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Readers of BehindMLM. Most of these websites are notorious for blackmailing MLM companies outright and extorting money from them, directly or indirectly. These review websites first lay a trap by publishing a biased and defamatory article on the target MLM brand or company.

After that, they populate these blog posts with more derogatory and made-up comments using a dummy and anonymous set of profiles controlled by the same group of people who run the said review website.

What happens next is easy for anyone to guess. Upon seeing the articles, the MLM companies get forced to reach out to the review website. At that point, the so-called journalists running these bogus review websites share their prices with the company for taking down the negative blog posts.

If the company dares not to agree with them, the review website continues to barrage its brand with more negative articles in the subsequent weeks or months. In the end, either the company caves in and coughs up the extortion money that these journalistic gangs demand or weather away from the MLM scene.

The greediest of these blogs is, of course, BehindMLM. I have heard the stories of BehindMLM. One of the most significant loopholes that they all use to their benefit is staying anonymous on the internet. The editors of BehindMLM. However, these BehindMLM. Klaus Bardenhagen calls himself a freelance journalist from Germany, while Michael Turton is an American who is settled in Taiwan with his wife Sylvia Shih for the last 30 years. In addition to BehindMLM. The website was dumped in , most likely because Michael Turton could not pressure the Taiwanese polity with his biased articles and was unsuccessful in extorting anything from them.

He is currently living at No. His contact details as of writing this article are as given below. Email: [email protected]. What appears to be proactive regulation at first, might be tied to the collapse eOracle Ponzi scheme. DigiCoin Markets provides no information about who owns or runs the company on its website.

UK incorporation is dirt cheap and effectively unregulated. As a result the UK is a favored jurisdiction for scammers looking to incorporate, operate and promote fraudulent companies. In addition to UK incorporation details, DigiCoin Markets puzzlingly provides an incomplete corporate address in Norway on its website. Despite only existing as of a few months ago, DigiCoin Markets falsely represents it launched in February ABA Marketing provides no information about who owns or runs the company on its website.

Scammers typically set up shell companies in dodgy jurisdictions like Saint Kitts and Nevis, to launder money through and avoid regulation. Nominex operates in the cryptocurrency MLM niche. The private registration, revealing only Russia as the address of the owner, was last updated on July 4th, In an attempt to appear legitimate, Nominex provides a Seychelles incorporation certificate on its website.

This address is used by multiple companies, suggesting Nominex only exists in Seychelles as a shell company. At least not to strangers. He was just a school teacher, no financial training. And people believed him. And it only takes one or two his old friends to get the pyramid started. Many of the new opportunities are just relaunch of older schemes, albeit with some minor changes.

Yet others are clearly clones of original schemes, and intended as reload scams aimed at the same victim pool. Hello OZ, can you make a review of Emgoldex? If I have made the payment of the order, may I participate in a marketing program to attract customers?

You have already fulfilled the order and bought gold. The marketing program is developed only for those that wish to execute the order at the expense of the combined payment, i. If you wish to participate in the marketing program it is necessary for you to issue a new Order and to get the Coupon for the payment of the made Order. For full execution of the order, the Order of the buyer should pass two cycles of the Main table of orders.

After completing the first cycle of the main table of orders, the company gives a possibility for transition of the Order of the buyer to the second cycle and on termination of which, there is a full performance of the Order. If the Order of the buyer has not received necessary quantity of credit bonuses for its end of two cycles, the Buyer has the right to carry out of the obligations on the end of the Order at the expense of own means.

If the Buyer does not execute the Order, the Order is automatically extended for another two cycles at the expense of the bonuses of the Buyer. And this way until the full execution of the Order. Sound intentionally confusing, which is probably to hide what otherwise appears to be a pay to play investment scheme alarm bells should start to go off here.

Oz, some of the Brazilian leaders from Telexfree are promoting something called Geteasy. Do you know anything about it? Sign up and invest in packages. Wonder if it can be applied to Ponzi schemes? I think NxPay in Zeek might be a test-case if they ever get around to filing anything. The guy keeps mumbling about Kingdom this and Jesus that, I thought for a moment I was reading about a Phil Ming Xu venture, but apparently not.

From what I can make out they are more exposes than anything else. Although after a paltry amount of money changed hands and NuSkin promised to clean up their act, fat lot of good that did. Announce investigation into one company, get paid, move onto the next… with little to nothing getting done. Quite obviously there a loophole with Chinese mainland residents registering virtual addresses in Hong Kong, and the MLM companies turning a blind eye.

It was apparently made up specifically that year for Wentz. And links goes to Internet Archives Wayback Machine instead of their own website?

No mention of his wife who may be making K as a distributor. The blog you are looking for has ceased publication. Anyone who republishes or redistributes content originally published on this blog may be subject to legal action.

Any disputes or misunderstandings between the publishers or authors of this blog and Vemma Nutrition Company have been resolved to the satisfaction of all involved. Got rid of the mountain of monthly archives and replaced it with a snapshot of the most recent news and reviews. If not it might be a good thing in order to expose these fraudsters and help bring more awareness to the general public.

Not that I know of. Follow the industry for long enough and familiar faces continue to pop up though. He writes what he thinks are unbiased reviews of many including MonaVie, Herbalife, and Xocai. One of his favorite targets is Lifevantage.

He is committed to bringing the company down. He claims to have gotten the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to investigate these death threats. It was expensive chocolate, too. Their credit is ruined. There is a crack in the driveway at their home in Albuquerque from a wheeler that once delivered 12, cans of chocolate energy drinks to their garage. The chocolate came from MXI Corp. Edward K. They are even posted in a public forum, told me to be careful as someone may pay me a visit for lying about Zeek.

It has no effect until proven otherwise. Ugh MXI. He had a whole network of websites going full of useless spun content. Martinez made most of his sales the usual way. Enrique was the promoter, always scouting prospective buyers. And though he failed to find steady retail customers , he refused to admit that his pitch to recruits — that MXI was a profitable opportunity — might be misleading.

After about a year, they were forced to confront their complicity in what they now say was a business model driven by recruitment. MXI are just as guilty for letting this happen. Ditto of K. Unfortunately the death threats seem to come with the territory of debunking MLM scams. I got one when I wrote about MonaVie as well. When someone pulls back the curtain like in the Wizard of Oz, people can see the scam.

The fix is obviously to run a legitimate business in full transparency. Xango paid K to settle the civil lawsuit. On Wednesday, Oct.

Edit: Wait the FCC are also involved. Probably not MLM related then. Anyone got any ideas? Not sure what this is Herablife? I removed mention of Herbalife. Probably something telecommunications related. Just a heads up re.

Any email sent to me in the last 24 hours or so either directly or via the contact form was not delivered. I agree with you, there are many deceitful MLM companies and greedy people in the MLM industry, but that do not make the industry as a whole illegitimate or questionable.

Percentages of those deceived be it by MLM or religion do not make either entity right or wrong, it just speaks to the number that use it inappropriately. There are successful and upright MLM companies and churches, though the percentages are fewer, this speaks to the nature of human beings not industries.

If the industry was so bad, I do not believe that Warren Buffet, Robert Kiosaki or Donald Trump would be involved in it with their own companies.

Governments and the wealthy that control them do not want the masses to prosper, it would ruin the infrastructure that allow them to conceal their robbery of the poor. Sadly, there are individuals in our society who think like government or are just deluded and do not want to see others prosper either for whatever reason.

Are you just a nice guy, why? Fact, insight into a person speaks volumes on how and why their opinions are formed. As long as you hide behind the shroud of anonymity your opinions will fall upon deaf ears, well, except for those who are jaded by or share your opinions and this is not saying they are right or wrong. I encourage everyone to conduct their own due diligence.

The thousands of people who visit BehindMLM daily would disagree with you. My track record speaks for itself, and is available on the pages of this blog for anyone to read. The MLM industry fascinates me.

I have had bad experiences but my success has far outweighed them. Do you run around the internet creating statements you acknowledge are false and then proceed to base entire walloftext discussion points around them? Or was this a once-off? It just makes your statement about deaf ears look rather silly. Ah, well your personal experience means dick. We analyze the industry here, not your bank account. TelexFree still affecting worldwide economy.

K Chang : TelexFree still affecting worldwide economy. Affinity24, in pre-launch, is being headed up by many of the former Flexkom America scam leaders. These shysters were promoting and collecting thousands of dollars from people to buy positions even though the Europeans had already shown Flexkom to be a scam. Apparently the perps got away with 8 million, nowhere close to Mt. Jeunesse are on my review list. They are at the Innovation Hub at the University of Florida and have refused to pay the affiliates the earned incomes as we well as their commissions.

We started off with traditional online advertising through our social networks. Then their website went down for 7 weeks and when it surfaced again it was a totally different setup and they are refusing to pay anyone. They owe us thousands of dollars and refuse to pay.

I have screen shots of everything as proof. Thank you. Will probably be some time before a review is written though. My guess is that the comp plan always relied on recruitment. For Maik H. For what he initially did not consider: He earned just 1, euros a month, have a total of 70 people buy cans — for each euros, month after month. Although he invested in four months, around 1, euros in the business, the system did not work out for him.

In the end he got claims to only He got out. And the way it flaunts local laws by claiming they are transacting under US authority is… troubling.

Company has Real Product, Real Services. For example Organo Gold requires PV each month to be active to get commissions. These sales are retail services sales.

Real service. If they wants that service they order when ever they wants. No monthly mandatory autoship or chain recruitment involved. Otherwise known as a pyramid scheme — with no retail activity taking place. Is Nuviza on your radar, Oz?

Ted Nuyten conducted an interview with the young CEO recently. Added to the review list. I want you to please help me review and investigate the activity of this company called Profits How should I email you?

I would like to see Plexus Worldwide reviewed. I shared my experience on my blog, but there really needs to be more out there exposing the REAL truth of this company. Plexus Worldwide was not the first scam I danced with, but it is the last. I hope to see your review in the near future. My friend still promoting ufun despite the legal action taken by Thailand on them, they even promote the Ufun IPO. For example, it would include common delay tactics and excuses ponzi operators use to keep participants hooked on the scheme until it collapses or is shut down.

Yeoh : My friend still promoting ufun. They are delusional. BUT what businesses DO work and are honest and worth? A fun treasure hunt offered on our website, based on reasoning and general knowledge, and highly rewarded on merit.

Galaxy Secret offers you twelve events per year. During these twelve events, we have the opportunity to help you travel across continents. Galaxy Secret will teleport you into the wonders of the World.

They seem to only be targeting French, Spanish and Russian-speaking markets. As an affiliate you can play the games and recruit new affiliate or players. Hopefully that cuts down on some of the questions I get about opportunities that have already been covered. Spent enough time on site design today…. Oz, I think it is MLM.

They have very vague public description of the compensations for affiliates:. I have also some signals from local affiliates from Slovakia and Czech Republic that there are commissions coming from the structure. Strange thing is… affiliates have to pay first to lease their computer storage space and bandwidth! What makes me even more suspicious is their very likely virtual office in London.

Moreover, I cannot see much effort of Kairos to target corporations with an offer of their services and products. This was the problem I had when others asked me to review Kairos Planet in the past. Second rule is for affiliate marketing and third rule is too vague.

I tried to get more detailed info from project participants, but I guess there are not much chances to get it. Anyway, they act like MLM project participants the way how they promote this scam… eh, sorry, project. Start at Added Kairos to the review list. Trendon Shavers pleaded guilty today to operating a Ponzi scheme using the virtual currency bitcoin.

Instead, Shavers used most of the bitcoins to pay back older investors — a hallmark Ponzi scheme maneuver. Aha, he was indeed out for 3 days for posting something sharp about that Buddhist cult in Malaysia. Roca labs tangled with Tracy coenen of sequence Inc last year and lost.

April : Do you know if they complied with the MoTC and are now licensed? There was a Taiwan travel industry protest recently that wants a crackdown on WV in Taiwan by the authorities. That may explain why UFUN claimed to have ties there, eh?

Uh, this is an MLM opportunity? The links you provided were product reviews. Newsflash from Brazil… one of the prosecutors on the TelexFree case in Bukhari was found dead in her apartment of a gunshot wound. Even though they are going after known MLM types, it does appear their marketing plan is more of an Direct Sales type model, as you indicated.

The scheme operated between October and March , out of an address on Church Street, Toronto police said Wednesday. As a result of the investigation, year-old Christopher George Smith, of Toronto, and year-old Rajiv Dixit, of Vancouver, have been charged. Quite the revealing testimony he gave. Thank you for this site! I have a question: A good friend of mine has been brainwashed into sinking thousands into Onecoin, now wants to sink thousands more and start recruiting heavily.

I think he may bankrupt himself and hurt a few others in the process. Any advice? Insist that he must have one. You have to prod his self-preservation instincts, rather than attack OneCoin directly. Carneades : I have a question: A good friend of mine has been brainwashed into sinking thousands into Onecoin, now wants to sink thousands more and start recruiting heavily.

If he already have accepted some ideas then he will only put up resistance against conflicting ideas. You were already looking for counter arguments against that opportunity.

OneCoin attracts specific types of people. The identity of Chris Smith and a stock photo is interesting. K Chang: I pretty much know what his plan B is: Borrowing money from me to save his business.

He has a business of his own which is entirely legit and moderately successful. Because he is an experienced entrepreneur, he erroneously believes he also has sound judgement as an investor.

The first thing an investor with even a little knowledge and experience would have realized is this Rujatova woman is issuer risk on two legs. For a bit of amusement: Chinese anti-pyramid-scheme squad surrounded a beach being used to hold a public recruiting event.

They surrounded the area with rope and took groups off at a time, rope around their waist almost like kindergarten kids being lead off. Over were taken in. Individuals are required to register to be released and required to take deprogramming class, and core members are taken in for further questioning. Carneades : Because he is an experienced entrepreneur, he erroneously believes he also has sound judgement as an investor.

Carneades : K Chang: I pretty much know what his plan B is: Borrowing money from me to save his business. That he never considered the possibility that losing that much would not only cause him to lose money, but much face as well? Why no search feature in your reviews? In reality, such properties are only sold to pre-vetted institutions and investors. FTC sued him in and won in He had managed to delay paying till now.

You do get to use the system for free to promote your program of choice in the system to your direct downline. In the end you will be contacted by phone by the owner so you feel great about upgrading or using their other services they have.

The name rings a bell. MyAdvertisingPays is often referred to as an MLM multi-level marketing company, others are calling it even a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid system. These people spend months, hour after hour, to write incredibly long reports, and this without ever having understood this business of MAP. Quite interestingly, I noticed no comparisons were made to similar ponzis which have been shut down by the feds. The information that you do publish is not always correct. I would welcome you to call me and do an Interview with me.

That would be worth your time and all interested parties and MLMers. FYI, Mr. Hagen… Oz researches your company as someone starting from scratch.

If you have information for the public, put it out in the public. We frequent visitors are immune to that sort of talk by now. Mike Hagen : The information that you do publish is not always correct. The only thing many of us would be interested in knowing is if your boxes are pretty much the same as the ones sold on Amazon. Can you, Mr. Hagen, set the record straight here in public thereby saving many people a little research time?

Imagine the eggs on his face when Zeek got nailed by the Feds. I just chuckled. Nuyten initially did allow comments but then, like on the OneCoin paid advertorials he publishes, he disabled them. He also shared the post on his personal Facebook page. But then when a multitude of people demanded evidence and called him out, removed the article.

To his credit, Dooly had the professionalism to not let criticism of his promotion of Ponzi schemes for money get personal. The research behind the post is certainly amusing. Concrete stuff. The information published here does and always has stood on its own.

Oz : The research behind the post is certainly amusing. Thanks for the tipoff. Onecoin articel in the swedish Wasabladet. Interesting that the investor is not able to change password to his account, — only his upline can…. Completely new to the idea of MLM and stumbled across this website purely by accident. Have spent the last 2 hours reading through it and have had my knowledge vastly expanded — Oz, thank you for your immense contribution to the unknowledgeable such as my self.

So long as you keep retail front and center, sure. Breaking news: Phil Ming Xu may have been arrested in China. It is clear that China had smashed a 2nd run of his scam which only died in the US. A report dated today at ShanghaiDaily. Been a busy time in Bitcoinland, the HashOcean ponzi and some satellites just crashed and burned blaming hackers lol taking millions.

Quanta and Empower. Hi friend a lot great information here on your site,I can see and understand that there are lot un etical companies out there as well as a lot scams as well BUT,what I would like to know is this have you ever featured any mlm company that did pass your test,another word is there any mlm company that you have given clean bill,one that is not either pyramid or a scam?

Since I am interested in Network marketing program,I would like to see review of a couple of mlm companies who are in your review clear of any ilegalities,pyramid or scam scheme. I hope that there got to be a few such companies out there. Look forward to hear from you,thanks. Passing By : Another coin has popped up, this time HabCoin. Anyone anything about it? For me everything is clear now. Thea : For them, too many levels is a red flag for a product-based pyramid scheme.

The actual levels has nothing to do with whether the comp plan indicates a pyramid scheme or not. The actual definition of pyramid scheme specifies nothing about levels see FTC vs. Koscot decision , i. I know MLM-thetruth website. Jon M. Taylor who was previously a victim of MLM. All these informations are going to help me a lot to warn my family from these scammers.

So thank you really much. In peru: sbs. Hey OZ can you check out my24hourincome. Lawyer Sirichai phone number removed. Thanks for the update Sirichai, was wondering what was going on seeing as the initial uFun Club arrests were so long ago. Btw in ur opinion, how long is the average lifetime of such AdvRev business?

There is no profit without other people joining. Not having personally recruited victims just makes you sleep a little easier at night. Trying to time such for your own exit is pointless. Ponzis are not games, they steal money from people and are illegal. Website just has some marketing courses.

A recruitment event was held back in September with the following spiel:. Gone are the days where you can do this on your laptop. This has the potential of being bigger case than herbalife, because RICO, i. I have yet to see you assess any MLM that fits these criteria which I am quoting from you on your website:.

Have I missed any and if so could you point them out? I am NOT interested in Cash Gifting schemes and to insinuate that I am, shows the calibre of your reasoning and critical skills. I did not ask you to recommend any company either. You critique pretty much every Multi Level Marketing plan out there, and the ones to you don;t are in most cases arguably identical to ones you do, and all of them you decide are pyramid schemes.

Your view is obviously and evidently biased against the MLM business and should be discounted as such, and definitely not a reliable resource for assessing any such opportunity at all. Again, would it not be easier and more forthright and honest to simply point out the flaws as you see them in the MLM business model in general and be done with it? Seriously anyone can knock anything down with a negative bias but that is not criticism. I will not longer be looking to this site as a source for any kind of reliable balanced objective assessment of anything at all.

And your insulting smug condescending attitude only reaffirms it. One day you will cross the line if you have not already and be facing libel and defamation charges. I look forward to that though I imagine no one of importance in the industry cares at all what you think. Good day. It is not in his remit to explain, which ones are good, that is for you to do your own due diligence. I use this website as a reference point when something turns up in one of my many Facebook groups, and have saved lots of people from losing money.

Two new ones have turned up recently in my groups, and once I have more information, I will share with Oz and encourage him to do an investigation. Finally, MLM is not flawed, but often people running them have a different agenda to the rest of us, plus there are schemes hidden behind auto-ship, which are just Pyramids dressed up as MLM.

Raan : Again, would it not be easier and more forthright and honest to simply point out the flaws as you see them in the MLM business model in general and be done with it? There are already websites that address the MLM business model. Two notable ones that go into great detail are:. They will mistakenly only search for the name of the company. Enter Behindmlm. Raan : Seriously anyone can knock anything down with a negative bias but that is not criticism.

As I am new to mlm I have found your articles and replies a great source of information. I am a novice at trying to find the right mlm to join and to be honest its made me want to dig deeper into what companies are offering, which is obviously a good thing. Well I read through these reply Oz. My feeling on your sight? I like to think I run a pretty fair ship. I find this interesting — The comments below seem to contradict the nature of your own recommendations.

I have read on many of your articles:. While no one here is directly giving you money, I have seen comments where you tell people to stop the ad blocker they have.

Having ads tied to the search bar to generate revenue is basically people giving you money because of their traffic. Hi Oz, your contact form is blocking me as spam, just wanted to let you know about this: ethanvanderbuilt. Matt : Having ads tied to the search bar to generate revenue is basically people giving you money because of their traffic. This is much different than some random Yelp review or post on realscam.

Plus, anyone can reply in the comments on any topic and debate the merits of the issue. The few Adsense ads that you do see is very tastefully distributed and I doubt Oz makes much income from the ads. At best, it might pay for his hosting bill. In fact, an even more important reason to disable the ad blocker is to get the live comment preview. Ad blockers tend to block javascript. And you can customize your ad blocker to block whatever you want e.

If someone goes in at are the commissions not the same if you go in at which is more expensive because you get the Jim britt motivational nonsense? Marketing spam removed. Hear there is a new kid on the block just wondering if you have heard of them Royal Dragon Traders. Would love to know your thoughts before they launch July 1st. Do you have any information on the operations of D9 Clube. Its operating in Africa and i hear it is headquartered in Singapore or Hongkong.

I reviewed D9 Clube in August, Search bar is on the top right of every page. General news: Pyramid scheme Shanxinhui kind heart exchange in China got busted, tens of thousands protest in Beijing wanting the scheme reopened, causing Beijing police to close roads.

Bloody hell. Glen Smith from One Coin and Gladicoin is scamming thousands of people again. We are amazed, you have not featured Glenn Smith, that massive scammer. Please, do some research and out this scum bag. He is also working on another massive scam Ormeus Coin or some shit like that also.

Thank you, for everything you do, out these crooks…. Apparently some victims of Saivian have complained to Malaysian police, according to JusticeAlwaysLate. US District Court Judge just cleared them of the entire case in summary judgment. Yeah saw the H3h3 win. Reckons it cost over a hundred thousand to win though… and that was through summary judgment! Check this out, it could be possible that Onecoin is behind the BitConnect BCC cryptocurrency, the next video show the connections….

I tried to contact you through the Contact page but it kicked back my message. Please let me know how I can contact you. Something is up with the site email at the moment.

Getting a bit sick of it. LuLaRoe seems to be opting for counter productive MLM damage control option A, instead of fixing problems they can no longer pretend do not exist just sue some people to try and make them shut up about them.

I am what you consider an online netizen that loves the thrill of debate. I happen to stumble across your website by happenstance. I however have thoroughly enjoyed reading through your responses to those that disagree with what you are trying to accomolish. I value debate and the mental combat of opposing ideas. While I may not know a great deal about this subject, I do appreciate the way you combat those who come to this site trying to mince words with you.

You ship em up and send them home. You have proper debate technique for an online setting. I tend to go further with actually pointing out what type of fallacious arguments they use to end the argument completely. But still your set-up is golden. If I were to describe my debating style, it would be a mixture of you and Chang he recognises the fallacious arguments and points them out.