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Stumbled across this news: http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/12/08/ico-scammers-new-cybercriminal-breed/
The thing is someone threatened to give a bad review on ICO if they refuse to pay him for a good review. Well, they refused, and the guy started to call them a scam. I'm pretty sure they are not. But anyway, why would anyone do such a thing? Waste their time to do bad to others? I mean his time could be used better than that.

People earn money on different ways and this guy chosed the easiest one.
This is really disgusting what he has done. But if he continue - one day he will get the payment from somebody and the most scared thing is the guy can't be catched.

It is simple. greed. most of these ICO projects cause these, they paid most of these ICO review sites money or tokens so as to get good review from them, so this just must have think it is a norm to be collecting the money from every projects

Because many people are very vulnarable and crypto seems safe for scammers but it is not all scammers' money will be taken back and their identity will be revealed

So someone had enough of all ICO scams and decides to scam the people behind the ICO's instead. Obviously the guy is a scumbag and trying to get easy money from shady ICO's.

Absolutely agree with you. He can get away with it but the good ICO projects get bad reputation. Just because some guy got angry

Maybe you're right. There are a lot of scams indeed. But there's no point to harm someone who did nothing to him. Other people scamed him, not them

This guy wanted an EASY MONEY where he can collect them in short period of time and be rich. He showed his greediness over money. Poor guy, he will never be trusted again. People do such thing because they are desperate to have a huge money or be rich. They will do everything even if they give up their integrity.

That's sad. The most weird part is that he actually started to do it after they refused. He wasted a lot of time and still did not get paid. Instead he could spend time on something better. He could search for more ICOs and offer his services to them. Maybe someone would be interested in this and he could earn money fairly

This is truly disgusting, there is some human scum floating around that should be radically cleaned.

It is dishonest but that is the way things are, it is not rare for icos to pay someone to write articles favorable about them, so it is not surprise that the opposite were to happen as well, where someone asks money to give a good review and if the ico does not comply then its gets a bad review, this kind of thing happens not only in icos but almost in everything in life where reviews are involved.

Not all people are the same. There are people who gets pleasure by making other's life miserable. There are people who just wanted attention. There are also people who are too lazy to work and just want to earn income the easiest way. Its their life anyway, all we can do is pray for them that they might realize the things that they are doing and they might find peace and happiness someday.

Yes, a lot of things like that. I guess it's been around a long time and not just ICO's needing such a review. Many online business websites or online jobs pay writers for their services that write good article reviews. This is not a good way to promote an ICO or an online business. In addition can be misused, the person who writes articles can be careless and erratic. I myself have never read such a review article. I'm usually looking for a good ICO by looking at the various discussions on the internet. For example like in facebook group and online forum. We should stop reading at various review from unknown sites.

Not all people are good people, some of them prefer to look for easy money by doing bad things and they feel satisfy by watching other people fail or other people suffering and it's such a shame that people make a living by threatening other people, all of us should support crypto currency and try to create a better community

Actually many people are very vulnerable and crypto seems sale for scammers but it is not all SCAMMERS people. And also earn money on different ways but there are also people who are too lazy to work and just want to earn income the easiest way.there are people to get more attention to others

I tried to pay attention to ICO this last time. from some ico I follow just a little ico that is a scam. it's just that the opportunity for the scam is great. it can happen if the team of the project is only thinking about the benefits of each.

When money is involved there will always be a scammer. But let us not generalize all the people, there are still many people who strive hard to earn money. Scammers are shitty people who likes to take advantage on other people, don't let yourself to be victimize by them.

Simply because only money means the world to them. They are a pro and soulless people to the extend that they doesn't care what will the consequence they will be facing if they will be caught but in crypto world its very hard to track their record to reveal their identity. Scammers will never find happiness in life they just want money to live a luxury life whilst others worked very hard to earn it.

There are always good and bad deeds.When we talk about money,it's hard to control and change the personality of a person.Somebody said "money is evil".But it depends to a person,there are still many doing the right way on how to earn money.Scammers have no conscience.They want an easy money.All we can do is to stay alert and be careful always.

People have different mindset and strategy to survive, for us not right but for them maybe this is the right thing they must do. Besides that, ICO is " collect money " and I believe most people ( not all ) will do something not right to get part of ICO. As investor/ trader/ bounty hunters/ customers I suggest not do that, keep on our track to get money with right way. I'll waste my time to fix my strategy to get profit, it's worth and meaning something for me and my family.

For a quick and easy bucks of course, ICOs is the easiest way to collect money from investor and many bad people out there use ICOs to scam people. It will bring a negative thing into ICOs though, but i'm sure people and investor are smart nowdays. They will not invest on fake/scam project.

Damn! How in the world there is a such living person do that? He shouldnt come to this world!
Abusing his multiple accounts to threaten ICO Team, it is no different than robbery, except it is online and no legal consequences yet for that kind of abusive behaviour, only blocking account wont do much because he can easily create 1000 more account

This earth is full of both good and evil humans. It is really shameful that anyone could condescend to that level because of some filthy lucre. But then we have these unscrupulous humans littered here and there. It is for that same reason I am skeptical about the authenticity of reviews on ICOs from this site: https://icorating.com

Because they want to get money in an easy way, they are hungry to have it. By doing bad deeds they can earn without exerting effort. We have different personalities if there are good then there are also bad people. Scammers are everywhere and what we can do is be careful to be a victim.

Its the same thing in the real world, people would rather believe the fake news written by bloggers or new reporters wannabes and is a new kind of high way robbery minus the guns, knife and bonnets. But, if you think your product or project is really a legit project and can stand on its own, why be afraid of bad reviews from those low life scammers. Let the people be the judge of your project and by word of mouth, people will know if project is legit or not.

It's sad but when money is involved you see all different angles of human natures.

With money involved some people would really do anything to get some money, greed number one reason of it. Scammers are lurking everywhere waiting for the perfect opportunity in every single way they could earn ,  their mindset is set to earn regardless of how they get it the money good or bad.

In essence in generally I think, the more increasingly popular of crypto currency to many people.. it would be more people also who intends doing scams from various ways that can be done.
We just need to be more vigilant with the developments of the world of crypto currencies until nowadays that more familiar by many people, of course.. scamers would be thinking of certain ideas that come on their mind.

Just like in real life, there will always be people with personalities like this. Some will be motivated by envy (jealous of success), greed (wants to steal idea), or even simple spite (person gets off by seeing other suffer). When you encounter people like this online, i've found that the best recourse is to ignore. Block the person if you need to because once you start engaging him/her, that is what usually triggers the person to attack you or your ICO more.

There are a lot of bad people in the World. But average human being however are good! Even in this forum, I have seen people setting up a trap for user in other for them do something against the rule of the forum so that they can recommend them for red  NEG trust!

Yes when money is involved others wanted to earned easy money with their hands. They scam easily just to become rich without thinking of others. This is why before joining an ico if legit do some research first.

This is why review sites can lose so much credibility if in the review site you have a lot of fake reviews of people saying that a product is great and real users find out that is not the case, I have read that Amazon has that problem as well, there are people offering this service for Amazon and giving great reviews to products that do not deserve it and bad reviews to competitors.

It is a bad way to earn money by scamming. However some people choose to earn money using such easy way. Just like in real life, there are robberies and thieves.

not just a hungry but they are lazy to work hard for their profit for , so they do this cause they are lazy that is what the thing that i have been seen for why they do some scam for.

its all about money,clearly his intention is to get an instant money by giving bias review for the ICO.

there will be strange thing always happened on cryptocurrency like this one, actually he wasted his time to threat people. he wants to get money with really bad way, i think there still many things to do for useful life.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction,its all about money.

It is really disgusting, the human being changes personality when it comes to money, personalities vary depending on the belief of each one, it is advisable to read, observe the promises.

Money buys the character of the people and those who do scam are those who does not have the morale to identify what is right and wrong . It's very basic if you ask a child he will tell you but when you grow up this things are forgotten and start cheating people.

If you do investing on ICO you have to do a brief research on the project. You will get the profit according to the coin goes bigger in the chart. That would be possible if the project potential to survive in long time.
Most of the scammy ICO will have high capital investment of the project. Then they will scam that they have not achieved the expected growth and reduce the share of the promoters and investors.

They try to take the advantage of non-regulative world. They know that when they scam others, they won't be judged. This is very ridiculous. All they do is stealing the money of others.

Well this is really sad and weird thing is he is actually extorting money from them. Some people go too far beyond limit and doing this kind of things for earning money only.
Now a days people chose the easiest way of earning money, than why not be it by defaming other people’s reputation.

As in all fields and businesses there are supporters and haters and a third side is the black mailers, when there is very big project with big funding some people try to ask ransom otherwise they create fud online by posting scam accusations about the project, i think that is unethical and unreasonable.

They want instant money and they easy to them to do that,think if they have a phising site to scam other like many people who access or do invest in their site,it an easy money and they only need an btc address to do scam other.I experience that kind of site before they call it doubler and many of my friends in fb invest in that double,first to 3rd weeks they pay many of us but after a month they run away with a lot of btc in their doubler.

People will have to learn to be more carefully.
But sure. Fresh fish will always be easily caught.

Some people prefer to get profits in much easier way than to work hard for it, of course it is easier to get money through scamming, more profits in an easy way. They only think about earning money and do not have any goals. Those people are immoral and greed is good for them. They can scam because once they did that to us, we can not do a thing to change what happened. Scamming is naturally happening with real life currency, what more in digital world, they can also do that here.

I really do not know these liar conspiracy to get money will not be punished by God.

Because not all people are good. Some people want to get much profit without working hard, that's why they are scamming.

Really many people today are taking advantage of the non-regulation of the icos to apply several scams by the internet, whether by false projects as and what else is happening like this, a person forging a false identity so can steal a company.

If we had ICOS regulations we would have a lot more transparency and security for investors, buyers and also bounty hunters and this would prevent many frauds that are on the market today.

Easy money is always be the easy choice by others whom who don't have remorse of doing the crime. I just wish these scammers can be caught and be legally put behind bars as payment of the crime they committed.

If ICO offered to pay for good review then they have to pay because the crypto currency influencer or article reviewers take time to grow their community and audience even its required more effort . If some body offered for writing review and not paying for the effort then they deserve for bad review . they should pay wages for labor 

This is why many people that might be interested in investing in icos in the past now are not going to invest in them at all, also many icos have now increased requirements like the need to prove who you are and things like that so if I was not that interested in icos before, my interest has gotten even lower because if there is someone that needs to identify himself is the creator of the ico.

Because humans can be more than a devil nowadays! This scenario is like a kidnap for ransom that should be pleased with their demands.. :(

Such a person may not have a job and they just do something stupid. I we are in all places there must be an indicator of trust, when only someone who says a scam and they also do not have a belief from others then it is not enough effect. To say a scam project should certainly have many reviews, for me only a few people will not be too influential. As long as the project has good targets and goals then I do not think it will affect much of people's thinking. Everything will go according to the early indicators, when a project does not have a prospect then I think everyone can do the analysis and can decide their choice.

You have a point on that, most people nowadays are rampant doing such bad intentions like making scams websites. The main reason of this is to have an easy money, which could provide their daily needs. Even they already know what they are doing , they just continue to do it because there are also some users that are careless on there different account which by giving easily their private informations like the private key that they have. Those scammers is not easy to capture because of their code names and having a lots of identity. The best thing to do ,is to assure to the users that their private key or password should be in the safe place all the time and be observant all the time by entering the website which might have a possibility that it is a scam site or not.

Scam is the easiest way to earn money that's why some lazy people doing it,they want to earn big profit without investing big money and without hardwork,scammers are making a phising site that can get big interest and high profit on there money that they invest to get more attention in the people investors and bounty hunters to get easy money.

If that person bought a share from that ICO and doesn't give him/her the share then its a scam. Let's be honest as some of the ICO were just there to get funds from investors then there's a possibility that they will not make it to any exchangers so that's a scam. That is why it is important to research about an ICO first before buying a token from them.

Scamming is the most easiest and the most instant way to get money from people. People will do everything in the name of money even in the most unacceptable way. Its just that there were large number of people who are not well educated about this things which also leads to big number of scammer.

By means of catchy promises and good looking website, people will have their interest on it. The same way scammer desperately need money, also desperate investor put tge risk on it without fully knowing it.

People do that all the time, even with people such as amazon sellers, is called blackmailing. On this business community recognition is the key, an ICO tagged as scam will have a very hard time recovering and what an ICO needs is to grow so... People all the time wants money also

They are desperate to get Easy money.
thats why they use the Process of Scamming People

Because some people are greedy as hell. They don't care about the work of others.

I think someone is not able to follow the work in cryptocurrency. the person would only want a very easy salary and do not want to work hard. the perpetrator feels earning money by cheating is the best because they think the participants in cryptocurrency are very easy to earn money.

There are people who want to take advantage of the popularity of bitcoin, they will victimize newbie who wants to make instant return.
I see there are HYIP or ponzi all over so be careful when investing, always check and study well the assets you are investing, I think it's better to join
in ICO or learn how trade.

earn money in a bad way, like a disgusting parasite that must be eradicated, gradually people will also be good at choosing ICO, and the site will be blacklisted..

Since Bitcoin is needed an extra work to make people well-understand the technology, Those people who have a better understanding of the technology exploit the newbies who lack understanding the technology. Actually, There is plenty a guide for newbie to dodge the scam, but I think it does not influence at all.

Unfortunately this is the truth, there are many people out there that are bad people and while most people of the world are good, there is a minority that is bad and that have a huge effect on the world since they do not care about anything else but themselves, so it is not surprising that people like them will do anything to get their hands in the money of some other people.

People can be easy manipulated by others. If you are investing your savings in a totally new field, of course, you are very suspicious.
I don't know if it is true that people blackmail others for making money using this way, but surely there are many determined to do so.
The solution is obvious, if someone wants to invest he has to make his own research or take some advice from a specialist.
We never follow the opinion of people we don't know and don't trust.

There are good people and there are bad people everywhere including cryptocommunity! This sort of things will happen again and again! In matter of time though, the whole issue will be forgotten(if not forgotten already) and the world moves on!