WorldOTC stands for “World Over the Counter”. Don’t read too much into the name, it’s not supposed to mean anything.
WorldOTC provides no information on its website about who owns or runs the company.
In an attempt to appear legitimate, WorldOTC provides a bunch of meaningless or outright bogus regulatory certificates through its app.
One of the provided certificates is from the FCA. I looked up the reference number in the FCA’s registry and it doesn’t exist.
WorldOTC’s website domain (“worldotc.com”), was first registered in 2019. The private registration was last updated on June 17th, 2022.
I believe this is on or around when they current owners took possession of the domain.
If we look at the source-code of WorldOTC’s website, we see it is localized to Chinese:
This strongly suggests whoever is behind WorldOTC has ties to China.
SimilarWeb shows a large uptick of traffic to WorldOTC’s website beginning June 2022.
38% of WorldOTC’s website traffic originates from Vietnam. 31% is from Spain and 6% is from Peru.
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.
WorldOTC’s Products
WorldOTC has no retailable products or services.
Affiliates are only able to market WorldOTC affiliate membership itself.
WorldOTC’s Compensation Plan
WorldOTC affiliates download an app and invest USD equivalents in tether (USDT).
This is done on the promise of advertised returns:
- invest $10 and receive 4 cents every 3 hours
- invest $20 and receive 8 cents every 3 hours
- invest $30 and receive 12 cents every 3 hours
- invest $40 and receive 16 cents every 3 hours
- invest $50 and receive 20 cents every 3 hours
- invest $60 and receive 24 cents every 3 hours
- invest $70 and receive 28 cents every 3 hours
- invest $80 and receive 32 cents every 3 hours
- invest $90 and receive 36 cents every 3 hours
- invest $100 and receive 40 cents every 3 hours
- invest $500 and receive $2 every 3 hours
- invest $1000 and receive $4 every 3 hours
- invest $5000 and receive $20 every 3 hours
- invest $10,000 and receive $40 every 3 hours
- invest $100,000 and receive $400 every 3 hours
There doesn’t appear to be any limit to WorldOTC’s advertised returns. A 3% fee is charged on all withdrawals.
WorldOTC pays a referral commission on invested USDT down three levels of recruitment (unilevel):
- level 1 (personally recruited affiliates) – 15%
- level 2 – 10%
- level 3- 5%
Finally, for every ten investing affiliates recruited, the affiliate who recruited them receives $10 USDT.
Joining WorldOTC
WorldOTC affiliate membership is free.
Full participation in the attached income opportunity requires a $10 to $100,000 investment in USDT.
WorldOTC Conclusion
WorldOTC is another app-based task Ponzi scheme from what appears to be Chinese scammers.
WorldOTC’s Ponzi ruse is a “trading service”, managed by “a team of experienced professionals (with) a huge liquidity pool”.
WorldOTC represents “clicking a button” generates trades. To qualify for the maximum daily ROI, WorldOTC affiliates must click a button in the app every 3 hours per active investment.
Scammers get around this by promoting WorldOTC automation scripts.
Be it automated or manual clicking, no trades take place. All WorldOTC are doing is recycling invested funds to pay returns.
WorldOTC is part of a group of “click a button” app Ponzis launched since late 2021.
Including WorldOTC, BehindMLM has thus far documented thirty-one “click a button” app Ponzis. Most of them last a few weeks to a few months before collapsing.
The same group of Chinese scammers are believed to be behind the “click a button” app Ponzi plague.