South Africa’s NCC finally announces Crowd1 investigation
Regulators are belatedly turning up the heat on Crowd1 in South Africa.
The latest regulatory body to announce it is investigating the Ponzi scheme is the National Consumer Commission (NCC).
As per their website, the NCC
is the primary regulator of consumer-business interaction in South Africa.
South African media are reporting the NCC
has confirmed that it received its first complaint against Crowd1.
The NCC will now investigate the business to determine if there are grounds to launch a formal investigation.
Crowd1 has been on the NCC’s radar since at least May 2020. On May 14th the NCC informed MoneyWeb they were not investigating the company.
Rather than act of their own accord, as permitted by law, the NCC has waited for a consumer complaint. South Africa’s FSCA put out its own Crowd1 fraud warning earlier this week.
In the meantime Crowd1 has spread like wildfire across South Africa. Alexa currently ranks the company’s website as the seventeenth most visited website in the country.
Many Crowd1 investors recently became disillusioned with the Ponzi scheme, following quarterly returns of €0.01 EUR paid on €2 EUR investment positions.
Financial losses due to South African authorities’ inaction have yet to be determined.
This is very Crowd1 topical and hilarious.
From coffeezilla: “crowd1 is it a pyramid scheme?”
youtube.com/watch?v=JxR1CYlacgY&t=1s
Crowd1 just applies its DILLIGAF policy to everything and everyone.
I think they modelled themselves after OneCoin.
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They all are former sellers of Onecoin.
They execute perfectly what they have learned.
Johan speaks:
blog.crowd1.com/blog-post/johan-stael-von-holstein-challenges-swedish-media-outlets
This is comedy gold including:
So….its all good….just above our pay grade…huh ???
Obviously Crowd1 isn’t a Ponzi scheme. Holstein and the gang have managed to rewrite the Ponzi model, we’re all just too inept to see it.
The reason that doesn’t fly outside their investor-base unfortunately is because Crowd1 is literally the same as every other MLM Ponzi out there.
These scammers are looking for ways to delay the collapse of their ponzi scheme for as long as possible, so that victims easily accept their loss.
If you want to take your money out you have to open a Bitcoin account to take it out.
If you want to join and purchase packages you pay into bank account of your sponsor or pay them cash then they buy a coupon on their account from their earnings then sign you up. Surely this is not legit.
Today Crowd1 were launching new products. I believe that the company is a registered company here in SA. Does this make them legit?
@Minx2962
Crowd1 hasn’t registered with the FSCA. Any other registration they might have in SA is irrelevant.
Withdrawal by bitcoin has become very difficult. One month minimum for the lucky ones.
The only way to withdraw money is to sell gift codes. The system literally collapsed. They’re trying to reboot it with this product launch but it can’t work.
People were attracted by dividend promises and were disappointed. With what evidence will they convince the new ones?
“The system literally collapsed.”
-Concentrating on the 3d world keeps the regulatory wolves at bay longer but there just isn’t the $$$ to keep a money game/scam the size of a Crowd1 paying for very long.
-I saw the update for the “Super Online World Event” on the Crowd1 Facebook page. (In the comments on the July 3d, 8:15am post.)
There is nothing here that will bring in the $ they need to speed up payouts.
Hotels and tickets with Covid raging? An specific app for Nigeria/South Africa?
Good luck with dat….
The rest is just dealing with “haters” and reorganizing the site.
Nobody in Crowd1 gives a fuck about any of these “sorry for your loss” changes.
They signed up for “lol free money”. This shit is now going to drag on until victims accept they’ve been scammed.
After which they’ll shake their fists at the scammers in Europe, who’ve already squirreled away the money they’ve stolen.
Oz you’re right.
They try to bewitch their victims so that they easily accept their loss. Aaahaa!