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Wanted fugitive Vladimir “Lado” Okhotnikov has rebranded his collapsed Meta Force Ponzi as Holiverse. Holiverse was announced on October 10th, 2024: The reboot follows Meta Force’s collapse in late 2022, and two years of Okhotnikov stringing along gullible investors – mostly from India. As of December 2024, SimilarWeb tracked top sources of traffic to Holiverse’s…
Jason Cardiff has been declared a fugitive on the run from US authorities. The court’s declaration follows a February 4th ex-parte motion from the DOJ, seeking fugitive status and an arrest warrant. In its February 5th order the court advised “an arrest warrant will issue”. Cardiff’s fugitive status was confirmed following failure to return to…
Thailand has cut power, internet and petrol supplies to Chinese scam factories operating near its Myanmar border. While I’d like to report Thailand is finally acting to address years of rampant financial fraud, unfortunately it’s just trying to protect tourism. Chinese scam factories, filled with human-trafficked Chinese and foreign national slaves, are behind the plague…
Orbitray fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. Orbitray’s website domain (“orbitray.cc”), was privately registered on January 13th, 2025. As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money. Orbitray’s Products Orbitray fails to…
CashFlow NFT is dead. In its place we now have Bellator. Before we get into Bellator, here’s the history of CashFlow NFT leading up to this point: As of February 2025; CashFlow NFT’s website is still up but has no monthly traffic (SimilarWeb) Boogie Gopher Club’s official Twitter page was abandoned in November 2023, Instagram…
In March 2024 the CFTC secured a $64.3 million settlement against EmpiresX’s parent company Empires X Consulting. I figured that was the end of the case and left it there. Turns out additional judgments against the individuals behind EmpiresX were pending. On February 4th, 2025 the CFTC secured a $129 million judgment against EmpiresX co-founders…
As disclosed in a February 4th Status Report, a residence turned over to the Fundsz Receiver has been surrendered in an uninhabitable condition with floorboards removed and garbage, feces, and maggots throughout the house. As part of her court-ordered duties to recover assets, the Fundz Receiver traced purchase of then defendant Rene Larralde’s 1.9 million…
Following an internal investigation, Argentina’s CNV has acquitted Generation Zoe founder Leonardo Cositorto. The CNV found that, although Generation Zoe was an MLM crypto Ponzi that defrauded consumers out of $747 million pesos (~$36.1 million USD), Cositorto didn’t “operated with bonds, shares or other negotiable securities”. CNV finding that Ponzi schemes are not unregistered securities…
Optimus VIP, aka Optimus Invest, fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. Optimus VIP’s website domain (“optimus.vip”), was privately registered in August 30th, 2024. Of note is Optimus VIP’s official FaceBook page being managed from Brazil: This coincides with Optimus VIP’s offsite marketing naming Antonio Salas as CEO in off-site marketing: Salas…
Invest AI Robot fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website. Invest AI Robot’s website domain (“investairobot.vip”), was registered with bogus details on January 14th, 2025. Of note is Invest AI Robot’s website domain being registered through the Chinese registrar Alibaba (Singapore). As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about…