Right this moment we have a look contained in the EmpiresX Ponzi scheme.
Who’s operating it? From the place? How a lot have they stolen? And who’re EmpiresX’s high earners?
The next information is believed to have been sources from EmpiresX’s personal servers. It’s believed to be present as of early January 2022.
Admins operating EmpiresX are:
- Flavio Goncales;
- Jomo Santos;
- Vinicius Guimaraes; and
- Emerson Pires
Goncales, Santos and Guimaraes log into EmpiresX by way of Tecnologia2u e mail addresses.
Tecnologia2u is a Brazilian growth agency owned by Goncales.
EmpiresX’s admin accounts log in from IPs from Minas Gerias and Sao Paolo in Brazil, and Florida within the US.
This means that, not less than at time of publication, Flavio Goncales and his group are nonetheless in Brazil. Emerson Pires is a resident of Florida and seems to nonetheless be there.
The present complete variety of EmpiresX accounts stands at simply over 1.2 million, of which 5% to 10% are estimated to be pretend.
On the cash facet of issues EmpiresX has taken in an estimated minimal $60 million. The precise quantity is believed to be increased however we don’t have a selected determine.
Based mostly on the obtainable dataset, complete ROI withdrawals thus far sits at $16.4 million to $25 million.
Commissions paid out to EmpiresX high promoters is $17.7 million {dollars}.
The highest earners in EmpiresX are:
- Shohan Bowala by way of the e-mail tackle kirannaqqash@(eliminated) – over $500,000
- Nawin Sukkhadit by way of the e-mail tackle chanit.bkk17@(eliminated) – over $500,000
- Tom Hickerson by way of the e-mail tackle dataphonesales@(eliminated) – over $350,000
- Canhhoang Ngoc by way of the e-mail tackle damphuong2022@(eliminated) – $over $250,000
That is MLM commissions solely. How a lot every of the above earners has withdrawn by way of ROI withdrawals is unclear.
Shohan Bowala is a resident of Melbourne, Australia.
Along with EmpiresX he has and continues to advertise a number of Ponzi schemes by way of his “Crypto Cartel” FaceBook group.
The opposite three names are unknown to me and I wasn’t in a position to dig up something definitive.
One final fascinating tidbit is the presence of knowledge akin to “eworkoin.com” and “miningcapitalcoin.com” in EmpiresX’s backend information.
I consider “eworkoin.com” corresponds to Neworkoin, a short-lived Ponzi from 2019. This isn’t a definitive hyperlink.
Mining Capital Coin is a Ponzi scheme from 2018. Of observe is Emerson Pires popping up within the feedback to defend the rip-off.
In complete there are references to 14 different web sites in EmpiresX’s backend information:
- miningcapitalcoin.com
- eworkoin.com
- paymovietv.com
- empiretradingroup.com
- wipo.io
- livelifeadvance.com
- liftingtrader.com
- totalinvestgroup.com
- stkforex.com
- investcriptos.com
- mynetworking.com.br
- ldmarketing.com.br
- bullcapitalgroup.com
- souparadise.com.br
This means code is recycled between Tecnologia2u initiatives.
It additionally suggests Pires and Goncalves have been operating Ponzi schemes by way of Tecnologia2u for a while.
EmpiresX withdrawals have been disabled since late October. BehindMLM known as EmpiresX’s collapse in early December.
Since then, recruitment of recent victims has transitioned from western international locations to Africa.
Alexa at present ranks high sources of visitors to EmpiresX’s web site as Tanzania (68%) and South Africa (16%). Vietnam is available in third at 6%.
Coinciding with disabling EmpiresX withdrawals, Emerson Pires and Flavio Goncales have slowed down communication with buyers.
Of their final audio announcement, dated December twelfth, Pires and Goncales threatened to sue EmpiresX victims and promoters.