Schemes and pyramids — Scam and Fraud

AutoTimer sites that pay you every second — until withdrawal

A counter that ticks up your “earnings” every second is theatre; the real product is the fee they demand before you can leave.

Travel clubs sold through recruitment often ask for money long before you see a room key.

Beta Arena asks you to connect a wallet for AI strategies and daily returns — HYIP monitors already treat it as critical risk.

Age does not clear a scheme. Cash-flow mechanics do — and some famous frauds ran for well over three years.

A sleek “digital bank” site claiming Monaco authorisation still has to appear in real supervisor lists.

A winter-2021 “free mining” site paid in hype and affiliate tasks more than in withdrawable bitcoin.

Port cards and “fleet routes” with weekly double-digit annualised returns are a dashboard story, not a shipping business.

Pi grew on daily taps and invite bonuses; open trading in 2025 showed how thin that dream can get.

BCSC put D.AI.SY / Daisy Global on its caution list for unregistered crowdfunding packs aimed at AI forex and crypto funds.

Uranium Cash promised endless daily percent returns, signup bonuses, and easy withdrawals — then the site went dark.

A short-lived “crypto bank” sold daily yields and instant payouts while its UK shell was barely a year old.

Weekly token unlocks and binary bonuses were the product — the exchange story was the costume.