched in early 2014 and are based out the US state of Wyoming. Heading up the company is Dr. Frank R. George, who serves as Fusion Shopping Network’s CEO and President....
View ArticleWorldwide Solutionz Review: $25 Ponzi hybrid
There is no information on the Worldwide Solutionz website indicating who owns or runs the business. The company does have a “Who are you?” section in their FAQ, but it only provides the following...
View ArticleGreenough Ads Review: Three-tiered Ponzi scheme
Greenough Ads launched in early 2014 and names a Samuel Thomas Gillespie as the owner of the company on their website. The Greenough Ads website domain (“greenoughads.com”) was registered on the 3rd of...
View ArticleRippln sold off to Insider21 investment group?
I was recently asked by a BehindMLM reader to take a look at “Insider21″, an opportunity they were just introduced to by a friend. Already in the process of going through the emails I’d flagged during...
View ArticleTelexFree US investigation confirmed (again)
Back in January of this year, Allessandra Marques of the Acre Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that a US regulatory investigation into TelexFree is underway. Citing the “senstive” nature of the...
View ArticleReactions to new TelexFree compensation plan
After accepting $289 AdCentral investments on the promise of a $52 a week ROI for roughly two years, TelexFree recently announced some upcoming changes to its compensation plan. Some details of the...
View ArticleRwanda announces TelexFree Ponzi investigation
Over the past month or so Steve Labriola, TelexFree’s International Marketing Director, has been flying around the world seeking to strengthen the company’s efforts to attract new affiliate investors....
View ArticleSpinding launch delayed due to compliance issues
Spinding, an MLM opportunity that offers affiliates participation in a series of $30 to $1890 cycler queues, has been having issues securing a credit card payment option for its affiliates. Promised...
View ArticleXenesta Review: Latest reboot of Focus Factor?
Xenesta launched in early 2014 and are based out of Texas in the US. Operating in the health and nutrition MLM niche, Xenesta is headed up by Founder, Kyl Smith. Smith (not to be confused for a less...
View ArticleTelexFree Compensation Plan v2.0 Review
Despite the repeated claims that TelexFree’s existing compensation plan and business model was “absolutely not a Ponzi scheme”, the company has decided to recently announce some changes. Likely due to...
View ArticleSEC TelexFree investigation began in April 2013?
Despite Steve Labriola, TelexFree’s International Marketing Director, promising affiliates that “if there’s something going on we’ll let you know,” at the time of publication the company has failed to...
View ArticleClawbacks filed against Zeek insiders & winners
One of the frequent questions we get regarding Ponzi schemes here at BehindMLM is the question of liability for a scheme’s top promoters. Typically these promoters are the “face” of the affiliate-field...
View ArticleInsider21 passed on Rippln due to Ripple lawsuit
Last week, purely by co-incidence, I stumbled across an invitation in which it was claimed holdings company Insider21 had “acquired” Rippln. Shortly after publishing an article on the story I was...
View ArticleWill TelexFree’s ads hold up against the SEC?
I think we can all agree at this point that TelexFree’s new compensation plan has been hastily put together in direct response to the recently revealed Massachusetts Securities Division investigation....
View ArticleTime for a BehindMLM blog theme change?
Foreword: This article is more targeted at regular readers of BehindMLM and relates mostly to the design of the blog. It’s not an MLM article per say. Still, if you’re just stopping by or have come...
View ArticleTelexFree US investigation linked to WCM777
As first reported by Patrick Pretty, the US state of Massachusetts Securities Division has confirmed they are investigating TelexFree. A US investigation was first announced by Brazilian Public...
View Article