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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: qwertyup23 on November 08, 2020, 04:53:09 PM



Title: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: qwertyup23 on November 08, 2020, 04:53:09 PM
What happened: PLAGIARIZED WHITEPAPER

  • Profile Link:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2871208
  • YFCentral Finance ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5287190.
  • YFCentral Finance ANN Archived: https://archive.fo/7J1B7/
  • YFCentral Finance Website: https://yfcentral.finance/
  • YFCentral Finance Whitepaper: https://yfcentral.finance/docs/yfcentral_whitepaper.pdf

FLAG: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2453


Code:
52 days old
Created on 2020-09-17
Expires on 2021-09-17
Updated on 2020-10-11


READ: Contents of the Whitepaper have been plagiarized from Zac.finance's whitepaper. When I confronted them on their ANN, they reasoned that they lacked the time to create their whitepaper, thus they resorted to copying the contents of Zac.finance's whitepaper. This reasoning is unacceptable in plagiarism and should not be tolerated at any cost. Until they create their original whitepaper, this accusation stands.

Copied content:
  • https://zac.finance/
  • https://zac.finance/whitepaper.pdf



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Title: Re: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: bullrun2024bro on November 08, 2020, 05:45:11 PM
READ: Contents of the Whitepaper have been plagiarized from Zac.finance's whitepaper. When I confronted them on their ANN, they reasoned that they lacked the time to create their whitepaper, thus they resorted to copying the contents of Zac.finance's whitepaper. This reasoning is unacceptable in plagiarism and should not be tolerated at any cost. Until they create their original whitepaper, this accusation stands.

Pretty good catch @qwertyup23. I left an additional negative feedback since I don't buy their lame excuse. When someone starts to copy content, it's usually not because of a lack of time, but because they don't have own ideas for their project. That's always a huge red flag. With all the current DeFi scams popping up every day, I am certainly sure this is just another scam attempt to steal money from potential investors.

The project will be added to the DeFi scam list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276012.0) within the next update. Good job @OP!  :)


Title: Re: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: notblox1 on November 08, 2020, 08:16:28 PM
qwertyup23 great work on catching this scammers with plagiarism fraud.
I never heard about project Zac or Yfcentral, but evidence is clear for everyone to see.


Title: Re: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: Furious 7 on November 09, 2020, 01:00:08 AM
Good job you have taken the time to research the project that did a copy of the content of this Whitepaper, I really appreciate you on this.

Why am I not so sure about the emerging DeFi project because they definitely just want money from investors and there is no other word but to make DeFi projects that are still trending right now, I hope this will end soon so that no more garbage projects keep popping up in this forum.


Title: Re: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: TheUltraElite on November 09, 2020, 04:53:45 AM
OP open the flag, don't wait. These type of scammers need to be punished decisively and quickly to prevent people from falling prey as much as we can save them.

Of course those who don't take time to check extensively will never come across this forum and will get scammed.

Still we will do our part. Open the flag, I will support it and tag the OP later today. Hope other DT will do the same.


Title: Re: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: qwertyup23 on November 09, 2020, 10:26:02 AM
qwertyup23 great work on catching this scammers with plagiarism fraud.
I never heard about project Zac or Yfcentral, but evidence is clear for everyone to see.

Thank you for your kind words. The evidence of plagiarism is plain and can be clearly seen. Their additional statements defending their actions aggravated their position further which prompted me to create this accusation against the project.

OP open the flag, don't wait. These type of scammers need to be punished decisively and quickly to prevent people from falling prey as much as we can save them.

Of course those who don't take time to check extensively will never come across this forum and will get scammed.

Still we will do our part. Open the flag, I will support it and tag the OP later today. Hope other DT will do the same.

Thank you for reminding me! I have updated to thread and added the necessary flag in the user. I also urge everyone to regularly check the ANN thread for any potential fake members or plagiarized whitepapers so we can support building this forum a better place for all.


Title: Re: [WARNING] YFCentral Finance - Plagiarized Whitepaper
Post by: andrei8787 on November 09, 2020, 12:51:06 PM
Reported to CryptoScamAlert
https://cryptoscamalert.com/crypto_scam_report/827