Market Vision Review: Trading bot securities fraud
Market Vision fails to provide company ownership and/or executive information on its website.
Market Vision’s website domain (“marketvision.io”), was first registered in May 2020. The private registration was last updated on June 26th, 2022.
Market Vision has an official YouTube channel, featuring a bunch of German marketing videos.
Not surprisingly, all of the Market Vision affiliate marketing I came across was in German too.
This strongly suggests whoever is running Market Vision at the very least has ties to Germany.
Update 12th July 2022 – A video uploaded to Market Vision’s official YouTube channel features this unidentified individual;
Later in the video the individual logs into Market Vision’s website as “MarketVision Admin”.
Consistent with Market Vision’s apparent ties to German, the unidentified individual speaks in German.
BehindMLM reader Melanie in the comments below (#14), notes that a WhatsApp number in the video description corresponds to Austria (note if you translate the text to English the WhatsApp number disappears). /end update
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.
Market Vision’s Products
Market Vision represents it has a retail and affiliate membership offering.
No information about the retail offering is provided. Furthermore regardless of which option you choose, the sign up page is the same.
Given this I’m treating Market Vision’s retail offering as pseudo-compliance.
Market Vision affiliate membership provides access to a trading bot, through which the company markets “automated trading”.
Market Vision’s Compensation Plan
Market Vision affiliates pay €275 EUR a month. Commissions are paid when they recruit others who do the same.
Recruitment Commissions
Market Vision pays recruitment commissions via a 3×7 matrix.
A 3×7 matrix places an affiliate at the top of a matrix, with three positions directly under them.
These positions form the first level of matrix. The second level of the matrix is generated by splitting these first three positions into another three positions each.
Levels three to seven of the matrix are generated in the same manner, with each new level housing three times as many positions as the previous level.
Recruitment commissions are paid as affiliates are recruited into the matrix. This occurs via direct and indirect recruitment.
Commissions paid per recruited affiliate are based on which level of the matrix a recruited affiliate is placed on:
- level 1 (3 positions) – 11%
- level 2 (9 positions) – 10%
- level 3 (27 positions) – 8%
- level 4 (81 positions) – 7%
- level 5 (243 positions) – 6%
- level 6 (729 positions) – 4%
- level 7 (2187 positions) – 2%
Specifics aren’t provided but Market Vision’s compensation documentation suggests three affiliates must be recruited and maintained to earn on all seven unilevel team levels.
Recruitment commissions are paid monthly recurring, for as long as affiliates recruited into the matrix pay their Market Vision membership fees.
Joining Market Vision
Market Vision affiliate membership is €275 EUR a month.
Market Vision Conclusion
Market Vision is a pyramid scheme attached to trading bot securities fraud.
Automated trading takes place on the crypto and FOREX markets.
Our tested software pulls information from over 7000 exchanges and does the trading for you.
Tellingly, no specific information is provided about Market Vision’s bot.
This is to be expected when the company itself is run by anonymous scammers.
From an MLM due-diligence perspective, we have the following red flags:
- no information about who is running Market Vision is provided
- no information about Market Visions trading bot is provided
- Market Vision fails to provide evidence it has registered with financial regulators (namely BaFin in Germany), meaning the company is committing securities fraud
- Market Vision’s MLM opportunity operates as a pyramid scheme
The selling point for Market Vision is the old “your money is in your account” cliche. While that is true, “lulz can’t touch our money” schemes nonetheless end in one of two ways:
- the trading bot implodes; or
- the admins run rigged trades in their favor and drain accounts.
This is because, while maintaining a balance in an exchange account an affiliate owns might feel secure, it’s not because the affiliate has no actual control of the bot.
The bot is provided by Market Vision, who can program it do what they want. That includes changing the bot’s code maliciously, leading to the exit-scam scenarios presented above.
Concluding with the MLM side of Market Vision, affiliates are paying €3300 EUR annually in fees alone. That’s on top of whatever they ultimately lose to the trading bot.
Top recruiters and Market Vision’s anonymous owners will make money (the owners sit at the top of the company-wide matrix).
In order for that to happen though, everyone else has to lose money.
Update 16th November 2022 – Market Vision has probably collapsed.
The company has marked all videos on its YouTube channel private. The last post on Market Vision’s official Instagram account is dated February 2022.
Market Vision’s website is still up but SimilarWeb is tracked less than 5000 visits a month.
I can’t access the website marketvision.io because of an invalid SSL certificate:
share-your-photo.com/e4b29cc6a3
But the scammers call this fake data on YouTube:
share-your-photo.com/0b351be68f
youtube.com/channel/UC09lJnsSzZBLw75B_WkvMpQ/about
The same here:
share-your-photo.com/f2bd1d8f87
web.archive.org/web/20220331042053/https://marketvision.io/terms
The market-vision.io website (with a hyphen) is accessible to me. This website exists since March 9, 2022.
marketvision.io on Instagram:
share-your-photo.com/b1ce3dce24
instagram.com/marketvision.io/
PS: If you want to read the Terms and Conditions on market-vision.io, you will only find out this:
share-your-photo.com/36b8004f65
no impressum within the webpage (marketvision.io) but at the button of the webpage it is stated:
@nm12:
You can’t disclaimer your way out of securities fraud.
That’s a security, and requires the registration they claim they don’t need. Pretty typical of these kinds of scams, frankly.
Ah I wasn’t aware of the hyphen domain. There’s no retail offering on the hyphen domain and there’s an affiliate program download, so I’m guessing this it the business opportunity website?
Even more telling the retail offering is bogus when Market Vision’s retail site has been neglected to the point the site won’t load for people.
Quote from a video by a scammer calling himself Walter Patrick:
share-your-photo.com/55e97b1bb3
youtube.com/watch?v=KkBRdmpmZiE
PS: Several commentators criticize that the website does not contain an imprint.
In this video from May 2022, MarketVision is clearly classified as dubious.
These two reasons were decisive: Missing imprint and the alleged company headquarters in the tax haven Marshall Islands.
share-your-photo.com/ee7d0610c8
youtube.com/watch?v=CmNigoJGBz4
MarketVision scammers are hiding here: Trust Company of the Marshall Islands (see comment #1). What is known about it? An example:
marshallislandslawyers.com/hello-world
A ship register for German scammers?
The following website also mentions THE TRUST COMPANY OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS INC.:
offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/58104843
Terms and Conditions do not exempt you from regulatory requirements. In fact it just makes it more obvious you are aware of the requirements but choose to ignore it
On June 22, 2022 someone wrote:
share-your-photo.com/ec07a8f469
beermoneyforum.com/threads/market-vision-io-reviews-scam-or-legit.263739/
Christoph Schünemann from Munich worked for MarketVision from March to September 2021. He was reportedly head of customer care in Innsbruck, Tyrol and Austria:
share-your-photo.com/6d2259b369
linkedin.com/in/cschuene/?originalSubdomain=de
A person who worked for MarketVision wrote in April 2022:
share-your-photo.com/596b06f21e
kununu.com/ch/marketvision/kommentare
PS: This person was working in the legal/tax field at the time of the review.
should be:
.. in fact it just makes it more obvious the people in charge are aware of the requirements but choose to ignore it
Myself I have nothing to do with that “project”
If you bother to re-read,the statement was in the context of whoever posts disclaimerss knows they are breaking the law, as is anybody highlighting it as an excuse.
Thanks for playing though.
Regarding #2: When you quote something from the company without comment, it comes off looking like an endorsement.
State your position clearly so you’ll be understood. (A simple “Look at this company bullshit” would have sufficed.)
This guy calls himself MarketVision Admin in a video from March 2021:
share-your-photo.com/c62f15fc3d
youtube.com/watch?v=3reoH92z4n4
The WhatsApp number mentioned below the video is from Austria:
share-your-photo.com/0c8ff0be84
He doesn’t give his name does he? I have no idea what he’s saying.
Also my brain might not be working but I’m not seeing a WhatsApp number in either video or on the page?
@Oz
No, of course, this scammer does not give his name.
WhatsApp: Please click on the button “View more”.
Can confirm, brain wasn’t working. I see it now 😀
(I clicked view more and scrolled down before my last comment!)
edit: Turns out my brain wasn’t broken. If you click translate to English in Chrome the WhatsApp bit disappears.
I might run out of marbles one day, but today is not that day.
I cut out this scammer’s photo from another video and enlarged it:
share-your-photo.com/655a5105c6
This scammer is named Jan by two commenters.
youtube.com/watch?v=CePXDM4dd80&list=PLVVkg7uE_q08UXdnPB0m8O8BqD9fZpB04&index=2
Addition to comment #5
I contacted Patrick Walter and asked for the Market Vision imprint. His reply via email:
share-your-photo.com/a7065c399f
PS: In this short e-mail alone, Patrick Walter made more than 20 spelling and expression errors. But such fools are of course very popular with scammers…
Review updated to note Market Vision has likely collapsed.
Is this a variation?
capitalsvision.com/
Could be. Market Vision has long-since collapsed.
Not seeing anything MLM related on Capitals Vision’s website though, only single-level.