WoToken Review: WOR token Appollo bot Ponzi scheme
WoToken’s website provides no information about who owns or runs the business.
The WoToken website domain (“wotoken.pro”) was registered using bogus details on September 16th, 2018.
WoToken marketing material suggests the company has ties to Hong Kong.
Update 27th June 2019 – A marketing video shot by the Asia Blockchain Review website earlier this year features an interview with WoToken’s founder.
The video was purportedly filmed in Hong Kong earlier this year and features Edward Wu as founder of WoToken and CEO of 1WorldBlockchain.
1WorldBlockchain claims to be a banking alternative.
1WB performs the basic functions required for efficient transfer of all types of Cross border payments into blockchain technology using smart contracts execution mechanism.
Edward Wu is credited as “Edward Ng” on the 1WorldBlockchain website. He also uses this name on LinkedIn.
1WorldBlockchain’s website domain was first registered in 2016. The registration was last updated in January 2019.
An old copy of 1WorldBlockchain’s website reveals the company operated out of Nanshan District, Shenzhen in China.
As far as I can tell 1WorldBlockchain exists today for no other purpose than to create smoke and mirrors around WoToken. /end update
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.
WoToken Products
WoToken has no retailable products or services, with affiliates only able to market WoToken affiliate membership itself.
The WoToken Compensation Plan
WoToken affiliates invest funds on the promise of advertised returns.
- invest in $1000 worth of WOR tokens and receive a 0.25% to 0.5% daily ROI
- invest in $5000 worth of WOR tokens and receive a 0.3% to 0.65% daily ROI
Affiliates invest in WOR tokens through the WoToken app.
WOR tokens are created by WoToken on demand and have no value outside of WoToken itself.
All returns and commissions within WoToken are paid in WOR tokens.
Referral Commissions
WoToken pays referral commissions on WOR returns paid to downline affiliates.
WoToken pays referral commissions 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.
How many levels a WoToken affiliate grows their unilevel team to determines their referral commission rates.
- one level deep unilevel team = 50% referral commission on level 1 (personally recruited affiliates)
- two level deep unilevel team = 80% on level 1 and 50% on level 2
- three level deep unilevel team = 80% on level 1, 50% on level 2 and 30% on level 3
- four level deep unilevel team = 100% on level 1, 50% on level 2, 30% on level 3 and 10% on levels 4 to 10
- five level deep unilevel team = 100% on level 1, 50% on level 2, 30% on level 3, 10% on levels 4 to 10 and 5% on levels 11 to 15
Appollo Levels
Satisfying Apollo Level qualification criteria allows WoToken affiliates to earn referral commissions beyond level 15 of their unilevel team.
- Level 1 – generate $250,000 in downline WOR token ROI volume and receive 5% referral commissions from level 15 to infinity
- Level 2 – personally recruit thee Level 1 affiliates and receive 10% referral commissions from level 11 to infinity
- Level 3 – personally recruit at least three Level 2 affiliates and receive 15% referral commissions from level 11 to infinity
- Level 4 – personally recruit at least three Level 3 affiliates and receive 20% referral commissions from level 11 to infinity
Joining WoToken
WoToken affiliate membership is free.
To participate in the attached MLM income opportunity, a minimum $1000 investment in WOR tokens is required.
Conclusion
WoToken marks a departure from Telegram Ponzi bots to app-based Ponzi bots.
This is done under the ruse of developing decentralized app technology (dapps), but in reality is just another platform to commit Ponzi fraud through.
WOR tokens are generated by WoToken at little to no cost. They are flogged off to gullible WoToken investors, at whatever internal value the company has set at the time.
WoToken do not publish the current internal WOR token value.
While investing and returns are handled through WoToken’s app, returns are realized through the Neraex exchange.
Neraex is a failed Japanese crypto exchange that was recently repurposed to create the illusion of public WOR trading.
On Neraex WoToken affiliates can sell their WOR tokens to other WoToken affiliates, thus realizing promised returns through WoToken’s app.
This is of course Ponzi fraud, as newly invested funds are being used to pay existing investors.
Adding to that you have pyramid fraud, by way of referral commissions paid out on recruitment of new investors.
Securities fraud is also present, as neither WoToken or Neraex are registered to offer securities in any jurisdiction they solicit investment in.
By now you should be familiar with the MLM cryptocurrency exit-scam model.
Whenever whoever is running WoToken decides they’ve stolen enough money or investor recruitment collapses, they’ll announce WOR’s public listing.
This will presumably initiate on Neraex but could later be expanded to other dodgy exchanges.
During the initial public listing hype pump, WoToken’s admin(s) will further dump as many pre-generated WOR tokens as they can.
After the initial pump they then do a runner. This leaves duped WoToken bagholders left to watch their worthless WOR tokens dump to $0.
Every MLM cryptocurrency scheme has followed this trajectory. WoToken will be no different.
Update 3rd December 2020 – Chinese authorities have arrested and jailed WoToken’s four co-founders.
Nice article, Ponzi scammer Andreas Kartrud is promoting this scam, Whit his trackercord that goes, Shopping sherlock=Swisscoin=EBC=Dominant finance=wotoken. even a idiot would realise hes a imoral scammer
That’s just a few of his involvements. Add to that: Arconix, Mining Max and Plus Token.
He will probably stay safe in Sweden as he concentrates on building downlines in third world countries and Asia.
Folks quick question, today is March 29, 2019, how could this site have been registered on September 16th, 2019? Did they get their hands on a time machine 🙂 peace
Evidently I’m still suffering from NewYearitis.
2020 or bust!
Hello,
I’m afraid you have quite a few things wrong about WoToken. First and foremost they have AI Arbitrage trading that generates profits.
They are a decentralized wallet meaning only YOU have your private keys.
(Ozedit: Snip, see below.)
Cool. Where is the regulatory filings with third-party auditing that verifies this?
WoToken is a Ponzi scheme. Who gives a fuck?
I nuked the rest of your comment because you can’t legitimize a Ponzi scheme via association or blockchain buzz words.
Regulatory filings with audited accounting or securities fraud.
#inbe4 but muh crypto isn’t regulated herp derp GTFO.
So you delete the entire message I sent showing wallets and how they have there own wallets paying people rather then it coming from other investors. Very biased.
This is not the case with WoToken. Delete the entire message if you can’t have a legitimate conversation and just edit posts to fit your narrative.
So that’s a no on the regulatory filings and audited accounting? Thank you for confirming WoToken is a Ponzi scheme.
“Showing wallets” and all the other bullshit has nothing to do with WoToken recycles newly invested funds to pay existing investors. Nor is the “but what about all this bullshit tech we have?” a substitute for legally required regulatory filings and disclosures.
Of course they’re giving you WoTokens from their own wallets. They generate them on demand at little to no cost. It’s the typical MLM altcoin Ponzi model.
WoTokens are worthless. When you actually cash out you are paid funds from subsequent investors.
Biased schmiased. Facts are facts. You have a nice day now.
I’m an affiliate doing my due diligence. I’m providing you information and would love to know for certain if this is or not.
From my stand point I see their own wallet, I see them generating income and I see my own wallet sitting there untouched. You can’t deny facts either. They have a Mastercard and are linked with TransGlobal Financial Services LLC.
I don’t have this information. Where is it that states they have to have it in order to operate as a Utility token?
Please prove to me how they are non compliant and I’ll withdraw right now.
None of that means fuck all when it comes to securities regulation.
For fucks sake. Every. Single. Time.
Look, any MLM company offering a passive investment opportunity is offering a security.
In order to legally offer a security said company needs to be registered. In the US this is with the SEC, in Canada it’s the various provincial securities commissions.
Pretty much every country in the world except a few shady jurisdictions has a securities regulator (might be bundled with under the umbrella of a financial services regulator).
This is important, because companies need to prove they are doing what they say there are doing through filings (every MLM crypto Ponzi claims its trading or mining something or the other).
There is one and only one reason an MLM company offering a passive investment opportunity doesn’t register with regulators: because they aren’t doing what they say they are.
So instead you get “but we have wallets”, “but we signed some document with so and so” etc. etc.
With respect to securities regulation the SEC, for example, don’t give a fuck if you have an app wallet, whether WoToken has a Mastercard, or if it’s linked with TransGlobal blahblahblah.
These are all attempts at “legitimacy by association”, which doesn’t work. Nor are they a substitute for legally required regulatory filings.
Finally, as far as securities regulation goes, whether you use a “utility token”, real money or bags of nose hair – it doesn’t matter. The passive investment opportunity (security) is what is regulated, not how it’s set up.
Forgive my impatience but we go through this dance pretty much every time I review an MLM crypto Ponzi.
Thank you I appreciate the information.
youtu.be/zmpqQcKl4x8?t=338
wotoken.ca/info/
Are these documents sufficient?
No they are not.
BVI is a joke scam jurisdiction. Anyone can register any type of company there at little cost.
In Singapore securities are regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. A low-cost general shell company incorporation is meaningless.
Not withstanding even if WoToken registered a shell company with MAS and made appropriate filings, they would even then only be legally registered to offer securities in Singapore.
These general shell incorporations are common enough throughout the MLM underbelly that I rarely bother to even mention them any more. They are the equivalent of used toilet paper as far as due-diligence goes.
Thanks for the insight. The claim on Arbitrage trading using Apollo Ai is a big question mark for me…are you able to comment more on this?
Just heard a presentation saying this isn’t a MLM. It is a MLM. Thanks!
There’s not really anything more to add than was stated in the review.
There is no evidence of WoToken using trading revenue to pay affiliates.
A legitimate company would register itself with financial regulators. This entials filing audited accounting reports, proving WoToken is doing what it says it’s doing.
WoToken hasn’t registered, so make of that what you will.
MLM comp plan = MLM company.
Edword Wu CEO at 1worldblockchain / WoToken Founder?
youtube.com/watch?v=164t4nIVvb4
“WoToken is an e-wallet similar to Wechat pay/ Alipay..” it is a platform but has more feature as in changing between different cryptocurrency?
please enlighten me!
Nope. Neither of those e-wallets are attached to an illegal passive investment scheme.
Show me one jurisdiction Edward Wu and Wo Token are licensed to offer securities in.
Hey Guys, This stinks just like OneCoin. I just completed some additional analysis, and guess what… Their supposed ERC20 Token does not exist on CoinMarketCap.com, EtherDelta.com, and it’s not even on the Ethereum Blockchain explorer, EtherScan.io. They have no coin or token.
It is all internal play money just like OneCoin. OneCoin had a fake website that they told people was their OneCoin Wallet. WoToken has a fake mobile App that they are telling people is their wallet. It’s all fake.
I spoke with one of their affiliates who claims to be making $3K a day. He tried to tell me that your transferred bitcoin or ether coin to fund your wallet doesn’t go to the company, but is held in your wallet with your own private key.
What baloney, There is no private key, there is no coin, there is no blockchain. Your BTC/ETH is being transferred directly to the company wallet for their unbridled use.
WoToken has created the illusion of a public decentralized wallet that is really completely under their control.
I had to fight really hard to not laugh out loud when he told me that the company doesn’t need or use your money.
They make all their profits from arbitrage trading their own money and are kind enough to share the profits just so they can acquire more customers for their retail businesses. GIVE ME A BREAK – YOU’VE GOTTA BE KIDDING!!!
That is a really high price to pay for customer acquisition. Especially when you consider they pay sales commissions of up to a 200% match of the 6% – 20% earning on your money. That could be up to 60% being paid out in interest and commissions.
But the real point is; if the arbitrage trading really worked in generating those kinds of profits, why in the world would they need to share it with a bunch of MLM Get-Rich-Quick junkies?
Arbitrage trading doesn’t and never has produced those kinds of results so they figured out they can make more money just dooping innocent greedy people.
And just like OneCoin, they are loaded up big time with all the marketing hype. They claim to be affiliated with banks, insurance companies, Visa, MC, world associations, blah, blah, blah.
When I drilled down on OneCoin’s claims I found them to all be very misleading or completely fabricated. I wouldn’t be surprised to find the same thing here with WoToken.
They even claim that you can pay for medical services in Japanese hospitals with WoToken. Are they crazy? WoToken is not liquid. Businesses can’t sell the WoTokens to pay their bills. And I’m pretty sure the doctors are not going to HODL WoTokens.
It’s always future-speak with these guys (i.e. What they are going to do in the future). Grandeous plans that never materialize due to circumstances out of their control. Hmmm…
I can hardly wait for their IPO in 4th quarter 2019. Don’t they realize you have to be a real business, with real audited books to go public. Hmmm…
And just like OneCoin, they are offering higher interest incentives to hold your WoTokens and not try to cash them out.
Of course they have to do something to slow down the run on the bank. But just like OneCoin, the requests for cash-outs will become a drawn-out approval process that eventually get ignored completely.
I remember OneCoin claiming that the transfers had to be temporarily put on hold for 2 months so they could update their website, and then they had to go through a KYC approval process to withdraw. Hmmm… Expect the same kind of delay tactics here eventually.
At the end of their marketing video at (youtube.com/watch?v=-p08eno6oDQ&feature=youtu.be) they claim “100% risk free arbitrage trading – confirmed and proven on blockchain Etherscan”. REALLY?
There is no such thing as risk-free arbitrage trading. And they don’t even exist on Etherscan.io. Hmmm…
WoToken comes out of the same World BlockChain Forum as Plus Token and Cloud Token. Coincidentally, they all 3 have the same story. A mobile wallet that does arbitrage trading with 6% – 18% monthly ROI. Same People! Same Story! Same Scam!
BOTTOM LINE: Sophisticated scams always try to bury you in marketing hype. You have to ignore the hype and look at the business fundamentals.
What value are they delivering to the marketplace to solve some problem to generate profits, that the consumer needs, wants and is willing to pay for?
If they are legitimate then they should be able to provide verifiable proof of how they generate revenue.
Oops! still waiting for any of these scams to do that. Hmmm…
Hi Thanks for the information. Here is what I found, the link for their token.
(https)://etherscan.io/token/0x51e7359d008a85a021da36370d78b594079a67b1
I do agree that the token is yet to be exist on coinmarketcap.
Hi Oz, could you please elaborate more on this, if you dont mind? How do you mean by public listing means they decided shut down?
Appreciate it.
It’s the MLM crypto exit-scam model.
When an MLM crypto Ponzi like WoToken hits critical mass (withdrawals exceed new investment), they start hyping up a public listing.
They get some dodgy exchange to list their coin and during the hype listing pump phase, the owners and top investors cash out even more.
The coin then inevitably price dumps (because it’s worthless), leaving affiliates bagholding yet another pointless MLM coin.
When affiliates complain they’ve been scammed management, if they haven’t already disappeared at this point, tell them, “No no no you’ve got a token. We totes didn’t steal your money.”
At this point either regulators move in and shut it down. Or, more likely, it’s written off as yet another “sorry for your loss” shitshow.
This is not WoToken’s smart contract.
“(https)://etherscan.io/token/0x51e7359d008a85a021da36370d78b594079a67b1”
It belongs to someone called “World Robot”.
It has only 500,000,000 tokens. It only has 2 token holder addresses. It has only one transfer ever on 10/17/18
This is someone else that already registered the WOR symbol.
They have now launched an exchange for WOR trading at woex.co.
Not sure if it’s possible to exchange your WOR for BTC or ETH.
On the FB wall of a leader I saw this fantastic post:
Oh yes, it is similar. It will also crash your money.
The app doubled as the exchange. Why has WoToken launched a separate web-based exchange?
What does that means then? Also, I noticed Wotoken has registered for MSB license for the their exchange, WOEx. Registration number: 31000148089147.
Does that make them different from others? Please take a look.
It means that they’re probably looking to exit-scam at some point. Maybe even the dodgy exchanges won’t take on an app Ponzi token unless they launch a web exchange first.
The exchange isn’t the passive investment opportunity, so it’s meaningless.
The MSB license is just a registration to transmit money, right. For a while until warning bells ring they will be on a white list.
As it says on the registration:
But of course, the spin on this in Wo groups is that this means that all aspects of the coin and the exchange are fully registered, licensed and approved as a legal investment opportunity.
It seems they just filed a MSB with FINTRAC in Canada as well.
The registration has nothing to do with the investment opportunity, so it’s meaningless.
Canadian authorities might cotton on at some point but by then it’ll be too late.
I have seen reports that withdrawal has been suspended for quite some time, as well as the WoEX exchange. From a Swedish leader (who is now promoting a new “opportunity”, Virtual Investment Bank (VIB):
Scammers don’t get arrested because their Ponzi points internal value drops. WoToken is a Ponzi scheme but that Swedish leader is full of shit.
Yes, Andreas Kartrud is starting to build a great Ponzi career. He dipped his toes in Onecoin but got out fast as he must have realized he was late in the game.
Then he was high up in SwissCoin, Arkonix and a few others. Pretty sure he was into CloudToken for a while before joining WoToken. And now VIB.
Review coming up for VIB?
It seems WoToken has done a runner. Still no news for the “investors”. Most communication seems to be in Japanese or Chinese.
This poorly translated newspage for example:
nolink//www.btctrade.com/breaking_news/8714.html?lang=en
Kartrud is cagey about it. He has gone from “assertive leader mode” to “I am just an investor who knows as little as you do” like he usually does when the schemes turn sour.
There is now a Facebook groups hosted by a small number of victims, “Wotoken, it’s time for Transparency”.
They mainly seem to be downlines of Andreas Kartrud, and they suggest that he is more involved than just an investor.
Yet another Ponzi that just goes silent, allowing the perpetrators to move on to the next scam.
Apparently a WoToken criminal trial kicked off in China on May 15th.
I can only find information about it on crypto spam blogs, citing Chinese news reports.
Wasn’t able to track down Chinese news reports so I’m leaving it there for now.