Zeus Funding, aka Zeus 12X, doesn’t seem to have an internet site. As an alternative, the MLM alternative is run via a shady Telegram group named “@zeusinstant”.
Neither Zeus Funding’s official advertising and marketing materials or its Telegram group discloses who’s behind the corporate.
On a September fifteenth Zeus Funding advertising and marketing webinar hosted by Jason Regan from Success in Residing. Zeus Funding is represented by Michael Eder:
Elsewhere Eder cites himself as a co-founder and Managing Accomplice of Zeus Funding and one thing referred to as Zyra:
As per his Instagram profile, Eder is predicated out of Austria:
Zeus Funding claims to be a accomplice of Tag Markets:
To that finish, within the beforehand Zeus Funding webinar, Tag Markets is represented by Jared Esguerra:
Esguerra is cited as Tag Markets’ proprietor. On social media, Esguerra represents he works in “monetary companies” and is predicated out of Dubai;
Zeus Funding advertising and marketing materials cites Kevin Marin Valez as co-founder and CEO of Tag Markets:
On social media, Valez claims to be a “digital creator” and “enterprise administrator” primarily based out of Colombia:
Final week BehindMLM reported on Crowd1 Ponzi victims being funneled into Tag Markets funding fraud. Within the feedback of that article, a BehindMLM reader claimed serial fraudster Niklas Freihofer (aka Nik Freihofer) was behind Tag Markets.
Freihofer is purportedly from Germany. This may tie into Zeus Funding’s German language focus.
One other title we will connect to Tag Markets is Leonhard Wolman, creator of Tag Markets’ “macro briefing” paperwork.
Based mostly on Eder being primarily based out of Austria, it follows Zeus Funding is operated from Austria.
As per the “Kevin Marin” advertising and marketing slide above, Tag Markets is represented to be working from Columbia [sic] and Dubai.
As a result of proliferation of scams and failure to implement securities fraud regulation, BehindMLM ranks Dubai because the MLM crime capital of the world.
BehindMLM’s pointers for Dubai are:
- If somebody lives in Dubai and approaches you about an MLM alternative, they’re making an attempt to rip-off you.
- If an MLM firm is predicated out of or represents it has ties to Dubai, it’s a rip-off.
If you wish to know particularly how this is applicable to Zeus Funding, learn on for a full evaluate.
Zeus Funding’s Merchandise
Zeus Funding has no retailable services or products.
Promoters are solely in a position to market Zeus Funding promoter membership itself.
Zeus Funding’s Compensation Plan
Zeus Funding promoters make investments USD equivalents in cryptocurrency.
Zeus Funding markets varied funding plans, every pitching passive returns:
- Zeus 12X Amplify – make investments $200 or extra and obtain a 10x funded account capped at $1.2 million, on which “passive earnings” are paid
- Technique Dynamix – make investments $250 or extra and obtain a $3000 funded account on which “earnings from rising and falling markets” are paid
- Akropolis – make investments $200 or extra and obtain a $2400 funded account on which “copy buying and selling” returns are paid
Word Zeus Funding costs a 20 to 30% efficiency price on ROI funds.
The MLM aspect of Zeus Funding pays on charges charged to recruited promoters.
Passive Pool 12X
Zeus Funding pays the Passive Pool 12X via a unilevel compensation construction.
A unilevel compensation construction locations a promoter on the high of a unilevel group, with each personally recruited promoter positioned instantly beneath them (stage 1):
If any stage 1 promoters recruit new promoters, they’re positioned on stage 2 of the unique promoter’s unilevel group.
If any stage 2 promoters recruit new promoters, they’re positioned on stage 3 and so forth and so forth down a theoretical infinite variety of ranges.
Zeus Funding caps the Passive Pool 12x at 5 unilevel group ranges.
The Passive Pool 12x, purportedly generated by buying and selling charges, is paid out throughout these 5 ranges as follows:
- stage 1 (personally recruited promoters) – $5
- stage 2 – $1
- ranges 3 to five – $1
Bonus Pool 12X
Zeus Funding claims the Bonus Pool 12X is paid out as “50% of the efficiency price” it costs promoters.
The Bonus Pool 12X is paid out utilizing the identical unilevel group used to pay the Passive Pool 12X, capped down three ranges:
- stage 1 – 25%
- stage 2 – 15%
- stage 3 – 10%
Becoming a member of Zeus Funding
Zeus Funding promoter membership is tied to creation of a Tag Markets account.
Full participation in Zeus Funding’s MLM alternative requires a minimal $100 funding, made via a Tag Markets account.
Zeus Funding and Tag Markets solicit funding in varied cryptocurrencies; bitcoin, ethereum, tether and USD coin.
Zeus Funding Conclusion
Zeus Funding is one other occasion of funding fraud being dedicated via Tag Markets.
Zeus Funding pitches shoppers on passive returns, purportedly generated through varied buying and selling funding schemes:
In providing automated passive returns to shoppers, Zeus Funding and Tag Markets are required to register with monetary regulators in jurisdictions they solicit funding in. Particularly, securities and commodities regulators.
Zeus Funding fails to supply proof it has registered with monetary regulators in any jurisdiction. Tag Markets is owned by mum or dad firm T.M. Financials Ltd, an organization integrated in Mauritius.
This corresponds with two purported monetary licenses, which exterior of Mauritius itself are meaningless.
Tag Markets’ web site additionally cites “Tag Markets Ltd”, a purported Saint Lucia shell firm.
Tag Market solely having ties to shell corporations in two dodgy jurisdictions is a direct reg flag. To that finish Tag Markets has already attracted the eye of economic regulators.
Dutch authorities issued a T.M. Financials Ltd fraud warning in July 2025:
Whereas Tag Markets solicits USD equal funding in cryptocurrency, the corporate additionally accepts financial institution transfers for euros and different currencies.
This takes place via a SettleGo Options checking account, registered in T.M. Financials’ title:
SettleGo Options is a UK monetary companies firm dba OpenPayd. SettleGo Options represents it holds monetary licenses within the UK, Malta and Canada.
Word that whereas SettleGo Options represents it’s “authorised and controlled by the Monetary Conduct Authority” (the UK’s high monetary regulator), the corporate states on its web site:
Data associated to digital belongings is directed solely at individuals exterior the UK and should not be acted upon by individuals in the UK.
Whether or not SettleGo Options is conscious Zeus Funding and Tag Markets are utilizing it to commit funding fraud from Dubai is unclear.
For his or her half, Tag Markets seems properly conscious it’s committing fraud. Just a few hours after BehindMLM revealed its “Crowd1 victims being funneled into Tag Markets fraud” article, T.M. Financials reached out through e mail;
To whom it might concern,
We’d recognize some pressing details about the final article about Crowd1.
BTW the warning from the Dutch regulator was eliminated after we contacted them.
We look ahead to listening to from you.
Greatest,
Tag Markets
To which I promptly replied;
Positive, what “pressing info” would that be?
The Dutch fraud warning was taken from the AMF’s FaceBook web page, it’s nonetheless revealed.
BTW BehindMLM has some pressing questions for you;
1. Does Niklas Freihofer personal and/or run T.M. Financials and/or Tag Markets?
2. If Freihofer doesn’t personal and/or run T.M. Financials and/or Tag Markets, who does?
3. Why is T.M. Financials and Tag Markets facilitating fraud by partnering up with a number of fraudulent MLM funding schemes? (Crowd1, CashFX. DagCoin and so on.)
4. Why is T.M. Financials committing commodities fraud by failing to register with regulators in jurisdictions it accepts deposits from exterior of Mauritius?
Thanks,
-Oz
That was now per week in the past. I assume the data T.M. Financials needed wasn’t so pressing.
Because it stands, the one verifiable income coming into Tag Markets to be used in Zeus Funding’s unregistered funding scheme is new funding.
Utilizing new funding to pay ROI withdrawals would make Zeus Funding a Ponzi scheme.
As with all MLM Ponzi schemes, as soon as promoter recruitment dries up so too will new funding.
This may starve Zeus Funding of ROI income, ultimately prompting a collapse. Whether or not this might set off a Tag Markets collapse, or whether or not they intend to handle scams collapsing individually is unclear.
What is evident when a Ponzi scheme inevitably collapses, nearly all of individuals lose cash.
