Mind Capital’s website offline, exit-scam complete
Mind Capital’s shitcoin exit-scam is complete. The company has now pulled its website offline.
Mind Capital collapsed in late 2020. The company transitioned to a shitcoin exit-scam model, following the release of its worthless MCcoin.
Covering Mind Capital’s collapse, we wrote in December 21st report;
Rather than continue to pay out in bitcoin, Mind Capital now pays out in worthless MCcoin.
MCcoin is an internal token that has no value outside of Mind Capital. Affiliate investors cash out MCcoin for as long as Mind Capital lets them through an internal exchange.
The exit-scam comes into play when Mind Capital decides they don’t want to pay out anymore.
Mind Capital’s admin team keeps what’s left of invested bitcoin (on top of what they’ve already squirreled away), leaving affiliate investors bagholding a token they can’t do anything with.
Not withstanding widespread withdrawal complaints from Mine Capital investors throughout 2021, that exact scenario has now played out.
Writes one Mind Capital affiliate investor;
Do not place your money here, the return is ridiculously low and when you want to retrieve your money they stop paying for a month before they give it back to you not to mention they charge a fee to retrieve your money that’s more than what they ever gave you in returns…
Another;
(In) December they say they have KYC issues and ask for documentation. Myself and many persons I know send it out correctly and we still do not get our money.
And another;
Scam. Still keeping my money. I sent them 1 FULL Bitcoin when price was $10k, they sold my coin at a peak, and STILL don’t want to refund my money.
Mind Capital was operated out of Spain by Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo (right) and his family.
Spain did issue a securities fraud warning against Mind Capital in January 2020, however no further action was taken.
Total Mind Capital victim numbers and the amount lost remains unknown.
Update 14th December 2023 – Turns out Mind Capital was run by David Saffron and Vincent Mazzotta.
Saffron and Mazzotta have been indicted. Saffron was arrested last year and Mazzotta sometime over the past week.
@Oz:
The “Mind Capital” link in the 3rd from last paragraph is pointing to an Elysivm article instead of to
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/mind-capital-review-1-8-daily-roi-bitcoin-ponzi/
Who was the genius that thought up this KYC thing in the first place?
These scams have no problem with taking money but suddenly it is KYC time when it comes to withdraw.
That is one thing I never quite understood.
Thanks for catching that. Must have had the wrong window open when I copied the URL.
KYC for MLM Ponzi schemes isn’t KYC as it’s known in legitimate finance circles.
KYC for MLM Ponzi schemes = “excuse to stop restrict withdrawals because we’re running out of money.”
It’s not like MLM Ponzi schemes actually do anything with collected information (except maybe sell it to identity theft scammers).
Scammer Simon Stepsys was still hawking this Ponzi scheme in a Youtube video May 14, 2021: youtube.com/watch?v=XMuYS7cfp0U
Now that it’s titzup for MindCapital, he has moved on to promoting:
live.magmarkets.com
You know the drill:
“Passive Profits DAILY!”
“Knows the CEO & Founder Ramon Volz!”
“2 Levels affiliate payment plan!
Level 1. 15% – Level 2. 5%”
Going to the website from a USA url produces:
Do you think that Simon Stepsys knows that “unregistered in the USA” means “the latest SCAM he has found to profit from selling to gullible idiots”?
SD
I always find the “run from the SEC!” pseudo-compliance amusing.
Securities fraud is illegal everywhere*.
*except Dubai