Metamask has flagged DAO1’s website domain as “potentially deceptive”.

Metamask, a US-based software company, markets itself as the “leading crypto wallet platform”.

Consumers can connect their Metamask wallets to participate in DAO1’s unregistered investment scheme.

In or around early to mid July, Metamask began flagging DAO1’s website as “might be harmful”.

Metamask flagged the site you’re trying to visit as potentially deceptive. Attackers may trick you into doing something dangerous.

Potential threats on “app.dao1.ai” include:

• secret Recovery Phrase or password theft
• malicious transactions resulting in stolen assets
• listed on the blocklists of SEAL, ChainPatrol, or MetaMask

Despite specifically pertaining to DAO1’s own website domain, on July 18th DAO1 attempted to brush off Metamask’s warning.

We’ve unfortunately seen an increase in scammers creating fake websites and phishing links – pretending to be us.

Some wallet platforms like MetaMask are now flagging alerts due to this surge in scam activity.

Our tech support team is already working directly with them, providing our verified URLs so they can clearly distinguish between official and fake platforms.

Again, Metamask has flagged DAO1’s “official” website domain. Such to the extent “fake websites” might exist, not sure what that has to do with anything.

In comments below DAO1’s official announcement, an investor reported at least one incident of theft:

DAO1 is a reboot of the collapsed GSPartners unregistered investment scheme. Both DAO1 and GSPartners are/were run by Josip Heit out of Dubai.

This isn’t Heit’s first run-in with Metamask. Back in August 2023, Metamask blocked access to GSPartners’ website for “nefarious activity”.

Following an avalanche of regulatory fraud warnings, GSPartners collapsed in December 2023. DAO1 launched towards the end of 2024.

Thus far DAO1 has received regulatory fraud warnings from Australia and New Zealand. DAO1 was also cited in a March 2025 Apertum securities fraud order issued by Texas.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       This article references material originally reported by Behindmlm.com