DavorCoin securities fraud cease and desist issued in Texas

While nothing has emerged from the SEC yet regarding fraudulent ICO lending Ponzi schemes, Texas is on a roll.

An emergency cease and desist order against DavorCoin marks the third enforcement order Texas has taken against ICO lending Ponzi schemes. [Continue reading…]


MartCoin collapses, investors unable to withdraw

MartCoin launched in late 2017 and promised investors ‘a clear and specific plan for Martcoin to reach $290 by the end of Q2-2018′.

Whatever plans the ICO Ponzi scheme had have been tossed, following the official collapse of MartCoin on February 2nd. [Continue reading…]


BitsTrades Review: BSS points ICO lending Ponzi scheme

BitsTrades provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The BitsTrades website domain (“bitstrades.com”) was first registered on July 20th, 2016.

The Wayback Machine reveals that the current BitsTrades website went live sometime after September, 2017. Prior to the latest iteration, BitsTrades was an “index trading investment” scheme.

Alexa traffic estimates for the BitsTrades website show an uptick from November, 2017, which is probably around the time the current BitsTrades website went live.

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…]


Ribbon Coin Review: ICO Ponzi scheme “with a cause” is still a Ponzi

Ribbon Coin provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Ribbon Coin website domain (“ribboncoin.co”) was privately registered on November 21st, 2017.

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…]



BitConnect dumped from primary exchange, Davor circles the gurgler

It used to be when a Ponzi collapsed that was the end of it.

With cryptocurrency we’ve now got this drawn out period where post-collapse, those scammed desperately either

  1. try to offload their plummeting in value points or
  2. hold their points in the hope that, for no evident reason, they’ll go back up in value

As class-action lawsuits pile up and the specter of federal regulatory action looms, the primary exchange still allowing BCC trading has dumped the coin. [Continue reading…]


Numiv Coin Review: NUM points ICO lending Ponzi scheme

Numiv Coin provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Numiv Coin website domain (“numivcoin.com”) was privately registered on October 8th, 2017.

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…]


Bitfinite Review: BFC points ICO lending Ponzi scheme

Bitfinite provide no information on their website about who owns or runs the business.

The Bitfinite website domain (“bitfinite.co”) was  privately registered on November 2nd, 2017.

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…]



Fourth BitConnect class-action lawsuit filed in Minnesota

The latest litigation filed against BitConnect marks the fourth class-action filed against the company in two weeks.

In the latest lawsuit, filed in Minnesota on January 31st, Plaintiff Patricia Mengesha seeks to hold BitConnect International PLC, BitConnect LTD and BitConnect Trading liable for ‘financial losses suffered from an inline investment scam‘. [Continue reading…]


Third BitConnect class-action lawsuit filed in Florida

BitConnect victims continue to take matter into their own hands, following the filing of a third lawsuit in the US.

Filed on January 30th, Plaintiffs Paul Long and Kiandra Love seek to hold defendants BitConnect International PLC, BitConnect LTD, BitConnect Trading LTD and Ryan Maasen accountable for their losses. [Continue reading…]


BitConnect victim who lost $33,000 takes over Indonesian event

In an attempt to portray BitConnect victims filing lawsuits against the company as “crybaby ass motherfuckers“, top US investor Trevon James claimed investors elsewhere in the world are fine with collectively losing millions of dollars.

None of the other countries that were in BitConnect, I don’t hear a peep out of them crying or anything.

But yet Americans are the most pussy, softest motherfuckers ever. Crybaby ass motherfuckers man.

Crybabies. No other country is crying about anything.

You go look at a Vietnam video, they still having BitConnect conferences. They still throwing them shits.

(Americans are) a bunch of fucking pussies man.

While I can’t speak to Vietnam, in neighboring Indonesia footage of a BitConnect event held on January 28th directly contradicts James’ assertion.

Turns out victims anywhere in the world aren’t happy about being scammed in a Ponzi scheme. Who knew? [Continue reading…]