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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: morvillz7z on April 17, 2019, 10:56:26 PM



Title: Epaicapital.com - fake team, plagiarized whitepaper.
Post by: morvillz7z on April 17, 2019, 10:56:26 PM
What happened: Fake team, copied content from various other projects.

Reference Link: https://www.epaicapital.com/

Announced by: chirstopher (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2580345)

ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132902.0

  • This is by far the worst collection of fake generated team/pictures I have ever seen, as if they all escaped a burning house, please see pictures below lol
  • Copied content from various other projects
  • Their website is less than two weeks old
  • Plagiarized whitepaper (which is not exactly a wp, just a giant screenshot of their website) too.

Code:
Domain Name: epaicapital.com
Registry Domain ID: 2377575410_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2019-04-07T10:44:50Z
Creation Date: 2019-04-07T10:44:50Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-04-07T10:44:50Z



The infamous pictures, please have a laugh with me  ;D

Lewis Dunk (https://archive.fo/6KpeN), Tyree Wilson (https://archive.fo/BA2HC), Martin Doyle (https://archive.fo/VIkY9), Dean Gerken (https://archive.fo/L1EOy), Florian Chabro (https://archive.fo/1Yi3j) and Michael Cabella (https://archive.fo/j0hjs)





https://i.ibb.co/jv56Jnq/epai1.jpg

 (https://i.ibb.co/jv56Jnq/epai1.jpg) https://i.ibb.co/j5j3jsq/eotrade1.jpg (https://i.ibb.co/j5j3jsq/eotrade1.jpg)

https://icoranker.com/ico/eo-trade




https://i.ibb.co/H41qgxy/epai2.jpg (https://i.ibb.co/H41qgxy/epai2.jpg) https://i.ibb.co/x3hnGD8/paysafe2.jpg (https://i.ibb.co/x3hnGD8/paysafe2.jpg)

https://www.paysafe.com/blog/four-ways-ai-and-blockchain-might-revolutionise-finance/



https://i.ibb.co/TqjsmZS/epai-WP.jpg (https://i.ibb.co/TqjsmZS/epai-WP.jpg)

https://i.ibb.co/JrJskVQ/alpha-WP.jpg (https://i.ibb.co/JrJskVQ/alpha-WP.jpg)

https://alpha-x.io/index.html




Archive of the website:https://archive.fo/0CUYg ; https://web.archive.org/web/20190417221306/https://epaicapital.com/
Archive of the ANN:https://archive.fo/KGgJv
Archive of the whitepaper:https://web.archive.org/web/20190417222438/https://epaicapital.com/Epai-wpp.pdf


Title: Re: Epaicapital.com - fake team, plagiarized whitepaper.
Post by: nutildah on April 18, 2019, 03:46:03 AM
Oh man. You're gonna love this.

All the team members have names taken straight from famous English and French footballers!

Dean Gerken - goalkeeper, Ipswich Town
Martin Doyle - defender, Queen of the South
Tyree Wilson - midfielder, Derby County Football Club
Lewis Dunk - center fielder, Brighton & Hove Albion
Remy (Michael) Cabella - midfielder, AS Saint-Étienne
Florian Chabrolle (Chabro) - midfielder, Ligue 1 side Marseille

Talk about lazy!


Title: Re: Epaicapital.com - fake team, plagiarized whitepaper.
Post by: Theb on April 18, 2019, 08:53:03 AM
Took a shot on finding their teams' real identity but I came out short on finding nothing about them, however I think its enough that nutildah have pointed out that they are 6 of 6 on using names of footballers on their fake profiles to create an identity. The pictures they have taken might just be from social media profiles of not known people that is why it is hard to do a search on it. Also them copying from various projects is enough to show that they aren't really a real project.


Title: Re: Epaicapital.com - fake team, plagiarized whitepaper.
Post by: morvillz7z on April 18, 2019, 10:27:27 AM
Talk about lazy!

That's definitely a good find, I didn't bother searching for their names.

Took a shot on finding their teams' real identity but I came out short ~snip~The pictures they have taken might just be from social media profiles of not known people that is why it is hard to do a search on it.

These photos are not taken from social media or anything like that, you can never find their real identities, they don't exist. It's a mashup photo so to speak.

If anyone needs more information on where these pictures comes from and how to tell they are fake, just shoot me a PM. I don't want to give wannabe scammers any tips.


Title: Re: Epaicapital.com - fake team, plagiarized whitepaper.
Post by: ICOEthics on April 18, 2019, 11:57:48 AM
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The infamous pictures, please have a laugh with me  ;D

Lewis Dunk (https://archive.fo/6KpeN), Tyree Wilson (https://archive.fo/BA2HC), Martin Doyle (https://archive.fo/VIkY9), Dean Gerken (https://archive.fo/L1EOy), Florian Chabro (https://archive.fo/1Yi3j) and Michael Cabella (https://archive.fo/j0hjs)
...

I am laughing at those pictures. Definitely, this amateur scammer picked the worse fake pictures for a team. This technology still far away to be perfect and leave all traces behind. Let them use it, it will be an easy job for us (scam hunters) finding them. I think this is the fourth or fifth case using these type of images that I saw recently. Was Cabella in that church fire in Paris? Soon summer will be here and we will see a lot more of those images. I urge all scam hunters to learn how to identify those images asp.