In a communication to his downline, high promoter George van Wijk has claimed Crowd1 is “unfair and unsafe”.
As per van Wijk’s communication, believed to have been despatched out late final week;
Each journey should come to an finish – EVEN if generally it isn’t the tip we labored for, wished for or hoped for – and for me and my household that is one in all these instances.
I’m due to this fact formally saying that I, in good standing with the corporate, have determined to resign from my place as Ambassador 3 Star of Crowd1.
This isn’t a choice that’s taken evenly or in haste. The truth is that this resolution is the result of many months of numerous makes an attempt to steer the corporate in a path that may make it truthful and protected for the distributors.
Let me make it clear this isn’t a blame recreation however a easy realization that we now have not been capable of clear up the problems in a approach that we’re comfy with will serve the crew members and for this I’m deeply sorry.
As leaders we’re challenged every day and our choices are impacting each single member of the crew. We should all the time discover the proper stability between loyalty and actuality.
In different phrases, leaders cannot have a captain’s mentality and easily insist on being the final particular person on the sinking ship – that isn’t our job!
Our most necessary job is to LEAD – we’re fairly merely measured on how effectively we lead individuals to the advantage of everybody. Earlier than saying our subsequent steps we need to give individuals the chance to mirror and adapt – we all know that our resolution might be a disappointment to some and for that we’re sorry.
We’d additionally prefer to take this chance to thank the numerous hardworking individuals in Crowd1. To not point out all of our world leaders to whom we need to specific our gratitude and supreme loyalty.
George van Wijk
Van Wijk didn’t go into particular particulars, nonetheless Crowd1’s ongoing withdrawal delays have been well-documented.
In essence, the Ponzi aspect of Crowd1 collapsed in 2020. High recruiters had been getting by on pyramid recruitment commissions, nonetheless Crowd1 recruitment has now additionally all however collapsed.
One other possible contributing issue is Crowd1’s full collapse in western international locations.
SimilarWeb tracks a decline in Crowd1 web site site visitors over the previous few months. In September 2022 Crowd1 noticed roughly 1.6 million visits to its web site. In October and November that slumped to 1.4 million.
That’s not an insignificant quantity of site visitors, however for an MLM Ponzi scheme it’s stagnation. And stagnation results in collapse.
Moreover, SimilarWeb tracks high sources of Crowd1 web site site visitors as Russia (48%), Ukraine (13%) and Germany (5%).
Clearly, nearly all of site visitors to Crowd1’s web site is originating out of japanese Europe. From this we are able to surmise Crowd1 has devolved into Russians scamming Russians.
And clearly that recruitment isn’t occurring in van Wijk’s downline, resulting in his exit.
Van Wijk, a Dutch nationwide, joined Crowd1 early on. As per a Feb 2022 BusinessForHome puff-piece celebrating van Wijk’s three years of Crowd1 scamming;
George van Wijk from the Netherlands, is a pacesetter who’s been with the corporate nearly from the beginning and who, by means of onerous work, willpower, and fervour, was the primary to realize the rank of Ambassador.
George joined Crowd1 in early 2019, and was instantly impressed by the visionary pondering of firm founder, Jonas Eric Werner. From the primary second, George was totally dedicated.
After 6 months of working lengthy hours establishing his community, George and his spouse took their work on the highway. From Africa to the Philippines, South America to Europe they impressed hundreds – rising his community with occasions and displays, and taking an curiosity in others’ lives.
Internally van Wijk was additionally closely promoted as a Crowd1 chief. That is from a Crowd1 weblog submit dated December 2020;
The Dutch Ambassador George van Wijk has been part of the community advertising and marketing trade for greater than 25 years.
He goes on to speak about how he has labored for a lot of completely different community advertising and marketing corporations in his 25 years within the trade however none of them is similar to Crowd1.
He places nice emphasis that what Crowd1 has develop into and the place the corporate is at as we speak is wonderful.
When requested what Crowd1 means to him, van Wijk is quick to answer with “all the things”. He informed CROWD that Crowd1 is the very first thing on his thoughts, each morning.
He explains that it not is his occupation, it has develop into his ardour and a life-style. He laughs as he says that he appears like Crowd1 is a part of his DNA; he lives it and loves it.
An accompanying video interview on YouTube has since been marked personal.
How a lot van Wiljk has stolen by means of Crowd1 stays unclear. I estimate the determine very possible runs into the tens of millions, if not tens of tens of millions.
BehindMLM can’t converse to van Wijk’s “greater than 25 years” in MLM. What we do know although is, previous to Crowd1, van Wijk was CEO of the thrice collapsed Nano Membership Ponzi scheme.
Regardless of his lengthy affiliation with monetary fraud, Dutch authorities have didn’t take motion in opposition to Wijk.
Crowd1 in the meantime is run by Jonas Werner, a Swedish nationwide who fled to Dubai final 12 months.
By Metaversy, the Ponzi scheme just lately introduced it was migrating investor losses from digital shares to crypto fraud.
Between ongoing cost delays, Crowd1 executives fleeing and now high promoters abandoning ship, Metaversy seems to have failed.
This shouldn’t come as a shock, as no person in Crowd1 cares about Werners’ makes an attempt to role-play a tech CEO. They’re there for passive returns, which Crowd1 has didn’t pay out for 2 years.
Just like the Netherlands and van Wiljk, Swedish authorities have didn’t take motion in opposition to Werner or Crowd1.
As mirrored in Crowd1 primarily being lifeless outdoors of japanese Europe, regulators elsewhere have clamped down on the Ponzi scheme.
This 12 months alone:
Pending any additional Crowd1 developments, we’ll maintain you posted.