MTS Foundation Review: Trading signals “click a button” Ponzi
MTS Foundation fails to provide ownership or executive information on any of its websites.
MTS Foundation operates from two known website domains:
- mts-foundation.com – privately registered on November 11th, 2024 (already abandoned)
- mts-foundation-usa.com – privately registered on February 28th, 2024
MTS Foundation is intertwined with ToFro, a purported cryptocurrency exchange.
It’s highly likely the same people behind MTS Foundation are running ToFro.
ToFro operates from six known website domains:
- tofro.com – domain first registered in 2006, private registration last updated on July 21st, 2025 (already abandoned)
- tofro.pro – privately registered on July 21st, 2024
- tofrod.com – privately registered on September 4th, 2024
- tofro-usa.com – privately registered on November 13th, 2024
- tofro5.com – privately registered on February 1st, 2025
- tofrof.com – privately registered on September 4th, 2024
It’s possible MTS Foundation and ToFro are using additional website domains not listed above.
If we look at the source-code of MTS Foundation’s website, we find reference to “Carlyle Group”:
Carlyle Group is a US investment firm that has nothing to do with MTS Foundation. It appears MTS Foundation has stolen Carlyle Group’s website design:
It should be assumed that everything MTS Foundation’s website is baloney.
Meanwhile the ToFro websites are hosted on Alibaba:
This suggests whoever is running MTS Foundation and ToFro has ties to China.
MTS Foundation has already attracted the attention of financial regulators. The Netherland’s AMF issued an MTS Foundation fraud warning on June 16th, 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.
MTS Foundation’s Products
MTS Foundation has no retailable products or services.
Promoters are only able to market MTS Foundation promoter membership itself.
MTS Foundation’s Compensation Plan
MTS Foundation promoters invest 40 tether (USDT) or more. This is done on one of the ToFro websites.
Through MTS Foundation, investors are fed bogus trading signals. These signals are used to determine which buttons to click on ToFro.
Clicking buttons on ToFro’s app daily generates a passive return of up to 200% over 40 days.
The relationship between MTS Foundation and ToFro is further explained in the conclusion of this review.
The MLM side of MTS Foundation pays on recruitment of investing promoters.
MTS Foundation Promoter Ranks
There are nine promoter ranks within MTS Foundation’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Rank 1 – generate a downline of at least five investing promoters
- Rank 2 – generate a downline of at least thirty investing promoters
- Rank 3 – generate a downline of at least one hundred investing promoters
- Rank 4 – generate a downline of at least three hundred investing promoters
- Rank 5 – generate a downline of at least six hundred investing promoters
- Rank 6 – generate a downline of at least one thousand investing promoters
- Rank 7 – generate a downline of at least one thousand six hundred investing promoters
- Rank 8 – generate a downline of at least two thousand five hundred investing promoters
- Rank 9 – generate a downline of at least three thousand five hundred investing promoters
Referral Commissions
MTS Foundation pays referral commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places a promoter at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited promoter placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 promoters recruit new promoters, they are placed on level 2 of the original promoter’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 promoters recruit new promoters, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
MTS Foundation pays referral commissions down nine levels of recruitment based on rank:
- Rank 1 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1 (personally recruited promoters)
- Rank 2 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1 and 0.5% on level 2
- Rank 3 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2 and 1% on level 3
- Rank 4 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2, 1% on level 3 and 1.5% on level 4
- Rank 5 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2, 1% on level 3, 1.5% on level 4 and 2% on level 5
- Rank 6 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2, 1% on level 3, 1.5% on level 4, 2% on level 5 and 2.5% on level 6
- Rank 7 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2, 1% on level 3, 1.5% on level 4, 2% on level 5, 2.5% on level 6 and 3% on level 7
- Rank 8 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2, 1% on level 3, 1.5% on level 4, 2% on level 5, 2.5% on level 6, 3% on level 7 and 3.5% on level 8
- Rank 9 promoters receive 0.3% on level 1, 0.5% on level 2, 1% on level 3, 1.5% on level 4, 2% on level 5, 2.5% on level 6, 3% on level 7 3.5% on level 8 and 4% on level 9
Rank Achievement Bonus
MTS Foundation rewards promoters for qualifying at Rank 1 and higher with the following one-time Rank Achievement Bonuses:
- qualify at Rank 1 and receive 50 USDT
- qualify at Rank 2 and receive 100 USDT
- qualify at Rank 3 and receive 180 USDT
- qualify at Rank 4 and receive 300 USDT
- qualify at Rank 5 and receive 500 USDT
- qualify at Rank 6 and receive 1000 USDT
- qualify at Rank 7 and receive 1600 USDT
- qualify at Rank 8 and receive 2500 USDT
- qualify at Rank 9 and receive 5000 USDT
Joining MTS Foundation
MTS Foundation promoter membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires an undisclosed minimum USDT investment through ToFro.
MTS Foundation Conclusion
MTS Foundation is yet another “click a button” app Ponzi scheme.
While MTS Foundation’s marketing website is full of baloney stolen from Carlyle Group’s website, the actual investment scheme is a run-of-the-mill trading signals ruse.
Participate in trading by predicting the next price movement (up or down) of the current trading pair.
The setup sees bogus trading signals sent to investors through MTS Foundation. These bogus signals correspond with bogus trading on ToFro.
Through ToFro’s sideloaded app, MTS Foundation investors are directed to click a red or green button.
Which button to click is a reflection of the bogus trading signals received through MTS Foundation.
Clicking the button purportedly ties into executing provided trading signals. Some of this is offloaded to ToFro, wherein investors are duped into thinking legitimate trading is taking place.
For some reason MTS Foundation can’t execute its purported trades on its own. They instead opt for the ruse of sharing trading profits with investors.
If that makes no sense it’s because it doesn’t. Why get randoms to click a button in a dodgy app when you could just execute the trades yourself?
In reality clicking a button inside MTS Foundation’s ToFro app does nothing. All MTS Foundation does is recycle newly invested funds to pay earlier investors.
MTS Foundation is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis that have emerged since late 2021.
Examples of already collapsed “click a button” Ponzis using the same trading signals ruse include RainbowEx, Gxness and TRC Trade.
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).
In the lead up to a collapse, “click a button” Ponzi investors also tend to find their accounts locked. This typically coincides with a withdrawal request.
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.
As of February 20th, Thai and Chinese authorities claim ten thousand trafficked hostages had been freed from Myanmar compounds.
Also on February 20th, five Chinese crime bosses were nabbed in a wider raid of four hundred and fifty arrests in the Philippines.
On March 19th it was reported that, despite the recent raids and arrests, “up to 100,000 people” are still working in Chinese Myanmar scam factories.
As of April 2025 and in response to a crackdown across Asia, newly opened Chinese scam factories have been reported in Nigeria, Angola and Brazil.
Myawaddy is an area in Myanmar along the Thai border. Myawaddy is under the control of the Karen National Army (KNA).
The KNA, led by warlord Chit Thu (right) and sons Saw Htoo Eh Moo and Saw Chit Chit, protect and profit from organized Chinese criminals running “click a button” Ponzi scam factories.
On May 5th the US imposed sanctions on Chit Thu (right).
The Treasury said the warlord, Saw Chit Thu, is a central figure in a network of illicit and highly lucrative cyberscam operations targeting Americans.
The move puts financial sanctions on Saw Chit Thu, the Karen National Army that he heads, and his two sons, Saw Htoo Eh Moo and Saw Chit Chit, the department said in a statement, freezing any U.S. assets they may hold and generally barring Americans from doing business with them.
Britain and the European Union have already imposed sanctions on Saw Chit Thu.
A May 25th report cites Myanmar and Loas as having “towering scam economies”. Cambodia however is reported to be a hotspot for Chinese criminal activity.
Cambodia is likely the absolute global epicentre of next-gen transnational fraud in 2025 and is certainly the country most primed for explosive growth going forward.
Cambodia is becoming the centre of an exploding global scam economy driven primarily by Chinese organised crime.
Chinese gangs are reported to operate in Cambodia under the protection of unnamed local politicians.
In June 2025, Amnesty International claimed Cambodia’s government was
“deliberately ignoring” abuses by cybercrime gangs who have trafficked people from across the world, including children, into slavery at brutal scam compounds.
The London-based group said in a report that it had identified 53 scam centres and dozens more suspected sites across the country, including the Southeast Asian nation’s capital, Phnom Penh.
The prison-like compounds were ringed by high fences with razor wire, guarded by armed men and staffed by trafficking victims forced to defraud people across the globe, it said, with those inside subjected to punishments including shocks from electric batons, confinement in dark rooms and beatings.
In July 2025 Cambodia arrested over 1000 cybercrime suspects. Twenty-seven of those arrested were members of Chinese criminal gangs.
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.
Update 16th August 2025 – MTS Foundation has disabled its “USA” website domain and appears to have collapsed.
ToFro website domains are still up but are assumed abandoned (withdrawals likely disabled).
Any new MTS Foundation domain(s) that emerge are reboots of the already collapsed Ponzi scheme.
