Aurum Basis has obtained a securities fraud warning from the Australian Securities and Investments Fee (ASIC).
ASIC added Aurum Basis it its Investor Alert Listing on June twenty second, 2026.
[Aurum Foundation] could also be providing or promoting, or might have provided or marketed, monetary companies to Australian shoppers.
It doesn’t maintain an Australian monetary companies licence or Australian credit score licence from ASIC, and isn’t authorised by a licensee.
In its warning ASIC cites Aurum Basis’s “aurum-foundation.com” web site area.
Aurum Basis launched in mid 2024. Round February 2025 Bryan Benson was employed to entrance the rip-off as CEO:
Benson, a Peruvian nationwide additionally based mostly out of Dubai, is believed to work with Russian scammers who truly run Aurum Basis.
As of Could 2026, SimilarWeb was monitoring ~472,000 month-to-month Aurum Basis web site visits.
Over the identical interval high sources of Aurum Basis web site visitors have been the US (20%), Greece (14%), the Netherland (11%), Switzerland (10%) and Belgium (9%).
Promotion of Aurum Basis within the US is headed up by Chief Community Improvement Officer Shane Morand:
Morand is the disgraced co-founder of Organo Gold. Morand left Organo Gold after a botched try and pitch crypto scams to distributors in 2018.
Morand resurfaced in late 2021 as a crypto bro pitching Trujivan, a Tycoon69 Ponzi malicious program. After that went nowhere, Morand resurfaced in 2022 to advertise the Decentra MLM crypto Ponzi scheme.
Along with Australia, Aurum Basis fraud warnings have been issued by Russia, Nigeria, New Zealand and Greece.
France blacklisted Aurum Basis nationwide for fraud on June twelfth, 2026.
Poland’s Monetary Supervision Authority forwarded suspected Aurum Basis banking fraud felony exercise to Public Prosecutors in June 2026.
