Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I hadn't seen this association. Looks like she was the VP for AWS Mining, vs being the CEO for NovaTech.

A CEO, though, has a much higher level of accountability than a VP, who is hired. It also is a higher level of legal exposure.

A charitable way of looking at this is that she founded a company in order to enter the crypto space in a more legitimate manner. The other way to look at it is that it is a long-running scam. Depending on the way you look at it then the action is to either remove funds as soon as you can, or the alternative is to leave the stake in and see what it does.

I likely will leave it in and try to recover my initial amount - after that then the stake is derisked completely. The amount I have in is risk capital that would not affect my life materially if it was lost.

The reward part of the equation is significant enough to see how this plays out. Most out-and-out scams do not run for 2 years - they exit much earlier. The scammers do not go by their own names with their locations. I'm inclined to view NovaTech as more legitimate than AWS - but that's me.

NFA, and goes without saying, but you have to determine your own level of risk.