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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: tvplus006 on December 17, 2019, 01:48:05 PM



Title: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: tvplus006 on December 17, 2019, 01:48:05 PM
What happened: Plagiarized Whitepaper. There are no references to the source.

Flag type 1 (support/oppose) : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1080

Profile Link [ANN]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5208511.0
Archived: http://archive.md/qj6Zi
Website: https://www.g-thesaurum.com/
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20190912203654/http://littradex.com/
Whitepaper: https://f1044fc2-0fdf-4f49-a846-e9c022f16b2b.filesusr.com/ugd/4bedab_bd99e7b8629c4047b11db0c1d46f7770.pdf
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20191217130157/https://f1044fc2-0fdf-4f49-a846-e9c022f16b2b.filesusr.com/ugd/4bedab_bd99e7b8629c4047b11db0c1d46f7770.pdf

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Domain Name: G-THESAURUM.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2452055306_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wix.com
Registrar URL: http://www.wix.com
Updated Date: 2019-11-06
Creation Date: 2019-11-06
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-11-06



Left on the photo - G-THESAURUM.COM, on right - BITLUMENS.COM

https://bitlumens.com/assets/bitlumensdata/White_Paper_June_2018.pdf

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Domain Name: BITLUMENS.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2157514996_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.google.com
Registrar URL: http://domains.google.com
Updated Date: 2019-08-29
Creation Date: 2017-08-28
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-08-28T

https://i.ibb.co/pKZ0YLr/1.jpg (https://ibb.co/VCDjfqp)
https://i.ibb.co/8dxQKHy/2.jpg (https://ibb.co/mXyPD3n)
https://i.ibb.co/zxDKXzJ/3.jpg (https://ibb.co/h9wpBSf)



Left on the photo - G-THESAURUM.COM, on right - SAMARAGROUP.NET

https://industries.samaragroup.net/partnership/

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Domain Name: SAMARAGROUP.NET
Registry Domain ID: 1737446466_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ascio.com
Registrar URL: http://www.ascio.com
Updated Date: 2019-07-07
Creation Date: 2012-08-06
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-08-06

https://i.ibb.co/j8GZ7tx/4.jpg (https://ibb.co/S607qS1)


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: dkbit98 on December 17, 2019, 01:53:38 PM
@tvplus006 you are like a scam busting machine non-stop finding new material :)
Good work

PS
I am supporting the Flag


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: btcltcdigger on December 17, 2019, 02:53:10 PM
Looks like a bad attempt of money grab.

Supporting the flag as well


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Raflesia on December 17, 2019, 04:26:51 PM
Scamer hmmm like this keeps on happening somehow the thought of this scamer copying all of his white paper from other article sources and also the website is not very convincing especially in team form like they put up photos of people there.
Scamer realizes that you will continue to be pursued at any time.


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: TalkStar on December 17, 2019, 04:55:10 PM
Another impressive investigation by OP. Expecting anything positive from this kinda project is just a day dream. I don't think anyone going to keep trust on a project like this who have no ability to create a whitepaper by their own.

Flag supported and scammer profile tagged from my end. Keep continuing scam busting activities and best of luck.


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Rikafip on December 17, 2019, 06:36:09 PM
They made another Ann today. I have no idea what they are thinking, that someone won't notice their new attempt?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5210411.0

Flag supported.


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Slow death on December 17, 2019, 06:40:51 PM
I'm shocked, it seems to me that all these team members are African and he has already created many threads to talk about this project

Michael Dwumfuor:

Edward has an ability to provide proactive business consultancy and financial advisory services to SMEs of developing economies. Edward has served as a branch manager at several banks and financial service companies. He majored in Banking and Finance at the University of Ghana and mastered a corporate course on Development Financing  in Germany.

the other team members also have a very good curriculum, so good that it becomes strange that people with these Curriculum make a plagiarized whitepaper, I couldn't verify if the team members are true or not, but this is very strange, according to this post:

We use smart contracts to provide fair and secure gaming.
This is the first investment-type gambling game ever made. We operate under a
Ghana gaming license issued by Game Ministry of Ghana

they say they have a license but, I didn't see this license, but this:

https://i.imgur.com/S4oj402.png

https://i.imgur.com/9Q2YeHi.png

looks like a child thing


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: tvplus006 on December 17, 2019, 10:02:37 PM
They made another Ann today. I have no idea what they are thinking, that someone won't notice their new attempt?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5210411.0
Yeah, it's hard to stop. He publishes his ANN Thesaurum almost every day. They have small changes, but they have one purpose-advertising Thesaurum.
Here are some more of them:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5209602
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5208804
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5207513


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Rikafip on February 05, 2020, 09:00:13 PM
Thesaurum scammer came back again with a new announcement thread. He is persistent,i give him that.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223405.0
https://archive.fo/bIVEf



Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Mallyx on February 25, 2020, 12:51:35 PM
One more: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228319.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228319.0)

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Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: tvplus006 on February 26, 2020, 08:35:29 AM
Thesaurum scammer came back again with a new announcement thread. He is persistent,i give him that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5223405.0
https://archive.fo/bIVEf
One more: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228319.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228319.0)

It's no surprise that they come back here again and again. He changed the original thread completely, without even leaving a link to his site there. But I always archive the original thread. I also made an archive of the new thread and marked it with a negative tag.
http://archive.fo/60EgL


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: morvillz7z on March 04, 2020, 02:13:08 PM
Since their main account, Thesaurum___Offical is flagged, and i can see two other alt accounts are reported above (tagged but not flagged).

I've decided to raise a flag for Thesaurum1#3 and raheel1#3 and would encourage anyone to make the same if you spot more of their alts out there.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1430

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1431





Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: btcltcdigger on March 04, 2020, 06:11:43 PM
Supporting both flags


Title: Re: Thesaurum - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Rikafip on March 13, 2020, 11:39:16 AM
What a surprise, Thesaurum is back with yet another ann thread!
[ANN][BLOCKCHAIN][GAMES] Join the game & win $100,000 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5232546.0)

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