New fake Ruja Ignatova video targets Chinese speakers
The OneLife Earth scammers have released a new DeepFakes Ruja Ignatova video, this time targeting Chinese speakers.
The first Ruja Ignatova DeepFakes video surfaced back in July.
The video was widely mocked and failed to generate any genuine interest in the reload scam.
On or around late September, the scammers deleted the video. The new video, titled “Official statement by Dr. Ruja Ignatova. OneCoin relaunch” went alive 12 hours ago.
As opposed to begging for money, in this video the scammers are playing a longer game.
The video seems designed to build trust in the reload scam, with the inevitable “pay us” pushed down the track.
There’s also Chinese subtitles, suggesting the scammers think they’ve got a better shot duping Asian OneCoin investors.
The same DeepFakes tells in the original video are present. Namely Ignatova’s forehead and, when the actor tilts his/her head to the left (as viewed), you can see a color mismatch the right side of the face near the ear.
There’s also something funky going on with the wig. Brown hair is clearly visible off the actor’s right shoulder (again as viewed).
Whether the scammers actually launch anything remains to be seen. Based on Ignatova’s script, it appears they’re going the shitcoin swap route.
This will see the scammers launch a OneCoin DeFi shitcoin. They’ll sell it to whoever’s gullible enough to buy, leaving them to swap exchange the coin for whatever they can get.
Based on the Ignatova actor namedropping Justin Sun, it appears the OneCoin shitcoin will be launched on the TRON blockchain.
[1:01] Lots of developers are ready to cooperate. Justin Sun from China is our main strategic partner, and also he’s my friend.
That’s if they follow through. Curiously traffic to the OneLife Earth website picked up as of a few weeks ago.
Alexa reports 100% of the traffic is from the US. The scammers behind the OneLife Earth videos are believed to be from Ukraine or Russia.
Update 19th October 2021 – Following comments left calling them out, the OneLife Earth scammers have disabled video comments altogether.
Hiiiii deepruja!
Did you have to screencap a sexdoll pose though.
If you look at her mouth Ruja’s teeth disappeared. Thought it was an appropriate shot.
If I was a betting man, I might even call it a… money shot.
YeaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaAAAAh!
This is just terrible. Every image I have seen of Ruja, her hair is always immaculate and she always wears large statement earrings.
I feel like that would have been a giveaway even if the parts Oz mentioned hadn’t been so obvious.
It’s literally just this video: youtube.com/watch?v=qSUztB9axtk
They fed that into DeepFakes and lol profit.
A direct comparison:
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Nice Ninja-edit haha
Oz wrote:
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Ah they must have re-enabled them again.
…I don’t get the Sauron reference? Is it the clothes?
A video of Russian scammer browsing the back office of the fake Ruja connected OneCoin scam:
youtube.com/watch?v=vHhI4VFAnO4
He shows a TRC-20 wallet address
TY1oU3CGvyfo8fHLhToyrQfpMHpJyapiHL
where Tethers can be sent but it looks to me that the address doesn’t exist.
There some OneCoin tokens on Tron blockchain (–> tronscan.org/?#/searchResult/onecoin?type=tokens&address), but not sure if any of them is related to this scam.
One of which seems to be yet another new fake OneCoin scam:
onecointoken.io
(DotsnPixels Digital Services LLP from India seems to be the company which created the website)
It seems Bitforex continues to launder money for the original, Bulgarian mafia connected OneCoin scam.
This transaction is from yesterday, in which 2.57 BTC is bought from Bitforex to OneCoin 8mk pooling address:
oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3748541209
Yesterday, Bulgarian criminals also emptied the 8mk pooling address as well as the BTCs from other accounts they control, totaling 65.93 BTC (ca €3.5 million) to a new address where it currentlu sits:
oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3748844173
The receiving adress “bc1q4vvvtysxawws0n573hmlg6chwnsta3skvjap8zvv0tngskwv8d6qh73uhk” currently holds over 117 BTCs, and should be flagged by law enforcment and crypto exchanges as criminal activity related.
The other large, 50 BTC chunk the address received yesterday can be tied to OneCoin. You can see that 21 BTCs from this 1 st August outgoing transaction from 8mk pooling address ends up it that 117 BTC total too:
oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3606609902
Binance also continues to launder money for OneCoin / Bulgarian mafia.
In this transaction on 21st of October, 6 BTCs are bought from Binance to the “bc1qyap59m06vpj3p0y9ur936kg65sl6u34nq59gqamamtx5k2t2yvmsq28fjn” address (mentioned in the July 2021 OneCoin newsletter):
oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3743267802
On Oct 29, they move the 6 Binance BTCs with 400+ smaller sums (likely mostly “service fees” collected from the members) from that addreess as part of 8.34 BTC transaction to two addresses:
bitaps.com/5e0aea780a3025af275e7275c9c89e09192e8725b9cd2cab5bcb67c7aed987b8/input/166
oxt.me/transaction/5e0aea780a3025af275e7275c9c89e09192e8725b9cd2cab5bcb67c7aed987b8
from which can be seen that 6 BTCs (3 BTCs directly and 3 BTC after transfer to an intermediary address) of the 8.34 BTC end up as part of the 65.92 BTC tranfer metioned in my previous post, while 2.34 BTC are sent to two private addresses where they currentlt sit(oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3749721417).
Now that I checked, transfers from other known OneCoin addresses — like iBz ending address — can be traced to large transfers ending up to the “bc1q4vvvtysxawws0n573hmlg6chwnsta3skvjap8zvv0tngskwv8d6qh73uhk” address too.
It’s quite remarkable that likely the vast majority of the criminal proceeds collected during more recent times, currently sit idle on that single address, and the pooling foor it was done yesterday.
I don’t know what it means. Perhaps Taki and Ventsi pulling off the plug? 😉
Have to take the it back a little bit, it seems that the OneCoin’s “LatAm”(3K9DJUzubxyiQNveM1x72wjoLQ1J1CCNQU ) address isn’t part of the recent pooling to the “uhk” ending address.
During the recent months, the collected proceeds have been sold in Binance(oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3730942510) and Kraken (oxt.me/transaction/tiid/3677279824) more directly or some parts of the small outgoing transfers cashed out at Huobi and Coinbase too after 1-3 private wallet moves.
Caution! The OneLife Academy is now based in the Netherlands! 🙂
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cab.onelife.earth/en/terms-of-service
This spontaneously reminds me of that strange domain registration (onelifecorp.eu) that mentioned Maastricht in the Netherlands:
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I think you should still mention that is not the original OneCoin, but this Russian counterfeit.
And IMO it’s not worth it to even talk much about this Russian counterfeit.
BREAKING: RUJA IGNATOVA FOUND IN BULGARIA!
Ya had me there for a minute. 😉
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