ICO scammers, Sell your uploaded KYC ID documents, adress for a lot of money.

[umbara ardian]

yes you are right ico this will cause you problems and your privacy will be disturbed because surely your personal data will be used for something you don't know so that it will cause you to experience a lot of losses.

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[bohr]

Yeah this is not a good situation. we are just selling our personal information cheaply. very bad. we can't stop scammers. pathetic problem with answer-less situation. 

If you take the time to analyze the situation you are not selling that information to scammers, you are in fact paying them to get your information which makes things even worse, after all scammers that create those kind of projects just to get your information are not going to build a successful project, they are going to run away with your money and your information, so you just paid for the privilege of losing that information.

[maarx]

Yeah this is not a good situation. we are just selling our personal information cheaply. very bad. we can't stop scammers. pathetic problem with answer-less situation. 

If you take the time to analyze the situation you are not selling that information to scammers, you are in fact paying them to get your information which makes things even worse, after all scammers that create those kind of projects just to get your information are not going to build a successful project, they are going to run away with your money and your information, so you just paid for the privilege of losing that information.

Really disappointed to hear the incident. Will that happen by a legit ICO as well? Any chance or news to be like the one published? We recently had legit ICOs listed out in exchanges. They asked us for KYC to be done and we did the same. Are our documents are safe, not sold out? Hope it has not been done yet.

[arwin100]

Yeah this is not a good situation. we are just selling our personal information cheaply. very bad. we can't stop scammers. pathetic problem with answer-less situation. 

If you take the time to analyze the situation you are not selling that information to scammers, you are in fact paying them to get your information which makes things even worse, after all scammers that create those kind of projects just to get your information are not going to build a successful project, they are going to run away with your money and your information, so you just paid for the privilege of losing that information.

Really disappointed to hear the incident. Will that happen by a legit ICO as well? Any chance or news to be like the one published? We recently had legit ICOs listed out in exchanges. They asked us for KYC to be done and we did the same. Are our documents are safe, not sold out? Hope it has not been done yet.

I don't really know on which of them are legit since eventhough they are successful for their cause still we cannot assure that we are on the satety side, and doing this kind of KYC thing makes me worry since I cannot tell if I will be safe on next following months or years for doing KYC.

Maybe there should be a rules or law on this so that people will not be a victim of identity stealer.

[juragane]

yes you are right you should be careful when there are ICOs who ask KYC and give your sensitive information to them it will be very terrible and your data can be used for actions that are not good.

[ivankoh]

That is why I am very limited in providing ID addresses for KYC's investment. No one will know when you provide KYC to the project, what they will do with it and it can completely be sold to others for malicious purposes.

[kripkiki12]

It is a serious question for sure. You should look for trustworthy sites, however it is often hard to decide which one to trust. If you unconditionally want to go through a certain KYC process for less known company for some reason, you might just consider requesting a new ID from authorities. That would make the old one useless I guess

[Afiqa03]

There are some projects in which prize campaign participants must fill in the form to pass the KYC for the sake of a coin. however, sometimes the participant pass is not a guarantee or guideline that the value of the coin from the project with KYC requirements is good with the price value in the market. so it's very regrettable that important personal data documents are useless.

[coinforumgentr]

damn it. My documents were stolen, I'm sure.

this problem must be solved internationally.

There are many vendors in telegram groups.
The hands of the sellers usually have +100 credentials.

whitelistlerle register, white list sell.
Identities of European citizens are more expensive.
Passports are sold ...

The bad thing is an identity, it can be sold many times.
the buyer can resell it.

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technology is very primitive!
Reliable systems required for online verification!

[rachellee]

This is one thing that I fear about KYC. I am aware of this thing. Sometimes, ICOs are a bit choosy. They only accept passport for KYC. But why? So this must be the reason. I also did some KYC before and I passed, but I used my driving license only rather than my passport, 'coz I think it's riskier to present the latter so. They might use it in their fraudulent transactions, and I'm afraid that I might wake up one day that I am banned in some countries without my knowledge. Also, make sure that what you are presenting your IDs for is worth it. If it's only for a small penny, never, never risk your identity. The price that you have to pay one day might not compensate for the tokens they're paying you with.

[coinzzzpro]

Can advise to do greater the writing on their documents, "For KYC in project NNN". They cannot but accept such data, and it will be more difficult to use them for other purposes.

[Willitivity]

This issue if KYC really bothers me alot, you really don't know whonus agbyhe other end or where your information is been sent to. I have come yo realize that done bounties that opt for KYC are usually fraudulent, ordinarily, what would a bounty require KYC for?. Worst of it all is that they give you worthless shitoins in exchange for your ID which they will certainly sell at a higher price.

[bohr]

Yeah this is not a good situation. we are just selling our personal information cheaply. very bad. we can't stop scammers. pathetic problem with answer-less situation. 

If you take the time to analyze the situation you are not selling that information to scammers, you are in fact paying them to get your information which makes things even worse, after all scammers that create those kind of projects just to get your information are not going to build a successful project, they are going to run away with your money and your information, so you just paid for the privilege of losing that information.

Really disappointed to hear the incident. Will that happen by a legit ICO as well? Any chance or news to be like the one published? We recently had legit ICOs listed out in exchanges. They asked us for KYC to be done and we did the same. Are our documents are safe, not sold out? Hope it has not been done yet.

If the people behind the project in which you invested are real and want the best for the project and their investors it is obvious they are not going to sell that information, the problem is that as we know there are more scams in this market than legitimate projects, but if you did your due diligence and you know as a fact that the project in which you invested is legitimate you have nothing to worry about.

[joromz1226]

I believe on this, this is really true.
Better be careful and make a good research about every ICO you will JOIN.
Public documents of ours will never be safe until proven.
There are so many SCAM ICO now.

[oapieNL]

Or change with Photoshop the front and backside on your id card with fake document nr, birthday,sure and last name what dont exist. Because they cant vieuw the iinformation to see if its a real or fake made document. And your real documents stay safe when you invest in ico   . I have this done for a friend on bittrex,poloniex,binance and some icos and he did not have touble to pass kyc aml checks.

[ivankoh]

This is a very bad news for ICO investors because their personal information is being used for commercial purposes and they are unaware. I believe that the cryptocurrency market will have many big events for investors so look for ways to protect your assets and information before you can succeed in this market.

[bohr]

I believe on this, this is really true.
Better be careful and make a good research about every ICO you will JOIN.
Public documents of ours will never be safe until proven.
There are so many SCAM ICO now.

If losing your money in an ico was not enough, with the new regulations in place that dictate that you need to reveal your identity in order to invest in an ico, now you run the risk of losing your identity as well, I really think that this is one of the main reasons of why the market of icos is so slow at the moment, people do not want to lose something as valuable as their identity to scammers.

[Hamphser]

I believe on this, this is really true.
Better be careful and make a good research about every ICO you will JOIN.
Public documents of ours will never be safe until proven.
There are so many SCAM ICO now.

If losing your money in an ico was not enough, with the new regulations in place that dictate that you need to reveal your identity in order to invest in an ico, now you run the risk of losing your identity as well, I really think that this is one of the main reasons of why the market of icos is so slow at the moment, people do not want to lose something as valuable as their identity to scammers.

Not only with that KYC procedures why the market of ICO as of now is too slow or not showing any progress but also the reason that theres so many Scams that do fly around which
do losses interest into those investors and would come to a point where you would really hesitate to invest on due to possible big risk on losing money.Unlike before where 2x-10x returns is possible but
now profitability would really be still on question.

[moynul2050]

this sounds crazy, I am worried about this news.
I have found many projects that apply KYC to investors and bounty hunters. what should I do so that my personal data is safe, it's hard to distinguish a scam or not.
or do I have to ignore all kyc?

[iv4n]

this sounds crazy, I am worried about this news.
I have found many projects that apply KYC to investors and bounty hunters. what should I do so that my personal data is safe, it's hard to distinguish a scam or not.
or do I have to ignore all kyc?

Now most of the services and icos asks for kyc, there will be alternatives always, but if you wish to be involved you need to do kyc on some places. It's foolish to try to avoid that, so my advice is to check service or ico before you do it, it's like investing money, do that only after you do a deep check.
This news is actually old one, this is is just nice catch. I didn't know the price of this informations before, now I see it's approximately 20 dollars per one kyc, when you do the math it can be very profitable. Facebook is accused for similar thing, from time to time there are news how some big companies are hacked and informations stolen,  nothing is guarantee that you will be totally safe anywhere on the internet, so people shouldn't be worried about this stuff a lot, always try to protect yourself in the best possible way, it's all we can do.