NewEra Exchange Review: Trading signals “click a button” Ponzi
NewEra Exchange fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
The first known iteration of NewEra Exchange launched on the domain “neweraeducation.com”, private registration last updated on April 28th, 2026 (click to enlarge below).
NewEra abandoned its first domain following a NewEra fraud warning from Washington’s Department of Financial Institutions, issued on February 3rd, 2026. Arkansas also issued a NewEra cease and desist order on March 5th, 2026.
Rebranded with a different color scheme and swapping out “education” for “exchange”, today NewEra Exchange operates from three known website domains:
- qbguye.com – privately registered on December 11th, 2025
- www.newerawe.com – privately registered on December 11th, 2025
- newerain.com – privately registered on December 11th, 2025
Note there are likely additional NewEra Exchange website domains not listed above.
NewEra seeks to deceive consumers through a Canadian shell company purported FinCEN registration of said shell company.
Due to the ease with which scammers are able to incorporate shell companies with bogus details, for the purpose of MLM due-diligence these certificates are meaningless.
Additionally, FinCEN is not a financial regulator. Anyone can register a shell company with FinCEN and receive a meaningless MSB certificate. This is a common tactic used by scammers.
If we look at the source-code of NewEra Exchange’s website we find Chinese:
As opposed to Canada, this suggests whoever is running NewEra Exchange has ties to China.
Also note the domain “asiaex-pro.com” appears to have been a staging site live NewEra Exchange websites were pulled from.
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.
NewEra Exchange’s Products
NewEra Exchange has no retailable products or services.
Promoters are only able to market NewEra promoter membership itself.
NewEra Exchange’s Compensation Plan
NewEra Exchange promoters invest tether on the promise of passive returns.
Note NewEra Exchange does not publicly disclose required investment amounts or ROI rates. Instead an “earnings table” is provided:
The MLM side of NewEra Exchange pays on recruitment of promoter investors.
New Member Rewards
If a newly recruited NewEra Exchange promoter invests more than 30% of the current investment balance of the promoter who recruited them, a New Member Rewards is triggered.
- $500 to $999 invested = $20 for the new promoter and $30 for the promoter who recruited them
- $1000 to $1999 invested = $50 for the new promoter and $70 for the promoter who recruited them
- $2000 to $2999 invested = $100 for the new promoter and $160 for the promoter who recruited them
- $3000 to $4999 invested = $150 for the new promoter and $270 for the promoter who recruited them
- $5000 to $9999 invested = $250 for the new promoter and $500 for the promoter who recruited them
- $10,000 or more invested = 5% of the invested amount for the new promoter and 10% for the promoter who recruited them
E.g. if a newly recruited promoter invests $1000, the promoter who recruited them must have a current investment balance of at least $300 to trigger the New Member Reward.
VIP Team Reward
NewEra Exchange rewards promoters for generating downline investment.
- VIP1 – generate a downline of 5 to 29 promoters and receive $100 and then $100 a month
- VIP2 – generate a downline of 30 to 99 promoters and receive $300 and then $200 a month
- VIP3 – generate a downline of 100 to 199 promoters and receive $500 and then $300 a month
- VIP4 – generate a downline of 200 to 499 promoters and receieve $800 and then $500 a month
- VIP5 – generate a downline of 500 to 999 promoters and receive $1200 and then $700 a month
- VIP6 – generate a downline of 1000 to 1999 promoters and receive $2500 and then $1100 a month
- VIP7 – generate a downline of 2000 to 2999 promoters and receive $4000 and then $2000 a month
- VIP8 – generate a downline of 3000 to 4999 promoters and receive $8000 and then $5000 a month
- VIP9 – generate a downline of 5000 to 9999 promoters and receive $15,000 and then $11,000 a month
Note that in order to count towards VIP Team Reward recruitment, recruited promoters must invest at least 500 USDT and the invested amount must be 30% or more of the qualifying promoter’s current investment balance.
ROI Match
NewEra Exchange pays a ROI match based on the same rank criteria used to pay the VIP Team Reward (see above):
- VIP1 promoters receive a 0.5% match
- VIP2 promoters receive a 1% match
- VIP3 promoters receive a 1.5% match
- VIP4 promoters receive a 2% match
- VIP5 promoters receive a 2.5% match
- VIP6 promoters receive a 3% match
- VIP7 promoters receive a 3.5% match
- VIP8 promoters receive a 4% match
- VIP9 promoters receive a 4.5% match
Note it is unclear whether NewEra Exchange pays the ROI Match on personally recruited promoters or whole downlines (typically personal recruits only).
Joining NewEra Exchange
NewEra Exchange promoter membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum undisclosed investment (marketing suggests it may be $500).
Note while USD amounts are quoted, NewEra Exchange operates in the cryptocurrency tether (USDT).
NewEra Exchange Conclusion
NewEra Exchange is yet another “click a button” app Ponzi scheme.
NewEra Exchange’s investment scheme is a run-of-the-mill trading signals ruse:
Trading signals are purportedly provided to NewEra Exchange investors by D.E. Shaw Group:
D.E. Shaw Group is an actual multinational investment management firm headquartered in New York City, but it has nothing to do with NewEra Exchange.
Prospective and existing NewEra Exchange investors can easily verify this by contacting D.E. Shaw Group and asking the firm whether it is providing trading signals to Chinese “click a button” Ponzi scammers. Be sure to let us know how that goes in the comments below.
Typically “click a button” app Ponzis provide signals to investors through shady social media groups. Telegram is often used but NewEra Exchange appears to generate its bogus trading signals from within its app:
However trading signals are provided, NewEra Exchange promoters take the provided signals and feed them back into NewEra Exchange’s Ponzi app. This requires “clicking buttons”, hence the term “click a button” app Ponzi.
If the business model makes no sense it’s because it doesn’t. Why get randoms to click a button in a dodgy app when you could just execute the trades yourself?
In reality clicking a button inside NewEra Exchange’s app does nothing. All NewEra Exchange does is recycle newly invested funds to pay earlier investors.
NewEra Exchange is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis that have emerged since late 2021.
Examples of already collapsed “click a button” Ponzis using the same trading signals ruse include VSTSA, Orbis Exchange and Grokr.
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).
In the lead up to a collapse, “click a button” Ponzi investors also tend to find their accounts locked. This typically coincides with a withdrawal request.
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.
Myawaddy is an area in Myanmar along the Thai border. Myawaddy is under the control of the Karen National Army (KNA).
The KNA, led by warlord Chit Thu (right) and sons Saw Htoo Eh Moo and Saw Chit Chit, protect and profit from organized Chinese criminals running “click a button” Ponzi scam factories.
On May 5th the US imposed sanctions on Chit Thu (right).
The Treasury said the warlord, Saw Chit Thu, is a central figure in a network of illicit and highly lucrative cyberscam operations targeting Americans.
The move puts financial sanctions on Saw Chit Thu, the Karen National Army that he heads, and his two sons, Saw Htoo Eh Moo and Saw Chit Chit, the department said in a statement, freezing any U.S. assets they may hold and generally barring Americans from doing business with them.
Britain and the European Union have already imposed sanctions on Saw Chit Thu.
A May 25th report cites Myanmar and Loas as having “towering scam economies”. Cambodia however is reported to be a hotspot for Chinese criminal activity.
Cambodia is likely the absolute global epicentre of next-gen transnational fraud in 2025 and is certainly the country most primed for explosive growth going forward.
Cambodia is becoming the centre of an exploding global scam economy driven primarily by Chinese organised crime.
Chinese gangs are reported to operate in Cambodia under the protection of unnamed local politicians.
In June 2025, Amnesty International claimed Cambodia’s government was
“deliberately ignoring” abuses by cybercrime gangs who have trafficked people from across the world, including children, into slavery at brutal scam compounds.
The London-based group said in a report that it had identified 53 scam centres and dozens more suspected sites across the country, including the Southeast Asian nation’s capital, Phnom Penh.
The prison-like compounds were ringed by high fences with razor wire, guarded by armed men and staffed by trafficking victims forced to defraud people across the globe, it said, with those inside subjected to punishments including shocks from electric batons, confinement in dark rooms and beatings.
In July 2025 Cambodia arrested over 1000 cybercrime suspects. Twenty-seven of those arrested were members of Chinese criminal gangs.
In October 2025 US authorities announced the indictment of Chen Zhi, founder and Chairman of Prince Holding Group.
Zhi, originally from China but having obtained Cambodian citizenship at some point, is accused of being the “mastermind” behind Chinese organized crime operations in Cambodia.
“As alleged, the defendant was the mastermind behind a sprawling cyber-fraud empire operating under the Prince Group umbrella, a criminal enterprise built on human suffering.
Trafficked workers were confined in prison-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams on an industrial scale, preying on thousands worldwide, including many here in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg.
Individuals held against their will in the compounds engaged in cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes, known as “pig butchering” scams, that stole billions of dollars from victims in the United States and around the world.
Cambodia doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US. As at time of publication, Chen Zhi remains at large.
On October 20th, Myanmar authorities announced seizure of thirty Starlink devices, used to provide internet services to scam compounds operating from KK Park.
KK Park is a notorious Chinese-run scam district operating from within Myanmar near the Thailand border.
On October 22nd Vorapak Tanyawong, Thailand’s deputy finance minister, resigned over alleged bribery from Chinese organized crime groups.
The “Whale Hunting” newsletter alleged that Vorapak’s wife was paid US$3 million in cryptocurrency this year by Chinese-Cambodian criminal networks that he was tasked to investigate as part of a government committee.
On October 31st Singapore announced it has seized $115 million tied to Chen Zhi’s Prince Group.
On November 3rd, Myanmar authorities announced they had been bombing buildings in KK Park for nine days. The bombings coincided with the arrest of 1600 foreigners fleeing the compound.
As of Monday morning 1,598 had been detained, 265 of them women, he said. An informed source said they came from 28 countries.
Prince Holding Group’s Chen Zhi was arrested in Cambodia in early January 2026.
Zhi was promptly extradited to China, where he faces criminal charges related to “operating casinos, fraud, illegal business operations and concealing criminal proceeds”.
On March 13th, 2026, Cambodia announced it had drafted its first law targeting online scam centers.
On April 10th, 2026, Thai authorities announced they had seized $260 million tied to south-east Asian scam operations.
The latest seizure by the Anti-Money Laundering Office included cash, cars, bank deposits and other securities, bringing the total value of assets confiscated in the widening probe to more than 20 billion baht, officials said at a briefing in Bangkok on Thursday.
The network of offenders included South African-born businessman Benjamin Mauerberger, also known as Ben Smith, Cambodian tycoon Yim Leak, and their spouses, as well as a Thai woman who carried out financial transactions on their behalf.
On April 23rd, 2026, the DOJ filed criminal charges against Chinese nationals Jiang Wen Jie (Jiang Nan) and Huang Xingshan (aka Ah Zhe and Huang Xing Saan).
The Scam Center Strike Force’s actions include criminal charges against two Chinese nationals who managed a cryptocurrency investment fraud compound in Burma and attempted to open another compound in Cambodia, the seizure of a Telegram messaging app channel used to recruit human trafficking victims to a scam compound in Cambodia in order to work a law enforcement impersonation scam, and the seizure of 503 fake investment websites, among other actions.
Huang and Jiang were arrested on immigration charges by Thai law enforcement in early 2026 in Thailand.
That same day the US Department of Treasury also announced sanctions against Cambodian Senator Kok An (right).
Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kok An—a Cambodian senator who controls scam compounds throughout the country—as well as 28 individuals and entities in his network.
On April 24th, 2026, the US announced a $4 million reward leading to the arrest of Daren Li (right).
The Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is announcing a reward offer under the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program (TOCRP) of up to $4 million for information leading to the arrest of Daren Li for facilitating the laundering of proceeds for various scam centers in Southeast Asia.
Li fled the US following his arrest and entered guilty plea. Li was sentenced in absentia to twenty years in prison on February 9th, 2026.
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.
