Quote from: neotronix on June 17, 2018, 08:00:25 AM

Quote from: tmfp on June 13, 2018, 08:56:59 PM

It's one of those slowburn scams that seem to be a particular favorite in Russia, home of the HYIP.

Russia is not a home of the HYIP. Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) is an American of Italian descent. Generally, we do not touch on the topic of nationality here.

There were ponzis before Ponzi.
The acronym HYIP (as opposed to uncapitalized "high yield investment program) is a modern term of scam obfuscation, having different shades of meaning in different societies.
My reference to Russia was not derogatory per se, but based on my experience of analysing hundreds of these schemes.
Multi 'investment', sprawling, baroque creations such as this one are a popular template for attracting investors/players/mugs from Russia and Eastern Europe.
Other countries favor other structures: Africans have a weakness for cash gifting schemes, Americans a soft spot for miracle cures, supplements and such like, whereas South Asian schemes based on "education" are very popular.
Of course these are generalizations; there are global scam favorites like forex and arbitrage which appeal to "passive investors" everywhere.

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You can not say that anything is a scam before someone has been deceived. Otherwise you are lying.
Read Why Mercury Global work endlessly?

Both of these points are nonsense.
A scam is a scam, irrespective of whether or when the victim realizes it.
Mercury Global does not and never will "work endlessly", it is a reboot of Mercury Mutual Fund which collapsed in 2016 and will collapse in due course itself.
This phase of the scam is usually heralded by signs of an exit strategy, for example when participants are encouraged by discounts or premiums to send funds outside of the normal accounting procedure, directly to the personal account of the admins.
Like this.....

Quote from: neotronix on June 15, 2018, 03:17:00 PM

The Keepers, who participate in the Leadership Summit, have made a collegial decision to hold a festive promotion for all participants of Mercury Global.

From 15 to 21 June inclusive, each participant, who transfers funds to the project management directly from the payment system Perfect Money, receives + 10% to the transferred funds.

This is getting off topic for this thread so I won't respond any more here, but have crossposted this to here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2460570.40
where, no doubt, the charade will play out. That's play out, not pay out....