Zukul Scam? Yes It Is In My Opinion!
Marketing tools like landing pages, auto-responders, and blogging systems are the most common products used to provide the cover for money making opportunity scams. These tools are provided as a bonus for participating in the money making opportunity. The tools are normally used to promote the same money making opportunity that the person purchased in the first place. It ends up being an endless chain of recruiting. My subscribers have requested that I take a look into the Zukul money making opportunity. Here is what I have found.
Zukul Scam Claims
A one of a kind opportunity with Revolutionary Products, Software & Services. Amazing 3 level deep Affiliate Plan with A Unique \’Passive\’ Multilayered Profit Plan.
Zukul is one of the largest Traffic Generating and Lead Management platforms online, in addition to providing educational training products and services to online marketers, start-ups, home-based, small and medium businesses.
We offer something that works for “the little guy”; the part timer; the stay home mom; the “non guru” who doesn’t have time to figure out complicated systems, set up and marketing.
Zukul Scam Reality
Zukul was founded by Jeremy Rush and Michael Bloom in 2014. Here are a few of the money making opportunities Jeremy Rush has promoted before Zukul:
Jeremy Rush November 30, 2012 at 5:07 pm
I joined BB and I am making money and I know four other people that are also making money, I have been IM from 2004 and I have seen many PG, MLM things come and go and we all know that in IM not everyone earns money, and when they lose they start to blame everything but them self !!! just because they don’t work at it they want FREE money
I love BB and I think they are here to stay, I paid £2700 so far I have not lost any money
Thank
Jeremy :O) – Source Donothingmoney.com
On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, Christopher George Smith, 45, of Toronto, and Rajiv Dixit, 45, of Vancouver, were arrested for running the Banners Broker scam.
The address for Zukul is a known offshore tax haven: 25 Mason Compex, Stoney Ground The Valley P.O. Box 193, British Anguilla
Zukul offers marketing software products and tools, including social media-marketing systems, landing page creator, viral blogging system, auto-responder, video training courses for start-ups, home-based, small and medium businesses.
Zukul had a program called Guaranteed Sign Ups, but the video for this is now set to private on the Zukul website.
The Guaranteed Sign Ups program is a scam where they collect money and slowly provide you with signups or not at all. This type of scam has been run many times. Another version of this scam was run under the name of GPS Funnel.
Here is a video I was able to find promoting the Guaranteed Sign Ups program:
Zukul’s basic packages are used to recruit people into other programs like the Zukul Ad Network and now Zukul Gold.
The Zukul Ad Network is a scam like Traffic Monsoon and AdhitProfits. The Zukul Ad Network claims to be a self-serve advertising and revenue sharing platform. In my opinion, it is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.
You must purchase a minimum of 100 AdPacks on each level of the AdPack Plan before being eligible to purchase AdPacks on the next level of the AdPack Plan (in ascending numerical order) and if you have purchased AdPacks on multiple levels of the AdPack Plans and an AdPack from any of the User’s lower level of the AdPack Plan becomes inactive (so as to reduce the total number of AdPacks on the lower AdPack Plan to less than 100 AdPacks) then you are required to purchase new AdPacks on a lower level of the AdPack Plan, in such an amount which takes the total number of AdPacks on such level to at least 100, in order to ensure that AdPacks on a higher level of AdPack Plan can be purchased.
– Source Zukuladnetwork.com
There are many complaints made about the Zukul Ad Network and the Guaranteed Sign Ups program. Here are a few of them:
I have left Zukul and ZAN a few months ago no point doing surfing and wasting your time. Bad experience but I learn from it and use the experience in other platforms and hope to recover my loss.
Bought Gsu’s worth $1000 and kept paying $50 every month for almost 9 months , then it hit me and i realized how brainwashed i was and decided to ask for a refund. They said they will give the refund once the programmers fix this bs and that bs and i heard a lot of stories and then finally one day i could not log in to my account.. They banned me… there went my $1450.
The guy LIED to us. He promised us refunds anytime and then absolutely broke his word. He has confirmed that he is not a trustworthy person and that his company is unreliable. He dissapointed us, caused us financial and emotional damage. Affected some of our lives at a serious personal level. He made us battle and beg for money that was already ours!! ..Giving refunds now does not change or repair any of that!!
Spent 2k, got $90 back after a year. Got fake PTP’s in Zan that paid nothing. Asked for a refund for Gold GSU’s, nothing so far. Feeling ripped off and stupid for falling for his BS.
…It still took me until October to finally request my refund for my 24 unfilled GSUs. Like everybody else I invested a lot more then my money. I also invested my most valuable asset, my time. I wish I would’ve seen the light sooner.
– Source The Real Zu_kul Facebook Group
Zukul Gold is a re-branded version of the Eagle Aurum scam. Eagle Aurum is a precious metals based Ponzi scheme.
Here is an image from the Zukul Gold compensation plan:
Here is an image from the Eagle Aurum compensation plan:
I would sum up the Zukul money making opportunity as a recruiting scheme that leads into various Ponzi schemes. It uses various marketing tools like landing pages, auto-responders, and blogging systems as the cover for this money making opportunity scam.
Cost and Products
Starter Package
$10 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Package Includes:
- Earning Funnel
- 3 Tier Affiliate Program
- Landing page Creator
- Autoresponder
- Training Courses
Beginners Package
$25 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Package Includes:
- Earning Funnel
- 3 Tier Affiliate Program
- Landing page Creator
- Autoresponder
- Banner Creator
- Training Courses
Intermediate Package
$50 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
Package Includes:
- Social Sniper
- Autoresponder
- Capture Pages
- Landing Page Creator
- Banner Creator
- Zukul Traffic
- JukeBox Training
- Blogging Platform
Advanced Package
$200 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
This price REQUIRES the Internmediate package
Package Includes:
- Social Sniper
- Video Submission Tool
- URL Shortener & Tracker
- SMS Platform
- Video Scribe Suite
- Youtube Buddy
- JukeBox Training
- Banner Creator
- Blogging Platform
- Landing Page Creator
- Zukul Traffic
- Capture Pages
- Autoresponder
Compensation Plan
3 Level Deep Affiliate Plan for ZUKUL’S 3 Course Levels
Earn Commission up to 3 levels deep
Earn Commissions up to infinity in width
Earn Commissions that reoccur every month
1st Level Affiliate Payout:
Beginners Level: $8
Intermediate Level: $13
Advanced Level: $55
2nd Level Affiliate Payout:
Beginners Level: $4
Intermediate Level: $5
Advanced Level: $25
3rd Level Affiliate Payout:
Beginners Level: $2
Intermediate Level: $4
Advanced Level: $10
Multilayered Passive 10 Level High Funnel
Available for Intermediate and advanced levels only
Automatically built and entered by every member
No extra effort required to profit from your funnel
Profits are reoccurring every month based upon the total number of
Members in your funnel
Collect 50% Matching Bonus payments from ALL of your direct affiliates
– Source Zukul.com
Income Disclosure
NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE RESULTS SIMILAR TO OURS OR ANYBODY ELSE’S, IN FACT NO GUARANTEES ARE MADE THAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE ANY RESULTS AT ALL.
They do not provide an income disclosure that offers any proof that they offer something that works for “the little guy”; the part timer; the stay home mom; the “non guru” who doesn’t have time to figure out complicated systems, set up and marketing.
Return Policy
ZUKUL offers a fourteen (14) day satisfaction guarantee on all initial fees paid to the Company. All subsequent fees are nonrefundable. – Source Zukul.com
Zukul Scam Conclusion
In my opinion, Zukul is another recruiting scam created by Jeremy Rush. Jeremy has been involved with many scams in the past. He promoted Banners Broker which was shutdown as a scam and the owners arrested. There have been many complaints made about the Zukul Ad Network and the Guaranteed Sign Ups program. Zukul Gold is a re-branded version of the Eagle Aurum scam. I would sum up the Zukul money making opportunity as a recruiting scheme that leads into various Ponzi schemes. Retail sales of products is not the focus of this money making opportunity. Recruiting people into the money making opportunity is the focus. I would avoid the Zukul money making opportunity.
Their entire network is scam. They rip off my money, I tried to contact them many times, via emails, their support links… They just don’t reply. ZUKUL NETWORK IS TOTALLY SCAM
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AND I WAS GOING TO JOIN !!!
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The typical definition of a con man .
Scammers maybe everywhere , they
become dangerous when they have
a “company ” kind thing in their hands .
. Many people smell them from miles ,
others do not really care , and others
become submissive about them .
. It is easy to identify them if you do
not hear what they say , but examine
what they are doing and how they act .
.They could show you their kids , or
their new villa , car , boat , wife , talk
about their “rare” disease 1%in the
world , all in a purpose getting trusted
or sympathetic by you .
Their second step is to draw money
from you in a sophisticated way ,
so you could possibly think that
they deserve it as they are so kind
personalities and you can be a partner
Of course their “friendship”
lasts until you understand with what
Kind of people you are messing around !!
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So the latest surprise NOT….
Having been in zukul ad network for over 1 year, i have seen it gradually peter out with no sharing revenue paid since March 30th. I started posting questions in the facebook group they have called one link family, which in the past couple of weeks has been name changed to Make Every Day A Payday.
My comments are always removed, even though they are not in any way abusive or derogatory. They use the facebook group to post ONLY positive comments,
Jeremy Rush has now started another shiny project called padlock income. If you look through the posts there are absolutely NONE that refer to Zukul Ad Network. It has just been tossed aside to make way for the new one.
My last post in there was a comment on one of Jeremy’s own posts and I simply wrote “What about Zukul Ad Network, Has it finished?”. Within 2 hours it had been removed.
Members who have realised the truth are simply not allowed to post into the group, with them editing out any negative posts, any new members (if there are any) will only see good comments and be suckered in.
I also bought GSU’s which were never fulfilled, I also have a withdraw able balance but I am not able to withdraw it.
The whole thing, Zukul, Zukul Ad Network and now Padlock Income is one huge scam.
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Jeremy goes from scheme to scheme. I would not give him my money for any of his projects.
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So, is it possible to actually get the GSUs refunded? 15 months later and no fulfillment 🙂 Whoops!
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Jeremy Rush has created a series of half-done shiny objects, while criticizing members for chasing shiny objects. He insults anyone who doesn’t agree with him and disrespects those who have given their time to make him successful. He has surrounded himself with greedy people, and he takes care of them by cheating the other members. He manipulates the flow of money so that some people earn and some people do not earn. He stole the money the members paid for guaranteed sign-ups. A few people make money and a few people cheer him on, but make no mistake, this is a fraud. Jeremy Rush belongs in jail.
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Thank you Ethan for for explaining how and why it is a scam. We already know that, but it needed to broked down like this, hopefully it will save others from falling in the trap. Great review.
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Jeremy Rush has no shame! He knows exactly what he is doing and he is an excellent con man. He puts on a facade of honesty and through his nearly daily live hangouts makes you think he is transparent. Then the lies begin. I was in this program for over a year. I got suckered into it, not because of his lousy tool suite that he brags up so much. Actually, these tools are crap compared to others out there online. I was sold on the Guaranteed Signups which I really believed was a unique way to build my business, without having to struggle to recruit people on my own. Actually, as it turned out i recruited more people on my own into Zukul than any other business opportunity I have ever been in. That is because it was something I truly believed in. I still do believe in the concept, but Jeremy screwed the whole thing up by letting his cronies buy tons of GSU’s which stalled the rotator preventing the rest of us to get ours. Therefore no one made any money. Then he tried to fix it by opening up ZAN and then ZUKUL Gold. They were both flops. The unfortunate thing is there are still tens of thousands of people still following this scammer and if they don’t get smart sooner than later, he will rip them off too! It is time for everyone to put a stop to Jeremy Rush and his little scam! He thinks himself clever, collecting the hard earned money from people and vacationing all over the world on our money. He must think we are all donkeys. This is absolutely the worst business I have ever involved myself in and I am dreadfully sorry that I actually recruited people into it. My advice to anyone looking at Jeremy Rush or anything he is promoting is: Buyer Beware!
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Hi do you know if anyone has taken any legal action or reported this fraud to the police????
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GREAT post Ethan!! I joined Zukul on October 25th, 2015. I have finally got refunded for 3 of the 4 GSU’s purchased there, but am still owed (but will never get) commissions from August. ZAN is something Zukul support doesn’t like to address. I’ve demanded my $550 back, but they refuse-so I called my credit card company and am working on a charge back! JEREMY RUSH IS A SCAMMER! I am not afraid of his immature lawyers threats. HE HAS NO CASE! His lawyers KNOW this! It is a threat loaded with buffalo dust! Jeremy Rush is a buffalo dust expert! ZUKUL and ZAN are a scam! The tools at Zukul are crap! They are a smokescreen to lure you in! SAVE YOUR MONEY! If you are a current member-get your money refunded NOW while you still (possibly) can. I got the refunds AFTER I threatened them-not before.
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Thank you John for speaking out about your experience. I am glad you found my post of value.
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Ethan Thanks for doing this I have been doing research on every new shiny object and program and you have just mentioned and some of these guys are down thieves, High traffic Academy and VIck the crook and all of the other scams out there you save people a lot of money Kudos to you my friend and Happy Holidays
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Thank you. Have a Happy Holidays as well.
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What about a guy named jesse singh?Is marketing good? mlms
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That guy will promote anything to make money. I don’t trust him.
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thanks for your opinion.I thought so too.There are no mlm that’s good for others than the top.
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In my opinion, Jesse is a scam promoter that uses multiple review websites to drive people into his current scam he is working with. He has promoted DS Domination and Digital Altitude.
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thanks for your opinion
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Of coarse it’s a scam. Rev-shares NEVER fair out in the long run. Jeremy is threatening to sue anyone from Facebook for calling him a scammer.
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Good luck on him being able to Sue anyone and win! People can say what they like on a public channel. Especially seeing this is a Scam! If he was sillly enough to sue, I would just counter sue for him running a Ponzi scheme 🙂 hahaha
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