TOST fails to supply possession or govt info on its web site.
TOST operates from 5 recognized web site domains:
- tostq.com – privately registered on December twenty third, 2023 (major web site)
- tostadon.com – first registered in 2020, personal registration final up to date on June twenty first, 2024 (app funnel)
- ntost.com – first registered in 2004, personal registration final up to date on June twenty first, 2024 (app funnel)
- ctostapp.xyz – registered with bogus particulars on August twentieth, 2024 (app funnel)
- ctost.com – registered with bogus particulars on June sixteenth, 2024 (app funnel)
There are possible different TOST web site domains we’re not conscious of.
Regardless of current for lower than a yr, on its web site TOST gives a bogus roadmap relationship again to 2018:
If we click on on the help part of certainly one of TOST’s web sites, we be taught it runs on the Meiqia platform.
Meiqia is a Chinese language software program firm primarily based out of Beijing. This implies whoever is working JAUSD has ties to China.
As at all times, if an MLM firm isn’t brazenly upfront about who’s working or owns it, suppose lengthy and arduous about becoming a member of and/or handing over any cash.
TOST’s Merchandise
TOST has no retailable services or products.
Associates are solely in a position to market TOST affiliate membership itself.
TOST’s Compensation Plan
TOST associates make investments tether (USDT). That is executed on the promise of marketed passive returns:
- VIP1 – make investments 30 USDT and obtain 1.8% to three% a day
- VIP2 – make investments 500 USDT and obtain 2.8% to three.3% a day
- VIP3 – make investments 2000 USDT and obtain 3.3% to three.8% a day
- VIP4 – make investments 6000 USDT and obtain 3.8% to 4.3% a day
- VIP5 – make investments 20,000 USDT and obtain 4.3% to 4.8% a day
- VIP6 – make investments 100,000 USDT and obtain 4.8% to five.3% a day
TOST pays referral commissions on invested USDT down three ranges of recruitment (unilevel):
- stage 1 (personally recruited associates) – 21%
- stage 2 – 7%
- stage 3 – 3%
Becoming a member of TOST
TOST affiliate membership is free.
Full participation within the connected earnings alternative requires a minimal 30 USDT funding.
TOST Conclusion
TOST is yet one more “click on a button” app Ponzi scheme.
TOST’s “click on a button” Ponzi ruse is quantitative buying and selling:
TOST’s imaginative and prescient is to change into a worldwide chief in quantitative buying and selling expertise and drive the longer term improvement of the fintech trade.
The offered ruse is TOST associates log in and click on a button (the extra invested the extra the button must be clicked).
Clicking the button purportedly generates income through quantitative buying and selling, which for some purpose TOST shares a proportion of with affiliate buyers.
If that is senseless it’s as a result of it doesn’t. Randoms clicking a button in an app doesn’t set off quantitative buying and selling.
In actuality clicking a button inside TOST’s app does nothing. All TOST does is recycle newly invested funds to pay earlier buyers.
TOST is a part of a gaggle of “click on a button” app Ponzis which have emerged since late 2021.
Examples of already collapsed “click on a button” app Ponzis utilizing the identical quantitative buying and selling ruse embody World Quant AI, AI World and Wheatland AI.
Since 2021 BehindMLM has documented lots of of “click on a button” app Ponzis. Most of them final a couple of weeks to a couple months earlier than collapsing.
“Click on a button” app Ponzis disappear by disabling each their web sites and app. This tends to occur with out discover, leaving the vast majority of buyers with a loss (inevitable Ponzi math).
Organized crime pursuits from China function rip-off factories behind “click on a button” Ponzis from south-east Asian international locations.
In September 2024, the US Division of Treasury sanctioned Cambodian politician Ly Yong Phat over ties to Chinese language human trafficking rip-off factories.
Via varied corporations he owns, Phat is alleged to shelter Chinese language scammers working out of Cambodia.
No matter which nation they function from, the identical group of Chinese language scammers are believed to be behind the “click on a button” app Ponzi plague.