ICO Name: VriCoin
Website: https://www.vricoin.ioANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103984.0Archived Site: https://web.archive.org/web/20190130185212/https://www.vricoin.io/Archived ANN: https://web.archive.org/web/20190130185214/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103984.0Came across the announcement of Vricoin and went to their site for a quick evaluation only to find the site replete with grammatical and syntax error. No crime in that. However, when the content you're reading cannot make up its mind on something as elementary as "blockchain" and "block-chain", certain red flags start to flutter in the wind.
Decided to check up on the team and here's where it starts to get extremely colourful starting with the CSO,
James Lee.
Who also happens to be onboard another badly worded and formatted blockchain project;
Ian-coin
Of course, English is not everybody's first language - certainly not mine too. However, a look at partners for
VriCoin and
IanCoin begins to show certain similarities:
VirCoin Partners
IanCoin Partners
Of course, partnership is not an exclusive affair. The same with advisors - speaking of which, I decided to start digging into their advisors and turned up with the first fake profile. Meet
DR, ROMAN SAMAREY
Problem is the good doctor is not a doctor, but poker player
Oliver Blakey:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverblakey/My attention quickly went back to the rest of the team, where the features of an
ANDREY VOLKOV just didn't look that Slavic at all
Turns out the real identity belongs to
Taisei Hosino, a team member of
Baasid, also on
ICOBench 
At this point, both the circumstential and concrete evidence points to a carefully selected blend of stolen and real identities to try and pass as the real McCoy
