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Two more directors of e-Creator, a suspected Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded thousands of people of over US$1 million, have been granted US$1 000 bail each by the Harare Magistrates Court.
The two are Justin Kuchekenya and Abraham Mutambu.
As reported by <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/two-e-creator-fraudsters-granted-us1k-bail-each-chinese-mastermind-remains-locked-up/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>, the two were granted bail on changed circumstances, after their co-accused Trymore Tapfumaneyi was granted bail recently.
This leaves the suspected mastermind of the Ponzi scheme, a Chinese national, Zhao Jiatong, the only suspect still in remand prison.
The four were arrested in July 2023 and have been in custody after they were denied bail by Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa on their initial appearance.
According to court papers, sometime in January 2023, Zhao created an online investment Ponzi scheme called e-Creator.
On February 7 2021 and in connivance with Tapfumaneyi, Kuchekenya, Bily Thomas Syedou, Abraham Mutambu, Jiatong allegedly registered a company with the Zimbabwean Registrar of Companies named E-Creator Electronic Commerce Private Limited.
The company had its offices situated at rooms 15 and 16 10 Floor Joina City Building, Harare.
Prosecutors alleged that Zhao went on to launch the company as an online e-commerce operator with a global internet as its core. Reads the court papers:
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During the period from February 2023 to July accused misrepresented to unsuspecting Zimbabwean nationals that if they invested with the company, they would enjoy huge monthly profits depending on the amount invested.
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The court heard Zimbabweans across the country invested up to US$1 million into the company through various Ecocash numbers supplied on the platform by the accused. Prosecutors said:
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To make the company more attractive and appealing to unsuspecting Zimbabweans the accused used the media including the national television broadcaster Zimbabwean Television (TV) social media and powerful Zimbabwean socialites namely Tarisai Cleopatra Munetsiwa also known as Madam Boss, and Admire Mushambi also known as Mama Vee to advertise the company business on their social media platforms in order to gain more subscribers.
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The suspected fraudsters also allegedly employed various agents in major towns and cities throughout the country to market the business.
It is further alleged that on July 3 2023 some of the complaints encountered challenges in accessing their funds and approached the company for clarifications.
One of the accused persons, Abraham Mutambu assured these complainants that it was a system upgrade that was preventing them from accessing the funds.
The court heard Mutambu further advised them that the situation would normalise in due course.
On July 5 2023 complainants were shocked to realise that E-Creator Electronic Commerce Private) Limited had sent a notice on their website that they are no longer operating.
The company also posted the passport photo of the accused Zhao Jiatong as the one who had taken their money and absconded to China.
The court heard that the complainants also visited the accused’s known offices and saw that they had been permanently closed and there were no signs of business operations.
They received information that the accused person had withdrawn the money and fled.
As a result of the accused’s actions, complainants suffered an actual prejudice of US$1 000 000 and nothing was recovered.
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Two E-Creator Directors Granted US$1 000 Bail Each

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/2023/07/14/e-creator-director-trymore-tapfumanei-arrested/">Friday confirmed the arrest of Trymore Tapfumanei,</a> one of the directors of E-Creator, a Ponzi scheme that resulted in many Zimbabweans losing a total of US$1 million. Police stated that Tapfumanei was arrested for fraud involving the E-Creator and that he is one of the directors of E-Creator. 
Police arrested Zhao Jiaotong, the E-Creator Kingpin, on July 13, 2023. Zhao Jiaotong appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa on Friday and was remanded in custody until Monday for his bail application.
<h3>What transpired?</h3>
According to the court, in January of this year, Zhao conceived a plan for an online investment Ponzi scheme called E-Creator. In February, he, along with Trymore Tapfumaneyi, Justin Kuchekenya, Bily Thomas Syedou, Abraham Mutambu, and others who are still at large, registered the company with the Zimbabwean Registrar of Companies under the name E-Creator Electronic Commence Private Limited. The company was launched as an online e-commerce operator, and between February and July, Zhao misrepresented to unsuspecting people that they would enjoy huge monthly profits if they invested with the company.
Many people across the country invested up to US$1,000 through EcoCash numbers supplied on the platform by Zhao. To make the company more attractive, Zhao used the media, including national television broadcaster ZTV, and social media influencers such as Tarisai Cleopatra Munetsiwa (Madam Boss) and Admire Mushambi (Mama Vee), to advertise the company’s business on their social media platforms to gain more subscribers. The company also employed various agents in major towns throughout the country to market the business.
On July 3, some of the complainants encountered challenges in accessing their funds and approached the company for clarifications. Mutambu assured them that the system upgrade was preventing them from accessing the funds and that the situation would normalize in due course. However, on July 5, the complainants discovered that E-Creator Electronic Commerce (Private) Limited had sent a notice on its website stating that it was no longer operating. Zhao’s passport-size photo was posted on the website with a message that he had taken the complainants’ money and fled to China.
The complainants also visited Zhao’s known offices at Joina City and found that they had been permanently closed, and there were no signs of business operations. Moreover, they received information that Zhao had withdrawn the money and fled. The complainants suffered an actual prejudice of around US$1 million, and nothing has been recovered.
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More Details Emerge On E-Creator Formation Amidst US$1 Million Ponzi Scheme Loss

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has warned members of the public against investing in Ponzi and Pyramid schemes.
This follows the arrest of a Chinese national, Zhao Jiaotong, believed to be the brains behind E-Creator, a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of Zimbabweans of their hard-earned cash.
On Thursday, 13 July, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Senior Staff Officer (Press and Public Relations), Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed Zhao’s arrest on fraud allegations.
In a statement issued on Friday, 14 July, FIU said it had noted with concern the proliferation of Ponzi and Pyramid schemes in Zimbabwe. Reads the statement:
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The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) notes with concern the proliferation of Ponzi and Pyramid schemes in the country.
These schemes come in various forms and guises, designed to mask their fraudulent nature and lure people into parting with their hard-earned money.
The schemes share certain common characteristics which members of the public are advised to look out for.
Under such schemes, people are typically asked to invest a sum of money and are promised unrealistic returns/profits, either without being asked to do anything else (Ponzi schemes) or being required to actively recruit new members/investors (pyramid schemes).
In either case, funds from new investors/recruits are used to pay the earlier investors as well as the originators of the scheme.
Sooner or later, the scheme will run out of new investors/recruits and inevitably collapses, with the majority of the investors unable to recover their funds.
As such schemes are illegal and unregulated, it is usually difficult for victims to get satisfactory recourse to recover their money.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has in the past issued warnings to the public against investing in such schemes.
In light of a recent surge in the activities of such schemes, the FIU wishes to reiterate the warnings.
Members of the public are urged to be wary of such fraudulent schemes and, in particular, to look out for the following red flags:
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<li>Any entity inviting investments when they are not a registered or regulated financial service provider; or</li>
<li>Promises of super profits/returns that cannot conceivably be earned through known legitimate economic activities; or</li>
<li>Investment schemes that predominately exist on WhatsApp groups and similar social media platforms but have little or no physical visibility in the form of permanent offices.</li>
</ul>
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A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from their own money or from the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned.
The scheme relies on attracting new investors and using their investments to provide returns to earlier investors.
The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, an Italian-born swindler who became notorious in the early 20th century for running such a scheme.
Ponzi promised investors high returns on investments in international postal reply coupons, but he was actually using the money from new investors to pay off earlier investors.
In a pyramid scheme, participants make money primarily by recruiting new members who make payments to those above them in the pyramid structure.
The structure of a pyramid scheme resembles a pyramid, where the initial recruiter sits at the top and recruits a level of individuals below them.
Each person recruited is then encouraged to recruit more people, forming subsequent levels beneath them.
As the pyramid grows, each level becomes larger, and participants are promised increasing rewards as they move up the pyramid.
However, pyramid schemes are unsustainable and eventually collapse. The recruitment of new members becomes difficult, and those at the bottom of the pyramid are unable to find enough recruits to recover their initial investment.
Only a small number of people at the top benefit from the scheme, while the majority of participants lose their money.
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Don't Invest In Ponzi/ Pyramid Schemes, Financial Intelligence Unit Tells Zimbabweans

The sudden closure of E-Creator Zimbabwe which had lured hundreds of Zimbabweans with promises of easy cash has left many people worse off after they had invested their earnings into the Ponzi scheme.
The “firm” closed a few days ago after it failed to transfer money to its employees’ Ecocash accounts. Anyone who joined E-creator was called an employee.
Reports suggest that people were asked to pay US$15 to become VIP1 “employees”. By the end of the month, this money would purportedly increase to US$50.
A VIP2 employee required a minimum of US$100 and a maximum recharge of US$500.
VIP3 employees needed a minimum of US$500 and a maximum of US$2000.
Those who ran the scheme made it mandatory for employees who wanted to upgrade an account from one VIP to another, to invite a certain number of people to join the scheme.
Many employees of the online company had reportedly worked hard to become VIP2 employees.
However, a few days ago, E-Creator admitted that it had failed to honour withdrawals claiming that it obtained the E-Creator Merchant Account of Ecocash which it said needed to be connected with Ecocash before allowing employees to access their cash.
It later informed its subscribers that it had been forced to close after an alleged Chinese national resident in Zimbabwe siphoned all deposits made by the company’s employees.
In a statement posted on social media, E-Creator claimed that one Zhao Jiaotong, who allegedly started the Ponzi scheme, had been fraudulently withdrawing cash from E-creator employees’ EcoCash accounts with plans to skip the border.
Speaking to <a href="https://zbcnews.co.zw/2023/07/06/zimbabweans-lose-thousands-of-usds-to-online-platform/">ZBC News</a>, Claris Bwanya, an E-Creator VIP 1 employee, said he will never join a Ponzi scheme again. He said:
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I will never involve myself in these scams again, I joined barely two weeks ago.
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Another employee who preferred to be anonymous said:
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Abraham must be tortured, for real. He will tell us where he put our monies. He shouldn’t behave like this!
We invested funds until we reached US$500 thinking we are now making US$20 dollars per day and now the platform closes just like that…
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On 04 July, E-Creator manager Abraham Mutambu told ZBC News there were working on fixing some glitches on the EcoCash platform. He said:
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The company is fixing Ecocash issues as there was disorder, some were receiving double payment after they had withdrawn once, for instance, one could withdraw US$100 and he or she would receive US$200.
So we are maintaining our financial system and those with delayed withdrawals, by Saturday noon they would have received their money with an interest of 4%.
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A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from their own money or from the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned.
The scheme relies on attracting new investors and using their investments to provide returns to earlier investors.
The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, an Italian-born swindler who became notorious in the early 20th century for running such a scheme.
Ponzi promised investors high returns on investments in international postal reply coupons, but he was actually using the money from new investors to pay off earlier investors.
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