Nice find OP, great work!

Now lets wait and see what cryptodevil/ Lauda have to say about this.

Hi there, and thank you for your work on this.

First off, we are nothing like SSIO, Eros.Vision, and others. We have a real business model. Or VP of Product is an active sex worker. Those other projects have zero future, scam or not, because they don't even have a real idea that'd possibly work. The same thing for Eros.Vision. I personally know how bad it feels to get ripped off. But Eros.Vision wasn't ever going to be a viable product. It was a Craigslist 2.0, with more scam potential.

1. Anonymous team. The core team must be anonymous or we'll be shut down. Launch city is Toronto, but we are going to expand into the US next year. But even with Toronto, the business of sex work is not legal in Canada. Selling sex is legal, but that's it. You cannot assist someone in selling sex. Even tangentially! For instance, we wanted to use Tarsnap as our backup provider. I emailed Mr. Percival, and his legal team said they could not provide us service, because they'd be living off the proceeds of prostitution. Not having an anonymous core team puts the entire project at risk.

Does this mean our project is high risk? In absolute terms, YES! Compared to other ICOs? Well, like I pointed out about Eros, SSIO, or even Frantic, they have such bad business ideas that even if they aren't scammers (I think SSIO is sincere) they aren't going to make money. Filecoin is literally a real-life version of HBO's Silicon Valley's Pied Piper, without the amazing compression. Scam? No, but if you lose money because it's a terrible idea, you still lose money. So when you consider the high-risk ICO market, Pink is one of the more solid investments. But please only put in your disposable "gambling" money, just like you should do with any other ICO.

2. We're working on a "whitepaper" or pitch deck. I will say that whitepapers make NO SENSE for businesses. Pink is not a tech company. The core app is damn straightforward. We are not inventing new tech, besides our advanced privacy and security setup: https://medium.com/@PinkApp/pink-app-trading-latency-for-anonymity-and-other-techniques-815ee21c6da4 So these whitepapers are mostly just an invention of ICOs wanting to pretend they are inventing something new, and to distract from the lack of real business model. But we're capitulating and will have a real pitch deck and some calculators soon. We'll even call it a whitepaper.

3. Yes, investment is anonymous to protect both our operations and investors.

4. Most ICOs are heavily dominated by whales. We had investors lined up from before we even bought the domain name so it is not surprising to have early investment. We had a slump when BTC dropped, and the recent spike was due to our update (https://pinkworldwide.com/update2). I am not sure how it is our benefit to show low-investment periods. We'd definitely have more investment if we hadn't had a slump in the middle of the fundraiser! Also note that in the update, the plan is not to reach the cap or minimum right now. We're closing Series A end of month, using the money to build a beta, then will sell remaining Series A shares in a B round, then use that to do a big launch. We issued extra shares to pre-Oct 18 investors and gave them $1 call options expiring in December to compensate, and that was responsible for about half of the jump we recently saw. The rest was some mid-sized investors finally getting in, after weeks of back-and-forth.

5. I'm not sure how this has anything to do with the company. If you want to see real people, go to our Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/pinkapp = We have real escorts talking about their thoughts on Pink. From the videos, you can see these are not paid actresses (they identify themselves and you can check them out on Twitter) or scripted. We did provide a small ($200) compensation for their time, we asked for their honest thoughts and opinions. We asked several people and published every video response we got.

6. Our initial site used the "Primes" template we got off Themeforest. The new design used an NY-based design agency, Vivid Motion (http://vividmotion.co/). I HIGHLY recommend them. As proof, here is an early concept they delivered, hosted on their client-work site: http://vividmotion.design/pinkapp-final/index.html  - They were fast, iterated quickly, listened to us go back and forth and all around on what we wanted, visually. Email me and I'll give you our contact's email if you want to ask about how they worked for us.

We have more than just a few screenshots. Our homepage links to a couple of videos, and more are on the way. But no testnet/beta yet, you are right.

7. Eros.com takes their business seriously. They run a fine line legally. Eros.Vision was outright illegal. It's understandable that Eros.com wants to distance itself from Eros.Vision and shut them down. And remember that trademark law strongly encourages companies to defend their trademark. If Eros.com was aware of Eros.Vision and did nothing, that'd be bad for them. And in no way will the Eros.com re-use their name to launch an illegal business (or scam!). We mention Eros.com because they are competition in a sense. We also mention Backpage, Slixa, ECCIE, TER, and other such sites.

Anyways, in summary: We may be high IQ scammers spending a ton of time to pretend to be building an app, while refusing to play the traditional ICO game (tokens, whitepapers, all that nonsense). I cannot prove a negative. As Sarah mentioned, go into our Slack room and chat with us and get a feel. There are other investors there you can talk to.

Newsweek's International Business Times did an interview with our VP: http://www.ibtimes.com/beyond-bitcoin-blockchain-tokens-sex-industry-2601252 - so there's 3rd party confirmation of someone other than me being involved.

I don't control those accounts. But for arguments sake, let's say I did. Let's say that I bought a bunch of accounts and the entire thread is me talking to myself. That sounds like a sad attempt at promotion and has zero bearing on our service being legit. If true, it is weak, but I do not see how it jumps to being a scam. After all, we only started the ANN thread on this forum well after we were working on the platform.

I'll make you the offer I've made others. We'll pay for a dinner date with an escort in your area (assuming English city) if you will post on social media afterwards. Just discuss Pink, SSIO and others. Ask direct questions about them preferring tokens vs cash, for instance. Email me and we'll set it up. Go to Twitter and find escorts in your area, someone public that we can both agree is real and unbiased.

Edit: Also, are you an investor in SSIO? Just in the name of full disclosure...?

Sigh.. I wish I got paid for interviews!

Anyway, for those of you watching at home, here's our latest preview:
https://vimeo.com/239655911

The amount of funds they want to collect is just insane.I worked in the adult scene in my youth and was dealing with big players and you can trust me noone would ever spend $5.000.000 for such a service.Even not close to that.And they want to raise a total of $55.000.000 .Asking myself where people think will come the benefit ?
Adultfriendfinder which was #1 worldwide has been sold to hustler for $500.000.000 at glory days with all its customers and i know that they pushed their sales extremly hard by loosing profit to sell it at that price.Today they wouldn't even get 1/3.

So pink is demanding $5.000.000 for an app and plattform which barly will cost $200.000 .
Great deal isn't it ?

And hiding themself from public just shows they have no clue about that business.They could just open a company in Netherland,Germany,Switzerland or Spain and it would be 100% legal

This, otherwise everybody is going to lose eventually. if anybody remembers what happened to the Redbook admins in SF you should be careful considering they're both doing serious time right now. Incorporating 'offshore' is meaningless if you are actively promoting within the US or taking payments you can still get extradited, esp if you're giving interviews, or are at all political. One of the main reasons Redbook went down is they became political/advocacy, if you're doing something illegal don't get involved in politics, try to avoid centralizing payments and never give interviews to the media, just grow your shady app slowly it will get popular, no need to force it by rubbing your illegal service in the face of cops and politicians with high profile interviews, they hate that and like to make 'examples' like the Redbook people. The media isn't your friend, you should treat them like late stage cancer because after every interview they go run to the nearest politician "What are you going to do about this blatant illegal app? Your comment please Senator" and this elevates you to having significant resources aimed in your direction.

Its probably same scam with re-hashing the same goddamn idea over and over.  Decentralized hooker service - from one scam to another. Fake or anonymous team - collect small amount of ETH - make another ICO with different design. Repeat for infinite money!

interesting thread, although there wasn't a doubt for me not to put any money in sexrelated projects. too shady for me.

Scam was busted. Ann thread is abandoned.

Thread is about pinkapp. So the message was about it.
Nocta promised that they will make a prototype this year. We'll see.