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What happened::
Some Swiss crooks launched a scam project and then changed their stripes to give the world a new attractive and formidable revolutionary startup. But their dirty past can’t be contained under this surface.
Scammers Profile Link:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gian-carlo-collenberg-3b008166/
https://swissalpsmining.io
Reference Link:
https://shitcoinoffering.com/dead-snow-the-swiss-alps-mining-scam-ico/
Amount Scammed:
~$6,020,000
b]Payment Method: [/b]
Bitcoins, Ethereums
Additional Notes:
Owner also has his own website cryptocoinexchange.com.

Their CEO, Gian-Carlo Collenberg, was also involved in the Swsi Medical AG scam case that was uncovered earlier this year. It involved selling rusty syringes to hospitals and extortion of a private investor, possible connection to Italian Mafia. Investigation & judicial proceedings pending.

He is also involved in Girocoin, very likely another scam.

sources (german/Swiss news websites and official business registers):
https://bl.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml;jsessionid=9108786bf44fcdebf03d61e7c1a0?uid=CHE-107.361.209&loeschung=20111206

http://www.moneyhouse.ch/en/p/Gian_Carlo-Collenberg

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/oeffentliche-spitaeler-kauften-rostige-und-verbogene-kanuelen/story/14870596

http://www.starke-schule-beider-basel.ch/Files/BAZ01-0504-026.pdf

@Arrighi999 it is Giracoin (not Girocoin)

Giracoin is 100% a scam, Swiss Alps Mining is very, very fishy.
Shiny whitepaper, wrong numbers, a lot of marketing, shady team members.
I would second OPs opinion.

@Arrighi999 @LiQio

Good research! Thanks guys!

If you got banned from SAM telegram groups, join our group of Mad Hunters.
We're trying to unite.

https://t.me/MadHunters

I noticed this project is scam but can't really verify this. Also up till now I wish I CAn find a strong proof to this. Fuck SAM

SAM is not scam, it is a legit project ! They had some  miscommunication with the bounty organiser but it seems
all the problems will be solved. You should make proper research before making such accusations because
you have no proof for this. We need more trust in Crypto  and not spreading FUD when we have no reason for that.

You probably  wanted to say: Amount Scammed:  6,220,238 SAM Tokens  instead of $
It is not the same as we do not know what the value will be when the SAM tokens enter the exchanges.
The sale  price was starting with $0.3 and ended with $0.5

We've managed to have a great discussion with SAM's CEO in our Mad Hunters chat (https://t.me/MadHunters).
Gian-Carlo seems a serious person and the scam accusations are just... accusations for now since no actual proof has been provided.

We managed to solve the bounty hunters problem, and now everyone is happy.

Bounty distribution will happen before month's end and will respect the info written in the whitepaper + a 50% hard cap reduction.

Hell of a research... Wish I had some sMerit right know and I would (imo) break some rule by making you one of the members with the least activity on the forum and who has received a nice amount of merits. Lol!

He received "real" money, or at least something with a value, for tokes who are worthless... I think OP is right when he say that the amount scammed is the $ he received and not some other token with imaginary value.

rosty syringes (in switzerland - of course), dead threats, italian mafia! wooow and he was never in jail? sorry but you talk bullshit! even when your fantasy‘s are funny you should see the facts and peobles like this shitcoin guy who have no courage to show the real name are the most stupid of all here - no facts but a lot of (funny) bullshit.

and all this top infos we have from members with 1 activity here ;D

wos, this is your 2 post here. great!

so pakistan is selling crap? do you know that pakistan is one of the leading nations for surgical instruments? stopp talking bullshit pls. i know gian-carlo and your storys are stupid!

it is possible that you are from a community management company? ;D

scrap in switzerland, why had the swsi company not get a buses? pls don’t talk when you have no idea.

sam is a real thing and you can see in the videos that the proof of concept was done before the ico - shady business? haters are everywhere and because of that no one talks with his real name!

congratulations to your 3 posting here.

Just to inform you that today all the SAM bounty participants got their tokens including me.
Will be informing  you if we get scammed but until now it seems that  Swiss Alps Mining  is a
reliable project.

Gian-Carlo seems a serious scammer. So does Ramon Simon.

They invented a Onecoin clone called Giracoin, a ponzi/pyramid hybrid MLM scheme selling worthless tokens and pretending to mine worthless coins.

https://www.businessforhome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017-GiraCoin/Gian-Carlo-Collenberg.jpg

Gian-Carlo and Ramon now have been given $6m to put mining machines in shepherd's huts.

 :D


Swiss Alps Mining is a reliable project because they gave you some worthless tokens?


Here's a guess: nothing and never.

They attack Reddit ;D

Created some posts and commented it by bots ;D
It would be rather better to use time intervals :-\

https://image.ibb.co/hnvZDe/Screen_Shot_2018_10_04_at_11_33_14.png (https://ibb.co/kcgkKK)

https://shitcoinoffering.com/dead-snow-the-swiss-alps-mining-scam-ico/

Right now I visit their website and it turn into a blank page. The ROI up to 400% in 3 years, so does It look like a hyip model? :D
And they showed that they have more than 10m $ pledged. But i think it's fake number.

Oh my god) Scam again! thanks a lot for this information. Case i was choosing this campaign for investing. Thank you again

You're welcome! You can follow us on the website and Telegram channel/chat t.me/shitcoinoffering (http://t.me/shitcoinoffering)/t.me/shitcoinofferingchat (http://t.me/shitcoinofferingchat) and read all the information we publish... Also you can join our community and discuss any projects. By the way, we could write a review on the ICO which are you interested in if you ask ;)

Now typical HYIPs don't bring such revenues like it was earlier and scammers do it on the Blockchain running the ICOs ;D

By this time they had run the second round bounty program. The first round ended several months ago. And I think $ 10 million on the website may not be right, but maybe they have earned a lot of money.

they definitely earned a lot of money. But there is one rule on the market. If someone gains, someone loses ::)
That's the problem...

Have they scammed all investors for their money? If yes, that's another Scam like Envion based ICOs in Europe. Can someone confirm if it's true?

It was not scammed yet
https://shitcoinoffering.com/dead-snow-the-swiss-alps-mining-scam-ico/

1000% a scam!

Checked up with them few days ago in telegram.

Nice. It would be better if you share your results here. I mean screenshots or something like that.

I've been participating in their bounty in couple weeks. Few days ago they sent me a message to the mail with link to Googl-form!!!   In that form was this:  "Go to your wallet write «SAM Send» http://here_was_the_link_to_phishing_MEW_site so that we can get your wallet number to automatically send SAM Tokens. This is to ensure that there are no duplicates of the wallet. Your personal wallet details remain confidential."
It was a link to a phishing site !!!!!
It turns out that this SCAMmers are truiyng to steal bountyhunter's money from their Ether Wallets using phishing.

Screenshots: https://yadi.sk/d/gwCXyP3_CSjfcA

By the way, I had suspicions about this project since I watched their commercial, where a container with mining farms was lifted by a helicopter. That was quite stupid, cause it was not a cargo helicopter. This small passenger helicopter can't lift heavy cargo at all, which means - the container was empty and that was just a spectacle.
Be carefull!

So the result is are Sam scam or not ??

Yes, find more here -> https://shitcoinoffering.com/dead-snow-the-swiss-alps-mining-scam-ico/

I've recieved this e-mail from an cryptofriend of mine and encouraged by @shitcoinoffering i would like to share this with the community. Forward, comment or help to spread the words against such heartless egoist - Gian-Carlo Collenberg and Ramon Simon

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Dear Dobitrade Team,
 
Over the years, you’ve established yourselves as one of the fastest growing and most trusted cryptocurrency exchanges. Your high level of scrutiny before enlisting any cryptocurrency on your exchange has been the gold standard for the industry. However, your reputation in this regard may be at stake, going by the most recent news of you contemplating listing Giracoin/Girauno on your exchange.
 
As you may be aware, there are an endless number of fraudulent cryptocurrencies in the market, and I would like to bring to your notice the fact that Giracoin/Girauno is one such cryptocurrency. You would be well advised to carry out a thorough background check of the founders - Gian-Carlo Collenberg, Ramon Simon - of the cryptocurrency and their credentials, before taking a call on enlisting them on an exchange as reputed as Dobitrade. Do read through the inputs below and check the facts listed to support and justify this claim.
 
Giracoin/Girauno is an MLM Coin
An MLM Coin, which until recently was a closed Blockchain, Giracoin/Girauno has wilfully wronged various investors, fleecing them of their hard earned money, by constantly and shamelessly leveraging their ‘Swiss’ origins. The company has time and again closed accounts of members who trusted the company with their time and money. There are various pending charges levied against Gian-Carlo Collenberg and Ramon Simon in Switzerland. One such pending lawsuit against Gian-Carlo Collenberg is that of swindling an investor of 4.5 million Swiss Francs. The founder has since resorted to a much more subtle, yet blatantly shrewd new tactic of fleecing a larger number of investors of relatively smaller amounts, so as to avoid drawing attention towards its illicit activities.

Gian-Carlo Collenberg cruely jeopardising lives of newborn with SwSI Medical AG
Gian-Carlo Collenberg—the CEO of the company—earlier formed a company called SwSI Medical AG that has a notorious reputation of selling defective products such as rusty and deformed cannulas, jeopardising the lives of newborn babies.

German article in Newspaper: https://m.derbund.ch/articles/5a591485ab5c372a94000001
German article in of the well known Newspaper: Published documents and proves that Gian-Carlo Collenberg even hired hitman to silence the investor and draw back the lawsuit. http://www.starke-schule-beider-basel.ch/Files/BAZ01-0504-026.pdf

Gian-Carlo Collenberg Scamming tactics
Furthermore, Gian-Carlo Collenberg is infamous for launching new companies, scamming investors and subsequently liquidating it.

https://www.easymonitoring.ch/handelsregister/universe-cars-gmbh-1233573
Read also https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4861923.0 to further back this claim.
 
Often, he has been known to utilize the investments of unsuspecting investors in one particular fraudulent project for funding another.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/ru69vQlqJzoO6HOT_4pVvWdWLbU/appointments
 
Do find attached herewith, the brochure circulated among the team, detailing the proposal of the MLM plan. Also attached for your perusal is the screenshot of the chat between the founder and networkers, explicitly advising them against posting anything in Dobitrade chat which would reveal that it is an MLM Coin.

Earliest Brochure promoting MLM System: https://www.slideshare.net/RobertoHintermann/giracoin-brochure-english
Latest Brochure: Attached
A sample link for Registering MLM Partner: https://portal.giracoin.com/partner/leader2020

It might interest you to know that most of the accomplished advisors who were attached with company during its inception, severed all ties with it on learning of the various scams linked to the founder and on realising that Giracoin/Girauno is also going down the same path. This information has largely been withheld from being publicised. However, you could reach out to the original team of advisors to get a better understanding of the ground reality.
 
https://nulltx.com/gira-financial-announces-advisory-board-composition/
https://giracoin-mining.com/blog/en/george-schmidt-se-une-al-comite-asesor-senior-de-gira-financial-group-ag/
 
Korfmann, Rytz, Schmidt, and Katz are some of the many noteworthy names that disassociated with the company shortly after its inception. You could use https://www.riskscreen.com/ or any similar service to get further insights on the founders of the coin.
 
I am an avid follower and user of cryptocurrency and distributed ledger technology, and truly believe in its incredible potential to do good. I haven’t a doubt that in light of the new information shared with you, you would revisit your decision of enlisting Giracoin/Girauno on Dobitrade, so as to not be linked with such a highly notorious and fraudulent company.
 
Thanking you.
 
Yours sincerely,
An extremely perturbed Cryptoenthusiast

Damn, forgot to post it here :o
Posted in Telegram channel https://t.me/shitcoinoffering and Reddit! Thanks for doing it!

 :-[  :-[  I already was unhappy with this scam project since last week! Joined bounty but never got stakes for hilarious reasons they made

A good project needn't a bounty program 8)

SAM came up with an amazing fairy tale ;D
Those who aren't informed about SAM scam are free to read our article -> https://shitcoinoffering.com/dead-snow-the-swiss-alps-mining-scam-ico/

It seems that the ScAM team sells those token for a so low price, because no one who invested would sell his tokens, and the majority of the bounty hunters is not payed yet.

If they really had good and valuable product, they would not sell those tokens so cheap...
Every Jack has his Jil :-\

So, it is confirmed? No bounty rewards, no activity on telegram and their ANN thread is locked.
I am interested if there is a way how to get scam ICOs into the jail?

This is the reason why some country's consider crypto's as legal but not ICO's.
Because they can't protects their people.
So it's up to you if you get scammed or not.

It is very difficult... Scam ICOs aren't say publicly that they are scam. They can say that their token price decreased because of .... [many reasons] and they're doing their best to update product and bla-bla-bla... So nobody says it is scam. They can say that the project was unsuccessful or something else in that context.

Dear all,

Let me introduce myself first, my name is Ludovic Thomas, CEO of Alpine Mining, a swiss crypto currency mining company operating in Switzerland and Sweden. (Alpinemining.ch)

I would like to bring to people's attention that "Alpine Mining AG" has nothing to do with the company called "Swiss alps mining AG " even though we unfortunately have similarities in our names. I am writing this as I was contacted at two occasions via LinkedIn by random people asking if we were connected to these people, which is obviously not the case.

I was myself very skeptical when the whole "Swiss alps mining" project was announced for the following reasons:

1) Fishy team with a bad reputation. (It has been widely talked about in this thread already)
2) The company advertised very low electricity prices, as a swiss miner, I had myself had meetings with all electricity producers/providers in Switzerland at least a year before they announced their project.
3) Mining is a small world in Switzerland, these people were completely unknown by the local community.

I am currently not in a position to say if they are a scam as I have not followed the project neither invested for obvious reasons. However, If we people were scammed, I would strongly advise people to press charges against them. It's very likely these people would get charged and sentenced if they committed any illegal offense.

After getting various messages as said above, It's important for me to tell the community that we were never connected and never interacted with these people.

Best regards
Ludovic

Thanks for your message! I hope people will remember that you are not connected with Swiss Alps Mining :)
Good luck with Alphine Mining. Don't be scam or we will smash you ;) ;D

ya this project i think scam because in telegram chanel no update news this project. Since 14th of November (pinned message) 3 months have passed. and no admin in telegram chanel.

I also see and believe that SAM is a scam because the CEO is not active at all he didnt make any update. The telegram.channel is dead and in telegram bounty channel there are no admin at all seems really dead. I think we need to move on guys. Waiting the bounty payment for almost a one year is really wasting of time.

Story seems to officially end here:
https://www.monetas.ch/en/647/Firmendaten-Swiss-Alps-Energy-AG-in-Liquidation.htm?subj=2609120

What will they try next?

I think  their main project, Giracoin, still goes on., still scammig people.

I think not


Good question

Hm, i can access their website

https://portal.giracoin.com/login

And on their telegram group their main man, Gian, is still active

https://t.me/giracoinofficial


So unfortunately they still go on with their bs.

This reminds me of another scam in Ice Rock Mining that operated a while back (and pretty sure their token is still listed on CMC and some exchanges).

Mining is not going to be profitable simply because someone decides to split up the profits and tokenise it.

Let alone the fact that these systems that 'utilise natural cooling' are most likely vapourware out of thin air. The theory is great, but the returns they are able to advertise and sometimes even guarantee just makes the whole thing too good to be true

Needless to say, Giracoin is also just another con. Their statistics are obviously faked, and their site design is amateurish and doesn't inspire confidence at all. These region specific coins/projects that target international investors rarely bring any value.