Serial scammer Darren Olayan’s newest grift is a Ponzi scheme run by way of Disruptive Studio.
BehindMLM first got here throughout Disruptive Studio in our Crypto CNL overview, revealed again in June.
Disruptive Studio was behind inventive designs for quite a few MLM crypto Ponzi schemes, however didn’t appear to be operating any itself.
One in every of Disruptive Studio’s designs was for Naka Video games, a part of Darren Olayan’s BitMobb Ponzi manufacturing facility.
Given the vast majority of Disruptive Studio’s designs have been for Russian Ponzi schemes, I figured there was a tie-in. What I wasn’t clear on is the place Olayan slot in.
I’m not precisely clear on the connection between Darren Olayan and this Russian Ponzi manufacturing facility. Nevertheless it seems they’re possible working collectively in some capability.
To my shock Disruptive Studios popped up on my radar once more final month. This time in connection to analysis into iComTech.
iComTech was an MLM crypto Ponzi that collapsed in mid to late 2019. Final month the DOJ filed felony prices in opposition to 4 iComTech’s founder and three promoters.
Though not arrested, one in every of iComTech’s prime promoters I got here throughout in my background analysis was Refugio Aguilera.
As per the captioned screenshot above, taken and utilized in our iComTech arrest article, Aguilera is presently Advertising and marketing Officer at Disruptive Studio.
That very same analysis lead me to this since deleted November 4th put up on Refugio’s private FaceBook account:
That’s Daniel Cruz on the left and Darren Olayan on the correct, showing on a Disruptive Studio Zoom webinar launch.
Cruz is Chairman at Disruptive Studio and operates out of Arizona.
Darren Olayan is a serial scammer behind quite a few collapsed Ponzi schemes (branded primarily beneath Nui, Symatri and Mintage Mining).
So what have been Cruz and Olayan launching?
Not content material with designing logos and branding for scams, Disruptive Studio have gone and launched their very own in-house crypto Ponzi. And naturally its received Darren Olayan’s handiwork throughout it.
There’s nothing exceptional about Disruptive Studio’s crypto Ponzi. It’s constructed across the DISR shit token, and is the same old buying and selling bot, NFT, mEtAvErSe bullshit.
Behind that you’ve staking, which is the guts of the Ponzi scheme. Beneath the staking Ponzi mannequin, traders put money into DISR, park tokens with Disruptive Studio and accumulate returns in DISR.
Like all Ponzi scheme, the purpose is to money out greater than you’ve invested. Disruptive Studio pays withdrawal requests out of invested funds – essential to it being a Ponzi scheme.
The DISR staking program and buying and selling bot scheme are additionally securities choices, which neither Disruptive Studio, Daniel Cruz or Darren Olayan are registered to supply.
The truth is the rationale Olayan has launched his new Ponzi scheme behind a associate is as a result of he himself isn’t any stranger to securities fraud.
After claiming his Kala Ponzi scheme had “stability and safety with the SEC“, US authorities filed a securities fraud stop and desist in opposition to Olayan and Nui again in 2018.
The C&D, issued by Texas, finally led to a $25,000 fantastic.
In 2019 Montana issued a comparable securities fraud stop and desist in opposition to Nui and Olayan. This was adopted by Michigan in early 2020 – and an eventual $595,000 securities fraud fantastic from Utah later that very same yr.
The 2020 regulatory crackdown on Olayan, who was residing in Utah at time, go underground.
As of Might 2022, Olayan was nonetheless scamming folks by way of BitMobb. BitMobb encompassed Nui Worldwide (a Ponzi focusing on Brazil), with a bunch of different Kala centric failed or failing schemes.
Across the time BehindMLM coated BitMobb, Olayan seems to have deserted it. BitMobb’s final official FaceBook put up is dated April twenty sixth, 2022.
I’m not seeing an MLM part to Disruptive Studio’s DISR Ponzi however I wouldn’t be shocked if it was weaved in.
For readability, right here’s a breakdown of the recognized elements of Disrupt Studio’s Ponzi:
- Disruptive Studio – design firm working with Darren Olayan
- Disruptiverse – NFT market platform
- Disruptive Protocol – branding of DISR token, a BEP-20 shit token
- Disruptive Bots – buying and selling bot securities fraud, charges collected per transaction in DISR
- Disruptive Funds – in home fee processor, i.e. the cash laundering facet of the Ponzi
- Tradetizen – deliberate change, may need been deserted
Consistent with Olayan’s promotional efforts after the US crackdown, Disruptive Studios’ Ponzi targets Central and South America.
