Regardless of being wished by US authorities, Lado Okhotnikov continues to run his MetaForce Ponzi scheme from Georgia.
The unique MetaForce was a clone of Okhotnikov’s Forsage Ponzi schemes. MetaForce V1 lasted a number of months earlier than collapsing.
MetaForce’s reboot (technically the seventh Forsage launch), features a new token and metaverse and NFT grifts.
After flogging MetaForce NFTs to what’s left of his Forsage following, on Could twenty second Okhotnikov introduced he was dropping them for a brand new model.
And within the course of, blocking a considerable variety of buyers from transferring their NFTs over.
Okhotnikov’s newest ruse to restrict withdrawals sees him asserting MetaForce buyers “cheated” the Ponzi scheme.
This was purportedly finished by MetaForce buyers shopping for “artificially cheated” NFTs with “twisted” SFC tokens.
We wrote a program and recognized apparent circumstances of dishonest. All of them are blacklisted, their NFTs can’t be transfered [sic] for the brand new model.
When attempting emigrate, this customers will see a pop-up window with the message that “transferring the NFT is just not potential.”
The obtrusive challenge right here is that is early on. The one get together promoting NFTs was MetaForce itself.
Okhotnikov claims that by blocking MetaForce buyers from cashing out their NFTs, “equity has been restore(d)”.
Per week afterward Could twenty ninth, Okhotnikov introduced “new drastic measures” to additional restrict withdrawals.
Associates, we urgently have to take drastic measures to guard the Royalty NFT program.
The menace was created by scammers who artificialy [sic] cheated an enormous variety of SFCs and NFTs.
Now we have been fixing this drawback for a very long time by writing scripts and calculating cheated accounts and NFTs, in addition to doubtful ones (performing suspicious actions).
However after we started to examine the ultimate outcomes, the principle drawback was that typically NFTs have been very combined up.
As a result of the contributors purchased the NFTs that have been cheated, merged with their very own, and so forth. And most of them have been combined.
Okhotnikov’s answer was to implement “NFT fame” – which is fancy time period for charging MetaForce associates further charges.
Every NFT shall be assigned an extra kind of Vitality – Popularity.
When you have a flawless NFT, then Popularity = 100%, and you do not want to do something with it.
In case your fame is under 100, then you might be given a alternative of one in every of two options:
1) to improve Popularity to 100%;
2) to make an trade for a related NFT, in accordance with actual chargings plus buy prices.
You’ve most likely already labored out the ruse: Give all people’s NFT a nasty fame and acquire charges.
As MetaForce buyers capable of money out headed for the exit over the subsequent few days, Okhotnikov supplied one other replace on Could thirty first.
At Opensea, an enormous quantity of cheated NFTs have been put up on the market, which led to excessive worth dumping and combined with authorized NFTs.
Actual Royalty NFTs can’t be that low-cost. We are going to make a segregation, leaving every participant as a lot as must be in equity.
Okhotnikov’s “segregation” will see MetaForce launch a 3rd reboot of its Royalty NFTs. In fact as soon as once more, MetaForce buyers shall be charged a “fame charge” emigrate over.
And if all this was already too complicated and foolish (apparent collapsing Ponzi is clear), Okhotnikov reassured MetaForce buyers that
Sooner or later, each acquiring and charging/upgrading Royalty NFT will develop into extra difficult … will probably be tougher to acquire them over time than it’s now.
Not that it’ll have any affect on MetaForce collapsing or its nugatory NFT Ponzi positions, in a brand new replace revealed earlier right now, Okhotnikov claimed;
Funds for standing NFTs shall be enormous and their market worth shall be very excessive. Royalty NFT shall be a long-term driving power for our lively applications.
Very quickly we’ll launch our merchandise, after which we’ll join them to the Loyalty program with Cashback tokens that shall be related to Tactile.
Due to this fact, develop your online business in Tactile now, as a result of on this case, in the beginning of the Loyalty program, you’ll have an enormous benefit.
The doorways of our Metaverse, distinctive and revolutionary, shall be opened quickly, first within the beta model, then its degree will always improve, and tiers within the Uniteverse shall be entry ranges to the Metaverse.
This coincides with a brand new shitcoin launch, ForceCoin.
Okhotnikov is a Russian nationwide residing brazenly in Georgia (the nation).
Okhotnikov was indicted for wire fraud again in February. He has additionally been sued by the SEC for securities fraud.
Pending Georgian authorities doing something about Okhotnikov’s $340 million plus Ponzi scheme, he stays at giant.