Mirror Trading International: South Africa's $1.7B Bot Scam

Podcast: The Fraud Archive Dialogues · The Archive Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

Picture this: a machine that promises to make you rich while you sleep. No hard questions, no sleepless nights—just steady growth, as effortless as clicking a button. But beneath this dream, something darker was taking shape.Before Mirror Trading International became a headline, Johann Steynberg was building something in the shadows of South Africa’s financial world. He was more than just a founder—he was a salesman with enough technical lingo to sound convincing, and enough appetite for risk to blur the lines between motion and meaning. On paper, Steynberg was the chief executive, the face of a new ki...