Localcoin.is - Plagiarized Whitepaper

[ICOEthics]

What happened: Plagiarized Whitepaper

ANN Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135104.0
https://archive.is/HBKRQ

Website Link: https://localcoin.is
https://archive.is/YA37i

Whitepaper Link: https://localcoin.is/downloads/LocalCoinBlockchain.pdf
https://archive.is/B5IJ1


Many parts of their whitepaper are plagiarized. Here are just a few examples:

Code:

Sources:
http://web.archive.org/web/20181202142919/http://tawagar.exchange/Whitepaper.pdf
http://isr.uci.edu/projects/pace/decentralization.html
https://openbazaar.org/blog/why-is-decentralization-important/
https://media.consensys.net/state-of-decentralized-exchanges-2018-276dad340c79
https://medium.com/pureinvestments/the-future-of-decentralized-exchanges-609e2bd5bb6f
https://medium.com/@theblocknetchannel/understanding-a-decentralized-exchange-eee9e1043f45
https://how.bitshares.works/en/master/technology/what_bitshares.html
https://www.quora.com/What-exactly-is-a-master-node-in-cryptocurrency

this one below will automatically download:
https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/PaymentStrategies/rewarding-loyal-customers-to-increase-mobile-payments-adoption.pdf

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[JeromeTash]

I saw this project the other day and knew there was something off about it thou i didn't look into further detail.
Great work ICOEthics.

OP has ignored the scam accusation, we need some DT members to tag him/her so that they can wake up.

[logfiles]

Despite the warning, OP of the ANN then went ahead and opened up a bounty thread the next day even without responding to the accusation.
I have put up a warning in the bounty thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135574

Not sure if Xterry is part of the team or just an announcer but seems to me he doesn't really care about his reputation in the forum.

[LocalCoinIS]

ICOEthics, you did a great job

I have contacted you via email, in order to resolve this issue
this is frustrating because we ordered our WP from this people bellow

Crypto Kinetics - ICO Social Media Marketing - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828
refer to this topic fraudsters from Crypto Kinetics

http://t.me/DexterD +62 838-2410-5458
http://t.me/solankiamit +1 704-957-4014
http://t.me/KryptoKazim81 +1 860-389-7090 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2505952

You can clearly say that this people just did what they did

The only think i can say, when you do the research you end up using other sources for the basic terminology description

We stoped any cooperation with them a long time ago due a lack of competence and do not recommend doing any business with them
They had a website icotelegramadvisers.com now it is down and new one is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828
and whole concept is been in development since Jan 2018

can you pm me your telegram so we can to resolve this issue ASAP
We are looking into this situation now

Anyways, the work is been in the progress since march 2018
Everyone can go ahead and check our commits and branches

https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core Was started in may https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core/commit/7411879d1a989989649ddef2cc2990d59002395d
https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui  Was started in march 2018 and have more that 1000 commits https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui/commits/live?after=ba32a2ffa371ed0ca0b57a0caae7cbb5fdddb009+1100

Development can be traced on a daily basis https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui/commits/dev

The new updated White Paper will be presented shortly as we are woking on it right now to fix what this fraudsters from Crypto Kinetics did

We will precent a team members linkedin profies and etc. All will be sorted.

[ICOEthics]

ICOEthics, you did a great job

I have contacted you via email, in order to resolve this issue
this is frustrating because we ordered our WP from this people bellow

Crypto Kinetics - ICO Social Media Marketing - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828

http://t.me/DexterD +62 838-2410-5458
http://t.me/solankiamit +1 704-957-4014
http://t.me/KryptoKazim81 +1 860-389-7090 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2505952

You can clearly say that this people just did what they did

The only think i can say, when you do the research you end up using other sources for the basic terminology description

We stoped any cooperation with them a long time ago due a lack of competence and do not recommend doing any business with them
They had a website icotelegramadvisers.com now it is down and new one is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828
and whole concept is been in development since Jan 2018

can you pm me your telegram so we can to resolve this issue ASAP
We are looking into this situation now

Anyways, the work is been in the progress since march 2018
Everyone can go ahead and check our commits and branches

https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core Was started in may https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core/commit/7411879d1a989989649ddef2cc2990d59002395d
https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui  Was started in march 2018 and have more that 1000 commits https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui/commits/live?after=ba32a2ffa371ed0ca0b57a0caae7cbb5fdddb009+1100

Development can be traced on a daily basis https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui/commits/dev

Hello Team,

Can you provide evidence that you purchased the whitepaper service for the company that you mentioned?

We find your team listed on the website, but it is listed on the whitepaper, can you provide links to their professional profile/bio, so we (community/investors) can read more about their previous jobs and experiences?

Thanks.

[LocalCoinIS]

Hello Team,

Can you provide evidence that you purchased the whitepaper service for the company that you mentioned?

here is the video  of he conversation with http://t.me/DexterD +62 838-2410-5458
http://take.ms/Dv9Ou this is full screened conversation
from today http://take.ms/ZJRmr

the 1st WP has been given us in November 2018
they've been doing it for 5 month(September 2019 - January 2019)

refer tho this investigation topic
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140394.0

[amitsolanki@live.com]

This project is a scam , will be sending whole lot of documentation where a single person driving this project.

This project is all outsourced , go and look bitshares feed. We were asked to buy to buy a witness node for 5k and promote project , but but , Flukr Hawkins threatens us to bring down the node if we don’t have 3 nodes working .

I personally paid $5k for his videos which was never paid of ( initially told to correct it and later on , his people discarded the video saying it don’t worth it ) who loses , we are one loses of $ 17k in this project and suggest zero people investment, all his paper work done by crypto kinetics, llc code had all bitshares footprints . This is core copy z


A billionaire from 2009 thinks he is super guy , trust me , thoug he deleted all history due to new telegram features. I have screenshots for everything he spoke . It’s not about losing money ( crypto respect people
And make money , scamming like Fluke isn’t allowed ) on the name of decentralization, he will get all his coins to Develop ( a project he himself , just paid contractors )

[Kryptokazim]

ICOEthics, you did a great job

I have contacted you via email, in order to resolve this issue
this is frustrating because we ordered our WP from this people bellow

Crypto Kinetics - ICO Social Media Marketing - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828

http://t.me/DexterD +62 838-2410-5458
http://t.me/solankiamit +1 704-957-4014
http://t.me/KryptoKazim81 +1 860-389-7090 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2505952

You can clearly say that this people just did what they did

The only think i can say, when you do the research you end up using other sources for the basic terminology description

We stoped any cooperation with them a long time ago due a lack of competence and do not recommend doing any business with them
They had a website icotelegramadvisers.com now it is down and new one is here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828
and whole concept is been in development since Jan 2018

can you pm me your telegram so we can to resolve this issue ASAP
We are looking into this situation now

Anyways, the work is been in the progress since march 2018
Everyone can go ahead and check our commits and branches

https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core Was started in may https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-core/commit/7411879d1a989989649ddef2cc2990d59002395d
https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui  Was started in march 2018 and have more that 1000 commits https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui/commits/live?after=ba32a2ffa371ed0ca0b57a0caae7cbb5fdddb009+1100

Development can be traced on a daily basis https://github.com/LocalCoinIS/LocalCoin-ui/commits/dev

Hello, Fluke I'm assuming due to your poor writing abilities, again with the misspellings. You state "We stoped any cooperation with them a long time ago due a lack of competence and do not recommend doing any business with them
They had a website icotelegramadvisers.com now it is down and new one is here https://bitcointalk.org". This is humorous, our team left LocalCoin due to multiple issues elaborated upon below. Please review attached photos.

After 7 grueling months of working with Fluke Hawkins, the LocalCoin LLC primary funding "Bitcoin millionaire", my partner and I was scammed out of over $15,000+ usd.

My company was contracted to do marketing and set foundations for Localcoin LLC social media outlets before launching their ICO. We also placed a stake in the project buy purchasing a witness node for $5000 usd.

We first started by consulting and implementing methodology. Our team error proofed most Localcoin's copied and pasted documents taken from Bitshares (LocalCoin is a clone/fork). Everything that has came from the team has been slapped together and randomly advertised by them unprofessionally.

Our team proceeded to provide Fluke Hawkins with a bitcointalk post, 21+ Graphic project posters, steem, medium & reddit articles. Assist with airdrop preliminaries, faq and administrative support.

After much of the work was completed as agreed, we then proceeded try and collect our first payment after the flow of airdroppers came in. After 2 weeks and still no payment received I then again ask "are you ever going to pay us?" Fluke Hawkins stated "yes I need amount and address" then proceeded to block us from contact after requesting payment and a LocalCoin LLC witness vesting balance withdrawal. I have photographic proof of this scam.

He also proceeded to blackmail my partner and I on our witness node purchase from LLC, bullied into 3 active nodes on one witness. He then had all votes pulled and our nodes are no longer active. We paid $5000 usd, plus monthly payments to multiple vps suppliers.

Agreed to pay our team $5000 usd for services, then blocks after a majority of work completed.

My partner then outsourced a HD 3D project video that was nitpicked and edited costing $4700 to complete to be turned down by Fluke and then denied payment.

Beware of scammer FLUKE HAWKINS, Telegram - http://t.me/FlukeHawkins +46 76 692 23 37

I have our 7 months all photographed. Please pay us.

Hello Team,

Can you provide evidence that you purchased the whitepaper service for the company that you mentioned?

here is the video  of he conversation with http://t.me/DexterD +62 838-2410-5458
http://take.ms/Dv9Ou
from today http://take.ms/ZJRmr

the 1st WP has been given us in November 2018
they've been doing it for 5 month(September 2019 - January 2019)

Whitepaper was purchased solely from Dexter and not Crypto Kinetics. Please view Flukes links provided solidify these claims.

[LocalCoinIS]

My company was contracted to do marketing and set foundations for Localcoin LLC social media outlets before launching their ICO. We also placed a stake in the project buy purchasing a witness node for $5000 usd.

Total Lie, You have contacted us and offered your services, we never contacted you first
Please, provide evidence of what you say!!! Otherwise it is all bullshit

We first started by consulting and implementing methodology.
Our team proceeded to provide Fluke Hawkins with a bitcointalk post, 21+ Graphic project posters, steem, medium & reddit articles. Assist with airdrop preliminaries, faq and administrative support.

evidence, evidence, evidence please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bitcointalk post

Never asked for it, if you posted something no one asked you to do it, we have many affiliates posting things in youtube, twitter, blogs and etc

21+ Graphic project posters

where is it?

medium & reddit articles

where is it? Never ever asked you to do anything!!!!!!!

Assist with airdrop preliminaries, faq and administrative support.

Assist with airdrop preliminaries, faq and administrative support.

After much of the work was completed as agreed

We never ever asked you to do anything!!!!!!!!!! Onece again, if you did something no one asked you, you can carry one with our referral program sending users via referal link

tated "yes I need amount and address"

this message was a joke, becasue you were keep nagging about you work and you wanted to get paid for it, We are getting at least 20-30 people like you contacting our admins every day

Agreed to pay our team $5000 usd for services, then blocks after a majority of work completed.

Massive LOL

My partner then outsourced a HD 3D project video that was nitpicked and edited costing $4700 to complete to be turned down by Fluke and then denied payment.

Show this video

Whitepaper was purchased solely from Dexter and not Crypto Kinetics. Please view Flukes links provided solidify these claims.

Another Lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

check this out
Dexter is your associates which you delegated WP which took 5 month and in the end was fraud for 3500 USD


dear ICOEthics, we are waiting for them to reply since this post is started

here what we got




You are clearly see how it looks like, will not point fingers.

1. ICOEthics found Plagiarized Whitepaper
2. We contacted The team who did the Whitepaper
3. And now the team Crypto Kinetics - ICO Social Media Marketing  is trying to cover their asses

Whitepaper

You should investigate further more and don't point any fingers without any evidence

..... of over $15,000+ usd

I personally paid $5k for his videos which was never paid of ( initially told to correct it and later on , his people discarded the video saying it don’t worth it ) who loses , we are one loses of $ 17k

Can both decided on the final amount??
I would suggest going with 500k ))) because you will not get anything anyway

Ones again, Never have LocalCoin Team ordered or agreed on any services from them
Currently we have many partners who does a great job and Crypto Kinetics/ICO Social Media Marketing is not one of them and have never been!!!

Our team receive 20-30 offers every day form any sort of people of so called promoters and ICO developers and etc.
Some of them are really annoying and even use offensive language we block them straight away.
If we pay attention to all fo them we would never move forward.

If they expected us to use them after WP took 5 month to complete, they are completely wrong.

[ICOEthics]

Whitepaper

You should investigate further more and don't point any fingers without any evidence

What do you mean with that?  We did our investigation, and your whitepaper is plagiarized, do you need better evidence than the one that is on the first post of this thread? We are not going to chase wild goose trying to find who created the paper for you. Your company is the one responsible for everything that you put out there for the public/investors, such as the website, team information and images, whitepaper, etc...

So, we do point the finger to the plagiarized whitepaper owners.  We opened this thread so you can discuss and provide evidence to your public and investors and try to convince them that it is not "your fault" and you are "not responsible" for that plagiarized whitepaper. If you wrote or someone else wrote the whitepaper for you, in the end, your company/project is the only one responsible for everything.

[logfiles]

You should investigate further more and don't point any fingers without any evidence

What more evidence do you need?
Your whitepaper was plagiarised and all the links from which it was plagiarized are in the OP.

Its you who hired the team and not ICOEthics. So do your part or else your reputation is at stake.
How shall you handle investors' money if you have failed to even manage the white paper situation for your project?

[Rinso]

Ones again, Never have LocalCoin Team ordered or agreed on any services from them
Currently we have many partners who does a great job and Crypto Kinetics/ICO Social Media Marketing is not one of them and have never been!!!

Our team receive 20-30 offers every day form any sort of people of so called promoters and ICO developers and etc.
Some of them are really annoying and even use offensive language we block them straight away.
If we pay attention to all fo them we would never move forward.

If they expected us to use them after WP took 5 month to complete, they are completely wrong.

You just have to solve this problem as soon as possible with your team. the proof is there, you can't do anything with it besides solving this problem as soon as possible and updating your WP.

[Guy-Cryptonix]

Ones again, Never have LocalCoin Team ordered or agreed on any services from them
Currently we have many partners who does a great job and Crypto Kinetics/ICO Social Media Marketing is not one of them and have never been!!!

Our team receive 20-30 offers every day form any sort of people of so called promoters and ICO developers and etc.
Some of them are really annoying and even use offensive language we block them straight away.
If we pay attention to all fo them we would never move forward.

If they expected us to use them after WP took 5 month to complete, they are completely wrong.

You just have to solve this problem as soon as possible with your team. the proof is there, you can't do anything with it besides solving this problem as soon as possible and updating your WP.

Seriously this whole statement is controversial it states you've never collaborated with them,  but then state you purchased a white paper from them and further implications of other services.

[Kryptokazim]

Ones again, Never have LocalCoin Team ordered or agreed on any services from them
Currently we have many partners who does a great job and Crypto Kinetics/ICO Social Media Marketing is not one of them and have never been!!!

Our team receive 20-30 offers every day form any sort of people of so called promoters and ICO developers and etc.
Some of them are really annoying and even use offensive language we block them straight away.
If we pay attention to all fo them we would never move forward.

If they expected us to use them after WP took 5 month to complete, they are completely wrong.

You just have to solve this problem as soon as possible with your team. the proof is there, you can't do anything with it besides solving this problem as soon as possible and updating your WP.

Our first interactions. 8/14/2018


Our first agreement, which then changed as did our services.

Above is your proof, that you are in fact full of bullshit!

Mic Drop...

[rijaljun]

It's not a good option to buy whitepaper anyway. You can get problem no matter how trustable you are. And here everything is cleared up. Once you lied, you are possible to create more lies in the future.

SCAM.

[Guy-Cryptonix]

..... of over $15,000+ usd

I personally paid $5k for his videos which was never paid of ( initially told to correct it and later on , his people discarded the video saying it don’t worth it ) who loses , we are one loses of $ 17k

Can both decided on the final amount??
I would suggest going with 500k ))) because you will not get anything anyway

Kryptokazim clearly states $15000+ meaning more than.. His partner is claiming it's $17k total losses. You're so cavalier about answering "you will not get anything anyway" mean while there's photographic evidence of you scamming them. Your project will inevitably fail.

LLC SCAM.

[Kryptokazim]

..... of over $15,000+ usd

I personally paid $5k for his videos which was never paid of ( initially told to correct it and later on , his people discarded the video saying it don’t worth it ) who loses , we are one loses of $ 17k

Can both decided on the final amount??
I would suggest going with 500k ))) because you will not get anything anyway

Kryptokazim clearly states $15000+ meaning more than.. His partner is claiming it's $17k total losses. You're so cavalier about answering "you will not get anything anyway" mean while there's photographic evidence of you scamming them. Your project will inevitably fail.

LLC SCAM.

Exactly, guess the team didn't comprehend that.




Really Fluke? You scammed my partner and I. We left your project after being blackmailed by you on our witness node and lack of payment, after all that transpired we had to step away (after results of heavy losses). Good business practices would equate to profits earned and not paying  to work for a project that turns out to be run by a scam artist. You started this by neglecting your obligations to LocalCoin as its founder. You didn't even cross reference the Whitepaper. Enough said.

This project is a scam , will be sending whole lot of documentation where a single person driving this project.

This project is all outsourced , go and look bitshares feed. We were asked to buy to buy a witness node for 5k and promote project , but but , Flukr Hawkins threatens us to bring down the node if we don’t have 3 nodes working .

I personally paid $5k for his videos which was never paid of ( initially told to correct it and later on , his people discarded the video saying it don’t worth it ) who loses , we are one loses of $ 17k in this project and suggest zero people investment, all his paper work done by crypto kinetics, llc code had all bitshares footprints . This is core copy z

"LocalCoin's COO"

I have hundreds of pictures. All documents reviewed by Cypto Kinetics were from their website, which still I am sure has not been fully edited.

I have screenshots of all the original website spelling errors, to be released upon request.

https://how.localcoin.is/en/latest/index.html

[coin-investor]

Well, some people are doing a hype on this coin in the altcoin section https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5139850.0 I hope people are aware that this coin is now marked scam, a scam project usually employ people to hype their coin by doing forum and social media posting.

[ecnalubma]

Almost starting to promote this project, good thing I've d read this topic. Its hard to promote projects nowadays specially if you don't investigate and dissect them very well you could be an accessory to their lies without your knowledge, I salute those persons consuming time just to expose them.  

[LocalCoinIS]

Almost starting to promote this project, good thing I've d read this topic. Its hard to promote projects nowadays specially if you don't investigate and dissect them very well you could be an accessory to their lies without your knowledge, I salute those persons consuming time just to expose them.  

Dear ecnalubma, the only thing what was exposed is that We ordered design decoration and start text of our White Paper from this Scumbags

this is list of Scammers from Crypto Kinetics( ex ICO Social Media Marketing) this is their topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132317.msg50622828#msg50622828
http://t.me/DexterD +62 838-2410-5458
http://t.me/solankiamit +1 704-957-4014
http://t.me/KryptoKazim81 +1 860-389-7090 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2505952 possible real name is Jamie Martell

the full list of evidence about fraud committed by Crypto Kinetics has been presented in this posts
http://take.ms/Dv9Ou this is full conversation with them
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135210.msg50771369#msg50771369
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135210.msg50840979#msg50840979

They used our technical description and the main part of the White paper is originally written by our staff

What this fraudsters from Crypto Kinetics did is they took text from the other sources and gave it to us as his own invention, basically this is fraud comited by Crypto Kinetics and we paid 3500 usd for it. This is sad the reality.

Scammer KryptoKazim ripped us off and now he is pissed because we exposed Him and his 2 friends

Also This scumbag KryptoKazim has created several accounts on this forum
The_Crypto_OG
TurnAroundTeddy
Guy-Cryptonix
agnusdei
amitsolanki@live.com
All new registered and posting staff to cover up his scam blaming on us. I suppose people are not idiots and can clearly see it.

Scamer KryptoKazim has not presented any evidence at all of the work he claimed he did because we told them to good by for such a poor so called service
No video, no articles, nothing!!!!!!!!!!

We did order it, because it needed to be presented properly. The majority of text is original and written by our staff.
This is normal to hire outsource personal to do the decoration and painting + some extra descriptions and text because there are professionals who know how to do it better
turner our we got scammed by Scamer KryptoKazim and his 2 associates

Now he(Scamer KryptoKazim) is trying to blackmail us and annoyingly posting a lot of rubbish to cover up Crypto Kinetics fraud.

The new updated White Paper will be presented shortly as we are woking on it right now to fix what this fraudsters from Crypto Kinetics did

We will precent a team members linkedin profies and etc. All will be sorted.