Vortic United has received a securities fraud warning from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

ASIC added Vortic United to its Investor Alert List on October 1st, 2025.

[Vortic United] may be offering or advertising, or may have offered or advertised, financial services to Australian consumers.

It does not hold an Australian financial services licence or Australian credit licence from ASIC, and is not authorised by a licensee.

Vortic United was an MLM crypto Ponzi that emerged in late 2022. The scam was fronted by founder and CEO “Jensen Robles”, played by German national Rene Schwarze.

Fronting the promotional side of Vortic United was Canadian national Jan Gregory Cerato.

Vortic United is believed to have been a collaboration between Schwarze, Cerato and a Russian crime syndicate operating from Turkey.

Vortic United collapsed in August 2023, prompting Schwarze to go into hiding. Cerato, previously charged with securities fraud by Canadian authorities, returned to Dubai.

Vortic United’s formerly defunct website domain “vortic-united.com”, was privately registered again on July 12th, 2025.

It’s assumed the same Russian crime syndicate is behind the attempted reboot. Failing which opportunistic recovery scammers are hoping to double-scam Vortic United victims.

 

Update 3rd October 2025 – The Vortic United recovery scam appears to have been abandoned. At the time of this update Vortic United’s website domain has been disabled again.