[WARNING] SMARTSPEC Plagiarized contents + Fake team

[AhmadM]

What happened: Another shit DeFi project that copied contents from various sources plus using fake photo. There's no contract address published and their token sales are through shoppy.gg which is fishy enough, imo.

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2864189
ANN Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5281419.0
Archive: https://archive.is/fKB2i
Website Link: https://smartspec.finance/
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201011213407/https://smartspec.finance/

Whois Info: https://whois.domaintools.com/smartspec.finance/

Created on 2020-10-11
Expires on 2021-10-11
Updated on 2020-10-11

Flag type 1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2384

Original resources:
https://dappradar.com/ethereum/defi/core-vault
https://medium.com/@cvaulthiro/introducing-ccore-a-core-finance-clone-with-lower-supply-8b1c826484b4
https://medium.com/@nowex/xcore-liquidity-generation-event-now-is-live-f05f0b6f7688
https://en.witdesign.nl/our-team/

 

 

 

 

Additional Notes: Their response after I pointed out the copied contents to them

Hello, thanks for your interest. The smart contract is built on the same model.
End goal is different. We intend to connect various GPT markets with Decentralized Finance. Core protocol is a very good fit for our needs.
Please make sure to read the start of the about page.

We will issue a new self moderated thread soon to inform users we have similarities with other DeFI smart contracts.

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[nutildah]

Good catch. Obviously yet another DeFi scam.

Additional Notes: Their response after I pointed out the copied contents to them

Hello, thanks for your interest. The smart contract is built on the same model.
End goal is different. We intend to connect various GPT markets with Decentralized Finance. Core protocol is a very good fit for our needs.
Please make sure to read the start of the about page.

We will issue a new self moderated thread soon to inform users we have similarities with other DeFI smart contracts.

What about the similarities of the picture of their "team member" and some other person with a completely different name? Funny how they just ignored this point altogether, though if they were to address it, I'm pretty sure they would say "Oh, that's not our actual team member photo, it's a placeholder image used by the party we outsourced our website development to."

In any case, this is a definite scam project. I have supported your flag and will tag the OP.

[TheUltraElite]

It so much fun dissecting the scam once you find it out. These scammers are professional liars. Lets see now:

Copied whitepaper - check
Fake team pictures - check
Newbie account to post the ANN - check
Bullshit excuse to justify the "faking" of pictures because they have "similarity" - double check

Nothing else to do but FlagNTag the accused.

[$crypto$]

Copied whitepaper - check
Fake team pictures - check
Newbie account to post the ANN - check

Sick of seeing a lot of nonsense projects like this should be suspicious too if newbie accounts make ANN posts because they don't want to take the risk that the new account was created and spread fake projects with everything copied from others.

Maybe the scamer only has a little capital to make such and then spread their objectives, I might need to look at it.

[Rikafip]

Their response after I pointed out the copied contents to them

Hello, thanks for your interest. The smart contract is built on the same model.
End goal is different. We intend to connect various GPT markets with Decentralized Finance. Core protocol is a very good fit for our needs.
Please make sure to read the start of the about page.

We will issue a new self moderated thread soon to inform users we have similarities with other DeFI smart contracts.

This bold part should be read as "Since we forgot  to make self moderated thread and can't delete your unpleasant post about us plagiarizing and having fake team members, we will soon start new self moderated thread so we can delete all similar posts." I guess he doesn't know about flags and tags.

By the way, nice catch @AhmadM, user tagged and flag supported!

[andrei8787]

Reported to CryptoScamAlert
https://cryptoscamalert.com/crypto_scam_report/721

[AhmadM]

What about the similarities of the picture of their "team member" and some other person with a completely different name? Funny how they just ignored this point altogether, though if they were to address it, I'm pretty sure they would say "Oh, that's not our actual team member photo, it's a placeholder image used by the party we outsourced our website development to."

Unfortunately, they lock the topic earlier before I'm able to point out about that fake photo, somehow I agree with your thought on how they will respond to it.

This bold part should be read as "Since we forgot  to make self moderated thread and can't delete your unpleasant post about us plagiarizing and having fake team members, we will soon start new self moderated thread so we can delete all similar posts." I guess he doesn't know about flags and tags.

Yeah, that's the point which makes me 1000% sure it just a defi project that created to fraud people here aside from plagiarized contents and fake photos.