CAT Bot has no website, it operates through the Telegram bot “@caterpillar123bot”.

Note that as at time of publication, Telegram has already marked the “@caterpillar123bot” as a scam:

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.

CAT Bot’s Products

CAT Bot has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market CAT Bot affiliate membership itself.

Cat BOT’s Compensation Plan

Cat BOT affiliates invest tether (USDT). This is done on the promise of advertised returns:

  • CAT1 – invest 4.3 USDT and receive 1.72 USDT a day
  • CAT2 – invest 12 USDT and receive 4.8 USDT a day
  • CAT3 – invest 33 USDT and receive 13.2 USDT a day
  • CAT4 – invest 120 USDT and receive 48 USDT a day
  • CAT5 – invest 320 USDT and receive 128 USDT a day
  • CAT6 – invest 680 USDT and receive 272 USDT a day
  • CAT7 – invest 1500 USDT and receive 600 USDT a day
  • CAT8 – invest 2900 USDT and receive 1160 USDT a day
  • CAT9 – invest 5200 USDT and receive 2080 USDT a day
  • CAT10 – invest 12,000 USDT and receive 4800 USDT a day

CAT Bot pays referral commissions via a unilevel compensation structure.

A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):

If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.

If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.

CAT Bot caps payable unilevel team levels at five. Referral commissions are paid as a percentage of USDT invested across these five levels as follows:

  • level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 13%
  • levels 2 to 5 – 2%

Joining CAT Bot

CAT Bot affiliate membership is free.

Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum 4.3 USDT investment.

CAT Bot Conclusion

CAT Bot is yet another “click a button” app Ponzi scheme.

Instead of accessing CAT Bot’s Ponzi app through a website though, investors are directed to a Telegram bot.

After the CAT Bot app is installed, the model follows every other “click a button” app Ponzi.

CAT Bot misappropriates the name and branding of Caterpillar Inc., an American construction, mining and engineering equipment manufacturer.

Needless to say CAT Bot has nothing to do with Caterpillar Inc.

The presented ruse in CAT Bot is affiliates log in and click a button (the more invested the more the button needs to be clicked).

Clicking the button daily qualifies affiliates to receive daily returns.

Clicking a button inside CAT Bot’s app daily is a pointless task. All CAT Bot does is recycle newly invested funds to pay earlier investors.

CAT Bot is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis that emerged in late 2021.

Examples of recently collapsed Telegram bot “click a button” app Ponzis are:

Since 2021 BehindMLM has documented hundreds of “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).

As part of a collapse, “click a button” Ponzi scammers often initiate recovery scams. This sees the scammers demand investors pay a fee to access funds and/or re enable withdrawals.

If any payments are made withdrawals remain disabled or the scammers cease communication.

Organized crime interests from China operate scam factories behind “click a button” Ponzis from south-east Asian countries.

In September 2024, the US Department of Treasury sanctioned Cambodian politician Ly Yong Phat over ties to Chinese human trafficking scam factories.

Through various companies he owns, Phat is alleged to shelter Chinese scammers operating out of Cambodia.

Myanmar claims to have deported over 50,000 Chinese scam factory scammers since October 2023. With “click a button” app scams continuing to feature on BehindMLM though, it is clearly not enough.

In late January 2025, Chinese ministry representatives visited Thailand. The stated aim of the visit was to tackle organized Chinese crime gangs operating from Myanmar.

In early February 2025, Thailand announced it had cut power, internet access and petrol supplies to Chinese scam factories operating across its border with Myanmar.

As of February 20th, Thai and Chinese authorities claim ten thousand trafficked hostages had been freed from Myanmar compounds.

Also on February 20th, five Chinese crime bosses were nabbed in a wider raid of four hundred and fifty arrests in the Philippines.

On March 19th it was reported that, despite the recent raids and arrests, “up to 100,000 people” are still working in Chinese Myanmar scam factories.

As of April 2025 and in response to a crackdown across Asia, newly opened Chinese scam factories have been reported in Nigeria, Angola and Brazil.

Regardless of which country they operate from, ultimately the same group of Chinese scammers are believed to be behind the “click a button” app Ponzi plague.