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Title: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Jan Marcin on August 10, 2017, 09:49:12 AM ANN of the LUST ICO:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068206.0 The ANN of this project is flooded with posts from hacked accounts. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=335464 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=387974 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=11549 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=223710 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=100713 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65731 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303610 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=192980 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=368228 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=73449 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=380058 All of this acccounts had their passwords changed on July 20, and then few days later started posting in just one topic - the Lust ANN. Some of this accounts where not used for months or even years. This are for sure not the only accouns which were hacked by this person, and will be used for this or future scams. The OP of LUST ANN - darkota - has it's password changed just two days earlier, and then probably started preparing the scam. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=256238 The team info on the ANN thread and on the project webste - https://lust.agency/ - is also fake. I found one of the guys presented is the project as Mark Levchin on vk.com but his name is Denis Abel. https://vk.com/ebeldenis Please someone react. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 10, 2017, 10:19:16 AM All of this acccounts had their passwords changed on July 20, and then few days later started posting in just one topic - the Lust ANN. No surprise there. The bitcointalk administration will probably not do anything about this case (or often, any similar case).The team info on the ANN thread and on the project webste - https://lust.agency/ - is also fake. I found one of the guys presented is the project as Mark Levchin on vk.com but his name is Denis Abel. Interesting. Can you take a screenshot of that?https://vk.com/ebeldenis Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Jan Marcin on August 10, 2017, 10:31:21 AM So far I found only one of the persons. But the photo is clearly taken from the VK account.
https://image.ibb.co/hcU66a/team.png Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on August 10, 2017, 12:48:46 PM Good find, OP. Negatively rated their OP accordingly, but are there other accounts from this operation which need to be tagged?
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Jan Marcin on August 11, 2017, 07:30:11 AM There are tens of accounts hacked. But so far they seems to be used just to create fake interest in the project.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: revenant2017 on August 11, 2017, 09:21:47 PM Checked the website and they change/remove that guy from the Team. Now there is a new face. A Smart Contract developer. Googled and didn't find any result.
https://i.imgur.com/nUndJQc.png Digged into the website. Found another face https://lust.agency/img/4.jpg . Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: aTriz on August 12, 2017, 04:28:22 AM Is it me, or are there a lot of new scam icos popping up lately? With the recent accusations to Enjincoin it seems like every ico can easily turn scam and will turn scam if there is a lot of money on the table.
I would recommend people ask for heaps of proof when investing in something like an ico, to avoid situations like this. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on August 12, 2017, 04:42:11 PM There are a lot of fake accounts on there doing their best to bury any comments pointing to this Op and the scam accusations. I posted one about an hour ago and there was a spike in shit posts to bury me.
Look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068206.msg20819617#msg20819617 Try it and see. It is 100% scam and they just flood it talking to themselves. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on August 12, 2017, 04:43:39 PM Is it me, or are there a lot of new scam icos popping up lately? With the recent accusations to Enjincoin it seems like every ico can easily turn scam and will turn scam if there is a lot of money on the table. I would recommend people ask for heaps of proof when investing in something like an ico, to avoid situations like this. That is where BCT comes in handy. There are enough detectives here to root these fuckers out. Look at Josh Garza...he is going to prison because of users of this site. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 12, 2017, 08:30:59 PM There are a lot of fake accounts on there doing their best to bury any comments pointing to this Op and the scam accusations. I posted one about an hour ago and there was a spike in shit posts to bury me. bitzizzix, Th3developer, and Scyntech spamming each other. All have:Quote This user's email address was changed recently. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on August 14, 2017, 10:17:00 AM It looks like they are trying to avoid BCT-based investors and are targeting Facebook and Twitter. This means their negative ratings won't show up unless the forum visitor is logged in as a BCT user.
The best way to combat this type of situation is to ensure that the "LUST ICO is a scam" thread is front and center on google's first page results for "LUST ICO". Even if they are not forum users they will be able to see this thread's content which clearly explains why the 'LUST ICO' is fraudulent. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: ezze on August 14, 2017, 11:05:15 AM Please some attention here.
Read the Lust Whitepaper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Au0kLZOVYRMmw1cGJqODJ5dlU/view They plagiarized some parts form sexservice.io project. https://sexservice.io https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1970891 Here are some proves. 1. Lust: If the request is accepted, a client will be able to access private information of that worker, like more photos, name or something worker decides, and vise versa. After double confirmation, this money will be held by smart contract and his wallet would generate an access key. Sexservice.io: But these tokens are not in her wallet, but in a two-step contract. What is important, man’s wallet generates access key, which can be used later if service completed. For woman it is a signal the man are interested, have real intense and solvent. They can start a communication using methods they want. Man receive access to private information of the woman, like more photos, name or something she decides, and vise versa. 2. Lust: This key has to be scanned later if they make an agreement and meet otherwise the contract gets automatically closed in 48 hours, and the client gets his Etherium tokens back in the wallet. The client can start with another try if she disagrees. Also, once the service is completed, both parties have 24 hours to leave a feedback to each other and gain reputation. Completely anonymous, transparent, secure and impossible to shut down, this decentralised marketplace is the new revolution of the sex industry. Sexservice.io: If they are ready to proceed, she scans the access key, and man gets the service. Otherway contract will be closed automatically in 48 hours, and man will get SSIO tokens back and can start with another try. There will be the same outcome if she will not respond to a request, or they would not meet each other. After that, they both have 24 hours to leave a feedback to each other and gain reputation. Also i see some other parts are plagiarized from Frantic project. You can compare that by yourself or wait till Frantic react. And not, Lust project can not be realized technically! Don't be a fool! "Escrow deals based on smart contracts enable us to develop contractual arrangements in which the money is stored in a wallet temporarily, before the completion of the contract." Remember that smart contracts works only when Subject of agreement in inside it. Sex and whores are not inside a contract! https://i.imgur.com/8kUMPyD.png Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: wizardee on August 14, 2017, 12:01:09 PM Wow, I am quite surprised with the amount of Scam ICO's out there. As stated by aTriz, it certainly seems like any ICO can turn into a scam operation. OP, nice find. We need more people like you that help sniff out these scammers.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on August 14, 2017, 12:37:34 PM I've just gone through the list you provided for the forum accounts, as well as those spamming in their thread recently and have tagged twenty-two sock-puppets.
If you see more let me know and I'll paint them, too. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: REALshimlbit on August 14, 2017, 04:12:33 PM will follow this tread because my account is also hacked and used for this one!
was offline for few weeks and than cant login to my account...funny this is/was my account https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=292398 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: revenant2017 on August 14, 2017, 04:16:14 PM Some accounts that i found that are inactive for so long then became active in Lust ICO thread.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=489401;sa=showPosts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=101569;sa=showPosts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=50020;sa=showPosts;start=40 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: REALshimlbit on August 14, 2017, 04:25:00 PM the last conversations between the 2 fakeboys here are so obvious
just checked it also over 2 yrs offline and than spamming just this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=489401 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=101569 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: sabbathhawk on August 14, 2017, 04:46:40 PM Good work and good investigation!! It was so promising project! Pre-sale only in few days. LOL
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: REALshimlbit on August 14, 2017, 05:43:10 PM they are still trying.. everyone shoudl report them
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: ezze on August 14, 2017, 06:04:03 PM The best way to combat this type of situation is to ensure that the "LUST ICO is a scam" thread is front and center on google's first page results for "LUST ICO". Even if they are not forum users they will be able to see this thread's content which clearly explains why the 'LUST ICO' is fraudulent. I think few people google like "LUST ICO". I think the think that users can do is regularly post links to this thread in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068206 with "LUST is a SCAM" notice, because there are so many spam messages. Other thing is to ask thread moderator to make a notice in the first post. Thank God Bitcointalk is not decentralized yet and has an authority :) Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 14, 2017, 07:05:53 PM I've just gone through the list you provided for the forum accounts, as well as those spamming in their thread recently and have tagged twenty-two sock-puppets. Could you, or someone else, compile a full list of accounts that need to be tagged in a single post? Thanks. Side note: OP isn't updated with all I believe.If you see more let me know and I'll paint them, too. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on August 14, 2017, 08:15:56 PM They now have a bounty op up to help spread their poison.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068136.0 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on August 14, 2017, 08:24:34 PM This one is hard for them to miss
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068206.msg20877468#msg20877468 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: revenant2017 on August 15, 2017, 12:00:52 AM I compiled and made a list of all suspected users that continuously spam the Lust ICO thread. Most of these accounts reply on each other with an interval of 5 minutes or less.
All of these users share the same patterns in posting, recent email change and continously spamming in LUST ico thread all day.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: alt213 on August 15, 2017, 12:49:03 AM ICOs and coin offer sex services isnt against forum rules (T.O.S)?! , why then bitcointalk staff allow such things.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: alt213 on August 15, 2017, 12:50:51 AM I compiled and made a list of all suspected users that continuously spam the Lust ICO thread. Most of these accounts reply on each other with an interval of 5 minutes or less. All of these users share the same patterns in posting, recent email change and continously spamming in LUST ico thread all day.
All these user's email address was changed recently :o Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: iamnewhere on August 16, 2017, 02:40:33 PM they still spam their thread as soon you mention the information about scam :)
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on August 16, 2017, 02:49:11 PM they still spam their thread as soon you mention the information about scam :) The solution is to keep posting regular warnings so that they appear at least once on each new page. If you include the link to this thread then any forum visitors who don't see the trust ratings of the LUST scammers will be able to read the facts here. If you're not sure what to write in their thread you can copy and paste this: Code: [size=26pt][color=red]!!! Warning !!! Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: WireonFire on August 16, 2017, 03:01:53 PM Can someone explain, where you can see that all passwords are changed on the 20th?
And who you can see that the e-mail was changed from all of these members? So I can do my own research. Thank you Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 16, 2017, 03:05:43 PM Can someone explain, where you can see that all passwords are changed on the 20th? There's a security log here: https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php. However, it only shows a limited amount of time.And who you can see that the e-mail was changed from all of these members? If the change is recent enough, it will show on the trust page of each user. See one example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=370311.https://i.imgur.com/EISCi94.png Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: DreamweaverVCC on August 16, 2017, 03:15:31 PM Thanks for letting me know ! My Account is also used by them for this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=433977;sa=showPosts
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: DreamweaverVCC on August 16, 2017, 03:16:41 PM I compiled and made a list of all suspected users that continuously spam the Lust ICO thread. Most of these accounts reply on each other with an interval of 5 minutes or less. Oh my GOD I SEE MY ACCOUNTAll of these users share the same patterns in posting, recent email change and continously spamming in LUST ico thread all day.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: iamnewhere on August 16, 2017, 03:20:38 PM Thanks for letting me know ! My Account is also used by them for this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=433977;sa=showPosts So a password change on your account and email account might be a good idea, and of course full virus scan on your computer (with Sophos or Kaspersky). Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: DreamweaverVCC on August 16, 2017, 03:23:02 PM Thanks for letting me know ! My Account is also used by them for this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=433977;sa=showPosts So a password change on your account and email account might be a good idea, and of course full virus scan on your computer (with Sophos or Kaspersky). I didn't change my password since the 2015 hack. probably thats why they got my password Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 16, 2017, 03:24:42 PM Thanks for letting me know ! My Account is also used by them for this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=433977;sa=showPosts So a password change on your account and email account might be a good idea, and of course full virus scan on your computer (with Sophos or Kaspersky).I didn't change my password since the 2015 hack. probably thats why they got my password Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: WireonFire on August 16, 2017, 05:09:48 PM Can someone explain, where you can see that all passwords are changed on the 20th? There's a security log here: https://bitcointalk.org/seclog.php. However, it only shows a limited amount of time.And who you can see that the e-mail was changed from all of these members? If the change is recent enough, it will show on the trust page of each user. See one example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=370311.https://i.imgur.com/EISCi94.png Thank you very much. That helps me a lot :) Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: draculacoin on August 16, 2017, 05:12:25 PM Of course it is scam. Tell us something new.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: CharlesX on August 17, 2017, 05:24:40 PM Nice job guys in exposing these scammers, the ICO has not started, I will try to spread the word so that more people are saved from giving away money to them.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: draculacoin on August 17, 2017, 06:53:49 PM Nice job guys in exposing these scammers, the ICO has not started, I will try to spread the word so that more people are saved from giving away money to them. People are stupid if they want to join a ICO. Too risky. BTC is too expensive to give away to scammers. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Koal-84 on August 17, 2017, 07:58:22 PM Gold day,
Lust ICO a real Scam vor not? Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: revenant2017 on August 17, 2017, 08:07:37 PM Gold day, It's a 100% scam.Lust ICO a real Scam vor not? Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Koal-84 on August 17, 2017, 08:39:23 PM Gold day, It's a 100% scam.Lust ICO a real Scam vor not? OK thank you ;-) Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: niceli on August 17, 2017, 10:15:26 PM Thank you op!
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: SonOfNorth on August 18, 2017, 05:50:25 AM I got neg repped for wanting to help LUST out and earn name for myself to get better chance of working on BitcoinTalk, but seems that everything I have done just went down the drain with this one because I assume that with the negative rep nobody will give me a chance anymore, too bad. This led me to this topic.
Why has the administration of this site a total disregard for scams like this? Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 18, 2017, 07:16:00 AM I got neg repped for wanting to help LUST out and earn name for myself to get better chance of working on BitcoinTalk, but seems that everything I have done just went down the drain with this one because I assume that with the negative rep nobody will give me a chance anymore, too bad. This led me to this topic. You've wanted to help our scammers to scam more people. What did you expect was going to happen? You were going to get an award? ::)Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: SonOfNorth on August 19, 2017, 10:36:02 AM I got neg repped for wanting to help LUST out and earn name for myself to get better chance of working on BitcoinTalk, but seems that everything I have done just went down the drain with this one because I assume that with the negative rep nobody will give me a chance anymore, too bad. This led me to this topic. You've wanted to help our scammers to scam more people. What did you expect was going to happen? You were going to get an award? ::)No need to rub it in, I get it - no good deed goes unpunished. All I'm asking is why is this user allowed to operate still? Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Lauda on August 19, 2017, 01:16:11 PM No need to rub it in, I get it - no good deed goes unpunished. Which is not what I was doing.All I'm asking is why is this user allowed to operate still? The forum does not ban suspected or confirmed scammers. He/she/they would have to break some existing forum rules in order to get banned.Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: iamnewhere on August 20, 2017, 01:16:00 PM two new hacked accounts (both email just changed and spamming now the ANN thread)
givedusty joe.sixer Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Saint-loup on August 20, 2017, 04:26:06 PM Presumably a new hacked/bought account :
bigtop1967 No activity since October 2015 but posts on LUST threads since very few days. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=215635;sa=showPosts (I don't know how to check when password or email had been changed, could someone checks that please) He translated the ANN in french https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2105121.msg21038271 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: iamnewhere on August 20, 2017, 11:21:46 PM you would see it at his TRUST rating here --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=215635
but just for some days, like you see at the two accounts i posted just above. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: alt213 on August 21, 2017, 01:25:28 AM The forum does not ban suspected or confirmed scammers. He/she/they would have to break some existing forum rules in order to get banned. Is starting topic to raise fund for sex services allowed in bitcointalk? BTW where i can find forum rules (tos). Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: draculacoin on August 21, 2017, 10:36:53 AM so many scams.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: RapidMorris on August 21, 2017, 01:19:43 PM Isn't there anybody who posted on the first page and can edit it to show the scam warning? A lot of idiots don't past it.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: niceli on August 22, 2017, 01:01:26 AM I am not familiar with the history and all of bitcointalk, but why the heck are the admins not doing anything when they get presented something as obvious as this case? I mean it does not built up trust in this platform for all the poor guys who are losing money there.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: flag39 on August 22, 2017, 03:28:59 PM Well What should I do now that I have joined? I will certainly delete the twits and posts on Facebook
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Gleb Gamow on August 22, 2017, 07:34:58 PM The OP of the Lust thread once penned this:
With so much crime going on involving Bitcoin lately, I think we need a Bitcoin cop, or police department. He must ensure the safety of bitcoin transactions, to prevent fraud, and capture those who do illegal activities with Bitcoin as well as those who scam other players out their Bitcoin. Below is an example of the perfect type of cop needed for Bitcoin http://i59.tinypic.com/xeiw6d.jpg Meant for the ladies and/or gays Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: draculacoin on August 22, 2017, 09:42:41 PM So far I found only one of the persons. But the photo is clearly taken from the VK account. https://image.ibb.co/hcU66a/team.png Most likely this person doesn't have a clue that he is being fraud by this LUST team. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: DenysM on August 24, 2017, 10:24:49 PM Very well, there is such a branch, and I saw that the project of scammers !!! Thank you to everyone who brings them to the light. I participated in them in the generosity of the company and saw that your post about fraud. I thank you all for your help, do not fall for the scammers. sorry for my English Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: shewasfourteen on August 24, 2017, 10:35:48 PM Probably the same guys with a new ICO
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2115968.new#new Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on August 25, 2017, 10:33:54 AM Probably the same guys with a new ICO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2115968.new#new Good catch. Tagged accordingly and Scam accusation thread opened here. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2119259.msg21188594#msg21188594) LOL at the usual "It was the designers mistake, we will correct it straight away!!1!!1!!!" bullshit. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on August 25, 2017, 05:53:20 PM If I were Theymos, I would charge 1 BTC to post an ICO. Then I would use some of it to vet the principles. Farm out the leg work to reputable people on here to dig into it.
While it will not 100% eliminate the problem I bet it would reduce it by 95%. A chance for all to make a bit of BTC and make for a safer investment climate. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on August 26, 2017, 12:28:04 PM If I were Theymos, I would charge 1 BTC to post an ICO. Then I would use some of it to vet the principles. Farm out the leg work to reputable people on here to dig into it. While it will not 100% eliminate the problem I bet it would reduce it by 95%. A chance for all to make a bit of BTC and make for a safer investment climate. That is a great idea. Giving hordes of greedy scammers a platform they can simply launch dozens of fake ICOs from with no cost is why we are seeing the surge in them these days. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: LaoShanLung on August 28, 2017, 11:58:54 PM Thanks OP! New users like me can be easily deceived by this kind of thing.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: phreeksta on August 30, 2017, 11:35:42 AM Big thanks to all guys, that helped finding this scam! Great to have this kind of community!
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cnx-set on August 31, 2017, 05:34:03 AM If I were Theymos, I would charge 1 BTC to post an ICO. Then I would use some of it to vet the principles. Farm out the leg work to reputable people on here to dig into it. While it will not 100% eliminate the problem I bet it would reduce it by 95%. A chance for all to make a bit of BTC and make for a safer investment climate. Yeah but then again this is the internet. Who makes sure that the reputable people stay reputable and not get greedy and make some side money by accepting donations from ICO's. No one could check that and it could even hurt the reputation of the community when ICO's are announced as "BCT-checked" or smth. like that and turn out to be a big scam. BTW: Thanks for the post to all of you guys you did a great job :) Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: tolobret on September 01, 2017, 10:35:04 AM i want to ask. recently i reply at lust thread and my trust is minus. i dont know if lust is scam, how to get back my trust?
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Vik1126 on September 01, 2017, 05:56:34 PM Big thanks to all guys, that helped finding this scam! Great to have this kind of community! I agree, I almost fell for it Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: hypcoin on September 02, 2017, 02:12:28 PM First, I want to thank the bitcoin community for sharing the information that this ICO is a scam. Unfortunately, I invested some money into this ICO because when I found this thread some days ago I didn't notice that there is another thread recording this ICO as a scam.
Is there any miracle to get my ETH back? Thanks in advance. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: iamnewhere on September 03, 2017, 01:02:30 AM First, I want to thank the bitcoin community for sharing the information that this ICO is a scam. Unfortunately, I invested some money into this ICO because when I found this thread some days ago I didn't notice that there is another thread recording this ICO as a scam. Is there any miracle to get my ETH back? Thanks in advance. We try to post on every page on their ANN thread the warning about the Scam ICO, you just read first page and send your ETH to them? It's the hard way you learned it now - i would not even give it a 0,0000001% chance that you see anything back from your ETH. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on September 04, 2017, 01:21:23 PM The ANN OP has been locked down. Hopefully by a Mod. Now it's time to go after the Bounty OP and get it shut down too.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: dustboy on September 04, 2017, 04:37:45 PM The ANN OP has been locked down. Hopefully by a Mod. Now it's time to go after the Bounty OP and get it shut down too. The OP is not giving up yet, he has just created a new moderated topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2149614.new#new so he can delete all negative feedback about his project and keep all those posts from the hacked accounts who are acting like they are other people who supports the project. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: coinits on September 05, 2017, 12:14:58 AM The ANN OP has been locked down. Hopefully by a Mod. Now it's time to go after the Bounty OP and get it shut down too. The OP is not giving up yet, he has just created a new moderated topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2149614.new#new so he can delete all negative feedback about his project and keep all those posts from the hacked accounts who are acting like they are other people who supports the project. Figures. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: loonb on September 05, 2017, 02:02:31 PM Well if somebody gives their money despite the proofs around it his own fault. Too many scams lately but everybody have head and need to use it.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: niceli on September 05, 2017, 10:34:10 PM How the f are such obvious scams allowed on bct? I mean are there no mods who are protecting the users and can quickly close these threads and ban the compromised Accounts?
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: phreeksta on September 06, 2017, 12:45:53 PM How the f are such obvious scams allowed on bct? I mean are there no mods who are protecting the users and can quickly close these threads and ban the compromised Accounts? It is not that easy. There are just to many ICOs and researching all of them, is a lot of work. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: revenant2017 on September 07, 2017, 11:03:00 PM Almost 200 Ethers and 122 Etherium token holders have been scammed by this ICO. Mod should ban all those accounts. It's painful for the community with this kind of lost.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Islapdonkey on September 10, 2017, 06:34:17 PM They closed the old thread and this is their new thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2149614.0and it's moderated so any negative post is immediately deleted
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: phreeksta on September 10, 2017, 09:03:19 PM Someone already reported it to a moderator?
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: jahead on September 10, 2017, 09:27:07 PM I was posting this in the new ANN-thread:
Quote THIS IS A SCAM ICO - DO NOT INVEST! more details and informations you can read here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2077842.60 but it was deleted really fast by the selfmoderated OP, moderators/admins have to do something asap! Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Mi5h0 on September 11, 2017, 01:24:38 PM I found one 'real' person from their team. ;)
This is a release from his LinkedIn profile: Quote I'm removing myself from the Lust team effective immediately. I initially saw promise in the project and the idea, and I looked forward to developing it, but yesterday and today BitcoinTalk users identified enough key signs of a scam for me to withdraw my support until they explain themselves. https://lnkd.in/gtXrfWG Please do extensive research and due diligence prior to investment. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6307616555182231552/ Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on September 11, 2017, 03:12:40 PM I found one 'real' person from their team. ;) This is a release from his LinkedIn profile: Quote I'm removing myself from the Lust team effective immediately. I initially saw promise in the project and the idea, and I looked forward to developing it, but yesterday and today BitcoinTalk users identified enough key signs of a scam for me to withdraw my support until they explain themselves. https://lnkd.in/gtXrfWG Please do extensive research and due diligence prior to investment. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6307616555182231552/ ORLY? Took him over a month to decide to distance himself from this obvious-scam-ICO-is-obvious scam ICO? FFS, they were using fake 'team' profiles and dozens and dozens of hacked bitcointalk forum accounts to bot-post bullshit on their thread, which part of any of this 'seemed legit'? If you click through Duncan Lemp's extremely-light-on-anything-substantial resume, on to his 'Nonpariel Capital' facebook page, you can see him and his buddies claiming to have made $$$ for their 'clients' with their 'trading algorithm' (I'm sure it's nothing to do with the mercurial rise in BTC price during that period, right?). It would not surprise me in the slightest to find he was fully aware of the sketchy nature of this ICO and figured if he finally bailed on it he might be able to pretend like he was totes innocent. Fucking amateur, learn some basic due diligence. Although, given that you're trying to sell yourself as a crypto-market expert for capital investment purposes, your apparent failure to do so in this ICOs case is suspect, to say the least. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Mi5h0 on September 11, 2017, 03:35:18 PM I found one 'real' person from their team. ;) This is a release from his LinkedIn profile: Quote I'm removing myself from the Lust team effective immediately. I initially saw promise in the project and the idea, and I looked forward to developing it, but yesterday and today BitcoinTalk users identified enough key signs of a scam for me to withdraw my support until they explain themselves. https://lnkd.in/gtXrfWG Please do extensive research and due diligence prior to investment. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6307616555182231552/ ORLY? Took him over a month to decide to distance himself from this obvious-scam-ICO-is-obvious scam ICO? FFS, they were using fake 'team' profiles and dozens and dozens of hacked bitcointalk forum accounts to bot-post bullshit on their thread, which part of any of this 'seemed legit'? If you click through Duncan Lemp's extremely-light-on-anything-substantial resume, on to his 'Nonpariel Capital' facebook page, you can see him and his buddies claiming to have made $$$ for their 'clients' with their 'trading algorithm' (I'm sure it's nothing to do with the mercurial rise in BTC price during that period, right?). It would not surprise me in the slightest to find he was fully aware of the sketchy nature of this ICO and figured if he finally bailed on it he might be able to pretend like he was totes innocent. Fucking amateur, learn some basic due diligence. Although, given that you're trying to sell yourself as a crypto-market expert for capital investment purposes, your apparent failure to do so in this ICOs case is suspect, to say the least. It may look like a 'guilty until proven innocent' attitude but I can not help but to agree with you. If he was already involved in the 'project' he certainly had some inside information that referred to fraud. He could come here and announce his findings publicly, but he waited until 'BitcoinTalk users identified enough key signs of a scam...' Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: revenant2017 on September 20, 2017, 12:02:06 AM 234 ethers and counting has been stolen by this kind of SCAM. Totally unacceptable. I feel sorry to the victims who fall for this.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: phreeksta on September 20, 2017, 02:40:11 PM Another reason why I stopped investing in that kind of ICOs. For honest companies, it will get more difficult in the next years.
Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: CounterStrike on September 20, 2017, 11:57:08 PM It was a confirmed scam from day 1 and people still donated them like 200+ ETH? W T F
I guess it was self-donation to make it look more legit, no other explanation really. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: mosprognoz on September 21, 2017, 07:16:40 AM It was a confirmed scam from day 1 and people still donated them like 200+ ETH? W T F I guess it was self-donation to make it look more legit, no other explanation really. Sure it was a self-donation.. now another similar scam ICO is doing the same. worldcore.com Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: tirailleur on September 21, 2017, 09:30:28 AM anybody watched their contract address and LUST token transactions? I did.
First of all - there is only one Token called LUST, and this is it - https://etherscan.io/token/0x44e63691b8e5778cb0632a589414c5901e37e7c0#balances As you can see, there is only 3 (three) token holders in whole blockchain by now. And only one of them holds like 5000$ in tokens, another have 21k lusts (2,1k$) and the last one only 0.7k$. So 36% (or 72k$) of already sold tokens is a bullshit. Nice work, guys. Decentralized sex-deals platform is a really good , and these fuckers ruining the idea. Still holding some of my ether in waiting for the real project in that field to invest in. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: legendbtc on September 21, 2017, 10:04:27 AM It was a confirmed scam from day 1 and people still donated them like 200+ ETH? W T F I guess it was self-donation to make it look more legit, no other explanation really. People never expected from the beginning that's why they invested in Lust. Till now I didn't notice about this and I am still, working in the social media campaign. We have to be very careful before investing into this scams. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: gawajn on September 30, 2017, 08:46:58 PM Thanks op and cryptodevil for finding/tagging these people. You saved a lot of researching time for me.
Great to have people like you, supporting the crypto community! Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Saint-loup on October 10, 2017, 02:03:49 PM Presumably a new hacked/bought account : Thanks to cryptodevil for tagged him. bigtop1967 No activity since October 2015 but posts on LUST threads since very few days. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=215635;sa=showPosts (I don't know how to check when password or email had been changed, could someone checks that please) He translated the ANN in french https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2105121.msg21038271 Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: veebee on December 18, 2017, 03:24:55 PM Well I logged in today after not being on here for while to see my account flagged untrusted, (which really blows) and also I see something bout this lust ico..i do not and would not support this.
Needless to say I changed my password but now this accountnis forever scarred with the posts of that piece of shit. Wish this forum had 2fa but then again it's most likely my fault not making my pass word 60 characters . Sigh -veebee Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: cryptodevil on December 19, 2017, 07:23:09 AM Well I logged in today after not being on here for while to see my account flagged untrusted, (which really blows) and also I see something bout this lust ico..i do not and would not support this. Needless to say I changed my password but now this accountnis forever scarred with the posts of that piece of shit. Wish this forum had 2fa but then again it's most likely my fault not making my pass word 60 characters . Sigh -veebee Can you sign a previously posted address to prove you are the original owner? It's just that the reason these accounts were readily identifiable as having likely been bought/hacked at the time is that they had been dormant for a long period and were marked as having recently changed their password. So it kinda raises the question as to how you, as the original owner, would have logged back in to an account which had had its password changed without your knowledge. Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: KryptoKnight78 on February 13, 2018, 07:52:57 PM ANN of the LUST ICO: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2068206.0 The ANN of this project is flooded with posts from hacked accounts. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=335464 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=387974 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=11549 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=223710 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=100713 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=65731 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=303610 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=192980 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=368228 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=73449 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=380058 All of this acccounts had their passwords changed on July 20, and then few days later started posting in just one topic - the Lust ANN. Some of this accounts where not used for months or even years. This are for sure not the only accouns which were hacked by this person, and will be used for this or future scams. The OP of LUST ANN - darkota - has it's password changed just two days earlier, and then probably started preparing the scam. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=256238 The team info on the ANN thread and on the project webste - https://lust.agency/ - is also fake. I found one of the guys presented is the project as Mark Levchin on vk.com but his name is Denis Abel. https://vk.com/ebeldenis Please someone react. ICO Scams are rampant in the space and some kind of regulation is needed to protect token buyers. A Decentralized Escrow is the best way to create safety in the ICO space. The best ICOs need to be able to follow through on their Pre-ICO promises so their tokens can become valuable and their investors are protected. I recently found the solution - Incremint.io - they have created a decentralized escrow system that protects token buyers and allows them to vote on when funds are released to the ICO as milestones are met. They are in Pre-ICO stage right now with a live token sale. You can check their website: https://incremint.io/ Or even better go through their Telegram feed and ask questions: https://t.me/incremint_en Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: icogrow on March 21, 2018, 06:41:21 AM There are so many ICO scams, and because of the lack of regulation there needs to be a decentralized solution. Check out Incremint.io. They have a decentralized escrow platform where token holders vote for release of funds to ICOs to ensure forward progress.
Be care when investing! It's wild out there! Title: Re: LUST ICO is a scam. Post by: Gleb Gamow on March 21, 2018, 10:11:38 PM There are so many ICO scams, and because of the lack of regulation there needs to be a decentralized solution. Check out Incremint.io. They have a decentralized escrow platform where token holders vote for release of funds to ICOs to ensure forward progress. Be care when investing! It's wild out there! I'm willing to bet that the Russian clown behind BitBase is affiliated with Incremint.io. |
