Ant Ranch Review: Farming “click a button” app Ponzi
Ant Ranch fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
Ant Ranch’s website domain (“antranch.vip”), was privately registered on May 9th, 2023.
If we look at the source-code of Ant Ranch’s website, we find Chinese:
This strongly suggests whoever is running Ant Ranch has ties to China.
Further supporting this is Ant Ranch’s website domain being registered through Alibaba’s Singapore division.
As always, if an MLM company is not openly upfront about who is running or owns it, think long and hard about joining and/or handing over any money.
Ant Ranch’s Products
Ant Ranch has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to market Ant Ranch affiliate membership itself.
Ant Ranch’s Compensation Plan
Ant Ranch affiliates invest South African Rand (R) or tether (USDT) equivalents.
This is done on the promise of advertised returns:
- Turkey – invest R60 and receive R3 a day for 30 days
- Goose – invest R200 and receive R8 a day for 60 days
- Sheep – invest R600 and receive R25 a day for 90 days
- Pig – invest R1500 and receive R60 a day for 180 days
- Donkey – invest R1700 and receive R70 a day for 190 days
- Ostrich – invest R2500 and receive R100 a day for 190 days
- Sika Deer – invest R4000 and receive R160 a day for 210 days
- Caiman – invest R10,000 and receive R400 a day for 240 days
- Alpaca – invest R18,000 and receive R750 a day for 365 days
- Cow – invest R35,000 and receive R1450 a day for 450 days
- Camel – invest R60,000 and receive R2500 a day for 520 days
Note that Ant Ranch charges a 14% withdrawal fee. Withdrawals are also not possible unless an affiliate has an active investment.
Ant Ranch pays referral commissions on invested funds down two levels of recruitment (unilevel):
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 10%
- level 2 – 7%
Joining Ant Ranch
Ant Ranch affiliate membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum R60 investment.
Ant Ranch solicits investment in South African Rand and tether (USDT).
South African Rand is solicited through various South African payment processors and banks:
Ant Ranch Conclusion
Ant Ranch is yet another “click a button” Ponzi scheme, this time targeting South Africa:
As of August 2023, SimilarWeb tracked 97% of Ant Ranch’s website traffic as originating from South Africa.
Ant Ranch’s “click a button” Ponzi ruse is farming various animals:
Broken down, Ant Ranch’s ruse sees affiliates log in and click a button. Ant Ranch represents clicking the button corresponds with a farming yield.
The yield is then sold to fictitious buyers, completing the ROI payout.
This is of course nonsense. There is no farming or animals being farmed.
All Ant Ranch is doing is recycling newly invested funds to pay earlier investors.
Ant Ranch is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis that have emerged since late 2021.
Examples of already collapsed “click a button” app Ponzis using the same farming ruse include Peace Ranch, The Ranch and Nestle Ranch.
Including Ant Ranch, BehindMLM has thus far documented eighty-seven “click a button” app Ponzis. Most of them last a few weeks to a few months before collapsing.
“Click a button” app Ponzis disappear by disabling both their websites and app. This tends to happen without notice, leaving the majority of investors with a loss (inevitable Ponzi math).
The same group of Chinese scammers are believed to be behind the “click a button” app Ponzi plague.
Update 3rd October 2023 – Ant Ranch has collapsed.
someone literally just pitched this to my wife at work.
So coz all the others failed who says ant ranch is the same.. It’s pure speculation!!!!
Ant Ranch is the same as all the other “click a button” app Ponzis… because it is the same.
No amount of hopium will change that.
Just because this scheme is brand new and has not collapsed yet, does not mean that it won’t.
Please dont borrow money from the bank or quit your low paying job in order to make as much quick money as possible.
As a south African who has seen ponzis come and go, please believe me , this one will be miraculous if it does not rug within three to four months.
Be warned , if you get your friends and family , work colleagues involved, they will not be your friends and family for much longer.
If this is your first ponzi, I hope it’s your last. It’s a slippery slope to try and get early and cash out before the rug happens.
If you do that, then you are no different to the people who conjure up these criminal ideas.
Aaaaaand it’s gone. Special shoutout to Qani above.
Peace ranch lasted about a month after the review, give it till End october / november 2023. It will be gone by then.
There is no way that the humongous returns promised is sustainable for longer than that. It will go beautifully in the beginning, but such a good thing is not meant to last. Its not designed that way.
The owner of the telegram chat of the one of the main south african affiliates will even encourage you to borrow large sums of money from the bank, and tell you that its 100% safe, even up to 200% safe!!!
All because of the referral fee obtained, he doesn’t care about you or your financial well being.
Look at that!
Qani – you absolute biscuit!
You fell for a scam where you spent real money effectively looking after the 2023 equivalent of a tamagotchi.
Your stupidity and equal measure of arrogance is unfortunately very common to us South Africans.
I invested in Ant Ranch and im sorry to say to all the non believers i withdraw every single month not once ever had a problem and its been 4 months i was one off you skeptical so i started small R25 a day im now earning 1320 per day going to ivents where we win awesome prices even cars so if this is what you say im damm lucky cause what i invested i already gotten back the rest only profit
^^ Barely literate dumbfucks are who these “click a button” app Ponzis attract. The kind of degenerate moron who thinks “numbers on a screen” from clicking a button = “earning per day”… even after the Ponzi has collapsed.
Getting into a Ponzi scheme early and stealing money from people is nothing to brag about. Any decent human being would be horrifically ashamed to publicly admit this.
Yet here we are…
I was going to just hit spam but I let this one through as a tribute to stupidity. I’m not even going to bother editing in paragraphs. Cheers.
You may be one of the lucky ones who get out without loss.
Poof it’s gone
Do you think that the algorithm the scammers created has some type of ceiling…
Based on the actual subscribers being scammed and the investments being recycled or is it all just a quick now that’s enough from the scammers….
It’s sad to see that the banking systems don’t have a red flag system for such antics.
Glad I found this website and put me on before I made some silly decision to think that it would at least last for 90 days.
There is a ceiling but unless you’re running the scam, we don’t know exactly when a “click a button” Ponzi will collapse.
A family member of mine is so deep in this he refuses to even hear anyone tell him otherwise.
Scammers really Know how to target desperate people and it’s so frustrating because it gives such false hope to people.
When I heard about this “tamagotchi investment platform” I genuinely laughed it off thinking that so many people would also see through it but apparently there are some genuinely desperate people that refuse to even hear the truth.
they can obviously track how much of their own money was given back to them versus how much was stolen.
all depends when recruitment dries up and if they are luck enough to get some stupid people with a lot more money than the others for one more round of investments.
the scammers will be willing to sacrifice some money from previous scams, in order to profit from the current one. It all depends on how much they are willing to risk.
If the ratio is 3 to 1 or lets say 5 to 1, that means that they are willing to give away up to 1 million Rand for every 5 million that they make, its simple maths. So yes, it will appear that the scam is legit, as monies are being paid.
So if the total amount that they are willing to risk is becoming too much for them, they make a calculated decision to pull the rug, other wise they will be giving away too much of their profits, and the system gets shut down. My guess is that they leave a last little bit of rewards in the system in order to honour the withdrawals of the last of the lucky ones.
or unlucky, depending if they ran at a loss, broke even or made some profits like this guy Denwin cell number – (removed). He runs one of the antranch telegram groups.
One of the members we have been chatting to insists that that this is still good, because they have received points and made a withdrawal, which is probably one of the last withdrawals for them.
My man, I’m a senior software developer, I only been exposed to this whole universe of ponzi apps recently.
The people who get deep into this are so bloody gullible, that it takes an enormous amount of willpower for me to say “No, I won’t build a ponzi app myself, even though I could make hundreds of thousands within a couple of months”
Some of those schemes are so obvious that it almost feels like the people scammed by them truly deserve to be scammed and have no money.
It’s probably the same coping mechanism that conspiracy theory enthusiasts use. No matter what you tell them, what proof you present – they won’t believe logic, as it would collapse their whole intricate worldview they have built. It’s fascinating.
And it is gone… Website crashed money gone nothing is working whatsapp offline.
Ant Ranch is a scam they ran away.
Its definitely gone now.
Ant farm is down for the count.
As of yesterday 17:00pm antRanch is gone. Watsapp group is offline link crashed, app also crashed.
Lets not talk about money because wow!
Jip… it went so well and all of us was sooooo excited…. but antranch crashed…. lost a lot of money and I feel very embarresed….
even got my best friend to join, we borrowed money and still have to pay it back…. so litterly got screwed in the behind.
Is it really gone? Can’t believe that.
Yes, it was a scam. My advice to anyone who is investing online, please stop and take out your money as soon as possible.
many have lost 1000’s and it is sad.
If people get paid then there is a time frame. It’s a scam scam scam.
I know of people who did get scammed big time.
This is a scam, please do not invest in any money making scheme. never have i ever heard of any money making thing that was legit.
I believed in this ant ranch and did put money in, and it was a scam and i really needed the money that i invest but hoped that i had a chance to make something and get a head of life. but was shown to not believe in anything ever again.
Where are all the people who were saying Any Ranch is different lol? You guys fail to see that these things are ponzi schemes…
Yes it was a scam, it promised the big raspberries but at the end is crushed with the new people’s money who recharged late.
Then fleed away like an Aviator to pay those who came early in it. Was no care about their financial inspect or living.
Are you a moron? Ae you one of those people who blame new investors, or any investor for that matter , for crashing the platform. Only a scammer says: Platforms for not crash, its the people who crash platforms. What you are describing is a poonzi scheme. Do onot try and get in early for the next one, it might collapse sooner than you think.