UPDATED 3:21 A.M. EDT SEPT. 30 U.S.A. The PP Blog is aware that BehindMLM.com, the popular review site that covers multilevel marketing and fraud schemes within the sphere, is offline. The precise reason why is unclear at this time.
BehindMLM.com reported Sept. 26 that it had received a DMCA takedown notice from Faith Sloan, an MLM HYIP huckster and figure in the TelexFree Ponzi- and pyramid-scheme story. In April 2014, Sloan was charged with securities fraud by the SEC for her alleged role in TelexFree, described by regulators as a billion-dollar fraud that crossed national borders.
In the takedown action, Sloan complained about certain photographs that have appeared on BehindMLM.com. Sloan claims to own the copyrights and that Behind MLM’s use of the photographs was unauthorized.
BehindMLM has called Sloan’s claims “bogus” and has said an outage was possible as the situation evolved.
Content from BehindMLM.com has been cited in court filings by TelexFree members who alleged that racketeering violations occurred within TelexFree. More than 1 million TelexFree victims may exist around the world.
Analysis by the PP Blog of a small subset of data from 95 self-identified victims of TelexFree shows that the group of 95 lost a whopping average of $27,578 each and that claimed losses ranged from a low of $900 to a high of $427,500.