See the Man behind MMM in Nigeria
Ernest Mbanefo |
According to an online report, Mbanefo is based in South Africa.
Nigerian Communications Week said Mbanefo registered the site
MMM-Nigeria.net domain on June 7, 2016 about at about 5 pm Nigerian
time.
NCW quoting Pageone report written as far back as September said
Mbanefo made a single year domain payment. The domain will expire on
June 7, 2017.
It was also revealed that MMM Nigeria is not part of MMM Global – a
Russian company that was responsible for one of the world’s largest
Ponzi schemes in the 1990s.
MMM Global was founded by Russian politician Sergei Mavrodi, his brother Vyacheslav Mavrodi and Olga Melnikova.
The name of the company was taken from the first letters of the three founders’ surnames (MMM)
But like MMM Global, the Nigerian scheme is also a pyramid marketing
scheme where an investor gets a 30 per cent return on investment.
Around the world, MMM is feared.
In January 2016 the Chinese government banned MMM on the grounds that
it is a pyramid scheme, (Ponzi scheme), and it is not registered in the
country (and as a fraudulent scheme cannot be registered.
MMM recently crashed in Zimbabwe: Thousands of ‘Mavrodians’ in
Zimbabwe were left in tears when the scheme crashed, losing tens of
thousands of their lifetime savings.
PageOne gave Mbanefo’s address as 1 ROYAL STREET, LINDBERG PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.
According to Page One, on the 15th of July, Ernest was awarded a
certificate of completion of an online course titled ‘MMM Guiders
School’. The certificate was supposedly signed by Sergei Mavrodi
himself. He has since given himself the nickname the ‘Super Guider of
MMM’.
To share news and information about MMM, Ernest also operates a
subdomain ‘news.mmm-nigeria.net. The site praises him and projects him
as the leader of the Ponzi Scheme in Nigeria.
“He is described as: MMM Nigeria Super Guider; Pastor Ernest Mbanefo,
has been selflessly helping thousands of MMM Nigeria Participants
whether or not they fall under his downline structure. The brain behind
the MMM NIGERIA REVOLUTION operation has been working selflessly and
tirelessly towards the education, information and proper guidance for
the MMM Nigeria Community’
*Culled from Nigerian Communications Week and PageOne
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