Six arrests in Hyderabad. A front company barely two weeks off the registry. And underneath it all, the same network that has run under at least four different names for a quarter of a century.
Utah's Division of Securities issued an emergency cease-and-desist on June 1 against BG Wealth Sharing, a crypto pyramid that promised 60% monthly returns and ran on an AI-generated founder. The machine collapsed the same week. The fees to "release" the money kept coming.
On April 25, 2026, Hyderabad police arrested a 61-year-old Country Sales Manager for Forever Living Imports India, alleging his operation pulled money from youth and housewives across multiple districts using three-tier packages and social media videos of a life nobody in the room was actually living. Police say the accounts they found held ₹3 crore (about $359,000 USD). The deputy commissioner says the real number is closer to ₹600 crore (about $71.8 million USD), spread across one lakh victims. That gap between those two figures is where this story lives.
BehindMLM's 2026 state of the industry report landed this week, and the numbers inside it describe a world where the same machine keeps getting new paint jobs. Before you forward that invite to someone you love, read what the machine looked like last year.