United Capital Investments Review: 10,000% ROI in 40 weeks?
United Capital Investments operates in the MLM cryptocurrency niche. The company fails to provide contact details on its website.
Listed as CEO of the company is Antoun Toubia.
No information about Toubia is provided on United Capital Investments’ website. His Pinterest profile suggests he’s based out of the UK.
Persual of Toubia’s LinkedIn profile reveals he’s knee-deep in cryptocurrency, primarily via advisory roles to various projects.
As per Toubia’s LinkedIn profile bio;
As a knowledgeable and dedicated investment services professional with a Middle Eastern background, Antoun Toubia is founder and Chief Executive Officer at UCI, a private equity company launched in 2008.
In addition to his unique insights, Antoun has extensive experience in private trading and equity investment, venture capital, hedge funds, blockchain technology and crypto-currencies.
I wasn’t able to independently verify any of that.
What I was able to verify is that United Capital Investments’ website domain was first registered in March 2016.
The incomplete address used to register the domain is in Charlestown, Nevis.
Nevis is a scam-friendly jurisdiction with little to no regulation.
There is no legitimate reason for an MLM company to incorporate itself there (note there is no evidence of United Capital Investment having incorporated in Nevis).
As far as I can tell, Antoun Toubia does not have an MLM history.
Read on for a full review of United Capital Investments’ MLM opportunity.
United Capital Investments’ Products
United Capital Investments has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market United Capital Investments affiliate membership itself.
United Capital Investments’ Compensation Plan
United Capital Investments affiliates invest $500 or more on the promise of a 10,000% ROI, paid out after 40 weeks.
Referral commissions on invested funds are paid out via a unilevel compensation structure.
A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any level 1 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team.
If any level 2 affiliates recruit new affiliates, they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
United Capital Investments offer a 5% referral commission on invested funds, paid down five levels of recruitment.
Joining United Capital Investments
United Capital Investments affiliate membership it ties to a minimum $500 investment via bitcoin, ethereum or bank wire.
Conclusion
One of the first thing visitors to United Capital Investments’ website see is this:
How is $500 turned into $50,000 in 40 weeks?
United Capital Investments represents that they generate this advertised return via trading.
Your trading account balance will be compounded for 40 weeks.
Your pay out will be One Hundred (100x) times your pre-trade balance at the time trading begins.
This is a Time Sensitive, and Strictly Limited opportunity.
Naturally the first thing that comes to mind is that if Antoun Toubia was able to generate a 1000% ROI every 40 weeks, why isn’t he doing that already.
Furthermore if we accept United Capital Investments has been around since 2016 (the 2008 claim is bullshit), where is the trading history?
As I was going through older versions I noticed something called Pebex Coin.
Investors owning PEBEX coin receive on going dividends from UCI profits.
Investors owning PEBEX can also trade their coin into other crypto currencies or Fiat.
That appeared on United Capital Investments’ website last year but has since been scrubbed.
In the “projects” section of United Capital Investments’ website, Pebex is mentioned along with SprinkleBit.
An ICO website for Pebex was set up at some point, although it appears to have since been abandoned.
As above, United Capital Investments hoped to flog Pebex off to gullible investors for $1 a token.
SprinkleBit is/was attached to SprinkleCoin, another token ICO that also went nowhere.
I was also able to tie Antoun Toubia to “UCI Coin”, which he marketed as follows:
UCI Coin has its own website, on which the company is referred to as Universal Crowd-funding Investments.
This suggests an already collapsed scheme that Antoun Toubia has rebranded as United Capital Investments.
Putting this altogether we have a bunch of unknown crypto cowboys with at least three failed token ICOs under their belt.
Anyone gullible enough to have invested in either Pebex, SprinkleCoin or UCI Coin lost money, as all three projects have gone nowhere.
And now Antoun Toubia and his gang are promising 1000% returns in 200 days out of the blue.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
At best United Capital Investments will take your money, keep it and pull an exit-scam after 200 days.
That’s only if they cut off new investment as promised. I’ve seen no evidence of that, so for now United Capital Investments is likely operating as a Ponzi scheme.
Is this a PONZI Program?
NO, not in any form. A Ponzi Program or HIYP (sic), by nature needs to have more participants entering the program to maintain itself.
Ponzi programs generally work from the basis that it requires new investors funds to “pay” existing investors.
Whilst UCI Global encourages Investors, UCI Global will close the doors to all Investors once the required Capital is raised. It is not an ongoing Platform.
The capital will be raised by investors such as “Mum and Dad investors”, Companies, SMSF’s, Private equity groups and Individual wealthy Investors (whales).
Certainly the company has provided no evidence of trading or any other source of external revenue.
Nor has United Capital Investments registered its 1000% ROI investment opportunity with financial regulators in any jurisdiction it solicits investment in.
Due to the passive nature of the returns advertised, registration with regulators is mandatory in order for United Capital Investments to operate legally.
Given the company’s past ICO failures and lack of verifiable information surrounding its purported trading activities, investing in United Capital Investments comes off as a sure-fire way to throw away your money.
Update 18th April 2021 – A reader wrote in regarding The Swedish Trust, querying whether it was a potential UCI Global reboot.
It’s 2021 as I write this and United Capital Investments and UCI Global have long-since collapsed.
The Swedish Trust’s website domain, “theswedishtrust.com”, was privately registered on July 14th, 2020.
Details on The Swedish Trust’s website are pretty sketchy.
As a professional trustee company we can manage any type of asset held in trust.
We manage this by creating a trust for each client through a trust deed.
As Trustee obviously, we are focused on managing assets, whether these are cash, diamonds, cryptocurrency, real estate or a pile of rocks, also we can send and receive payments on behalf of customers holding trust accounts with our institution.
The first reason provided as one of the “benefits of a trust” is to “better protect your assets from creditors and lawsuits”.
Slightly ironic given United Capital Investments and UCI Global collapsing.
Beyond that nothing about The Swedish Trust’s actual business operations is provided. All visitors can do is register or log in.
Antoun Toubia is credited as The Swedish Trust’s founder and CEO. The company claims to be “officially registered in Sweden”.
Such to the extent there’s a business opportunity behind The Swedish Trust, MLM or otherwise, it’s not disclosed.
I’m leaving my research into The Swedish Trust there for now as, at least as far as I can tell, there’s no related MLM opportunity.
Update 26th March 2022 – I’ve revisited how The Swedish Trust is going as part of an effort to keep tabs on UCI Global victim losses.
Hey there,
‘Without Prejudice”
My name is Marnie Pascoe and I am the General Director of UCI Global. I am based in Melbourne, Australia.
My fellow Director, Marianne Thomas would like to discuss your “review” with you.
We would like you to contact me before legal action is commenced.
You can contact me via skype (removed)
We can then organise a time.
Kind regards,
Marnie Pascoe
Anything you wish to discuss regarding your fraudulent investment scheme can be done so here publicly.
Does ASIC know you’re running around promising people 1000% returns in 40 weeks?
What about the FCA, seeing as Antoun Toubia is purportedly based out of the UK?
Wouldn’t that be a 10,000% ROI, not 1,000%?
Don’t undersell them 🙂
Hello math, we meet again.
Yeah I knew it wasn’t 100%, so I went the next ten up. Now that I think about it obs multiplied by ten isn’t one hundred, so you’d have to go the next zero up.
Why didn’t I think of that when I was writing and proof-reading? Because I suck at math, very much.
Thanks for the correction! <3
Hey Marnie, cool promo for this “not MLM, Forex, Share trading or cryptocurrency” opportoonidy.
“Exclusive Invitation Only” (“Five bucks to get in”) BOOM….
eventbrite.com.au/e/uci-global-ppp-overview-tickets-71466896411
Re: Unibrow, there’s an old BCT thread that, after reporting Founder Positions for sale @ $500k (pls email A. Toubia), quickly went dark and ends with this salutary last post.
“Always find it odd how these projects which turn out to be scams just get forgotten about.”
bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=971071.100
Again,
I urge you to remove your deflamatory posts. On Monday 30th September, we will engage our European Lawyers and will persecute your site.
I have offered you a chance to make contact and you have yet to do so.
First for your defaming record, UCI Global is a LLC compnay, perhaps you should complete your due diligence.
ASIC is a regulator in Australia in which my personal company is registered with. I also have a certified accountant. This is a Private Placement Program and if you would like to conduct some research on our Monetary Markets, what SBLC’s are and Financial instruments you will discover what we are about. Your ignorance is showing here.
Everything we are engaging in is compliant. We do not require multiple clients, nor do we require multiple clients to survive – as you and I both know is a ponzi. We are not and you have no proof to say that.
The Directors of UCI are all business people and successful at that in our own right. We have an intentional community of people around the world that is growing daily and is quite fed up with the current system and are seeking a better alternative to the centralization of banks and the establishment.
Again you are misinformed. Antoun resides in Tbilisi Georgia. Unlike you, both myself and Antoun and all the Directors and support team of UCI are transparent. Are you?
I would encourage you again to actually read about what a PPP is, what a tier 1 Bank is, what a principle trade desk is, what financial instruments are. Undertsand what lines of credit are and what Bank arbitrage is. Also look at Monetizing financial instruments and how Banks and associated clients sell their debts.
I will not be drawn into your gutter comments. Rather I encourage you to come onto our live zoom calls or make contact and I will put you on a direct call with myself and Antoun. But I suspect you will not do that.You prefer to hide behind here.
Kind regards again,
Marnie
Marnie Pascoe,
The Easter Bunny, Harry Potter, and Peter Pan say you are 100% legit !!!
They will zoom call or skype you soon.
And?
joke. But even if you’ve done a token shell company registration with ASIC, that covers you for securities in Australia. Assuming of course you provide full disclosures and keep up to date with filings.
Are you registered to offer securities anywhere in Europe (Georgia or elsewhere)?
If not United Capital Investments is committing securities fraud. There’s nothing compliant about securities fraud.
Legitimate investment companies don’t commit securities fraud and operate illegally. Ponzi schemes do.
Feel free to provide documented evidence of United Capital Investments’ external revenue in financial regulatory filings.
Hello,
This is a warning that our lawyers will be contacting you during the next 48hrs, it is cheaper to remove the post and apologize, than keeping it and lead yourself to the court.
Regards,
Antoun
Sure. Please point them out with verifiable proof they are false.
Keep dodging questions and the securities fraud elephant in the room guys. Makes great reading for potential investors.
I guess Antoun your lawyer will need to provide evidence that there is no security fraud taking place.
Hey, Antoun – what will happen if the haterZ and critics choose to ignore the letters from your pet lawyers and refuse to remove the offending websites and blogs ?
Antoun,
I wouldn’t worry about wasting time and money on lawyers. If this review is deterring investors, just take out a bank loan and multiply that money a hundredfold using your system.
Do it again, maybe two or three times, and then buy all the world’s law firms and perhaps even a small country, where you can make your own securities laws.
Yes, conducting research on Private Placement Programs (NOT P.P.Partnerships) a.k.a. Prime Bank Programs (which I originally came across about five years ago) is a great idea.
One will find multiple SEC, FBI and other regulator warnings about these fairytale financial instrument investments, as described in the standard scam blurb you can read here (and many other places, word for word).
uci.global/how-ppp-works.html
Essentially they’re a fictitious HYIP, where the Marnies and Toubias of this world somehow have privileged access to Tier 1 interbank trading in esoteric “instruments” known by acronyms (MTNs, SBLCs, BGs).
As these Tier 1 banks are obviously completely unable to contact each other directly to do these simple but billion dollar deals, the 10,000% ROI comes from illiterate Australians (“deflamatory” lmao) and failed ICO promoters saving the day, by injecting themselves into the process and splitting the huuuuge profits with you lucky investors.
The story goes that they will use investors’ money to create an enabling line of credit, and that that money will be held in a “blocked” account (ergo the “risk free” angle) until errr, it isn’t.
PPP’s were highly fashionable a few years back, I thought they’d died out with the advent of crypto scams but there’s a whole subculture in this shit; here’s a particularly florid example.
linkedin.com/pulse/banking-trade-programe-ppp-hyip-heritage-sblc-tear-sheet-teh-henry
Also, there’s usually a cute/crass conspiracy/secrecy twist to this irresistible opportunity, designed to emphasize how lucky you are get in on this “time sensitive” insider deal, it goes: Regulators know all about this secret goldmine but are forced to paint it black and deny its existence, in order to stop the collapse of the World Banking System.
It’s usually worded something like this (UCI):
LOL.
TL,dr: sue me. Kind Regards.
Sounds like sovereign citizens meets Ponzi lala land.
Oz you must be shitting bricks with this scammy bully legal threat quickly approaching?
Spent the night packing up my stuff. Moving truck arrives in 5 mins. Going to go live in (removed) with Ruja Ignatova.
Dogs not impressed.
So what’s the latest? It’s been almost 2 months now
Alexa ranking = 1.6 mill. #RIP
What happened with the lawyers?
Nothing.
Hello,
We are wondering what is happening with this. Did the people get their money?
Of course they didn’t. That’s not how Ponzi schemes work.
Oh NO! We were asked to put money in. It was very tempting but glad we didn’t. It all sounded too good to be true.
So what happened in the end? I’m curious. thanks.
UCI Global collapsed. Sorry for your loss etc. etc.
HI Joy again. I was involved bank debenture trading programs years and years ago. Never heard of a successful trade despite being told they exist.
Who wouldn’t love to make these insane returns. These “trades” are not for the “slaves” only for those that “own” us.
I’ve signed pages and pages of none disclosure and non circumvention forms, heard loads of amazing and exiting stories, just wish it was true.
We live in a crazy world with unbelievable things going on behind the scenes. I hope those involved get paid. My memory has many people that were hurt.
This company still making promises with no return. Marnie withdrew herself and now suing UCI for nono payment.
UCI name now changed to Swedish Trust.
There are 4 pools of money going on for 2 years, nothing has been payed out and still people are paying UCI money.. WTF?
I had a look into The Swedish Trust today. Looks shady but I didn’t see anything MLM related.
Other than Anthony Toubia being behind both, is there anything concrete linking The Swedish Trust to UCI Global?
Antoun Toubia (Dr?):
All his businesses have failed, as he moves on from the debris of the last, he sets up the next. Swedish Trust is the latest with the mass issue of iou tokens called Swed.
At least 850 invstors and likely many more are involved with the Swedish Trust as this was going to be the distribution centre of the PPI investments.
UCI Global has gone like all the rest before.
Update podcast to investors by Antoun Toubia. Antoun states that this update can be shared.
He explains how transparent all his business is and that he is a victim. The group communication now now moved to discord, invitation only, Pebex UCI Forum was shut down.
UCI Global has been abandonded. Antoun Toubia now runs the Swedish Trust.
Youtube link: youtu.be/R1lyZyXeHks
My family is a victim of this scum!! I didn´t trust it much but my husband did. He´s unable to work and felt he needed to contribute to the family somehow, so he chose the easyway… too good to be true.
January 2023 and nothing has been paid out. Now, what can be done when you know the person behind the fraud, you know his name and you know he´s taken your money?
Can he get away with it, just like that?!
You can file a complaint with local authorities but that’s likely not going to lead anywhere if Toubia is in Lebanon, Georgia or other countries with non-existent MLM securities fraud regulation.
Hi Monica,
I was also a victim of this scheme. Have you or your husband had any contact with the people that told you about the scheme?
I have tried making contact with the people that invited me to the ‘investment’ but I don’t get a response anymore.
Last I heard in March/April last year is it was still going to be paid out by the end of May 2022 but nothing.
Hi Richard,
which pool were you in?
Investors need to lodge a complaint with their Country’s Financial Markets Authority &/or Police, requesting it be referred to Euro/Interpol – because those responsible for the disappearance of the Investors’ $15+M contributions live in various Countries.
Antoun Toubia – Lebanon
Christian Fortune – England & Spain
Declan O’Sullivan – Irish citizen living in England (as ex Managing Director, he has some responsibility)
Erik Mollick – Netherlands
Marianne Thomas (MACTX PTY LTD) – Australia
Marnie Pascoe (MACTX PTY LTD) – Australia
To try to hide their involvement in this criminal operation, Pascoe & Thomas changed their business name at the start of 2023 to GALAXY CONSULTING GROUP PTY LTD.
Investors can also lodge a complaint against MACTX with ASIC (Australian Securities & Investments Commission) – asic.gov.au/
ASIC accept complaints from International, not just Australian, citizens.
Here’s to Euro/Interpol sorting out these worms for the Investors $15+M disappearance!!