The Lucky Football Ponzi scheme has collapsed.
Lucky Football operated from two domains that I’m aware of; “lucky66.com” and “luckyfootball1.com”.
“lucky66.com” was privately re-registered through a Singaporean registrar on May 6th, 2022.
“luckyfootball1.com” was privately registered through the same registrar on March 2nd, 2022.
Attempting to access either website domain currently returns a “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED” DNS error.
Lucky Football was a “click a button” app Ponzi targeted at Nigeria.
Lucky Football solicited investment in Nigerian Naira (NGN) and the cryptocurrency tether (USDT).
Lucky Football affiliates invested NGN or USDT on the promise of advertised returns.
The highest daily ROI I saw offered by Lucky Football was 4.01%.
Lucky Football also rewarded affiliates for personally recruitment:
- recruit a downline of 5 affiliates and receive 10,000 NGN
- recruit a downline of 20 affiliates and receive 35,000 NGN
- recruit a downline of 50 affiliates and receive 200,000 NGN
- recruit a downline of 100 affiliates and receive 400,000 NGN
A “monthly salary”, tied to total downline recruitment, was also offered:
- build a downline of 30 affiliates and receive 20,000 NGN a month
- build a downline of 60 affiliates and receive 40,000 NGN a month
- build a downline of 240 affiliates and receive 170,000 NGN a month
- build a downline of 500 affiliates and receive 400,000 NGN a month
- build a downline of 1000 affiliates and receive 1,200,000 NGN a month
Downline affiliates for the monthly salary were counted across the first six levels of a Lucky Football affiliate’s unilevel team:
The above unilevel team structure was also used to pay referral commissions on invested funds, again down six levels of recruitment:
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 10%
- level 2 – 6%
- level 3 – 4%
- level 4 – 3%
- level 5 – 2%
- level 6 – 1%
Lucky Football’s “click a button” Ponzi ruse was betting on football matches.
Returns were in fact only tied to new investment.
Lucky Football launched in or around April 2022. New investment ran dry sometime in May, prompting the Ponzi to collapse.
Tron.BI is 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
- N9 Football – pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes (collapsed May 2022)
- Tron.BI – pretends affiliates clicking a button was tied to TRX cloud mining
- EFG Football – pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes (collapsed May 2022)
- GP Football – pretended affiliates clicking a button was tied to gambling on football match outcomes (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.