Aurum Foundation pyramid fraud warning from Russia
Aurum Foundation has received a pyramid fraud warning from the Central Bank of Russia (CBR).
As per CBR’s July 18th, 2025 warning, Aurum Foundation exhibits “signs of a financial pyramid”.
Aurum Foundation is a Dubai MLM crypto Ponzi that launched mid 2024. MLM Ponzi schemes are almost always also pyramid schemes.
Originally a Boris CEO Ponzi, typical of eastern European scammers, today Aurum Foundation is publicly fronted by CEO Bryan Benson.
Tying in with CBR’s warning and Boris CEO Ponzi schemes typically being run by Russians, when BehindMLM reviewed Aurum Foundation we found Russian in its website source-code:
Bryan Benson is based out of Dubai. It is likely the Russian scammers actually running Aurum Foundation are also hiding out in Dubai.
As of December 2025, Similar Web was tracking ~160,000 monthly Aurum Foundation website visits. Top sources of Aurum Foundation website traffic are the US (49%), Greece (32%) and the UK (10%).
How are US IP addresses being sourced as traffic? The website Aurum.foundation and Aurum.trading have North American regions blocked.
Putting aside any MLM company blocking the US is a strong indicator of fraud, if Aurum Foundation’s geo-block was only recently implemented it wouldn’t show up in December tracking.
Definitely a Ponzi scheme. Just do the math of the compensation plan.
The bigger you invest , the more% you get. Your investment is frozen for a while. You don’t have any control of your funds either way. The network fill up the buffer and here again when there is more to payout than money is coming in..exit.
Sure thing is when you investigating the people behind this fake company, you know enought.
Best of the best, enjoy
If you’re looking for another get rich quick multi-level marketing look no further.
This is a total scam in its entirety.
Hugh-Paul Ward, sometimes goes by Hugh Ward, sometimes Paul Ward is connected to this company together with Lee Oshea.
The Irish Boy’s notorious scammers.
HP appears in multiple presentations where he never states his name and onscreen his ‘name’ is HP.
Hugh Paul Ward is an International scam artist.
Previously he was International Sales Manager for FutureNet and the principals of FutureNet Roman Zeimian and Stephan Morgenstern are international fugitives and on Interpol’s ‘red flag warning’.
They were arrested and waiting extradition to South Korea and/or USA where apparently they scammed people out of 20+ million Euros.
Note Aurum does not legally have a presence in USA yet Hugh Paul has travelled internationally not only to Thailand and the Netherlands to promote Aurum.
Hugh Paul Ward, has always lived in Northern Ireland, yet speaks with an American accent.
He continues to evade authorities, by filing multiple bankruptcies and attempting to change his appearance with weight loss and facial hair, but has always lived in the same town.
Maybe it’s a scam, but I’m wondering why people like Brian Benson and Nick Patel should risk their reputation, businesses, money (and perhaps to go to jail) in this venture, provided their stated past and present businesses are indeed real.
A rational and balanced explanation would be useful to steer away from other future similar scams that could arise, because if even in this case all will end “in tears” a new upper bar will be fixed as a standard I think.
Thank you.
Mario
Same as any other Ponzi scheme; money.
Yes, but in this case we are not speaking about unacknowledged and barely broke people who live in the dark and try “to win the jackpot” as it is for quite all other Ponzi schemes.
In the Benson’s status (social standing) the risk to see his assets to be confiscated or to even go to jail is worth the risk?
Doesn’t matter who the people are, the answer to “why?” when it comes to Ponzi schemes is always money.