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What happened: FAKE TEAM/ADVISORY - Using stock images

Scammers Profile Link: https://www.bitfinance.solutions/ico/
http://web.archive.org/web/20181109164205/https://www.bitfinance.solutions/ico/

FAKE NAME: Marianna Kopli - STOCK IMAGE
https://depositphotos.com/87334210/stock-photo-dentist-portrait-woman-smiling-at.html

SALES:

Quote from: morvillz7z on November 09, 2018, 03:24:10 PM

Interesting statistics you got there @ICOEthics. I suppose these are just the ones that you have found?

No. It includes scams found from other forum members as well.

Quote from: morvillz7z on November 09, 2018, 03:24:10 PM

You should host a ceremony at the end of the year and award the top 3 for outstanding achievements in the support and popularization of criminals, fraud and ponzi schemes. Grin

We are thinking about that with the following titles:

- The mother holder of all scams (probably ICOHolder will win)
- The Sl*t scam holder (probably ICO Slot will win)
- and the last one is open for suggestions.

Quote from: Findicoico on November 09, 2018, 01:27:45 PM

Hi everyone! Just added this incredible ICO to my website

Why "incredible" ? You cant even read about them on their website = offline.

This is our report from last week of: SCAMS Currently listed on these sites. We used to alert them, but you didnt even get a thank you back.
Also they dont care to remove the scams from their site because many of them are " featured".
And ico bench sometimes took over 20 days to remove the scam (probably waiting for the paid service to expire).
We no longer inform any of them about scam listed, it is a waste of our time.

Quote from: xbitcore on November 09, 2018, 10:05:33 AM

I do not know who this team belongs to. You can visit our company or website and see the correct information
I do not know why these sites publish false information on our project?

These sites dont publish information for you. You upload information to their website.
Did you give them false information?

Where are the team images? It is not on your website. Where is your Whitepaper?

Why are faking sales? We saw the same pop-up repeating over and over and over......This is a way to mislead people/customers/investors.

why do you have these fake pop-up registration on your website? They also repeat all the time.

What happened: FAKE TEAM / using STOCK IMAGE of the Advisory Team

Scammers Website: http://xbitcore.co/
http://web.archive.org/web/20181109134547/https://xbitcore.co/

This ICO is not listed on this Forum yet. There are no images of the team on their website. Link to their WP is broken.

We found images of the team on these websites. As you see the advisory team is fake and there are no links to a profile for the other team members.
https://icobench.com/ico/xbitcore
https://icoholder.com/en/xbitcore-27042
https://investfuture.ru/ico/xbitcore

Images of the advisory team are from a template.

Template found here:
http://wpdemo.oceanthemes.net/icos-lobelia/

SALES:

Quote from: marlboroza on November 08, 2018, 09:12:26 PM

What is requested date/time?

Not sure, but I would think is the date that I input/request, I tried other dates around June 16th and couldn't get any results, until I got one from May 31st.
http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net[/quote]

as you see the file name 20180531094323 " 2018-05-31 09:43:23"

If there is no archive usually will return without a result.

Here is an archive from February - 2018-02-26 05:09:00
http://web.archive.org/web/20180226050900/http://www.istapay.net:80/

Quote from: marlboroza on November 08, 2018, 08:42:37 PM

Quote from: ICOEthics on November 08, 2018, 02:47:13 PM

They did NOT have a whitepaper - until recently:
http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net
Above is the archive back 31-may-18.

Isn't that archived on february?

Code:

Current Page Archived On:
2018-02-26 05:09:00

hmm.. not sure how you got that date.. we used www.oldweb.today and input date may 31 2018 using chrome.
if you look at the archive the date is there (we highlighted in bold): http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net

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Well, I am not sure why domaintools is showing wrong update date, I checked it at whois lookup and got different date and yes, it match "uploads/2018/10".

We just did another search using another site: https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=www.istapay.net
as you can see the update date still the same:

ANN - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4432984.0
https://archive.is/incX6
https://archive.is/JlVsv

ON their whitepaper - section 5.11 - Their ROI is unsustainable - Typical Ponzi with ROI up to 851%

the whitepaper is found here: https://togacoin.com/whitepaper.pdf
Archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20181108184158/https://togacoin.com/whitepaper.pdf
also saved on our website: http://icoethics.com/imgs/togacoin/whitepaper.pdf

And where is the video of the mining room? they never posted it.
All we see is a plastic table with some rigs on it.

Thank you for the article.
Here are just a few examples of the so-called advisers at the ICOBench that are probably just taking money to give a good rate.
Including one that was warned about a scam and still gave good ratings for the scammer.

Cryptobike – (TEAM = Stock images) TEAM = 4.0 - is a very high rate for a team using stock photos dont you think?
Cryptobike - 1 expert - http://icoethics.com/imgs/other/cryptobike-rate.jpg
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5032861.0 (scam accusation)

Cryptoriya - 1 expert - Someone warned this expert this ICO was a scam on July 31st 2018. The expert gave a review/rating on August 2nd and ICOBench continue with the publication/promotion of this scammer. http://icoethics.com/imgs/other/cryptoriya-rate.jpg

Zantepay - 6 experts and they missed the scam? - http://icoethics.com/imgs/other/zantepay-rate.jpg

Ultrix - 3 experts - http://icoethics.com/imgs/other/ultrix-rate.jpg

UT-PAY – 1 expert – 4 star rating for the team with an obvious photoshopped person. https://icobench.com/ico/ut-pay/ratings#ratings
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5045079.0

OfferZone – 4 experts – 3 star rating for the team - a team that failed KYC
https://icobench.com/ico/offerzone/ratings#ratings
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5026956.0

Vestarin – 32 experts – 5 star –https://icobench.com/ico/vestarin/ratings#ratings
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5026956.0

Aircraft Travel – 1 expert – 5 star for fake team
https://icobench.com/ico/aircraft/ratings#ratings
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5032935.0

There are more, but we will stop here...

Quote from: marlboroza on November 08, 2018, 02:05:29 PM

When was whitepaper released?
It is hard to say which project steal whitepaper, if I have to guess I would go with fairdiamondmining because istapay's domain is older:

This was like which one came first the chicken or the egg.
We did consider what you wrote above as well, but we did a research on the history of their website to see how it looks in the past.

They did NOT have a whitepaper - until recently:
http://oldweb.today/chrome/20180531094323/http://www.istapay.net
Above is the archive back 31-may-18.

And here is the archive for August 15 2018 - http://web.archive.org/web/20180815093031/http://istapay.com/

As you can see there is no whitepaper on their website.

Now if you go to their website to download their whitepaper, look where it was uploaded and look at the date:
http://www.istapay.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/thewhitepaper.pdf

"uploads/2018/10"

Fair DIamond had their whitepaper in June 2018., and as you saw their last updated on their website was in June
(source: https://hypestat.com/info/fairdiamondmining.com)
Updated on 2018-06-16

Istapay: NO SSL (source: https://hypestat.com/info/istapay.net)
This source shows the last update was in 10/2018) which matches the month that the WP was uploaded.

Registry Domain ID: 2139095946_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2018-10-21T11:51:51Z
Creation Date: 2017-07-01T18:53:06Z

Would you a trust a CEO with such a reputation?: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bitcoin-machine-boss-landry-ntahe-was-linked-to-torturers-brcnrb9nv

"The head of a British company that operates bitcoin cash machines, which police say can be used to launder money, was in a gang jailed for torturing robbery victims."
"Landry Ntahe was in a gang that tried to rip out a man’s teeth with pliers"

Quote from: btcworldio on November 07, 2018, 12:01:40 PM

Quote from: hexkex123 on November 02, 2018, 07:15:10 PM

Recently donated a small amount to them Cheesy

me too

And now your money is lost. SHould check forum for scam before making a donation to any ICO.

Quote from: Ttomasz0882 on November 07, 2018, 09:07:45 AM

Look to POSS whitepaper, there are something about anonymous

You dont make something anonymous by using someone's picture with a fake name!

You are a scam promoter.

Quote from: Ttomasz0882 on November 06, 2018, 08:26:22 PM

In my opinion POSS team want to stay anonymous, they are not scammers, it's normal coin, you can buy it and sell it on 2 exchanges

Look at biggest wallet of this coin, it's frozen for reward program (30,000,000,000 frozen Posscoins) (40% monthly for holding) :

https://etherscan.io/token/0x6b193e107a773967bd821bcf8218f3548cfa2503?a=0xabb082211930da475879bf315afaddd55913c6a8

Now Possteam sent 8,000,000,000 Posscoins because new exchange coming

https://twitter.com/posscoin

Team are very active and project have roadmap till 2020 !

It is not only a scam but also looks like a Ponzi as well.

40% monthly for holding x 12 = 480% a year! Totally unsustainable.

Quote from: Ttomasz0882 on November 06, 2018, 10:16:59 PM

As i know team going to launch a new site-platform at 1.12.2018 , so i think this photos are only for short time

It doesnt matter if the photos are only for short time. As you can see they gave names to photos that they stoled from the internet.
If nobody says anything they would have kept as it is... anyway, IT is a SCAM!!!! Nothing they can do now that will change their scam status.
We will get busy and make a few posts around on the internet to inform the community, so everyone can be on alert about this scam.

Quote from: Garenjohnnytre on November 06, 2018, 12:30:01 PM

I see you have tried very hard. the link you show is true, maybe. But the world very big. I think these are real people. They use their English name instead of real name to make it easy for the job. As far as I am aware, because this project has so many Americans, they just change their name to the English name. this post don't have enough proof. it's just my opinion.

Looks like you are the one trying very hard. Are you using braille to read this post?.
And you dont know anything about names. The original names were more Americanized than the new ones.

Avery ----> English / Grigoris ----> Greek origin
Martin ----> Latin / Denis ----> Greek origin
Savannah --->Spanish origin / Bassam ----->Arabic Origin