HELP NEEDED! Found SCAM GANG mafia

[ChiNgadOr]

Udpate of connected accounts:   DT tag is appreciated  to discourage further cheating of them


john.eck https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
elissa https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141497
gustafsson https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141645
Coin Messenger https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2108674
linderm https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141482
juanes https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141629
kahlerr https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1911192
george.bend https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141439
Gamals  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1412623
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ronnieppatel https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1143590  (only this missing to be checked, but was already connected to many other bounty-abuser/scammer accounts)


Right now, i am literally buried under work until wednesday, i will take a close look later...but i found some, more than just suspictious, unscrupulous souls not worth their weight in sh*t users ..

WPP bounty, translation TAB: (no joke, keep in mind WPP reached hardcap, $60Millions raised, so these scammers Will get thousands of $ for cheating)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j33OLjIa4S1uOqgX7KhInzkhxs_oYsOkIZPY5UoPLlE/edit#gid=1465492043

ronnieppatel (applied as czech translator), low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1143590
negative trust (bounty abuser, 80+ connected altcounts (thanks Malbooroza!))
in his post, only an application as translator (in german..  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2574843.msg26400926#msg26400926)

john.eck (applied as serbian translator), , low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
portfolio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4518298.msg42778292#msg42778292
3 works (streamity, etherinc; datablockchain)

elissa  (applied as hungarian translator) (verified by native proofreaders , works sucks, no hungarian at all), , low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141497
Portfolio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4518298.msg41842318#msg41842318
You will find has just 2 works, and shares same works with JOhn.eck (etherinc, datablockchain)
One of his works: https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=40547.msg293667#msg293667  he fucked up, and posted as ciupidos (username) in bitcoingarden.. but we can find same username in bitcointalk  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1171453 Where he was already tagged red, with (Translation bounty fraud. See reference link.,  thanks The Pharmacist)

Want more? Ok, look at "lastest posts" of both Elissa and JOhn.eck... SAME bounties, almost  same time, casuality? dont think so.


Now the help... i will ask someone please to try to find connections of their ETH adresses! (i wasnt able, dont know how to do it manually)

[Avirunes]

john.eck (applied as serbian translator), , low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
portfolio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4518298.msg42778292#msg42778292
3 works (streamity, etherinc; datablockchain)

I will take this one for the moment and this is what I have found.

john.eck uses Telegram ID: g_bend here:

Translation campaign:

BitcoinTalk username: john.eck
profile link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
Telegram ID: g_bend
ETH Address: 0x87c90d805144e25672b314F2C7367a394AFf2F2B

(Archive: http://archive.is/y1ldw#selection-4381.13-4381.19)


and same telegram ID is used by gustafsson here:

Bitcointalk username: gustafsson
Link to the content: https://cryptoguild.trade/2018/03/04/omnitude-connectivity-between-blockchain-technologies-enterprise-systems-2/
Telegram username: @g_bend
Ethereum address: 0x0C5427873F2fbFB6aBC66841cEf6cE250011C6D9

(Archive: http://archive.fo/x690s#selection-6037.19-6037.26)

and both of them are abusing bounty campaigns.

Bitcointalk username: john.eck
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.fo/wajMH#selection-2181.23-2181.76)

Bitcointalk username: gustafsson
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141645
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.fo/WYM0n#selection-4783.14-4783.25)

juanes also uses the same EOS Wallet : EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt and trying to abuse bounty campaign : [BOUNTY][ICO LIVE] MYCRYPTOBANK.IO - ENDED by trying to enroll newbies at mass.

Bitcointalk username: juanes
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141629
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.is/QG3s7#selection-2207.23-2207.76)

Bitcointalk username: Coin Messenger
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2108674
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

Bitcointalk username: linderm
Bitcointalk Profile Link:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141482
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME):EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

Bitcointalk username: gustafsson
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141645
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.fo/qoJYR) (All uses the same wallet in same threadposting one after another)


And here is elissa connected

Bitcointalk username: elissa
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141497
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.fo/wajMH#selection-907.23-907.76)

Bitcointalk username: kahlerr
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1911192
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.is/QG3s7#selection-915.23-915.76)

Bitcointalk username: george.bend
Bitcointalk Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141439
Eos WALLET (EOS NAME): EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt
Join bounty?: yes

(Archive: http://archive.fo/NMu56#selection-4675.23-4675.76)

[ChiNgadOr]

----------  suspictious accounts connected

ronnieppatel https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1143590
john.eck https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
elissa https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141497
gustafsson https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141645 (thanks Avirunes)

[Avirunes]

----------  suspictious accounts connected

ronnieppatel https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1143590
john.eck https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
elissa https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141497
gustafsson https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141645 (thanks Avirunes)

I have updated my above post with more connections. However I think whoever the guy was he was lazy trying to create wallets so he used EOS5xVj2NG3XSMtwcjC8Y3u7gYvuwXSt6KNnPPLGS8yXBXvff3sBt all the time to join the campaign. Whatever I have connected above are the ones that I have founded by using search function of forum but there are some connections which I found manually and search didn't detected it.

I will tag them soon.

[youngbusinessman]

Thank you for checking "Translation" sheet, but I found a group of scammers that will have a lot of WPP. You can take any address from my post - and you will find it in the WPP sheets (Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram...). Bounty Manager and his assistants are aware of this scammer group, but they do not want to remove scammers. If you are interested, you can watch my thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5105425.0

[TalkStar]

Well done mate, its really looks like a gang who are doing the same thing in several campaigns. This guys used the same address again and again. Its completely a bunch of scammers who's are committing this everywhere IMO. I hope this going to help bounty managers to continue their campaign perfectly.   

I beleive those accounts going to tag by our DT members very soon. I am gonna left mine too.

[Wapinter]

WPP bounty, translation TAB: (no joke, keep in mind WPP reached hardcap, $60Millions raised, so these scammers Will get thousands of $ for cheating)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j33OLjIa4S1uOqgX7KhInzkhxs_oYsOkIZPY5UoPLlE/edit#gid=1465492043

ronnieppatel (applied as czech translator), low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1143590
negative trust (bounty abuser, 80+ connected altcounts (thanks Malbooroza!))
in his post, only an application as translator (in german..  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2574843.msg26400926#msg26400926)

john.eck (applied as serbian translator), , low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141472
portfolio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4518298.msg42778292#msg42778292
3 works (streamity, etherinc; datablockchain)

elissa  (applied as hungarian translator) (verified by native proofreaders , works sucks, no hungarian at all), , low activity user in bitcointalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1141497
Portfolio: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4518298.msg41842318#msg41842318
You will find has just 2 works, and shares same works with JOhn.eck (etherinc, datablockchain)
One of his works: https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=40547.msg293667#msg293667  he fucked up, and posted as ciupidos (username) in bitcoingarden.. but we can find same username in bitcointalk  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1171453 Where he was already tagged red, with (Translation bounty fraud. See reference link.,  thanks The Pharmacist)

Want more? Ok, look at "lastest posts" of both Elissa and JOhn.eck... SAME bounties, almost  same time, casuality? dont think so.


Now the help... i will ask someone please to try to find connections of their ETH adresses! (i wasnt able, dont know how to do it manually)

I have asked wpp team to not to release their bounty payment

[ChiNgadOr]

I have asked wpp team to not to release their bounty payment

Thanks to our bounty manager, for his promptly answers always, taking care about the welness of honest workers and rejecting the scammers. I am aware you have a huge load of work, and in fact this is responsability not only of bounty management, but also of all of us, as members of the community, being together and helping ourselves.

[Avirunes]

I have checked the sheet and it seems like these were the only accounts which were being used in an attempt to abuse that bounty campaign. I will go now and add feedbacks accordingly. Thanks @ChiNgadOr for reporting and @Wapinter for contacting the team about it.

[ChiNgadOr]

I have checked the sheet and it seems like these were the only accounts which were being used in an attempt to abuse that bounty campaign. I will go now and add feedbacks accordingly. Thanks @ChiNgadOr for reporting and @Wapinter for contacting the team about it.

Thanks for your  help, contributing to a better and safer forum. The scammed amount was around 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price.
Despite the following will be unpopular among rest of translators, as no other translator involved in the campaign helped effectively with the investigation, i dont think the scammed amount should be redistributed among translators.
Hereby i want to publicly state that if bounty management/WPP team decides to allocate this reward to me as compensation for the amount of time invested on this task of exposing dishonest scammers of the translation bounty, it will be entirely donated  according to Avirunes decision(i would prefer that it is donated to any animal protection shelter, or something like that), for his valuable help with the investigation and tagging.

[Kavelj22]

Thanks for your  help, contributing to a better and safer forum. The scammed amount was around 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price.

Let's admit here that you are a good forum user, and you deserve a great nice "Thank You". You are a good exemple for all of us.

Despite the following will be unpopular among rest of translators, as no other translator involved in the campaign helped effectively with the investigation, i dont think the scammed amount should be redistributed among translators.

This is what you think! Translators or any bounty user are Hunters and don't really care about to contribute in an investigation team. I find it funny that you are judging other translators by not being part of the investigation so they don't deserve it.
The scammed amount was supposed to pay for translations. I don't expect to be redestributed to translators based on stake calculation.

Hereby i want to publicly state that if bounty management/WPP team decides to allocate this reward to me as compensation for the amount of time invested on this task of exposing dishonest scammers of the translation bounty, it will be entirely donated  according to Avirunes decision(i would prefer that it is donated to any animal protection shelter, or something like that), for his valuable help with the investigation and tagging.

Oh nice! You deserve the full 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price.
Advice: If they don't accept giving you the 43.400$, all what your spent efforts doesn't deserve the time, stop doing any investigation activity in the future. No one will ask you to do it.


I think Avirunes and Wapinter will be also interrested about how to give you money to donate   

[ChiNgadOr]

Thanks for your  help, contributing to a better and safer forum. The scammed amount was around 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price.

Let's admit here that you are a good forum user, and you deserve a great nice "Thank You". You are a good exemple for all of us.
Scams are the biggest issues in crypto nowadays, which are delaying a massive adoption. I dont need a "thank you" from anyone to feel better. I did what i though was correct and collaborated with my effort to make a change. Plus i didnt it alone; i was helped, and in fact, Avirunes was who effectively detected the connected accounts.

Despite the following will be unpopular among rest of translators, as no other translator involved in the campaign helped effectively with the investigation, i dont think the scammed amount should be redistributed among translators.

This is what you think! Translators or any bounty user are Hunters and don't really care about to contribute in an investigation team. I find it funny that you are judging other translators by not being part of the investigation so they don't deserve it.
The scammed amount was supposed to pay for translations. I don't expect to be redestributed to translators based on stake calculation.

Your statement is wrong, these tokens come from stakes.. dont appear magically from air.. so in fact it should have been less stakes distributed because there were less honest workers (please do your maths!), and therefore, more tokens for each honest translator. Anyway, although i warned in telegram channel, seemed no one was interested on trying to help. This made me feel frustrated and dissapointed, but legitimally these tokens belong to all translators, so in fact shouldnt be assigned to anything else.

Hereby i want to publicly state that if bounty management/WPP team decides to allocate this reward to me as compensation for the amount of time invested on this task of exposing dishonest scammers of the translation bounty, it will be entirely donated  according to Avirunes decision(i would prefer that it is donated to any animal protection shelter, or something like that), for his valuable help with the investigation and tagging.

Oh nice! You deserve the full 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price. Once again you are wrong, i dont deserve it, so it is why it was decided to donate it.
Advice: If they don't accept giving you the 43.400$, all what your spent efforts doesn't deserve the time, stop doing any investigation activity in the future. No one will ask you to do it. For the third time, you are wrong, my effort deserves the time, because these scammers wont get a cent and wont be able to scam any other prooject in the future, at least with same username. Knowing this, is enough reward already for me .The problem is that i work 15 hours daily from monday to monday, so i must do schedule efficiently my time, and this made me loose a lot of valuable time that i should have spent on something else.


I think Avirunes and Wapinter will be also interrested about how to give you money to donate    
Fourth time you are wrong, my tokens are honestly earned, and they belong to me. If i want to make a donation is just and only my decision, not yours or from anyone else. The difference among you and me, is that i ever  get a decent amount of money from crypto, i wouldnt spend my money on things like lambos, but i would rather build a shelter as abandoned animals are big problem where i live.

[ChiNgadOr]

Search goes on... new addition to the list of scammers..

Seems this guy have been reported many times in german's board of forum in the past.

Gamals  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1412623

[Tszunami98]

I have checked the sheet and it seems like these were the only accounts which were being used in an attempt to abuse that bounty campaign. I will go now and add feedbacks accordingly. Thanks @ChiNgadOr for reporting and @Wapinter for contacting the team about it.

Thanks for your  help, contributing to a better and safer forum. The scammed amount was around 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price.
Despite the following will be unpopular among rest of translators, as no other translator involved in the campaign helped effectively with the investigation, i dont think the scammed amount should be redistributed among translators.
Hereby i want to publicly state that if bounty management/WPP team decides to allocate this reward to me as compensation for the amount of time invested on this task of exposing dishonest scammers of the translation bounty, it will be entirely donated  according to Avirunes decision(i would prefer that it is donated to any animal protection shelter, or something like that), for his valuable help with the investigation and tagging.

I am not sure how things work in your culture, but in every other culture around the world the police does not get to keep the drugs, weapons, money when they bust a criminal.

There are people in this forum that have tens of scam busts of unfiar ICO and i have not see 1 of them demanding some sort of reward for it, they get rewarded in merit points for helping the community. Actually this is the reward people should get for this type of actions, the get rewarded as being trusted by the community.

Now, in 12.000 posts 1 of them is actually helping the community and you have the nerve to demand money for your ''effort and time''? You should be ashamed of yourself and this does not ranks you any higher than the scammers you caught.

And this investigation was started because of your own injustice and that you wanted a fair distribution for the service you provided, but the greed got the best of you and you want all the money under the false claim that you will donated to an animal shelter  

The tokens reserved for the translation bounty are offered for providing a service and should be split among those people who actually provided the service.

And yes, i have a few scam accusation thread myself and have not once had the nerve to ask something in return.
This type of action is and should be done voluntarily not with a hidden purpose to get your hands on other people money.

[ChiNgadOr]

I have checked the sheet and it seems like these were the only accounts which were being used in an attempt to abuse that bounty campaign. I will go now and add feedbacks accordingly. Thanks @ChiNgadOr for reporting and @Wapinter for contacting the team about it.

Thanks for your  help, contributing to a better and safer forum. The scammed amount was around 698.398 WPP tokens = 43.400$ at ICO price.
Despite the following will be unpopular among rest of translators, as no other translator involved in the campaign helped effectively with the investigation, i dont think the scammed amount should be redistributed among translators.
Hereby i want to publicly state that if bounty management/WPP team decides to allocate this reward to me as compensation for the amount of time invested on this task of exposing dishonest scammers of the translation bounty, it will be entirely donated  according to Avirunes decision(i would prefer that it is donated to any animal protection shelter, or something like that), for his valuable help with the investigation and tagging.

I am not sure how things work in your culture, but in every other culture around the world the police does not get to keep the drugs, weapons, money when they bust a criminal.

There are people in this forum that have tens of scam busts of unfiar ICO and i have not see 1 of them demanding some sort of reward for it, they get rewarded in merit points for helping the community. Actually this is the reward people should get for this type of actions, the get rewarded as being trusted by the community.

Now, in 12.000 posts 1 of them is actually helping the community and you have the nerve to demand money for your ''effort and time''? You should be ashamed of yourself and this does not ranks you any higher than the scammers you caught.
No mate, i am not ashamed, but you should, for your greedy behaviour. You are the translator that got the highest amount of tokens, but still want more.

And this investigation was started because of your own injustice and that you wanted a fair distribution for the service you provided, but the greed got the best of you and you want all the money under the false claim that you will donated to an animal shelter  
NOpe, my motivation was to make scammers get 0 tokens! Scammers are a plague to Crypto world as a whole, not just for bounty. They are hindering the adoption of cryptocurrencies, because people fear to be scammed.
And you should be sure or ask before making these type of claims. What you dont know is that i didnt demanded anything to anyone. it was AFTER received a message from a bounty manager talking about reward for the work done, but the idea didnt came from me. I told about this to Avirunes by PRivate message -hope AVirunes is not angry with me for making the message public-, that if i recieve a reward, i will share with him, as he was the only one who helped. He answered, that he will donate his 50%, so i inmediatelly decided to follow his example and donate also my part if i ever received something. One more thing,  if we received the reward, the amount of tokens should go to Avirunes (NOT ME), and HE would decide the destination of donation (although i suggested an animal shelter). Much more .. i would suggest an animal shelter in your country, Romania!!!!!!!!



The tokens reserved for the translation bounty are offered for providing a service and should be split among those people who actually provided the service.

The wpp undistributed tokens for translation campaign werent an issue to anyone. I  was the only one that invested a huge amount of time on effort verifying the scam of czech, german, hungarian and serbian fake translations. no one more helped despite the complaint was clear and many blatant facts arised regarding possible scam. . But of course, I say that these tokens legitimally belong to translators (and you are aware because you were marked in telegram channel with your @username, and were asked to vote).. and although i did the work without the help of rest of translator, that didnt cared about this, they have the right to decide! But i express my desire: i want it to be donated to an animal shelter! Translators didnt cared, so they dont deserve it. BUT in last instance, THE decision belongs to WPP and Wapinter


And yes, i have a few scam accusation thread myself and have not once had the nerve to ask something in return.
This type of action is and should be done voluntarily not with a hidden purpose to get your hands on other people money.

[ChiNgadOr]

In fact, i was just looking because i remember to have seen this before in other campaigns...

[Wapinter]

In fact, i was just looking because i remember to have seen this before in other campaigns...

If my memory serves me right,I posted this message almost a month ago.I am thankful to you for exposing these scammers but you took top long to report them and brought this to my notice when distribution has already began.
Luckily i reported this to wpp and they have upheld distribution to scammers.
Now its upto wpp team what they prefer to do with it

[ChiNgadOr]

Dear admin
I didnt know anything about reward before and would have done anyway without reward at all. But could do it, only after spreadsheet was updated with accepted translations,; one month ago, appeared 100 translation works! The fact is that we achieved  succes: we exposed scammers,You avoided them to receive any payment.
Whatever happens with the rest of tokens, is secondary. The reputation thread should be over right here.