OnPassive & Crowd1 illegal pyramid schemes in Bhutan
OnPassive and Crowd1 have been declared pyramid schemes by Bhutan’s Office of Consumer Protection.
The OCP is part of Bhutan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and is “mandated to promote and protect economic interest and safety of the consumers”.
As per the OCP’s OnPassive and Crowd1 warning;
The Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) notifies the general public not to engage in any way or form with the following business entities – (i) Crowd1 and, (ii) OnPassive.
Their business practices are found to be pyramid schemes.
The business entities are also engaged in misleading representation, misleading advertisement and infringement of consumer rights in contravention to Consumer Protection Act of Bhutan 2012 and Consumer Protection Rules and Regulations 2015.
BehindMLM reviewed OnPassive back in January 2019. As per its matrix-based business model, we also concluded OnPassive was a pyramid scheme.
OnPassive charges $97 to become an O-Founder, on the promise of commissions paid on recruitment of other affiliates.
OnPassive is coming up on four years of prelaunch. The only people who’ve made money in the business is owner Ash Mufareh and his team of devs in India.
Crowd1 is a Ponzi scheme that’s also been around since 2019.
Since then Crowd1 has been rebooted through umpteen marketing ruses. The current ruses are virtual shares in a UK shell company and an NFT game nobody’s interested in.
Crowd1 is run by Swedish national Jonas Werner.
Last year Werner fled Sweden to live in Dubai. Dubai offers scammers a safe-haven due to limited extradition treaties and non-enforcement of MLM related securities fraud.
BehindMLM considers Dubai the MLM scam capital of the world.
Bhutan is the eighteenth jurisdiction to take regulatory action against Crowd1.
Bhutan’s pyramid scheme warning follows similar fraud notices from Nepal, Russia, Peru, New Zealand, Mauritius, South Africa, the Philippines, Norway, Namibia, Paraguay, Gabon, Vietnam, Cote d’Ivoire, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Bhutan’s OCP directs promoters of OnPassive and Crowd1 to “discontinue operation with immediate effect”.
Continued promotion of OnPassive and Crowd1 in Bhutan will be “dealth [sic] with as per the existing laws in the country”.
The OCP’s warning was issued in August 2021. I became aware of it recently thanks to a tip off from The Recovering Hunbot.
Media in Bhutan seems to have only just picked up on the OCP’s warning, not sure what the story is there.
It’s obvious that both of these programs are Ponzi schemes. If people only took the time to examine these programs more deeply, they’d realize this.
OnPassive has given their people “flimsy” excuses as to why they haven’t launched yet, and I don’t think that they will ever “officially” launch. That sends major “red flags”, and a reason why I’ve never joined that scam.
I’ve been prospected by several people, but I’ve politely told them that I’m not interested in it.
Crowd1 is just a Ponzi scheme … plain and simple.
Thanks, Oz for getting this up so quickly. My hope is that other countries will follow and do the same.
Ash is gearing up for an “announcement” on the 21st. In a recent webinar I covered, he said he hired a judge and has expanded his legal team.
That disclaimer I told you about, it is on the Onpassive website and the back office. I suspect Ash is feeling heat and the walls closing in.
The legal threats have emerged as a strategy after SEO spam didn’t work.
In Ash’s head people finding out about OnPassive’s joke of a prelaunch and being a pyramid scheme is why recruitment is down.
He’s not wrong.
Just realized I forgot to include an OCP source link. Added with screenshot.
ONPASSIVE IS A SCAM, BETWEEN THE PHONY BALONY ASH CRYPTO DISAPPEARING & THIS SCAM NOT LAUNCHING IN 4 YEARS THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG.. THIS WILL NEVER LAUNCH!
PROFESSIONAL ASH MUFAREH STALLER SCAMMER HAS THE CASH. WHERE IS THE MONEY BEING HELD? MOST OF THE FOUNDERS ARE AVID FOLLOWERS THAT GET OFF ON HIS DAILY WEBINARS OFFERING NOTHING BUT LIES…
IM PISSED OFF! THIS IS A FREAKEN CULT, FEEDING ASH MAKING HIM WEALTHY AT OTHERS EXPENSE….PLEASE PUBLISH!
It’s now February 2023, and Ash and his merry band of grifters are hailing the successful “test” of O-Connect having hosted over 20,000 lookers. Of course, it was another endless “praise Ash” webinar.
Still no talk of pricing of this product that nobody needs, but that every founder will be required to buy before they get their “affiliate link”.
There is no sign of a compensation plan as gullible founders try to sell this useless product to customers.
I’m afraid those still in the O-Bubble have drunk the O-laid, and they’ll throw even more money at this gang of grifters as soon as Ash demands it.
Shame on US regulators for allowing this grift to continue.