Aurum Foundation DARA Portal: The Recovery Plan That Isn’t a Refund

If you had money in Aurum Foundation, you may have gotten an email this week telling you to register your old balance on a new site called DARA, the Digital Asset Recovery Alliance, as soon as possible. Before you type anything into that site, it’s worth reading what the email and the promoters’ own recorded call actually say. Everything below comes from public reporting and the promoters’ own words, and where it’s Sean’s opinion, it says so.

Registered October 9th

The DARA domain was registered on October 9th, 2026, and the registration is private. Private registration means the public record doesn’t show who owns the website. That’s not unusual for a personal blog. It’s unusual for something asking you to confirm financial account balances.

The site also doesn’t say who runs it. There’s no company name, and no person you could hold accountable if something went wrong.

Now put that next to the timing. Aurum Foundation collapsed in late July 2026. In the promoter’s own email, he says members have had no communication from Aurum corporate for several weeks. So you have people who’ve already lost money, who haven’t heard anything in weeks, and a brand-new website with no named operator. That’s the moment people are most likely to say yes to something without checking.

How Members Are Asked In

On October 12th, a recorded call went up on YouTube walking Aurum members through DARA step by step. The host is an Aurum leader explaining it to his group.

You create an account on the DARA site. Then you click a button that opens your Aurum Foundation back office, and you type in your Aurum email and password, exactly as they are. Then you do the same for Orbit One. Each time, it asks for your Google Authenticator code.

That’s how a brand-new website knows your balance. You hand it the keys.

Google Authenticator is the second lock on your account. It’s the code that’s supposed to prove it’s really you. On this call, members are told to type that code into a site whose operator isn’t named. Once it pulls your balances, you generate a claim certificate and can download it as a PDF. That certificate is what any future payout would supposedly be based on.

In Their Own Words: “Not Simply a Refund”

One line in the promoter’s email matters more than the rest. It calls DARA a proposed recovery model based on trading profits, and says it is not simply a refund or a guaranteed return of your original balance.

Read that slowly. You aren’t being offered your money back. You’re being asked to register your old balance as a claim, and then wait on a trading result that hasn’t happened yet. The email goes on to say the actual outcome will depend on how the initiative develops and performs. So the people promoting this are telling you, in writing, that nobody knows what you’ll get.

The Money Model as Described

The email and the recorded call both describe how the money is supposed to work. On the call, the host says an angel investor has earmarked one billion dollars, and each member’s registered claim gets matched with trading capital from it.

A trader who’s spent 30 years trading for banks would handle it. The host says the goal is to double the money in about six months, then repay the investor. At one point he says traders can typically take 1% or 2% every single day.

Neither the investor nor the trader is named. To be fair to the host, he says more than once that there are no guarantees and that nothing he’s saying is certain.

Who’s Sending Members There

The email BehindMLM published came from Wayne Nash, a Canadian promoter who’d been sending Aurum members toward DARA. In it, he says he personally confirmed the details with Shane.

On the October 12th call, a leader says they held a Zoom call with Shane Morand the day before, and that Morand confirmed he was the one behind it. Morand was one of the Aurum figures left facing members after the collapse. Later in the same call, the host describes DARA as a community effort rather than one person’s project.

Nash also writes that he’s already synced his own accounts, and suggests that anyone with a team help their team get registered. BehindMLM has also reported that Nash promoted TexitCoin on his YouTube channel. TexitCoin is the subject of an emergency cease-and-desist order from the Texas State Securities Board alleging unregistered securities sales and fraud. TexitCoin disputes the allegations, and a ruling is pending.

Correction (Oct. 18, 2026): An earlier version of this post described TexitCoin as a program that later collapsed. It has been updated to reflect the status of the Texas proceeding.

None of this is a claim about what anyone intends. It’s who is sending the message, so you can weigh it for yourself.

The Second Promise Since July

This isn’t the first recovery plan Aurum Foundation members have been offered. On August 24th, Andrew Isaacs went on an Aurum update webinar and announced a partnership with a broker called TAG Markets. He said TAG would set up a dedicated $5,000,000 trading account to help recover member losses, and called it 100% happening.

The next day, TAG Markets put out a notice. It said there was no partnership, and that it had not allocated, committed, or agreed to allocate any funds to Aurum or to any recovery program. (The full story on that claim is here.)

Then on October 9th, the DARA website was registered. That makes two plans in about seven weeks, and both depend on new trading money from someone you can’t verify. That’s the pattern worth seeing before you register anything.

Protect Yourself

Never type your password or your authenticator code into a site you can’t identify. If you already did it for DARA, change your Aurum and Orbit One passwords now, and change it anywhere else you used the same one, too.

Never pay a fee to unlock, release, or withdraw a balance. A real recovery doesn’t ask you to send more money first.

Save everything you have: emails, screenshots, transaction records, wallet addresses. Keep copies somewhere outside your email inbox.

If you lost money, report it. In the U.S., that’s IC3.gov, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, and ReportFraud.ftc.gov. A report won’t bring the money back overnight, but it puts your loss on record.

On that recorded call, members were told registering isn’t compulsory. They were also told that if they skip it, they might miss out, and it might be too late. That’s pressure, not proof.

Let’s Make Sure You Get This Right

This isn’t really Sean’s usual wheelhouse, but he hates seeing people get scammed. What he actually helps people with is Social Security timing, Medicare, and retirement income. Every situation is different, and if something here raised a question about your own, that’s a conversation worth having directly.