Ricky’s Booster Review: USB mining booster ruse Ponzi
Ricky’s Booster fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.
Ricky’s Booster operates from two known website domains:
- rickybooster.com – privately registered January 22nd, 2025 (Korean registrar)
- rickysbooster.com – privately registered on November 19th, 2024
In fact as I write this, Ricky’s Booster’s website homepages are nothing more than a login form:
Further reveals what appears to be an official Ricky’s Booster YouTube channel, on which we find a CEO video:
Rickys Booster is represented to be headed up by “Ricky Seo”, a seemingly random South Korean crypto bro.
This tracks with Korean appearing in Rickys Booster’s website source-code:
Of note is Ricky’s Booster marketing being conducted through “Crypto Astronaut”, using the Twitter handle “@CryptoAs_TW”.
Crypto Astronaut pitches itself as an “advertising & marketing agency”. In reality it’s a crypto scam shill factory.
Crypto Astronaut seems to specialize in setting up “Q&A” marketing videos, featuring random actors.
It’s unclear whether the scammer(s) behind Crypto Astronaut is behind Ricky’s Booster but it’s highly likely.
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.
Ricky’s Booster’s Products
Ricky’s Booster has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to market Ricky’s Booster affiliate membership itself.
Ricky’s Booster’s Compensation Plan
Ricky’s Booster affiliate invest tether (USDT) in “mining packages”:
- Mining Package A – 100 USDT
- Mining Package B – 1000 USDT
- Mining Package C – 5000 USDT
- Mining Package D – 10,000 USDT
This is done on the promise of a passive 0.35% to 0.5% daily ROI.
The MLM side of Ricky’s Booster pays on recruitment of affiliate investors.
Ricky’s Booster Affiliate Ranks
There are eight affiliate ranks within Ricky’s Booster’s compensation plan.
Along with their respective qualification criteria, they are as follows:
- Affiliate – sign up as a Ricky’s Booster affiliate and invest
- 1-Star – invest 1000 USDT, recruit three affiliates and generate at least 15,000 USDT in downline investment
- 2-Star – maintain a 1000 USDT investment, recruit five affiliates (two 1-Stars or higher), and generate at least 50,000 USDT in downline investment
- 3-Star – invest 3000 USDT, recruit seven affiliates (two 2-Stars or higher), and generate at least 210,000 USDT in downline investment
- 4-Star – invest 5000 USDT, recruit ten affiliates (two 3-Stars or higher), and generate at least 650,000 USDT in downline investment
- 5-Star – invest 10,000 USDT, recruit twelve affiliates (two 4-Star and one 3-Star or higher), and generate at least 1,800,000 USDT in downline investment
- 6-Star – invest 20,000 USDT, recruit fifteen affiliates (two 5-Star and one 4-Star or higher), and generate at least 5,000,000 USDT in downline investment
- 7-Star – invest 40,000 USDT, maintain fifteen personally recruited affiliates (two 6-Star and one 5-Star or higher), and generate at least 12,000,000 USDT in downline investment
- 8-Star – invest 80,000 USDT, maintain fifteen personally recruited affiliates (two 7-Star and one 6-Star or higher), and generate at least 30,000,000 USDT in downline investment
Referral Commissions
Ricky’s Booster affiliates receive a 15% referral commission on USDT invested by personally recruited affiliates.
Residual Commissions
Ricky’s Booster pays residual commissions down three levels of recruitment (unilevel):
Ricky’s Booster pays residual commissions as a percentage of daily returns paid out across three unilevel team levels, based on rank:
- non-ranked affiliates receive a 5% residual commission on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
- 1-Stars receive a 10% residual commission on level 1 and 5% on levels 2 and 3
- 2-Stars receive a 15% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
- 3-Stars receive a 20% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
- 4-Stars receive a 25% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
- 5-Stars receive a 30% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
- 6-Stars receive a 35% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
- 7-Stars receive a 40% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
- 8-Stars receive a 45% residual commission on level 1 and 10% on levels 2 and 3
Note 2-Stars and higher are penalized when their downlines qualify at the same rank. This drops level 1 commissions to 10% and level 2 and 3 commissions to 5%.
Global Mining Pool
Ricky’s Booster takes 5% of company-wide investment and places it into the Global Mining Pool.
The Global Mining Pool is split into five smaller rank-corresponding pools as follows:
- 4-Stars receive a share in 40% of the Global Mining Pool
- 5-Stars receive a share in 30% of the Global Mining Pool
- 6-Stars receive a share in 15% of the Global Mining Pool
- 7-Stars receive a share in 10% of the Global Mining Pool
- 8-Stars receive a share in 5% of the Global Mining Pool
Leadership Pool
Ricky’s Booster takes 8% of company-wide investment and places it into the Leadership Pool.
The Leadership Pool is split into four smaller rank-corresponding pools as follows:
- 5-Stars receive a share in 40% of the Leadership Pool
- 6-Stars receive a share in 30% of the Leadership Pool
- 7-Stars receive a share in 20% of the Leadership Pool
- 8-Stars receive a share in 10% of the Leadership Pool
Joining Ricky’s Booster
Ricky’s Booster affiliate membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a minimum 100 USDT investment.
Ricky’s Booster
Ricky’s Booster is another MLM crypto Ponzi built around fictional USB mining boost devices:
The same Ponzi ruse has been used by MinerX and BitHarvest.
The gist of the ruse is magical USB devices somehow make existing mining hardware more efficient. Just on a basic level, if that was the case then crypto miners would already be using them.
On a technological level, a USB device isn’t going to make mining hardware more efficient. Whatever software code exists on the USB stick could just as easily be programmed into the mining hardware’s own firmware/software.
Underpinning Ricky’s Booster being nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is failure to provide evidence it has registered with financial regulators in any jurisdiction.
In South Korea this would be the Financial Services Commission. Every country with a regulated financial market has its own securities regulator.
Failing to register with financial regulators and filed audited financial reports constitutes securities fraud. Securities fraud and Ponzi schemes go hand in hand.
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, once affiliate recruitment dries up so too will new investment.
This will starve Ricky’s Booster of ROI revenue, eventually prompting a collapse.
The math behind Ponzi schemes guarantees that when they collapse, the majority of participants lose money.
