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Unfortunatley, PORNX is a well made scam! They don't answer in ours emails and there are no updates the lasts 40 days. Many people have lost their money but I don't understand why they didn't bother to make a topic about this. I have already informed FTC and SEC about this project and the participants  - inside (PORN_coin member, etc.) and outside(team members, advisors who promote it etc.) of this forum - as 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing'. They are aware of the situation since the 8th of July. Progress has be made so now I can speak publicly. Although I have discovered this fraud, PORN_coin member is still uses his account in this forum nearly every day (his IP can be found somehow)! Community must be causious about this person!
I'm open to personal messages from people that they want to help me or learn more details. I will keep you informed.

[UPDATE 21/7]
I have already contacted a lawyer and as he advised me I sent an email to the only one verified person that promoted this scam project named 'Marcello
Milteer'. Here is what I have writed to him:


""Hello,
My name is ******* and I am an early investor of PORN_X ICO. Unfortunately, this project is a well made scam and you have participated in it, although you worked as an advisor. Acording to their site: https://porn-x.com/ you promoted this project and you said that you are very excited about this' etc. People including me trust your reputation and invest in this project. As a result, I have lost 1k dollars in this fraud. You may think that this is a small amount of money but for me is a month salary. I want to inform you that I have already informed FTC and SEC about this project and the participants of it(team members, advisors who promote it etc.) as 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing'. They are aware of the situation since the 8th of July. Progress has be made so now I can speak publicly. I have contacted a lawyer and I want to inform you that -for now- you (Marcello Milteer) are the only person we have confirmed you identity. I am preparing a legal remorse for you and acoarding to my lauyer I can accuse you because you promoted frauds by taking advantage of your reputation. I will not withdraw prosecution until I get my money back from you or generally from someone involved in this project.""


On comming days I hope to find other members who have involed in this well-made scam

[UPDATE 23/7]
I have already contacted icobench.com, coincodex.com and altcointoday.com about this scam that theυ had promoted in the past. Until now, none of the three answered me.

[UPDATE 26/7] Marcello Milteer, advisor of PORNX project answered my email!

"Hey *********,

Sorry about responding late. I emphathize with you. I really do, but please don't come at me like I am a criminal. I want to assure you that I only had one encounter with the Porn-X team, to make a video read from a script to receive PORN tokens. At the time I thought they were legit because they were using the lightening betwork. I hadn't kept up with the project since the time I made that video in Feb. and learned it was a scam (I assume it is a scam because the team disappeared). I am writing you back to let you know that some team members are hired. They don’t own the project and the funds don’t go into their pocket. I want to raise this point so that in this situation, I'd like to co-operate with you to uncover the real perpetrators. I will try to reach out to the team to get any updates and relay back to you. But I have no affiliation with this project and received no money. I'm sorry you fell for a scam. I fell for it too. I am working with YouTube to remove my endorsement because hey used my name ad face without permission. I am also advising a few other projects and you really don't know if everyone has the best intentions. I hoping the ICO scams came to a halt soon. Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you, but s someone who isn't associated with the project,there isn't much I can do for you."

As you can see, he admits that this project is a scam and they fooled him! From his email I undersand that after September, he didn't even bother to check if this project is active. From the other side, PORNX team update their telegram group the last 3 days as one member of this forum informed me.

[UPDATE 30/7] Last 12 hours I see some activity: https://etherscan.io/token/0xdc58e0e4d613a56edd6bd4dd095eaa1bed645889 (https://etherscan.io/token/0xdc58e0e4d613a56edd6bd4dd095eaa1bed645889)

[UPDATE 3/8] SEC has yesterday sent me an email telling that my report for 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing' is under investigation. Good news

[UPDATE 5/8] Proof of my accusations:
Look Damian Lerner photos on Linkedin and Pornx site. Seriously, how we get scamed from these a***oles? They didn't bother to add the same person's picture.
https://i.imgur.com/qUwszAk.png
https://i.imgur.com/wc2mYUd.png

[UPDATE 11/8] I'm preparing a lawsuit and I sent an email to Marcello Milteer, Pornx advisor about some information I need from him. Here is what I wrote:

Hello,
 
***** again, early investor of PORNX, etc. As I have informed you in a previous email I'm preparing a lawsuit but I need more information about you. As I can see in your Linkedin Profile you live in Austin, is this true? I'm asking because as my lawyer informed me every state in America has a statute setting time limits for when you can file certain types of cases. Marcello Milteer is your legal name? Of course once I file my lawsuit, I will give you legal notice as you are the defendant.
 
Thank you
 
 
 
**
My previous email:
"Hello,
My name is ****** and I am an early investor of PORN_X ICO. Unfortunately, this project is a well made scam and you have participated in it, although you worked as an advisor. Acording to their site: https://porn-x.com/ (https://porn-x.com/) you promoted this project and you said that you are very excited about this' etc. People including me trust your reputation and invest in this project. As a result, I have lost 1k dollars in this fraud. You may think that this is a small amount of money but for me is a month salary. I want to inform you that I have already informed FTC and SEC about this project and the participants of it(team members, advisors who promote it etc.) as 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing'. They are aware of the situation since the 8th of July. Progress has be made so now I can speak publicly. I have contacted a lawyer and I want to inform you that -for now- you (Marcello Milteer) are the only person we have confirmed you identity. I am preparing a legal remorse for you and acoarding to my lauyer I can accuse you because you promoted frauds by taking advantage of your reputation. I will not withdraw prosecution until I get my money back from you or generally from someone involved in this project."
 
 
***
I have already open a new topic on Bitcointalk about my progress with this fraud and your participation of course: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2375309.3620
At least 140 people have read it so far.


[UPDATE 12/8] Today I will show you how scammers are trying to manipulate this topic and I'm sure they are trying the same with other conversations. As you can see below I'm looking topic: [AIRDROP][BOUNTY] ⚡️ PORNX PRE-SALE solutions based on Lightning network⚡️ and more specific this two members (page 182):

https://i.imgur.com/mCYesQk.png

As you can see they are both online the second one answer almost immediately, and they have nearly the same activity. Let's take a look at their profiles.... Check their posts:
""#Proof-of-Authentication:

Join Telegram

Join twitter
 
Join facebook

Join Youtube Channel
""
""
Can a newbie participate in a bounty?
""
""
when distribution for bounty?
""

As you can see on your own they both have the same style of writing and they use the same phrases (probably they copy-paste them and change a few things). So what they are trying to do? They are encouraging people to look pornx's telegram profile and persuade them that this project is still active. BE CAREFULL !!!!

[UPDATE 13/8] I sent second notice to Marcello Milteer, Pornx advisor about the lawsuit I'm preparing for him. He does not yet answer me.

[UPDATE 16/8] I sent third notice to Marcello Milteer, Pornx advisor about the lawsuit I'm preparing for him. He does not yet answer me. I wil start sharing my story with the media (ccn, cointelegraph, altcointoday, cryptonewsasia, cryptopotato, cryptovest etc). Meanwhile I want to inform you that pornx site https://porn-x.com/ (https://porn-x.com/) is down!

[UPDATE 17/8] Cryptopotato ask me to describe them my story briefly.


[UPDATE 19/8] New domain for our scam!!! https://porn-x.com/ (https://porn-x.com/)  https://pornx-official.com (https://pornx-official.com)

I will keep you informed about any updates.

I have already contacted a lawyer and as he advised me I sent an email to the only one verified person that promoted this scam project named 'Marcello
Milteer'. Here is what I have writed:


""Hello,
My name is ******* and I am an early investor of PORN_X ICO. Unfortunately, this project is a well made scam and you have participated in it, although you worked as an advisor. Acording to their site: https://porn-x.com/ you promoted this project and you said that you are very excited about this' etc. People including me trust your reputation and invest in this project. As a result, I have lost 1k dollars in this fraud. You may think that this is a small amount of money but for me is a month salary. I want to inform you that I have already informed FTC and SEC about this project and the participants of it(team members, advisors who promote it etc.) as 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing'. They are aware of the situation since the 8th of July. Progress has be made so now I can speak publicly. I have contacted a lawyer and I want to inform you that -for now- you (Marcello Milteer) are the only person we have confirmed you identity. I am preparing a legal remorse for you and acoarding to my lauyer I can accuse you because you promoted frauds by taking advantage of your reputation. I will not withdraw prosecution until I get my money back from you or generally from someone involved in this project.""


On comming days I hope to find other members who have involed in this well-made scam

I have already contacted icobench.com, coincodex.com and altcointoday.com about this scam that they had promoted in the past. Until now, none of the three answered me.

well those projects are really known as scam projects what you will do is to stop promoting such project.

Is a start at least. People loose a lot of money on these scams

[UPDATE 26/7] Marcello Milteer, advisor of PORNX project answered my email!

"Hey *********,

Sorry about responding late. I emphathize with you. I really do, but please don't come at me like I am a criminal. I want to assure you that I only had one encounter with the Porn-X team, to make a video read from a script to receive PORN tokens. At the time I thought they were legit because they were using the lightening betwork. I hadn't kept up with the project since the time I made that video in Feb. and learned it was a scam (I assume it is a scam because the team disappeared). I am writing you back to let you know that some team members are hired. They don’t own the project and the funds don’t go into their pocket. I want to raise this point so that in this situation, I'd like to co-operate with you to uncover the real perpetrators. I will try to reach out to the team to get any updates and relay back to you. But I have no affiliation with this project and received no money. I'm sorry you fell for a scam. I fell for it too. I am working with YouTube to remove my endorsement because hey used my name ad face without permission. I am also advising a few other projects and you really don't know if everyone has the best intentions. I hoping the ICO scams came to a halt soon. Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you, but s someone who isn't associated with the project,there isn't much I can do for you."

As you can see, he admits that this project is a scam and they fooled him! From his email I undersand that after September, he didn't even bother to check if this project is active. From the other side, PORNX team update their telegram group the last 3 days as one member of this forum informed me.
I will keep you informed about any updates.

[UPDATE 30/7] Last days I see some activity: https://etherscan.io/token/0xdc58e0e4d613a56edd6bd4dd095eaa1bed645889 (https://etherscan.io/token/0xdc58e0e4d613a56edd6bd4dd095eaa1bed645889)

[UPDATE 3/8] SEC has yesterday sent me an email telling that my report for 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing' is under investigation. Good news

I don't  know but judging from the name of the cryptocurrency, it looks like a scam already. Anyway, I hope things on this one would get fixed. SEC better regulate these things because without them, there will be no peace in cryptocurrency ICO

I hope so, too.

[UPDATE 5/8] Proof of my accusations:
Look Damian Lerner photos on Linkedin and Pornx site. Seriously, how we get scamed from these a***oles? They didn't bother to add the same person's picture.

At least you have taken the right choice of informing everyone. Many advisers just keep quiet when this happens and that is something that harms their reputation in fact.

Thanks, I appreciate it. Unfortunately, not so many believe me and they are keep following this scam. I can't believe that I didn't receive any messages from other investors so far. They haven't understand yet that they have lost all their money!!

Dear Tesla,
I was proboked by your post and I have just registered.
I am one of the "stupid" investors. I was not experiencced enough. It was clear to me already in May/June that this is a scam.
They havent responded to my emails and when I copied link to ths thread to Pornx's Telegram they kicked me out.
Thanks for telling to the world about this scam!!

Thank you, I really appreciate it. I want to say that you are not stupid because someone scammed you. These people must be assamed. Anyway, I hope this is a good lesson for you. I hope you didn't lost much money on this scam. Don't trust projects like these anymore.

It's so sad to see how people are been scammed of their hard earn money, this is reason why it is strongly been advised to always do your research when investing in an ICO, don't be moved by their offers or their beautiful website or white paper, do a dip down research, I believe if you had done your research, it won't have been like this.

It is ridiculous that we have such amount of scams on market. In one-two years investors will lose confidence in ICO and cryptocurrency industry.

If this is a scam. What can I do about the token I received? just throw away?

Losing some money  :'(

i had some scams aswell and i lost round about 700$ i would say. But to be honest there is not much you do most of the time. You need to track down the scammers which is very costly

It's a pity that the project turned out to be a scam. Developers from Singapore, and the meaning of the project though any was. So the developer was very cunning and deceived all  :)

And it's natural, because all these 3 sites make ratings for projects for money! Who can hold them accountable for this and under the laws of which country?

Definitely true. When someone is interested about an ICO must do a dip down research not only on its white paper but also on people that been involved, their profiles on Social Media, reputation, background etc. In this case, I decided to invest on this project due to their advisor Marcello Milteer (https://twitter.com/mojincello (https://twitter.com/mojincello),https://www.marcellomilteer.net/contact/ (https://www.marcellomilteer.net/contact/)) who is known from 'The Bitcoin Podcast'. Unfortunately, he is so unprofessional as I wrote past week.

I suspect that developer was never there at all. They bought their white paper and they copied some code from other projects that use Github.

[UPDATE 11/8] I'm preparing a lawsuit and I sent an email to Marcello Milteer, Pornx advisor about some information I need from him. Here is what I wrote:

Hello,
 
****** again, early investor of PORNX, etc. As I have informed you in a previous email I'm preparing a lawsuit but I need more information about you. As I can see in your Linkedin Profile you live in Austin, is this true? I'm asking because as my lawyer informed me every state in America has a statute setting time limits for when you can file certain types of cases. Marcello Milteer is your legal name? Of course once I file my lawsuit, I will give you legal notice as you are the defendant.
 
Thank you
 
 
 
**
My previous email:
"Hello,
My name is ******* and I am an early investor of PORN_X ICO. Unfortunately, this project is a well made scam and you have participated in it, although you worked as an advisor. Acording to their site: https://porn-x.com/ (https://porn-x.com/) you promoted this project and you said that you are very excited about this' etc. People including me trust your reputation and invest in this project. As a result, I have lost 1k dollars in this fraud. You may think that this is a small amount of money but for me is a month salary. I want to inform you that I have already informed FTC and SEC about this project and the participants of it(team members, advisors who promote it etc.) as 'Suspected Security Fraud or Wrongdoing'. They are aware of the situation since the 8th of July. Progress has be made so now I can speak publicly. I have contacted a lawyer and I want to inform you that -for now- you (Marcello Milteer) are the only person we have confirmed you identity. I am preparing a legal remorse for you and acoarding to my lauyer I can accuse you because you promoted frauds by taking advantage of your reputation. I will not withdraw prosecution until I get my money back from you or generally from someone involved in this project."
 
 
***
I have already open a new topic on Bitcointalk about my progress with this fraud and your participation of course: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4713497.20 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4713497.20)
At least 140 people have read it so far.

[UPDATE 12/8] Today I will show you how scammers are trying to manipulate this topic and I'm sure they are trying the same with other conversations. As you can see below I'm looking topic: [AIRDROP][BOUNTY] ⚡️ PORNX PRE-SALE solutions based on Lightning network⚡️ and more specific this two members (page 182):

https://i.imgur.com/mCYesQk.png

As you can see they are both online the second one answer almost immediately, and they have nearly the same activity. Let's take a look at their profiles.... Check their posts:
""#Proof-of-Authentication:

Join Telegram

Join twitter
 
Join facebook

Join Youtube Channel
""
""
Can a newbie participate in a bounty?
""
""
when distribution for bounty?
""

As you can see on your own they both have the same style of writing and they use the same phrases (probably they copy-paste them and change a few things). So what they are trying to do? They are encouraging people to look pornx's telegram profile and persuade them that this project is still active. BE CAREFULL !!!!

[UPDATE 13/8] I sent second notice to Marcello Milteer, Pornx advisor about the lawsuit I'm preparing for him. He does not yet answer me.

This is a wise move. we should be vigilante. There's many of such projects around us. Thank you for creating awareness to the entire public. I don't understand why scammers go free and unpunished.

Lack of regulation is the answer you are looking for.

[UPDATE 16/8] I sent third notice to Marcello Milteer, Pornx advisor about the lawsuit I'm preparing for him. He does not yet answer me. I wil start sharing my story with the media (ccn, cointelegraph, altcointoday, cryptonewsasia, cryptopotato, cryptovest etc). I will keep you informed about any updates. Meanwhile I want to inform you that pornx site https://porn-x.com/ (https://porn-x.com/) is down!

[UPDATE 17/8] Cryptopotato ask me to describe them my story briefly.

[UPDATE 19/8] New domain for our scam!!! https://porn-x.com/ (https://porn-x.com/)  https://pornx-official.com (https://pornx-official.com)

I've raised a scam accusation here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4959264.msg44701272#msg44701272 based on your reporting.