On Aug. 30, 2024, I investigated a purported “7-Second Tesla Ritual” product known as The Money Wave sound — supposedly promoted by “leading American neuroscientist Dr. Paul Winters” — and discovered Google users searching for the phrase “The Money Wave reviews and complaints.”
I first observed a Facebook sponsored post leading to sucesswave.com that mentioned, “7-Second Tesla Ritual Swipes.” That landing page directed me to the website moneywaveoriginal.com, which claimed, “PhD Neuroscientist: ‘This 7-Second Tesla Ritual Attracts Money To You.'” According to the page, The Money Wave only cost $39 and involved a simple purchase.
However, the truth was The Money Wave or “7-Second Tesla Ritual” was nothing more than the latest online scam attempting to entice users to make a purchase of a product that does nothing. In fact, the product likely also secretly enrolls customers in recurring charges, meaning it cost a lot more than $39. Numerous YouTube videos claimed to offer The Money Wave reviews but instead ended up asking users to purchase the product via an affiliate link. As such, many of The Money Wave reviews online were fake.
In this story, I’ve laid out details about how The Money Wave reviews scam worked and why people looked for reviews and complaints in the first place. I’ve also talked about the history of this product, provided instructions on what to do if anyone fell victim to the scam and featured links on how to report fraud.
My name is Jordan Liles. JordanLiles.com is my personal website. On this website, I offer additional articles on top of my daytime reporting as a Senior Reporter for Snopes.com. My mission in this story about The Money Wave’s reviews and complaints — as well as all of my scam-busting articles — is to help save people from losing money to scammy practices.
What Is The Money Wave?
The Money Wave sound product claims to be a method to unlock a life of riches, all for only $39. According to the online pitches for the “7-Second Tesla Ritual,” a person simply needed to listen to sounds provided by the product to unlock a “Theta Wave” — a part of a brain that, when “unlocked,” supposedly leads someone to a life of extreme success and wealth. Look… if an online offer seems too good to be true, it probably is.
This product appears the exact same in terms of marketing as The Genius Wave and The Memory Wave, the apparent previous iterations of the same offering. None of these products are worthy of anyone’s time and money. Further, as I’ll reveal, I discovered some of the hidden dangers of purchasing these products.
The Money Wave Facebook Sponsored Posts Misleadingly Showed Elena Cardone
While investigating The Money Wave and its online reviews and complaints, I stumbled upon a Facebook sponsored post promoting the product. Two sponsored posts I looked at misleadingly showed entrepreneur Grant Cardone’s wife, Elena, even though she had no involvement with The Money Wave.
One of the sponsored posts featured the following false and scammy text, including mentioning someone named “Dr. Winter”:
This 7-Second “Tesla Brain Song” you can listen to at home is backed by solid neuroscience, like that of Dr. Winter, who said: “This simple discovery has the power to transform the entire planet, not to mention make you and your entire family wealthy.”
There’s a tiny but immensely powerful area in our brain that needs to be activated.
Once unlocked, it has the power to turn all your thoughts into reality.
“Everything you need to change your reality is already within you.”
This seemingly insignificant tool, when applied consistently, resulted in a profound transformation in my life and how I see the world.
Luck started coming my way in ways I never could have imagined.
It was like some lock had been unlocked in the spiritual realm, and everything I’d been struggling with for years started flowing easily toward me.
According to the information above the sponsored posts, an unknown person promoted the posts across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The posts’ information said, “Started running on Aug. 29, 2024.” In other words, Meta accepted money from scammers to allow the scam a chance to thrive, just as they previously allowed for many thousands of other scam ads.
The Money Wave Original Website Is a Scam
The Facebook sponsored post I looked at linked to the scam website sucesswave.com. According to GoDaddy.com’s WHOIS domain search tool, an unknown person registered the misspelled sucesswave.com days earlier on Aug. 24.
The sucesswave.com page featured fake The Money Wave reviews along with photos of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, even though none of the men had anything to do with the product. Further, the page falsely claimed a direct association with NASA, with the words, “Breakthrough NASA Study Reveals a 7-Second Tesla Ritual Revs Up Your Brain Power, Wealth and Luck.”
Links on sucesswave.com led to moneywaveoriginal.com, one of the apparent official websites for The Money Wave. The page began by claiming, “PhD Neuroscientist: ‘This 7-Second Tesla Ritual Attracts Money To You.'” It featured a video supposedly showing a person named “Dr. Paul Winters.” The text version of the page apparently spelled out everything from the long video, including several fake The Money Wave reviews. From my study of the page, the author couldn’t decide if the person’s last name spelled as “Winter” or “Winters.” Other scammy and completely false mentions of involvement included past work from Nikola Tesla, Columbia University, “Japan’s top scientists” and Thomas Edison.
The terms and conditions page for The Money Wave made no mention of subscription-based, recurring monthly charges. However, scammers might still charge victims’ cards multiple times.
The Money Wave Reviews: Real Insight from Scam Victims
In my research looking for authentic The Money Wave reviews and complaints, I stumbled upon several posts on Reddit from users who wished to share their thoughts when scammers previously marketed the product under the name The Genius Wave and The Memory Wave.
First, one user said, “I purchased and tried for about a month without noticing any benefit. They advertise a ‘no questions asked’ 90-day refund policy. I contacted them to get my refund and received an email asking me a few questions, to which I responded. Continued to request refund. Since that time, I’ve received no additional acknowledgment that my refund is forthcoming. I am continuing to send emails requesting the Status of my Refund. Yes, it’s a scam and their advertising is full of lies re: refund policy. S Muncy.”
A different user posted, “I have sent a total of four emails requesting a refund for this ‘product.’ I was emailed a list with three questions to answer before they would process a refund. I answered the questions, waited three business days, sent another reply asking for the refund, waited three more, and then did it again. This morning, I woke up and had a notification from my bank that I had been charged AGAIN! I am opening a fraud dispute with my bank in the morning and finding every public forum I can alerting people to their business practices.”
The Money Wave Complaints on Trustpilot
Over on Trustpilot.com, the bad The Money Wave reviews and complaints kept flowing. For example, one person said they had issues buying the product. “I phoned my bank and apparently they are blacklisted on [the] fraud list. [The Money Wave keeps] your bank details and [puts] you on [a] subscription. The bank has loads of these American scams.”
A different user shared, “I cancelled my credit card straight after dealing with this company.”
A third person said, “I fell for it. I Googled and Googled and found nothing but pages and videos saying it works. Hehe it’s a huge scam. I purchased through PayPal cause I had a feeling this would happen. Thank you, PayPal.”
On a different Trustpilot.com page, one user said, “I purchased this product in May 2024 for testing purposes to promote it as an affiliate. It is completely useless. I have listened to these sounds at least twice every day for over 2 months, and they had no effect whatsoever. Do not buy this product. It’s simply a waste of money. I couldn’t sell this product to honest customers.”
The second review on the page read, “Ancient Greeks used to say: ‘You said – I believed you. You repeated – I questioned. You insisted – I realized you were lying.’ Forcing you to listen to a 30+ minute sales pitch does not add confidence in your product but rather proves you are a scamster.”
Another person correctly stated, “Use your potentially Genius brain. If this was actually true, wouldn’t every single school in America be using it? Imagine every school full of creative geniuses!! Just $39 to achieve such a goal would be a ‘no-brainer!'”
What To Do If You Were Scammed by Fake The Money Wave Reviews
If any readers fell for The Money Wave reviews and didn’t see complaints about the scam sound product before purchasing, call your credit card company. Ask if you can receive a refund and also to block future charges from the same seller. Remember that other users experienced issues with multiple charges and not just the $39 cost mentioned on the product-purchase page.
How to Report Fraud
Users looking to report fraud both for the false The Money Wave reviews and the product itself should first file a report with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to the FTC website, “Your report is shared with more than 2,800 law enforcers.”
To further report fraud, contact your local police station and ask if your city, state, territory or country collects fraud reports. For example, the state of California has a special Department of Consumer Affairs for these specific types of consumer scams.
As for The Money Wave, there are no magic sounds that, upon listening, can help you live a life of enormous fortune. This isn’t a fantasy movie.