Orange Cat Energy Ponzi collapses, “fake taxes” exit-scam
Orange Cat Energy has collapsed.
To further milk their victims, Chinese scammers behind the “click a button” app Ponzi have rolled out a “fake taxes” exit-scam.
Orange Cat Energy collapsed on April 4th. Instead of being honest about why withdrawals had been disabled, Orange Cat Energy’s admins trotted out baloney about a “pre-IPO audit”;
Currently, the company has officially commenced preparations for its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on NASDAQ (targeting the year 2027).
In accordance with the requirements of international capital markets, a comprehensive financial and tax audit must be conducted prior to the IPO.
The results of this audit will directly impact the legal validity of your earnings, the verification of your assets, and your future dividend entitlements.
With investor funds locked up, next was more baloney about “preliminary tax settlements”;
Why is a Preliminary Tax Settlement Required? Within the European tax system (specifically regarding Germany), all business revenue is subject to tax reconciliation; failure to comply may result in the following consequences:
-Revenue being withheld or frozen
-Delays in payouts
-Exclusion from the exchange’s asset verification system
To safeguard the rights of its partners, the company is offering the following during the audit period:
Unified Tax Pre-Settlement Channel (open for a limited time only)
In accordance with applicable legal standards, the company will assist you in calculating your Value Added Tax (VAT) liability:
VAT Calculation Standard: 19% of the device value
Needless to say Orange Cat Energy investors who pay the 19% ransom fee will only add to their losses.
Usually a “click a button” app Ponzi just disappears when it collapses. If one gets bit enough though, it’s not uncommon for the Chinese scammers running them to further milk their victims.
BehindMLM has documented the “fake taxes” exit-scam in “click a button” app Ponzis dating back to 2022; VCCP, Conti and BLQ Football.
In case it wasn’t clear, money invested into Orange Cat Energy is gone. This includes any fake taxes fees or any other payments made.
The usual play from here is milking the most gullible investors for a week or so before disappearing. Bullshit updates will continue to be pushed out on social media. Reboot app scams will also likely be created and pitched.
BG Wealth Sharing investors should probably take note. This is how all “click a button” app Ponzis end.
Update 7th April 2026 – Orange Cat Energy has disabled its websites and deleted its social media profiles.


Emails to Orange Cat Energy can no longer be delivered.
The imprint on the orangecatenergy.net website lists three email addresses.
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orangecatenergy.net/de/#/impressum
My email to the scammers in Hechingen, Germany, could not be delivered.
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Within a few hours of this article going live, Orange Cat Energy disabled its websites and deleted its official Telegram groups.
Guess the fake taxes exit-scam uptake was lower than expected.
Liviu Roman’s German orangecatenergy.store website is still accessible.
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orangecatenergy.store/policies/legal-notice
The German serial fraudster Bernd Reinders from Bocholt has already reacted. The 13-page OrangeCatEnergy PDF on his om-r.de website is no longer available.
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om-r.de/orange-cat-energy
He hasn’t yet deleted his extensive promotion of the Orange Cat Energy scam on Facebook.
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facebook.com/bernd.reinders.3
He hasn’t deleted the 9 videos on his YouTube channel yet either.
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youtube.com/@orange-cat-energy-powerbank/videos
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/orange-cat-energy-review-charging-station-click-a-button-ponzi/#comment-496990
Milos Lupic opened an Orange Cat Energy rental service station in Hildesheim, Germany, in December 2025.
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facebook.com/groups/Hildesheim.Gruppe/posts/10162410736971247/
His orangecatapp.de website is still accessible. The imprint contains an incorrect VAT ID number!
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orangecatapp.de/impressum
Milos Lupic on Facebook.
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facebook.com/milos.lupic
This guy with no name has deleted 23 OrangeCatEnergy videos from his channel.
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youtube.com/@orangecatenergy_erkl%C3%A4rt
This YouTube channel, which has 29 videos and 1,340 subscribers, is still available. It was created on May 23, 2025. The most recent video was uploaded on November 13, 2025.
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youtube.com/@OrangeCat-8623/videos
Also, I can still see this page working. Responsible ppl are at the bottom
691dab9a4150b.site123.me
^^ None of those people exist.
@Milos Lupic
I already mentioned this suspicious website on March 28, 2026. This is not the official website of the scammers in Hong Kong.
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/orange-cat-energy-review-charging-station-click-a-button-ponzi/#comment-496906
A German lawyer issued a warning on April 7, 2026.
anwalt.de/rechtstipps/orange-cat-energy-ein-100-iger-betrug-erfahrungen-mit-der-auszahlung-bei-orange-cat-app-262573.html
Do we know how many people have been affected?
Only people who know that for sure are the Chinese scammers behind Orange Cat.
The Instagram account orangecatgermany has been deleted.
instagram.com/orangecatgermany
The owner of this account has also deleted all the videos on YouTube and renamed the channel—which had 40 subscribers at the time—but has not deleted his registration link.
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The following screenshot from my archive shows the channel on February 16, 2026. The channel contained two spelling errors (Organge and Organe instead of Orange).
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youtube.com/@OrganeCatEnergy/videos
This was my first comment on this topic:
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/skainet-systems-review-ai-trading-bot-ruse-dubai-ponzi/#comment-496450
Mareike Grosse Hackmann from Damme, Germany, heavily promotes the Orange Cat Energy scam on her website, digitales-mareiketing.de. Partial quote.
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digitales-mareiketing.de/orange-cat
The imprint on her website is complete, but it does not include a phone number.
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digitales-mareiketing.de/impressum
She has already deleted her Instagram account, orangecat.power, which had 15 posts and 84 followers as of January 8, 2026.
instagram.com/orangecat.power
The referenced website digitales-mareiketing.de/orange-cat no longer exists. The information presented here is outdated and does not reflect the current situation.
The “current situation” is Mareike Grosse Hackmann promoted a Ponzi scheme and, after it inevitably collapsed, is now trying to cover her tracks.
the website “digitales-mareiketing.de/orange-cat” is not displaying anything BUT it is auto-downloading a txt file on some broswers and operating systems.
@Melanie (?)
When I wrote my comment a few hours ago, the website was still online!!! I copied the entire website and saved it with screenshots.
In this screenshot from March 20, 2026, her former Instagram account, orangecat.power, is still visible.
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Mareike Grosse Hackmann’s Instagram account, with 46 posts and 1,018 followers since April 2024, and a clear photo of her.
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instagram.com/digitales.mareiketing
Mareike Grosse Hackmann also promotes the Mining Race and Polar Tensor scams on her website.
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digitales-mareiketing.de/linkpage
P.S. What’s your real name? Mareike? 🙂
Since Mareike Grosse Hackmann began promoting the OrangeCatEnergy scam, her website has seen a significant increase in visitors.
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Kai René Schumacher founded Orange Cat Energy Technology GmbH in Mühlhausen, Germany, on February 9, 2026.
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northdata.de/Orange%20Cat%20Energy%20Technology%20GmbH,%20M%C3%BChlhausen/Amtsgericht%20Jena%20HRB%20524255
A regional newspaper reported as early as October 7, 2025, that Kai René Schumacher works for Orange Cat Energy.
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thueringer-allgemeine.de/lokales/unstrut-hainich-kreis/article410118733/grosser-plan-mit-kleinen-akkus-familie-startet-ungewoehnliche-geschaeftsidee-im-unstrut-hainich-kreis-mit-video.html
The same newspaper reported on April 7, 2026.
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thueringer-allgemeine.de/lokales/unstrut-hainich-kreis/article411655723/unstrut-hainich-kreis-milliarden-betrug-mit-powerbanks.html
The same newspaper reported this yesterday.
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thueringer-allgemeine.de/lokales/unstrut-hainich-kreis/article411665387/unstrut-hainich-kreis-ich-bekomme-morddrohungen.html
Note: Newspaper articles are available only to subscribers.
Kai René Schumacher’s former Instagram account.
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instagram.com/orangecat_energy_thueringen/
Another article on the same topic from April 8, 2026.
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thueringer-allgemeine.de/lokales/unstrut-hainich-kreis/article411662318/betrug-erschuettert-muehlhausen-deutschlandweit-berichten-betroffene.html
This German Instagram account for Orange Cat Energy, which has 21 posts and 58 followers and was created in January 2026, has not yet been deleted.
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The following screenshot shows the owner of the branch in Ansbach (Germany) in the foreground, wearing a beard.
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instagram.com/p/DUGQ82jjEfV/?img_index=3
The grand opening of the Orange Cat Energy branch in Ansbach took place on February 7, 2026. The screenshot includes the address and phone number.
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instagram.com/p/DUdEsSNDC2k/
instagram.com/orange_cat.technologie_ansbach/
The owner of the Orange Cat Energy store in Ansbach is Rene Schaefer.
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tour.panoee.net/69c03a7e98323b07c8ce3618/orangecat
Addition to comment #6.
The anonymous German operator of the YouTube channel “OrangeCat Energy Explains” uploaded another video on April 7, 2026.
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youtube.com/watch?v=R-kd4-NeD-I
As I mentioned earlier, this guy deleted 23 promotional videos for the Orange Cat Energy scam.
On April 9, 2026, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a statement.
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bafin.de/SharedDocs/Veroeffentlichungen/DE/Verbrauchermitteilung/weitere/2026/meldung_2026_04_09_orange_cat_energy_technology_co_ltd.html
The regional German radio and television station MDR reported yesterday in a detailed article on the Orange Cat Energy scam. Partial quote.
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mdr.de/nachrichten/thueringen/powerbank-betrug-orange-cat-anleger-100.html
The rainbowenergy.us website offers a business model that is virtually identical to that of Orange Cat Energy.
This “company” (Rainbow Shared Energy Co., Ltd.) also lists Hong Kong as its location.
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A screenshot of the website.
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The domain rainbowenergy.us was privately registered on March 24, 2026.
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This appears to be a new MLM.
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We find the same offer on the German rainbowenergy.eu website.
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The domain rainbowenergy.eu was registered on March 23, 2026. The domain registration lists Oberhausen, a city in Germany, and a suspicious Outlook email address.
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The Telegram channel @rainbow0880 mentioned on the website apparently does not yet exist.
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Although the two domains were not registered until March 2026, the website gives the impression that the site launched as early as 2024.
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rainbowenergy.us/#development-plan
Is Rainbow Shared Energy the criminal successor to Orange Cat Energy? A second attempt to scam gullible people?
Anyone who wants to register here to lose their money will be redirected to the rainbowenergy.online website. This domain was registered on March 31, 2026, and updated on April 5, 2026.
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A recent screenshot of the rainbowenergy.online website.
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rainbowenergy.online
A scammer going by the name tommy_ocet deleted his entire Instagram account—all 189 posts—today. “ocet” is short for Orange Cat Energy Technology. I took the following screenshot four hours ago.
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instagram.com/tommy_ocet (the former link)
He used this account to promote Mining Race, WeFi, and Orange Cat Energy with his referral links, but since February 4, 2026, he has posted 13 times promoting only Orange Cat.
In a post dated February 4, 2026, he mentioned a Marketing & Communications Officer (MCO) at Orange Cat Energy Germany who goes by the name “Toto.” This “Toto” is also frequently mentioned on Facebook.
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instagram.com/p/DUUH0ZViN-M/ (the former link)
Addition to comment #28.
I have found several indications that Rainbow Shared Energy actually launched in Indonesia as early as 2024. There are already several Instagram accounts dedicated to Rainbow Shared Energy (RSE).
The following account was created in November 2022 and lists its location as Azerbaijan. The username for this account has been changed once, and it contains 4 posts from May and June 2024.
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instagram.com/rainbow_shared_energy_company
The following account, which has 2 posts, was created in February 2025 and lists Indonesia as its location.
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instagram.com/rainbow_shared_energy_
The following account, which has 8 posts, was created in September 2024 and lists also Indonesia as its location. The most recent post is from November 2024.
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instagram.com/rainbowsharedenergypainan
There is also a YouTube channel called RainbowSharedEnergyCompanyLimited, which has 151 videos and 198 subscribers as of June 2024. Indonesia is listed as the location, and the most recent video was uploaded on February 3, 2025.
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youtube.com/watch?v=yT2QlPikz2E
@FikiAndriana-xr4dk commented on this video:
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youtube.com/@RSECompany
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Could it be that an old scam is being revived on new websites?
Have one of your slave devs change the app name, generate new graphics and a website, doesn’t take much to create an app Ponzi clone.
Also wouldn’t be the first time they’ve recycled an existing name they used to target another region.
Thanks, I’ll add Rainbow Energy to the review list.
Addition to comments #28 and 30.
Rainbow Shared Energy on Telegram has 13,115 subscribers. A preview is available.
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t.me/RSE_Power_Bank
Silvio Thiess of Chemnitz, Germany, renewed the domain registration for his orange-cat.de website on January 22, 2026.
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When I clicked on the link last week, I saw the following message:
Starting today, orange-cat.de redirects to amazon.de!!! Is AMAZON now involved in this scam as well? 🙂
The orange-cat.de website was last saved in the Web Archive on March 30, 2026.
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web.archive.org/web/20260330073735/https://www.orange-cat.de/de
Silvio Thiess promoting Orange Cat Energy on Instagram.
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instagram.com/ultima_business.de
Silvio Thiess with photo on LinkedIn.
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linkedin.com/in/seooptimierung
Silvio Thiess’s imprint on another website he owns.
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seo-agentur-thiess.de/impressum
In November 2024, Silvio Thiess promoted the Flyback Solutions scam on Facebook.
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facebook.com/seoseasem
Since April 8, 2026, victims of the Orange Cat Energy scam have been lured into a new scam via 5 videos on YouTube.
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youtube.com/@AITECHIBPORTAL_TAG_BIT1_BIX
Video from April 12, 2026.
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youtube.com/watch?v=maNa9M0qKhA
The AI-generated video won’t go over well with the victims of Orange Cat, since it portrays them as fools and losers.
The 13 videos on this channel link to the following websites.
bit1.exchange – bit1.guru – bix.life – bix.guru
aitechibportal.com – aitechibportal.info – aitech.ibportal.io
t.me/bit1exchange – t.me/AITECHIBPORTAL – t.me/HarryDBS
“HarryDBS” in a video from March 13, 2026.
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youtube.com/watch?v=y1eDtb5BAH8
Continued.
On August 2, 2025, the following three domains were registered privately: slnt.live + slnt.world + slnt.club.
slnt.live = postimg.cc/WDZ9CRL7
The slnt.live website does not exist; instead, it redirects to this video on the YouTube channel AITECH IB PORTAL, posted on April 10, 2026, by “HarryDBS,” who describes himself as a graduate engineer.
The video once again promotes SONIC TRADING, but it also includes a short excerpt from this article by BehindMLM.
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youtube.com/watch?v=E0PSRIPr7Ok
Note: BALLERMANN is a popular vacation destination for Germans in Mallorca, Spain.
slnt.world = postimg.cc/wy7Bgk2F
The slnt.world website redirects to aitech.sonicfunnel.com/de?e=O7s–CqOkaUwGEJ9rXuWAcqLt9pZn_JQXGx0AzUduss (*)
slnt.club = postimg.cc/YvYnyKw3
The slnt.club website does not exist; instead, it redirects to the following video on the AITECH IB PORTAL YouTube channel, dated April 9, 2026, featuring the well-known advertisement for SONIC TRADING.
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youtube.com/watch?v=7-fieL1MjVg
(*)The domain sonicfunnel.com was privately registered on March 21, 2026.
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Addition to comments #34 and 35.
The videos I mentioned are no longer listed, and the YouTube channel was renamed HashNet Global on April 26, 2026; it now contains 20 other videos. It appears a new scam has been launched here.
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youtube.com/@HashnetGlobal/videos
The following screenshot proves that the videos are still available on the renamed channel!
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youtube.com/watch?v=maNa9M0qKhA
The domain hashnet.ai was privately registered on February 14, 2026.
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The hashnet.ai website lists Wealthier Corporation Limited in Hong Kong as the operator. The scammers behind Orange Cat Energy also listed Hong Kong as their location.
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Unfortunately, people living in the United States are not allowed to participate in this scam! 🙁
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hashnet.ai/terms.html
The domain hashnet.biz was also privately registered on April 17, 2026.
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The hashnet.biz website does not exist; instead, it redirects to the HashNet Global YouTube channel.
youtube.com/channel/UCgEvJ4-pizS2siAsIB5l2xQ
The domain hashnet.info was also privately registered on April 17, 2026.
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The hashnet.info website redirects directly to app.hashnet.ai/auth/signup/Cryptomania
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The domain hashnet.vip was also privately registered on April 17, 2026.
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The hashnet.vip website does not exist; instead, it redirects to Telegram.
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t.me/+HBDdXfsAXOUyNzVk
Video from April 26, 2026.
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youtube.com/watch?v=uBGTY_XY6o4
Video from May 10, 2026.
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youtube.com/watch?v=lpGO1vEsbSk
Ian Issa, Founder & CEO | HashNet on LinkedIn.
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linkedin.com/in/ianissa
The videos and websites mention terms like “network” and “sponsor.” So it appears to be another (fraudulent?) MLM scheme.
Video from May 14, 2026, featuring CEO Ian Issa.
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youtube.com/watch?v=7Qqj1GoFOPE