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Text: New Voices of the Metaverse, Author: Gao Le
Although the metaverse seems to have become a "household name" under the bombardment of several years, no matter from the questions often asked by backstage readers or the feedback from friends around them who don't know much about the technology field, most people actually lack basic understanding of the concept of "metaverse".
And the end of the year is approaching, such a "high" unfamiliar concept will undoubtedly become the entry point of fraudsters from all walks of life. Therefore, Metaverse New Voice deliberately planned the "Metaverse Anti-Fraud" feature before the Spring Festival to dismantle the previous routines about Metaverse fraud, in order to reduce losses for readers and their families and friends, and welcome the arrival of the Year of the Dragon with peace of mind and joy.
On December 17, 2023, the Xinjiangkou Water and Land Police Station found that netizens with the WeChat nickname "Brother Carpenter [Circle of Friends Only Talks About Making Money]" posted false information, claiming that "Zhou Weiwei, a police officer from a police station in Jingzhou, Hubei Province, made money through the metaverse".
The police immediately organized an investigation, locked up and summoned the publisher, Zhen Moumou. According to the investigation, in order to improve the credibility of the "Force Metaverse" project, Zhen Moumou deliberately fabricated the above-mentioned false information and widely spread it in WeChat moments and group chats.
In view of the fact that he had more than 1,300 WeChat friends and was involved in as many as 60 WeChat groups, which had caused a serious social impact, after interrogation, Zhen Moumou confessed to his behavior of spreading false information and disrupting public order, and was finally administratively detained for 10 days for spreading rumors.
After the word metaverse has been fanciously deconstructed from the positive, negative and even illegal levels for more than three years, there are still "believers" who use such commotion to add jokes to the metaverse, which is somewhat beyond the scope of normal cognition.
And a few seconds after the brain short-circuited, such an operation is true, and I can't help but investigate where this "Force Metaverse" is sacred.
As an abstract "metaverse" project, the first step in the investigation of the Force Metaverse encountered huge obstacles, and after searching for relevant words in multiple search engines in Chinese and English, the official website of the Force Metaverse caused huge confusion.
After all, conventionally speaking, for gangs whose ultimate goal is to cut leeks, building a website that can bluff people is the first step in harvesting.
However, the websites of different versions of the Force Metaverse reveal an inexplicable pheasant atmosphere, which not only has no connection with the metaverse full of technology, but is even so simple that it is somewhat suspicious that the gang's work to reduce costs and increase efficiency has achieved great results.
Fortunately, the humble website did not block the transmission of key information, and at a time when many scams at a glance could not attract attention, a statement attracted the attention of the new voice of the metaverse.
In this clarification of "Does Fosage have anything to do with our Force Metaverse", the team said:
Mr. Rado is indeed a co-founder who participated in the construction of Fosache, because Fosage only has a pyramid model, no ecology, only investment behavior. No one in the founder of Fosage agreed, and then last year Mr. Rado brought more than 400,000 members, that is, on July 13, 2022, with our Force Metaverse!
Who is Rado?What is Fossacchi?Why did the Force Metaverse carry out such an operation without three hundred taels of silver here?Before he could react, another statement that "we have nothing to do with Fossacchi" came into view.
The gist of the statement is that Lado's new project intends to build a global metaverse ecological business district, which is fundamentally different from the operation model and concept of Fosage - Rado is committed to building a regulated and healthy metaverse environment, and his desire is to build a global business ecosystem where participants can co-create, build together, and achieve a win-win situation.
In line with the norms, ecosystem, co-creation, and win-win, I feel that the second statement is better than not adding, and the four big words are welded on the face.
So, what is Fosache?
To put it simply, Forsage is a cryptocurrency project that was launched on February 6, 2020 and entered the Chinese market around July of the same year. At the time, the project claimed to have about 800,000 users worldwide and involved more than 30 countries.
The core model of the project is the so-called matrix model, which in short, mainly relies on the way of pulling people's heads to operate, does it smell familiar?
Essentially, Fosage is a multi-level marketing (MLM) pyramid scheme disguised as a cryptocurrency project. The platform claims to have created the world's first 100% decentralized smart contract, but in reality, it uses complex jargon about cryptocurrencies and blockchain to confuse and appeal to investors who don't know much about the space.
Generally speaking, such projects usually provide so-called static returns, but this model collapses when the new investors' funds are not enough to cover the losses of the previous investors.
In 2020, as the scam continued to expand, Fosage was eventually boycotted by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). In addition, the founder of Ethereum also warned about this potential Ponzi scheme, emphasizing that Fosage should not be allowed to pollute the Ethereum ecosystem, which is where Mr. Rado came in.
So, who is Rado?
This Russian math genius who meditates on the glowing earth on the PS, coupled with the text introduction next to it, does seem to fit people's stereotypes of fraudsters.
And it was this Mr. Labrador who created the 2.0 version of Fosage - the Force Metaverse.
The upgraded grass platform team is still the grass platform team
Frankly speaking, version 2.0 is a bit more advanced in terms of language packaging, and this version claims to have a "fusion upgrade" on the basis of the original Forsage mode, and launched a model called "Сlassic Classic Matrix". In this model, investors use BUSD to participate on the BSC chain, followed by the newly launched Force token.
Such an operation naturally raises questions about the actual value of the token, its attractiveness, and the mechanism for maintaining it.
After all, historically, similar projects have basically suffered a crash after launching a so-called token, because internal members sold a large number of tokens in order to cash - in this case, whether the project will maintain the value of the token has become an important question.
It is clear that Mr. Labrador has no such intentions.
Since 2022, after carrying more than 400,000 leeks to start a new stove, the Force Metaverse has also been developing for a year and a half, and the gang's fraud tactics have become more and more sophisticated.
The three-in-one promotion model makes the team fission to dozens, hundreds or even more, at this time, even if you don't do anything, you can easily get 4-figure to 6-figure pipeline benefits every day. Remember, you don't just have to do it, it's driven by a lot of people. Don't ask low-level questions like when you'll get your money back, because the speed of your team's rollout is random and unpredictable.
Since it has become a low-level question when to return the cost, is it really to promote the future development of the metaverse?
Obviously not, on the official websites of the different versions of the Force Metaverse, there are no metaverse-related elements that go further on the basis of "virtual currency": there is no virtual space pie, no avatar setting, and no vision for the future of mankind.
There was only a customer service dialog box that popped up inexplicably, and a few inquiry messages that I didn't send at all:
It's clear that the Force Metaverse seems to be actively promoting its project despite all the doubts and risks – in the latest official presentation, there are already about 1.65 million leeks, and nearly 50,000 new ones have been added in the last month, and it seems that the growth rate of new "investors" is not slow.
However, the team does not seem to be satisfied: the project is recently scheduled to hold a conference in Vietnam to expand its influence and further recruit new members. It's a pity that the huge amount of leeks of 1.65 million is waiting for new leeks to be fed, which means that the project is already on the verge of collapse - this is the final plot of all similar scams.
In fact, even if it is linked to the concept of the metaverse, the Force Metaverse is not a novel scam, and it is not even as "exquisite" as the packaging of some similar projects.
But just like the thunderstorm of Ding Yifeng Company some time ago, Sui Guangyi, the "chairman of the group", claims to be the inexplicable title of "the founder of the value investment theory system of oriental classical philosophy", but he can still illegally raise 132 billion yuan.
In the past, Sui Guangyi compared himself to Buffett and Son Zhengyi, and then there was Labrador whose value was close to Ma Huateng and Ma Yun.
Sure enough, at any time, the unknown people who touched porcelain were not good goods, and this seemed to be the first thing to see through a scam.
Of course, just like someone always touches Buffett, there are always people who are willing to believe in Sui Guangyi's "Zen investment method", and there are always people who will be confused by the "Force Metaverse" that still relies on pulling people's heads and tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall under the packaging of Labrador's many cool concepts.
I hope that the scam routines shared this time can make readers who are new to the concept of the metaverse more vigilant to a certain extent - remember that in the metaverse, the Force will not be with you.