AB Quantify launched its primary domains, abqf.uk and abqt4.com, in July 2024, despite falsely claiming a 2017 London founding. An earlier domain, abqf.cc, registered the same month, quickly became inactive. All associated domain registrations are private, obscuring the identity of the operators.
The platform provides no information about its owners or executive team. This anonymity is a significant red flag for financial regulators globally, as legitimate investment firms are required to disclose key personnel and registration details. AB Quantify's whitepaper, written in Chinese, suggests an operational base in mainland China, further complicating oversight for a company claiming "London" origins.
AB Quantify operates without offering any discernible retail products or services. Its core function involves soliciting investments in Tether (USDT), promising daily returns ranging from 2% to 18%. These payouts are tiered, starting at 10 USDT for "VIP1" members who receive 2% to 4% daily, up to "VIP10" members depositing over 1 million USDT for 12% to 18% daily returns.
The scheme heavily relies on affiliate recruitment. Investors earn commissions for bringing in new participants, with a three-level referral system: 12% on direct recruits, 3% on second-level recruits, and 1% on third-level recruits. This multi-level compensation structure is a hallmark of pyramid or Ponzi schemes, where profits are not generated from actual business activity but from the funds of new investors. Joining the platform is free, but participation in the purported investment scheme requires a minimum deposit of 10 USDT.
AB Quantify markets itself as an automated quantitative trading platform. Users are instructed to log into an app and "click a button," purportedly activating sophisticated trading algorithms. The platform then claims to share a portion of these supposed trading profits. This mechanism is a common deception. Real quantitative trading involves complex computational models, extensive data analysis, and professional oversight, not simple user clicks within an application. The button serves only to create an illusion of participation and activity, while new deposits fund earlier investors.
Regulators like the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routinely issue warnings against unregistered crypto investment schemes that promise unrealistic daily returns. AB Quantify does not appear to be registered with any major financial authority, which is illegal for an entity soliciting investments from the public. Such operations often fall outside legal frameworks intended to protect investors from fraud.
This "click a button" model has a documented history of collapse since late 2021. Schemes such as A8 AI USDT, OLYMP Quantify, and Oscar AI, all employing similar "quantitative trading" cover stories, eventually failed, leaving investors at a loss. ScamTelegraph has tracked hundreds of these schemes. Most vanish within weeks or months, their websites and applications going offline without warning, stranding the majority of participants. Ponzi math guarantees this outcome.
Law enforcement agencies and scam tracking groups believe a consistent group of Chinese scam operators is behind this widespread fraud wave. These groups frequently rebrand and relaunch identical schemes under new names once previous iterations collapse or attract too much negative attention.
Victims of such schemes often lose their entire investments, with recovery being exceptionally difficult due to the anonymous nature of the operators and the cross-border flow of cryptocurrency. In February 2026, the SEC secured a jury verdict against a lead operator of a $300 million crypto fraud scheme, affecting over 40,000 investors. Separately, a federal judge ordered Eddy Alexandre and EminiFX to pay $228.5 million in restitution to more than 25,000 victims of a crypto Ponzi scheme that promised fake 5-9.99% AI returns.
The hallmarks of these operations include anonymous ownership, unregistered status, claims of extremely high and guaranteed daily returns, and a heavy reliance on recruitment bonuses. Investors should exercise extreme caution when encountering platforms displaying these characteristics. The US Federal Trade Commission advises consumers to research any investment opportunity thoroughly and be wary of companies that demand payment in cryptocurrency, which is difficult to trace.