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What happened: White Pigeon Plagiarized Whitepaper

Website: https://whitepigeon.network/
Archived: https://archive.is/11xRw
ANN: N/A


Whitepaper WhitePigeon: WhitePigeon-Whitepaper.pdf
Archive (https://web.archive.org/web/20210125030203/https://whitepigeon.network/files/WhitePigeon-Whitepaper.pdf)
Source: https://medium.com/aditusnetwork/8-challenges-to-overcome-to-enable-cryptocurrency-payments-c7a49e379d61

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Reported to Cryptoscamalert
https://cryptoscamalert.com/crypto_scam_report/1128

Although they didnt create an account here, it is good that you posted the topic, so hoping someone out there thinks twice before investing in the same. Scammers use the same/similar methods to scam and a copied whitepaper is one of them.

The domain is comparatively old, but it could be a method now to buy a domain for sometime before posting the scam template there.

Did a search on their "team" owners couple and could not locate any linkedin account either. This is shady as well. Their twitter accounts are also just redundant crypto pumping posts.

Keep an eye out for their "bounty" campaign as I noted they have an allocation for bounty too. Whoever starts posting that should be informed of the same and in case of non-cooperation, flagged.

Yeah, this trick is very commonly used in other projects so this method is often used with only a copy of the Whitepaper, a new domain and the same template they can spread everywhere so for me this is a nonsense project later.

They only have 2 teams, which is very ridiculous for me, which might make the project handled by 2 people so completely beyond reason and the team did not provide a link to the original where they had worked in this cryptocurrency world.

So I will keep an eye on this project if it does launch a bounty here I will tell all hunters to be more evasive.


Ha Ha Ha because the CEO is beautiful he will invest in this project is crazy.
Could it be a fake photo? Ahhh looks like he's about to fall into a trap.

Yesterday White Pigeon Bounty was launched by Wapinter and like him Wapinter doesn't know about this accusation thread so I will inform him via PM about this and stop the bounty because the project being managed has an element of plagiarism and has not been fixed.

So before many join this bounty, I hope the manager will take quick action so that the hunters know more about this.

Archived: https://archive.is/LYSmZ
Link Bounty: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5313688.0

I hope Wapinter stops the bounty, would like to hear from them too in case the team has shown their real colors to him or not and if they have said anything worth rebuttal.

Many times these projects keep the managers in the dark and the managers are also in a bad position because by putting their reputation at stake, the scammers operate and then run along leaving the manager to receive all the flak from the community.

Waiting to hear from @Wapinter.

Hopefully the bounty will be cancelled when you PM'ed @Wapinter because a lot of users are flocking the Bounty board to find some campaigns that they want to join in and that @Wapinter is not stubborn as to defend the campaign because that will be bad for his/her reputation. They didn't even bother to change their whitepaper at the least in the aesthetics department so as to not raise some suspicions, I am sure that this people are low skilled scammers.

Thanks for informing me mate. I have already paused the bounty and informed white pigeon team.

Hello BTT Community people,

We hired a freelance writer to finish the Whitepaper for us few months backs, without realizing that to meet the deadlines, he will end up copy-pasting content.
We told him about our vision and how that can be detailed out in writing was the job of the content writer. We are really sorry if there was something that belongs to someone and we accidentally took it over on our shoulders. We were further made are by one of the moderators here last month about the plagiarized content, and as a result, we Redone our Whitepaper including the theme as well. The Updated copy has been uploaded and can be accessed here https://whitepigeon.network/files/WhitePigeon-Whitepaper.pdf

I hold a good reputation in the TRON Blockchain ecosystem and won't do or promote any such act. Kindly let me know, how we can take of this as it takes a lot of hard work to build something and a simple act of negligence to destroy.

Regards
Vinod
Telegram: https://t.me/MeetSuperNova
Twitter: https://twitter.com/answervinod

Hello BTT Community people,

We hired a freelance writer to finish the Whitepaper for us few months backs, without realizing that to meet the deadlines, he will end up copy-pasting content.
We told him about our vision and how that can be detailed out in writing was the job of the content writer. We are really sorry if there was something that belongs to someone and we accidentally took it over on our shoulders. We were further made are by one of the moderators here last month about the plagiarized content, and as a result, we Redone our Whitepaper including the theme as well. The Updated copy has been uploaded and can be accessed here https://whitepigeon.network/files/WhitePigeon-Whitepaper.pdf

I hold a good reputation in the TRON Blockchain ecosystem and won't do or promote any such act. Kindly let me know, how we can take of this as it takes a lot of hard work to build something and a simple act of negligence to destroy.

Regards
Vinod
Telegram: https://t.me/MeetSuperNova
Twitter: https://twitter.com/answervinod

What has been updated in the Whitepaper? I have checked it and there is still plagiarism with the sources I listed above you can check it again before this request, so I think this kind of action has indeed become a bad thing where you have hired other people and only to be plagiarized from the project other then of course this is for me its forward nonsense if in this project.

I think you did not update the whitepaper to a new one like you said it and all that there is no source that is included so that this should not happen again in the future.

I am not sure on what grounds u are saying that whitepaper is not updated, I have responded in the best possible way a person can with utmost patience.

Here is the direct link to the WhitePaper if u want to check https://whitepigeon.network/files/WhitePigeon-Whitepaper.pdf

As I said it takes just a small act of negligence to destroy everything, I also thought that people out on this forum would be mature enough to see both sides of the coin.

I already provided my Social Links to verify my identity.                                                                                                                                                                                             

Guys, remember how Wapinter carried out the bounty of this project, but because of the plagiarism of the white paper, Wapinter refused. Now I saw that they are collaborating with Ferrum Network
https://twitter.com/FerrumNetwork/status/1395743795543748621?s=20. I don’t know if they changed their white paper but potentially we lost a good project due to a mistake.

They said that it was due to mistake of one of their employees and assured of removing that wp from white paper and replacing it with their original one.