Passivo Ponzi scheme collapses, website pulled
The Passivo Ponzi scheme appears to have collapsed.
Sometime recently Passivo’s website has been pulled. Attempts to visit the site return an unscheduled maintenance exit-scam message:
Through a bit of URL manipulation, one can verify Passivo’s website isn’t under maintenance and has in fact been deleted:
Curiously, Passivo’s “PassivoHub” marketing website is still online.
Passivo’s collapse follows regulatory fraud warnings from Germany and Austria, issued in September and October respectively.
Passivo itself was a Dubai-based Ponzi scheme, fronted by German national Jan Lubberding.
As per Passivo’s reviewed business model, investment was solicited on the promise of up to 1% a week.
As of October 2023, SimilarWeb tracked just ~5700 monthly visits to Passivo’s website. This was down 57% from September.
Of what little website traffic Passivo had left, SimilarWeb tracked it from Switzerland (37%, down 65% month on month), Germany (22%), Poland (16%), Australia (14%) and the Netherlands (10%).
Patrick Hummer (Passivo CMO) has removed his link to Passivo (passivo.at) on Instagram:
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He now links to sicherundfrei.at (sureandfree), a page that no longer leads directly to his fraud portal passivo.at:
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His personal website patrick-hummer.com/kostenloses-erstgesprach still exists with the restrictions I have described here:
https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/passivo-review-lending-ruse-dubai-mlm-crypto-ponzi/#comment-470044
A new announcement on passivo.io
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That was a quick indirect response to this article. “Seychelles and Asia” is a bit random, no Passivo website traffic from there.
Oh well, sorry for everyone’s loss.
That’s not all. From a Austrian forum:
There’s what, maybe five Passivo investors in Seychelles and Asia?
Also free crypto education: MLM + securities fraud = Ponzi.
Markus Rossier, Passivo CSO, gives an address in Dubai on his website majesticmarkus.com:
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Markus Rossier in a video from December 2021 on the VIDOVIC MENTORING channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=wbNKJzgdvwA
Topic of the video: How to earn a lot of money passively with cryptocurrencies. In the picture: Markus Rossier
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On his Instagram account with 14,200 followers, which has existed since March 2019, Markus Rossier shows that he prefers and lives a life of luxury. Who finances this luxury? We know the answer!
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He hides his participation in the Passivo scam behind this link:
my.duso-app.com/markusrossier
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instagram.com/markusrossier/
In a video from January 2020, Markus Rossier and his partner Miriam Szabo announced that they will be leaving Germany.
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youtube.com/watch?v=wyaxThFazkg
Their YouTube channel Highfivedreams contains only two videos.
youtube.com/channel/UCFnSAIVbyFRR_leNyp5Y6Ow
Their websites highfivedreams.com and highfivedreams.de are no longer accessible. However, Miriam Szabo and Markus Rossier are very active on this Facebook account:
facebook.com/highfivedreams/
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Of course, Miriam Szabo also has an Instagram account with the same name:
instagram.com/highfivedreams
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Miriam Szabo and Markus Rossier on Instagram:
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Warning from a German lawyer dated October 31, 2023.
anwalt.de/rechtstipps/passivo-erfahrungen-betrug-und-0-auszahlung-bei-passivo-io-krypto-abzocke-214968.html
In addition to Passivo Ltd, Passivo Bank AG is mentioned on several websites:
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fintelegram.com/another-warning-against-black-listed-crypto-investment-scheme-passivo/
In addition to Passivo CEO Jan Lübberding from Germany, the Frenchman David Yann Thomas Bottin is mentioned here as the second director of a bank.
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mwaliregistrar.com/list_of_entities/ubo/145
Does Mwali (or Mohéli), the smallest of the Comoros’ three main islands, need an additional bank? Less than 40,000 people live on the island…
If you search for “banks” on Mwali on BehindMLM, you will find articles on the fraudsters of Paraiba and GSB Gold Standard Bank by Josip Heit.
https://behindmlm.com/companies/gspartners/gsb-gold-standard-banks-mwali-banking-license-is-a-sham/
Addition to comment #1.
The fraud portal patrick-hummer.com by Patrick Hummer (Passivo CMO) from Austria is no longer accessible:
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Addition to comment #2.
The scam on passivo.io is finally dead. Still the same announcement as in November 2023 for six months:
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CEO Jan Lübberding made his last post on Instagram in March 2023, announcing that Passivo would be launching in less than four weeks. He has been silent ever since.
ibb.co/R3Q0VqZ
instagram.com/p/CqA8G7DgjOH/
Jan Lübberding’s 1,551 followers on Instagram no longer know what he’s dreaming about. His motto was:
ibb.co/KWv4hHP
instagram.com/janluebberding/
Although passivo.io has been dead for six months, the website still has 242 visitors per month, split between Germany with 55.11% and Denmark with 44.89%.
ibb.co/Bc68Bq4
Of the four companies that the dreamer Jan Wilhelm Lübberding has founded since April 2016, two are already in liquidation.
MOIN.MOIN.SOCIAL MEDIA GMBH since September 12, 2022.
JL HOLDING GMBH since December 15, 2022.
ibb.co/rsbHHGV
northdata.de/L%C3%BCbberding,+Jan+Wilhelm,+Cloppenburg/18yn
Any updates on those scammers?
I noticed that Manuela Hoffmann (Passivo Social Media Manager instagram.com/ella_mite.official/) has made her return to social media. She probably thinks the dust has settled. What about the other scammers, are they still active?
Has anybody gotten their money back? They still owe me loads of money…
Pointing out the obvious but whatever you think Passivo owes you doesn’t exist.
You invested into a Ponzi scheme and your money is gone. Sorry for your loss.
True but, those people are criminals and I hold them personally responsible. You do not just defraud tons of people and get away with everything as if nothing happened.
So are there any news that could possibly help my lawyer?
*looks at big pile of unpublished Passivo news sitting in the conner*
Nope. No news.
Do people not realize how stupid a question that is to keep asking?