Optimus VIP has obtained a desist and chorus fraud order from California’s Division of Monetary Safety and Innovation (DFPI).
As per DFPI’s August thirteenth Optimus VIP order;
Starting no less than as early as February 2025, Optimus VIP provided and offered securities within the type of funding contracts in California by way of normal solicitations on its web site.
Optimus VIP relied on networks of promoters to promote and supply its securities to potential traders the world over, together with to California residents.
In or round March 2025, Optimus VIP rebranded itself as DigitalCredit and continued to supply and promote investments to potential traders utilizing its MLM construction.
The investments provided by Optimus VIP had been securities that had been neither certified nor exempt from the qualification requirement underneath the CSL.
The Division has not issued a allow or different type of qualification authorizing Optimus VIP to promote these securities in California.
Primarily based on the foregoing findings, the Commissioner is of the opinion that the securities provided or offered by Optimus VIP had been topic to qualification underneath the CSL and have been or are being provided or offered with out first being certified in violation of Firms Code part 25110.
Pursuant to Firms Code part 25532, Optimus VIP is hereby ordered to desist and chorus from the additional supply or sale of securities in California until and till the qualification necessities of the CSL have been met.
BehindMLM reviewed Optimus VIP as an MLM crypto Ponzi scheme in February 2025. The rip-off was fronted by Brazilian nationwide Antonio Salas.
As famous by the DFPI, Optimus VIP collapsed in March 2025 and introduced a Digital Credit score reboot.
Digital Credit score collapsed shortly after launch. This prompted Salas to reboot once more as DigitalBot in or round July 2025.
DigitalBot’s web site continues to be up, with SimilarWeb monitoring ~3200 month-to-month visits. As of August 2025, SimilarWeb is monitoring 100% of DigitalBot’s web site site visitors from the US.
Pending DigitalBot collapsing and/or authorities taking additional motion, investor losses throughout Optimus VIP, Digital Credit score and DigitalBot remaain unknown.
