Skypex fails to provide ownership or executive information on its website.

Skypex’s website domain (“skypex.io”), was privately registered on May 8th, 2024.

In Skypex’s website General Terms and Conditions, we find reference to Arthwo LTD, S.A.

The contracting parties for the use of the Services are ARTHWO LTD, S.A., Bella Vista Urbanization, Samuel Lewis Avenue & 55 Street, Panama City in the Republic of Panama.

The cited address is used by many businesses, confirming that Arthwo LTD, S.A. is a shell company.

Supporting this is Arthwo’s website (“arthwo.com”, privately registered on June 5th, 2024), which is both low-effort and incomplete:

It’s the kind of website one would set up to create the illusion of a company without it being so.

Another shell company we can attach to Skypex is SC Consulting Ltd.

We accept payments in various cryptocurrencies through our payment provider, CoinPayments Inc.

For all accounting purposes we have contracted SC Consulting Ltd. as Skypex’s accounting partner.

As per the above, again from Skypex’s General Terms and Conditions, the use of SC Consulting Ltd. appears to be solely to hide Skypex from Coin Payments.

As per its website, SC Consulting Ltd. appears to be a Dubai shell company factory:

We offer an integrative support for one or all stages of your Dubai project. Focused on security, sustainability and quality.

We manage your business in a future-oriented manner, starting with the foundation through to securing the profits financially.

If you do not want to start your own business we will find the right, reliable partner. The cooperation with this can be monitored by us or even taken over.

SC Consulting LTD. offers shell company services in Dubai, Panama, Seychelles and the wider EU. The shady company also offers a “change citizenship” service.

On its website, Skypex misrepresents paid advertising as articles from “the press”:

Clicking through to these articles we learn the face of Skypex is Udo Carsten Deppisch. This is confirmed on Deppisch’s own social media:

Udo Deppisch is a German national who made a name for himself as a top promoter of the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.

Upon finding success scamming people in OneCoin, Deppisch fled Germany for Dubai. Deppisch continued to promote OneCoin with a focus on German-speaking countries.

In April 2017 German authorities began cracking down on OneCoin. Around May that same year Deppisch went underground.

The Ponzi side of OneCoin had already collapsed in January 2017. The pyramid side was what Deppisch continued to promote until mid 2017.

After OneCoin Deppisch hitched his wagon to Anthony Norman’s Wantage One Ponzi mess.

When that didn’t work out Deppisch hitched his wagon to the Crowd1 Ponzi scheme.

Crowd1 began to collapse in 2021, prompting Deppisch to leave the company.

When that didn’t work out Deppisch rejoined Crowd1 in 2022.

The last Crowd1 post on Deppisch’s socials is from April 2024. After a brief period where Deppisch focused on his marketing company, Unlimited Career Development, Skypex launched in October 2024.

Why Deppisch’s involvement in Skypex isn’t disclosed on the company’s website is unclear.

Of note is, although Skypex’s domain registration is private, the state and country are set as Dubai in the UAE. This ties into  Udo Deppisch being based out of Dubai.

Due to the proliferation of scams and failure to enforce securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai as the MLM crime capital of the world.

BehindMLM’s guidelines for Dubai are:

  1. If someone lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM opportunity, they’re trying to scam you.
  2. If an MLM company is based out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a scam.

If you want to know specifically how this applies to Skypex, read on for a full review.

Skypex’s Products

Skypex has no retailable products or services.

Affiliates are only able to market Skypex affiliate membership itself.

Skypex affiliate membership provides access to an ebook library and automated trading platform.

Skypex’s Compensation Plan

Skypex do not provide compensation details on their website.

The following compensation details are from a Skypex “business presentation”, hosted by Udo Deppisch in December 2024.

Skypex affiliates pay an annual fee to access automated returns:

  • Edge Starter – $99 for access to passive returns, purportedly generated via a $10,000 funded trading account
  • Market Maven Upgrade – $199 for access to passive returns, purportedly generated via a $20,000 funded trading account
  • Pro Elite Kit – $499 for access to passive returns, purportedly generated via a $50,000 funded trading account
  • Titan MasterClass – $999 for access to passive returns, purportedly generated via a $100,000 funded trading account
  • Wealth Builder Pro – $1999 for access to passive returns, purportedly generated via a $250,000 funded trading account
  • Ultimate Wealth Creator – $9999 for access to passive returns, purportedly generated via a $1,000,000 funded trading account

The MLM side of Skypex pays on affiliate recruitment.

Power Start Bonus

Skypex rewards affiliates with a membership voucher if they recruit three affiliates.

The voucher value is equal to the membership the recruiting affiliate paid for and can only be used to fund a newly recruited affiliate’s account.

Referral Commissions

Skypex pays a 25% referral commission per affiliate recruited.

Note referral commissions are paid as a percentage of unspecified sales volume, not membership fees paid 1:1.

A residual referral commissions is paid out but details are not provided.

Residual Commissions

Skypex pays residual commissions via a binary compensation structure.

A binary compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a binary team, split into two sides (left and right):

The first level of the binary team houses two positions. The second level of the binary team is generated by splitting these first two positions into another two positions each (4 positions).

Subsequent levels of the binary team are generated as required, with each new level housing twice as many positions as the previous level.

Positions in the binary team are filled via direct and indirect recruitment of affiliates. Note there is no limit to how deep a binary team can grow.

At the end of an unspecified pay period, Skypex tallies up new fee volume on both sides of the binary team.

Residual commissions are paid as 10% of new fee volume on the weaker binary team side.

Once paid out on, volume is matched on the stronger binary team side and flushed. Any leftover volume on the stronger binary team side carries into the next pay-period.

Trading Pool Bonus

Skypex claims it takes 10% of fees charged to trading pool investors and placed it into a Trading Pool.

Skypex claims it shares the Trading Pool with “leaders”. Specifics are not provided.

Matching Bonus

Skypex pays a Matching Bonus on earnings by both upline (2 levels) and downline (3 levels) affiliates.

Specific Matching Bonus percentage and any additional qualification criteria are not provided.

Ranks Pool Bonus

Skypex takes 10% of “company profit” and places it into the Ranks Pool Bonus.

Presumably paying out of the Ranks Pool Bonus is tied to affiliate rank. Specific details are not provided.

Rank Achievement Bonus

Skypes rewards affiliates for rank qualifying with one-time $75 to $2,500,000 Rank Achievement Bonuses.

Specific details, including Skypex rank qualification criteria, are not provided.

Joining Skypex

Skypex affiliate membership is free. Access to passive returns costs between $99 and $9999 annually.

Note that in Skypex marketing presentations, Udo Deppisch mentions monthly fees attached to certain products. Specific details aren’t provided.

It should also be noted Deppisch claims some bonuses are paid in tether (USDT). This suggests that Skypex operates in cryptocurrency.

Skypex Conclusion

At a surface level Skypex is riddled with regulatory compliance disclosure issues. Company ownership, trading details and even basic compensation details are hidden from consumers.

This likely ties into Skypex committing securities and commodities fraud.

At the core of Skypex’s offering is payment of fees to receive passive returns. This is set up through purported funded accounts.

On the money side of things though these fees are clearly an investment. Skypex affiliates pay Skypex $99 to $9999 (anything beyond this isn’t disclosed in public marketing), and in return they receive periodic passive returns.

The notion that Skypex is generating passive returns for randoms over the internet for a fee makes little sense. Why not just trade for yourselves and keep all profits?

Regardless, Skypex’s passive returns investment scheme constitutes a securities offering. This requires Skypex to register with securities regulators. The use of trading also requires Skypex to register with commodities regulators.

Skypex fails to provide evidence it has registered with financial regulators in any jurisdiction. Instead we have Skypex operating from Dubai through a Panama shell company.

Red flags galore.

Udo Deppisch (right) is unlikely to be working alone on Skypex. This raises more questions as his partners are intentionally not disclosed.

I’m not 100% on Skypex running a Ponzi scheme but, as it stands, the only verifiable source of revenue entering Skypex is new investment.

The reason I’m not set on Skypex being a Ponzi is due to the access fee being annual. If there are hidden weekly, monthly etc. fees, that’d be a more straight-forward situation.

While an annual fee unregistered investment trading scheme still triggers securities and commodities fraud, it’s more likely this is just a bot scheme waiting to blow up.

Attached to that you have the MLM side of Skypex, which without retail sales operates as a pyramid scheme. As with OneCoin, an MLM company can’t “education packages” itself out of regulatory obligations.

I want to note here my research led me to Skypex offering access to their purported education packages at no cost.

It’s poorly formatted, seemingly all authored by Deppisch and… well, pretty basic.

Be it through Skypex’s undisclosed purported funded trading or its pyramid scheme, Skypex asks a lot from potential investors without offering basic due-diligence information.

Putting everything else aside, this alone is reason enough to avoid.