Gladiacoin victims

[Chicago]

Hello,

    I received a telephone call today from my father after a friend of his told him about a Bitcoin scam and was looking for help.
    Long story short, this friend of his bought their first bitcoin and then gave all of them to a website promising to double their bitcoin.

    The site was gladiacoin.com and I spoke with the victim for about an hour today.
    I found the domain is behind Cloud Flare, was registered at GoDaddy and is currently timing out when you attempt to visit it and has been timing out according to the victim since last night.

    After a short 5 minutes looking into this, apparently there aren't even any gladiacoin tokens and the victims just send their BTC in hopes of a daily return which eventually doubles their initial investment.

    Most people here would pretty much laugh if a Senior Member said, "I gave this guy some bitcoin because he said he would double it for me, but now he's gone!"

    A little research shows this ponzi has been ongoing since as far back as December of 2016.
    My father's friend and a friend of the friend have literally dumped 5 figure fiat sums into bitcoin which was handed over to gladiacoin.

    I have no doubt there are plenty of victims and the ponzi has collapsed under its own weight.

    Is anybody on the trail of those who had led the promotion of this con?

    During the call, I shared this website with the victim and offered some suggestions on how someone might evaluate the potential legitimacy of a co(i)n.
    At the same time, I was pretty amazed the victim was still enthusiastic about Bitcoin despite being burned on their first transaction after obtaining their first bitcoin.

    To summarize, I do not know who operated the website or perpetrated the scam - but I am accusing gladiacoin.com of not only demanding a ransom from the victim; encouraging them to send more bitcoin, but also of operating a ponzi and doing a disappearing trick.

    Kindly let me know if you've done some sleuth work and are able to share any insight into whether or not the operators of the scam are known.

Best Regards,
-Chicago

[jorneyflair]

I can't access the site either.

I've heard of this from a few immoral youtube users trying to promote this scam, so that they can earn their affiliate link profits.

Gladiacoin is essentially a typical ponzi scheme - they don't even attempt to cover it up. Just like MMM though there were tons of advertising, and i wouldn't be surprised at all if the youtubers aforementioned were paid by gladiacoin themselves to do these types of videos.

Sorry to hear that your father's friend got into bitcoin but had such a negative experience. Experienced bitcoiners like us become quite desensitised to new scams because we get used to the constant stream of ponzis. But this one probably made off with 100+ BTC by my estimates.

Watch this YT vid, it's quite helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHFmp2e3luo


Tracking them down will be possible, however not probable. To run such an elaborate ponzi scheme, they probably prepared rigorously beforehand, and covered their trails with stolen IDs. Even if you do find out who they are, it is likely that they live in a country where law enforcement is not as good.

[SyGambler]

honestly I have seen tons of ads promoting gladia coin , it was clearly a ponzi and only noobs will invest in that
I really doubt that people can get their money back , cause there are many similar stories to gladiacoin in the past and never heard that people were able to sue the owners

in general I'm not against ponzis they are type of gambling for me , but I'm against people who are promoting ponzis and selling their referrals fake hopes and dreams

everytime I see a youtube video promoting a shady site I hit dislike and leave a review ( which usually gets deleted ) but we need to do something to protect the new comers