Marculus Miller, operating through Evans Corner LLC, runs the Worldwide Cash Club, a recruitment scheme where participants pay $35 to join. The company’s website domain was registered on June 14th, 2017, and lists Miller with a Virginia address.
Miller also operates Super-Ape, a business described as a "viral downline & list builders club." Super-Ape affiliates pay a $7 membership fee. Commissions are earned by recruiting new members who pay the same fee.
Worldwide Cash Club offers no retailable products or services. Affiliates can only market their own membership. Adcredits, used to display advertising to other members, are bundled with the membership.
When an affiliate joins Worldwide Cash Club, they pay $35. This fee is divided: $5 goes to six existing upline affiliates and another $5 goes directly to Marculus Miller. Commissions are structured on a unilevel plan. After the initial payment, affiliates earn $5 for each new member they recruit, down five levels of recruitment.
The structure of Worldwide Cash Club, with its exclusive focus on affiliate recruitment and no sale of products to outside consumers, clearly defines it as a pyramid scheme. Such schemes are illegal in most jurisdictions. Worldwide Cash Club, however, claims its model is legal and "1000% successful." The only guaranteed success is for administrator Marculus Miller, who profits from every affiliate signup. The majority of participants will lose money, as the scheme’s collapse is inevitable once new recruitment dwindles. Payments are non-refundable, as they are made directly between members.
Victims of pyramid schemes often lose their initial investment. The mathematical structure of these operations means that only those at the very top, or those who join very early and recruit heavily, have any chance of profiting. For the vast majority, the outcome is financial loss.