The N9 Football “click a button” Ponzi has collapsed.
N9 Football targeted investors in South Africa. I’m aware of two domains associated with the scam; “n9-1.com” and “n9football.com”.
“n9-1.com” was privately registered on December 26th, 2021.
A visit to the website domain today reveals an “under maintenance” message:
“n9football.com” was privately registered on November 3rd, 2021.
A visit to the website domain today reveals the domains hosting has been suspended.
SimilarWeb pegs South Africa as the top source of traffic to both domains (29% and 90% respectively).
Other countries N9 Football scammed include Japan, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia and Turkey.
Owing to its Chinese origin, visiting N9 Football’s website triggered a Google translate notice:
N9 Football affiliates invested tether (USDT), on the promise of advertised returns.
Returns were tied to fictional sports gambling. The highest ROI I saw offered by N9 Football was 8.19%.
N9 Football affiliates earned commissions on recruitment of new investors. I wasn’t able to pin down any specifics.
In any event, N9 Football was a relatively short-lived Ponzi scheme. It collapsed in May 2022, leaving the majority of investors with a loss.
N9 Football was part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis launched over the past few months.
Thus far BehindMLM has documented:
- COTP – pretended affiliates clicking a button generated trading activity, collapsed May 2022
- EthTRX is a similar app-based Ponzi, with the daily task component disabled
- Yu Klik – pretends clicking a button generates trading activity, targeting Indonesia
- KKBT – pretended clicking a button generates crypto mining revenue, targeted South Africa and India & collapsed early June 2022
- EasyTask 888 – pretends clicking a button was tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes), targets Colombia
- DF Finance – pretended clicking a button generated “purchase data” which was sold to ecommerce platforms, collapsed June 2022
- Shared989 – pretended clicking a button was tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes etc.), collapsed June 2022
- 86FB – pretended clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed April 2022
- 0W886 – pretended clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
- U91 – pretended clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes, collapsed May 2022
- 365Ball – pretends clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes, (has collapsed multiple already)
- YLCH Football – pretends clicking a button is tied to gambling on football match outcomes
- Parkour – pretends clicking a button is tied to social media manipulation (YouTube likes etc.)
- OTCAI – pretended affiliates clicking a button generated trading activity, collapsed May 2022
There are more of these scams around that I haven’t got to yet.
All the recent app-based task Ponzis appear to be launched by the same group of scammers.
Based on the use of simplified Chinese, I suspect the group are operating out of China or Singapore.