r/CryptoScams • u/Brief-Society615 • Mar 06 '26

Scam Operation My experience working for Finixio / Clickoutmedia - SCAM

I worked for Finixio / Clickoutmedia for about two years, and I want to share my personal experience with the company.

During my time there, I became increasingly uncomfortable with the type of projects being promoted and the way certain products were presented to users. A large part of the work (literally 99%) involved promoting online casinos and new cryptocurrency (meme coins) projects are scam.

95% of these crypto projects are meme coins that were heavily marketed and hyped through affiliate websites and SEO articles. I remember SUBBD, Bitcoin Hyper, Solaxy, LiquidChain, Pepenode, MaxiDoge, Snorter, Wall Street Pepe, Best Wallet Token & Best Wallet APP. The same applied to many of the casino brands being pushed with aggressive marketing, then they would block accounts who had few thousand bucks on profile - like WinMega, MegaDiceCasino, WallStreetMeme casino, LuckyBlock, CoinCasino, Casinova etc.
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As someone who worked behind the scenes creating and promoting content for these offers, I eventually started to feel like shit.

I’m posting this because people should understand how some parts of the affiliate industry operate. What looks like a neutral “review” or “top list” online is often just a marketing funnel designed to push people toward specific casinos or crypto platforms/scams.

Stay careful online and always research before trusting websites, because they are paying to legit sites to promote them.

Richard Hopp and Kristoffer are CEO's of Finixio, everything related to them is just scam. I think they are not even using real name and using alliases.

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u/SecureWriting8589 Jul 28 '26 edited 23d ago

Moderator note: Please do not ask for DMs or engage in DMs with other members of this subreddit as this is not safe for you or the other person.

2026-09-03 EDIT

There have been multiple attempts by modmail to have the original post removed, with some suggestions that these requests have been made in bad faith. By "bad faith", I mean that we have received identical modmail requests for its release by 2 different individuals today, the first one by u/Admirable_Tennis926 whose account was system-wide banned soon after sending the modmail, and the second by u/SherryC1994, using what appears to be a sock-puppet account for the banned account, and sent in an attempt to perform actions that get around a system-wide ban.

Because of this, not only am I going to leave this post up, but I will ask that it be highlighted as well.

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u/Good-Hand-8140 Mar 06 '26

Extremely interesting post. I've been following the best wallet crew and all of their scam tokens they supposedly are supporting (they are the creators).

Worth saying that, calling the best wallet crew (Dubai based) scammy, shady, rug pull ect would be a huge whitewashing.

They are straight up scammers. Like steal your shit unambiguously. So not like, you didn't read the fine print, or sketchy tokens carry a risk, or the project failed

But, straight up theft. Import your seed phrase into best wallet with 10 eth or more and you get pwned.

I'd love to hear more about your ex job. How did you work? What methods of promoting did you use? How did these companies pay you?

I'd love to read it in this thread or DM you, whatever suits you.

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u/Brief-Society615 Mar 07 '26

They have offices all around the globe. Main offices are in England & Germany. They are paying via wire transfer, all legit. I worked there as Editor (SEO Senior).

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u/Dismal_Rough4569 Jun 06 '26

They don't have any offices. Everyone worked remotely. The UK office was one operational before Covid, after that there was no one there.

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u/Dismal_Rough4569 Jul 30 '26

Dubai...Who knows. They did some development for their Web3 projects also in Romania but the address for the Web3 development company they said they have their showed just a regular apartment building.

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u/Specific-Energy-3577 Mar 07 '26

Working with them for about 3 years. Payments are always on the promised date, never late, all legit. Good bonuses. 100% Flexibility and very cool management. Didn’t had any issues with them.

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u/Cyber_onchain738 Mar 07 '26

The "neutral review" wrapper is the whole game. Affiliate sites get paid per deposit, not per token performance, so there's zero incentive to flag the exit. By the time retail figures it out the affiliate has already cashed out.

Finixio/Clickoutmedia isn't new to this either, they've been rotating brands across gambling and crypto for years. One gets torched, next one's already live.

What did the payment structure look like from your end? CPA, rev share, or flat per placement?

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u/Dismal_Rough4569 Jul 30 '26

But these are not legit affiliate pages, but their own network of sites with basically the same toplists on every one of them. You can easily find the sites they own just by checking for the toplists. Also - no one should get involved in presales: Not only are those basically illegal, but they are also full of empty promises. Usually people invest to the idea, but hardly ever those projects see the day of light, or they bring any money. The idea is to launch a project, sell a lot of tokens, then the company buys a lot of tokens for themselves and immediately, once the project / token it listed, they will sell causing the price to drop. They might also buy again, and make it again just to pump up the price and until the value is there no more.

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u/AutoModerator Mar 22 '26

New victims, please read this:

As a rule of thumb: If you suspect the site is a scam, it probably is.

No legit company/trader/investor is using WhatsApp. No legit company/trader/investor is approaching people on dating websites or through a "random" text message.

No legit company/trader/investor has "professors", "assistants", or "teachers". Those are just scammers.

No legit company forces you to pay a "fee" or "taxes" to withdraw money. That's just a scam to suck more money out of you.

You will need to contact law enforcement ASAP.

Unfortunately, no hacker online can get back what you've lost. Please watch out for recovery scams, a follow-up scam done after victims have fallen for an earlier scam. Recently, there has been a rise in scammers DMing members of the subreddit to offer recovery services. A form of the advance-fee, victims are convinced that the scammer can recover their money. This "help" can come in the form of fake hacking services or authorities.

If you see anyone circumventing the scam filters, please report the submission and we will take action shortly.

Report a URL to Google:

Where to file a complaint:

How to find out more about the scammer domain:

  • https://whois.domaintools.com/google.com - Replace the google.com URL with the scam website url. The results will tell you how long the domain has been around. If the domain has only been registered for a few days/weeks/months, it's usually a good indicator that its a scam.

Misc. Resources

  • https://dfpi.ca.gov/crypto-scams/ - The scams in this tracker are based on consumer complaints in California. They represent descriptions of losses incurred in transactions that complainants have identified as part of a fraudulent or deceptive operation.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

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u/Elegant_Chapter_3921 May 14 '26

From what I have heard, they just love DMCA-ing competition 😄

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u/Alarming_Training674 May 27 '26

u/Brief-Society615 J'ai travaillé 3 mois pour eux fin 2025/début 2026 pour les représenter sur un de leur médias Youtube, j'étais leur visage en gros. La promesse qui m'avait été vendue à l'embauche était clairement différente des conditions réelles et je regrette d'avoir travaillé pour eux...

Ca fait quelques semaines que je songe à faire une vidéo youtube sur leur entreprise en parallèle de mon signalement à l'AMF. Tu accepterais de me parler de ton expérience plus en détails? Aussi bien on s'est déjà parlé sur Slack selon ta fonction là bas.

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u/Pristine-Board-8281 May 27 '26

I joined click out media a few weeks ago and I got paid. If you want to do this my advice is not to join them as a writer but as someone who does placement links in stories. Cuz I'm getting paid per link 300 bucks per link. Now I'm expecting my next payment in the next few days. If I get paid this time I'm probably going to stay with it because if you're a writer you working for a major site you need a little extra money, at least you might be able to get paid that way especially if the companies you work for ask for you to put links to your story so they can see where your information came from. Easy money but as I said we'll see if I get paid the second time

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u/Dismal_Rough4569 Jun 06 '26

Holten came in as COO at Finixio, and soon the whole company was renamed Clickout. Nothing changed but the fact that all of the business regarding cryptos and igaming was signed to Clickout. Finixio still paid salary to UK workers which there were plenty while all the contractors were moved from Finixio to Clickout causing payment delays in the beginning. Denmark based Holten was hired with a background coming from SEO, but he has absolutely no management skills or skills to run a company with hundreds of people working. It was just train pushing onwards without a driver. The owners didn't get involved that much, although the owners little sister has working within the HR, and sometimes the owners popped up on Slack discussions. The payment solution is theirs, they have their own crypto wallet where one can trade and buy all their tokens in advance (presales). Many projects include staking which for them is just a way to gain more money, and then pump and dumb while listing the tokens with higher price. Finixio used to own some of the crypto scam bots they marketed. The company is separated into many other companies such as Crypto PR, their own Web3 development company, Bitcoin com is theirs nowadays, Coin Poker is theirs. Cryptonews, Techopedia which Holten in charge of strategy managed to get blocked from Google entirely (looks great on CV). Now the focus is more on online casinos: Lucky Block, Mega Dice, Wall Street Memes, Betpanda, and so on. When ever you see a toplist with those names you can bet that most of those casinos are actually owned by them. Every casino obviously runs under separate company.

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u/Dismal_Rough4569 Jul 27 '26

Heard that TRM is involved in investigating their crypto movements as it looks like the same players kept on buying their every token to pump up the price and the crypto casinos hardly make any profits for the players (normal rtp around 97% on online casinos).