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What happened: Fake Team, stealing people's identity.

Ann Thread 1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247251
Archived: http://archive.is/wip/JYgPO
Ann Thread 2: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5246726.
Archived: http://archive.is/wip/AS2NV


Tradez Bounty: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5247308
Archived Bounty: http://archive.is/wip/GHNZ6
OP of the ANN Thread 1: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2804751
OP of the ANN Thread 2: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2347750

Flags on both OPs:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1807
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=1808


Tradez website: https://tradez.xyz/
Archived: http://archive.is/XlcMR

Domain Information:

IEO status: https://bamboorelay.com/trade/TRZ-WETH


Plagiarized Whitepaper:
They have copied most of the contents from Evos.One's whitepaper for creating their whitepaper. Also plagiarized contents from a thesis paper on Bitcoin published on academia.edu.

Tradez whitepaper: https://github.com/TrzTradez/Tradez-Whitpaper/blob/master/WP%20TRADEZ.pdf
Archived whitepaper: http://archive.is/wip/EjKUm

Evos.One's whitepaper: https://evos.one/whitepaper-evos-1.2.pdf
https://www.academia.edu/31278940/BITCOIN_AS_A_PARALLEL_CURRENCY_AN_ECONOMIC_VISION_AND_MULTIPLE_LEGAL_CONSEQUENCES

They are using stock images, stealing other people's identity. From random Spurs fan to Real estate advisor to musician!  ;D

https://i.imgur.com/6UKadvp.png

https://i.imgur.com/aD31R8b.png

https://i.imgur.com/qQFJekK.png
https://www.compass.com/listing/5-duston-lane-acton-ma-01720/423685593493517937/

https://i.imgur.com/5CDU033.png

https://i.imgur.com/CAdgpOt.png
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/musician-mark-stoney-on-a_b_4597318
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0fTQkvS5Ci9sVMztiCQvMQ

https://i.imgur.com/wDMZpAA.png
https://i.imgur.com/jbHuJoM.png
https://www.pxfuel.com/en/search?q=entrepreneur&page=4

Nice find @invincible49!

They are obviously multi talented team :D

Joke aside, what a cheeky scam attempt, they couldn't even bother to change the names of those people that they took the pictures from. Both ANN creators tagged from my side, and if you make  flags, I'll gladly support those as well!

Whitepaper more Plagiarized from:
Criptoreal: https://criptoreal.org/Criptoreal-Whitepaper-v100c-en.pdf

Maxgapplus: https://policy.report/Resources/Whitepapers/68dca64f-37c0-4e41-86f4-e90f0bfcdae0_maxgapplus-whitepaper.pdf

Proof: 
https://i.imgur.com/Tdwlaji.png
https://i.imgur.com/5hJNSjU.png
https://i.imgur.com/1UV6o46.png
https://i.imgur.com/kZzSe75.png

Impressive investigation work "OP". Most probably it tooks a good amount to time to find these real people’s and for that personally i wanna thank you. Sometime your little work can save many newbies from getting scammed. Hope this topic will warn everyone about this obvious scam IEO project.    

I think its not their mistake where its bitcoin halving effect :) on them. These brainless idiots are in a hurry to wash immature investors wallet during the eve of bitcoin halving. Thats why maybe the forgot to change stolen identities name too. A complete scam with all stolen identities and plagiarized contents.

Flag supported from my end user proflle will be tagged shortly.    

I'm not questioning the OP work done, but I have a question. But why do you think the photos of Nancy Cole and Mark Stoney are stock? They are real famous people. Have you contacted them to find out if they are really members of the Tradez team?

I am agreed with tvplus006. Since they have used the photos with fake names then first we should be confirmed by them before talking they have a fake team. Though most probably they are not related to crypto. But should be confirmed before.

Yes, it is ok if we call them as a plagiarized white paper. I will tag and support the flag for it. Btw it's a good catch OP.

I sent a mail to Nancy Cole's business email address and waiting for her reply. I will update in the thread once I hear from Nancy. I admit I could not find any way to make a direct contact with British musician Mark Stoney because he hardly uses social media and his YouTube's last upload was 3 years ago. A musician who is also a "Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist" working on his upcoming solo music now also working as a Blockchain Project's Technical Development officer does not sound right. But I will try my best to contact such celebrity and update in here.

After verification of the website the concerning employee have been fired and there a new person working right now on the Paper and website .

In the name of Tradez i want to apologize for any inconvenience and i guarantee no plagiarized content will be tolerated.

Tradez is not supported by a official private team but its driven by the public community arround Tradez.

Unfortunately in almost every time a scam team get caught with plagiarized, fake photos they come up with same words you wrote. There is no community activity in your telegram group, neither there is any information about where this project is from. You can't be a serious team if you do not verify the content you put up on your website or plagiarized whitepaper in your github repository. All is there to find is a scam attempt.

This is classic excuse that has been used so many times, it's always someone else's fault, usually it's "dev".

What about your team members,  are those random musicians really part of your team (I find it hard to believe that those guys are  developers as well, judging by their social media profiles) or that is also someone else's fault, as I see you removed them now. Then again, how can someone plant fake team members on your website without you knowing? Surely you know your teams members.

you are simply saying that you asked someone to create a website for you and when that person handed you the website you did not check whether the website was okay or not, even knowing that it would be a website that would be visited by many people and now you are saying that dismissed the concerning employee? if your story is true then you should resign because it doesn’t make any sense that you don’t check these kinds of things, as you expect someone to trust in your project after knowing that you can’t even verify if the information on your website are true or not?


did you guarantee? are you forgetting that you didn't even check these kinds of things? how can you say that you guarantee something that is already seen that it is not of your interest to check if your own project has real information or not, of course this is if you were not the ones who plagiarized and are trying to lie by blaming someone who is a ghost employee


https://i.imgur.com/8v33vXB.png

I see you still have a lot to explain

More information about this scammer, cheater, liar with his many accounts doing ban evasion:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5188411.msg54456934#msg54456934

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