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

[Affilate User]

in some ICOs these cases often happen they are usually ICOs who fail and the end will sell your identity or be used for other actions without your knowledge, if you want to participate in the ICO you should be able to pay attention to it and be aware that KYC will harm you someday.

[WalletPlus]

This is why KYC is s stupid and dangerous, the government really want to know everything about you. I feel sorry for the people who need to fill the KYC.

[joromz1226]

I think that ICO scammers will not just take off with your invested money.

Probably also they selling your ID. proof of Identity + Selfie + proof of Residenz
Uploaded KYC ID documents + selfies and address data are sold with large quantities on the darkweb, which are probably collected via scam projects.

What do you think?.

check these screenshots for example

This is the big risk when you just carelessly joining up bounty campaigns or ICO's which do ask KYC. You wont even know if they are legit or not or just pretending to launch to
get and collect users information or documentation. Checking on the price above each information do really cost good amount. This is a deepweeb url since its on .onion domain.
Im not surprised to see such thing into that place.

That's the bad side of crypto mate, and poor for some of the community who doesn't know how to find out the good, legit ico project in this

industry. As much as possible double check or more the project campaign before sending your KYC in the ICO. Because every time we apply

KYC we are doing it in our own risk.

[poetra2501]

in some ICOs these cases often happen they are usually ICOs who fail and the end will sell your identity or be used for other actions without your knowledge, if you want to participate in the ICO you should be able to pay attention to it and be aware that KYC will harm you someday.

Very dangerous if it happens like that, that's a deficiency if an ICO requires KYC for all participants,
investors and the bounty hunter. But in other side, requires kyc is effective to reduce the Cheater in bounty campaign.

[Crypto Girl]

I am also concerned about the bounty hunting campaign that the bounty hunter has taken. I find that to be unreasonable, we are selling our information cheaply

That's true and I'm sure that everyone is aware of that so it's better to stay away from those

This is why KYC is s stupid and dangerous, the government really want to know everything about you. I feel sorry for the people who need to fill the KYC.

In fact government isn't the one to be worry but rather those in darkweb as what the OP stated. They selling documents for just $18 and it was selling like pancakes, just imagine how those guys heartlessly sell the documents. While the government has no iron fist for this kind of crime and so this things are very likely to happen to anyone.

[WalletPlus]

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?

The thing is, it doesn't need to be a scam or not, it all depends how fair is the person running the company, and with who they work. They can always sell your data without you knowing it. Hard problem to solve.

[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?

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.

good advice, at least I am more careful to provide information.
I heard the Facebook case. and you are right there are people who take advantage of our negligence. thanks for the advice 

[Hawker]

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?

this news made me worried too. this is really a shocking thing how they use our KYC and identification in Dark Market. people will use them to build accounts on other platforms. such as Paypal. etc. and it'll be a none stop chain of scamming. and it'll be very long.

I think in this situation all we can do is to avoid doing KYC as much as possible. stop investing in Scam ICOs so we don't need to do KYC for every random ICO.

[RodeoX]

This is why you only do business with a licensed business.  If they do something like this you simply sue them. You are kidding yourself to work with scammers and think they will protect your interests.

[oapieNL]

Here's an example,
https://jullar.io is a project you have to look out for. and do not invest any money in this. These also use KYC. But I am 100% sure that they are scammers because:

The domain name just recently registered in Russia.
The team is strange and consists of 2 people.
They are ridiculing other coins by calling it shitcoins.
ICO price is extremely expensive. 1,000,000,000 tokens and now costs $ 0.12 each
40% of all tokens are reserved.
Next year October they claim that their token has a price of $ 2.37

[Stedsm]

The reason why I don't participate in most of these ICOs and their Airdrops is this only, the biggest fear I had in my heart everytime I thought to get in an ICO and the next minute I stopped myself from getting in. It's better to buy those coins directly over the exchange if the project works out well in the market of such shitty ICOs where our data is sold for pennies. Shocked to see my fear turned real, and surprised that the value of our data is just BTC0.003. Really unexpected, but I think there should be an authority to authenticate the trustworthiness of an ICO and give a certificate of authentication before anyone even gives their KYC docs to them, so no need to invest before any true rating is given.

[hero1111]

I am worried about scammers because there are many ico scammers and i cant understand  which project has clean people or not , It is really big problem for all sector but i know that  we have to be careful about our kyc id documents because if we not it could be big problem for our future.

[ocid]

this is very important to note that an identity that we provide can be misused for interests that will only benefit them, and to date I have not found anything that is accurate enough about crypto-related programs requires KYC ID as a requirement.

[Arsedunn]

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.

I think that this case should be challenged in court in a country where cryptocurrency is legal, because it is an illegal act and a scammer should be put to death for this illegal activity. It is also right to give them fake documents to save yourself and your personal data. Crypto currency controllers should also take serious actions against such scam ICO investor.

[Olympiusad]

How can I prevent this from happening? The fraud is more and more difficult to control.

[WalletPlus]

I think we are selling our information cheaply... This is a huge problem. This is why you should only do business with a licensed business!

Those licensed businesses are selling your data too, or they get hacked and someone sells it on the black-market.

[bohr]

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?

And you should be worried, many people think that they are never going to be scammed or that they are never going to lose their information to scammers, I know it is hard to believe but it is very likely that it is going to happen to you if you keep wasting your time working for bounty campaigns that ask for personal information about you, the only way to avoid that is to only work for bounties that do not ask for that information.

[escalante28]

This is a serious problem mate. I knew it, it's very possible that they're going to sell our information. That's breaching of contract. That's why before submitting your KYC documents make sure that those people behind that ICO are legit and all their details are visible too. It can be worst when they're going to use our documents in an evil doing, maybe someday we're shocked if someone give us an arrest warrant because of criminal offense that done by those fake ICO.

[sirohige]

this is terrible if you find something like this then the platform created by ICO will sell your privacy and personal data so that the data that is supposed to be very confidential can be known by many people and I think it will be used for criminal acts that will not be known by the owner of the document.

[sammyp]

I suspected this right from the beginning when I came across this KYC thing. My mind has never been free from such troubles of having my information sold for money by these scammers. It may be funny but I think some of us get the few bucks we earn from our sold information.