{ "database": "Kunch Blacklist Database", "id": "kunch-blacklist", "version": "2026.10.17", "updated": "2026-10-17", "maintainer": "Kunch Foundation", "homepage": "https://kunch.shop/blacklist", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "count": 13, "format_note": "Static, versioned snapshot. 'confirmed' entries are backed by at least two independent public sources; 'reported' entries await verification.", "disclaimer": "An entry in this database means the domain is documented as part of a fraudulent operation. A domain that is NOT listed is not automatically safe — verify any crypto site independently before entering a seed phrase, key or funds.", "entries": [ { "domain": "bitconnect.co", "case": "BitConnect", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2017", "description": "The 'volatility trading bot' platform that paid ~1% daily returns out of new deposits and collapsed in January 2018 after multiple US state cease-and-desist orders. The SEC and DOJ put total victim losses at roughly $2.4 billion.", "sources": [ { "name": "SEC — charges against BitConnect and top promoters", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021-172" }, { "name": "DOJ — BitConnect founder indicted ($2.4B scheme)", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/bitconnect-founder-indicted-global-24-billion-cryptocurrency-scheme" } ] }, { "domain": "onecoin.eu", "case": "OneCoin", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2017", "description": "Official site of the OneCoin pyramid, a fake cryptocurrency with no blockchain that raised an estimated 4 billion euro across 175 countries. Founder Ruja Ignatova is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list; co-founder Sebastian Greenwood received 20 years.", "sources": [ { "name": "FBI Ten Most Wanted — Ruja Ignatova", "url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova" } ] }, { "domain": "onelife.eu", "case": "OneCoin / OneLife", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2017", "description": "The OneCoin affiliate and recruitment arm (OneLife), which drove the multi-level-marketing machine behind the fake coin. Part of the same scheme dismantled in US federal prosecutions.", "sources": [ { "name": "FBI Ten Most Wanted — Ruja Ignatova", "url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova" } ] }, { "domain": "oneecosystem.eu", "case": "OneCoin rebrand ('One Ecosystem')", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2019", "description": "The rebranded successor portal of the OneCoin operation, still selling 'educational packages' and the ONE token long after OneCoin's founders were charged. Treat any One Ecosystem property as part of the original scheme.", "sources": [ { "name": "FBI Ten Most Wanted — Ruja Ignatova", "url": "https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/ruja-ignatova" } ] }, { "domain": "forsage.io", "case": "Forsage", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2022", "description": "A 'smart contract' recruiting pyramid (X3/X4 matrices) on Ethereum, Tron and BSC that took in over $340 million from millions of retail investors. Eleven promoters were charged by the SEC in August 2022 and the DOJ indicted the four founders the same week.", "sources": [ { "name": "SEC — Forsage charged ($340M Ponzi)", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-127" } ] }, { "domain": "bitclub.network", "case": "BitClub Network", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2019", "description": "A fake bitcoin 'mining pool' share scheme that raised at least $722 million from April 2014 until its dismantling in December 2019. Creators Matthew Goettsche, Silviu Balaci and Jobadiah Weeks were indicted by a federal grand jury.", "sources": [ { "name": "DOJ (D.N.J.) — United States v. Goettsche et al., BitClub Network", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/bitclub" } ] }, { "domain": "squidgame.cash", "case": "Squid Game Token (SQUID)", "category": "rug", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2021", "description": "The 'play-to-earn' token site behind the November 2021 SQUID rug pull: holders could buy but not sell, and the developers drained roughly $3.3 million from the liquidity pool before vanishing.", "sources": [ { "name": "BBC News — Squid Game crypto token collapses in apparent scam", "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59129466" } ] }, { "domain": "bitcoinloophole.com", "case": "Bitcoin Loophole & clone network", "category": "fakebot", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2019", "description": "The flagship domain of the 'AI trading bot' scam family (Bitcoin Evolution, Bitcoin Era, Immediate Edge and hundreds of clones) that uses fake celebrity endorsements and a $250 deposit hook. The UK FCA lists the operation among unauthorised firms; new clone domains appear weekly.", "sources": [ { "name": "FCA Warning List of unauthorised firms", "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/warning-list-unauthorised-firms" } ] }, { "domain": "plexcoin.com", "case": "PlexCoin / PlexCorps", "category": "ico-fraud", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2017", "description": "The token-sale site for 'PlexCoin', which promised 1,354% returns in under a month. The SEC won an emergency asset freeze in November 2017, and Quebec's AMF ordered the websites shut; founder Dominic Lacroix was also jailed for contempt.", "sources": [ { "name": "SEC — emergency asset freeze, PlexCorps / PlexCoin", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-219" } ] }, { "domain": "plexcorps.com", "case": "PlexCoin / PlexCorps", "category": "ico-fraud", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2017", "description": "The corporate site of PlexCorps, the entity behind the PlexCoin offering. Frozen by the SEC alongside plexcoin.com in the first ICO fraud action of its kind.", "sources": [ { "name": "SEC — emergency asset freeze, PlexCorps / PlexCoin", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-219" } ] }, { "domain": "arisebank.com", "case": "AriseBank", "category": "ico-fraud", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2018", "description": "A self-described 'decentralized bank' that claimed to offer FDIC-insured accounts and its own bitShares-backed card while raising an ICO. The SEC halted the scheme in January 2018 and obtained a receiver; founders Jared Rice and Stanley Ford faced federal fraud charges.", "sources": [ { "name": "SEC — halts $600M AriseBank ICO fraud", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-8" } ] }, { "domain": "usi-tech.io", "case": "USI-Tech", "category": "ponzi", "status": "confirmed", "flagged": "2017", "description": "An 'automated forex/bitcoin trading package' MLM that regulators in Texas and elsewhere moved against in late 2017; it recruited for a purported bitcoin mining and trading return and is listed among unauthorised firms by the UK FCA.", "sources": [ { "name": "FCA Warning List of unauthorised firms", "url": "https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/warning-list-unauthorised-firms" } ] }, { "domain": "bitid.netlify.app", "case": "Community report", "category": "reported", "status": "reported", "flagged": "2026", "description": "Submitted to the Kunch report queue and added to the working database pending verification. Status 'reported' means the entry has NOT completed the two-source confirmation process required for case-file publication.", "sources": [ { "name": "Kunch Foundation report queue", "url": "https://kunch.shop/blacklist#report" } ] } ] }