Super.Fraud - How the conditions of the corona virus - provided an occasion for a scam. A serial Novella in real time - 5

Googling the Super.One

So I had told Nne we were going to do some googling to find out about the company but even this was not as intuitive or easy as you might imagine. Everyone thinks googling is easy, but what do you key into the ‘search fields’? What keywords or combinations of keywords do you use. Typing Super.One into the fields didn’t help and was counterintuitive. Doing that dredged up every possible imagined link from companies that had used the name Super.One in the past to all the other slight uses of the phrase Super One. I saw one such company from 2009! The Telegram links and other minutiae put out for all those who had heard pitches by Andreas and the rest of the ‘downline bunch’ in the last 48 hours were all appeared on the results. These were not necessarily what we were looking for.

"Look Nne, when googling-up companies, especially those projects promising any kind of action in this crypto space you try to find out about the teams behind specific projects. You try to guage the level of noise or lack of noise being made by those already active in the crypto-investing industry. Did Satoshi suddenly materialise out of the ether to say something about Super.One? Did Vitalik Buterin tweet about the company? How about Brian Armstrong? How about Brad Garlinghouse or Jack Dorsey have they made a tweet or two about SRX? This is sometimes how you check.

In other words, 'You gauge'. "
"Kelly, I don't know these guys."
I went on.
"For all the pomp and enthusiasm of Andreas rising voice, talking about how they were selling to millennials, what, if anything had the major players said?" We spent some 20 minis chatting and then I asked her. "And what do you know about this Andreas Christensen?"
"Well...", she began, "I'll ask Paul. You don’t see a lot about him online because when you search for him using his name, the name of the footballer pops up everywhere instead."
"Oh I see, you mean the Chelsea FC star …"
"Yes, but I'll ask Paul, later."

She went off her chat screen for a bit - something she had to do, we had been Zooming and I continued solo.

I spent another hour just looking at stuff and wondering. And then boom! Some information about how ICOs (initial coin offerings) were not meant to be placed on an MLM footing did the trick. An investment advice website online was on to these guys and the Super.Fraud way before I got to it.

Apparently, the same Super.One Ponzi scheme trick had already been tried a bit in 2017. At the time, the same Andreas Christensen or someone using the same name had tried to use ‘Mowjow’ to sell on a trivia game app for mobiles. Mojow was the name of the dodgy coin, then.

Yet here they were, back on in 2020, telling people that sitting at home was boring and that the lockdown might last for some time yet. And how it was a perfect time to get people looking at game Apps on their phones and how the opportunity was ‘H-U-G-E’.
But, it wasn't huge. It was crap. There were even ‘research grade’ papers online - describing what an Ethereum-based smart scam was. My fiends were going to be sold down the river, again. Since some of them had fallen prey to such scams before, I had to warn them, but they were naïve and just didn’t know how to do this research and what it all meant.

I started playing around then with the idea of writing a short book to share all of this knowledge. I was glad that my instincts had not played me false. How come people were putting money into this thing without really looking at it? And who really was Andreas Christensen?

Receiving:

ETH: 0x9FB0C66dDF23d3FC27D51292BED4FE5976141ecD
BTC: 36RfSFdhFzWaeXY4QhZcsSNpLBnEhDFEsz
XRP: rGEaTwxhz5UvgH4eFNz7TnYvE3v64S2Zit