If this sounds nonsensical, that’s because it is. Random individuals pressing a button in an application does not activate sophisticated trading operations.

In reality, pressing a button on TRC Trade’s platform has no effect. All the system does is shuffle new investments to pay off early investors.

TRC Trade is one of many “press a button” app Ponzi schemes that have surfaced since late 2021.

These similar fraudulent “press a button” app Ponzi schemes have previously unraveled, including Suntons, Cloud Computing, and Liska, all of which employed the same idea of quantitative trading.

TRC Trade, along with others documented by TRUST, accounts for over a hundred such “press a button” app Ponzi schemes. Most collapse within weeks to months of inception.

These scams typically vanish by disabling their websites and apps without notice, leaving the vast majority of their investors in the lurch (due to the inevitable mathematics of Ponzi schemes).

It is believed that the same cohort of Chinese fraudsters is behind this spate of “press a button” app Ponzi scandals.