NovaTech FX Ponzi scheme collapses, withdrawals disabled
The NovaTech FX Ponzi scheme has collapsed.
In a communication sent out to investors on February 5th, “NovaTech Admin” advised withdrawals have been disabled.
I’ll spare you the excuses NovaTech FX preambled their collapse confirmation with. If you want to the read the full thing I’ll include it at the end of this article.
Rather than just admit NovaTech FX is a Ponzi scheme in which withdrawals inevitably exceeded new investment, NovaTech FX’s exit-scam buys them 60 days.
We have decided to place a temporary freeze in trading account withdrawals for a period of 60 days. This includes existing cashout requests from Trading.
This will allow us to immediately start the process of getting back to a regularly scheduled bonus account withdrawals.
For those unfamiliar with NovaTech FX, “trading account” refers to ROI payments. “Bonus account” refers to commissions earned by recruiting new victims into the scam.
When a Ponzi scheme initiates a time-delayed exit-scam, there are typically two goals in mind:
- create as much distance between the admin of the Ponzi scheme and their victims and
- hold off the inevitable flood of complaints to financial regulators for as long as possible.
To that end NovaTech FX is dangling a “numbers on a screen” carrot to get people to cancel pending withdrawal requests (some of which are backdated to early December 2022).
If you have a trading account withdrawal in process, you have a choice to leave it in the queue, and wait until April 1st 2023 when we will resume trading account withdrawals, or you can cancel your withdrawals and allow your account to continue to earn, while withdrawing profits weekly.
This will of course only exponentially grow NovaTech FX’s withdrawal deficit, as whatever new money was flowing in is sure to drop to almost nothing now that withdrawals are disabled.
This isn’t specific to NovaTech FX, it happens when every Ponzi scheme initiates an exit-scam.
NovaTech FX’s collapse follows co-founder and CEO Cynthia Petion appearing on a corporate webinar last week. In the webinar Petion reassured NovaTech investors everything was fine.
At the time Petion blamed NovaTech FX’s withdrawal issues on payment processor problems. This ruse started last October but seems to have worn thin as the months dragged on.
NovaTech FX’s collapse also follows multiple regulatory warnings across the US, Russia and Canada (Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan).
Throughout 2022 the majority of NovaTech FX’s website traffic originated from the US. Cynthia and Eddy Petion are also US nationals.
As of January 18th, Cynthia Petion represented she and husband Eddy were in Rhode Island:
Whether the Petions are still in the US now that NovaTech FX has collapsed is unclear.
While we can’t confirm anything at this stage, BehindMLM strongly believes a federal regulatory investigation into NovaTech FX is underway.
Victims of NovaTech FX are advised to contact the SEC.
Footnote: Here is the full communication NovaTech FX sent out to investors on February 5th;
Dear Novatech Member,
Since June of 2019 our focus at NovaTech has been to stimulate financial awareness, to a culture unaware of the amazing possibilities in the crypto and forex industry.
By the grace of God we have been tremendously successful at fulfilling our mission. We created NovaTech’s structure with complete freedom in mind.
We have given our customers absolute control of their journey with us for the last four years, and because of that we have become a household name in our space.
Our drive to continue our mission for years and possibly decades to come is not about financial gain for us. There are unlimited ways we can make money without the level of stress, scrutiny, and responsibility that comes with our business.
The driving force behind what we continue to do comes from the countless heartfelt testimonies of our members.
During the last quarter of 2022 we experienced a great deal of pressure with the ever changing landscape of our industry.
As you may already know we had to close our doors with a heavy heart to some of our most loyal and loving customers in NovaTech due to regulatory changes in specific regions.
We know that most of you may not understand the impact this had on our business, and we as a company should have done a better job at communicating this with you.
While we cannot go back in time to correct what has not been done, we will commit moving forward to giving all of our NovaTech customers the proper communication so that we all have realistic expectations.
We want to assure you that our business model is not only strong, but completely sustainable into the unforeseeable future.
As we move forward in this new and developing 2023 season our experiences in the last several months of challenges has brought to light some weaknesses in the way we operate that we felt were strengths at one point as a new and growing company.
NovaTech has always produced, performed, and paid every customer since its inception in June of 2019, regardless of the adversity we may have faced in every market condition in the last 4 years.
While we don’t compare ourselves to any other of the many platforms in our space, we know what we’ve done and what we continue to do is unprecedented.
To protect what we’ve built and to continue to be the crypto trading asset management company we are, it is imperative that we create parameters within our business model that protects our customers from making erratic decisions that can affect the integrity of our program.
NovaTech is unique in the fact that we’ve given our members complete control of how they move about with their crypto funds. But, in light of the forced closures of accounts from some of our beloved members, and the massive amounts of withdrawals we had to initiate, this created a tremendous amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt that our customers have never had to experience.
Because in the past we chose not to communicate what does not pertain to the functionality or success our business, we left some of you to fall victim to outside rhetoric, which influenced so many of you in making the decision to withdraw from your trading accounts to simply test if we are still paying.
Please know that we continue to actively pay and release cashouts daily, despite delays.
As a result, we have decided to place a temporary freeze in trading account withdrawals for a period of 60 days. This includes existing cashout requests from Trading.
This will allow us to immediately start the process of getting back to a regularly scheduled bonus account withdrawals.
We understand this may not fair well with a small percentage of you, but we are here to protect our future as a whole, and we refuse to compromise our crypto asset management and trading strategies for the few that may not understand.
If you have a trading account withdrawal in process, you have a choice to leave it in the queue, and wait until April 1st 2023 when we will resume trading account withdrawals, or you can cancel your withdrawals and allow your account to continue to earn, while withdrawing profits weekly.
The goal with NovaTech is to create sustainable passive profits of which we have done an amazing job thus far, and will continue with God’s grace.
Let’s all protect our house by eliminating the noise on the outside by staying plugged in and in communication on the inside.
Every member of NovaTech should have an up-line who’s connected to one of our many Senior Directors and Ambassadors in NovaTech.
We love every last one of you, we appreciate you, and we will continue business as usual.
NovaTech Admin
Is it possible for the Feds to jump on these slimesters and arrest them as flight risks?
That’d be the DOJ. We won’t know anything unless the Petions are flagged, still in the US and try to flee.
Promising withdraws on April Fools day worked so well for Profitable Sunrise that I can’t see it failing for Novatech.
I am of course being sarcastic but only to a point. If people wait 60 days to report these thieves it will be a victory for them.
Reporting them now increases the admittedly slim chance for governmental action but it’s still your best hope for at least a partial refund.
I think NovaTech FX is pretty low-hanging fruit for the DOJ/SEC.
Mostly US investors, US nationals running it and its been around for a few years to grow into the hundreds of millions. There was also the “FBI audit”.
I’d be very surprised if I’m not putting together a DOJ/SEC whammo article for NovaTech FX sometime in 2023. Or alternatively “Petions flee US confirmed”.
I had a withdrawal in the pipeline that was ceased. I immediately reported this to the SEC.
Supposedly the weekly ROI from the Trading Account goes into the Bonus Account.
Regardless, it is unlikely they would be able to continue to process Bonus Account withdrawals for long without fresh deposits coming in.
If that were the case people wouldn’t be complaining about their Trading Account withdrawals since last December.
It was a matter of time. The best time to leave the Petion scam was last year.
Their herds on Facebook actually believed the Company when they started going dry on paying withdrawals. Some even believe the scam will work on the promised april fools day.
No ponzi scheme has ever come back from this in history. Novatech won’t be the first.
The sad thing is people are still talking about bonus accounts, trading accounts, ROI, etc…
There is no such thing with NovaTech. They are just numbers on a screen. If they were truly trading with everyone’s money, withdrawals wouldn’t pose a problem.
It wouldn’t matter how many people pulled out cuz they still have everyone’s money, right? THERE’S NO MONEY LEFT TO CASH OUT MEMBERS, IT’S GONE!
April 1st, more commonly known as “April Fool’s Day” in the USA.
Also, spell check:
This ruse started last October but seems to have worth (sic) thin as the months dragged on. [erase comment = ok]
Thanks for catching that.
Trading Account withdraws are when you opt to withdraw funds from the money that is throwing off the weekly ROI and paid into your Bonus Account.
Therefore, Novatech is claiming they will STILL PAY their weekly ROI (Bonus Account) request but not if you request to pull lets say 5K from your 10K that you in your TRADING ACCOUNT.
Lets see but wanted to clear that up.
There’s a “compounding” feature which also pays it to the trading account is there not? I don’t know what the default is.
A major issue is new victims were encouraged to build their trading accounts and now they can’t withdraw. Meanwhile the top recruiters and YouTube shills have withdrawn most of the invested funds.
Novatech website is down…seems a little soon for that as would cause a flood of complaints to authorities…might just be a glitch…
I am monitoring NovaTech FX’s website being down.
It’s throwing up a 503 error, which typically means server resources are exhausted.
NovaTech FX is behind CloudFlare and we’re not seeing the regular CloudFlare error screen.
Also if it was DDOS related, typically the connect attempt would timeout and throw up the error. 503 is being thrown up instantly, leading me to believe this is a config error on NovaTech FX’s end (would also explain no CloudFlare screen).
The timing is highly suspicious. Will continue to monitor and if the website is still down by the weekend I’ll call it.
@Oz: Re #11, phrase now reads
(Cough) worn (cough)
Boooo!
Website is up and running again.
Should we be surprised that high level NovaTech Exec’s/ builders are also high level builders in the GS Partners Lydian World debacle?
Not at all… and I wouldn’t be surprised if GS partners gets a 2nd wind like novatech did once novatech is fully done…
I love NovaTechfx, I’ve been a member for over a year and they are still paying out Bonus Account withdrawals.
I just want my money back.
A shit sandwich appears edible if you only focus on the bread.
I need my trading account money, I am a senior n have some health issues n need my money for doctor bills yes this is very serious.
Collapsed Ponzi schemes are a one-way street. Sorry for your loss.
The minimum withdraw amount has just been raised to $250….was like $40 or $45 before…I can’t remember exactly…
This will of course screw over all the smaller players…
And this dribble…
Did NovaTech FX ever catch up on support tickets? This sounds like they just wiped everything to start again.
They never caught up and yes they basically starting over…
From reports in the scam groups they also skipped over weeks of bonus account withdraws and started doing more recent requests…few days ago members reported receiving 24th and 25th Feb withdraws and some now claiming march 3rd and saying it only took a week to get it…
Bit of a twist on selective payments and of course designed to keep the sheep hopeful of getting any money out…
The latest move designed to slow down withdraws…
I like how they pretend automated payment systems creates “backlog”.
These aren’t support tickets. There’s only a withdrawal backlog when you’re manually manipulating payments because Ponzi go boom.
From a post in the Now What group back in January….
Now her own Ponzi is taking 6 weeks lol.
Why is NovaTech cash out tab for bonus not working. It just takes you back to past withdrawal and balances but not the withdrawal tab.
Because Ponzi.
You can only get money from your Bonus account on Mondays.
No.. you can ASK for it on Monday but you can’t GET it on Monday… you’ll be lucky if you ever get it…
Fresh poop from Cynthia…
Lots of bla bla but ponzi has imploded so no withdraws April 1st…won’t be for few months…
We are working hard bla bla bla…
NovaTech FX didn’t find a way to beat inevitable Ponzi math by April 1st?
Color me shocked.
Nope they didn’t… lol…
Also from the scam groups….
Canadian members were not paid out at all…they all got scammed and are talking legal action and reporting…
Other members are pissed at the news of no trading account withdraws coming April 1st….
I personally know 2 people that have been able to withdraw Funds from thier accounts in the last month. Puzzling!?
No. Selective withdrawals are going out as whatever new money trickles in.
No puzzle here… Easy to do since they skipped all February withdraws and jumped to March…
And haven’t paid trading account withdraws since 8th December…
AND since they locked out all members from Canada and never paid them a dime…
Fresh poop from Cynthia…
Less withdraws but extra refferal commissions for bringing in new suckers…smh..
Thanks for sharing that.
Hard to remain optimistic when I haven’t been paid for bonus account since March 13 sad very sad.
Novatech scammed me out of a hundred thousand dollars.
They should all go to jail as well as my sponsor Brad Whitsett.
These trading platforms are way too convoluted for the average investor no matter how sincere or well-meaning the owners intend to be!!
Who has the time to “watch” these platforms 24/7…. A shipwreck waiting to happen…!!!
I guess you get in early….and get the heck out!!
$100,000 cash from your pocket or $100,000 numbers on screen in your account??…
waiting to see what will happen.
@Oz Why was my Novatech Account Number shared with you?
No where on this thread have I posted my information. I have a screenshot. Care to explain?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Fresh poop here…
This is copypasta from the Asian run MLM crypto Ponzis all currently pulling the same exit-scam (Fintoch, Berry & SolaRoad).
Cynthia Petion on camera or it didn’t come from her.
You don’t think it’s from Cynthia??…
I got it from the “official novatech group” on fb posted by Mark hurlin who’s been pretty accurate with updates…
@Okosh
I don’t doubt it’s from the NovaTech Group but I’m casting doubt on whether Petion wrote it.
We already had that bogus “official update” from serial Ponzi promoter Martin Zizi. Unless I see Petion on camera I’m assuming these updates are NovaTech net-winners delaying the inevitable downline pitchforking.
Most of the updates were likely not written by her…
This one certainly seems like a mich different writing style than other updates from Cynthia.
Novatech, to my knowledge, has never done any ‘document validation’. The whole thing – mainly the mountain and rock part – is poor English that points to it being written by someone else.
The way the dates are provided is weird too, and not consistent with how Cynthia provided them in the past. “4-5 days from Monday 1st” is written poorly enough, and then doesn’t even line up with the next sentence of 5-7 days.
I’d vote with Oz on this one that it’s a fake update.
Just because it’s not written by Cynthia doesn’t mean it’s fake…it may well be fake or it may be written by someone else and released with her knowledge/approval…
We’ll know soon enough…
I tried to get my $2,000 back befor the first 14 days for a refund back in mid April of 2023 and I haven’t heard a peep from NovaTech since then… I smell a FAT RAT…
Oh, btw I received .50 ROI today. Fifty cents! It’s something for the week but my point is Novatech must still be in the business trading or is it traitors.
I don’t know lol But my account is basically locked. My money is being held hostage. I can’t withdraw the minimum $250 lol Geeze! I have a withdrawal in the Q probably not going to get that or a penny back.
I’m a Novatech Gold Member (on a screen). Now what y’all. Exactly what can we do? Wait and wait some more OR File a Petition on the Petions.
Sorry, I have to find a laugh somewhere to keep from freaking crying.
Novatech has never traded…novatech was a ponzi scheme from day 1…and the ponzi has now imploded…
With Cynthia now believed to be in the safe haven of Dubai it’s game over… Sorry for your loss…
To the leaders of novarechfx.. cynthia Petion, eddie Petion, and Roy.. guess what.. karma is looking for you.
Absolutely discouraging…
When Novatech resumes on payment from bonus accounts as well as in trading account.
Novatech FX collapsed. The money in your accounts doesn’t exist. Sorry for your loss.
Once withdrawals slow down, and eventually stop, if you still have funds in there, that’s when you realize it’s just numbers, even after numerous early warnings.
Has anyone tried a third party company that claims they can help retrieve our money ? Or are they a scam as well ?
Any third-party company promising your money back is a recovery scam.
I agree, recovery may be a scam. I don’t know of anyone getting their capital back to where it seems legit. Unless it’s something like a class action (I haven’t seen that) but something like that I would be comfortable with.
Novatechs website renewal was paid last month I believe it was June 18 so the site is up and running. I have a withdrawal in the “sending” status still and like everyone else I haven’t received it yet.
Novatech is posting ROi every Friday. It isn’t much I receive 50 cents each week just to know they are still around and I receive an email verification with the total amount.
I have printed everything, all of my account transactions on the website and I have all the email communication on hand.
I am Not throwing in the towel. I prefer to just wait, what other choices are there. None.
Novatech is in court, no doubt. Cynthia has a court order. She has lawyered up and that means without doubt the attorney has counseled them “Not To Talk” publicly, do not change anything on the website, just don’t communicate whatsoever with anyone except the court and counsel and do not accept any deposits or membership fees.
That’s kind of a no brainer right. What this seems to be, to me isn’t bad but it isn’t good either.
1. Lawyered up and shut up.
2. Novatech website was paid and renewed, ROi has posted every week, no login problems, still in business.
3. In my opinion Novatech is doing whatever is needed to stay out of trouble and legally pay out all of these forced to “close” accounts balances.
4. Legal representation is probably gathering information for the business to operate according to the laws, what is needed to get compliant and keep the business going.
If so, this will take time. I’m ok with it got no other choice.
This is a big deal and the members involved may have been instructed not to talk as well. If the website goes then Im sure it’s over.
Like I mentioned I printed everything. Novatechs confirmation emails always state keep this and print it for your records. Novatech is still in operation.
Current moment: my concern is this, the weekly 50 cents is concerning, all eyes legally are on them and the court is all in their business of how this trading has been going from the start to now.
I’m just wondering is Novatech receiving a separate trading balance of a substantial amount but legally can’t show the numbers because there’s a paying order to pay back the members in this court case and the other cases?
Or has it always earned an approximate 50 cents weekly on the real end of trading while they were posting false earnings (about 2-3 percent weekly) Peter pays Paul of course in a scam.
I’m just saying surely by now the court and attorneys would know. I have many questions. Never been through this before, never invested.
“If” this has been a real attempt to help others earn passive income without fraud involved that’s great But a real damn shame if this happened because of states wanting an entitled share and doing everything in their power to stop trading/earning in their state(s) if members were against it having to stop investing with no wrongdoing.
Just an abrupt halt an entire state of members that cannot trade any more. That’s an enormous amount of people and capital to return all at once. Benefit of the doubt is also a concern. Many crypto trading companies happen outside of these free United States of America.
UnRegulated and UnRegistered does not mean dishonest and scamming. All of that is for the big money investors not the little people. Some you can’t even get started without $20K that will never happen for me. Risk investing is what it is of course don’t risk what you can’t afford to lose.
I consider risk as in market ups and downs Not the risk of theft and deception. That’s Not the risk I signed up for. Whatever is concluded legally I hope the investors/members receive their money before any fines are paid.
Cynthia has fled to Dubai…
The 50c a week and paying a few dollars to renew the domain is done to fool people like you into thinking that there is still hope…
Report her and the scammer who signed you up to the authorities..
NovaTech collapsed when it stopped paying out months ago. It isn’t “in business”, it’s in the “stringing along gullible victims with numbers on a screen” phase of its exit-scam.
You can’t undo securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. It’s over. Sorry for your loss.
I have tried to stay in denial that this fallout is really happening. Like many of you, I have friends and family in my downline who are devastated, causing a great deal of friction for them having trusted me.
Though I continued to repeat the phrase drilled. in my head “do not invest more than you are willing to lose”, we all slowly kept putting more and more money in to chase that carrot and dream of a better life.
One friend is having to go back to work after retiring and my daughter will not speak with me.
I realize nobody has answers and I am still praying we can all get our investment money back.
Does anybody know if it would help to buy a house in a Country that is in an approved jurisdiction or is that not a thing because the whole company has been ceased? I guess I am desperate as I have everything now with Novatech.
NovaTech FX was a Ponzi scheme no matter where you live. Math is also math, regardless of where you live.
You need to accept this.
I SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE CASINO!!!