They collected this by cash and bank transfer.
Iranian public had no clue what is the difference between bitcoin and shitcoin!
People easily get tricked by scammers when they are told that some random coins is going to grow as big as bitcoin. Watch those scammers, most of them hide behind Bitcoin's success to sell their scams.
I had some people in my community who totally believed that Onecoin would be bigger than Bitcoin

It's quite sad that the Government that is supposed to protect people from such scams instead decided to the oppoite.