Turbo Ponzi collapses, $10,000 “private club” reboot
The Turbo “forex bot” investment scheme has collapsed.
Following months of non-payment, Turbo has announced a $10,000 “private club” reboot.
Turbo’s reboot sees it pull a KYC exit-scam on existing investors.
Send KYC documents (if you are inviting, you will be the first person responsible for checking that the person can confirm legal tickets).
After that, a $200 annual fee is payable, plus a minimum $10,000 investment.
Who exactly Turbo’s reboot is aimed at is unclear. Certainly nobody who lost money in the original scam (the majority of investors), is going to add another $10,200 to their losses.
And despite Turbo’s original bot blowing up (read: owner David Merino stole everyone’s money), Turbo is again going with a trading bot ruse.
In researching for this article I went looking for an update on what Merino is up to. Turns out he’s busy gaslighting his victims on FaceBook:
No idea if those photos are old, unrelated, selective payments or what the story is – but Turbo disabled investor withdrawals back in February.
The last post on Turbo’s official Instagram page is dated February 28th, 2023.
Naturally there’s no mention of Turbo’s KYC exit-scam or new $10,000 “private club” reboot on Merino’s socials.
As of May 2023, SimilarWeb tracked just ~3400 visits to Turbo’s website. Considering Turbo pitched a 10% to 17% monthly ROI, one can only wonder why traffic tanked.
Update of today:
fxwinning.pro/news?lang=en
In short they’re saying that Metaquotes is banning unlicensed brokers. So MT5 connection will stop on Friday and that FxWinning will honor every withdrawals and then shut down the company because of “damaged reputation”.
Thanks for the update. In case anyone’s wondering, FX Winning was cited as Turbo’s trading broker.
Looks like your classic KYC exit-scam.
Banking regulations didn’t change, it’s always been illegal to operate illegally. Go figure.
All that happened is regulatory agencies and law enforcement (outside of the US) are actually starting to regulate/enforce on crypto fraud.