Legacy Builders is an unlawful gifting scheme launched in 2024. Founder Michelle Oneil created the rip-off below her Digital Development Neighborhood branding.
Oneil launched Legacy Builders following the collapse of Infinity Processing System, a previous unlawful gifting scheme Oneil promoted.
Legacy Builders recruitment peaked round mid 2024. Both in direction of the tip of 2024 or by early 2025, Legacy Builders recruitment had inevitably collapsed.
A few week in the past Oneil, who personally claims to have misappropriated “over $5 million” by means of unlawful gifting schemes, introduced Legacy Builders 2.0.
As a substitute of acknowledging Legacy Builders was an unlawful gifting scheme that inevitably collapsed because of declining recruitment, Oneil states in a launch video uploaded on March twelfth;
We have now over fifty thousand in the neighborhood now however I observed a niche. And the hole was folks must be taught extra attraction advertising and marketing expertise and social media advertising and marketing expertise.
So Legacy 2.0 has what you’ll be able to turn out to be licensed. Licensed within the 100% revenue resell rights. Licensed in understanding the method to organically appeal to clients to you.
In case it wasn’t apparent, “certification” obtained by means of Legacy Builders will not be acknowledged by any accredited group. It’s meaningless advertising and marketing waffle which means completely nothing exterior of Legacy Builders itself.
Oneil claims that, to this point, “over $29 million” in gifting funds have been made by means of Legacy Builders. In line with Oneil “probably the most common nations” Legacy Builders unfold to was South Africa.
Apart from blaming victims for not discovering new suckers to fleece, Legacy Builders 2.0 seems to be a straight reboot of the unique gifting scheme.
Gifting funds inside Legacy Builders are tiered throughout $100 to $900. Individuals should buy-in at every tier to qualify to obtain funds throughout these tiers.
Sometimes in an MLM gifting scheme funds made to unqualified contributors are handed as much as the primary certified participant. In Legacy Builders Oneil retains these handed up gifting funds for herself.
Based mostly on Oneil’s offered numbers, her private haul equates to to twenty% or so of all Legacy Builder participant funds.
As famous in BehindMLM’s Legacy Builders assessment, Oneil preserving handed up gifting funds “makes Legacy Builders a considerably worse rip-off than your typical MLM gifting scheme.”
The final main MLM gifting bust within the US was Blessings In No Time (BINT). Launched through the top of the COVID-19 pandemic, an FTC lawsuit filed in 2021 alleged BINT scammed shoppers out of tens of tens of millions of {dollars}.
BINT house owners LaShonda and Marlon Moore (proper), settled the FTC’s fraud allegations for $9.7 million in 2023.
Later that very same the yr the Moores have been additional indicted on BINT associated felony fees.
The husband-and-wife gifting fraudsters pled responsible in February 2025 with sentencing pending.
Mirroring BINT, by Oneil’s personal admission Legacy Builders has defrauded tens of hundreds of shoppers out of tens of tens of millions of {dollars}.