[WARNING] Recycle For Life Plagiarized Whitepaper

[$crypto$]

What happened; Recycle For Life Plagiarized Whitepaper

Website; https://recycleforlife.io/
Archived; http://archive.is/wU71q
bounty; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257431.0
Archived; http://archive.is/9m7Ds
ANN; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5257432.msg54667782#msg54667782
Archived; http://archive.is/MV11U
profile BTT; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2820555
Recycle For Life Whitepaper; https://recycleforlife.io/docs/RFLWPv1.pdf

Flags; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2077

NameWild West Domains, LLC
Whois Serverwhois.wildwestdomains.com
Referral URLhttp://www.wildwestdomains.com
StatusclientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Expires On 2021-06-07
Registered On 2019-06-07
Updated On 2020-06-08

Source;

https://teenkidsnews.com/tkn-news/green-planet/what-can-we-do-about-the-growing-e-waste-problem/
http://www.arrayconsortium.com/electronic-waste-recycling-a-global-problem-in-need-of-solutions/
https://rusmet.com/e-waste-recycling-facts-and-figures/
https://feeco.com/electronic-waste-recycling-a-global-problem-in-need-of-solutions/
https://www.epa.gov/international-cooperation/cleaning-electronic-waste-e-waste
https://www.dacianananu.com/blockchain-and-how-does-it-work-simplified/
https://www.datasciencejunction.com/2019/02/overview-of-distributed-ledger.html
https://www.khsinfotech.com/services/
https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/big_data_and_business_intelligence/9781838823191/1/ch01lvl1sec11/the-history-of-blockchain-and-bitcoin
https://irishtechnews.ie/the-e-waste-problem-and-how-the-blockchain-can-solve-it/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52LJxiADKHo


 

[morvillz7z]

Quoting for reference from their announcement thread:

We have updated the whitepaper with the source references and our team members are updated their social profiles to reflect involvement in our project. This is a real project with a real team. Thanks!

I beg to differ, at least two members (the only two that i checked) are computer generated-images, both Anastasia Reut and Bogdan Botov are GANs.



These two come with fake LinkedIn profiles as well:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-reut-937b8a194/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdan-botov-40a48a195/

I supported the flag and tagged them myself, good find @OP!

[Lafu]

On there Github are just 2 files , the readme default and recycleforlife.sol and this is also only copied and pasted !

The file was created last year in 15 Aug 2019 and its just copied and pasted from other projects too !

Code:

pragma solidity ^0.4.24;

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 'Recycle for Life'  token contract
//
// Symbol      : RFL
// Name        : Recycle for Life
// Total supply: 1 000 000 000
// Decimals    : 18
// (c) by Team @ Recycle for Life 2019.
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------


/**
 * @title SafeMath
 * @dev Math operations with safety checks that throw on error
 */
library SafeMath {
  function mul(uint256 a, uint256 b) internal constant returns (uint256) {
    uint256 c = a * b;
    assert(a == 0 || c / a == b);
    return c;
  }

Source : https://github.com/recycleforlife/RFLtoken/blob/master/recycleforlife.sol

This pastebin file was created 1 Aug 2019 !

Code:

library SafeMath {
  function mul(uint256 a, uint256 b) internal constant returns (uint256) {
    uint256 c = a * b;
    assert(a == 0 || c / a == b);
    return c;
  }
 
  function div(uint256 a, uint256 b) internal constant returns (uint256) {
    assert(b > 0); // Solidity automatically throws when dividing by 0
    uint256 c = a / b;
    assert(a == b * c + a % b); // There is no case in which this doesn't hold
    return c;
  }
 
  function sub(uint256 a, uint256 b) internal constant returns (uint256) {
    assert(b <= a);
    return a - b;
  }
 
  function add(uint256 a, uint256 b) internal constant returns (uint256) {
    uint256 c = a + b;
    assert(c >= a);
    return c;
  }

Source : https://pastebin.com/79q1ibzU

Looks like the whole thing is just pasted from diffrent things and projects.

[TalkStar]

Nice and impressive scam detection work done by "OP". This project is using plagiarized content and Ai generated team pictures which revealed their real intention. Sometime its hard to find words to use for this kinda garbage. Immature investors is their real target and these brainless idiots are just decreasing people's interest on cryptocurrency investment.

Flag supported from my end.     

[examplens]

Nice and impressive scam detection work done by "OP". This project is using plagiarized content and Ai generated team pictures which revealed their real intention. Sometime its hard to find words to use for this kinda garbage. Immature investors is their real target and these brainless idiots are just decreasing people's interest on cryptocurrency investment.

Flag supported from my end.     

@$crypto$ does a great job at recognizing new scams, I founded a few very interesting investigation by him. Unfortunately, there is more and more work like this, we seem to have a large number of new scams every day using the same schemes.
Of course, I support the flag and will negative tag this user.

[$crypto$]

Nice and impressive scam detection work done by "OP". This project is using plagiarized content and Ai generated team pictures which revealed their real intention. Sometime its hard to find words to use for this kinda garbage. Immature investors is their real target and these brainless idiots are just decreasing people's interest on cryptocurrency investment.

Flag supported from my end.     

@$crypto$ does a great job at recognizing new scams, I founded a few very interesting investigation by him. Unfortunately, there is more and more work like this, we seem to have a large number of new scams every day using the same schemes.
Of course, I support the flag and will negative tag this user.

thanks u @TalkStar 

Yeah, now more and more fraudulent projects like this are on average from now doing plagiarism in their whitepapers because they have no purpose in their projects so copy and not from their own ideas.

I suspect that this project is because the website interface is very similar to being used for fraud. It may be that the site template has been used as a fraud for selling their coins.

[andrei8787]

Thanks, Also reported to cryptoscamalert
https://cryptoscamalert.com/crypto_scam_report/357