Nissan allege Kairos Technologies lied about partnership
One of the tactics Ponzi schemes use to promote themselves is “legitimacy by association”.
Legitimacy by association typically sees a Ponzi scheme align itself with a reputable brand. The company and its affiliates then pose the question: “If we were a scam, why would company xxx partner with us?”
Kairos Technologies has claimed it has partnerships with multiple companies, which has resulted in affiliates making claims like this:
Kairos delivers cloud services to corporations like Bosch, Sony Playstation, Nissan Motors, Hamé etc.
The widespread nature of these claims has now prompted Nissan to issue an official response.
According to Nissan, claims of a partnership by Kairos Technologies and their affiliates are bogus.
In a press-release issued last month, Nissan Turkey claimed that Kairos Technology’s Facebook page
suggested Kairos Technology provides services to protect the data of Nissan.
An agreement between the two companies for data protection services and services related to international contracts does not exist.
Why multi-billion dollar companies would use a small Ponzi scheme to protect their data is beyond me, but it’s what Kairos Technologies and their affiliates claim when they promote the scheme.
For their part Kairos Technologies sent out an email in late 2015 advising:
Participants of Kairos affiliate marketing program should not present information about corporate clients, but they do it due to misunderstanding and we are working on correction of this situation.
The company didn’t however reveal that it had made the claims up, instead choosing to maintain the illusion that Kairos actually has corporate clients.
Without unequivocal proof, it’s probably best to take any claims that Kairos Technologies has partnerships with any third-parties as bunkum.
Is bunkum short for “good as gold?”
Source of these unproven claims are (unofficial) presentations and fan pages of affiliates.
In this case (see screenshot from translated web above):
nolink://kairos-technologies.org/fragen-und-antworten-kairos-technologies-faq/
which is not official Kairos site.
Official Kairos support and web never expose Kairos partners – under the disguise of a privacy, trade secret and (latest strategy) because of recommendation of ISO 27001/2:
Well Kairos’ affiliates got the idea from somewhere.
The current deny, deny, deny policy was probably only implemented after one or more brands threatened legal action.
Anyway, Nissan claimed it was on Kairos’ Facebook page. Probably won’t find it now but it was likely up there at some point.
Otokar Kasynets, the network director talked about Nissan and Sony multiple times on Kairos events and in official videos…
Never heard this of him… So I cannot confirm this. But even if he did mention these companies – what was the context?
Did not he tell something like “We would like to manage storage for huge corporations like Sony, Nissan etc.”? So in fact, he expressed the wish (or a kind of a promise), he did not describe the status quo.
And due to language barrier, affiliates heard what they want to hear (and continued to pass that information with “a noise”. How typical for MLMs… (and hey… This is not the defense of the affiliates or Kairos… It’s their fault).
Fake endorsement is standard practice in various Ponzi schemes.
Phil Xu’s WCM claimed to have tie-up with Siemens. Siemens denounced them as bogus. Year or two later, WCM closed by SEC as Ponzi scheme. Phil Xu apparently went back to China to reboot his scheme and got arrested in China (unconfirmed).
NOLINK://amlmskeptic.blogspot.com/2013/10/breaking-news-siemens-denies-any.html
GetEasy had a fake “TachoEASY Iberica” trying to pretend to be the real TachoEASY AG or a related entity. One day the real one finally woke up and GetEasy imploded soon after.
NOLINK://amlmskeptic.blogspot.com/2014/12/breaking-news-tachoeasy-ag-confirms.html
And who can forget SpeakAsia in India claiming to be doing surveys for dozens of the biggest companies in India, when no such thing ever took place.
Nissan Sales Central and Eastern Europe Ltd. claims: there is/was no business agreement between Nissan and Kairos Technologies Ltd:
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Hello. I asked Nissan Germay in March. Here the conversation in German.
ghostbin.com/paste/qyhqg
Greez!