What happened: FAKE TEAM IMAGES/CEO:
using images from other web sites and replacing identity/name of the person/team.

Reference Link: https://egold.trade/

Website: https://egold.trade
http://web.archive.org/web/20180925144826/https://egold.trade/ (EDITED - archived - 25/09/2018/)
Bitcointalk Forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4480883.0

(edited - image of team added to this post 25/09/2018/)


Here is our full report that was posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4480883.0
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INVESTIGATION of SUSPECTED FRAUD    (28/06/18 escalated to SCAM)


Hello EGOLD TEAM

As you should be aware, there are pyramid schemes created by big Telegram’s Airdrop & Bounty advertiser AFFECTING the crypto community.

We are ICOEthics and our mission is to investigate claims and/or abnormalities against people or companies that are creating Fake ICOs and scamming the crypto-community.

We have received complains about your company and during our investigation we found some abnormalities on your ICO/Tokens.

Please explain the following questions:


ABOUT YOUR TEAM

Hello Mr CEO Alex Zerian or should we call you Jacob Bastholm? Confusing..

Here you have one name

https://www.carnegie.se/da/dk/investment-banking/kontakt/

and here you use this other name:

https://egold.trade/#team


pics
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egold%20team.JPG
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egoldcrn.JPG


Stealing people’s identification is a crime.


This is a VERY SERIOUS issue and we expect an answer within 24 hours before we escalate this to the scam section.




ABOUT WEBSITE/TEAM


https://egold.trade/



You just purchased your website 25 days ago and you are already selling your Egold. We didn’t find any previous records of Egold.

Your entire team appears to be fictitious/fake. We verified that they don’t work for you.

They don’t even have a link or association to your Egold website on their professional LinkedIn profile.

We have uncovered and revealed many scams with other websites which contain eerily similar characteristics of your website.



We are just starting our investigation, please provide the following:

The public contract number of your Token:
The location/country of your company’s operation:
Valid information that TEAM on your website work for your company:
REAL picture and name of your company CEO:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-evans-30a6a01b/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-chapman-a801b579/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-daly-bb192b86/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-zerian-9a1319164/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-lau/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenaish/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisewall/


NOTE TO PUBLIC:   WE ADVISE YOU NOT TO SUBMIT YOUR KYC UNTIL THIS COMPANY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOVE.

Regards,

ICOEthics


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Your response providing your CEO identity was NOT accepted.

You used again another image from Mr .Jacob Bastholm (Carnegie.se)

FOR this reason we are escalating this to a SCAM section until you provide valid answers.




1 - Add to your Google translator the meaning of Valid resume:
“is a written compilation of your CEO education, work experience, credentials, and accomplishments”

2 -  Ask your CEO to make a video “denouncing the images used with his face”.

3 -  Whatever you promise is up to the public and investors to believe or not on you. Not us.
Our Job is to ask questions and validate answers based on evidence provided.  In your case no valid evidence were provided about your CEO.

Here is what happened:

You did an update on your web and LinkedIn with a new image but reversing an image horizontally and converting to BW still traceable and track-able. Your trick didn’t work.

Your posted on LinkedIn:

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egoldlink.JPG

and on your web:

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egoldfaketeam.JPG



and here is the original image:

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/googlesearch.JPG
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/googlesearcg2.JPG

google search:  “Alex Zerian egold” = 1 image which is the one from egold.trade team section.
google search: “Jacob Bastholm Carnegie” = MANY PHOTOS + VIDEOS



5 – We have nothing to hide except our OWN identity to protect ourselves from dangerous organized crimes. Doing this type of investigation is very dangerous and just a fool will let criminals know who he or she is.

AS you saw on our website, WE ARE NOT SELLING ANYTHING, we do it for free. Our job is to catch bad guys to protect our community. We have no public obligation to answer questions or to show our identity.

BUT on the other hand, you are trying to SELL your Tokens to the public. For this reason, you must be investigated if questions are raised by the community and possible investors. A serious question was raised and you have refused to provide a valid answer.

As far as reporting Carnegie.se that is not our business to defend their company, we are sure they have many people on their legal team. Also, they have their website for 12 years. But there is a possibility that those investors that raised questions or the community may have already reported your website, which is less than 1 month old, correct?
Usually, an honest company/ICO buy their website valid for the minimum of 3 years, while scammers just buy the minimum - 1 year.

Carnegie website: Purchased in 2006, will expire in 2022

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/carreg.JPG


Egold.info Purchased in June 2018, will expire in June 2019
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egold%20reg.JPG

REPORT EGOLD.TRADE
Domain Name: egold.trade
Registry Domain ID: D6087E1F6EA2843788EC54AD9C6246674-NSR
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107


Here is the link to the scam section LINK:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4560283.new#new

Your response providing your CEO identity was NOT accepted.

You used again another image from Mr .Jacob Bastholm (Carnegie.se)

FOR this reason we are escalating this to a SCAM section until you provide valid answers.




1 - Add to your Google translator the meaning of Valid resume:
“is a written compilation of your CEO education, work experience, credentials, and accomplishments”

2 -  Ask your CEO to make a video “denouncing the images used with his face”.

3 -  Whatever you promise is up to the public and investors to believe or not on you. Not us.
Our Job is to ask questions and validate answers based on evidence provided.  In your case no valid evidence were provided about your CEO.

Here is what happened:

You did an update on your web and LinkedIn with a new image but reversing an image horizontally and converting to BW still traceable and track-able. Your trick didn’t work.

Your posted on LinkedIn:

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egoldlink.JPG

and on your web:

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egoldfaketeam.JPG



and here is the original image:

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/googlesearch.JPG
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/googlesearcg2.JPG

google search:  “Alex Zerian egold” = 1 image which is the one from egold.trade team section.
google search: “Jacob Bastholm Carnegie” = MANY PHOTOS + VIDEOS



5 – We have nothing to hide except our OWN identity to protect ourselves from dangerous organized crimes. Doing this type of investigation is very dangerous and just a fool will let criminals know who he or she is.

AS you saw on our website, WE ARE NOT SELLING ANYTHING, we do it for free. Our job is to catch bad guys to protect our community. We have no public obligation to answer questions or to show our identity.

BUT on the other hand, you are trying to SELL your Tokens to the public. For this reason, you must be investigated if questions are raised by the community and possible investors. A serious question was raised and you have refused to provide a valid answer.

As far as reporting Carnegie.se that is not our business to defend their company, we are sure they have many people on their legal team. Also, they have their website for 12 years. But there is a possibility that those investors that raised questions or the community may have already reported your website, which is less than 1 month old, correct?
Usually, an honest company/ICO buy their website valid for the minimum of 3 years, while scammers just buy the minimum - 1 year.

Carnegie website: Purchased in 2006, will expire in 2022

http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/carreg.JPG


Egold.info Purchased in June 2018, will expire in June 2019
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egold%20reg.JPG

REPORT EGOLD.TRADE
Domain Name: egold.trade
Registry Domain ID: D6087E1F6EA2843788EC54AD9C6246674-NSR
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namecheap.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107


Here is the link to the scam section LINK:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4560283.new#new

Tokensuite should investigate those ICO before taking the job.

We believe that before the community submits a KYC to any ICOs, the community should request a "KYC" from the company/ICO.
Other words, ask valid questions and expect valid answers. Investigate the company, know better the company that you are investing,  check team, fundings, contracts, website registration, company location, phone numbers, validate with partners, send email to workers/team, etc...


 

It is interesting how so many scams uncovered were managed by Tokesuite team.
They should post on their webpage the latest scammers they have promoted as well. such as Impressio, Greenish Coin, etc...

Watch out for those big airdrop companies.

We always welcome new tips - any suspicious activity of any ICO/Token lets us know.

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Post the Telegram account that you said that they are replying.

The one we see active that you can post has 13 people, and if you ask something they will boot you.

Hello,


We did respond to your email on 21/06/18.

Here some additional information:

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We report and we do recommend to report to Interpol [Europe, Asia, Africa]

INTERPOL
200, quai Charles de Gaulle
69006 Lyon
France
Fax: +33 4 72 44 71 63
cyber crime: https://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Cybercrime/Cybercrime
and Interpol Intl:  https://www.interpol.int/


For North, Central and South America:

Contact FBI Headquarters
FBI Headquarters
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001
(202) 324-3000
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fbi-headquarters
cyber crime dept: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber
submit a tip:  https://www.fbi.gov/tips

Hello Team,


Thank you for your response, but we cannot accept until you provide further information

Please provide a CURRENT AND VALID / Resume of:  Alex Zerian CEO & Lead Blockchain, including photos.


Also for your records, that company Carnegie.se is a company from Sweeden.
Their website wasn't purchased this month like yours, it was purchased and in operation since 2006.


Thank you.

ICOEthics

Thank you for your post.. We did inform ICOBench about this SCAM and another one(UCHIT) - ICOBench did put a SCAM Notice for UCHIT but havent done to Energzine.

Dont forget there are scam supporters out there that refuse to take down/or post a SCAM notice on the scammer add.
 
Many of them get paid for posting adds and give ratings, so they dont really care if it is a scam or not. Facebook is one example.

INVESTIGATION of SUSPECTED FRAUD


Hello EGOLD TEAM

As you should be aware, there are pyramid schemes created by big Telegram’s Airdrop & Bounty advertiser AFFECTING the crypto community.

We are ICOEthics and our mission is to investigate claims and/or abnormalities against people or companies that are creating Fake ICOs and scamming the crypto-community.

We have received complains about your company and during our investigation we found some abnormalities on your ICO/Tokens.

Please explain the following questions:


ABOUT YOUR TEAM

Hello Mr CEO Alex Zerian or should we call you Jacob Bastholm? Confusing..

Here you have one name

https://www.carnegie.se/da/dk/investment-banking/kontakt/

and here you use this other name:

https://egold.trade/#team


pics
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egold%20team.JPG
http://icoethics.com/imgs/egold/egoldcrn.JPG


Stealing people’s identification is a crime.


This is a VERY SERIOUS issue and we expect an answer within 24 hours before we escalate this to the scam section.




ABOUT WEBSITE/TEAM


https://egold.trade/



You just purchased your website 25 days ago and you are already selling your Egold. We didn’t find any previous records of Egold.

Your entire team appears to be fictitious/fake. We verified that they don’t work for you.

They don’t even have a link or association to your Egold website on their professional LinkedIn profile.

We have uncovered and revealed many scams with other websites which contain eerily similar characteristics of your website.



We are just starting our investigation, please provide the following:

The public contract number of your Token:
The location/country of your company’s operation:
Valid information that TEAM on your website work for your company:
REAL picture and name of your company CEO:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-evans-30a6a01b/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-chapman-a801b579/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-daly-bb192b86/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-zerian-9a1319164/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-lau/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenaish/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisewall/


NOTE TO PUBLIC:   WE ADVISE YOU NOT TO SUBMIT YOUR KYC UNTIL THIS COMPANY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOVE.

Regards,

ICOEthics

Hello, can you please take a look at the accusation of SCAM.

We have many customers worried about this situation and Impressio or Bounty Managers have not responded to messages.


Thank you

We have received information that bounty managers charges a few eth in advance and 1% of the profit (when they know it is a scam).

Yes, let's make a list of all projects that Tokensuite is involved and inspect them closer.

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It is a SCAM

all the evidence are there and they refused to answer simple questions.

a reputable company would have responded within 24-48 hours max.

It is getting worse and it will be worse if it is not regulated.

We should keep the eye open on the bounty managers as well.. and put pressure on them to get questions raised by the community answered.

Sometimes they know it is a scam, but all they care is the $$$. - They should do an investigation on the ICO before taking the job, dont you all think?