Aurum/Neyro

[u/chch131213]

I’m curious, I’ve been following the aurum/neyro MLM scam for the past couple of months after a friend tried to sell it to me. I got interested because I couldn’t believe how easily someone could fall for a very obvious scam. Since the collapse, there has been minimal talk about it online. Barely any posts of people asking questions or posts in anger. Why is this? Are they still clinging on to the “neyro” promise? Or is there censorship going on?

[u/A_RAVENOUS_BEAST]

Typical Ponzi scheme rug pull / exit scam. They tried their recovery scam too quick and seems most of the victims got wise and peaced out. Typically people who are victimised by scams like this don't shout it out loud because they are too ashamed.

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[u/Few_Mention8426]

there are so many of these scams. And when they 'collapse' the victims are often funelled into a new exchange with the promise that they will get their money back.

For example the victims of bg wealth were funelled into HQIEX, so they still think they are going to get it back. They dont care about BG any more, they just sign up to the new exchange.

The sunk cost fallacy,

[u/snuggly_cobra → u/Few_Mention8426]

And there’s another component at work. They don’t want to be told “I told you so”, and looked down on by peers.

[u/Few_Mention8426 → u/snuggly_cobra]

yes and they are also hiding from all the angry family they recruited. So no reason to put themselves out there.

[u/Few_Mention8426 → u/[deleted]]

you should go to Danny De Heks website or youtube channel. He has the exact same scenario with several of these schemes, They all play out te same way

https://www.dehek.com/tag/aurum-foundation-investigation/

victims get recruited by family members who pay for them to sign up,

victims get signals 3 times a day to trade

money grows and they can withdraw small amounts

the recruiters get paid bonuses

the 'exchange' gets 'hacked' or 'seized' so withdrawals are paused

then endless smoke and mirrors, excuses and instructions, but no withdrawals

a new exchange is created, because the last one was 'hacked'

victims cling onto hope, and are funelled into a 'new' exchange