SCAM Alert - Equiten, fake team and WP plagiarism (MONACO like)

[Hellmouth42]

Working in collaboration with ICOethic, fake photos of the team in the next post.

Equiten ICO

ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4541512

edit: has dissapear!

Bounty: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4666441

WP: http://static.equiten.com/Equiten-White-Paper.pdf (particularly similar to MONACO)

"Equiten officially announces its BOUNTY campaign. The goal of BOUNTY campaign is an advertising of the Pre-ICO and ICO. The total number of tokens reserved for the company's BOUNTY budget is 10,000,000 EQU. Upon the completion of ICO, 1 EQU will be traded on crypto exchanges at $2.
Start of bounty is planned for 2.7.2018."

(in other words: the Bounty could generate 20 million USD!)

That kind of assertion...

Plagiarism of Monaco WP

[ICOEthics]

STEALING PEOPLE”S IDENTITY

Bellow are some extra images that we found about the team.
Advisers:  NONE OF THEM ENDORSE this ICO.[/b]

[/size]

















Resources

Matt Duffy = Tim Steduler
http://cargocollective.com/cindychi/AD-COLONY-PORTRAITS
http://payload36.cargocollective.com/1/1/43578/3032040/IMG_4153.jpg
http://www.rblventures.com/wp-content/uploads/tim-steduler.jpg
http://www.rblventures.com/bios/tim-steduler/
http://23.21.221.152/about.php
https://www.yandex.com/clck/jsredir?from=www.yandex.com%3Bimages%2Fsearch%3Bimages%3B%3B&text=&etext=1848.RCEBIg_n6_6dKNItMDQvvgvwxaLopjxEdIHhsUeBA3UUGxSpsIu6O2bT1gMXWzGvwY0l-MXzJHirrzT4QlPcSe-1iWEBxZGu2S9MWHKPo4IjRxoai2FWfVIZDoRCNeZu.bec2ff0deb6e957505141b87561ac5f0a5cee26d&uuid=&state=tid_Wvm4RM35w_KF6_gYfMtmgS4f5d81OW-g6ZRMBJsI3GF_Hm08bQ,,&data=UlNrNmk5WktYejY4cHFySjRXSWhXUFBkQWM2TGpJNmZaR3AtUUNnZFRFSFkyMHJRTVh1QnhySjBBVGt0NllpYkZ3dEk2VUJPZk1xT083OEVwSE5YN1NNOFdwOEV6THowQVhHYlR1aHN3c2tlUFRFSHgyNzB6dyws&sign=b55960798618c6a0c27e1a89069b0f3d&keyno=0&b64e=2&l10n=en

 Elizabeth Johns -  Courtney Carini (actress)
http://lostfilm.info/photo_actor/2617298/673873/
http://filmnavi.ru/person/kortni-karini
http://lostfilm.info/photo_actor/2617298/673870/
https://www.yandex.com/images/search?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reverse-image-search.org%2Ftempimgs%2F732433801531570228.jpg&rpt=imageview&url=http%3A%2F%2Flostfilm.info%2Fimages%2Fphoto_actor%2F68%2F2617298_673870.jpg

Andrew Carter -  Andreas Daniel Schneider
http://www.yasni.info/show_image.php?name=Andreas+Daniel+Schneider&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirko2014.de%2Ffileadmin%2Fimages%2Fschneider-daniel.jpg&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirko2014.de%2Fprogramm%2Fseminare%2Fdaniel-schneider%2F&width=50&height=50&showads=1&lc=es-es&lg=es&rg=de&rip=us
https://www.google.com/search?q=Daniel+Schneider+SECONDRED+Newmedia&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUw9ix0p7cAhUC0VMKHS3qCVoQ_AUICygC&biw=1229&bih=569#imgrc=nkgc2hGtzGZeWM:
http://blog.theater-erfurt.de/premierenfeier-nach-fantastischer-tosca-premiere

Brian Condenanza  - DOES NOT ENDOSE YOUR ICO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/icoadvisors/

OWEN PETERSON
http://www.milleraa.com/agency/our-team/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-peterson-24a45520/

BEN MEYER
http://www.yasni.com/ben+mayer/check+people
http://www.yasni.info/show_image.php?name=Ben+Mayer&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fvoices-images.s3.amazonaws.com%2FBen_Mayer_Film.jpg&refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.voices.com%2Fpeople%2Fbenmayerdonethat&width=33&height=50&showads=1&lc=es-es&lg=es&rg=us&rip=us
https://www.yandex.com/images/search?text=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reverse-image-search.org%2Ftempimgs%2F3665964761531580894.jpg&img_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reverse-image-search.org%2Ftempimgs%2F3665964761531580894.jpg&rpt=imageview


[/quote]
This is a Scam?Why not close the project?
[/quote]

[suchmoon]

Archive of the ANN: http://archive.is/iuHa5
Archive of the bounty thread: http://archive.is/khh77
Archive of the website: http://archive.is/x8Clu
Archive of the whitepaper: http://archive.is/RdfCk

Please make sure to archive your findings as these scammers tend to delete and change stuff.

[cashonly]

Archive of the ANN: http://archive.is/iuHa5
Archive of the bounty thread: http://archive.is/khh77
Archive of the website: http://archive.is/x8Clu
Archive of the whitepaper: http://archive.is/RdfCk

Please make sure to archive your findings as these scammers tend to delete and change stuff.

Oh God.. I just translated it yesterday.. Thank you so much for the heads-up. I have a question. It is better just to remove the translation or to write the announcement that the project is a Scam to warn others? I just closed it so no one can register.

[realmrx]

Really thanks for your alert! 

[johanesrobin]

It looks promising, and almost they cheat everyone.
this is worrying, how to detect this fraud. I hope this is the last case.

[Meddzs]

I was accepted for the translation bounty and I was about to start working, really you saved me a lot of time and effort from being wasted!

[marlboroza]

~
or to write the announcement that the project is a Scam to warn others

Probably this.

[bitcoinbaba01]

I appreciate your work. Thank you for making us aware.

[Airspieler]

Thanks for the warning. Unfortunately, I mistakenly participated in the bounty of this campaign. As a result, I was lowered the level of trust... how can I do anything about it? Increase trust

[suchmoon]

Thanks for the warning. Unfortunately, I mistakenly participated in the bounty of this campaign. As a result, I was lowered the level of trust... how can I do anything about it? Increase trust

marlboroza's signature is literally two posts above yours. Are you really in such a hurry to your next scam that you can't even bother to look up the last couple of posts in the thread you're posting in?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4598987.0

[magneto]

Good job as always, OP.

Interesting to note that, as suchmoon predicted, their site is currently down, and bitcointalk ANN thread is obviously removed as well. Thankfully there are still archives to prove that this scam existed, and people have been scammed.

Seriously, doing just a bit of research does wonders when investing in anything, especially in regards to the team that a project claims to have. The pictures that they took off stock images constitutes as identity theft, and sure enough, they also plagiarised Monaco's whitepaper. Hopefully less and less people get scammed by these ICOs, but that comes with community awareness. I tend to avoid ICOs altogether, since the space have become so saturated.

[peperushing]

Mine is to create a bitcointalk ANN for the ICO, nothing more