LaneAxis - SCAM - Didn't pay Bounty and closed telegram group

[aundroid]

What happened::

As the title suggests, the LaneAxis team has run several bounty campaigns, didn't pay anyone and then deleted the Telegram Group!

The LaneAxis team has organized several bounty campaigns, including the following that I joined in June 2018:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4390826.0

The only spreadsheet in which I am listed was sent to me immediately after I was selected as translator. (and includes only my name and Stakes)

Another bounty campaign was held on bitcoingarden: https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=44338.0
...the spreadsheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QoVUDXXyyvzlc0pXfgJwvcRAPhSfZIk3kqKZGHaHxZo/htmlview#

No matter what address I look at, nobody has received any AXIS Token

(Archive)

Even on their landing page, they promote one of their bounty campaigns:


Ok, so what exactly happened:

1) A few days before the payout should have taken place, I asked if it would not be possible to publish the final spreadsheet.
As a response I was told that the smart contract creation and distribution is not done internally, instead it is handled by a third party.

As far as I can remember, they said icobox was responsible.

A few days later the following announcement was made:
"Thank you for participating. All the tokens have been distributed."



2) Since no one received anything, people started complaining.

As an answer we received: "Please send us an e-mail to marketing@laneaxis.com  to resolve the issues"
That was Friday evening.



No sooner said than done.
So we, the Bounty participants, have sent a mail to the given address.

3) Here comes the fun part

After three days had passed, it was Monday, the team has suddenly spread the following message.



So the team forwards the responsibility to a third party, unknown to us.
We're supposed to contact a guy named Cryptoguruu.

In addition, the telegram group is to be closed after 2 days.

Of course I sent a mail to the given address and guess what came back after one day from my mail provider:

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

<contact@cryptoguruu.com>: connect to cryptoguruu.com[209.99.40.227]:25:
    Connection timed out

4) People startet complaining that the given mail address doesn't even exist

Below you can see my last messages in the group.
There was no response to any of the messages.



A few hours later the group was deleted, two days earlier than previously announced.

Scammers Profile Link:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-burnett/

LaneAxis
Bounty Manager: altcoin_prediction

Additional Notes:

Thanks Lane Axis for letting me translate your fuc**ing Whitepaper and Threads.
I hope karma gets you!

If you manage your project as professionally as the Bounty Campaigns, you should better quit right now.

[bubbalex]

Attracting their Website - https://www.laneaxis.io/
Archived - https://archive.is/4BQ3j or https://web.archive.org/web/20190122074104/https://laneaxis.io/

WP - https://www.laneaxis.io/assets/whitepaper/laneaxis-whitepaper-eng.pdf
Archived - http://web.archive.org/web/20190207194245/https://www.laneaxis.io/assets/whitepaper/laneaxis-whitepaper-eng.pdf

Does anyone checked their WP on plagiarism and Team on Fake members?

[Lafu]

Found something about there whitepaper !

Looks like they copy paste from other WP some things and from other websites !



Source: https://www.laneaxis.io/assets/whitepaper/laneaxis-whitepaper-eng.pdf



Source: https://paragoncoin.com/PARAGONCOIN_Risk_Factors.pdf




Source: https://www.laneaxis.io/assets/whitepaper/laneaxis-whitepaper-eng.pdf



Source: https://4new.io/terms-and-conditions/




Source: https://www.laneaxis.io/assets/whitepaper/laneaxis-whitepaper-eng.pdf



Source: https://eu.iqoption.com/ru/crypto/ETH

And there are few more things , hope this helps a bit !

[Theb]

Tagged both the LaneAxis account as well as the campaign manager, although the fraud was done this is the best thing I can do to get their attention. Lets hope that they will respond to you and hopefully all participants will be paid. I also notice in their website that most of their team member's picture have been removed, you will see that only 5 of them have pictures in their profiles. I have archived their ANN thread as it contains the pictures of all of their members.

[aioc]

It was too late to discover that they are a scam project, feel sorry for bounty hunters happen to me so many times before in the past, ICO campaign last two to three months and it's kinda hard to accept if you did not receive anything.

[aundroid]

Wow Lafu, you're really great at finding plagiarism!

Looks like I should get used to doing a whitepaper plagiarism check BEFORE I start translating.  

[Theb]

Still hoping that they would respond regarding with the matter however LaneAxis' account has been offline for a long time now and the campaign manager was last active five days ago so it might take a while for someone to respond with the case, the worst case scenario is both of them running away with all your stolen effort as well as their investors money which seems to be the case right now, I'm sorry man you are not the only victim here and unless we caught one of those people involve we won't see any progress happening.

[andreibi]

Well at least LaneAxis didn't get to steal a lot of funds from ICO investors. These scammers are getting reckless and seems to not care anymore due to lack of victims  .

[aundroid]

Still hoping that they would respond regarding with the matter however LaneAxis' account has been offline for a long time now and the campaign manager was last active five days ago so it might take a while for someone to respond with the case, the worst case scenario is both of them running away with all your stolen effort as well as their investors money which seems to be the case right now, I'm sorry man you are not the only victim here and unless we caught one of those people involve we won't see any progress happening.

Don't think there's gonna be any reaction. That's probably why they were in such a hurry to delete the telegram group.
Seriously, which team deletes the group only a few days after the end of the ICO. 

Have you also been a participant in the Bounty campaign?

Thought I was the only one complaining here.
Looks like most bounty participants have already accepted the fact that at the end of a campaign they are leaving empty-handed. 

[meatfreak]

Well at least LaneAxis didn't get to steal a lot of funds from ICO investors. These scammers are getting reckless and seems to not care anymore due to lack of victims  .

Seems like bountyhunters are more the victims these days then ICO investors. Everyone's time is precious! Glad I skipped this one 

[aundroid]

Well at least LaneAxis didn't get to steal a lot of funds from ICO investors. These scammers are getting reckless and seems to not care anymore due to lack of victims  .

Well, apparently they managed to raise the $2 million soft cap.

Quite a lot, if you ask me.

[Arti_Tsy]

Thank you for raising this topic. I am also a member of this bounty on the Bitcoingarden forum. And I, like everyone else, did not receive my earned tokens. Their CEO in the telegram channel wrote that all the tokens were sent to the managers of the bounty companies. After I asked him to show me the transaction where he sent tokens to Cryptoguruu, they blocked me))) From which it can be concluded that this is a lie and no one sent anything to anyone.

[aundroid]

Thank you for raising this topic. I am also a member of this bounty on the Bitcoingarden forum. And I, like everyone else, did not receive my earned tokens. Their CEO in the telegram channel wrote that all the tokens were sent to the managers of the bounty companies. After I asked him to show me the transaction where he sent tokens to Cryptoguruu, they blocked me))) From which it can be concluded that this is a lie and no one sent anything to anyone.

No idea who this cryptoguruu should be at all. Nobody ever talked about this guy during the campaign. 

His mail address is not reachable, website is down. 
I think that following that poorly running Token Sale they simply didn't want to pay any bounty participants.

[timerland]

Thank you for raising this topic. I am also a member of this bounty on the Bitcoingarden forum. And I, like everyone else, did not receive my earned tokens. Their CEO in the telegram channel wrote that all the tokens were sent to the managers of the bounty companies. After I asked him to show me the transaction where he sent tokens to Cryptoguruu, they blocked me))) From which it can be concluded that this is a lie and no one sent anything to anyone.

No idea who this cryptoguruu should be at all. Nobody ever talked about this guy during the campaign. 

His mail address is not reachable, website is down. 
I think that following that poorly running Token Sale they simply didn't want to pay any bounty participants.

With a quick google search, I found out that this "cryptoguruu" guy has a Twitter account. and something that looks like a job posting on a marketplace? . From a quick read of that post (their main website was done for some reason https://cryptoguruu.com/), it seems like they offer a portal of some sort for ICO owners. Looks like someone called Pratik Bhuyan is their only employee, and here is his linkedin profile- https://www.linkedin.com/in/pratik-bhuyan-0bb42079/.

There are not many platforms in India which facilitates Blockchain & Cryptocurrency information. Where the whole world is considering Blockchain to be the next Internet, the only thing India relates Blockchain to - is Bitcoin.

That's why we try to provide the very 1st One-stop Destination for Everything Crypto.

Apart from that, our online portal also facilitates as a review-cum-listing aggregator for ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) similar to that of an IPO.

We have 3 Million+ views on our portal from countries like USA, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Australia, etc. (Source: Google Analytics) and have generated a revenue of 18.13 Lakhs INR in 2.5 months of operation. (Last Updated 13/04/2018, 11:56 AM)
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I'm guessing they may have worked with LaneAxis, and either didn't do their job correctly or Lanes is trying to shift the blame to their team.

[manishanand]

There has been new news coming from them. Now they are not closing there telegram group also paying but the rewards has been decreased like hell if you mail them they will give rewards like nibbles.

[aundroid]

can't find any accessible telegram group, can you give a link please?

[Arti_Tsy]

can't find any accessible telegram group, can you give a link please?

This is the same group, only we were blocked in it. From another account I can go to their group. I wrote them an e-mail asking me to pay tokens. Let's see what happens. They reduced the total bounty pool for the compaign on the Bitcoingarden forum 11 times.

Link to the new spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vXw657Uj4UpCQQSqug1btZm4lRkDPLrOjemRbjFIMNA/edit#gid=344957711

TO ALL BOUNTY HUNTERS : YOU MUST WRITE ON marketing@laneaxis.com  AGAIN WITH FULL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU. Rick burnett said this in telegram

[aundroid]

Okay, we got kicked. 

And I thought the group was deleted as announced.

[bountymastaa]

There telegram chat is still up it seems... I emailed marketing@laneaxis.com like they were saying to do in the telegram chat and they have been in contact with me and helpful. They are organizing the MEW addresses now for the next distribution.

I think they got scammed from crypto guruu

[gremlincina]

For all of you how got scammed there is telegram group where we will try to take justice in our hands and get paid for job were done. Please join! laneaxisbountyscam