SofTrade AI fake CEO outed as actor Marko Stevic
SofTrade’s fake CEO Ryan Baines has been outed as Fivver actor Marko Stevic.
Stevic, who is believed to reside in Serbia, pitched himself on Fiverr as a “digital marketing expert”.
After he was outed as Ryan Baines, Stevic deleted his Fiverr profile.
When he’s not pretending to be the CEO of Ponzi schemes, Stevic presents various sports related videos on YouTube.
After being confronted by angry investors looking for an explanation, whoever is actually running SofTrade AI doubled down on the deception.
The problem with turning a blind eye to Ponzi fraud “as long as you get paid”, is eventually, and typically without warning, you stop getting paid.
By then of course it’s too late to do anything and, as we ram home in every relevant review, when a Ponzi scheme inevitably collapses the majority of investors lose money – no exceptions.
Unfortunately this point is lost on the more gullible SofTrade AI investors:
These are the same people who show up after a Ponzi collapse, begging for advice on how to get their money back.
BehindMLM reviewed SofTrade AI last month. We called the fake CEO and noted that SofTrade AI is not registered to offer securities in any jurisdiction it solicits investment in.
The irony of a scheme creating a fake executive but swearing it pays returns on real trading seems lost on SofTrade AI’s investors.
Legitimate passive investment trading companies are registered as legally required. They also don’t hire actors to play fake CEOs.
You know who does? Scammers.
Update 16th April 2020 – As of the week beginning April 13th, SofTrade AI has collapsed.
He is a cutie pie. Reminds me of “50 Shades of Gray” actor. Ohhh weee he is fun to look at. Please here is my crypto.
Why would this guy risk legal trouble and all that for some fiverr gig. I doubt he is knowingly acting for a ponzi scheme.
Why delete the Fivver gig then? And videos are easily taken down on YouTube for TOS.
People do stupid things for money.
First, I don’t think he’s at any significant risk of legal repercussions in Serbia. Probably the only way to get into serious trouble with the police or the judicial authorities in that country is by not paying them high enough bribes.
Second: why wouldn’t he do so knowingly? You’d have to be a complete moron to not understand that when you’re paid to pretend to be the CEO of a company online, it’s not a normal acting or spokesperson job, and that you’re working for fraudsters.
What’s more, there’s no reason to assume that he’s only hired help. He could be no more than that, but he could just as well be a full participant.
I took a very brief glance at some of the other SofTrade AI videos in which he portrays “Ryan Baines”, and it clearly goes beyond just reading out a script.
Also, he’s clearly no stranger to trying to make money through dubious activities. On Youtube, he’s trying to parasitize on the WWE brand, and the reason he has to use the name “Wrestling Reality II” is because the first version was shut down for copyright violations, IOW for illegally posting WWE video material.
It does say something about the level of intelligence of such scammers, that they tried to pass off this guy as having the name “Ryan Baines”. Nobody with a name like that would have an accent like his.
A lot of these guys clearly vastly overestimate their fluency in foreign languages (which is actually a widespread phenomenon), and believe they can pass themselves off as a native speaker.
There is another recent example of an MLM scam outfit whose name I cannot remember, who tried to pass of their pretend-CEO as a retired Swiss, German-speaking, banker. He wasn’t even capable of pronouncing the German name of the bank he supposedly worked for for decades correctly (or even recognizably).
It’s just so dumb: if they’d given this guy a Slavic pseudonym, that part at least wouldn’t have aroused anyone’s suspicions.
I find most of these “Boris” CEOs with western names are presented to dupe Asian audiences.
For some reason the non-English speaking world can’t seem to get enough of “white guy in a rented office? TAKE MY MONEY!” scams.
Post-colonial mentality? (Okay, that may have been a bit harsh)
Thanks for putting this info out there. I forwarded it to an unfortunate who was about to loose their “investment”.
I appreciate your effort thanks.
Thanks for the support Mel.
These scammers are the SAME behind Capward Bull and Creckino scam past December…. this Marko guy sure is not inocent, but the head one behind this is hiding as the Admin of their FB group… he used to call himself Simon David …
they scamed me of 5K and they came back barely disguising the old site, similar plans and tactics to lure people into depositign more,,
look at the emails they send out…all pushing people to invest on their highest plan.. and the fake FB Group members that keep pushing others to deposit more by showing their results. ….
they will exit soon as it is obvious they can’t sustain their scams.
The Admin , fake Simon David, fake Ryan Baines playing the Admin of the group is a vicious egotistical scammer…he is so cynical that he doesn’t even disguise himself that hard.
For Capward Bull they also had a guy doing videos pretending to be a trader.. just like this Marko guy is doing. They should all go to jail somehwere.
I am very near to invest my hard earned $5,000 for 5% interest daily. But because I read this review then I will not invest to Softradeai.
Thank you so much for posting this review! I invested 100$ a month ago and was considering investing more, but after reading this review, I did not.
Thank you so much for this valuable info and I forwarded it to some of the big investors, but for many it is too late. So sad.
Looks like they are getting ready to exit as they shut down withdrawals from the site for 2 weeks.
If withdrawals have been disabled for two weeks, sounds like they’ve already exit-scammed.
Is they are no one who can bring these scammers under the custody of law?
He has shown his face, we have a name, Marco Stevic. Why don’t the police catch these scammers?
Boris CEOs don’t actually run the scams they’re hired to promote.