In case you didn't read the Wall Street Journal article that i linked earlier, here ya go (the part referring to another scam coin):
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- Cyprus too? A PR Newswire press release announced today the creation in Cyprus of “aphroditecoin,” an idea that seemed based on the auroracoin, which is being distributed to every one of Iceland’s 330,000 citizens and which has soared in price since its launch two weeks ago. Some 885,000 Cypriots will similarly get an “airdrop” of “aphroditecoins,” the press release said. It also claimed that the reaction in the nation – which, like Iceland, has gone through its own financial crisis — was “concordantly positive.”
But when we looked into it, odd things emerged. We dialed the number for someone listed as “Costa Themistocleus” and were told it was a wrong number. We then went to the Aphroditecoin.org web site and discovered that it was based off a carbon copy of the auroracoin.org site, with large sections of its front-page manifesto by “Costa Themistocleus” lifted directly from that of Baldur Friggjar Odinsson, the pseudonymous creator of auroracoin.
So, we found the only email on the site, one used as a pitch for developers to help out –
dev@aphroditecoin.org – and it bounced. Then we noticed something else: unlike auroracoin.org, which has a button with which to toggle between English and Icelandic, there was no option to read about this project in Greek or Turkish.
This all seemed like a pretty good reason not to hit the software download buttons on the home page. Until we hear back from “Mr. Themistocleus,” we don’t think anyone else should do so, either.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity they says ... !
