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Hello guys! I have been doing ICOs research for some time, I have tried to tell apart good and genuine crypto projects on the one side and scams, frauds and similar projects on the other side. I bumped into "ftec" ICO and as always I tried to do neutral research whether the project is good, genuine or scammy. FTEC.IO is an obvious scam and I would like to share with you the reasons why I think so:

1) CEO of the project Ihor Torshyn has a fake law degree

- he claims on his https://www.linkedin.com/school/taras-shevchenko-national-university-of-kyiv/ (https://www.linkedin.com/school/taras-shevchenko-national-university-of-kyiv/)profile that he studied at the "Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv" and obtained the Law degree. Actually, he NEVER studied there and many people have confirmed that. If I want to do an ICO or a serious business I wouldn't lie on my LinkedIn profile about my education.


2) UI/UX designer is a pornstar

- alright, you can say that even a pornstar can be an UI/UX designer and that it doesn't have to be a scam. Well, on the website there is stated that the designer is "Kate Klymko
". An interesting fact is that this girl has an Instagram profile -  https://www.instagram.com/katherinaa_romanova , but it is called Katherina Romanova. Also, she looks like everything but UI/UX designer.


3) Team members are connected to deer.io, a company which steals credit card data

- well I think that I dont have to comment that anymore. If you are connected to cheaters then you will not be probably a good boy...

4) They also own a porn website, stasyq.com
If you own a porn website, it doesn't mean you are a scammer or a bad person, but I don't think that you can go and make another serious business and raise funds thru ICO. What more some team members (f.e. UI/UX designer) is probably an actress there and she is not the only one. Take a look at "Janine Lakhotska", I must confess that I saw her in a porn movie. Weird...isn't it..
What more she used a fake linkedin profile, after I confronted the team and her, they changed the icon on the website and you are redirected to her twitter profile.

5) Egor Osaulenko, a team member and software developer, posted fake educational information on his LinkedIn , he never studied in https://www.euruni.edu/

 Take a look at his profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/egor-osaulenko-b073444b/. He never studied there and it was even proved. Again...if you are a serious businessman or at least not a cheater, why would you lie on linkedin?

6) a Team member - Vladimir Nikitin - has fake linkedin profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icoadv/ his education is a complete fake. What more you can see that he has been as an Advisor to many ICOs but no crypto experience before. Why would anyone take him as an advisor with no previous experience?

Please do your own research. I think it is very important not only listen to my words but to prove by yourself that this ICO is a complete scam. My job is just to report and spread awareness about SCAM projects and frauds and I am 1000% convinced that ftec.io is the scam.

Feel free to share with me your thoughts and opinions, I will be glad to see them here.

https://ftec.io = SCAM, BE AWARE. DO NOT GET SCAMMED

what is ftec.io
ico selling project, lending or cloud mining
if ico project where announcement thread in bitcointalk

Yup. Based on the points you mentioned, I agree with you.

My job is just to report and spread.you should just be careful with the scammers sometimes because we can not prevent you from being scam.

As I said, DYOR :) but you can check all the points and decide by yourself if its a project that is worth investing it

Thank you

there are many non standart points and causes that the ico should/must have. Very suspicious

good points mentioned above, looks like proved scam! BE CAUTIOUS, PEOPLE!

thanks, there are more points and suspicious information about ftec, but i am currently verifying it and would edit the post later if confirmed!

agree. its scam

thanks for appreciation

i also suspect this project ,But the strange thing is that project got 5.0 on icoBench with lots of positive reviews ! . it led me to question the transparency of this website !

icobench used to be a good site, but now everyone can be an expert and the score (here 5.0) can easily make team members or even fake accounts..I confronted icobench with same points as i mentioned above, no response...and It is not the first time that icobench allows this..

you can also check their official thread -  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3161171.460

many people call it a scam as well

And what can you say about it?

 ??? ??? ???




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Image link: https://s31.postimg.org/hi868easb/Latest_posts_of_mishabest_2018-04-05_12-03-04.png (https://s31.postimg.org/hi868easb/Latest_posts_of_mishabest_2018-04-05_12-03-04.png)

Signals project is not a competitor, really :). What more, you can check all the points I depicted above by yourself. As I said DYOR. Why on the website have all team members linkedin profiles but only one girl has a twitter icon (you can check it on my original post). I am not an idiot to call a project a scam if there are no proofs  :-X but ftec.io is a complete scam, proofs were given

After reading the stated information above, i have to agree with you.
But naturally every lending platforms are totally fraud

I think that proofs were clearly given. Also checked their official thread, many people said that it was a scam. I would avoid sending them any money at all

both projects deal with trading.

+ Your mail is registered in the domain zone .cz
The team of the aforementioned project is also from the Czech Republic, is not it?

For me it is a sign of unfair competition.

But everyone has his own opinion. All the best.

What is that FTEC.IO is all about?
Good that you expose that ICO. But I hope that one of you're mentioned could comment here to defend their side so we can hear both sides.
I will mark those names anyway.

honestly I dont care about competitors to Signals - i am not involved there. I wrote several comments there and that's all. My domain has nothing to do with it haha. As I said, I've been researching many ICOs and this one is a complete scam to me - I shared the proofs and backed it by real material and tools. That's it. It has nothing to do with my nationality or something more :)

yes I shared this thread in their official thread so they can see it, come here and answer.

Hey Misha! Was nice to read your thoughts but unfortunatelly I have to prove that you are a liar:(

1) CEO of the project Ihor Torshyn has a fake law degree

Let's start from CEO, or maybe we can end on him too because here everybody can see that you are a liar.  Never study? You can confirm?  You can't confirm but we can! He was studying there for 6 years, here are diplomas as well as estimates, you can see that he studied quite well. I think better than you:)

https://s31.postimg.org/9e023n8xj/image.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/9e023n8xj/)

PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/z9jsmuarf/image.jpg


2) UI/UX designer is a pornstar

Really, she is a pornstar? Would be happy to see the link :)
Her real name is Katerina Romanova Klymko (Romanova is her middle name).
In some countries people have Name, Surname and Middle name.
Do you know what is Instagram? If yes, you should know that people write there all what they want - name, middle name, nickname, name of a cat. If there would be a name Kate_T you would say that her surname is not Klymko but T?) Funny thoughts
Documents of Katerina are here, you can check her name, surname and middle name:

https://s31.postimg.org/y9thr2b07/2312.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/y9thr2b07/)
PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/b8cwlbbcr/2312.jpg


3) Team members are connected to deer.io, a company which steals credit card data

No one from our company has never heard about this site. But after blaming in first two paragraphs, I am not sure even you believe in your own words.

4) They also own a porn website, stasyq.com

Nice site, thank you:)
Seems that you are really a porn lover but we couldn't find anybody from our office there:(
Nobody from our team was working in that company. Do we need to prove something after last two paragraphs?
But we couldn't find Katya or Janine on the site. Can you help us?
If we would find that, they would be immediately fired from our team. If you have any links with Janine or Katya, we would be happy to see the links, otherwise it is just blaming, again.
Janine didn't have linkedIN before working in our company, she created it when she started to work with us but then it was hacked (it was you?) so we have deleted it. So we decide not to create new one since nobody likes new profiles in LinkedIN this segment.

5) Egor Osaulenko, a team member and software developer, posted fake educational information on his LinkedIn , he never studied in https://www.euruni.edu/

Any proves? Or the same as our CEO?)

6) a Team member - Vladimir Nikitin - has fake linkedin profile

He is not our team member but he is an advisor. He helped us with legal questions that's all.

Stanislav Ochkur, Ftec business developer is a creator of stadyq.com - undeniably. Also, He doesn't have experience in working places mentioned in his LinkedIn profile.

FTEC CFO - Evgeniy hasn’t worked in any places or studied that mentioned on linkedin profile. What more, Deer.io is his website.

Your UI/UX developer has different names on the website and her instagram profile - https://www.instagram.com/katherinaa_romanova . Also, she/you changed her profile picture on instagram that was same as on the website + removed several pictures from the instagram profile that was available recently (and showed her porn carrer).

I contacted the Universities that your team members claimed that had gone there but they confirmed me that nobody with their names NEVER attended to the University.

Your Advisor - it really doesn't matter if it's a team member or an advisor - he is involved in your (SCAM) project and chose him. SHAME

Katherina deleted some photos in swimming suites because she was afraid that people like you watching on her and...you know :)

The other things you are saying is just bullshit. Please show the proves, like I have sent you, documents, diplomas. Your ungrounded words is just bullshittng without any background. Our team members have no connections with stasyq.com or deer.io and they have never send this site before you wrote this article
I would love to hear any proves, but I'm sure you don't have them.

Alright so she removed her porn pictures because of me - that's nice. Also, why did she change her profile picture that used to be same as on the website (after my exposure?).

I am not bullshiting at all, I provided accurate proofs that ftec.io is the SCAM. All the information that I shared are correct and true - I wouldnt allow myself to post it without a confirmation.

The info given by mishabest is enough. Ftec.io is a complete scam

Thank you so much for such analysis. I was about to partisipate in their bounty, and on a first sight it looks promising, web page is well done, but all what you're saying is a big red flag to avoid ftec ICO!!!

Swimming suites is porn for you? SO that means that if girl have photo in swimming suite that means that she shooting in porn?)
have you ever been at the beach?)
Regarding the other blame, we gave you accurate prove that you are luying, regarding ceo, regarding our designer do you need again their documents?

It wasnt only pics in swimming suites - and you know it  ;). Also, can you tell me why she changed her profile pic? And that the team member that has Twitter icon (as the only one) "got hacked" (As you say) after I confronted you that her linkedin is a complete fraud?

You didnt give any proofs, Stas is a creator of the pornsite and other stuff such as connection to the fraud website is true as well

I had done a brief general review and Ftec seemed to me a good level project even if not exceptional, in fact I had started working for their bounty facebook campaign a few days, but after reading your analysis and your detailed research I'm thinking that it is probably useless to waste time on this project

yes, the website 'looks exceptional". But that's all..

It was swimming suite photo, and you said you saw her in porn videos which was not true. First you was saying about her name, then I prove you with documents and now you don't know what else to say. About the photos, girls changing that as they want, 3 times per day, I just trying to understand why you spednding whole day on her profile? She doesn't answer you in direct, that's why you telling bad thins about her?
Regarding the linkedin profile of Janine, someone steal her page so we delete her page. If you want prove that she is real I can also provide her documents, will that help you?
Regarding Stanislav, is there is any proves that he has any connections to that site? Please prove it, and we will review regarding his position in this company

I never PMed the instagram girl so don't try to make a porn addicted guy from me here :). I depicted all the info that was not clear about her/other team members. Else, since you have a need to figt "ad hominem" and are not able to reasonable explain her changes/removals and other information, it gives even more power "to my hands" that ftec.io is a complete SCAM and FRAUD.

The problem was that he has not real name, but I proved that she is real. I can not explain why she add or delete photos in her instagram, but how it connects with the project?)
Here is again prove that her name even in instagram is real
https://s31.postimg.org/y9thr2b07/2312.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/y9thr2b07/)
PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/b8cwlbbcr/2312.jpg

You said CEO haven't studied in university, I have sent you the documents
You said Kate name is not real, I have sent you the documents
regarding porn sites and other things which you mentioned, I said that there is no connection between people and that sites, if you have proof that they are connected, would be happy to hear, otherwise it is just non grounded blame as well as info about CEO and Katerina, which I prove with their documents. Here is it again:

https://s31.postimg.org/9e023n8xj/image.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/9e023n8xj/)

PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/z9jsmuarf/image.jpg

https://s31.postimg.org/a3iug9wp3/jpg_2018-04-05_12-14-00.png (https://postimg.org/image/a3iug9wp3/)

PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/vpxuxav9n/jpg_2018-04-05_12-14-00.png (https://s31.postimg.org/vpxuxav9n/jpg_2018-04-05_12-14-00.png)

I provided all serious information and false info that you mentioned on the website. It is up to people to Do their own research and decide if your project ftec.io is a serious project or A SCAM.

You right ad hominem instead of reasonable arguments. I did my job - I made a research and Exposé you as a real fraud and scam.

Mishabest is a trusted user in the community. ftec.io is a scam - SHAME

All of your 'proofs' crashed against our refutations. Moreover, most of your assumptions are even unsubstantiated. We provide you with confirming documents so please provide us with any real proofs or stop calling us a scam..
You said that Kate has deleted or added some photos on Instagram -that is not connected with FTEC.

This is bad news for me, I was not going to participate in their ICO but I participate in the Ftec bounty campaign. The information that you have collected seems to me very detailed and specific, I will try to inform the bounty manager to see what he answers, even if it is difficult to continue to promote Ftec after what I read

this is ridiculous
the company has a finished product
and provided refutation with the documents.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3261651.new#new

I have now seen the things he wrote/sent Ftec, which is certainly part of the platform Team, and I think it is right for all those who had spoken badly about the project do step back and apologize, me first

Thank you very much! Appreciate your words! Finally somebody read at least my proofs which I sent here. The person who wrote this article is simply our competitor which know nothing about our team and platform. All what he can is just surfing the instagram profiles of our woman part of team. The others are just his friends I guess.
Thank you very much! And feel free to ask any question, would be happy to give all the proofs against non grounded blame

seems like you made a lot of researching about this ico,i wonder what brings this to you?are you a victim by this people for you to take this deep investigation and comes out with all this evidences?but we're thankful about this tough i really dont know what,who and where this project came from

I know what I saw and I am not an OP. About your UI/UX d., its not about her instagram, its about a fake profile in general :) everybody sees that

yeah same here, i wanted to participate in their bounty program - now I dont want and cant...dont want to support and promote this scam

Can you provide diplomas from the universities?

Why did you remove posts and reviews from icobench?

Nobody can remove posts from the ICO bench.
That guy was from competitors side and made clear advertisement of another project, so that post was deleted
Here is the documents for prove, again. Document from university of our ceo and document of Kate, who had real middle name Romanova:

https://s31.postimg.org/y9thr2b07/2312.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/y9thr2b07/)
PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/b8cwlbbcr/2312.jpg

https://s31.postimg.org/9e023n8xj/image.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/9e023n8xj/)

PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/z9jsmuarf/image.jpg

Thank you!

Which fake profile do you mean?
Here is documents of Katya with her real name as well as it is on our site, enjoy:

https://s31.postimg.org/fey7ju4p3/2018-04-06_00.16.56.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/fey7ju4p3/)

PROOF LINK: https://s31.postimg.org/w2ppmbzgr/2018-04-06_00.16.56.jpg

obvious scam, shame on you FTEC

Those are very serious accusations...thanks for bringing it here

Well, this is make me doubt to continue my work. I joined their twitter bounty.
Are you sure with your facts? If that was true, I will stop my bounty.

Thank you for your work and this information. I was going to take part in theirs bounty program which is ongoing till June. Would pe pity to loose this time

Yes, I am. Ftec is a scam

I provided all needed information that disclose ftec as a scam. I recommend you to stop the work for their bounty but of course DYOR

Can you show diplomas from Munich University? Your team members claim that they got a degree there but no records about them at the university. Please provide the proofs because lying about ones education is a real Shame...

Good to know,thanks bro for informing cryptocommunity about scammers.The pornstar from devs could launch her own ICO with web-cam something similar to Livestars project  ;)  ;D

You said that our CEO havent been in University, I have sent you diplomas. You said Kate is Fake, I have sent you the documents. You are paying to people who are supporting you here.
If someone reading it, just check my answers, you can clearly see that this guy is telling ungrounded things and I'm giving him real proves, documents, etc.

I am not fan of lending platforms .The only one i like is ETHLEND but all others i dont think will have big success
Plenty cryptocurrencies will not make but lets see

Can you show the diplomas from the Munich University then? If not (and i know you cant)  you are lying to peoples face. Thats a shame.

I dont evaluate ftec depending on to be a lending plstform. Its team members are scammers, pornstars and porn site creators thsts What i had to disclose..

Yes exactly, this is exactly the reason why the regulation by vic is inevitable, because of these scams

Sorry I dont have time to pay people in order to back my opinion. Show me proofs (that dont exist). I just want to Expose ftec.io as a scam. Senseless to think that I pay anyone to back me :)

Yes it is, they are not even able to prove my statements wrong...I believe people will spot it as well and WILL AVOID IT AND SPREAD THE INFORMATION FURTHER

no answer nor diplomas from Munich uni?

I contacted FTEC.IO for additional information about their team members - fake UNI degrees etc. No answer yet - will keep everyone updated

still no reply even though they claimed "everything is clear" ----> it seems that "not everything is so clear".......

If team members lie on their linkedin profiles, It is highly suspicious that they will lie in the entire business (and ICO)...DYOR guys but stay stafe. AVOID FTEC.IO

hahahah I love the part of UI designer being a pornstar. That doesn't really give you solid foundation to be a good designer, does it? Thanks for sharing this, I will be careful with them

I wish it was "funny". Hopefully people do their research before they want to put some money into a project. People invest into random projects and end up surprised when get scammed such as with CENTRA

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Company Address:
Address with hundreds of companies in Scotland:
http://www.smallfirmsservices.com/services/edinburgh-registered-office.aspx
(You can get one for 100 $, too )


https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/search/node/ftec
and
https://www.gov.uk/search?q=ftec&show_organisations_filter=true
(nothing)

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WHOIS:
https://who.is/whois/ftec.io
Registered On 2018-02-04

Registrant Contact Information:
Name Daniel O'Donoghue
(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_O%E2%80%99Donoghue)
I know, there thousands. But it's funny.

Organization MITRIDAT GROUP LP
(http://www.web-site-scripts.com/news/2006/10/offshore-dedicated-development-team-model-becomes-very-effective-for-clinets-of-our-partner-company-mitridat-significant-savings-without-compromising-on-quality.html)

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Team:
Ihor Torshyn
https://www.instagram.com/torshyn/?hl=de
(ich weiß nicht ob er über sein CEO Glück weiss)
https://twitter.com/torshyn_i
45 Marketing Twists

Stanislav Ochkur
Nur ein Arbeitgeber bis jetzt?
29 Marketing Twists

Julián Marcelo Bernal González
https://www.instagram.com/jmarcelobernal/

people search engines:
http://www.yasni.com/ihor+torshyn/free+people+search?query=Ihor+Torshyn&psi
http://webmii.com/people?n=%22Ihor%20Torshyn%22
https://pipl.com/search/?q=Ihor+Torshyn&l=&sloc=&in=5

I'm not going through the whole team right now, but it's clear that the team's activity has been created few months ago.

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Additional:

https://www.ambisafe.co/
http://blockstarter.co/
https://www.coinounce.com/
https://daviann.com/about/

(These are Services for ICOs. What is the TEAM doing?)

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keep your hands off!
meow
@k-west how do you checked the degrees?

Thank you for the information. I'm helping the ftec project. This project has a product. The proofs of competitors are not correct and ridiculous.

Very strange, they have high marks on all sites from 4.5 to 5 and many reviews of experts. Is this all paid? They also write that their product has a working prototype. Thanks for warning.

comparing FTEC to a "lending platform" is plain stupid.. you dont have any clue about what it is all about. Once again, i also believe this is just a disperated maneuvre to discredit FTEC. It seems a solid a project, active in social media, working product avaliable, lot of files to be checked in github, best ratings everywhere.. i am part of its bounty campaign and i am pretty sure i wont regret. This could be among TOP20 in 1 to 2 years. I also contributed with 4 ETH. YOu can do whatever you want.. but please dont delete this thread to come back and laugh a lot about you in the future  ;D

IF THIS IS TRUE thank you for the information Sir.
It's time to reveal those scam ICO so that people can avoid them. It's not easy supporting people who are cheaters .

Steady this is very good information in my opinion. I also strongly agree with you if platform as above has proven scam.
we must be more careful with such deception.

Can you provide it please?

P.S this project seems like stinks scam, pretty weird that so many places have good ratings.

I used face compare system and found that the similarity of Janine Lakhotska and Kate Klymko is 82.754%

It's one of their developer Nikita Maslyukov' blog. He is good at doing scam. https://vk.com/public93250636

Thanks you for these amazing facts you have about Ftec ICO being a scam project,however we would not jump into conclusion but we will carry our own due diligent search to ascertain the facts stated above in your research work.

Very strange, they have high marks on all sites from 4.5 to 5 and many reviews of experts. Is this all paid? They also write that their product has a working prototype. Thanks for warning.

To be honest, I think that in such cases it is necessary to bring the matter to its logical conclusion, it is necessary to give a red trust to the manager of this project who does not follow such projects, this group of bounty managers has a lot of projects of this kind.

Another strong evidence: Evgeniy Sidelnikov used to said he was entered into MIT in 2005. But he was born in 1992. So he went to MIT at 13 years old. Now he deleted the education information. If he didn't have a guilty conscience, why he deleted it?
https://github.com/ico-check/ico-check/issues/119

I am not enthusiast of loaning stages .The just a single I like is ETHLEND yet all others I dont think will have enormous achievement

Bounty cryptographic forms of money won't make however lets see

This is terrible news for me, I was not going to take an interest in their ICO but rather I take part in the Ftec abundance battle. The data that you have gathered appears to me exceptionally point by point and particular, I will endeavor to illuminate the abundance supervisor to perceive what he replies, regardless of whether it is hard to keep on promoting Ftec after what I read

I have not been able to verify the claims against Ftec that you have found only I can tell you that I am a bounty hunter that is waiting for the reward. The delay of the Bounty campaign may be due to the market situation. The Bounty manager only tells us we should wait.

This is part of a notification in the chat room in a message posted on August 17.
"FTEC IS LISTED ON YOBIT AND IDEX!

We will watch the market for a few days and then, if the market is still green, we will unlock!

All unsold tokens (806,462,092) were burned
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd8f340a8a70203a48b99b57f8a9867d30d5ab7bc77ef65588fbbcc3f6e0051cf

Total Supply: 191,937,907 FTEC
Team tokens (69 888 000) locked for a year.
Bounty, airdrop and advisors tokens will be distributed accordingly to schedule".

Telegram Ftec: https://t.me/FTECofficial