OneCoin members are idiots

OneCoin members are idiots. – Yes, that's how the co-founder of OneCoin, Sebastian Greenwood, and the current leader of the scam, Konstantin Ignatov, agreed on about the mental state of the members of OneCoin. I really can't argue with that assessment because you really would have to be an utmost idiot to still carry on believing in this charade – or a devious scammer to promote it. 

Not only that OneCoin couldn't be more obvious ponzi-pyramid, but the evidence published after Konstantin Ignatov was arrested should be more than enough to convince even idiots that OneCoin is nothing more than a scam. Sadly it's quite common that major scams have members who continue to believe the lie they have been fed with even after the pyramid they have ben worshipping has already collapsed.


Well, it wasn't actually written there, but it might as well have been.


For once Konstantin was telling the truth.


"We are not mining actually – but telling people shit." This is what Ruja Ignatova was messaging to the co-founder of the scheme, Sebastian Greenwood, while plotting how to scam money from gullible people.


But here I go babbling about old news... Never mind that the current leader of the scam, Konstantin Ignatov, was arrested, charged and could be sentenced for 20 years in prison. Never mind that the founder of OneCoin, Ruja Ignatova, could be sentenced for 85 years in prison. It's time for...






The First Annual Miss Ponzi Scam 2019 Beauty Pageant!


At first I thought this was a joke, but, yeah, there really was a beauty pageant planned to happen on 7th April, 2019. Well, the actual name of the competition is Miss OneLife 2019 but I took the liberty of modifying the name a bit to make it more accurate.

It remains to be seen if the event will ever actually occur, but so far the organisers seem to proceed as if nothing had happened, despite Konstantin Ignatov was arrested and the autopsy results of the scam investigation were publicly displayed.



Miss OneLife


I couldn't find information about the organiser of the event. It seems that "MISS ONELIFE Organization" doesn't really exist. Most likely it's just a bogus organisation made up by a group of OneCoin scammers from Romania.

But how is this all connected to the scam-coin – aka "trashy coin" like Ruja Ignatova likes to call it. Let the website of the pageant explain:
MISS ONELIFE and the cryptocurrency 
We are the first organization in the beauty pageant industry who decided to promote the usage of cryptocurrencies. We decided to show to the entire world that no matter how big are the costs of the production, the cryptocurrency can be used like any other fiat currency (US dollars, euro, etc.) to cover all the production costs. We believe that the cryptocurrencies are the future of payments and the financial transactions.

Yes, it actually says "THE BIGEST". I didn't photoshop that.



The winner of the competition gets a "luxury car" worth 100.000 euros. That seems to have been enough of an attraction to gather some chicks ignorant enough from all over the world to participate and compete for the title. The organisers have just recently revealed most of the contestants on the website of the competition, so maybe we'll get to witness this ridiculous event happening in April after all. 


The participant from Finland was presented as Russian for several days until a correction was made.



I don't know if the contestants are aware that they are participating an event marketing a scam, but at least they should be alarmed by the fact that the company/organisation behind the event doesn't seem to exist:






I'm also puzzled about the nature of this competition – not that I give a damn about beauty pageants – but this has to be the most stupidest beauty pageant ever. The members of OneCoin can actually buy vote-packages to vote their favourite contestant. I guess this competition isn't so much about beauty then.




Vote packages for sale.

The website of the event is typical scam quality all around. This includes false marketing and bullshitty claims.


According to Miss OneLife website Samsung's Regional Manager Alexander Smith is a client of the company. A client of what? What company? Who is Alexander Smith? I couldn't find him. 

Miss OneLife website: 
"Our target audience is 20-50 million people from more than 190 countries. We will reach our target using a complex branding and advertising campaign."
– Well, it's almost April, but I haven't seen any advertising campaign yet... or was the arrest of Konstantin Ignatov just part of the complex branding and advertising campaign?



The alleged sponsors of the event. 

Update 16 April, 2019


Samsung, Loreal, Wella, Toyota and Universal have been removed from the sponsors section. It seems likely that the organiser of the pageant had deliberately lied about having those companies sponsoring the event.



Konstantin Ignatov missed the pageant


Oh, by the way. This just came in: Konstantin Ignatov's initial hearing on US charges for conspiracy to commit wire fraud using OneCoin has been set for 26 April.

Comments

  1. An email to Universal, Wella, Samsung, L'oreal, Toyota, etc. PR departments would probably do the trick assuming they haven't actually sponsored the event.

    Meanwhile it's quite interesting that the registrant information of the website missonelife.com is so heavily anonymized. Only actual info available in ICANN WHOIS is that the registrar is www.globehosting.com and that site (apparently from Romania) says that missonelife.com is taken, but not hosted by them. Go figure.

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    1. Contacting those companies would probably be just waste of time.

      For example Warfield scam lied about releasing the game on Xbox and PlayStation. I tried to find a way to contact someone at Sony and Microsoft to ask about the issue. First of all, it wasn't easy to find a direct contact. Secondly, I didn't get an answer from Sony and the representative of Microsoft didn't seem to have much interest towards the issue. He did give some answers I needed though.

      Like you said, even the registrar of the website is hidden. And the company/organization behind the event doesn't seem to exist. There probably would not be much interest at Samsung, Wella etc. to start intimidating these petty criminals.

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  2. I wonder if the contestants are real. The one from Belarus is a stock photo from 2016 (Beauty Fashion Model Girl With Bright Makeup on CanStockPhoto) and the one from Vietnam has a photo that is from 2017. It's not impossible but it strikes me as odd.

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    1. I didn't bother to check all them up. I started with checking up if the Finnish contestant existed and found her quite easily. So I would guess that the contestants are real.

      The official Facebook page of the Ponzi Beauty Pageant has also published some pics of the contestants arriving to Romania:
      https://www.facebook.com/MissOneLife/

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    2. Also Miss Belarus arrived:
      https://www.facebook.com/MissOneLife/photos/a.384211039077515/396481497850469/?type=3&theater

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  3. Probably also worth linking to here:

    https://twitter.com/Svrakata/status/1111635389675118592

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  4. I'm still waiting for the massive advertising campaign to start. The organiser managed to reveal all(?) the contestants only recently and there isn't much time before the competition should happen on 7th April. How are they going to reach that target audience?

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  5. So the beauty pageant contest was held and the winner got 100.000 euro luxury car and...

    Who won?

    Nothing in the missonelife pages (where even the latest of the "news" are from February. There was a live video feed but certainly some sort of a press release would be in place?

    The whole site is incredible:
    starting from the "Website made by Foto Catalog" at the bottom
    continuing with the fact the website runs on Wordpress
    finally ending to the contestant info pages having "related posts" - section that recommends other contestants

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    1. Apparently it is Miss France.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guYgDXrzUMo

      If I understood this correctly, there was also Miss DealShitter chosen. It's Miss Romania.

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    2. 10 days later, still the missonelife website does not have a single line of text that would mention who won.
      Well, no news whatsoever on the entire website about antyhing, you could think the contest has not even been held yet.
      SMFH.

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    3. At least they removed faked sponsors… well, all but the imaginary regional manager of Samsung, Alexander Smith.

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  6. Okay, they've remembered to add the info about the winner
    https://www.missonelife.com/the-miss-onelife-2019/

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    1. Strangely Marcie Monfret hasn't posted any pictures of the luxury car she allegedly won. Maybe she won a coupon to DealShitter and now she's waiting for the deal to become active.

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  7. OneCoin/OneLife has addressed the Pyramid Scheme allegations in Samoa:

    https://www.samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa/41903

    Interesting enough they decided to state that the OneCoin7OneLife does not have consumer sales...
    ...when Konstantin is facing charges that effectively were raised for running a MLM company without consumer sales.

    Popcorn. More of it.

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