There was a big article on the web, discribing Douglas Lyons helped Datarius to collect money. He  gave an interview, convinced that this was the future of the world economy, and then the money simply disappeared. (All articles in medium, reddit and other resources where people write about him - Douglas Lyons deletes.)

It is true that today's advisors are scammers extorting money and not doing anything for ICO projects. Today, in order to become an "advosor" in ICOBench, nothing is needed except personal identification.

Correct Vladimir Nikitin, Phillip Nunn, Douglas Lyouns is one big scam ICOBench advisors team.
After getting money they are rating the same projects or entering their advisory boards :
https://icobench.com/ico/ez-exchange
https://icobench.com/ico/axt
https://icobench.com/ico/skychain
https://icobench.com/ico/vestarin
https://icobench.com/ico/safecrypt
https://icobench.com/ico/flogmall
https://icobench.com/ico/timebox
https://icobench.com/ico/cryptopus
and so on
everywhere the same names.

Dozens of companies reported to ICObench that they were extorted money shortly before Douglas Lyons publish rating and / or immediately after that.
Dozen of companies reported to ICOBench that Douglas Lyons does not writing reviews, but copy / paste them.
No reaction.

Check this:
Rating before payment

Rating after payment

100% TRUE

ICOBench has received all the evidence that Douglas Lyons takes money for his reviews (including  1 ETH transfer record to his account ) and that he extorts money from ICO projects that he has put on a low rating. But ICOOBench ignores this. And Douglas Lyons continues his very profitable and very dirty business.

(The image of the article suspended by Medium is here: https://plus.google.com/u/2/106995061118247758998/posts/DnZ3ZRbt8qz )
Adviser Douglas Lyons: how to make money on a fake rating.
Profile of ICOBench adviser looks very strange - almost all the projects in his profile evaluated as 1.1.1. and he is not writing reviews, but simply copy/past them.
Two examples, try to find differences:
Project INFRACOINS
https://icobench.com/ico/infracoins/ratings#ratings
Douglas Lyons
Board Advisor- Early Adoption and Strategic Partnerships
Rated on Jul 17, 2018
Modified on Jul 24, 2018
this is just another property rental listing site with no discernable features from others. The competition in this space is fierce, fuelled by huge advertising budgets and name brand awareness. There is absolutely no implementation of blockchain beyond the fund raising.
there is 0 opportunity for any type of ROI to investors.
This is not a good investment.
2.   Project PLACETORENT
https://icobench.com/ico/placetorent/ratings#ratings
Douglas Lyons
Board Advisor- Early Adoption and Strategic Partnerships
Rated on Jul 17, 2018
Modified on Jul 24, 2018

this is just another property rental listing site with no discernable features from others. The competition in this space is fierce, fuelled by huge advertising budgets and name brand awareness. There is absolutely no implementation of blockchain beyond the fund raising.
there is 0 opportunity for any type of ROI to investors.
This is not a good investment.

Another strange thing – advisor Douglas Lyons  does not particularly study information about the project, when rating it.
For example:
He rates with 1 (SCAM) the team of WEMARK.
https://icobench.com/ico/wemark/ratings
33 expert ratings  - 4.0
ICO PROFILE  - 4.9  
TEAM - 4.3
VISION - 3.7  
PRODUCT - 3.7
Adviser Douglas Lyons rating:  
TEAM – 1 (SCAM)
VISION– 1 (SCAM)
PRODUCT– 1 (SCAM)

Let’s look, what people he calls scam:
Lars Perkins - Former CEO & Founder @Picasa, Director @Google
Keren Sachs - Former Director of Content Development @Shutterstock
Miguel Forbes - Co-Founder @Forbes.com
Amir Feder - Token Economy Advisor, Northwestern University
Ismail Malik - ICO advisor, Founder & CEO @Blockchain Lab
And I wondered why ICOBench advisor Douglas Lyons lowers the rating of those projects?
I got in touch with team representatives of those projects which were evaluated by adviser Douglas Lyons and everything became clear:
Shortly before the rating of advisor Douglas Lyons appears or right after it was published, some people turn to them with a proposal to raise the rating at for money.
Price for a better rating by 20 experts is 8 000 USD. Very good income, even if shared with other “experts”, consider to the amount of “scam” projects adviser Douglas Lyons finding every day.
Excellent Business brings excellent ROI (return on investment)
Adviser Douglas Lyons profile ICOBench:  https://icobench.com/u/doug-lyons
Adviser Douglas Lyons profile LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-lyons

He is keeping to delete articles about his dirty business.
The story is in the next post.

Submitted already many times, by many people, but they are not reacting.

Hi is involved in many Shitcoin Offerings, when you see the name Douglas Lyons on the board of advisers - the project is 100% scam!
Check this:
https://fixsay.com/cryptocurrency/2018/06/27/ico-bench-extremist-douglas-lyons-giving-fake-ratings-as-revenge/

Advisor Douglas Lyons asking 3 ETH for changing ICOBench ratings from 1.1.1. to 4.5.4., but he did it for 1 ETH!

https://coinscribble.com/icobench-adviser-douglas-lyons-how-to-make-money-on-a-fake-rating/2927/icos/21/

Dirty Business: Douglas Lyons How Fake Ratings Makes Money
After losing money in a project where I was an adviser (https://medium.com/@olegraran/fake-advisor-douglas-lyons-or-where-is-the-money-5b197cca7ca1), I began to carefully study information about him.
It turned out a strange thing - almost all the projects in his profile evaluated as 1.1.1. He is not writing reviews, but simply copies them, here are two examples:
1.   Project INFRACOINS
https://icobench.com/ico/infracoins/ratings#ratings
Douglas Lyons
Board Advisor- Early Adoption and Strategic Partnerships
Rated on Jul 17, 2018
Modified on Jul 24, 2018
this is just another property rental listing site with no discernable features from others. The competition in this space is fierce, fuelled by huge advertising budgets and name brand awareness. There is absolutely no implementation of blockchain beyond the fund raising.
there is 0 opportunity for any type of ROI to investors.
This is not a good investment.
2.   Project PLACETORENT
https://icobench.com/ico/placetorent/ratings#ratings
Douglas Lyons
Board Advisor- Early Adoption and Strategic Partnerships
Rated on Jul 17, 2018
Modified on Jul 24, 2018

this is just another property rental listing site with no discernable features from others. The competition in this space is fierce, fuelled by huge advertising budgets and name brand awareness. There is absolutely no implementation of blockchain beyond the fund raising.
there is 0 opportunity for any type of ROI to investors.

This is not a good investment.
TRY TO FIND DIFFERENCES:

Another strange thing - he does not particularly study information about the project, when rating it.
For example:
He rates with 1 (SCAM) the team of WEMARK.
https://icobench.com/ico/wemark/ratings
33 expert ratings  - 4.0
ICO PROFILE  - 4.9  
TEAM - 4.3
VISION - 3.7  
PRODUCT - 3.7
Adviser Douglas Lyons rating:  
TEAM – 1 (SCAM)
VISION– 1 (SCAM)
PRODUCT– 1 (SCAM)

Let’s look, what people he calls scam:
Lars Perkins - Former CEO & Founder @Picasa, Director @Google
Keren Sachs - Former Director of Content Development @Shutterstock
Miguel Forbes - Co-Founder @Forbes.com
Amir Feder - Token Economy Advisor, Northwestern University
Ismail Malik - ICO advisor, Founder & CEO @Blockchain Lab
And I wondered why he lowers the rating of those projects?
I got in touch with team representatives of those projects which were evaluated by adviser Douglas Lyons and everything became clear:
Shortly before the rating of adviser Douglas Lyons appears or right after it was published, some people turn to them with a proposal to raise the rating at for money.
Price for a better rating by 20 experts is 8 000 USD. Very good income, even if shared with other “experts”, consider to the amount of “scam” projects adviser Douglas Lyons finding every day. The main thing is to find a project got the money already and ready to pay the price to fake rating.
In his profile all ICO are scam.
Excellent Business  brings excellent ROI (return on investment)
Adviser Douglas Lyons profile ICOBench:  https://icobench.com/u/doug-lyons
Adviser Douglas Lyons profile LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-lyons