The Neura Applied sciences Ponzi scheme has collapsed.
As a substitute of simply admitting new funding ran out to pay withdrawals, Neura Applied sciences is stringing traders together with restoration guarantees.
Neura Applied sciences was an AI cashback ruse Ponzi that launched mid final yr.
The fraudulent funding scheme is believed to have been run by Russian scammers.
On February fifteenth Neura Applied sciences acknowledged it had disabled withdrawals. The collapse ruse trotted out was baloney about “financial institution remembers” and “fraudulent advert purchases”.
We sincerely apologize for the shortage of full info over the previous week.
We have been initially working to completely perceive the state of affairs ourselves earlier than speaking it to you. This example arose unexpectedly, requiring us to react shortly.
Right here’s what occurred:
– Our web site is operational, and we’re engaged on enhancements, however fraudsters used stolen playing cards to buy massive portions of promoting finances, doubtless trying to withdraw the cashback. Carding assault precipitated the freezing of the funds and our rolling reserve in our financial institution in Canada.
– Our accounts with a lot of the promoting platforms have been closed on account of the financial institution remembers.
– Our accounts with cashback aggregators are additionally affected by fraudulent advert purchases.
In fact new investments continued to be processed with out subject.
Neura Applied sciences promised to resolve withdrawal points “inside per week”.
On February nineteenth Neura Applied sciences rolled out its “restoration plan” exit-scam:
As beforehand introduced, our website operations have been disrupted because of carding exercise. We have now developed a complete restoration plan to revive regular service as shortly as attainable.
Our Restoration Plan:
1. Switch all unspent promoting budgets to a separate account.
2. Calculate the entire quantity of “pending” cashback and allocate funds to cowl these obligations.
3. Calculate the entire quantity of verified cashback plus pending withdrawals and allocate funds to cowl these obligations.
4. Resume launching new promoting campaigns in keeping with our commonplace process.
5. Reactivate promoting campaigns utilizing the unspent budgets transferred in step 1.
6. Set up a compensation mechanism for quantities recognized in step 3.
7. Set up a compensation mechanism for quantities recognized in step 2.
In a nutshell; fund collapsed Neura Applied sciences funding accounts with unallocated monopoly cash from the backoffice, and new funding.
As for withdrawals;
Determination relating to compensation mechanisms for pending … withdrawals will likely be finalized after the marketing campaign is again to regular operation.
Neura Applied sciences begged for one more week to give you the following part of its exit-scam.
Usually Ponzi admins go the “carrot on a stick” sort exit-scam path to stall for time. Whereas traders are fed a bunch of baloney, what’s truly taking place is admins are creating as a lot house between the cash they’ve stolen and traders.
After one closing exit-scam replace, communication stops, web site disappears and so on. and so on.
When BehindMLM reviewed Neura Applied sciences in November 2024 we famous Russia, France, Ukraine and Vietnam as high sources of web site visitors.
Between December 2024 and January 2025, Neura Applied sciences noticed a 25% discount in web site visitors. This and the corresponding lowered funding is the precise cause for the collapse.
As of January 2024, SimilarWeb’s tracked high sources of Neura Applied sciences web site visitors have been Russia (38%), France (16%), Azerbaijan (9%), Ukraine (7%) and Belarus (5%).
Neura Applied sciences’ Russian speaking-scammers seem to have gotten in and gotten out. Out of the above international locations, solely France noticed any progress (28% month on month).
Complete Neura Applied sciences traders and the way a lot they’ve misplaced stays unknown.