OneCoin @ BehindMLM

As part of the need to constantly source new investment funds from untapped markets, OneCoin held a recruitment rally in London on February 7th. On OneCoin’s official Facebook page, here’s how the company pitched the event: Today is a big day for London. Get excited and come to see Dr. Ruja Ignatova present on the Future [Continue reading…]

Earlier this week Sweden’s Gaming Board announced the conclusion of an ongoing investigation into OneCoin. For those unfamiliar with the regulatory body, Sweden’s Gaming Board are responsible for investigation violations of Sweden’s Lotteries Act. In an official notice published on the regulator’s Lotteri Inspektionen website, the Swedish Gaming Board have declared OneCoin to be “a [Continue reading…]

With top OneCoin investors purportedly withdrawing millions of dollars from the scheme each month, new investors have little to no hope of recouping their own invested funds when the time comes. That’s basic mathematics, but evidently evasive to the majority of OneCoin affiliates. Nonetheless, OneCoin can’t payout funds it doesn’t have – and so now [Continue reading…]

Running a scam out of Europe that’s about to collapse? Before you do a runner and make off with everyone’s money, you might want to get in contact with OneCoin and see if they’ll buy you out. In what we hope isn’t the emergence of a disturbing trend, OneCoin appears to have acquired OPN and [Continue reading…]

Less than a month after OneCoin announced they had switched banks to JSC Capital Bank in Georgia (the country), OneCoin have again announced a change of banking details.

As it stands, OneCoin affiliates are waiting upwards of four weeks for withdrawals to be processed. Support are purportedly not responsive and messages regarding withdrawals are routinely deleted from OneCoin’s Facebook page. Now, in yet another move that distances OneCoin from legitimate cryptocurrencies, OneCoin are demanding identification documents before withdrawals are processed.

It’s the end of the year and traditionally for Ponzi schemes, that means a run on the bank. People who have been diligently compounding their invested funds year round want to cover holiday expenses, and that means a cash flow crisis for the MLM underbelly. To remedy the situation it’s common to see Ponzi schemes [Continue reading…]

There’s one aspect of our “community of entrepreneurs” that’s sadly lacking. We’ve got the marketing down pat, the self-promotion, the encouragement, personal development and training is available in abundance. But self-regulation? Not so much. Why exactly self-regulation lags so far behind the other aspects of the MLM community is debatable, but it’s certainly noticeable inside and [Continue reading…]

Back in June BehindMLM reported that OneCoin was under police investigation in Finland. The investigation, headed up by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), sought to establish whether or not OneCoin was operating in Finland as a pyramid scheme. After months of quiet it was announced last week that the results of the NBI investigation were to [Continue reading…]

Building on claims by US affiliates that OneCoin is going to open up 184 banks last month, a Finnish affiliate recently announced OneCoin’s acquisition of an actual bank. On the 13th of October the website “OneCoin-Finland”, quoting “country manager” Tommi Vuorinen, wrote: The Company (OneCoin) has acquired its own bank, see the Hermes Bank, hermesbankonline.com. This allows for [Continue reading…]