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November 01, 2018, 03:00:10 PM
Last edit: November 02, 2018, 11:46:20 AM by ICOEthics
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What happened: BLATANT PLAGIARISM / Copied entire whitepaper from Gramgold.co  

Scammers Profile Link: ANN – https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5059281.0
http://web.archive.org/web/20181101144511/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5059281.0    


Scammers Website: https://truegold.pro   
Someone please archive their website please - We are getting an empty/blank page everytime.

Their Whitepaper can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ66yxan3koqusPv8sTp2PPkHYBfOY_0/view
Archive here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20181101143006/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ66yxan3koqusPv8sTp2PPkHYBfOY_0/view
Also saved on our website here:
http://icoethics.com/imgs/truegold/truegoldwhitepaper.pdf

100% Plagiarism - Whitepaper copied from https://www.gramgold.co/assets/gramgold/files/whitepaper.pdf


Domain Name: TRUEGOLD.PRO
Registrar URL: www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2018-10-06T02:11:56Z
Creation Date: 2018-09-24T06:40:14Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2019-09-24T06:40:14Z

Domain Name: gramgold.co (Their website is older, which means their whitepaper was published first)
Registrar URL: whois.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2018-09-28T08:18:55Z
Creation Date: 2018-04-06T16:26:06Z
















There is a possibility the team is fake as well. NO LINKS to a profile provided.

Paulo Gonzo = Paulo Goncalves
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulo-gon%C3%A7alves-95836567/
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/paulo.goncalves/
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/paulo.goncalves/cv-paulo-ang-short.pdf

and there is nothing about this ICO on his profile.
We sent him an email.




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November 02, 2018, 10:36:18 AM
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I have received this PM and they said they are allowed to use whitepaper:
FYI, i am a former member from GGC and i created the WP with them so don't accuse people of scam when you don't know.
I am fully entitled to use that WP since the project is the same and i contributed to the paper.I think before you give a foul feedback you should reach out to people first before trying to smear some project!
I am not sure why they have send me PM instead of replying here.

Anyway, according to site, tokens is available here https://forkdelta.app/#!/trade/0xb244cdabf6f4c388095264f93c2e98c5cd84dab8-ETH which means it is not listed on exchange. Everyone can create erc20 token and add it to forkdelta like this.

I would really like to hear from them which former member they are and what was their position in ggc.
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November 02, 2018, 12:24:33 PM
Last edit: November 19, 2018, 02:56:09 PM by ICOEthics
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I have received this PM and they said they are allowed to use whitepaper:
FYI, i am a former member from GGC and i created the WP with them so don't accuse people of scam when you don't know.
I am fully entitled to use that WP since the project is the same and i contributed to the paper.I think before you give a foul feedback you should reach out to people first before trying to smear some project!
I am not sure why they have send me PM instead of replying here.

Anyway, according to site, tokens is available here https://forkdelta.app/#!/trade/0xb244cdabf6f4c388095264f93c2e98c5cd84dab8-ETH which means it is not listed on exchange. Everyone can create erc20 token and add it to forkdelta like this.

I would really like to hear from them which former member they are and what was their position in ggc.

1 - If they are competing for the same space/and investors, why would they allow a competitor to use their whitepaper? BS

2 - Their ANN Thread is a self-moderated topic - they already deleted our message there.

3 - Their contract contains a lot of errors, including errors of high risk - from etherscan:

Warning: The Compiled Contract might be susceptible to ExpExponentCleanup (medium/high-severity), NestedArrayFunctionCallDecoder (medium-severity), ZeroFunctionSelector (very low-severity), DelegateCallReturnValue (low-severity), ECRecoverMalformedInput (medium-severity), SkipEmptyStringLiteral (low-severity), ConstantOptimizerSubtraction (low-severity), IdentityPrecompileReturnIgnored (low-severity), HighOrderByteCleanStorage (high-severity), OptimizerStaleKnowledgeAboutSHA3 (medium-severity), SendFailsForZeroEther (low-severity), DynamicAllocationInfiniteLoop (low-severity), OptimizerClearStateOnCodePathJoin (low-severity) SolidityCompiler Bugs.

4 - There are people already complaining on their ANN thread:

I tried to buy some tokens on ForkDelta but i am unable to make the purchase!! I use Metamask, the message on the dashboard is unknown function see screenshot!



That happened several times, is the ETH blockchain overloaded or what??


i am also facing the same issue when i try to buy the token on forkdelta! I get an Unknown Function error!


5 - AND YES we also would like to know  who wrote the WP. The team members of this scam ICO is not listed on the http://gramgold.co/



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November 19, 2018, 03:58:29 PM
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There are many scam exit lately - another one - their website is offline and they locked their ANN post.
This one was exposed on November 1st.






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