In a communication to his downline, prime promoter George van Wijk has claimed Crowd1 is “unfair and unsafe”.
As per van Wijk’s communication, believed to have been despatched out late final week;
Each journey should come to an finish – EVEN if generally it isn’t the top we labored for, wished for or hoped for – and for me and my household that is one among these occasions.
I’m due to this fact formally saying that I, in good standing with the corporate, have determined to resign from my place as Ambassador 3 Star of Crowd1.
This isn’t a call that’s taken flippantly or in haste. The truth is that this determination is the end result of many months of numerous makes an attempt to steer the corporate in a course that may make it honest and protected for the distributors.
Let me make it clear this isn’t a blame recreation however a easy realization that we’ve got not been in a position to remedy the problems in a means that we’re snug with will serve the workforce members and for this I’m deeply sorry.
As leaders we’re challenged each day and our choices are impacting each single member of the workforce. We should all the time discover the right steadiness between loyalty and actuality.
In different phrases, leaders can’t have a captain’s mentality and easily insist on being the final particular person on the sinking ship – that’s not our job!
Our most essential job is to LEAD – we’re fairly merely measured on how nicely we lead individuals to the good thing about everybody. Earlier than saying our subsequent steps we need to give individuals the chance to mirror and adapt – we all know that our determination will likely be a disappointment to some and for that we’re sorry.
We might additionally wish to take this chance to thank the numerous hardworking individuals in Crowd1. To not point out all of our international leaders to whom we need to specific our gratitude and supreme loyalty.
George van Wijk
Van Wijk didn’t go into particular particulars, nonetheless Crowd1’s ongoing withdrawal delays have been well-documented.
In essence, the Ponzi facet of Crowd1 collapsed in 2020. Prime recruiters had been getting by on pyramid recruitment commissions, nonetheless Crowd1 recruitment has now additionally all however collapsed.
One other probably contributing issue is Crowd1’s full collapse in western nations.
SimilarWeb tracks a decline in Crowd1 web site visitors over the previous few months. In September 2022 Crowd1 noticed roughly 1.6 million visits to its web site. In October and November that slumped to 1.4 million.
That’s not an insignificant quantity of visitors, however for an MLM Ponzi scheme it’s stagnation. And stagnation results in collapse.
Moreover, SimilarWeb tracks prime sources of Crowd1 web site visitors as Russia (48%), Ukraine (13%) and Germany (5%).
Clearly, the vast majority of visitors to Crowd1’s web site is originating out of jap Europe. From this we are able to surmise Crowd1 has devolved into Russians scamming Russians.
And clearly that recruitment isn’t occurring in van Wijk’s downline, resulting in his exit.
Van Wijk, a Dutch nationwide, joined Crowd1 early on. As per a Feb 2022 BusinessForHome puff-piece celebrating van Wijk’s three years of Crowd1 scamming;
George van Wijk from the Netherlands, is a pacesetter who’s been with the corporate nearly from the beginning and who, via laborious work, willpower, and keenness, was the primary to achieve the rank of Ambassador.
George joined Crowd1 in early 2019, and was instantly impressed by the visionary considering of firm founder, Jonas Eric Werner. From the primary second, George was totally dedicated.
After 6 months of working lengthy hours establishing his community, George and his spouse took their work on the street. From Africa to the Philippines, South America to Europe they impressed hundreds – rising his community with occasions and shows, and taking an curiosity in others’ lives.
Internally van Wijk was additionally closely promoted as a Crowd1 chief. That is from a Crowd1 weblog publish dated December 2020;
The Dutch Ambassador George van Wijk has been part of the community advertising and marketing business for greater than 25 years.
He goes on to speak about how he has labored for a lot of completely different community advertising and marketing firms in his 25 years within the business however none of them is corresponding to Crowd1.
He places nice emphasis that what Crowd1 has turn out to be and the place the corporate is at immediately is wonderful.
When requested what Crowd1 means to him, van Wijk is quick to answer with “every thing”. He informed CROWD that Crowd1 is the very first thing on his thoughts, each morning.
He explains that it not is his occupation, it has turn out to be his ardour and a life-style. He laughs as he says that he seems like Crowd1 is a part of his DNA; he lives it and loves it.
An accompanying video interview on YouTube has since been marked personal.
How a lot van Wiljk has stolen via Crowd1 stays unclear. I estimate the determine very probably runs into the thousands and thousands, if not tens of thousands and thousands.
BehindMLM can’t communicate to van Wijk’s “greater than 25 years” in MLM. What we do know although is, previous to Crowd1, van Wijk was CEO of the thrice collapsed Nano Membership Ponzi scheme.
Regardless of his lengthy affiliation with monetary fraud, Dutch authorities have did not take motion in opposition to Wijk.
Crowd1 in the meantime is run by Jonas Werner, a Swedish nationwide who fled to Dubai final yr.
By way of Metaversy, the Ponzi scheme not too long ago introduced it was migrating investor losses from digital shares to crypto fraud.
Between ongoing cost delays, Crowd1 executives fleeing and now prime promoters abandoning ship, Metaversy seems to have failed.
This shouldn’t come as a shock, as no one in Crowd1 cares about Werners’ makes an attempt to role-play a tech CEO. They’re there for passive returns, which Crowd1 has did not pay out for 2 years.
Just like the Netherlands and van Wiljk, Swedish authorities have did not take motion in opposition to Werner or Crowd1.
As mirrored in Crowd1 basically being lifeless outdoors of jap Europe, regulators elsewhere have clamped down on the Ponzi scheme.
This yr alone:
Pending any additional Crowd1 developments, we’ll hold you posted.
