Nov 15th 2017, 11:03:28
* I can make you very rich with BTC, give me your BTC and I will trade it riding the spikes with my bot - nothing wrong with that.
* I will issue you with a new coin, BCC. This is your "share" in our system, you can trade it back for BTC after a fixed locked in period - errr... not too sure about that
* I will pay you all "profits" in BCC, you can trade them for BTC but you'd make more money if you gave it back to us - right....
* I will give you even more BCC if you convince other people to give us BTC, then you can reinvest that too! - So I get my friend to give you money so you can pay me more money?
I think you need to watch more Hustle on the tellybox, common part of the scam is the "convincer" where you get a mark involved in your plan, you start off with a small operation where the mark "wins" and sees that "the system works", get them to invest big, even better if they drag their friends into it, then pull the plug.
Already you've said they are downscaling the referral system, that means the cash is going to slow down as the pyramid is getting bloated, keep the current suckers paying in for a few more months while they are locked in on their fixed term then one of the following will probably happen:
* The wallet disappears completely, file for protection like MtGox, directors are scott free with 1bn of untraceable BTC
* The value of BCC tanks against BTC once the funds dry up, all your profit gone. Directors pay out original investments (or less) but sitting pretty on their BTC nest egg.
The structure of this pyramid is akin to timeshare holiday lets when they were riding the property markets prior to the financial crash.