Smart Value
thegentlemen listed this organization on its leak site on Oct 9, 2026.
- Listing date
- Oct 9, 2026
- Attack date
- Oct 6, 2026
Listing text
smartvalue.biz zoominfo.com/c/smart-value/408286294 Smart Value Limited is an Indian MLM (multi-level marketing) / network marketing company founded in 2003–2004 in New Delhi by Manoj Kumar Gupta, operating 100+ offices across India with a claimed 2,000,000+ distributors (IBAs). The company sells health supplements, personal care, household products, and educational courses — but revenue is not publicly disclosed (private MLM). Its core business model relies on recruiting new distributors rather than actual retail sales, with heavily inflated product pricing (200–500% above market) to fund multi-level commissions. The company faces serious and widespread allegations: consumer complaints about pyramid-like structure, inability to recover investments, fake income claims on social media, and reported law enforcement scrutiny in India. ~99% of participants lose money (standard MLM economics), while only top recruitment leaders profit. Despite 20+ years of operation and membership in Indian
About the group
thegentlemen posted its first listing on Sep 9, 2025 and has listed 1,253 organizations to date.
The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.
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