The CEO of the crypto scam HyperVerse turned out to be a freelance TV presenter
According to research by a popular Youtube vlogger, the man who was used to portray himself as the CEO of a crypto scam that caused more than $1 billion in damages was actually a British freelance TV presenter living in Thailand.
In December 2021, a photograph of a man named Stephen Rhys Lewis was used to create the image of the "CEO" of HyperVerse. The project promised lucrative earnings under the auspices of the multi-faceted Hyper brand. However, it turned out that this was nothing more than a financial pyramid, as a result of which investors lost approximately $1.3 billion.
The scam's slick promotional materials claimed that Rhys Lewis graduated from the University of Leeds, received a master's degree from Cambridge, worked for Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and sold a successful web development firm to software giant Adobe. However, all this information was refuted, and the public learned the real identity of âRhys Lewisâ.
