EcoTrade provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.

EcoTrade’s website domain (“ecotradeapp.com”) was privately registered on April 1st, 2021.

I came across EcoTrade as part of my research into Speed Finance Club.

These Ponzi schemes are run by the same group of individuals, who are tied to the Tendencia Trading YouTube channel.

These scammers appear to be located across Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.

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. [Continue reading…]

Speed Finance Club provides no information on their website about who owns or runs the company.

In fact as I write this, Speed Finance Club’s website is nothing more than an affiliate login form.

Speed Finance Club’s website domain (“speedfinance.app”) was privately registered on June 30th, 2021.

Speed Finance Club’s website defaults to English but the company’s corporate documents are in Portuguese.

Speed Finance Club’s Terms and Conditions document was authored by Fram Baga in December 2020.

Looking at the source-code of Speed Finance Club’s signup page, one can see a number of assets, including the terms and conditions document, are hosted on the domain “nocookie.top”.

The NoCookie domain was privately registered in 2019, through an incomplete address in Brazil.

Hosted on the NoCookie domain is a compensation document for “EcoTrade”.

EcoTrade is a Ponzi scheme promising returns of up to 3% a day.

Based on videos posted to EcoTrade’s official Facebook group, the company is run by these two individuals:

I wasn’t able to identify the men but “Tendencia Trading” on the left led me to a YouTube channel of the same name.

There we find an EcoTrade August 25th stream featuring four individuals:

Again, likely due to language-barriers, I’ve been unable to put names to faces.

EcoTrade’s official Facebook page is managed by five individuals, four of which are in the Dominican Republic and one in Venezuela.

In any event, it seems we have a team of serial scammers who, circa June 2021 launched two passive investment opportunities.

To see what these gentlemen were up to prior to June, we turn to Speed Finance Club’s linked terms and conditions.

What you’ll notice is the T&C don’t even mention Speed Finance Club. This is the terms and conditions document for “EV+ Evolution”.

EV+ Evolution operates from “office.evmais.bet” and appears to be the precursor to both Speed Finance Club and EcoTrade.

Evmais’ website domain was privately registered in December 2020.

As per the company’s social media channels, Evmais operated out of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

Evmais affiliates invested amounts in green on the left, on the promise of advertised returns in white on the right.

Web traffic is non-existent to Evmais’ website so it appears to have collapsed. The last post on Evmais’ Instagram account is dated February 1st.

Putting all of this together we surmise:

1. Evmais Ponzi scheme launches on or around December 2020.
2. Evmais collapsed on or around February 2021.
3. Tendencia Trading YouTube channel created in March 2021.
4. Scammers begin preparing Speed Finance Club and EcoTrade reboots.
5. Speed Finance Club and EcoTrade launch side by side in late June 2021.
6. Everything links back to the Tendencia Trading YouTube channel.
7. Scammers from Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela appear to be involved.

Read on for a full review of Speed Finance Club’s MLM opportunity. [Continue reading…]

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Oh and Calerie co-owner Lin Yisheng might be a control freak. [Continue reading…]

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BixoTrade was a Ponzi scheme that pitched returns as high as 500% over 200 days.

Launched in January 2021, BixoTrade collapsed in July. [Continue reading…]