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One thing that's amazing about this scam is the sheer level of orchestration behind it. They had professionally produced music videos, polished conferences, and

• ChainOfFools 5y ago
  See also: Scientology It's not hard to find creative, talented people who will work a gig for a buck and not ask too many questions. It's not that they are inherently willing to assist in fraud or deception, it's that they simply have bills to pay and there is an oversupply of skill to choose from.
  • Barrin92 5y ago
    in the case of scientology in particular it's quite a lot more sinister, they basically subject the low level 'employees' to forced labour under bogus contracts and physical and mental abuse https://theweek.com/articles/495686/scientologys-slave-labor-scandal https://theweek.com/articles/495686/scientologys-slave-labor...
• jl2718 5y ago
  Who was this marketed to? I feel like I was watching a lot of stuff at the time, speaking at conferences etc, but I never came across BitConnect until “WuzawuzawuzawuzUuuuup” and it seemed everybody knew it was a scam by then. Also, these are extremely scammy, just repetition of telling people to give their money right in the lyrics. I find it hard to believe that first-world English speakers would be convinced by it.