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Report status: Unverified Risk Risk level: High Last reviewed: February 2023 Category: Fake trading platform
Evidence Status
- Operator identity: not found — no company, team, or responsible entity disclosed
- Registered legal entity: not found
- Trading license: not found
- Active domains: 6 websites found — multiple different logos; one domain contains a typo in the platform name
- Verifiable product: no independently verifiable trading product or platform interface found beyond registration forms
- Awards claimed: multiple awards displayed — sources and issuing bodies could not be independently verified
- Phone number required: collected at registration — data sharing with third parties stated in platform terms including promotional material
- Algorithm documentation: not disclosed
- Trustpilot and external reviews: reviewed — see below
- Withdrawal process: not documented — elevated withdrawal risk
Do not deposit before completing independent verification.
The Crypto Genius is an automated cryptocurrency trading platform. ScammerWatch reviewed publicly available information including domain structure, claimed awards, product documentation, and external reviews. Six domains using this name were identified. The findings are documented below.
Domain Anal>Domain Analysis — 6 Identified Domains
lass="wp-block-paragraph">That’s right. Not one, but several. And that’s weird, right? But before we jump into that, we start our journey with a simple Google search.
Six results. That should raise an alarm with even a careless netizen. Legitimate businesses never use multiple websites. They also never use long or convoluted website addresses. One of the domains even has a typo, reading “… genisus”. They almost never use strange domains such as .app or .software.
Excessive use of legitimizing language — ‘official’, ‘update’, trademark symbols — is a documented signal among unverified platforms. They will namedrop, use fake or inappropriate certificates, and employ any other means of attaining rapport with interested parties.
This, in and of itself, is a huge red flag. Note the liberal use of “official” and “update” as well as the “™”. Well, if the creators only used one website, there would be no need to toy around with metadata to add all that gobbledygook.
Another unheard-of practice in legitimate businesses is using many logos. That goes entirely counter to the logic of using a logo. A logo is supposed to be a recognizable image that immediately connects with your brand.
The quality of logos aside, the sheer number and differences between them are highly unusual. The next thing that catches the eye is the signup form. For brevity’s sake, only one is provided here, but they are all same in principle and content and differ only somewhat in design.
Requesting a phone number is a highly unusual practice in the world of crypto. After all, crypto is all about unplugging from the system, right? And then there is the disclaimer about sharing your personal contact information with third-party services and receiving promotional material.
Well, alright, let’s grant for the moment that the business model requires third-party traders, why would there not be an option to not receive promotional material? No other, legitimate, crypto trading app requires a phone number, and including third parties by default is another highly unusual practice in the world of crypto.
Crypto is about unplugging, freedom, privacy, being the master of your own finances. Yet these websites are demanding that we share our private information with third-party traders and for purposes of marketing. Besides, it’s very unclear how third-party traders even fit into this business model.
The Product
The Productre being sold here is a piece of software. To be precise, a trading platform coupled with cutting-edge trading software that uses cloud computing and some other gobbledygook.
Going through these web pages trying to pinpoint the exact claims is a laborious process, no doubt by design, concocted to obfuscate the real claims. Or, to be precise, lack of any substantial claims. Eventually, they converge on at least one claim: We’re being sold a trading bot, a software.
First, think about this: Why would a company that provides a trading bot and a way to buy crypto have anything whatsoever to do with any traders? Why are they introducing a middle-man and why would these traders be involved?
Then there is the issue of fees.
So, no fees? Sounds good. Sounds great! In fact, it sounds too good. How is this company making money? Suppose, the same way as these ones, we have been warning about:
They claim they invested a lot of money to develop this platform and this software. Then, there are the operational costs, price of servers, and that 24/7 customer support staff they boast about…
One of the websites says this. No mention of fees but we see the magical $250 figure, a favorite of scammers. At least they are recommending it here. You can still dip your fingers into this project with, like, just $10, right? Wrong.
Yet another of these websites asks very specifically for a deposit of exactly $250. So, at the end, which is it? Is it no fees or deposits or is it $250?
The Awards
The Awardsral to boast about your product. That’s what marketing mostly is. So it’s no surprise that The Crypto Genius would do it too. Awards and certifications are a great way to ease customers into trusting you with their money and information.
Again, which is it? If you are mentioning awards – you are boasting. So which awards are those? Maybe other websites will tell us more.
Note how much text you have to go through to get to the third passage where you can find the first semblance of an answer to the question in the header. These websites are 95% fluff and talk about crypto or Bitcoin. And no wonder because just below…
The first mention of an award! Great. Which year? Also, there is no such thing as the US Trading Association award, but if you Google “US Trading Association bitcoin awards” you will run into several similar claims made by similarly shady projects.
Then, wading through the word salad, we can see another gem.
What in tarnation is the New Spy anyway? Well, as it turns out when you are running multiple scams with multiple websites that you just recycle code and text for, these errors occur. Some of them we’ve already reviewed:
We get artifacts and clues that help us connect even more shady projects.
While the names of other sites may lead one to believe this might not be connected, sure enough, one of the websites is titled “New Spy” – both singular. Inside, we see all the telltale signs of a scam. Phone number, word salad, different logos, etc.
This should seal the deal even for the most trusting and enthusiastic person just looking to lose that $250 or more. But, since we’re already here, let’s keep going.
External clues
ScammerWatch >External clues verify individual user reports. The following reflects publicly available information at the time of the original investigation.
Turning to Trustpilot in the case of this scam is unsatisfactory.
Only two of the websites are listed, there are no reviews, and no additional info about the company or contact that we could dig into some more.
On the other hand, this may well mean that the scam is not fully developed and deployed yet and that people haven’t been hooked.
Thus, it is a cloned website, made by the same criminal team behind a series of scam crypto bots such as:
Looking up information about the website domains on ICANN gives unsurprising results.
It is a very common strategy for scammers to use Cloudflare as it protects the identity of the person(s) registering the domain. This doesn’t mean that everyone using Cloudflare is a scammer or a hacker, but merely that such services, for all their benefits and upsides, happen to provide a safe haven for the less reputable folk.
In and of itself it isn’t solid proof, but coupled with all the other shady elements presented, this all should be enough to convince anyone to stay well away from this product.
Verification Status
Risk level: High. Six domains using The Crypto >Verification Statused — including one with a typo in the platform name. Multiple logos were found across these domains. No independently verifiable trading product or platform interface was found beyond registration forms requiring a phone number and agreeing to third-party data sharing. Awards displayed on the platform could not be independently verified. Operator identity and trading license could not be found.
This assessment is based on documented evidence and does not constitute a legal determination of fraud. If you have used The Crypto Genius and experienced withdrawal difficulties, deposit loss, or have screenshots, transaction records, or communication logs related to this platform, submit them at scammerwatch.com/report-a-scam .
FAQ on The Crypto Genius
It’s a complex scam designed as a wide-net-cast type of scam aiming to catch as many people as possible. Ultimately, it most likely comes down to robbing you of your initial deposit, but further solicitations are highly likely given the disclaimer about your phone number in the beginning.
Yes, in all likelihood. Unfortunately, no other platforms have caught on as of yet, but you don’t have to be the first one to leave that bad review.
You cannot make any money with this product if the product exists at all.
No. All the clues compiled above heavily imply that this is a scam and any reasonable person will heed the advice to stay away from this one.
