ATS Scam accusation (please read first)

[kkent]

Hello,

There is a lot of discussion going on about whether or not Authorship (ATS) was/is a scam. Without going into any opinion based accusations, here are the statements of fact that can be proven as of this posting:

1) Their promoter on this forum misrepresented who he was while promoting this ICO. He claims to be representing an American entity as their CDO but eventually confessed to being a Romanian man named Petre when confronted about how someone involved in an American publishing company could have such poor understanding of the English language.

2) The address that they provided to investors and bounty participants is for an automobile repair shop.The bottom of their e-mails say 11015 York Road, Cockeysville MD 21030 USA. However, google maps says that is a place called Precision Tune Auto Care....
https://www.google.com/maps/place/11015+York+Rd,+Cockeysville,+MD+21030/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c81279781138df:0x418d7f10fb767a74?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja8NDB56zWAhVM6YMKHUImCaIQ8gEIJTAA

3) Petre's story has changed multiple times in regards to when the bounties would be paid out before finally sending an e-mail stating that he had paid legitimate people and that everyone else was a fraudster.

4) Petre has stated that he will not be responding to messages and that the whole company is taking the next week off, so there is no need for anyone to try to contact them.



So here we have a man named Petre from Romania who lied about his name and is promoting a company that lists an address that really belongs to an auto-repair shop. Then he changes his story multiple times about what is going on/when people will receive their payments, finally sending out an e-mail claiming that anyone who hasn't been paid is a cheater and that he will be taking a week off.

This whole thing screams SCAM louder and louder the deeper you look into it.

[Jamabo23000]

I am the only one who can not send message in the basic topic to 187 pages?

[Jamabo23000]

I am the only one who can not send message in the basic topic to 187 pages?

no, the project is a total scam, this is the end, and the blocking of the topic means that investors have lost their money, will not even go to the crypto exchange that would shave it. In general, a typical example of a scam. It's ridiculous that scammers accuse others of fraud. The fact that this scam was clear yesterday.

they are strong they managed to rip off $ 4,200,000 ...

[jahead]

https://etherscan.io/address/0x5ffc99b5b23c5ab8f463f6090342879c286a29be

here is the money/ethereum of the ats-ico-sale!

ETH Balance:    485,852.75739019084733238 Ether
ETH USD Value:    $125,670,674.23 (@ $258.66/ETH)

edit: and
Token Balance:    15.065259525549575185 OMG 

[DGulari]

Someone also complaining he didn't get paid for ATS bounty https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2185220.0

Never heard about this project before, will take a look on altcoin announcement section

[Slowhand26]

Someone also complaining he didn't get paid for ATS bounty https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2185220.0

Never heard about this project before, will take a look on altcoin announcement section

This project is really huge in alt ann section and made noise the process was really unclear. The thread is already locked and will not entertain any complaints.

[onnz423]

Yep, im unpaid as well.  This project is horrible.
I didn't use VPN, nor cheat the system in any kind of way. The authorship program is a scam it seems, too bad that they got now many millions worth of investments, which would make this a huge scam.
Avoid the authorship program and these filthy scammers at all cost.

[kkent]

Yep, im unpaid as well.  This project is horrible.
I didn't use VPN, nor cheat the system in any kind of way. The authorship program is a scam it seems, too bad that they got now many millions worth of investments, which would make this a huge scam.
Avoid the authorship program and these filthy scammers at all cost.

but in the world of cryptocurrency VPN should not be disqualifying anyway

[PX-Z]

Yep, im unpaid as well.  This project is horrible.
I didn't use VPN, nor cheat the system in any kind of way. The authorship program is a scam it seems, too bad that they got now many millions worth of investments, which would make this a huge scam.
Avoid the authorship program and these filthy scammers at all cost.

but in the world of cryptocurrency VPN should not be disqualifying anyway

Having referral program in an ICO is a suspicious, if you will take a look back some successful ICO on the past months, theu don't have this this kind of referral system but this one is really suspicious, I didnt join there nor registered to its referral system nor to invest on their ICO.

[tzegian]

I subscribed just myself, earned 75 ATS, never tried my referral on others. Still didn't get anything. Definitely a way to scam this was.

[MetaSk]

I've also subscribed and should've recieve my 75 coins, but I didn't get nothing

[Aamir1]

At first, i thought maybe they are right, that my wallet is not ERC20 supported and that is why i did not receive my share of free tokens, but later on, when i see all this on the forum, i realize that they have actually not paid anyone, but they scammed us (not for money, but for getting referrals), and at the end, they deny paying us by saying that we submitted more than one accounts from the same IP and that is why they did not pay us. Come on! If that was the truth, atleast someone from this forum should have got paid.

[wwzsocki]

Same here never get my tokens for refs and subscribe. I have never cheated only one sign up from my IP so this is obvious SCAM. This is why regulations for ICO's are needed and China shall not be blamed to be the crypto killer only supported by crypto community.

[Slowhand26]

I am very new with ICO. I was also a victim of this scheme. For those who claimed their tokens, congrats. But for us who wasted time posting to different groups FB and answering queries about ATS, this is somrthing we can't forgive.

Anyway, is there a way to somehow properly report this? I mean so that the crypto will know this kind of doing of ATS?

[onnz423]

Seems like authorship keeps changing them mind. Personally i do not think that this is professional at all, and im wondering how did they get funded with so many millions because they cannot handle a simple referral distribution. Just received this email:



I just do not understand what is going in their minds, so now it seems like they actually will pay the token balances to everyone. Of course there has been fraudelent registrations, but better this way than messing with actually legitimate people, that have not cheated the rules. Will keep you updated of the emails.

[Slowhand26]

Seems like authorship keeps changing them mind. Personally i do not think that this is professional at all, and im wondering how did they get funded with so many millions because they cannot handle a simple referral distribution. Just received this email:



I just do not understand what is going in their minds, so now it seems like they actually will pay the token balances to everyone. Of course there has been fraudelent registrations, but better this way than messing with actually legitimate people, that have not cheated the rules. Will keep you updated of the emails.

I also received this message but I still doubt this and I am keeping my hopes too high. They aren't consistent and always chanhe their minds.

[Thepat]

I have received my ATS token for the referral program. We will see how it goes... At least, it was free !

[onnz423]

I have received my ATS token for the referral program. We will see how it goes... At least, it was free !

Received my 455 ATS tokens as well.

[HIYOKOMAME]

I received nothing.
What a fraud in disguise.