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Hello pals,
Here's the story.Ico discuss is a forum,it's admin opened an offer where he is paying members to join and post.
Here's the link:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2092730.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2092730.0)
At first,people asked him to use escrow but he said that he called OgNasty and he rejected because of low amount.
So he hired me and @xasistech as moderator of his forum,he promised to pay 100$ monthly being a moderator.
He also used us to make other people think that he is legit by paying us upfront for our posts.
The problem is,me and xasistech realized that he is willing to scam everyone.
I do not want to be part of a scam project so here's our staff discussion,at first he told us that he will get funds to pay members sunday,which appear not happened.Today is monday and nearly tuesday forum time and we still don't have any notice from him since 24 hours.
The worst is that he asked xasistech to hire a designer to make signatures and logo so we can run the signature compaign,now the designer made them but we don't know what to tell him as Icodiscuss admin still didn't send us funds to pay him.
He really used us to scam people please staff members/trusted members help us to solve this we trusted him and we regret it now please see screenshots below,if more informations needed I'll be happy to provide them

https://postimg.org/gallery/vyyw94nk/ (https://postimg.org/gallery/vyyw94nk/)

A few days ago the admin of that forum cames to here offering $8 for 20 posts, then he hired us for being moderators of that forum and paying us $100 a month for that. He payed us $15 in advance to work with him.
He make me contact two designers for signatures and avatars, and he told me that in sunday i was gonna have the money to pay them. But he dissapeared, now i dont know what to do.
This guy dissapeared from everywhere, i think the only thing that he wanted was to grow his forum.

That was expected... I joined anyway because there was a chance in one thousand that could be real.

You should waited that guy send you the money first before contacting the designer to start the job... To don't harm the designer you should pay him with the money you two received from the scammer guy, don't know how much it costs, but you could split the debt between yourselves.

The guy paid us 15$ each we could never pay him with such amount man and the designer would cost us 0.03BTC I honestly don't have what to pay him,also it's not our fault if the admin decided to scam we were scammed too all our work and effort in the forum went in vain.

As i recall you were arrogant and called me ''being stupid'' when i said i am skeptical about the project and the i think it is a scam because of numerous changes in rules and continuous editing of posts...
At least you guys are cool, came clean about it and now we dont have to lose our time there. Good job for that!

Yes,I wanted to apologize again about it that guy didn't let us see clear in his intentions until now.He paid us upfront and we really thought that he was serious about his project you can say that we were stupid and dumb,We are really sorry that we helped him to fool you guys but it wasn't in our intentions I mean it's not everyday that someone considerate you in his project we had faith on it that's why we defended it so bad but now we are trying to catch up ourselves and warn you to not waste your time there anymore.I hope we can find a way to discuss this to the designer please someone tag the admin account so he can't make more scams sorry again.

Okay, you were cheated because they did not use escrow, but some of you asked the admin of this forum where the money comes from to pay you?

I suppose @icodiscuss would pay with money from his pocket and that in a short time he would have many companies advertising in his forum and with that it will be no problem to pay you.

The problem with this plan is that the person never knows when they will have clients, so in my opinion he should not make illusory promises, not pay high prices and should have payment money for 3 months or it may be that @icodiscuss is a big Scammers who just wanted you to register to steal your account password or something.


Something he intends to gain from this forum he created

Yes that was probably his intentions get advertisers to advertise about ICOs  on his forum but he didn't use any kind of adnetworks such as google adsense.Also I doubt that the forum was for phishing purpose as the website has HTTPS certificate.Yes guys please red tag him so other people don't join that forum and get scammed too.

What will happen to that forum? I have a little amount of love on it and hoping that it will grow, i feel betrayed by icodiscuss if this accusations were true. I just hope you'll post this also to the icodiscuss forum to alert people there who are still hoping that forum will continue to grow.

just like i thought, but i gave him a chance to prove that he is not the one who became scammer. so i decide to join and give it a try. and now its proven that he is. and i think give them all a negative trust for being not fair and scam the other who did participate at that forum. all of them (admin/mods) are deserve to take a disciplinary action and no exceptions. to aware all the others that they belong to that forum (icodiscuss) who scam and defense it from all the thoughts that we had before. i hope OP that you clean up all your mess/responsibility for that and accept the consequence for being part of it.

It's not the mods fault,we don't have control over what the admin decide to do,also we were hired to post/moderate like everyone else and don't think that he paid us to be moderators,he has a debt over all of us.Giving us a red trust is not fair because if we intended to scam users we wouldn't open a scam accusation,we would just keep delaying it so we accomplish our job.Stop talking non-sense we made a mistake and we are trying to correct it now by warning all of you.

Exactly, Ave and Xax, who were moderators of icodiscuss.com were also a victim here. They are just giving us warning of the possiblity that icodiscuss is scamming all of us here, i just really hope he will clean his name.

Right now I will refrain not to post on that scam forum, hope everyone in that forum might be aware of this fraud act they did. Thanks Aveatrex for the notice.

There have been a few losers who have promised to pay for posting but never did.

More recently:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2090506.0

And more aggressively:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1680682.0

Anyway, I left this loser negative trust as well.  I will remove it if/when he/she pays everyone. 

Thank you Vod really appreciate your help,I hope too that he comes back and pay everyone especially the designer which he asked xasistech to hire and made the signatures for the project without being paid...I feel bad for him this stupid guy played with us, what xasistech will tell to the poor designer now?

That forum was dead on arrival.   Paying the most desperate shitposters from bitcointal to post there?  Yeah, that's a recipe for success.   I didn't expect the owner there to scam anyone,  but he probably saw what a loser hole it was and just walked away.

Props to you two for being honest and doing this.  That says a lot.

Aveatrex, can you post to icodiscuss about this issue? thank you, i think a lot of members still don't really know what happened between you and icodiscuss.

Yeah,it was clear since the beginning but we were dumb that we didn't see it coming.Thanks man :)

Done I posted on all boards so people see it each time they are about to post.

But you posted the wrong link.  :/

Anyway, those posts will be deleted as soon as the Admin signs on...

Oh thanks for the notice,as I still have moderator access I edited the posts with correct link.Although he will probably delete them once he is online but I doubt that he comes here again,he will just leave the forum and disappear from here in my opinion.Anyways we still don't have any notice from him 36 hours now.

i register to the forum but i was thinking it was nothing , but a scam... in register section there is no slot in how you will pay.. ithe admin say contact the admin section when you reach 20 post... after your contact what the hell are going on... there no way that the admin could pay you... the admin only want to grow his forum .... and i doubt about it...

I still can't believe IcoDiscuss is a scam. The admin was enough active to be trusted. I will wait for further infomation from icodiscuss's mod. Thank for the informative thread

someone did more than this:


"obviously this site is a scam site. don't waste your time here.

Fuck icodiscuss.com.

mother fucker icodiscuss.com.

Go to hell :evil:"

https://icodiscuss.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=728&sid=d062f0d9ca95c769bd60f7406000877a#p728



trusted? no!

Did not even say anything about him.

He did not say where the money came from to pay you

Did not use escrow.

Mistakes do happen in life and Aveatrex, it was your mistake to trust them blindly with just 15$ in the pocket. Since he only had a newbie account and giving a red trust wont hurt him much, i am happy that you people realize the scam and told to everyone so people dont write further posts their and  waste their time.

We all now know that this Icodiscuss forum is a scam. Why not do something which will really make them cry ? I have a great idea. All of those who make their account their, lets just delete all the posts we made their. This will make the forum with zero posts  ;) Once done this, everyone should write a single post their telling that this is a scam project. In this way, we can really damage the ICOdiscuss forum.

My god... i cant believe all of you accusing me of scam and all... okay here is my explanation,, i met with an accident on sunday night... i was hospitalised and i could not come online at all...  All the people who have posted on that site will be paid on friday as i am expected to get discharged on thursday from here... My moderators did not have any contact with them so it is justified on their part to think this is a scam... so i dont want you people to believe me until i actually pay and you can keep this thread alive but i would like all of you to delete ur scam accusitions from icodiscuss forum ,, being an admin i can do that myself but i dont want to intervene in users and also refrain from posting until everyone is paid including moderators after which its upto mods if they want to work with me or not... regarding scam i want to tell all of you again that as i could not reach my seller so i could not buy btcs but all of you will be paid on friday for sure...

then prove it that you are not a scammer. even those two mod of yours are getting involve in this accusation . we all dont know what happen to you when you disappear last day, even you have a valid reason but you not letting notice your mods that you are hopitalized, to inform us what happening to you. dude this a business even an emergency situation you need to update all of your activity. so we letting know what happening all about your project. clean your mess up first.

Yep, owner is a confirmed scammer. I've messaged him multiple times for pay and have not received a single reply.

it saddens me, I tried to defend ICO admin and said that it's legit at all. I even made the ICO forum as one of my main forum. Anyway, lesson learned. Will make sure next time

Yep not a single reply here either. Stalling for time.

Totally stalling here with a sob story that is as threadbare as the curtains in hades.

That forum sucked anyway, just as I said it would.  The owned probably realized it wasn't going to work out the way he thought,  realized his business model was fatally flawed (hiring the worst shitposters to jumpstart a forum), and decided he didn't want to pay anymore.  So now all you guys should learn not to trust noobs without escrow.  Had those funds been escrowed, you'd have been OK.

Edit: Checked icodiscuss forum, and  I was the only one viewing it, no registered users and me being the only guest.  That's pretty dead.  Admin had added a rant which included the threat that any users posting negative comments would be banned.   No wonder no one goes there.   Said he'd pay everyone tomorrow,  Friday.  We'll see.  He's got all that time to post but can't pay as promised?   Mm hmm.

It's August 29, and he didn't replied to me nor posted in the forum to update the people out there. Maybe he really vanished and abandoned the site, it's so sad though , the sites looks promising.  Thanks for your advice, i will not really trust people asking for services without escrows.