Pando Mission Review: Pando Crown Ponzi points
Pando Mission operate out of Denmark and cite Peter Alexander (Full name: Peter Alexander Lexander) as founder of the company.
In 2010 Lexander (right) founded Botanoo, a carbon credit based MLM opportunity.
Botanoo affiliates invested in “units”, which were traded on an internal exchange. Boanoo set the price of units, with affiliates also paid to recruit new investors.
By 2012 the scheme had collapsed. According to the Danish publication Finans, Botanoo investors, primarily from Hungary and Romania, lost hundreds of millions of kroner in the collapse.
Read on for a full review of the Pando Mission MLM opportunity.
Pando Mission Products
Pando Mission has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market Pando Mission affiliate membership itself.
The Pando Mission Compensation Plan
Pando Mission affiliates invest in packages on the promise of a 223% ROI after 48 months.
There are a total of six Pando Mission packages affiliates can invest in:
- Copper Package – €100 EUR
- Bronze Package – €300 EUR
- Silver Package – €570 EUR
- Gold Package – €1150 EUR
- Platin Package – €5000 EUR
Invested euros are converted into “Pando Crowns”, points that hold no value outside of the Pando Mission MLM opportunity.
- Copper Package – €90 EUR in Pando Crowns
- Bronze Package – €280 EUR in Pando Crowns
- Silver Package – €570 EUR in Pando Crowns
- Gold Package – €1150 EUR in Pando Crowns
- Platin Package – €4900 EUR in Pando Crowns
A marketing video on the Pando Mission website states that the initial value of a Pando Crown is €5 EUR.
This value increases by 228% during a 48 month maturity period, after which Pando Mission affiliates can convert their Pando Crown balance back into real money.
A Pando Mission marketing video mentions recruitment commissions (direct bonuses), “team bonuses” and “generation bonuses”.
Recruitment commissions are paid out as a percentage of funds invested by personally recruited affiliates. At the time of publication Pando Mission do not provide the specific percentage.
A generation bonus requires a unilevel compensation structure, which is likely also used to pay team commissions.
Team commissions are a percentage of invested funds from a downline (not just personally recruited affiliates). Generation bonuses pay an additional percentage to infinity, based on generations defined within the unilevel team.
Once again Pando Mission fail to provide specific team and generation bonus compensation details.
Joining Pando Mission
Pando Mission is tied to an initial investment of €100 to €5000 EUR.
- Copper Package – €100 EUR
- Bronze Package – €300 EUR
- Silver Package – €570 EUR
- Gold Package – €1150 EUR
- Platin Package – €5000 EUR
Each package provides a 12 month Pando Mission subscription, after which another package must be invested in.
The primary difference between the packages is income potential via the Pando Mission compensation plan.
Conclusion
Pando Mission is very, very similar to the Botanoo scam Peter Lexander launched back in 2010.
Both schemes use the environment as a ruse to commit Ponzi fraud.
In Botanoo it was carbon credits, in Pando Mission it’s tree planting in Africa.
According to the Pando Mission website a Eucalyptus or Paulownia is planted per Pando Crown issued.
Trouble is this doesn’t generate revenue, with the only verifiable source of revenue entering Pando Mission being affiliate investment.
Using new investment to pay existing Pando Mission affiliates a 223% ROI over 48 months is Ponzi fraud.
The rest of Botanoo’s compensation plan is similar to what we know of Pando Mission’s. There’s referral commissions and a matching bonus paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
Weekly income was capped at €40,000 EUR a week, with Lexander appearing to hope the use of Pando Crowns helps people fall for the same scam again.
Pando Crowns, like Botanoo’s units are absolutely worthless outside of the income opportunity.
Botanoo operated a “24/7 exchange” affiliates could trade units on. Lexander seems to have realized this permits affiliates to instantly spot a collapse, and so we have Pando Mission locking invested fund away for 48 months.
With an advertised ROI of 223%, it doesn’t take a genius to realize that only a few early investors are going to be able to withdraw.
Each dollar invested in Pando Mission generates an over 200% liability (once referral and generation bonus commissions are factored in), with this model no more sustainable than that of Botanoo.
At the end of the day most Pando Mission affiliates are going to lose money.
Now, as Pando Mission’s press briefing, I will respond briefly to these accusations.
Error 1: By 2012 the scheme had collapsed
Answer 1: Botanoo did not collapse – it was sold to ECOME2 and are still operating
Proof: ouroffset.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/general terms and conditions – ouroffset ltd. v1.0 2014-en.pdf
Error 2: Botanoo investors, lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Answer 2: Botanoo turnover was 50.306.888 Mio – and Members was paid 32.699.947 Mio and we did retired 4.600.000 tons of Co2 as you can see at MARKIT.com
ECOME2 keeps the 9.000 members’ units still sold continuously. And ALL bonuses was paid out before sales.
Error 3: Paulownia is planted by Pando Crown issued. Trouble is this does not generate revenue !
Answer3: So hybrid tress planted do not generate profit !! Well please google “Paulownia invest” and so many serious companies offer this:
Proof: wegrow.de/kirinews.html
paulowniainvest.ro/data/documents/BROCHURE-PAULOWNIA-INVEST.pdf
annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2016/ANNALS-2016-4-11.pdf
Well, Pando mission estimate only 223% over 4 years – and as documented, you can earn 10 times your money if you plant yourself – so it’s not rocket science to see that you’re making money from planting trees or ?
Imagine this is the first digital currency that uses 26% of revenue to plant trees so that members can not lose their money.
But ALL other digital currencies have only speculation value: ASK & DEMAND & FEAR
We know well who wrote to these MLM forums and that it’s not about PANDO, but a personal vendetta.
Its a legal danish company who dont hide as most scams do!
So, as we say in Scandinavia: Go after the Ball and not the man! FAIRNESS
RESUME: BOTANOO IS STILL WORKING AS ECOME2.
YES, YOU CAN EARN MONEY PLANTING TREES.
ONLY PANDO HAS VALUE BEHIND OF ALL DIGITEL CURRENCY IN THE WORLD.
1. Who you sold the Botanoo affiliate-base to is irrelevant. The company collapsed.
2. Ecome2 has also collapsed. The company website redirects to a help page that hasn’t been updated since 2015. Alexa traffic estimates for the Ecome2 website are so low it’s “unranked”.
3. At the very least Botanoo was a pyramid scheme. At worst it’s a collapsed pyramid scheme in which affiliates lost money.
I did a search for “botanoo” on the Markit website and nothing came up.
Please provide any evidence that Pando Mission is generating a 223% ROI through planting trees.
As it stands the only source of verifiable revenue Pando Mission has is newly invested affiliate funds. Recruitment commissions and no retailable product or service also make Pando Mission a pyramid scheme.
Pando Crowns are also obviously a securities offering. Have you registered Pando Mission with a securities regulator in any jurisdiction?
Dear Behind MLM
Google: CC Denmark Markit and you see carbon credits for the amount of apx 17 mio euro or more.
And as we documented Botanoo was sold.
And please delete our logo and image with are with copyrights.
(Ozedit: Offtopic derail attempt)
Then we will leave your conclution to you are your readers if you can make good money on trees or not.
Kind Regards and have a nice summer
Peter Alexander
What does that have to do with Botanoo?
Fair Use permits publishers in the US to use copyrighted logos and images without permission for the purpose of review and criticism.
And I guess that’s a “no” on registering Pando Mission with a securities regulator then?
Figures.