If it looks too good to be true, it always is!
Hello all, I hope you find this an interesting and educational read.
I have operated in the digital investing and crypto world for just over 4 years now and seen all types of things, it truly is the Wild Wild West.
When I was introduced to Biticodetrade I instantly thought it was a scam, I have seen many like it.
I set out to do my due diligence which is always extensive and as follows :
- scrutiny of the website, here you will find many spelling errors, fake pictures when you zoom in. Just zoom in on the Biticode signs in their offices and on the building, they are all super imposed on. With that said, the actual website platform is of good quality and could easily trick people on 1st glance/speed reading it.
- Claims the company is based in Finland, you will find the spoken English on the chat support is quite poor, I am English and have met many Scandinavians of whom the vast majority of the time speak better English than myself. This was an instant red flag.
The registered offices in Finland are fake, I spent time to check on google maps/street view to locate them and they are not there, the building is totally different to that shown on the website. In fact, in the building at ground floor is a Japanese restaurant which I contacted to arrange a meal for the Biticode team upon my arrival, the Japanese restaurant confirmed the building was made up of private apartments and they had never heard of Biticode trade.
If that is not enough, I flew to Helsinki for 2 days and the supposed offices are just 30 minutes from the airport, there were no Biticodetrade offices at the address.
-I also made enquiries to Finlands national register of companies to again find no trace of a registered Biticodetrade trading company. My belief is the operators of Biticodetrade are from Eastern Asia and likely China.
This next section will help you in general and to understand the Biticodetrade model. it is a "Ponzi scheme" of a varying form. My belief is that it is a pyramid scheme within your own downlines, you are encouraged to recruit downlines of which you will receive 10% discount of their deposits, however I believe Biticodetrade have a clever system that funds from yourself and your downlines you will never be able to withdraw more than you and your downlines have deposited, this took us 3 months of investing to see the pattern and how they implement that, the common excuse is "Biticodetrade are doing a system upgrade and please be patient". The name of the game is for Biticodetrade to "buy time" when they manage this investors end up getting on with their general day to day lives and forget about it.
Finally, schemes of this nature run for months to sometimes years, it will be the intentions of the fraudsters to reach a certain amount of funds and then "rug pull" the operation and disappear with the funds, unless of course the authorities catch them first. So, lets say the fund they want to build is $10 million, it could take 3-5 years to build up and in that time they have to actually run this as a business honouring return payouts, but just remember they are well calculating you and your downlines deposits and you will never get out as a group more than you have put in, they simply use funds from within your group to pay each other, as soon as no fresh funds are depsoited within your own downlines then the withdrawals are stopped.
I had a very good idea of all of these things before I invested but it is simply a matter of timing, if the scam is young enough you have a chance of extracting returns, the closer the scam is near its financial target the high likelihood you will NOT get your money out, yes the returns are high and actually unsustainable if you know much about investments.
It was worth a gamble in my opinion and it hasn't paid off, I have lost c,$5000 and my downlines collectively c. $15,000.
The current state of play is Biticode trade have been on a system upgrade for 4 weeks, you can deposit but you cannot withdraw. They just keep saying "we will email when the upgrade is complete", there was no pre-notice of the supposed upgrade which is highly irregular in the digital space from any company who has any reputation to upkeep.
I have decided to post a review on a monthly basis for all to read and should Biticode implement their upgrade and continue allowing withdrawals then I will be the 1st to re-post a review giving an honest update and current state of play, if not then they deserve to be exposed and thankfully we have platforms like TrustPilot that enable us to do as such.
I have read every single review on TrustPilot for Biticode and if you do the same you will see a reoccurring theme in all the messages so I am sure the integrity of the messages are suspect to say the least.
Please look out for next months update.
Thanks and hope this helps preserve your own hard earned savings.
March 27, 2023
Unprompted review