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Title: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: ICOEthics on November 05, 2018, 04:59:43 PM What happened: Plagiarized Whitepaper
Scammers Profile Link: ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5061254.0 http://web.archive.org/web/20181105170042/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5061254.0 Scammers Website: http://www.istapay.net http://web.archive.org/web/20181105164613/http://www.istapay.net/ There are no links the team member’s profile. Their whitepaper was recently uploaded to their website: Updated Date: 2018-10-21T11:51:51Z Their whitepaper is found here: http://www.istapay.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/thewhitepaper.pdf Archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20181105164624/http://www.istapay.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/thewhitepaper.pdf Also saved on our website: http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/instapay%20whitepaper.pdf It appears they copied the white paper from this project: Fair Diamond Mining Whitepaper: https://fairdiamondmining.com/Fair_Diamond_Mining_ICO.pdf https://icorating.com/upload/whitepaper/LCBdIx2ooqifUmryl2N67EXroHhatqxjWgvGRj3L.pdf http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl7.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl8.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl9.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl10.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl11.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl12.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl13.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl14.JPG http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/pl15.JPG Title: Re: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: marlboroza on November 08, 2018, 02:05:29 PM When was whitepaper released?
It is hard to say which project steal whitepaper, if I have to guess I would go with fairdiamondmining because istapay's domain is older: http://whois.domaintools.com/fairdiamondmining.com Quote Dates 145 days old Created on 2018-06-16 Expires on 2019-06-16 Updated on 2018-06-16 http://whois.domaintools.com/istapay.net Quote 495 days old Created on 2017-07-01 Expires on 2019-07-01 Updated on 2018-06-26 But that is only guessing :-\ Title: Re: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: ICOEthics on November 08, 2018, 02:47:13 PM When was whitepaper released? It is hard to say which project steal whitepaper, if I have to guess I would go with fairdiamondmining because istapay's domain is older: This was like which one came first the chicken or the egg. We did consider what you wrote above as well, but we did a research on the history of their website to see how it looks in the past. They did NOT have a whitepaper - until recently: http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net Above is the archive back 31-may-18. And here is the archive for August 15 2018 - http://web.archive.org/web/20180815093031/http://istapay.com/ As you can see there is no whitepaper on their website. Now if you go to their website to download their whitepaper, look where it was uploaded and look at the date: http://www.istapay.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/thewhitepaper.pdf "uploads/2018/10" Fair DIamond had their whitepaper in June 2018., and as you saw their last updated on their website was in June (source: https://hypestat.com/info/fairdiamondmining.com) Updated on 2018-06-16 Istapay: NO SSL (source: https://hypestat.com/info/istapay.net) This source shows the last update was in 10/2018) which matches the month that the WP was uploaded. Registry Domain ID: 2139095946_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com Updated Date: 2018-10-21T11:51:51Z Creation Date: 2017-07-01T18:53:06Z Title: Re: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: marlboroza on November 08, 2018, 08:42:37 PM This was like which one came first the chicken or the egg. Yeah, lol.They did NOT have a whitepaper - until recently: Isn't that archived on february? http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net Above is the archive back 31-may-18. Code: Current Page Archived On: And here is the archive for August 15 2018 - http://web.archive.org/web/20180815093031/http://istapay.com/ This is different domain, still without whitepaper. As you can see there is no whitepaper on their website. Now if you go to their website to download their whitepaper, look where it was uploaded and look at the date: Well, I am not sure why domaintools is showing wrong update date, I checked it at whois.net and got different date and yes, it match "uploads/2018/10".http://www.istapay.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/thewhitepaper.pdf "uploads/2018/10" Fair DIamond had their whitepaper in June 2018., and as you saw their last updated on their website was in June (source: https://hypestat.com/info/fairdiamondmining.com) Updated on 2018-06-16 Hm, take a look at their app: Quote This app has access to: Identity find accounts on the device Contacts find accounts on the device read your contacts modify your contacts Location approximate location (network-based) precise location (GPS and network-based) Photos/Media/Files read the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your USB storage Storage read the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your USB storage Microphone record audio Wi-Fi connection information view Wi-Fi connections Other receive data from Internet view network connections full network access run at startup control vibration prevent device from sleeping Title: Re: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: ICOEthics on November 08, 2018, 08:57:12 PM They did NOT have a whitepaper - until recently: Isn't that archived on february? http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net Above is the archive back 31-may-18. Code: Current Page Archived On: hmm.. not sure how you got that date.. we used www.oldweb.today and input date may 31 2018 using chrome. if you look at the archive the date is there (we highlighted in bold): http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net Quote Well, I am not sure why domaintools is showing wrong update date, I checked it at whois lookup and got different date and yes, it match "uploads/2018/10". We just did another search using another site: https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=www.istapay.net as you can see the update date still the same: http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/ista.JPG Title: Re: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: marlboroza on November 08, 2018, 09:12:26 PM We just did another search using another site: https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=www.istapay.net Yeah, I figured that after looking at whois.net(have to edit post), I am not sure why domaintools showed different date http://prntscr.com/lg1soi :-\as you can see the update date still the same: http://icoethics.com/imgs/instapay/ista.JPG Quote hmm.. not sure how you got that date.. we used www.oldweb.today and input date may 31 2018 using chrome. if you look at the archive the date is there (we highlighted in bold): http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net It says it is archived on february http://prntscr.com/lg1tsd What is requested date/time? Title: Re: Istapay.net - Plagiarized whitepaper Post by: ICOEthics on November 08, 2018, 09:30:55 PM What is requested date/time? Not sure, but I would think is the date that I input/request, I tried other dates around June 16th and couldn't get any results, until I got one from May 31st. http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net[/quote] as you see the file name 20180531094323 " 2018-05-31 09:43:23" If there is no archive usually will return without a result. Here is an archive from February - 2018-02-26 05:09:00 http://web.archive.org/web/20180226050900/http://www.istapay.net:80/ |
