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

[Blongen]

ID theft is real, a lot of ppl have faen victims to scammer icos.
If your privacy is such a concern don't share your information with strangers.

[oapieNL]

I totally agree. Scammers will without a shadow of a doubt try to get every penny out of their schemes. So you have to be extremely careful when investing/ disclosing this type of information. Make sure that the ICO has a solid office and a solid team that you can track via multiple platforms like linkedIn, Facebook telegram etc, etc. Do thorough research. Although there are some elaborate scammers out there, you can normally tell when something is fishy as most don`t go to extreme lengths to legitimize their front of being a legit ICO. Interacting on media platforms like telegram, whatsapp and twitter is another good way to figure out if they are scammers or not. Again, talking about the majority here but If they are a scammer, they will stumble on the more technical/ difficult questions as there will be no product to begin with, so be persistent, ask the same questions with different wording and if the answers are not similar/coherent/the same/doesn`t match with the white paper info then i would think twice before I give out the super personal information. Just a thought.

Often this does not help anymore. They make all those platforms themselves. Then they buy 10,000 friends, subscribers, likes and views for $ 50 on the internet.
Many platforms such as ico rating websites are also owned by scammers. Where it seems that the project has a high rating.
Even with partnerships, it seems a legal ico. But often these partner websites are also fake to fake the ico. Or become partners of other scam projects that are also of their own.

This is how i check if it is a scam project or have doubts:
I almost only use the technical things that the internet also has. The hidden things that you do not see when you visit a website.

1 ... viewdns.info On this websites I use all the options what they offer. Within 2 minutes you already have a clear answer if you better avoid a crypto project. I already find answers 8 out of 10 times.
2 ... You are not completely sure yet. Then do a google reverse-analytics check. ist a code that looks like ua-15589237 or sometimes ua-15589237-1. This is a code that the webmaster can build in the website to analyze internet traffic. This code can be installed on any website by a webmaster. But it can also show many other secrets that dnsinfo did not show. Namely, all websites where the webmaster uses his code to keep track of information about the internet traffic can be viewed. https://dnslytics.com/reverse-analytics.
3... Of the team members open in all photos in a new window so that they get to see the original size. There I check the face extensively when there is also photoshopped with eyes, beards, glasses and hair. You see unnatural things right away.
4 ... I copy all the text from the whitepaper. A piece of text written exactly between project names and paste this into google and search by word for word.
5 ... This is actually prohibited. This is only useful if they deliver something that must be safe. With Scam projects, the security of apps or web applications is often poor and you know that it can not be much.
That is attacking / hacking the system. The application with basic commands and tools attacks to test the vulnerability. Report allways a security problem to an admin on telegram via PM. If they dont solve something simple or do not change anything or convince you that it is safe and do not take you seriously.
Then you have the full right to destroy that application with vulnerables.
Assume that it is a scam project with people who are lax with security.

[sidkz]

I have always treated KYC with fear and have never passed it, I participate in bounty companies and very often I meet those companies where necessary, and I just drop them, in our world who can not be trusted, and even more so to give my data.

[Tylev]

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 adres http://wallstyizjhkrvmj.onion where they sell that shit

Yes, it was quite predictable. This topic was created in August last year, and now we have a massive sale on the Internet of our identification data, which cryptocurrency users provided on exchanges and in the ICO projects. For ten dollars you can buy hundreds of such data checks KYC, and if you buy in large quantities, it will be even cheaper.
What will those who welcome the KYC check for bounty hunters say now in order to avoid multi-accounts? Which of these problems is more serious? It seems to me that it is obvious that such a problem is KYC.

[mamesso]

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 adres http://wallstyizjhkrvmj.onion where they sell that shit

Yes, it was quite predictable. This topic was created in August last year, and now we have a massive sale on the Internet of our identification data, which cryptocurrency users provided on exchanges and in the ICO projects. For ten dollars you can buy hundreds of such data checks KYC, and if you buy in large quantities, it will be even cheaper.
What will those who welcome the KYC check for bounty hunters say now in order to avoid multi-accounts? Which of these problems is more serious? It seems to me that it is obvious that such a problem is KYC.

I agree with you that this is a serious case and is a dangerous crime.
there should be a policy to protect user data. increasingly convinced that KYC is the biggest mistake.

[Mpamaegbu]

Yes, it was quite predictable. This topic was created in August last year, and now we have a massive sale on the Internet of our identification data, which cryptocurrency users provided on exchanges and in the ICO projects. For ten dollars you can buy hundreds of such data checks KYC, and if you buy in large quantities, it will be even cheaper.
What will those who welcome the KYC check for bounty hunters say now in order to avoid multi-accounts? Which of these problems is more serious? It seems to me that it is obvious that such a problem is KYC.

Honestly, I still don't understand why these ICOs make us hold up our documents in selfies like a mugshot as we are already criminals. I am beginning to avoid projects that ask for KYC, expect it is an already established project. Enough of these scumbags.

[Luckysindy]

So, how to anticipate that? while the average project asks for kyc at the end after the bounty is finished. with reasons distribution token

[bitcoin31]

They disadvtanges of having KYC like this they use the information of the people. I think this is the time to get equal rights between the investor and the ICO team or the project. Because for me I need to hide my information because it is confidential. Those scammer I hope will stop for selling KYC ID documents of the people who already uploaded they need to be fair.

[XFlowZion]

I just realized that these fake ICO projects are hitting two birds with one stone. First is if they managed to pull of the scam project with many investors and then collect all their personal data and sell it in a blackmarket like probably in deepweb.

[sidkz]

 have always been wary of such projects, and I try to avoid them, of course, I don’t trust people I don’t know, and I don’t understand how they will use my documents.

[Teamfearless]

This is really sad  and bad that is why many bounty hunter  dont like KYC bounties .. this is really  dangerous so we must be careful when its comes to those KYC project We must do diligent check  to make sure the project  is solid and from right source before we  can Submit KYC ..   

[fullhdpixel]

That’s not a new thing, people has been doing that before this one. There are some sites you will give your information and they will be selling it online, trust me a lot of sites does that and you might be aware of it.

There are sometimes you start getting emails from unknown senders (including those mails in your spam section) that’s because your information was given out to them. You can’t tell me they did magic to get it, that’s because you have your info to the wrong site and they are now selling it. Never trust anyone these days.

[EyeOfHorus]

This is true lots of scam or fake ICOs implement KYC just to gather the information about you just to gain more info about you and use it for their purposes in the future. So you should beware where you upload your information. The KYC is usually requested if the project succeeded already then yes but before that it is pointless. For example my last search DexAge ICO for the decentralized p2p escrow trading exchange is considered to implement KYC too but not before they finish their project and go out on the market so that looks right as it should be.

[Vladdy]

This is true lots of scam or fake ICOs implement KYC just to gather the information about you just to gain more info about you and use it for their purposes in the future. So you should beware where you upload your information. The KYC is usually requested if the project succeeded already then yes but before that it is pointless. For example my last search DexAge ICO for the decentralized p2p escrow trading exchange is considered to implement KYC too but not before they finish their project and go out on the market so that looks right as it should be.

Yup buddy. It happened to me some time ago I don't even remember the name of the ICO but it's got scammed and shortly I was also receiving emails from different project which I din't even sign for. So as I figured it out this all information when filling up KYC can be used later to attract to a new project and probably got scammed again. Or even use your information to make a fake CEO of the project. Who knows what they might do with it. I also following DexAge ICO and yeah they do not acquire it during the ICO which is right. So people should pay a notice to this - no KYC before the project is out and running. 

[fasdorcas]

There are things that are regarded to as sensitive information, just like your home address and phone number, those things you shouldn’t give out. So you should be very careful with sites that asks for such things. And as for email, you can create as many as you want and have one that serves as your personal (main) email which you’re not going to use for things like that,. You should only use your other fake emails for things like that. And in some cases, you shouldn’t give your real name.

[gabbie2010]

I am afraid now seeing how scam ICOs had been stealing vital information of people in the name of KYC its high time we nip this problem in the bud I think its time regulations of these ICOs should be set up, this will adequately take control of this embarrassing situations wherein an ICO will steal investors both funds and identities is quite discouraging and unacceptable.

[Jating]

I don't know if you guys heard about the Coinbase admittance:

https://cryptopotato.com/coinbase-executive-our-client-data-was-sold-by-third-party-providers/

So not just ICO scammers but it seems one of the best trading exchanges has sort of slipped up because the own that they hired that supposedly protect their clients data as selling it as well. So don't be surprised if our data ended up in the dark web and being used by others.

[muhtesem]

I never did an ico kyc.. Come on, maybe you could send an ID card or a passport, but who stupid send selfie?  I think this seller is a cheater. or any other possibility that's more likely; This vendor is the employee of an exchange. He hacked a   Exchange KYC datas....

[Olatunjex]

The aim and objective of some team requesting for kyc is to steal identity of ico buyers and bounty participants who participated in their project, many people have brought up this issue of team stealing peoples identity, it is high time people also kyc someone you are spending your identification card and image to. Be careful.

[JohnBitCo]

I never did an ico kyc.. Come on, maybe you could send an ID card or a passport, but who stupid send selfie?  I think this seller is a cheater. or any other possibility that's more likely; This vendor is the employee of an exchange. He hacked a   Exchange KYC datas....

People send everything to the ICO sites which includes ID card, passport and a selfie holding the NIC etc.  The ICO sites has so many real Identities which can be misused. Even they can verify their accounts at exchanges and other site using these IDs.

We should be very careful when submitting our real documents to such sites. The best option is to watermark a logo on our docs/pics stating "Only for this <Site Name>" etc so it cannot be used at other sites.