I don't get it.. 75% of my and friends referrals could not successfully fill out the withdraw form. Support does not answer on this topic. ANd now the withdraw form disappeared.
I have seen so many wallets that received the Tokens twice, some even three times! I thought the bounty was limited to 1 mio ATS, but now it's more than 7 mio already?
I really fear the value of my invest going to zero when ATS goes on the big exchanges.
Hopefully the Authorship team knows to run the project better than the bounty campaign was handled.

I believe 75% of the "coinholders" don't have any idea what's it all about. Those token will never see an exchange or will be traded anyhow. Just follow the novice questions they ask in FB or in the old Authorship thread here.

WTF is this???

http://bounty.authorship.com/thanks/

They fucked it up totally.. so many double transactions... oh shit... I believe they screwed their database

The put another 5 mio ATS on the account they are sending from. And still many doubles and many 75 ATS transfers to ONE Wallet. So much for the "filtering the scamers" lol

They are sending again so it seems. Wonder why there are 1,xx transfers.. someone fucked up the decimal i guess..lol

Just a little collection of Web Searches.. to give some inspiration:

https://www.facebook.com/nolan.warfield

http://blocktribune.com/site-aims-disrupt-book-publishing-ethereum/

http://www.waterdoctors.com/usa/maryland.htm


Nolan Warfield
Authorized Water Doctors International Dealer
South of Perryville, and West of the Bay
Hunt Valley, MD
(844) 442-6362 mobile NEW
844-4H20-DOC toll-free


http://www.precisiontune.com/locations/hunt-valley-md

Location Number 050-12 - Hunt Valley
11015 York Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21030
Phone: (410) 628-0060




https://www.gofundme.com/h6rfmrt5

That's the contract address. You will see ALL transfers here, not only the ones coming from Authorship. You can even see the cheaters harvesting their ATS to single accounts.

This :

https://etherscan.io/token/0x2dAEE1AA61D60A252DC80564499A69802853583A?a=0xa68ba00236769703d30c17f63444cc7b3d509c72

Is the address where last transfers were processed from.

I also see that many are harvesting tokens from single 75 or 85 token holding accounts to single ones.
So it might end up with 15k transfers and 500 tokenholders.. lol

I don't think all that happened attentionally. It was just a stupid idea to filter the accounts by IP addresses. That was 1990' stuff.
Depending on region and internet connect it's very possible to have so many identical IP's. VPN and Thor not to mention, those IP range is even more limited.
So what else did they do? As i read they checked if IP from registration and confirmation is same/different. Stupid! My email comes very delayed due to massive
Spam/virus checks on the mailserver. I register with one IP, the time i confirm i have another IP already. Why?
-Mobile connection, you change location, you get a new IP.
-Provider reconnects and gives new IP every 24hrs (very common)
-Registering from PC (DSL) and then confirmation on mobile. Different IP.
-Use of VPN/Thor

on the other way around they FORBID to many accounts from the SAME IP.
So you have this and that and whush, 50% are declared scammer. Bullshit.
That's what their first mail said, 650.000 tokens left AFTER distribution! Means: 65% fake accounts. C'mon, never ever.


what is, in my opinion, legit to look for and filter:
email addresses like john001@, john002@, john003@
many accounts with same wallet address.

Anything else is pure Lottery. Cookies.. can be deleted in between. One could even use a VM to reset the whole machine after registering so there is nothing
left on the "PC" to identify you.  

This is just like very beginners stuff they did. And ended in a very professional disaster. In my opinion, the ONLY way to get out of this is to just
forget any "filtering" and pay out even the fakers. Otherwise I see even more trouble coming up. And remember, they would have given the 1 mio ATS ANYWAY! So what..
They got their publicity now. hmmm.... somehow.. ;-)

 I still wonder, there are almost 10k transactions. If there were only 75 tokens per transaction that would already be 750.000 ATS transferred. Not even counting the larger amounts.
I just hope they just gave up sticking to those stupid IP related 'rules'. That's the american way of life..hitting one fraudster and killing a hundred innocent ones is just collateral damage they take in count. What about not guilty until proven?

People still posting their mailaddress + reflink in Facebook..So anyone can just fill out the withdraw form for them and receive their tokens with another wallet address. How stupid is that!

If this is the right address

https://etherscan.io/token/0x2dAEE1AA61D60A252DC80564499A69802853583A?a=0xa68ba00236769703d30c17f63444cc7b3d509c72

they start sending tokens again

Does anyone know if it is mandatory to use the withdraw form?
Some of my referrals i know personally complain that they receive the message "suspended or unknown account".
Still two others of them filled out the form shortly after ICO ending and even received the confirmation mail, but they received no tokens yet.
Whole thing is a big mess. I just hope my invest does not go to zero as ATS hits the exchanges...

.."Their authoritarian tone in..."

That's why the whole thing is called Authorship.. lol

Dear Authorship cheaters,

I am an Investor in the Authorship ICO. I invested some 2000 USD in the ICO. I was aware that many people will try to cheat the system.
So what, the 1 mio ATS will be given away anyway, so this just did not bother me. Me and some friends also did much promotion for authorship.
All together we 7-8 people should have some 400 referrals.  That's in sum 30.000 ATS. What did we receive? 2850 ATS all together.
That's not even 10%. The "rule" upon the decision was made whether to pay or not is just a joke. Everyone who knows how the I-net is working just laughs about that. i't simply doesn't work that way to count one IP to one physical person.

We also invested in the ICO, my 2000 USD plus 6000 USD coming from friends i know.
The Bounty campaign turned out to be a big disaster. It's not even the cheaters fault i believe. They should have just payed out the ATS to everyone no matter if the referrals were legit or not. As I see now, every community declares Authorship as a scam. Not good for investors. I fear, that our invest will be going to zero as soon as ATS will be hitting the exchanges.

The way Authorship handled the whole campaign was the most unprofessional stunt i've ever seen.

Dear cheaters, it's not your fault.

So much for "filtering the fake ones" ... Such a disaster...

..next honk posting mailaddress + reflink here.. you know that anyone can fill out the withdraw form with that data now and get your tokens???

Oh well, seems we are playin IP-Lottery now..
If one used thor or a vpn service: Screwed. Ip pool is very limited, so the chance of 3+ registrations with the same IP is very possible.
If your Internet provider does give you a new ip after reconnect (dsl/mobile) same thing. IP pool limited, next connect, someone else has the IP you had before.
You use things (in germany) like "freifunk" you are out of the game, limited IP pool.
Working in a company and sharing the IP with your co-workers.. very bad thing.
Using a Hot-spot : Bye bye.

I picked up, that there are 650.000 tokens left AFTER cleaning out the so called cheaters. Are you really telling me, that 65% of the accounts are fake accounts??
C'mon, that just can't be true! Again: Hooking the account to a IP is the most stupid thing to do! You CAN NOT identify a person by IP address! That's not how the internet is working!
This "3+ from the same IP" rule is just BS. There are so many other ways to handle this, like cookies, flash cookies and some other things (experts know, won't mention his now)
But just filtering by IP address is a thing for novices, you'll end up with exactly that, what's going on now: Shitstorm.

To make a statement here:
Me and 6 colleagues did promotion for Authorship. We sent mailings (with pictured instructions for the crypto newbies)  how to participate, how to set up a Wallet, how to register and so on.

All together we, 7 people, should have around 400-420 referrals. Yesterday we asked our refs in another mail if they received any Tokens yet.
Most stated: Account suspended (at the time the withdraw form was up) or for now, NOTHING received yet.
So what's going on? German IP's all got banned? Telekom, Vodafon, O2?
There's only 1 (ONE!) account from the 400+ (until now) that has been payed out.

Again, the 3 Ip rule is major BS, you also could do a "first letter of email is a V" rule.
I just feel sorry for the time we spent in supporting our list members, I know many of them also invested in the ICO (for that i have to say that the tokens arrived for everyone!)

Hint: Next time make the rules clear and precise before you start doing a campaign like this. Changing rules afterwards, when things have ended, is the much worst thing to do.

My biggest respect! This is a wise desicion to turn the wheel arround.
Hopefully there will be not as much harm done as seen in this forum.