FBI seizes BG Wealth Sharing’s original website domain
The FBI, working with the DOJ and US Secret Service, has seized BG Wealth Sharing’s original website domain.
A visit to the domain “bgwealthsharing.com” now reveals a seizure notice:
DNS records reveal the FBI seized the domain on April 23rd, 2026:
The same day BG Wealth Sharing’s original website domain was seized, the DOJ announced criminal charges against two Chinese nationals.
The Scam Center Strike Force’s actions include criminal charges against two Chinese nationals who managed a cryptocurrency investment fraud compound in Burma and attempted to open another compound in Cambodia, the seizure of a Telegram messaging app channel used to recruit human trafficking victims to a scam compound in Cambodia in order to work a law enforcement impersonation scam, and the seizure of 503 fake invesment [sic] websites, among other actions.
The two Chinese nationals in question are Jiang Wen Jie (aka Jiang Nan) and Huang Xingshan (aka Ah Zhe). Both were living in Burma before fleeing to Thailand in November 2025.
Thai authorities have arrested Jie and Xingshan on immigration fraud charges. It’s unclear whether they’ll be extradited to the US to face investment fraud charges.
The DOJ claims to have seized “more than $700 million” tied to Chinese “click a button” app Ponzis and other crypto investment scams.
With respect to BG Wealth Sharing, criminal charge filings for Jie and Xingshan state;
The FBI has been investigating a fraudulent scheme by multiple targets, all citizens of the People’s Republic of China, who operated one such compound in Min Let Pan, Burma, from at least in or around January 2025 to in or around December 2025.
BG Wealth Sharing’s original website domain was registered on January 14th, 2025. While the Burmese scam compound was shut down in December 2025, BG Wealth Sharing continued to defraud consumers until it collapsed in late April 2026.
Both Jie’s and Xingshan’s criminal charges were filed in the District of Columbia. The BG Wealth Sharing domain seizure notice states the domain was seized per “a seizure warrant issued … by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia”.
Hotspots for BG Wealth Sharing recruitment were the US, Tonga and Samoa. Known BG Wealth Sharing recruiters operating in these jurisdictions are:
Chanse Carlson (Utah)
Latanya Jones (Georgia)
Thaddious Thomas (Texas)
Mark and Kim Brown (Oklahoma)
Faiana Makahununiu Brown (aka Faithful Faiana Brown, Gerald Faiana Brown, Utah/Washington (?))
Mau Hunt Kota (Samoa)
In the wake of BG Wealth Sharing’s collapse, arrests and domain seizure, some promoters have moved onto Swift Wave Capital and other clone “click a button” app Ponzi schemes.
Whether we see any BG Wealth Sharing US arrests remains to be seen.
While the FBI seizing BG Wealth Sharing’s original (albeit defunct) website domain is of significance, it emphasizes the speed with which Chinese “click a button” app Ponzi scammers operate.
BG Wealth Sharing in particular was known for having to rotate website domain every 1-2 days as existing domains were taken down for suspected fraud.
Even now, with BG Wealth Sharing collapsed and withdrawals disabled, the scammers still continue to defraud consumers through newly registered domains:
- yzzq919.cc – privately registered on April 25th, 2026
- yzzq657.cc – privately registered on April 25th, 2026
- yzzq919.cc – privately registered on April 25th, 2026
- yzzq657.cc – privately registered on April 25th, 2026
What’s left of BG Wealth Sharing is assumed to still be operated by accomplices of Jiang Wen Jie and Huang Xingshan. This includes AI creation “Professor” Stephen Beard, represented to be BG Wealth Sharing’s fictional CEO:
If you’re thinking someone has to be particularly stupid not to question why a company has to cycle through dozens of algorithmically named domains every few days, you’re not wrong.
Part of the problem with “click a button” app scams however is once a recruit is funneled into the app, participation and contact with Chinese scammers takes place exclusively through the app.
The apps continue to work until disabled (as is now the case with BG Wealth Sharing), regardless of how many front-facing website domains are cycled through (the websites themselves are merely app download funnels).
Google is introducing security hardening to combat sideloaded Android app fraud in September 2026. This might go some way to curbing “click a button” app Ponzis but, outside of arrests when suspects travel outside of scam compounds, it seems authorities haven’t figured out an effective way to tackle this specific type of MLM fraud.
BehindMLM has documented hundreds of “click a button” app Ponzi schemes since 2021. Most of them last a few weeks to a few months before collapsing.
Update 5th May 2026 – A joint initiative involving US authorities has seen over $41 million in laundered BG Wealth Sharing investor funds frozen.
I’ve just come off a YouTube live which I did for five hours 50 minutes and on the very last few minutes we reviewed this article.
you made the whole day worthwhile this is brilliant so nice to see many of the same people named and shamed they have been promoting the Scam to the world!
Numerous lies are being spread on Facebook and Telegram.
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Of the 56,047 members on Telegram, 3,739 are currently online.
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BEWARE! Some of these scammers are already moving on to another PONZI! Polar Tensor… However, the almighty @OZ is already on to their game: https://behindmlm.com/mlm-reviews/polar-tensor-review-ai-trading-bot-mlm-crypto-ponzi/
Video from May 3, 2026, on the BG Wealth India YouTube channel with 10,899 views.
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@Melanie
That’s the same video I quoted from in the BG Wealth Sharing has collapsed article. Looks like they put it back up again after marking it private.
Thanks, I’ll make another update note on the collapse article.
Video from May 4, 2026, on the Crypto Vault YouTube channel.
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Oz, I just want to say first — huge respect for the work you do. You’re one of the people I genuinely consider an Avenger in this space, and your research has helped a lot of people.
I did want to ask for a bit of clarification on the link made between BG Wealth Sharing and the recent DOJ Scam Center Strike Force announcement.
I’ve gone through the press release in detail, and I couldn’t find any direct reference to BG Wealth Sharing, DSJ Exchange, or anything that clearly ties that specific operation to the seizures mentioned.
I completely agree that BG fits the same pig butchering / click-a-button scam model described by the DOJ — no question there.
But in terms of a direct connection to this specific enforcement action, I’m not seeing anything concrete from the information available.
There’s also that seizure notice on the BG site, but it looks a bit different from the standard DOJ banners we’ve seen on confirmed domain takedowns, which makes it harder to verify.
If you’ve got anything that links BG directly to this operation, I’d genuinely appreciate you pointing me in the right direction — always keen to get the facts straight.
Appreciate everything you do.
@Danny
One thing people need to realize is, while the losses are occasionally staggering, “click a button” app Ponzi is a cookie-cutter scam model Chinese criminal gangs have been pumping out since 2021.
All they do is change the theme colors, the ruse, the app code every so often and launch new ones every few days. BG Wealth Sharing is one of hundreds, possibly thousands, that just happened to take off. It happens every now and then but BG Wealth Sharing is the first one to rope in a large group of North Americans.
BG Wealth Sharing collapsing isn’t so much as a notable moment as just another day in the Asian scam factory space.
That is why you won’t find specific charges referencing BG Wealth Sharing, like you normally would with other types of MLM fraud. As you can see, BG Wealth Sharing has been grouped into general criminal charges, with 500+ website domains seized.
At least one of those domains is BG Wealth Sharing. Some of their other long-since defunct domains might have been seized but the rest would be other “click a button” app Ponzi domains, and domains used for whatever else the criminal gangs get into (romance fraud, pig butchering, one on one investment fraud over Telegram etc.).
NZ’s FMA has realized this and now just maintains a “click a button” app Ponzi list instead of pushing out new press-releases. You’ll notice beyond identifying any new ruses and dissecting the BS marketing, I don’t put much effort into the “click a button” reviews either. Most of the review is copy and pasted from the previous one because the app scams themselves are literally copy and pasted.
These scam compounds are an entire industry, of which MLM “click a button” app Ponzis is just one component. It’s the same group of criminals leading back to China that run everything.
Arrest two of them? Great. Their replacements have already been patched in and continue to run the scam. Over the past five years they’ve perfected a dopamine triggering app scam model that works on an endless supply of dumb as dogshit marks.
Make no mistake, BG Wealth Sharing is over. The only reason they’re still stringing along gullible morons is to lead them into new clone scams.
It’s a delicate operation, as they’ve now learned their investors for the most part aren’t going to fall with the bullshit that usually works in third world countries (fake taxes, bullshit regulatory audits etc.).
So we now have the current situation. Daily bullshit updates while they come up with a semi-believable ruse to funnel BG Wealth Sharing investors into cookie-cutter clones they’ve created.
They might roll out a ruse if they think it’ll work. But they could just as easily give up and cut their losses. Some percentage of dumbasses who invested will find their way into the replacement app scams anyway (see Swift Wave Capital, New Era etc. etc.).
Re. the domain seizure, confirmation is in the DNS name-server entries and that coincides date-wise with the DOJ press-release. As for the notice being different, the Trump administration emphasises marketing over action. The weird new logos at the bottom are part of that.
I’ve been streaming for far too long today I have maintained roundabout 150 up to 250 people in my chat room all day long. I think I’m on about seven hours of live streaming the very last five minutes I read your reply to people in the chat room who are still asking me questions.
Do I need to trade still, is Trading still happening, do I need to pay 12% to withdraw my money. We can’t help everybody but we can save some people it’s like saving starfish.
If you’ve got the patience for it, more power to you.
My philosophy on victims is I’m obviously not heartless but by the time we get to “how do I get my money back?” stage, it’s too late. The information was all here before you got scammed.
Sidenote: I am tracking both those criminal cases but I don’t think we’re going to see any movement unless they’re extradited. Whether that happens depends on whether China steps in to disappear them (repatriate, new identities and send them out again). In Thailand that could go either way.
On May 4, 2026, an alleged payout was posted in the BG Wealth Sharing Group on Facebook, which has 24,716 followers.
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The same fairy tale in the BG Wealth Sharing – PrimeGroup on Facebook, which has 14,275 followers.
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Obvious recovery scammer.
Although BG is clearly a scam, please note that the domain they seized (bgwealthsharing.com) does not seems to really belong to BG wealth. When looking up the URL in the way back machine, a completely different website content shows up, nothing to do with BG.
Perhaps that domain name was purchased by someone not related to the scheme (Maybe a promoter to help them rank in Google?)
Which telegram group did he announced that? I am checking 2 or 3 of them and 2 are empty the other one does not sat anything about this… chinese whispers?
in the website above shared: justice.gov/opa/pr/scam-center-strike-force-takes-major-actions-against-southeast-asian-scam-centers-targeting
there is nomention about them being related specifically to BG wealth. Or am I missing something? Thanks.
On a YouTube channel with only 16 subscribers, this video racked up more than 1,300 views within 12 hours. Other videos on this channel had only 2 views.
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Probably root domain shenanigans. You usually have to access a subdomain and/or they disabled root domain functionality. The original domains were disabled early on, which led to the daily churn of a dozen or so domains.
There’s a few of them. Communication has mostly dried up since the collapse.
See #8 above.