AI-UP fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

AI-UP’s website domain (“ai-up.top”), was

AI-UP has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Central Bank of Russia issued an AI-UP pyramid fraud warning on February 10th, 2025.

As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.

AI-UP’s Products

AI-UP has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market AI-UP affiliate membership itself.

AI-UP’s Compensation Plan

AI-UP affiliates invest tether (USDT). This is done on the promise of advertised returns:

  • VIP1 – invest 8 USDT and receive 1.6 USDT a day
  • VIP2 – invest 30 USDT and receive 6 USDT a day
  • VIP3 – invest 80 USDT and receive 20 USDT a day
  • VIP4 and higher – not disclosed

The MLM side of AI-UP pays on recruitment of affiliate investors.

Referral Commissions

AI-UP pays referral commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

AI-UP caps payable unilevel team levels at four.

Referral commissions are paid on USDT invested across these four levels as follows:

  • level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 10%
  • level 2 – 3%
  • level 3 – 2%
  • level 4 – 1%

Downline Investment Bonus

AI-UP rewards affiliates for generating downline investment over a rolling 24-hour period:

  • generate 1000 USDT in downline investment and receive 20 USDT
  • generate 2000 USDT in downline investment and receive 50 USDT
  • generate 5000 USDT in downline investment and receive 130 USDT
  • generate 10,000 USDT in downline investment and receive 300 USDT
  • generate 20,000 USDT in downline investment and receive 800 USDT

Joining AI-UP

AI-UP affiliate membership is free.

Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum 10 USDT investment.

AI-UP Conclusion

AI-UP is yet another “click a button” app Ponzi scheme.

AI-UP misappropriates the name and branding of the Universal Pictures, a US film production company.

Needless to say AI-UP has nothing to do with Universal Pictures.

AI-UP’s “click a button” Ponzi ruse is “scoring” film trailers.

The presented ruse is Eternal Horizon affiliates log in, click a film and then click a button to rate it (the more invested the more buttons need to be clicked).

Clicking the button daily within AI-UP’s app qualifies investors to receive advertised returns.

Beyond that clicking a button inside AI-UP does nothing. There is no external revenue; all AI-UP does is recycle newly invested funds to pay earlier investors.

AI-UP is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis that emerged in late 2021.

Examples of already collapsed “click a button” app Ponzis using the stolen identity ruse are FIS VIP, Salavi88 and Trump Watches. Film score ruse examples are Eternal Horizon and Conti.

Since 2021 BehindMLM has documented hundreds of “click a button” app Ponzis. Most of them last a few weeks to a few months before collapsing.

“Click a button” app Ponzis disappear by disabling both their websites and app. This tends to happen without notice, leaving the majority of investors with a loss (inevitable Ponzi math).

As part of a collapse, “click a button” Ponzi scammers often initiate recovery scams. This sees the scammers demand investors pay a fee to access funds and/or re enable withdrawals.

If any payments are made withdrawals remain disabled or the scammers cease communication.

Organized crime interests from China operate scam factories behind “click a button” Ponzis from south-east Asian countries.

In September 2024, the US Department of Treasury sanctioned Cambodian politician Ly Yong Phat over ties to Chinese human trafficking scam factories.

Through various companies he owns, Phat is alleged to shelter Chinese scammers operating out of Cambodia.

Myanmar claims to have deported over 50,000 Chinese scam factory scammers since October 2023. With “click a button” app scams continuing to feature on BehindMLM though, it is clearly not enough.

In late January 2025, Chinese ministry representatives visited Thailand. The stated aim of the visit was to tackle organized Chinese crime gangs operating from Myanmar.

In early February 2025, Thailand announced it had cut power, internet access and petrol supplies to Chinese scam factories operating across its border with Myanmar.

Regardless of which country they operate from, ultimately the same group of Chinese scammers are believed to be behind the “click a button” app Ponzi plague.