On January twenty sixth BehindMLM revealed its Vyb evaluate, figuring out it as a recruitment-driven pyramid scheme.
Over the 48 hours since:
- Vyb co-owner and CEO Aundray Russell nuked his FaceBook account
- Vyb misplaced its cost processor
- Vyb’s web site has been deleted and
- Vyb co-owner Megan Lynch held a “meltdown” webinar, leaning closely into non secular affinity fraud
Let’s focus on.
Aundray Russell nuked his FaceBook account inside hours of BehindMLM publishing its Vyb evaluate.
After blocking public entry to incriminating proof on his account, Russell appeared in BehindMLM’s feedback part to blatantly lie about Vyb.
Transferring on to Vyb’s former cost processor, Tyga Pay; Whereas we didn’t point out Tyga Pay in our evaluate we did observe Vyb instructing associates on circumvent fraud safeguards:
Danny de Hek, who goes by the Crypto Ponzi Scheme Avenger on YouTube, reached out to Tyga Pay.
Tyga Pay knowledgeable de Hek
it’s towards our T&C to make use of our platform for Pyramid Schemes / Matrix Applications.
TygaPay halted cost processing for Vyb whereas their “compliance group” additional investigated Vyb.
On January twenty seventh, co-owner Megan Lynch knowledgeable associates Vyb was shifting in direction of solely cryptocurrency.
Moreover;
- public recruitment advertising and marketing shows had been additionally suspended and
- Vyb’s fee cost date was pushed again to February sixteenth
- excellent assist tickets for Vyb cost points are being deleted
Lynch claimed the problems had been resulting from Vyb “on the brink of transfer to a much bigger … Amazon server”. Toni Morick, Vyb’s Chief Advertising and marketing Officer, instructed associates with ongoing Vyb cost points to contact their financial institution’s fraud division.
Earlier in the present day Vyb’s “thevyb.io” web site was deleted:
As at time of publication Vyb’s “myvyb.io” web site remains to be on-line. The positioning claims over 30,000 members have signed up.
After Vyb’s major web site was deleted, Megan Lynch went on-line to have a public meltdown.
Lynch, who claims God informed her to create Vyb, doesn’t tackle Vyb being a pyramid scheme as the foundation of its issues.
As a substitute Lynch takes on a spiritual affinity fraud angle, trotting out the frequent “us vs. the enemy” strawman.
Once you’re doing one thing nice … you’re all the time going to draw the enemy.
We’re making just a few adjustments right here and there however no one can cease greatness, regardless of how exhausting they fight. No weapons fashioned towards us shall prosper.
There isn’t any “enemy” and there aren’t any “weapons”. Vyb prelaunched with an unlawful enterprise mannequin that defrauds customers – and numerous service suppliers have taken motion.
Lynch goes on to check Vyb, an MLM pyramid scheme, to The Underground Railroad.
I haven’t performed something [to promote Vyb]. I picked up my cellphone and I texted all people I knew … and we met underground, like The Underground Railroad.
Lynch has been selling Vyb day by day by means of webinars so I’m unsure how that equates to “doing nothing”.
Subsequent in Lynch’s “I’ll say something besides tackle Vyb being a pyramid scheme” bag of excuses is AI.
Don’t fear about something you see on-line. When you hear audio, it ain’t me. It’s AI. They love me a lot they’re AI’ing my voice as a result of they already know what’s about to occur [on] February seventeenth.
BehindMLM isn’t conscious of any situations of AI cloning of Lynch’s voice, or what it has to do with Vyb being a pyramid scheme.
Issues solely additional deteriorate as Lynch continues;
I’m not taunting the enemy I simply introduced my pastor with me, proper?
When you realize you’re up towards the enemy and you realize that persons are about to get free… I’m doing the presentation proper now by the best way.
When you realize you’re about to be free, you realize that God’s individuals, thirty-eight thousand of them are gonna flip into 100 thousand of them, that flip into 1,000,000.
If one will chase 100 and 100 will chase a thousand, what do you assume a million persons are going to do?
Not promote merchandise to retail clients and be legally compliant is my guess. I’m not going to even contact Lynch promoting “God’s individuals” membership for $25.
And evidently math isn’t Lynch’s robust level. A million chase ten million, who chase 100 million, who chase one billion individuals, who chase… greater than the inhabitants of Earth?
Yeah, appears like “God’s individuals” are screwed. However in fact math doesn’t matter when the objective is to fleece as many individuals as doable out of your place on the high of the Vyb pyramid scheme.
Thou shalt not steal.
Lynch goes on to assert MLM pyramid schemes are authorized within the US.
Hey, we’re authorized. We do the identical factor that Amazon does. We market merchandise, we simply haven’t gotten to the merchandise but … we don’t need you to deal with the merchandise proper now.
Amazon is in fact not an MLM firm and Vyb has not marketed any merchandise past promoter membership.
In true pyramid scheme vogue Vyb has led with earnings potential constructed round a recruitment-centric compensation plan: Vyb promoters pay $25 plus a matrix place price, and receives a commission to recruit others who pay the identical.
Are you going to have the ability to decide on whether or not or not you wanna lock your spot for $25, so that you fall into the matrix, that we constructed for God’s individuals?
That is greater than all of us, y’know.
No weapons fashioned towards us shall prosper, proper? I’m standing on that. I’m standing on, like, you may attempt to trigger all of the confusion you need however pay attention; February seventeenth this boat goes in to the promised land, with or with out individuals, proper?
We’ll let ’em on although, however I do need you guys to know the enemy is tough at work proper now.
There’s people who find themselves like, “don’t be a part of them” – that’s the enemy. It’s the enemy exhausting at work.
When you’re not conversant in the idea of affinity fraud, it is available in many various variants. Lynch is using non secular affinity fraud.
From the SEC;
Fraudsters who perform affinity scams continuously are (or fake to be) members of the group they’re attempting to defraud.
The group may very well be a spiritual group, corresponding to a selected denomination or church, or an ethnic group or immigrant group.
It may very well be a racial minority. It may very well be members of a selected workforce — even members of the army have been targets of those frauds.
Fraudsters goal any group they assume they will persuade to belief them with the group members’ hard-earned financial savings.
Many affinity frauds are Ponzi or pyramid schemes.
Vyb, not less than from what has been publicly disclosed so far isn’t a Ponzi scheme. However with every little thing tied to recruitment, is definitely a pyramid scheme.
Pursuant to Lynch using non secular affinity fraud to market Vyb is her bringing on Pastor Carlos.
Lynch, who claims he’s “new in her religion”, states she hadn’t spoken to Carlos “in years” previous to deciding to launch a pyramid scheme. Nonetheless, Carlos purportedly referred to as her out of the blue eager to “pray on [the] enterprise”.
And it didn’t freak me out proper? It didn’t as a result of I felt it in my spirit.
Carlos, in his capability as a pastor, goes on to lie concerning the actuality of pyramid schemes.
See Megan one factor you need to perceive is that lots of people see you as doing one thing is designed to harm individuals. However you’re not right here to harm individuals you’re right here to assist individuals.
And so lots of people don’t perceive your coronary heart or your mission and your objective behind this work. Behind this ministry.
Stealing cash from individuals by means of a pyramid scheme isn’t serving to them. Basic math ensures the vast majority of members in pyramid scheme will lose cash – and no quantity of praying or promoting your self out to fraud adjustments that.
Let’s be clear, the intent in a pyramid scheme is to misappropriate as a lot cash as doable. Vyb led with earnings potential in its advertising and marketing as a result of there’s nothing else to the enterprise.
Vyb’s “product” is promoting people who find themselves religiously inclined on monetary freedom tied to “the promised land”, for no different purpose than Megan Lynch and her Vyb co-founders getting a reduce from all people that indicators up.
And with no regard in any way for almost all of Vyb members who inhabit the underside of the pyramid when recruitment math ensures Vyb inevitable collapses.
Calling Vyb, an MLM pyramid scheme, a ministry? Good grief.
Carlos, who doesn’t disclose whether or not he has a vested monetary curiosity in Vyb, goes on to check Lynch to Jesus.
[Megan is] well-equipped to have the ability to take this factor to the subsequent degree. She’s handled the regulators, handled corporations that failed, handled people who had been problematic, and so God has constructed her and ready her for such a time as this.
The remainder of Carlos’ ranting might be summed up as rubber-stamping pyramid fraud within the title of God. Carlos urges webinar members to “get on in” Vybe, as a result of “God has referred to as them to do it”.
Pending any additional updates, we’ll hold you posted.
Replace twenty ninth January 2025 – Vyb’s major web site is again on-line.