A fake corporate office in Varanasi processed ₹4 crore in a year by selling jobs that did not exist to youths who could not afford to be wrong. What they got instead was a bar of soap and a quota of three cousins.
The FTC moved in April 2026 against three sets of high-level MLM recruiters whose pitches promised six and seven figures. The companies' own income disclosures told a different story to anyone who could find them.
Federal prosecutors say Winston Batino, a minister at the Chicago Church of Christ's North Ministry Center, spent five years collecting money from about 40 of his own congregants for luxury rehab facilities that never existed. The pews were the pipeline.
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.
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.
Jasmir Urbina paid nearly $10,000 to a woman she believed was a lawyer. The hearing was fake. The deportation was real. Across the country, the machine that took her money is still running.