Vbit Applied sciences, a collapsed MLM crypto Ponzi, has attracted the eye of Montana’s state securities regulator.
As per an inner investigation by Montana’s Fee of Securities and Insurance coverage (CSI), Vbit Applied sciences scammed over 15,000 buyers out of a minimum of $11 million.
On February 18th Troy Downing, Head of CSI, issued an order requiring Vbit Applied sciences to register with the regulator and determine itself as an MLM firm inside 15 days.
Ought to VBit not adjust to the executive order, Downing’s workplace mentioned the corporate can be thought-about responsible by default and ordered to pay a $15,000 effective and restitution to its buyers within the state.
BehindMLM hadn’t heard of Vbit Applied sciences until a reader reached out per week or so in the past concerning a filed class-action. We’ll get to that in a bit.
Vbit Applied sciences was a typical MLM crypto Ponzi scheme launched in 2018. The rip-off was run by founder and CEO Danh Vo (aka Don Vo).
Though it’s been largely dropped as a ruse in favor of bogus buying and selling, Vbit Applied sciences’ ruse was crypto mining.
To that finish Vbit Applied sciences associates invested as much as $50,000 in mining packages…
…which paid a each day ROI.
On the MLM aspect of issues, affiliate ranks paid as much as seven ranges of commissions:
Prospects had been informed the units, which course of Bitcoin transactions, would generate a stream of recent Bitcoin that was commonly deposited into digital accounts till across the time of cryptocurrency’s international crash in worth in Could (2022).
As CSI factors out above, Vbit Applied sciences formally collapsed throughout the Could 2022 crypto crash. On the time the corporate was buying and selling as Superior Mining.
In January 2022 Danh Vo cashed out and initiated his Ponzi exit-scam. Vo’s exit-scam ruse of alternative was pretending to promote Vbit Applied sciences to randoms in Asia.
In the present day, VBit Applied sciences, a U.S.-based internet hosting {hardware} mining firm, introduced its full acquisition by Superior Mining Group, an Asian-based firm primarily centered on bitcoin mining, as a way to safe its future as a number one mining providers supplier in North America and likewise attain newly set targets.
A 105-million-dollar deal consisting of money and inventory choices has been legally closed on Jan. 31, 2022.
By the top of January 2022, Vo had marked his LinkedIn profile as “retired for all times”.
Vo (proper) then promptly disappeared from the general public eye.
Vo, believed to be a everlasting US resident, final cited his location as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Whether or not he’s continues to be within the US is unclear.
Whoever was now in management after Vo exit-scammed rebooted the Ponzi as Superior Mining.
BehindMLM was requested to assessment Superior Mining final yr.
If reminiscence serves nonetheless, Superior Mining wasn’t MLM (whereas I wasn’t conversant in Vbit Applied sciences, I bear in mind the fundamental “Superior Mining” identify).
Superior Mining was a comparatively short-lived Ponzi reboot, collapsing as CSI factors out in Could 2022.
After it stopped paying out, Superior Mining pulled a COVID-19 exit-scam in June 2022:
Just a few months later Superior Mining deserted its social media pages in August 2022.
Along with state regulatory enforcement, which presently is proscribed to Montana, Vbit Applied sciences and Superior Mining are going through six civil lawsuits.
As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer;
VBit’s executives, who claimed the corporate was offered to a Chinese language agency regardless of no public document of the sale, face six lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Delaware federal courts alleging securities fraud and different offenses.
Civil securities fraud lawsuits hardly ever lead anyplace. Living proof Michael Enno’s Vbit Applied sciences lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania on October seventh, 2022.
Enno voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on February eighth, 2023. Whether or not any cash exchanged arms is unclear.
What’s fascinating is Vbit Applied sciences was represented by counsel. This offers Montana’s CSI and the SEC one thing to begin with if Vo has fled the US.
I’d be shocked if we don’t see a Vbit Applied sciences and Superior Mining federal securities fraud lawsuit from the SEC in some unspecified time in the future.
