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Title: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: altair_tech on January 24, 2023, 05:17:42 PM
Stumbled upon this website (http://gekkoscience.org) upon googling 'compac f'. Looks like a pretty brazen scam.
Don't lose your bitcoin to them.


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: sidehack on January 24, 2023, 07:39:16 PM
Indeed, pretty ridiculous. Their numbers though, I *wish* we could build a multi-TH stick miner. But yes, it's wholly fraudulent.

If you're looking for GekkoScience products, hit up the authorized resellers.

419Mining
BitcoinMerch
MineFarmBuy
AltairTech
Eyeboot sales via Amazon
bitshopper.de in Germany


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: Charles-Tim on January 24, 2023, 08:55:22 PM
The site domain name was created just two weeks ago, it will likely be a scam. If the deposit method can be in crypto, it would be an easy means to scam people. It is good to just use a old and reputed site to buy miners instead of newly created ones that is not having good reputation at all. I will prefer to order miners directly from the manufacturing company if possible, or using a common and old reputable online site for it, especially if I can see official reseller on such site.


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: sidehack on January 24, 2023, 11:14:47 PM
Charles-Tim, it's not likely a scam it's guaranteed to be a scam. I run GekkoScience, have since we started in 2013, and I have no idea who's running the linked site. It is 100% a scam.


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: DaveF on January 25, 2023, 03:25:45 AM
Charles-Tim, it's not likely a scam it's guaranteed to be a scam. I run GekkoScience, have since we started in 2013, and I have no idea who's running the linked site. It is 100% a scam.

Reach out to namecheap:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9196/5/how-and-where-can-i-file-abuse-complaints/
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107

They probably won't do anything since most crypto scams exist forever on their platform, but you never know at times they do take down sites but it's rare.

You can also report the domain to https://thenew.org/report-abuse/ since you I assume have some form of trademark / copyright on gekkoscience

-Dave


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: gunhell16 on January 25, 2023, 06:30:34 AM
Stumbled upon this website (http://gekkoscience.org) upon googling 'compac f'. Looks like a pretty brazen scam.
Don't lose your bitcoin to them.

This website platform is really a scam website I think, because here what appeared on my desktop

https://i.ibb.co/mRnRDFM/SCAM.png (https://ibb.co/vcNcwvK)

it can harm our desktop or any other device once anyone try to open this one. So, it is better to
stay away from this platform if you don't want to have a problem in the future.



Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: sidehack on May 31, 2023, 12:52:04 PM
Bumping this because I've heard from a few people in the last few days, it's still around and causing trouble.


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: hZti on June 03, 2023, 11:49:26 AM
Maybe contact gekkoscience if you are a victim of this website so they can take legal actions against this seller. If nobody does anything it will probably around forever and will get probably from time to time somebody that is willing to pay them bitcoins that they will never see again.
Stuff like this hurts the bitcoin community a lot but is luckily not as common as it was a few years ago.


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: NeuroticFish on June 03, 2023, 05:22:31 PM
Don't lose your bitcoin to them.

It could be useful to not write the website as a link, maybe put it into a code block, maybe even add spaces between the characters so it's not seen by crawlers as some sort of backlink..
Plus it makes it more visible for anybody looking for it.


Title: Re: Looks like a scam - gekkoscience.org
Post by: WayneBunbury on June 06, 2023, 05:54:22 AM
gekkoscience is indeed a scam Thare other site But under a Difrent Company  names
Do take note of the products BUT look at thare contact detaild Address  Operated/Owned by the same scammers
scammers same property each url shows same product different naming same contact details same physical address
Websites


https://www.gekkoscience.org/ main

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@gekkoscience.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM


https://www.ipollominers.org/  2d

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@ipollominers.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

https://www.blackminer.org/  3d

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@blackminer.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

https://www.forestminer.org/ 4th

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@forestminer.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

https://www.asicminer.org 5th

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@asicminer.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

https://www.linzhiphoenix.org 6th

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@linzhiphoenix.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Https://www.yamiminer.org 7th

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@yamiminer.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

https://www.matchxminer.org 8th
 
CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@matchxminer.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
 
https://www.avalonasic.org 9th

CONTACT US
339-1107, Gunchushinden - Oita - Japan
info@avalonasic.org
+81750930414
Mon - Sun / 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

All of witch list this pysaccal adress and same contact number