France blacklists Aurum Foundation for fraud
Aurum Foundation has been blacklisted by France’s Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF).
AMF added Aurum Foundation’s “aurum.foundation” and “aurum-foundation.com” domains to its nationwide blacklist on June 12th, 2026.
As per AMF’s Altior Capital blacklist entry, the company “offers financial services or products without being authorized”.
Failing to register a securities offering violates French financial law and constitutes securities fraud.
Aurum Foundation launched in mid 2024. Around February 2025 Bryan Benson was hired to front the scam as CEO:
Benson, a Peruvian national also based out of Dubai, is believed to work with Russian scammers who actually run Aurum Foundation.
As of May 2026, SimilarWeb was tracking ~472,000 monthly Aurum Foundation website visits.
Over the same period top sources of Aurum Foundation website traffic were the US (20%), Greece (14%), the Netherland (11%), Switzerland (10%) and Belgium (9%).
Promotion of Aurum Foundation in the US is headed up by Chief Network Development Officer Shane Morand:
Morand is the disgraced co-founder of Organo Gold. Morand left Organo Gold after a botched attempt to pitch crypto scams to distributors in 2018.
Morand resurfaced in late 2021 as a crypto bro pitching Trujivan, a Tycoon69 Ponzi trojan horse. After that went nowhere, Morand resurfaced in 2022 to promote the Decentra MLM crypto Ponzi scheme.
Outside of Poland, Aurum Foundation fraud warnings have been issued by Russia, Nigeria, New Zealand and Greece.
Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority forwarded suspected Aurum Foundation banking fraud criminal activity to Public Prosecutors in June 2026.
Oz, this latest French AMF blacklist is another major nail in the coffin for Aurum Foundation. These warnings are starting to stack up across multiple jurisdictions, and at some point promoters can no longer hide behind the usual “FUD” excuse.
I published my own investigation into Aurum Neobank / Aurum Foundation and, shortly afterwards, I received a very interesting “donation” offer from someone calling themselves Domenik Tsu. He claimed to be a big fan of my work and offered to support me with crypto. The catch was the revealing part. He said the only thing he would “potentially ask in return” was that I avoid making further reviews about the Aurum Foundation project.
A payment was then sent to me — $1,000 — and I refunded it. My reporting is not for sale, and I am not accepting money to remove blogs, avoid videos, or stop asking questions about a company already surrounded by regulatory warnings.
I wonder how Domenik Tsu is feeling now, watching Aurum get hit with more and more warnings from financial regulators. France, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, Poland, Greece — the pattern is becoming pretty hard to ignore.
If Aurum is legitimate, it should answer with evidence: proper financial licences, audited trading records, proof of reserves, ownership transparency, and verifiable proof that user “profits” are coming from real external revenue rather than new deposits.
Trying to pay critics to stop covering it is not evidence of legitimacy. It is another red flag.