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Earlier this month around 1.1 million Young Living account details were published on a popular hacking forum. The details were published on December 11th, with the data breach itself believed to have taken place earlier. Leaked Young Living account information includes distributor and customer names, corresponding email addresses, dates of birth and geographic location. The…
Following the court’s rejection of a time served plea deal, Mohammed “Moe” Diab’s Allied Walled criminal case is headed to trial. In rejecting the proposed plea deal at a December 19th hearing, the court informed the parties it would accept an agreed-upon sentence substantially below the low end of the applicable guideline range but not…
iComTech Ponzi promoter David Brend has been sentenced to ten years in prison. Brend’s sentence was handed down on December 2nd, following a guilty verdict in March 2024. Following Brend’s sentence, he will further be subject to three years of supervised release. On the money side of things, Brend (right) will pay a $40,000 civil…
Citing “unexpected events”, Jason Cardiff’s attorneys filed for a trial continuance on December 4th. Unexpected events have limited the time available for counsel to effectively prepare for trial on February 4, 2024. First, counsel lost his full-time associate who opened his own firm. Secondly, and more importantly, Mr. Cardiff has been unavailable for trial preparation…
A lawsuit filed against Clayton Sampson, aka Clay Sampson, has revealed behind-the-scenes fraud at EnvyTV. EnvyTV was a pirated content streaming MLM company Sampson launched in 2019. In November 2020 husband-and-wife Plaintiffs Mary Jane Beauregard and John Hugh Smith, filed suit against defendants: Clayton Sampson Elisha Sampson Envy TV and Envy Solutions Citing Clayton and…
Allied Wallet’s Amy Rountree has been sentenced to time served. Rountree’s sentence was handed down on December 13th. She is additionally subject to one year of supervised release. Allied Wallet was a scam-friendly payment processor owned by CEO Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja (right). Rountree and co-defendant Mohammed “Moe” Diab” helped run Allied Wallet, as COO and…
Katia Wanzeler has reached a settlement with the TelexFree Trustee. TelexFree was a $3 billion MLM Ponzi that collapsed in 2014. In an attempt to get in front of pending US civil and criminal enforcement actions, TelexFree filed for bankruptcy in April 2014. As part of TelexFree’s bankruptcy proceedings, a Trustee was appointed to take…
Serial fraudster Andreas Kartrud has been arrested in Sweden. Kartrud is being held in Malmo, on criminal charges related to 46 million EUR in tax fraud. Over the years BehindMLM readers have pegged Katrud as a promoter of Shopping Sherlock, SwissCoin, Dominant Finance, WoToken, Up2Give, KryptoGlobe, 1 Click Trading and XOXO Network. Kartrud (right) officially first popped…
8 Figure Dream Lifestyle’s three co-founders have received prison sentences. On December 16th, 2024; Alex Dee was sentenced to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.84 million in forfeiture Brian Kaplan was sentenced to 22 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.83 million in forfeiture Jerrold Maurer was sentenced to 22 months…
BioLimitless has announced it is abandoning its blockchain backoffice. The stated reason for the decision is to “allow for customers to be able to purchase product with credit cards”. BioLimitless’ marketing also states the change will allow “members to have a powerful back office”, suggesting its blockchain backoffice didn’t cut it. What impact BioLimitless abandoning…