Dusery, a purported quantitative trading platform, vanished from the internet shortly after ScamTelegraph began its investigation, leaving an estimated hundreds of victims without recourse. The company operated through two websites, dusery.com and duseryvip.com, both registered privately in late 2023, despite the former falsely claiming a 2020 founding date.
The company's operational details remain deliberately obscured. Dusery provides no information regarding its ownership or executive leadership on its website. This lack of transparency is a common hallmark of fraudulent operations. The support system on Dusery's website utilizes Meiqia, a software company based in Beijing, China. This suggests a potential connection to China for the individuals behind Dusery.
Dusery offered no legitimate products or services for sale. Instead, affiliates could only market Dusery membership itself. The compensation structure was based entirely on recruitment and investment. Affiliates were promised daily returns ranging from 2.1% to 4.1% on investments made in tether (USDT), with higher investment tiers offering higher percentages. This tiered investment structure, promising unrealistic daily gains, is a classic indicator of a Ponzi scheme.
Referral commissions were paid down three levels of recruitment, at 16% for personally recruited affiliates, 8% for the second level, and 3% for the third. While joining Dusery was free, full participation in the income opportunity required a minimum investment of 40 USDT.
The core of Dusery's fraudulent operation was a "click a button" scheme. Affiliates would log into the app and click a button. The company claimed this action generated revenue through advanced AI algorithms and big data analysis in quantitative trading. This explanation is nonsensical. Clicking a button in an app does not initiate complex trading operations. In reality, the "clicking" served no purpose. Newly invested funds were simply recycled to pay earlier investors, a defining characteristic of a Ponzi scheme.
Dusery is not an isolated case. It belongs to a growing category of "click a button" app Ponzi schemes that have proliferated since late 2021. Similar schemes, including DQF, OBC AI, and CDC, have employed the same quantitative trading facade. ScamTelegraph has documented over one hundred such "click a button" app Ponzis, most of which collapse within weeks or a few months. These schemes typically disappear without a trace, leaving investors with significant financial losses. Victims seeking assistance can contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov.