AIRobot, a purported quantitative trading platform, first collapsed on August 21, 2024, shutting down its initial domains. This marked the start of a pattern for the alleged Ponzi scheme, which promised daily returns on cryptocurrency investments but relied on new money from recruits to pay earlier participants. Its anonymous operators quickly rebooted the operation, facing immediate scrutiny from regulators.

The platform's owners used a Chinese registrar to register its first two domains, both of which went live in July 2024. Despite these recent domain registrations, the AIRobot website falsely claimed the company had launched in 2020. It also displayed a random Delaware business license from 2021 and a stolen US Patent Office certificate, neither of which had any connection to AIRobot, to support its claim of a Delaware headquarters.

No verifiable ownership information for AIRobot was ever provided. This anonymity is a hallmark of such schemes, allowing operators to vanish without accountability.

AIRobot offered no legitimate product or service. Its business model centered entirely on affiliate recruitment. Participants were instructed to deposit Tether (USDT) and were then promised daily returns, which varied based on the investment tier. For instance, a VIP1 tier required a 15 USDT deposit and promised 2.07 USDT daily, while a top-tier VIP11 investment of 178,888 USDT allegedly yielded 33,788 USDT per day. Free sign-ups were offered, but withdrawals were locked until a minimum 15 USDT investment was made.

Commissions were paid to affiliates for recruiting new investors, with payouts structured across three levels: 11% for direct recruits, 3% for their recruits, and 2% for the third level. This multi-level recruitment structure is essential to the operation of a Ponzi scheme, ensuring a constant influx of new funds to pay off earlier investors.

The core gimmick of AIRobot was its "quantitative trading" feature. Investors would log into the app, click a button, and the system would supposedly execute trades around the clock, sharing the profits. More clicks were required at higher investment tiers. This mechanism created an illusion of active trading and engagement.

In reality, no trading occurred. Clicking the button did nothing beyond fulfilling a superficial requirement. AIRobot simply recirculated funds from new deposits to pay existing investors, a classic Ponzi scheme mechanism. When new recruitment slows, the scheme inevitably collapses, leaving most investors with significant losses.

This "click a button" Ponzi template is identical to those used by several other collapsed schemes, including Debon Group, A8 AI USDT, and ABQTBOT. Hundreds of these scams have been tracked since late 2021, many folding within weeks or months of their launch. A consistent group of Chinese operators is believed to run this entire network of click-button Ponzi operations.

After its initial collapse on August 21, 2024, AIRobot quickly rebooted. On August 27, 2024, it reappeared on cryptocurrencyusdt.net, a domain registered on August 11, 2024, with fake details. The Central Bank of Russia issued a pyramid fraud warning against AIRobot on August 26, just before this reboot.

The pattern of collapse and relaunch continued. AIRobot suffered another shutdown before relaunching on ok550.com on January 10, 2025. This domain had been registered just five days prior, on January 5, 2025. A fifth domain, airobotprofit.com, registered January 10, 2025, surfaced on January 25, 2025.

By March 4, 2025, a sixth reboot took place on airobot11.com, a privately registered domain from January 16, 2025. Just five days later, on March 9, 2025, three more domains went live: 371a.com (registered February 18, 2025), airobot88.com (registered January 16, 2025), and airobot09.com (registered January 16, 2025). The Central Bank of Russia promptly flagged all three of these new domains on March 7, 2025, reiterating its pyramid fraud warning. This indicates a consistent monitoring effort by Russian authorities.

The operators frequently used the naming convention "airobot[random number].com" for their new domains. On May 26, 2025, yet another domain, eazygetusd.com, surfaced. It had been registered on March 24, 2025, through Alibaba, again with fake registration details. These repeated reboots and domain changes are a tactic to evade detection and continue defrauding new investors after previous iterations collapse. Investors in such schemes rarely recover their funds due to the anonymous nature of the operators and the use of hard-to-trace cryptocurrency transactions. The Central Bank of Russia continues to issue warnings regarding these types of pyramid schemes.