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This thread serves a purpose to give members of the forum or anyone doing their DD an idea of the possible safety or risk they'll face when they play on a casino based on the active and open cases against the casino on the forum. The list will [hopefully] be frequently updated from time to time, usually by weekend. Please note that it is intended as a summary of the accusations against gambling platforms that have ANN and representative on this forum. As it is intended to be a summary, it will be very much appreciated if discussion, debate, or any other things related to a case pointed out on this thread to be carried out on their respective thread to keep this one clean and tidy. Also please notify me if I missed a case or two, or if there is a development for the case already listed here. The status of each of the cases are determined and color coded according to below criteria: In Progress- Case where accuser made a valid case with strong evidence and the representative is currently attending the case Resolved- Case that reached resolution, either implied or clearly stated Invalid- Case that is not backed with evidence, either a screenshot or anything to substantiate the accusation - Case where representative has addressed and the accuser didn't challenge the counter-accusation or invitation to arbitrator Inactive/Pending- Old case that's been more than one month without any update from the accusers with representative already replied - Cases that goes to court, that will take months until resolution. As such, will be marked as pending, until court ruling is made. Active/Unresolved- Case that is backed with substantial evidence and not attended by representative. Accuser may or may not inactive for the last three months due to the lack of response - Case that is backed with substantial evidence, the discussion left hanging with the representative never addressed the last [valid] accusation/post/proof from accuser. Accuser may or may not inactive for the last three months due to the lack of response Though I'm quite familiar with most cases below and the scam accusations board itself, I still spent many hours to get reacquainted with each of them or to get a grasp of the cases that I did not oversee. This means [and as I am only human] I might mislabeled one or two cases, or misjudged the status of a case or two. If you happen to find those situation, or if you think a case is better labeled in other status, feel free to ask me.
06.01.25 - Each entry from this point will now have link to the post that become the basis of its status. 15.06.25 - Casinos entry will now limited to 15 entries on main page to save space. Older case can be found on the link to past case [link below]. 15.06.25 - Following above update, a summary of casino's case will be added as an entry, so people can get do their DD at glance. [a work in progress]
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What happened: Plagiarizing whitepaper and websiteSuspect's Profile Link: N/A [They don't have an official account here, far as I know. However, we have...]BM's Profile Link: Crypto Bountyes, the one and the same with ahmim[1]Suspect's Website: https://metasystemtoken.io/ | archivedSuspect's ANN thread: N/ASuspect's Bounty thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5454471.0 | archivedSuspect's Documents: https://metasystemtoken.io/white-paper_MSYS.pdf | archivedPlagiarized Source:
Flag Raised: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3185Additional Notes:[1]Crypto Bountyes uses and redirects us to the following group for his bounty: https://t.me/CryptoBountyes with @samil507 as their bounty manager. [1] [suppose he edited the link after this thread posted, the archived page still shows this fact]I'm from the ahmim Baunty Management Community. I want to run a bounty campaign with your project. Let me know if you're interested. I've preached a lot of bounty campaigns before. According to everyone, my medium of promotion is different, but everyone likes it. Also ask me any questions if you want to do more about a bounty campaign. My Contract Telegram: https://t.me/samil507[...] Ahmim and his alt, Crypto Dotar was previously exposed for managing scam bounty campaigns in the past. [2]Other than the plagiarized whitepaper, I found extreme similarities of their web design with a project called Tetrix Token[2]Some screenshot for easy view: It'll be quite hard to read through their WP, thanks to the strategic decision to put black-over black of the texts over their logo. I've tried to highlight it to boost visibility. Hope that helps.       [1]  [2]   
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What happened: Offering malicious script to drain crypto from its unsuspecting victimsSuspect's Profile Link: Xdrainer543treSuspect's Website:archivedSuspect's ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5445535.0Additional Notes:I initially hoped I understand their service wrongly, that they offered a service of blacklisted address so their user could proceed with caution, much like... that specific user who offered such service on neighboring sub-board. I honestly not sure if raising this thread would works against their favor by limiting their movement or I did a mistake by offerring a free advertising for their service, but I thought it's better be reported so unsuspecting people would proceed with caution. It might be worth mentioning that --I think-- the service looks and works like the one thread in the past where the user's fund were drained after he approved a contract [can't find it although I've spent long minutes on ninjastic and generous time by manually leafing through the scam accusation and reputation board]. Some screenshot for easy view:    archived source: https://archive.fo/2mkOe
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Foreword: I think this is the first time I write on this board. I'm not really sure if my topic would suits better on Reputation or on Scam Accusation, but since one may argue that the person in question did not directly scamming the community and instead just facilitating the scam projects through a very careless DD --if they did any-- for the campaign they managed, I think Reputation fits better.
Flag type-1 against Crypto Bountyes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=3185
I've put this case on my plate for a few weeks since the first case against ahmim raised, took a glance at their post history, and frowned upon the findings of the bounty campaigns they managed. Couple that with a negative feedback given for bounty abuse [though at that time I didn't look at the reference link], I commited myself to give their projects a sweep when I have time at hand. Today's the day. So, first thing first, ahmim and Crypto_Dotar was found to be a connected bounty abuser by Stalker22 back in 4th of February 2023. Now, these are the campaign started by each of them, where most of them are followed by red flags found by several users: ahmim: Bounty thread: - [Bounty] 💥EPNOC The Next-Generation Hybrid Crypto Exchange 💱 10000$ Token, found to be plagiarizing whitepaper by yours truly, holydarkess, a.k.a. me
- 💥[Limited]💥 Pi Chain Bounty Campaign. Budget: 7000$ BNB | 4 Week., found to be plagiarizing whitepaper and fake team profile and several other red flags by, uhh... I think it'll be more to the community effort as everyone is pitching in
- [💥 Limited Open💥] Lamina Trade Bounty | 100k$ worth of LAMT Token | 4 Weeks.💥, found to be plagiarizing whitepaper and fake team profile, first unearthed by albon
- [💥Bounty Open 💥]Fratun Coin Bounty | 5k$ Busd + 5k$ Fratun Coin | 4 week 💥, well, haven't thoroughly check this one, but a quick scan informed me the project is an MLM with no team and a very vague roadmap, which I wouldn't be surprised if it ended an exit-scam as well
Crypto_Dotar: Bounty thread: [Open] Millennia Token Community Bounty | 350$ Usdt | 1 Week, found to be plagiarizing whitepaper and fake team profile, by albonThe interesting thing about those projects is that all of them didn't have a representative here, didn't create an account or ANN, simply doing bounty --which I think will not be paid at the end of the period-- which I believe was done deliberately in order to make their exit-scam easier, with the bounty's purpose is like what examplens said, [...]
They are obviously not interested in this forum, except to collect more retweets and sharing of their story.
a.k.a., more exposure to the clueless to invest on those hit-and-run projects. I wouldn't even be surprised if all of them were ran by the same team --if not one person-- who deliberately choose these this bounty-manager-wanna-be with poor reputation, knowing they won't bother doing any background check.
Edit: ahh, almost forgot, the purpose of this thread is to ask whether it's fair to leave both of the account --owned by the same person-- negative feedback for this issue, or would that be seen as unfair, given some more reputable BM also has one or two questionable projects which passed their screening and leave a dent on cryptocommunity, and they didn't tagged. So, does a negative feedback deemed appropriate or should it be just a slap on their hand with a ruler?
Edit 2 [13 June 2023]: Another of their alt, Crypto Bountyes come with another questionable project, Plagiarized Whitepaper - MetaSystem Token
Edit 3 [15 June 2023]: Adding a flag against Crypto Bountyes on the top part of this post |
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What happened: Plagiarizing whitepaper and no team memberSuspect's Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3410650Suspect's Website: https://potfol.io/ | archivedSuspect's ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5435948.0 | archivedSuspect's Documents: https://potfolio.gitbook.io/potfolio/ | archived, archived 2Plagiarized Sources:[1] https://www.benzinga.com/money/is-bitcoin-a-good-investment[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20230120094247/https://usunicorp.com/assets_new/whitePaper/Whitepaper.pdf [which, ironically, seems also a scam project given a very quick swept through their website told me that their team is fake; I haven't thoroughly check this "Unigem" though] Additional Notes:Their opening post on the referenced ANN thread above sounds very sweet,
I would like to introduce you to Potfolio.
Potfolio works similar to an ETF, but for cryptocurrencies.
In their portfolio there are only the biggest assets (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and so on). Everything can be seen transparently in the network.
They've just launched and are already starting with an insane investment pot of $150,000.
So you have the opportunity to invest directly diversified with leverage, instead of doing it yourself.
The team is legitimate and has already done nothing questionable or the like in previous projects.
Telegram: https://t.me/Potfolio_Official
Website: https://potfol.io/but as pointed out by julerz12, there's no detail about team on their website or other media The user, which I strongly believe also the founder of the said project although they tried to give an impression that they're just promoting the project, has couple of hit and run projects in the past, [ANN] Whalegirl [WGIRL] - P2E Unreal Game, CEX listings & much more in 2021 and 🏦 GolddogeSachs - the first leveraged index for crypto 🏦 in 2022. Both website are no longer accessible, and now the suspect posted another project, which most likely will also gone after a day or two and we'll see them again in yet another project next year. In regards to the point above, I wonder if it's necessary to raise a flag against the user to discourage them on creating another project in the future. Some screenshot for easy view:    
Notifying the suspect.
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What happened:Possible scam projectSuspect's Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3511054Suspect's Website: https://www.theadvantageblockchain.com/ | archivedSuspect's ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5417350.0 | archivedSuspect's documents: whitepaper | PowerPoint | RoadmapAdditional Notes:I can't be sure if they're a scam project or not due to the lack of concrete evidences, hence I am open for anyone tried to help with this matter, but so far, several things are pointing toward that directions, as such: 1. No team detailsInitially, I asked for team details, I think it is quite reasonable that a project that runs on remittance would have the people behind the team be known to anyone investing on the project or remitting their money through the platform, but they asked me to go through discord to "meet some members" which --as I've shown and told them on the original thread-- is not exactly convincing   and their final answer for this matter before I pursued other matter [point 3] that's more interesting was, the snipped quote came from the same post for this quoted post below and snipped quote on point 3Hi holydarkness,
[...]
you can ask the administrator in the Discord about my reliability with investor communication and updates.
All real investors get my personal contact information and a KYD before.
Discord now has 47 Members!
2. Discord membersNow, this is fantastic. They've been around since 17 October 2022, on 2 January 2023, they managed to get 47 members, then 300+, then 500+ in two days. As I am pretty much sure discord "followers" can be bought just like telegram, I peeked into this extremely drastic increases and found a glimpse which I believe is not too far away from my suspicion --that those members are inorganic--   3. Going IPOThey claimed that their investor will have portion of the company in Canada, as in IPO in real life, Hi holydarkness,
Yes, owning the parent corporation of Advantage. This is like no other token/coin. The wallet will soon be complete and we will then look for the next round of investors.
There are only a few spots available [...]
Which raised my eyebrows. I'll openly admit that I am not well versed on IPO procedure in Canada --anyone from Canada and familiar with this issue, a contribution and insight will be much appreciated-- but I am quite versed on the stock and bond in my own country and I know that the buyer would have an account in brokerage or bank account, basically a third and appointed party that intermediates the company and the buyer. We can't just go to a company, arranged a meeting with their staff, be it higher or lower seats, and buy the shares ourselves. Likewise, a company can't just decide to go public one day and sell their shares freely to anyone. They have to get through thorough process like registering their company for public offering, waiting for some grace period, being audited, doxxed, amongst other things. A quick searches told me that Canada basically applied the same rule, which they initially deflect by saying, Hi holydarkness,
You make a lot of assumptions. Already some % of the corporation has been sold and the legal papers reviewed and signed by real lawyers on the investor's end and our end.
And it isn't clear where you are getting a lot of your information from. You absolutely do not need to be a part of a brokerage to invest in a corporation in Canada.
and after I pointed out the sources on this post, their statement changed into Hi holydarkness,
Yes that is quite incorrect, but allow the truth to come out.
Canada has absolutely no restrictions to buy stocks but you need a bank to buy them and if its already listed you can buy yourself using a simple brokerage account which takes 2 minutes to set up.
Short story: You can easily invest in Corporations and buy stocks in Canada without restriction.
If you want to be a part of Advantage by investing we would love to have you.
300+ Discord Members.
Upon pushed further about the matter, how exactly would they suggest investors to buy the ownership and do they have all the required documents for going public, they went into the defensive-offensive mode of "you're rude, we don't want to answer your question anymore", much like the telltale of scam projects we have in the past. Well, I am "snide", but that's simply because they kept circling around the question that's very easy to answer if they're truly legit. Hi holydarkness,
Clearly there is no point talking to you further. You've gone from rude and ignorant to downright snide. Please excuse yourself from Advantage.
As stated on the earlier part of this post, I am not sure if this is a clear case of scam, the three points I raised above might means nothing and I am simply too paranoid, but as my... eccentricity had provoked them enough and made them refused to talk further to me, and I can't clarify the whole IPO permit and team details and other aspects for legit project, I hope this thread can provide a better outcome as well as inviting other pairs of eyes and insights.
The suspect has been notified
Edit 1: as per 11 January 2023, Advantage Blockchain's website, crucial posts on their ann thread, and their website ceased to exist. While the nature of their investors --angel investors-- finally explained in clear after a quite a misunderstanding --I'll own part of the blame, but it also happens because they never answered questions directly and always leaning toward ambiguous answers-- they still refused to reveal the team behind this huge global remittance project. By those evidences found so far, I am leaving a negative tag towards them.    /closed @govconcerns.com
https://archive.ph/xhezd
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What happened:Fake team member and possibly another hit and run project by the "dev" Suspect's Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1234777Suspect's Website: https://fifafanbattle-club.com// | the archive I did kept redirecting me to "Socios", anyone knows why?Suspect's ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5428603.0 | archivedSuspect's whitepaper: https://fifa-fan-battle-token.gitbook.io/whitepaper/ | archived archived team section too Fake Team Members:They introduced following people as their team members: Our Team There are 8 people in our team, not counting investors. Those involved in the promotion and development of the project: https://t.me/Dave5907 MOD, he follows the chat, answers questions. https://t.me/Peter_FFB admin chat/owner the creator of the project. https://t.me/Luella_Collier_FFB manager battle organizes and conducts battles between fan tokens. https://t.me/Henry_MltchellFFB | https://t.me/FFB_Sophia manager CEO develops project marketing, buys advertising, conducts events to increase the audience. https://t.me/Fifadeveloper DEV the developer of the project. We also have technical specialists who monitor the safety and performance of the project.
Then you got Peter as well. He is the creator of the project, and he is actively contributing to a majority of aspects in regards to the development of the project. Again, inspired probably from others as well, because success is never granted.
Lou Ella is actually the battle manager. She's going to take care of that particular fan battle. I'm going to say improve part. Right? Because you will need to improvise a lot when it comes to that particular utility. We're going to get to that part in a second.
Then you got Henry. He is the CEO of the project. He's the one that actually got in touch with me a couple of weeks ago to talk about the project. He's actually pretty much involved in a bit of everything when it comes to marketing strategies, advertisement, various opportunities to expand, conducting events to increase awareness and attract more audience as well, which is probably one of the main aspects of the project.
Sofia is one of the other managers, pretty much developing strategies of progression, whatever that might include.
And then you got Phil, who's the developer of the Smart contract.
These are six of your core team members and there are two other contracts hired to analyze and review the performance of the project.Three out of six of these people they listed as their team and contact, Peter, Sophia --by the time this post was made, you can find her under "FFBc_Sophia"-- and the account dedicated as DEV didn't have any identifiable photo, while the MOD himself, Dave, is MIA. However, Henry Mitchell and Luella Collier are kind enough to put a very professional profile picture to convince us:   For anybody watching Twitch --I don't--, there's a slight possibility you're familiar with Henry's face, username GODofDANGO, whose introduce himself as Eugene of Moscow on his IG profile, not Henry. He probably didn't even know where'd Henry come from. As for Luella... err... I'm not sure I'd like to spell it here, just conclude them yourself from the image, LOL.   No plagiarized whitepaper --that I know of-- so far, since their Whitepaper is very very light, a very strange thing for a project who claimed they've partnered with big league organizations like LALiga, UEFA Champion, and Serie-A, and other 120+ partners, which they are yet to provide the proof of partnership that I've been asking for. Additional Notes:It might be wise to mention that the OP for the project, GubiMixa1292 has a history of hit and run project in the past, [ANN] Brick Worlds Play2Earn PinkSale Whitelist which clearly very dead as per today and their website themselves are now offline. Suppose they tried to defend themselves by saying that they're just a hired community manager, they did a very poor job on DD since they accepted projects with such quality as that and this one. GubiMixa1292 might also used their alt to fake enthusiasm and traffic, username john.eck that's already tagged by Avirunes back in 2019 for multi-acc and bounty abuse were necromanced back online after a very long period of sleep to "participate" in their event --yayy!!!-- and on the next post suddenly became their part of team. I will try get the 60$!
Whitepaper on progress. Yes its all our partners
The suspect has been notified
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What happened: Either a seriously severe case of plagiarism and recycle, or rugpull, or both.Suspect's Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3410072Suspect's Website:Suspect's ANN threads list: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3410072;sa=showPosts | archivedAnd this is the part where things get a tad bit more interesting. The suspect seems to recycle their whitepaper from the old projects to the new ones, which... the original WP itself is copying from other sources [see screenshot section below]. Basically, they create a project, abandoned it after a few days, and made another one, an exact copy, with different name. So if Cryptokool001 said they're just hired to be a CM, they did an extremely awful job of DD because they can't even spot plagiarized materials which an exact copy of the project they previously moderated. With that said, I think it is safe to rule out the old "I'm not part of team" excuse. Second, rug pull. 2 out of 12 of their projects telegram group are no longer available, and the others were not so good, with months of gaps in between chat, all were only made by the team because they limit their members from writing on the group, most likely to prevent people asking something like this: hello all
tell everyone this is a scam
we can't sell the tokens on pancakeswap after buying
these men are scammers!!
which wouldn't be too far fetched to think that the latest and the ones that is yet to come will also be a quick money grab before they abandoned their TG group. Departing from this opinion, I think I am not too harsh to the suspect if I raised a newbie-warning flag against them, and hopefully people will support to activate it. Flag raised: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2963 Some screenshot for easy view:    
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What happened: The project raises several red flags, as listed on the thread title and which will be described in more details in sections belowScammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3461862Scammers Website: https://xcavator.co/ | archivedScammers ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5392519.0 | archived
First Red Flag: PlagiarismPlagiarized Documents: Whitepaper | archivedOriginal source: Several, as listed below, but kindly check section 4, the image section for easier view[1] http://enkwallet.com/ and https://cryptonmr.com/?page_id=280/[2] https://support.nominex.io/en-us/article/47-what-is-monero[3] https://genesisdigitalassets.com/the-challenges-of-industrial-scale-bitcoin-mining/
Second Red Flag: Faking credentials, owning other project's KYB --Know Your Business-- as their ownG O O D N E W S !!
𝐀 𝐍 𝐎 𝐓 𝐇 𝐄 𝐑 𝐏 𝐈 𝐋 𝐋 𝐄 𝐑 𝐎 𝐅 𝐒 𝐓 𝐑 𝐄 𝐍 𝐆 𝐓 𝐇 𝐀 𝐂 𝐇 𝐈 𝐄 𝐕 𝐄 𝐃
XCAVATOR Has Successfully Completed “KNOW YOUR BUSINESS” By AUDIT RATE TECH
NOW INVEST FREELY IN 𝐗𝐂𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐍
PUBLIC SALE LIVE: xcavator.co/ico/
[...]
[ archived] Alleged Document: Project KYB Report | archivedIf you actually checked at the document, though --see appendix [4] on section 4, it looks like a very poorly made "official certificate" with a QR that will redirect you to this link -- edit: the link automatically redirect to the certificate, so I'll paste the link manually, https://me-qr.com/d4NLr as well as adding appendix [5] to maintain fairness-- I've tried both with my phone's QR code reader and online QR code reader, just to be sure, and both bring us to the same page, so it is safe to say the QR code --nor the certificate-- belongs to them. The link itself will redirect us to a detailed certificate issued by Smart Contract Security Audit for Mocking Metaverse additional note: I didn't check both the certificate issuer or the mockingmetaverse project as both are not the points of interests here.
Third Red Flag: Holding and have control of the rest of the token "to be sold manually when the market condition is suitable"[...]
You are right as the team will have control over the rest of the total supply. As per the demand of our project we cannot automate the release of our tokens. Firstly we cannot be assured of the availability of the latest mining equipments. As we will be using all the funds from the sale of tokens to setup mining infrastructure, if we will automate the release and at that time miners are not available then the mining power per token will go down as the mining power will be less in comparison to our token holders. Also as all other projects hold supply to provide sufficient volume on different new exchanges we also will be doing that.
Some screenshot for easy view: [1]     [2]   [3]     [4]   [5] 
Notifying and inviting the accused to answer and defend themselves here
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What happened: Fake team profile Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2610761Scammers Website: https://www.newukrainecoin.com/ | archived special thanks to SRF10 for suggesting this web archiver few months ago, as waybackmachine and archive.today seems couldn't archive it properly Scammers ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5394467.0| archivedScammers Whitepaper: https://www.newukrainecoin.com/_files/ugd/61619b_58ad006e3c6c4284bb925dfb6da80b5b.pdf | archivedOk, this is kind interesting as these three people appears on so many projects across the internet, each with different roles and names, which kinda reminds me of Johnny Sins. For example, they're featured on MERF1 in Philippine, A photographer2 in Georgia, a one Patrick Oates Insurance agent3 in Wisconsin, a mining company4 in Indonesia, a climate justice and feminist heroes5 in Malaysia, a public forum and citizenship6 (?) not sure about this, they're now Puerto Rican, though, and many more that I am somewhat think those pictures must be a template from a website builder. Some screenshot for easy view: : 1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  Additional notes: I think, at this point and sadly, it became a rule of thumb that a project using Ukraine as one of their aspect --be it a pure donation project which actually only distribute a tiny portion of the total fund to Ukraine, or project with working features like this-- should be approached with caution as mostly are scam projects from people with zero morals and ethic who tried to reap benefits from other's suffering. A note that I think worth considering though, for anyone who actually really interested and moved to donate to Ukraine through crypto, I would suggest to use Binance's Ukraine Emergency Relief Fund as the fundraising is --yes, is, it's still ongoing-- hosted by a very reputable crypto organization with a --IMO-- transparent fund distribution and unless I am mistaken, the entire 100% of the fund raised are allocated to those in needs, no 80% investors bullshit, or 19% transaction fees are for the refugee, or anything like it.
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What happened: Raising a project with no clear goal and product or service, with a sole purpose to crowdfund their own business. What business? Well... that's a funny question, see below evidences for a better insight. Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2779504 as well as his original account, this one is made for ban evasionScammers Website: http://tacali.space/ | archivedScammers ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5392317.0 | archivedNewbie Flag raised, kindly support only if you're agree with my opinion stated below: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2943Additional notes: I'm not sure if we can consider the project as a scam and thus, if this board is the appropriate board. However, due to the nature of the project and the "dev" themselves --ban evasion, death threat, witch hunting of "gang", and other questionable behavior-- I am leaning toward a possibility to money-grab. The nature of the project itself violated the rule of "no-begging" as they're basically begged to be funded to do their business, which has no clear purpose or tangible --and intangible-- product, unless we considered crowdfunding someone to build a multidimensional company that works in health, franchises, production and distribution, and other sectors, not to forget to be as successful as Musk and Bezos, thus allows the holder to be employed in space is somewhat... realistic. [...]
I am using TACA to crowdfund for my own business needs ( you donate when you exchange your crypto to TACA if it goes to my wallet)
People will be able to use TACA to get loyalty points if i have success to build my business vision.
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What happened: Plagiarizing documents --not their WP, other documents (plural)-- from different sources Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3425174Scammers Website: https://www.stabilascan.org/ | archivedScammers ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379020.0 | archivedPlagiarized Documents:Maybe they learned from their past action, their WP is actually rather clean. However, other documents of their project are not. Below is the list of documents available on their website which are copying content from others' work. Brand Assets - Plagiarizing "Stablecoin Evolution and Market Trends"Stabila Documentation - Plagiarizing Tron's DocumentationStabila Asset Tokenization Plagiarizing 10XTS Article about TokenizationBanking blueprint - Plagiarizing "Banking Blueprint for the Crypto World" by Arun GhoshStabila for banks - Plagiarizing BCG's Article by Zubin MogulAdditional Notes: Stabila is a child company of Moneta, a project with a plagiarizing history. In the past, upon being outed that their WP is stealing content, they defended themselves by saying that they hired content writer, and that some members are blackmailing them into paying some sum of money or else... well, they never shows the concrete evidence --screenshot and anything-- to backup their claim. Instead, they went full witch-hunt mode accusing and tagging anyone that stands against them. I was notified by miWana about Stabila's connection with Moneta. Thanks to their help, the project enters my radar and I re-investigate them. The second section of this post is a snipped quote of what I wrote on the other thread in response to miWana's information, I'll copy them here to add them to the investigation materials for the case of fake team on top of the plagiarism accusation. The third section of this post is what I called as a happy coincidence. Given that they've been online for days after I PMed them --they should have noticed my message and choose to ignore them-- and they gave no response, I decided to dive into their TG to well... notify them and take a look around their community. What I find is probably what we can say as a shilling service. Some screenshot for easy view: Brand Assets:   Documentation:   Asset Tokenization:   Banking Blueprint   Stabila for Banks:   And in case the team tried to get away from this accusation using the old excuse of "we hired a content writer and they copied material without our knowledge", allow me to add this evidence stating that their CEO, Daniel Varzari, is the author of the document, which --if they still insist they hired a writer-- means their CEO lied by claiming a paper that he didn't write as his. 
[...] With that out of our way, I want to lay some foundation about how Moneta and Stabila is connected. Just like the link you provide as well as stated on Moneta's website and Stabila's whitepaper, Stabila is the child company of Moneta and teamed by the same people.   Several things that raised my concern upon reinvestigating them are: 1. The change of their office(s). Although it is quite understandable for company to relocate themselves, it is quite uncanny for them to close all of their office on big cities --and country-- and move to a rather remote umm... town?   Something that's perhaps worth mentioning about the building where they're located, it is notoriously known for being listed as the address of a shady offshore trading company, at least that's the impression I get from reading the auto-translated review from people cross contries. 2. The lack of details about their team. Moneta listed 9 people as their team according to their website, but from 9 of these people, I can only verify 3 of them as a real person, in a sense that their name and record is searchable outside Moneta, and all 3 are the higher ups. From these three people, only 1 acknowledged his empoyment with Moneta, the other two didn't mention Moneta on their profile. These person are: 1. Daniel Varzari Out of the three people, Mr. Varzari is the only one that shows and declare his relationship with Moneta, which should help us decide whether the project is real or not --if the only one person associated with the project is not provable as a real person, then it will be justified to question the project's legitimacy. However, there is an article published --and written by himself-- on the website of other companies that he's been a board director of.   2. Igor Scvortov Mr. Scvortov mentioned an employment with Paragon Capital on his LinkedIn, but not Moneta. However, sadly, if you try to access Paragon's website --I deliberately put the entire link here instead of shorten the link with bbcode for fair play-- http://www.paragoncapital.com/, the site will redirect you to a website called e-lease, which rather feels like that the site as well as the project itself has failed and the site is now used by other user.   3. Anastasia Kovaleva With a little dig, I managed to get a means of contact with Ms. Kovaleva. Well, to be honest, she's very active on social media and has a lot of press published about her, indicating that out of the three, she is the most real person. Details about her is deliberately not served here to respect her privacy, because of that very reason. However, below is the proof of contact.  With all of the evidences I can gather in a day laid for public, the ball is now out of my court. I'll notify Stabila about this thread and hopefully they'll be able to clarify things. The way I see it, the easiest way to strengthen their credibility is by asking Ms. Kovaleva to reply my DM and vouch for them.
P.s.: hmm... that's odd, their ann thread as well as other threads they owned are all locked. It is also brought to my attention that the thread is tagged by GazetaBitcoin as thread that utilizes bumping service. I guess I don't have other way but to contact them via PM. Edit: proof of notifying Stabila 
So... what does their community think about their consensus network?     How about their decentralized feature?    So, overall, what do their community think about the project?   [note: the "valerstudio" username is a bounty hunter using the project's name and not Valerstudio's official tg handler]
Edit: notifying them via telegram as well, let's see if they'll come here or kick me out of their channel Edit 2: they kicked me, LOL  
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I'm not sure if this is the rigth board, I've been undecided between accusations, reputation, or investigation board since I first stared my investigation of these accounts. Coincidentally, just when I'm about to create my thread and I looked around between the three boards, I saw Masulum made a similar-toned thread on this board, so hopefully this is the right one. Nonetheless, if this is the wrong board for my thread, kindly inform me and I'll move it to the more suitable boardI began to suspecing a foul play when I followed a thread managed by OddEvenBets.com and saw some people there are showing an excessive interests, so I begin to dive and dig further into their history and found that --for the past few month's posts and ignoring older ones-- their posts are limited only to the threads managed by OddEvenBets.com. Such coincidence is rather uncanny and deserve a tad degree of suspicion, so I compiled a table to get an easier visual on tracking which thread is posted by who, and I got this:  These users are posting on those thread and create a --presumably-- fake interests and supportive discussion like below, which will have a high possibility to mislead inexperinced users and newbies into thinkin that the project being discussed is very interesting: I am looking for a new and potential project, so it will be difficult to get it listed on centralized exchanges. Do you have any suggestions for a project whose token is about to be listed on centralized exchanges? I want to hear your opinion.
Check out PKT which is listing on Bittrex soon. Not the Playkey shitcoin, but the new project called PKT Cash. I like the team and it is a mined proof of work coin, not a premined token. Hello fellas, seems like I need your help. I want to go into the gaming sphere but there are so many projects. Can you advise anything new to follow because I want to participate at an early stage, to get a chance to win more rewards
Sure thing bro, now it is better to participate in metaverse systems. Just take a look at AffynOfficial, this is a mobile metaverse play-to-earn system and they have unique utility with the geo-based concept. The sale will be this month btw Hmm, design looks cool, I like it. So as I got they will release soon and you will be able to purchase lands? It is interesting, I will check how to earn rewards while playing. Maybe I will purchase some tokens at the sale, min limit To be sure that they're indeed are connected and I am not just paranoid, I dug into their addresses and found that they do transactions between each other. Not only that, while I searched for each of their address I also realized that they frequently enrolled into same bounties, effectively cheating bounty by enrolling alts. Although I didn't spend time investigating whether these bounties are legit and/or also part of their shilling service or not, this is what it looks from bounty-side:  As for the proof of connection through transactions are as follows: Bordijo to Nahratsak 88,732 IFEX Bordijo to Kovinskii 425 JDC Bordijo to Efarilino 425 JDC Bordijo to Nahratsak 425 JDC Bordijo to Paypolitan 425 JDC Bordijo to Semehov 425 JDC Semehov to Kovinskii 3.292 ETH Kovinskii to Semehov 3.3 ETH Kovinskii to Nahratsak 706 IFUM Kovinskii to Nahratsak 2 ETH Natrashak to Kovinskii 0.1 ETH Natrashak to Paypolitan 850 IDEX Natrashak to Paypolitan 0.02 ETH Semehov to Pwaytoken 0.043 ETH  Their profile and addresses: Bordijo 0x7f5889c07f310785648712a5075eccd333236043Efarillino 0x519AF31E48b5369eF620CaE9a071c558f3ae27faGraphLinq Protocol 0x73F79C3D797055633eAAE3815EA791cc628649a1Indacoin 0xBACc8802D9220fd2CEdeA6895c2B8fe9CE0bC03CKovinskii 0x6EBf583dA147887ae29C9E5A41dCe6fF80DD3358krg-token 0xE64AB0063e8Bfc7E070331D0Ae67DA8A0AFFF663Legasches 0x88358a49e2aA67D90f5782C5eADe459332EC4d33Nahratsak 0x02A092F9fd80E9dD51cac1dc5BC69f42578f004bPaypolitan 0x53198FD6C78d112CB9D1D6a321080E10e11B5cb1Pwaytoken 0x79BC80b5FD39DbFCB1Fd070e91b19e48c750a708Semehov 0x1C34d23367Ca0697417Fc15941593c6C717c8E98torex.one 0xdA496b9f2A5E09F3E4f7E959505467e0d0B7f8D2vetohov 0x2c1Fd7Cc04E059967947104E441a9f8fb88Fc9De
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