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The Team Behind PlusToken Scam Got Arrested in China

Six Chinese citizens who carried out the PlusToken scam were arrested in Vanuatu, China.

PlusToken Ponzi Scheme promised users high monthly ROI(6-18%) by simply transferring your crypto to their PlusToken wallet that supported multiple crypto currencies ( Pluscoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, XRP, Dogecoin, EOS, and Dash) and was available on Android and iOS platforms.

PlusToken Wallet

The PlusToken Wallet had over 2.4 million active members who were mainly from Asian countries. PlusToken claimed that their system would increase the users crypto assets through arbitrage trading.

PlusToken team carried out multiple paid social media campaigns, a very generous referral program and organized multiple events to promote their Ponzi Scheme and to attract more victims.

PlusToken Meeting Event in Tokyo, Japan

Finally, it all collapsed when PlusToken stole all of their users funds around 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion USD).

Sying Tien

Professional Trader, Social media scholar and a Crypto expert. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions feel free to contact me at sying.tien@thecoinspost.com and i will get back to you shortly.

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