Igor Karavaev - ICOBench Expert - Impersonator - Resolved

[Bowtiesarecool]

I'm currently working with MiracleTele as their SMM and recently got a message via Facebook from Igor Karavaev proposing a "paid-for" rating on ICOBench which I promptly turned down only for him to threaten that he and his colleagues "will significantly lower your ICOBench account" if we do not pay 0.5 BTC to his account. Not even remotely scared about the blackmail threat or even been reviewed bombed since Miracletele already has a working Sim card product and services in 160+ countries, just stunned that the stories about how scammy ICOBench has gotten are true. Below are the screens:

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[Avirunes]

Are you sure he is linked with ICOBench's team? If there is something like that then the ICOBench's main account needs to be tagged for sure.

I don't know why people believe so much in such benchmarks which can be biased if paid a premium to show some time good score.

People still continue to trust such benchmark platforms and advisors who are nothing but are just profiting by fooling people ( I mean most of them).

If you have something good and interesting then you don't need them to trust your score on their platform.

[Bowtiesarecool]

Are you sure he is linked with ICOBench's team? If there is something like that then the ICOBench's main account needs to be tagged for sure.

I don't know why people believe so much in such benchmarks which can be biased if paid a premium to show some time good score.

People still continue to trust such benchmark platforms and advisors who are nothing but are just profiting by fooling people ( I mean most of them).

If you have something good and interesting then you don't need them to trust your score on their platform.

I am positive. This is his Facebook profile link: https://www.facebook.com/igor.karavaev.9803
And as you can see from the screenshots, his first message was in January which was not responded to. I got onboard as SMM last week and started responding to all messages including his. Then, he replied with the ransom demand today

[Avirunes]

Are you sure he is linked with ICOBench's team? If there is something like that then the ICOBench's main account needs to be tagged for sure.

I don't know why people believe so much in such benchmarks which can be biased if paid a premium to show some time good score.

People still continue to trust such benchmark platforms and advisors who are nothing but are just profiting by fooling people ( I mean most of them).

If you have something good and interesting then you don't need them to trust your score on their platform.

I am positive. This is his Facebook profile link: https://www.facebook.com/igor.karavaev.9803
And as you can see from the screenshots, his first message was in January which was not responded to. I got onboard as SMM last week and started responding to all messages including his. Then, he replied with the ransom demand today

Is the profile deleted? Facebook says "Profile not found" to me when clicked. Perhaps you can find some other proof to work with (if you have)

Just now checked their platform and I think anyone can apply for expert so I don't think ICOBench is actually allowing such but still they should be stringent in checking such profiles who are applying for experts. Maybe some other expert is trying to frame him? Who knows.

[Bowtiesarecool]

Are you sure he is linked with ICOBench's team? If there is something like that then the ICOBench's main account needs to be tagged for sure.

I don't know why people believe so much in such benchmarks which can be biased if paid a premium to show some time good score.

People still continue to trust such benchmark platforms and advisors who are nothing but are just profiting by fooling people ( I mean most of them).

If you have something good and interesting then you don't need them to trust your score on their platform.

I am positive. This is his Facebook profile link: https://www.facebook.com/igor.karavaev.9803
And as you can see from the screenshots, his first message was in January which was not responded to. I got onboard as SMM last week and started responding to all messages including his. Then, he replied with the ransom demand today

Is the profile deleted? Facebook says "Profile not found" to me when clicked. Perhaps you can find some other proof to work with (if you have)

Just now checked their platform and I think anyone can apply for expert so I don't think ICOBench is actually allowing such but still they should be stringent in checking such profiles who are applying for experts. Maybe some other expert is trying to frame him? Who knows.

Nope. Profile is certainly not deleted. Tried another browser and it's still there. However, when I tried a third browser that is not signed into facebook, it said profile/link not found. Seems like you can only see it if you're signed in

[JeromeTash]

I am logged in and i can see the profile. Looks like he blocked it from being viewed in public unless one is signed in.




There is no need to even worry about ICObench mate, They are shit and have been promoting scam lately by highly rating exit scam projects. Any investor who beilieves in their rating would really be ignorant or naive.
I dunno whether they have a profile in this forum

[morvillz7z]

I dunno whether they have a profile in this forum

They have an account, which is also a relatively active one. Not so long ago, I thought their KYC verification process was somewhat accurate, but they were able to screw it up.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1139440

[Bowtiesarecool]

I am logged in and i can see the profile. Looks like he blocked it from being viewed in public unless one is signed in.




There is no need to even worry about ICObench mate, They are shit and have been promoting scam lately by highly rating exit scam projects. Any investor who beilieves in their rating would really be ignorant or naive.
I dunno whether they have a profile in this forum

Personally, I'm not remotely worried about them. However, when you're managing a community, you tend to try and anticipate them and there's no denying that ICOBench and similar ratings site are the first and sometimes only source of DYOR for those just getting in. It's like instant noodles - let someone else do the heavy lifting and  tell me how good this is 

[aioc]

I don't believe in ICOBENCH anymore after giving those scam ICO a very high rating, one of this is Restoken they have given it a high rating and until now the rating still shows 4.3 4 expert ratings, Restoken is now out of business they have taken down all their social media account and channel and ICOBENCH is one of the responsible here.

[nutildah]

It would appear his actual Facebook is this one:

https://www.facebook.com/iggikv

as it is listed next to his name on this page:

https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/SKYFchain

He's an "ICO Advisor" for this project, and the page was created in Nov 2018.

There's a slight possibility that the scammer's Facebook profile was put in there, but I highly doubt it.

ICObench may be corrupt but they're not that stupid.

[hacker1001101001]

ICObench may be corrupt but they're not that stupid.

Yes, I agree with this, they are not that stupid, also the real ICObench expert Igor Karavaev too does not seem to be that stupid to ruine his personal repo by sending such ponzi and scammy messages.

His LinkedIn profile is also pretty well managed if you go through it.
Real LinkedIn profile link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorkaravaev/

[Bowtiesarecool]

ICOBench finally reached out to inform us that we were approached by an impersonator and the real Igor has had the account taken down after reaching out to Facebook. Would like to thank the community for supporting us and providing us with valuable insight. There's still a lot of good folks to be found on this reverend forum. Thanks guys!