Looks like their CEO Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/torshyn/ and YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrGXcEE2e9Qqz6PDBa4wScg?sub_confirmation=1.

YouTube channel tells how to move to Brasil and how to work out in the gym, so I guess he already did run away from the country, lol.

If you take look at coinbot.club team, you will find out that those people are exactly the same as FTEC team. Screenshots:

https://ibb.co/G3fd18P
https://ibb.co/87DfY2j

To make their names googleable:
- Ihor Torshyn (Игopь Topшин)
- Viktor Daverman (Bиктop Дaвepмaн)
- Roscislav Gorbachov (Pocтиcлaв Гopбaчeв)
- Kate Klymko (Кaтя Климeнкo)
- Andrea Meeld
- Maxim Bashmakov (Maкcим Бaшмaкoв)
- Alena Tymoshenko (Aлeнa Tимoшeнкo)
- Stas Ochkur (Cтac Oчкyp)
- Maksym Fedosov (Maкcим Фeдocoв)
- Tim Marchini

Additional read on other SCAM investigations:
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3259313.0
- https://github.com/ico-check/ico-check/issues/119

Their anti-scam advisor deleted his Linkedin profile, they even used name and surname similar to mine (LOL! Too lazy to generate a real name, took the name of their only "customer"):

https://ibb.co/vcyP2zS

To tie them even closer to each other, just look at blogs of both projects:
http://coinbotclub.info/
https://medium.com/@ftecfound

Screenshots:
https://ibb.co/89rbdtJ
https://ibb.co/rwHhnwD
https://ibb.co/BBs3vQ3
https://ibb.co/JRHvS35
https://ibb.co/z2c731V

First 3 articles are exactly the same, they don't even bother to hire 2 copywriters for both projects. If they would have at least very basic marketing expertise they would know how bad it is to have duplicate content on two websites .

I believe this project is a scam. Why? If they scam people on one project, why won't they scam people on the next one which is extremely similar?

I heard good stories about coinbot.club which was built by the same team and decided to give it a good try, topped up the account by 200$+ value of BTC back then, connected exchange and started to wait for the bot to start trading. But it did not.. It did not trade for many months and support did nothing, claiming "market is in a downtrend". (Hey, in uptrend I can HOLD myself, without your not working bot.)

I asked them to refund the money but they refused. I'm not sure why? If your service does not work, why you don't return money for it? Looked like a scam from day one. But money was already there and I kept trying..

They gave a lot of false promises and excuses (like Poloniex API not being available) to make it work because I mailed them once a few months, but then they stopped replying to my support emails. (I can share all correspondence, a good half of it is in Russian though.)

I've tried to see if the API key is valid and used and on Poloniex I see "Last Accessed: 2019-05-22 20:55:49 from 188.166.3.226" for their API key.

To sum up since 2018-07-09 at 13:45:49 when I topped up my account on coinbot.club it did exactly one trade, 2018-11-30 at 19:39 it purchased 1880.09034148 CVC coins. Did not ever sell it, it's still there on the exchange. Buy price was 0.00001594 BTC. Current price is 0.00001042 BTC. Bot strategy was set to "Balanced". It did not even sell the token when it grew by 30% in March and not it's in a downtrend. (I'm keeping it just to see what happens next.)

I changed strategy to "Aggressive" to see if it would make more than one trade a year now, but I doubt it.

And all the time their site kept telling "Profit within 90 days = 91,40%" which looks like a hardcoded value . Profit when they even told in official Twitter that bot is paused because of the market downtrend. They even still publish blog posts to the project to "look like not dead".

I don't have an exchange and not interested in projects like this, but thanks .

Andrew Dryga is here. I was very surprised when one of my ex-colleagues sent me a link to this post.

I do not have any relations with this project and I didn't even know about it. I've built a P2P lending platform on Elixir as a programming language (which I use every day) and even a National Health Service, but, unfortunately, I've never done any distributed blockchain solutions (one centralized and you can read about it on my Medium, for NHS). But In case I would do so in future, I'll definitely write about it on my LinkedIn .