Again in July 2020 Mark Seyforth hitched his firm LifeTRNDS to Crowd1.
Crowd1 is a Dubai-based Ponzi scheme run by Swedish nationwide Jonas Werner.
Seyforth stepping into mattress with Crowd1 was a mutually helpful association; Crowd1 crowed about having merchandise, Seyforth acquired a minimize of cash stolen by means of the Ponzi.
As of mid 2021, Seyforth was nonetheless on the Crowd1’s Ponzi payroll:
In an October 2021 Crowd1 advertising and marketing video, Seyforth recommended he was going to connect Cforth to Crowd1.
A variety of the individuals in Crowd1 don’t notice proper now, that we’re in the course of transitioning to a brand new platform after the primary of the 12 months. Now now.
We’ve taken, we’ve modified the platform just a little bit. We’ve made it just a little extra strong, we’ve obtained just a little extra lodges and resorts in there.
No matter plans for Cforth integration Seyforth had for Crowd1 had in late 2021, seem to have fallen by means of.
Right this moment there’s no point out of Seyforth, LifeTRNDS or Cforth on Crowd1’s web site.
From this we will conclude that Seyforth and LifeTRNDS quietly left Crowd1 someday between late 2021 and early 2022.
Seyforth initially launched Cforth in Q2, 2021.
Circa Might 2022, Seyforth rebooted Cforth with a “grand opening”:
Crowd1 doesn’t function within the thirty-five Cforth launch video. Neither is there any point out of Crowd1 on Cforth’s web site.
Crowd1 hasn’t talked about LifeTRNDs or Seyforth on its official FaceBook web page since September 2021:
Becoming a member of Seyforth in operating Cforth is former Crowd1 Enterprise Growth Director Fredrik Stael von Holstein.
Seyforth seems to have poached von Holstein and appointed him CEO of Cforth.
Cforth doesn’t present a company deal with on its web site however Seyforth is believed to function out of Florida.
Supporting that is Cforth’s web site Phrases and Situations;
Jurisdiction and venue of any matter not topic to arbitration shall reside completely in Leon County, State of Florida. The Federal Arbitration Act shall govern all issues referring to arbitration.
The legislation of the State of Florida shall govern all different issues referring to or arising from the Settlement.
Seyforth’s MLM historical past dates again to 1975. Previous to getting concerned in MLM Ponzi scamming, Seyforth based One24 (2010), Day 1 (2012) and Goodlife USA (2016).
LifeTRNDS was primarily an extension of Goodlife USA, with each firms providing entry to journey reductions.
Right this moment each LifeTRNDS’ and Gooflife USA’s respective web sites have been deserted.
LifeTRNDS throws up a perpetual error and Goodlife USA was taken down previous to Seyforth partnering up with Crowd1
Learn on for a full evaluation of Cforth’s MLM alternative.
Cforth’s Merchandise
Cforth markets journey service reductions, gasoline tabs and varied dietary dietary supplements.
Cforth’s low cost journey providers platform is called Voyager.
Voyager is basically a rebranding of LifeTRNDS. Retail clients join free and get $75 in Lodge Credit.
Lodge Credit may be put in direction of bought discounted journey providers.
Cforth’s gasoline tabs are branded Blaze EcoTech:
Blaze Ecotech is manufactured by Rennsli Corp, a third-party firm headquartered in Utah.
Blaze Ecotech retails at
- $32 for ten tabs
- $125 for forty tabs
- $300 for 100 tabs
Cforth’s dietary supplements are Nutragrove branded. They’re manufactured by NutraLife BioSciences.
- 180 mg CBD Evening Time Spray – “mixture of hemp-derived cannabidiol, melatonin, 5-HTP, valerian root extract and GABA”, retails at $30.50 for a 1 fl. oz. bottle (30 ml)
- 180 mg CBD Daytime Spray – “energizing Daytime components with hemp-derived cannabidiol, plus caffeine, inexperienced tea extract and resveratrol”, retails at $30.50 for a 1 fl. oz. bottle (30 ml)
- 250 mg CBD Pet Dropper – “delivers hemp-derived, full spectrum cannabidiol in a handy dropper to your furry mates”, retails at $35 for a 1 fl. oz. bottle (30 ml)
- 500 mg CBD Spray – “offers hemp-derived CBD in a handy spray kind with a great-tasting peppermint taste”, retails at $50 for a 1 fl. oz. bottle (30 ml)
- 1000 mg CBD Spray – “offers hemp-derived CBD in a handy spray kind with a great-tasting peppermint taste”, retails at $80 for a 1 fl. oz. bottle (30 ml)
- IDo Deep Sleep Aid Patch – “superior BioFrequency know-how” that “present(s) particular well being advantages like ache aid and deeper sleep”, retails at $35 for a pouch of 12 patches
- 25mg CBD gummies (varied flavors) – “delivers roughly 25mg of Cannabidiol (CBD) in a scrumptious gummy made with actual fruit”, retails at $45 for a bottle of 25 gummies
- CoDefender Immune Booster – “21 important nutritional vitamins & minerals”, retails at $37.99 for a bottle of 60 capsules
- Lavender Eucalyptus or Menthol Peppermint Ache Cream – “easy-to-apply pores and skin cream with hemp-derived cannabidiol to assuage occasional aches and pains”, retails at $27.50 for a 1.5 oztub (45 grams)
Cforth’s Compensation Plan
Cforth associates both join free or pay a month-to-month subscription price.
Commissions are paid
- on recruitment of fee-paying associates and
- on purchases of third-party merchandise by retail clients and associates
Buyer Credit
Cforth refers to commissionable gross sales quantity as “Buyer Credit” (CC).
When associates or retail clients spend cash within the firm, CCs are generated.
- paying DBO affiliate charges = 7 CCs per thirty days
- paying DBO Professional affiliate charges = 28 CCs per thirty days
- buying third-party merchandise = CCs not disclosed
Notice that no CCs are paid on Voyager journey associated purchases.
For the aim of fee calculation, 1 CC = $1.
eGigCoin
Cforth withholds 20% of commissions as eGigCoin.
eGigCoin is a non-tradeable token Cforth represents is pegged to the greenback, i.e. 1 eGigCoin = $1.
eGigCoin can be utilized to buy “some” third-party merchandise. Cforth associates should submit a help ticket in the event that they want to convert eGigCoin into USD.
Cforth Affiliate Ranks
There are twenty-one affiliate ranks inside Cforth’s compensation plan.
Together with their respective qualification standards, they’re as follows:
- Affiliate – enroll as a VIP (free) or paid DB or DBO Professional affiliate and proceed to pay DB or DB Professional month-to-month charges
- Supervisor 1 – generate and preserve 30 CC a month (or a DB Professional membership), recruit 2 DB or DB Professional associates with 200 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Supervisor 2 – preserve 30 CC a month (or a DB Professional membership), recruit 3 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 1000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Supervisor 3 – preserve 30 CC a month (or a DB Professional membership), recruit 4 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 5000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Supervisor 4 – preserve 30 CC a month (or a DB Professional membership), recruit 5 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 10,000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Senior Supervisor 1 – generate and preserve 40 CC a month, recruit 6 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 100,000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Senior Supervisor 2 – preserve 40 CC a month, recruit 7 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 250,000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Senior Supervisor 3 – preserve 40 CC a month, recruit 8 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 500,000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Senior Supervisor 4 – preserve 40 CC a month, recruit 9 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 750,000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Director 1 – generate and preserve 50 CC a month, recruit 10 DB and/or DB Professional associates with 1,000,000 associates recruited company-wide after you signed up
- Director 2 – preserve 50 CC a month, recruit 12 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Director 3 – preserve 50 CC a month, recruit 14 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Director 4 – preserve 50 CC a month, recruit 16 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Government Director 1 – generate and preserve 80 CC a month, recruit 18 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Government Director 2 – preserve 80 CC a month, recruit 20 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Government Director 3 – preserve 80 CC a month, recruit 22 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Government Director 4 – preserve 80 CC a month, recruit 24 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Chief Government Director 1 – generate and preserve 120 CC a month, recruit 26 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Chief Government Director 2 – preserve 120 CC a month, recruit 28 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Chief Government Director 3 – preserve 120 CC a month, recruit 30 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
- Chair Director – generate and preserve 200 CC a month, recruit 35 DB and/or DB Professional associates with an unspecified quantity associates recruited company-wide after you signed up (over 1 million)
VIP associates’ CC is counted solely from their very own spend.
For DB and DB Professional associates, their very own CC is grouped with that of their personally recruited associates.
Recruitment Commissions
Cforth associates are in a position to enroll with a Quick Begin Bundle.
Quick Begin Bundle prices are usually not disclosed on Cforth’s web site or of their compensation plan.
What we do know is Cforth associates earn $250 per Quick Begin Bundle affiliate recruited.
Straight-line Queue Commissions
Cforth takes 25% of CC quantity and makes use of it to fund straight-line queue commissions.
Everybody who indicators up as a Cforth affiliate is positioned right into a queue.
There are two tiers to Cforth’s straight-line queue commissions:
- DBO and DBO Professional associates earn an unspecified minimize of CCs generated by twenty VIP, DB and DB Professional associates positioned after every VIP, DB and DB Professional affiliate they recruit
- DBO Professional associates earn an unspecified minimize of CCs generated by the subsequent 20 DB Professional associates, positioned after each DB Professional affiliate they personally recruit
I.e. you recruit somebody and earn on the subsequent twenty associates positioned immediately after them (VIP , DB and DB Professional for tier one, DB Professional just for tier 2).
Seeing because the queue is populated by means of company-wide recruitment, these are more likely to be not directly recruited associates.
Notice that straight-line queue commissions skip over inactive associates (individuals not paying charges). There isn’t any compression on inactive positions – so if all twenty positions are inactive, you gained’t earn something.
Residual Commissions
Cforth takes 50% of company-wide CCs and makes use of them to fund residual commissions.
Cforth pays residual commissions by way of a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations an affiliate on the prime of a unilevel group, with each personally recruited affiliate positioned immediately beneath them (degree 1):
If any degree 1 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on degree 2 of the unique affiliate’s unilevel group.
If any degree 2 associates recruit new associates, they’re positioned on degree 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Cforth caps payable unilevel group ranges at ten:
- VIP associates earn residual commissions on three unilevel group ranges
- DB and DB Professional associates earn residual commissions on ten unilevel group ranges
Notice Cforth doesn’t specify residual fee charges.
World Bonus Swimming pools
Cforth takes 25% of company-wide CCs and makes use of them to fund twenty World Bonus Swimming pools.
These World Bonus Swimming pools correspond with Cforth affiliate ranks (Supervisor 1 by means of Chair Director).
Notice that increased ranked Cforth associates earn on all certified for World Bonus Swimming pools, not simply the present corresponding rank pool.
I.e. Director 1 earns on all of the Supervisor and Senior Supervisor swimming pools. Chair Administrators earn a share in all twenty out there World Bonus Swimming pools.
Becoming a member of Cforth
Cforth affiliate membership is on the market at three price-point tiers:
- VIP – free to enroll
- DB – $29.95 a month
- DB Professional – $69.95 a month
The first distinction between the membership tiers are bundled third-party merchandise and elevated earnings potential.
Notice there may be additionally a Quick Begin Bundle out there. Prices are usually not disclosed.
Cforth Conclusion
Seyforth pitches Cforth as an “eGig Advertising Firm”. That’s a elaborate approach of claiming “we promote subscriptions and different individuals’s merchandise”.
Mockingly Mark Seyforth’s personal contribution, Voyager (primarily a continuation of LifeTRNDS), is excluded from Cforth’s compensation plan. He retains that cash to himself.
Regardless of very clearly working as an MLM firm with an MLM compensation plan, Seyforth is in denial about Cforth being an MLM firm.
Is CFORTH a Direct Advertising or Direct Promoting Firm?
No. CFORTH is a web-based market the place individuals who have entry, can buy services and products of high quality worth and at low cost costs.
Additional, individuals can be a part of CFORTH without spending a dime and it’s not obligatory for a Non-Paying Buyer (known as a VIP Buyer) to improve to a paid subscription.
In different phrases: a VIP buyer can stay a VIP buyer for all times (with out paying something).
VIP clients may even earn earnings primarily based on referrals who enter the Market and buy services and products.
None of that addresses Cforth having an MLM compensation plan and thus working as an MLM firm.
ProTip: Calling your associates “clients” doesn’t change your MLM enterprise mannequin.
I consider the rationale behind Seyforth refusing to acknowledge Cforth being an MLM firm, is as a result of it’s a pyramid scheme.
Retail is feasible however hamstrung by the free affiliate choice, which offers a 5% order low cost.
This ensures Cforth can have no retail clients. The FTC is obvious that MLM firms with out important retail gross sales are pyramid schemes.
Given Seyforth had no points partnering up with Crowd1, a Ponzi pyramid hybrid, this shouldn’t come as a shock.
As to Cforth’s merchandise itself, there are a number of gasoline pill alternatives doing the rounds. My tackle these merchandise is, in the event that they labored, everybody would already be utilizing them.
The Nutragrove CBD providing is fairly bog-standard – except for the IDo Deep Sleep Aid Patch and its “superior BioFrequency know-how”.
Riiiiiighhhh…..t.
Whereas I’m clearly skeptical on the product itself, they do present some context to Cforth’s lack of retail viability.
in the event you do wish to buy the patches they’re out there for $11.99 for a pouch of six, immediately from the producer:
Why would a retail buyer pay Cforth $35 for 12 patches (successfully $17.50 for six)?
Even Cforth’s DBO Professional 25% discounted value ($26.25 for twelve so $13.12 for six), remains to be dearer than shopping for the patches direct.
The reply is after all “as a result of shopping for the merchandise direct doesn’t pay recruitment commissions”.
One fascinating facet of Cforth’s advertising and marketing is placing actor Neal McDonough entrance and middle:
McDonough has joined Cforth as the corporate’s “Model Ambassador”, permitting Seyforth to pile on the “legitimacy by way of affiliation”;
Neal McDonough has joined CFORTH! Neal is a world-famous American actor and producer who has over 130 films and collection to his credit score. He has labored with the most important names in Hollywood in numerous blockbusters because the Nineties.
Neal is one in all Hollywood’s most revered actors. He now joins CFORTH as the corporate’s Model Ambassador and can oversee the corporate’s Company Social Duty (“CSR”).
Additionally, he’ll promote CFORTH by means of Commercials, on Social Media and Occasions. Being a person of religion, Neal McDonough is obsessed with charity and serving to individuals in want, particularly youngsters.
And throughout the fall of 2022, the corporate’s CSR technique shall be developed by CFORTH and Neal McDonough.
Apparently that’s all it takes to clean away stealing a boatload of cash from Crowd1 Ponzi victims.
Whether or not McDonough is conscious Seyforth and Fredrik Stael von Holstein are recent off the Dubai Ponzi gravy practice is unclear. He ought to, as a result of no matter he’s been paid to entrance Cforth as a Model Ambassador is tainted cash.
In any occasion, legitimacy by way of affiliation isn’t a factor. Cforth operates as a pyramid scheme – with or with out McDonough’s involvement.
That final thing I wish to contact on eGigCoin.
The play right here appears to be convert eGigCoin into USD manually, and solely convert it right into a cryptocurrency if sufficient associates enroll.
Is the eGigcoin a cryptocurrency?
No, it’s not. The eGigcoin isn’t a cryptocurrency, it’s a token. We’ve got the intention to transform the eGigCoin to turn out to be one of many first cryptocurrencies to have a real valuation previous to being globally traded within the second half of 2023.
Till that point, the eGigcoin will act as a token.
CFORTH doesn’t assure that the eGigCoin shall be transformed right into a cryptocurrency.
Neither does CFORTH assure something associated to the value, or valuation, of the eGigCoin if and when the eGigCoin is transformed into, and traded as, a cryptocurrency.
An exit-scam in ready, if you’ll.
For his half, Seyforth pitches eGigCoin with the same old “we’re gonna be the subsequent bitcoin” spiel;
This can be a coin that later will turn out to be a buying and selling cryptocurrency.
Think about being on the basis of a cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Properly, that’s a chance right here.
At time of publication SimilarWeb ranks 100% of visitors to Cforth’s web site as originating from the Philippines:
A lot for Cforth’s “Chinese language Theater advertising and marketing workplace” in Hollywood.
With a advertising and marketing and gross sales workplace on the iconic Chinese language Theater, CFORTH reaches 5 million guests yearly.
Come go to us!
I additionally don’t suppose Cforth recruitment taking off within the Philippines is a coincidence.
The Philippine SEC went in fairly laborious on Crowd1. What’s the guess that disrupted downline is now in Cforth?
Regardless of the story, until new Cforth victims are discovered outdoors the Philippines, as soon as recruitment dries up there it’s over.
Along with being an unlawful enterprise mannequin the world over, math ensures the vast majority of members in pyramid schemes will lose cash.
