Not looking too rosy in MMMland China. After the explosion of interest and investment late last year (that possibly helped increase Bitcoin's value), currently unverifiable reports (I'm working on it) say
jan 16, 2016:
MMMGlobal the biggest scam in the world. At the beginning you can get you money and interest but later all you have will disappear.
I am a paricipant from China and now our money is lost for good. So be careful. Take your money out as soon as possible and never do it again.
jan 16, 2016:
mmm is scam. today, in china many MMM leader has been killed. and so a lot of mmm member death from a building.
Possible trigger for the inevitable is Chinese government action, as reported on
http://english.caixin.com/2016-01-19/100901352.htmltl,dr:
The January warning said MMM China is among an emerging number of unlicensed organizations that aim to attract online investors with promises of high returns while employing a business model that looks to be a Ponzi scheme...
"Such operating models present huge investment risks and their capital flows are not sustainable," the warning said. "Once the capital chain breaks, investors will face severe losses."
The dreaded "reset"
Several investors told Caixin the website closed in December, freezing their accounts without warning. A December 25 announcement on the website said investment cycles and interest payments would be calculated differently in the future, and all previous requests for withdrawals had been canceled.
Investors could still not get into their accounts as of January 19.
A google translated headline from TMTPost
"MMM hoax" looted Chinese, ten billion private assets is cleared
Meanwhile, in RSouth Africa, where MMM has both MMMRSA and MMMGlobal, socmed reports that one of South Africa's largest retail banks, Capitec, are making life difficult for large cash GH/PH movements, causing much wailing and anger amongst MMMers, South Africa has a long history of "stokvels", localized mutual lending clubs, and many view MMM as just a bigger and better version.
Whether this will drive more traffic to the bitcoin denominated MMMGlobal remains to be seen, or it might signal that the authorities are finally getting their ass in gear.