What happened: Mined Bitcoin Latina on their original Ethereum chain. Now they are moving to EOS at a future date and won't accept any tokens from the original mining, claiming they are unable to verify them. (However, blockchain snapshots would be trivial to implement for verification of private key ownership and is standard operating procedure for any chain migration).
Scammers Profile Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngotts and
https://t.me/johngottsReference Link: https://bitcoinlatina.org/Amount Scammed: Over 2,000 Bitcoin Latina. Stated on their website, "BitcoinLatina represents eight hours of labor by volunteers at no less than $1.11/hour or $8.88.", so by that value: $142,000 USD.
Payment Method: Mining; mined on original ETH-based chain "Clavis", prior to EOS announcement or any shutdown of mining) by Bitcoin Latina.
Proof of Payment: Available on original ETH-based chain snapshot, prior to EOS announcement or any shutdown of mining by Bitcoin Latina.
PM/Chat Logs: March 28th, 2018: johngotts:"We will have a message on the fourth but as long as the coins were mine prior to our shutting down mining they are safe."
May 28th, 2018: johngotts: "The fact you did't move them from Clavis is a bummer but we have no way to know if they are real as we no longer control the blockchain and have not for months. I think they are now lost."
Additional Notes: A blockchain snapshot is standard procedure to verify ownership of coins. Had Bitcoin Latina meant to honor originally mined chains this would have been done. A claim "they are lost" exhibits bad faith and an ongoing fraud.
They are selling coins directly on their website now for Bitcoin:
https://bitcoinlatina.org/buy/Be careful out there!
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