scryptasic scam (CAPTCHADD)

[oudekaas]

I am just posting this as I can't reply yet to the other post that is open about CAPTCHADD who is most likely responsible for SCRYPTASIC con.
Captchadd who is also known as David Spanton (I hope it is a coincidence as David Spanton is a renowned  conman that got done for a 4 million pound ticket fraud a while ago) is the only one connected to SAI. I wouldn't be surprised if Captchadd is a fake personality online with fake facebook account (but who knows, captchadd knows) For somebody who has been very close connected to a scam company he acts now as if he wants nothing to do with them. Funny how the last tweet of the company was that they are sorry to have to let the webhoster CAPTCHADD go. How likely is it that a company announces this just before
the company goes into tears. It just doesn't make sense. Captchadd will no doubt come up with a lousy explanation but listen man you are no doubt the only one that has ties with SAI, Scott Davenro is a personality that doesn't exist online. Your mentioning you had to sign an agreement not to mention anything about them, does this agreement still stand now it turns out your name is blackened due to the fact that you are hosting and created a website that offered services that do not exist?
How likely is it that you encounter someone in a pub that is on the verge of creating a mining machine that at first nobody was able to do. Are you really telling me that you were lucky/unlucky enough to meet these guys by accident in a pub and that exactly then they were ready to setup a website and well by pure chance you came along (luckily also someone who spends most of his time dealing with BTC and altcoins). You want me to calculate the chances of that happening in Southampton? It is as likely as winning the lottery without having a fucking ticket!

If asked if he is willing to work on a police investigation he doesn't answer. The way he explains that he walked up to the SAI team by accident in a pub in Southampton says it all. The way he describes this story
is exactly the same as Scott Davenro answered certain questions. There is no logic to it, answers you expect from somebody who is afraid to be discovered not from someone who clearly has nothing to do with it.

Just to mention a report is placed to the police in the UK/ USA and I will report one in the Netherlands as well, I would advise everyone in any country to get in touch and make a report and I have asked cryptostocks details as to what they could mean for those who have lost out on the scam. In the UK there is a website Actionfraud where u can report the fraud online.
Maybe it is better to keep the posts under this thread as not everyone is able to post on the new thread. Not everyone has been active on BTCtalk.

Could we make a list of all the people that were involved in this scam and lost out. I am surprised that sofar only few people have been reacting. Whereas there must be at least 40+ who had substantial shares.
I sold my shares just in time but I want to see this guy go down, also I am interested to see if it is this easy to scam someone and get away with it.
If so I would be very very careful with putting any money on cryptostocks.

to be continued! Oh yeah Captchadd if you feel you have a bit more of an explanation to give please do not hesitate, as of now from my point of few, you are guily untill proven innocent. I will say again, I highly doubt you got involged in this by accident.

[oxfardk]

i feel i want to know more about this idea oudekaas

[MZD]

+1 I got scammed for 48 shares.

Reading around at different boards it appears that dozens and dozens of people have been scammed out of 100+ shares.

Let's bring this guy some justice.

[crypto-junkie]

Watching this thread with a plenty of curiosity.

[Motor64]

I'm down 119 shares and I'm pissed as I paid close to 3 btc for this crap. Cryptostocks better halt trading on these scam shares ASAP!

[wasubii]

I smelt a fish and sold my shares at 0.07 so i only lost 30% which amounted to a BTC1 loss

I'm not interested in regaining my coin back - i paid for a valuable lesson.

However, i am interested in taking this fucker down.

I suggest we start a fund to pay for IP tracking analysis and go from there - there are guys on this forum who are adept at tracking down people like CaptChadd for a fee. Use an old school guy, no new users who might be Chadd under a pseudonym. We need someone with a good track record.

Should be pretty easy to find Chadd - he has years of history online to search through and i bet his hosting is not anonymised.

I suggest someone takes charge and starts collecting donations (with a renowned escrow to keep it safe)

Unfortunately I have my own time restrictions that prevent me being the ring leader but i will contribute to costs.

Any volunteers?

EDIT: Just realised we're in the Newbie thread. Better to have someone with a history and reputation on the site to take point.

[Robzz]

Oh, good, a newbie thread.

Got scammed for 100 shares, for ~ .7 BTC loss. I knew what i was going into, so I don't really expect my money back, but if there's any way we can bring down the asshole behind this, count me in.

I worked some quick google cache magic to build an (incomplete) archive of the deleted forum thread. Here's the link : http://www.filedropper.com/sai_2
Pages 1, 2 and 5 are fairly complete. 3, 4 and 6 are not.
If you got the rest or part of it, you can send it to me and i will update the archive, or feel free to do it yourself if you like.

I'll keep watching with interest.

EDIT : apparently the thread was longer than i thought, i added page 7 and 8. 7 looks quite complete, 8 is probably missing a few posts. Link updated.

[Tripmode]

The main thread on this is here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=312714.60

There is no doubt Chadd is the man behind this scam. All the evidence is laid out in the above thread but here is the short version:

The SAI admin account had the same avatar Chad uses here for a short while. Also metadata inside pics posted by SAI had geographic data pointing to Chadd's hometown in the UK.

At first Chadd denied this and said he emailed SAI about why they were using his profile pic (which miraculously removed minutes later). Then a dating site profile was found with the name Scott Daverno and it had another pic of Chadd. It is also discovered the SAI website has the same IP address as Chadd's ShitCoin called Extremecoin. The SAI domain and ExtremeShitCoin domains contain the exact same contact info.

At this point Chadd makes up a story that he met the SAI guy Scott at a bar/pub and they asked him to build and host their website. And that he signed an NDA agreement and can't reveal identities. Because you know most reputable tech companies are incapable of creating websites and have to hide behind NDAs.

He continues to say he was "just hosting the website". A few days ago a twitter post from SAI says "we would like to say goodbye to Capt Chadd who is no longer hosting out site to work on ExtremelyShittyCoin. Totally normal for a company to make a post like this announcing a very basic web hosting change right? And how convenient that Chadd is leaving how because anyone following this scam knows that SAI is about to drop the big bomb of shit and disappear.

Right now Chadd is admitting to hosting this scam website and is the only human link to this scam. I don't think anyone believes he just happened to be in a bar one day and was asked by a fake company making a fake product that doesn't exist to host their website.

Let's get this fucker. Before the SAI forums disappeared a couple days ago the SAI admin (Chadd) was mocking  people who wanted to bring legal action saying "good luck explaining to police what crypto stocks is" and "bitcoin isn't even a real currency so nothing was stolen". Not only is he scamming people he is now talking shit to the victims.

[MasterDigit]

I feel bad for peeps who got scammed. Hopefully Karma is a b**** to scammers.

[mo_mo]

anyone noticed that when you go to the scryptasic international, it gets routed to alpha technology..are they related..

[wasubii]

anyone noticed that when you go to the scryptasic international, it gets routed to alpha technology..are they related..

Just CaptChadd trying to lend credence to his claim that SAI is being bought out by another company

I dont believe it until Alpha-T either confirm or deny it

[mylove2004tc]

thanks for your infomation.

[wasubii]

Alpha have confirmed they have no affiliation with SAI

https://twitter.com/ukalpha

[gerjan]

Also got scammed for 10 shares. 0.1 BTC now worth 0.01 BTC.

It's learning money for being a dumbass...

I feel sorry for the folks that got scammed for more money.

[joelao95]

I invested a few BTCs, vvvvvery disappointed. Is there any chance we can get it back, at least exchanging the share still on hold? SAI was just delisted!!

[realrover]

I've lost about 3 BTC too. Unfortunately I'm far from UK and can only hope that some good Englishmen will probably take care of him...

[Suikoden]

I came very close to investing in their shares, but decided at the last moment not to. Something just didn't feel right about the whole thing. I am happy that I changed my mind after reading this thread.

Sucks for the people that got scammed, though.  

[Arakhne]

I also got scammed for 3 shares. I bought them very cheap but I am afraid they are cheaper now.
I am really sorry for people who have invested larger amounts
I hope the tracking gets a result! There should be good people here in the forum, both at tracking and informing. May God bless them.

[mo_mo]

cryptostocks should be part of it too