AOL918 provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

AOL918’s website domain (“aol918.com”), was privately registered on March 10th, 2022.

If we look at the source-code of AOL918’s website, we see it is localized to Chinese:

This strongly suggest whoever is behind AOL918 has ties to China.

SimilarWeb shows a large uptick in traffic to AOL918’s website, mostly originating out of Turkey.

It should be noted that AOL918 operates from multiple domains, these include:

  • aol518.com
  • aol988.com

There are possibly others.

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.

AOL918’s Products

AOL918 has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market AOL918 affiliate membership itself.

AOL918’s Compensation Plan

AOL918 affiliates download an app and invest EUR equivalents in tether (USDT).

This is done on the promise of advertised returns:

  • VIP1 – invest €100 EUR and receive €4 EUR a day
  • VIP2 – invest €500 EUR and receive €20 EUR a day
  • VIP3 – invest €1000 EUR and receive €39 EUR a day
  • VIP4 – invest €2000 EUR and receive €80 EUR a day
  • VIP5 – invest €3000 EUR and receive €120 EUR a day

In order to qualify for daily returns, AOL918 affiliates must click a button.

The more an AOL918 affiliate invests, the more times they have to click the button to qualify each day.

AOL918 pays commissions on USDT invested by recruited affiliates:

Specifics aren’t provided by typically click a button apps use a three-level deep compensation structure:

Joining AOL918

AOL918 affiliate membership is free.

Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum €100 EUR investment in tether.

AOL918 Conclusion

AOL918 is another app-based task Ponzi scheme from what appears to be Chinese scammers.

AOL918 represents “clicking a button” to manipulate social media generates revenue:

It doesn’t. All AOL918 are doing is recycling invested funds to pay returns.

AOL918 is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis launched over the past few months.

Thus far BehindMLM has documented:

  • COTP – pretended affiliates clicking a button generated trading activity, collapsed May 2022
  • EthTRX app-based Ponzi with the daily task component disabled, collapsed July 2022
  • Yu Klik – pretends clicking a button generates trading activity, targeting Indonesia
  • KKBT – pretended clicking a button generates crypto mining revenue, targeted South Africa and India & collapsed early June 2022
  • EasyTask 888 – pretends clicking a button was tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes), targets Colombia, collapsed July 2022
  • DF Finance – pretended clicking a button generated “purchase data” which was sold to ecommerce platforms, collapsed June 2022
  • Shared989 – pretended clicking a button was tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes etc.), collapsed June 2022
  • 86FB – pretended clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed April 2022
  • 0W886 – pretended clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
  • U91 – pretended clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
  • 365Ball – pretends clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes, (has collapsed multiple already)
  • YLCH Football – pretends clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed July 2022
  • Parkour – pretends clicking a button is tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes etc.), collapsed July 2022
  • OTCAI – pretended affiliates clicking a button generated trading activity, collapsed May 2022
  • N9 Football – pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
  • Tron.BI – pretends affiliates clicking a button was tied to TRX cloud mining
  • EFG Football – pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
  • GP Football – pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
  • Lucky Football, pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
  • WT91 – pretends affiliates clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed July 2022
  • Mars Football – pretends affiliates clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed July 2022
  • MC Football – pretends affiliates clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed July 2022
  • PerRank – pretended affiliates clicking a button generated orders for ecommerce partners, collapsed June 2022
  • Zpmxcfe – pretends clicking a button is tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes etc.), collapsed July 2022
  • Let’s Yarn – pretends clicking a button generates orders on Etsy, collapsed July 2022
  • Big Forest – pretends affiliates clicking a button generated orders for ecommerce partners, collapsed July 2022

All the recent app-based task Ponzis appear to be launched by the same group of scammers operating out of China.