MSRise - Fake CEO/team members

[morvillz7z]

What happened: Fake CEO/team members. A fake project that plans to build Bitcoin mining farms.

Reference Link: https://msrise.io/

Announced by: MSRise ICO

ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5135919.0

• According to the bio given on their website, Oskar Charsky is working for more than 4 years "optimizing algorithms for mining farms". In fact, his real name is Ilya Radetsky and he is hosting wedding ceremonies.
• The rest of their team is fake, at least their names are. Most of them work as models/photographers/night club hosts etc.
• Their twitter account is either hacked or sold. It belongs to @msrise_com, it is created 2009 and has nothing to do with msrise.io I've seen a few scam projects lately using aged twitter accounts and naming their projects after them.
• I strongly recommend checking their youtube video.  LINK

Oskar Charsky = Ilya Radetsky



https://vk.com/atomiq


Alexander Koval = Toмac Бoдyэн



https://www.banki.ru/gallery/?PAGE_NAME=detail&SECTION_ID=11908&ELEMENT_ID=6314983

http://thegifted.ru/profile/1806/


Julia Smirnova = Elena Shkarupa



https://www.livemaster.ru/item/3449599-ukrasheniya-grecheskij-obodok-s-perlamutrom


Ivan Vinogradov = Egor Sukhorebrik



https://vk.com/sukhorebrik?z=photo26565875_456241936%2Fphotos26565875

https://500px.com/sukhorebrik



Archive of the website: - https://web.archive.org/web/20190425160521/https://msrise.io/
Archive of the ANN: - https://archive.fo/cr5At

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[marlboroza]

They made video with team members in office:

https://youtu.be/hghvpDEGfvE?t=46



I am still trying to find correct translation, but all these thingies are empty. Another fake office?

[morvillz7z]

Another fake office?

What do you think?  

Last three scam projects to have a fake office/conference room: Neluns, Buucoins, Bincoin. I swear I saw a nightclub photo of Zahar Deina with one of the girls in the video.

I'm offering 2 merit bounty for whoever finds the office location first, (I haven't searched for it).

[ICOEthics]

Nice finding OP. This is probably one of those types of scams that pay random people, rent an office for a couple of hours to make a video, and try to fool millions of people.

Here are more pictures which appear to be the other members.

(Clothes Model?)


https://youla.ru/moskva/zhenskaya-odezhda/verhnyaya/pukhovik-armani-jeans-5c080c262138bb5c922ed169




https://geometria.ru/events/party/2016/10/8/946616/pictures/56752662
https://geometria.tv/events/party/2018/10/6/1072463/pictures/70209257

[prague]

Office location: "Coworking 14" (https://www.coworking.ru/) You can rent office there for just 1 day 

You may take a look at photos - everything is equal, even furniture and window-view. Also on the video there is a print "14"
So it's easy to find

[Xandrah]

Nice find, I love how far fetched they are going 35 TH/s at 500w? Errr yeah sure sure, now if that was real ANTMiner would be a bit worried. Also take a look at the throwaway laptops, that one girl is using an ancient Asus laptop with a old gen 2008 Intel Pentium.

[marlboroza]

Also take a look at the throwaway laptops, that one girl is using an ancient Asus laptop with a old gen 2008 Intel Pentium.

I am old school, papers, rewinding tapes with screwdriver and stuff 

Office location: "Coworking 14" (https://www.coworking.ru/) You can rent office there for just 1 day 

You may take a look at photos - everything is equal, even furniture and window-view. Also on the video there is a print "14"
So it's easy to find

Wow, that is excellent finding, I own you more merits  For better visibility:

[morvillz7z]

Wow, that is excellent finding, I own you more merits  For better visibility:

Damn, thanks for bumping his post, I kinda missed it today (only saw Xandrah's one).

Office location: "Coworking 14" `snip`

Again, excellent work finding this place, I had some free time yesterday, botched the video in a million pieces but couldn't get a single match.

I see you have some posts in Russian, did you know of this place beforehand or did you find it searching on the internet?

PS; paid my merit bounty  Thanks again!

[prague]

Wow, that is excellent finding, I own you more merits  For better visibility:

Damn, thanks for bumping his post, I kinda missed it today (only saw Xandrah's one).

Office location: "Coworking 14" `snip`

Again, excellent work finding this place, I had some free time yesterday, botched the video in a million pieces but couldn't get a single match.

I see you have some posts in Russian, did you know of this place beforehand or did you find it searching on the internet?

PS; paid my merit bounty  Thanks again!

I've known for sure that this is in Moscow + yeah, I speak russian, so I used russian search engine yandex.ru and found this office in several minutes

[scambust]

Imagine these people planning to scam millions of dollars online. I bet they planned their scam for weeks, carefully setting up all the fake office, the actors, etc. They must think law enforcement is lax with crypto ICOs hence the boldness.

[prague]

Imagine these people planning to scam millions of dollars online. I bet they planned their scam for weeks, carefully setting up all the fake office, the actors, etc. They must think law enforcement is lax with crypto ICOs hence the boldness.

I suppose they've spent several thousand bucks to make pretty nice website, branded stuff (flags, cups, pens with logo etc), to pay actors, to make video etc. So, I suppose it's not the last time we see them. They will try again for sure, with a new cover story

[ICOEthics]

Office location: "Coworking 14" (https://www.coworking.ru/) You can rent office there for just 1 day 

You may take a look at photos - everything is equal, even furniture and window-view. Also on the video there is a print "14"
So it's easy to find

Nice job finding the office.  It was obvious a  rental since they brought in all their printed stuff.
It appears those coffee mugs were empty, no coffee, no juice, no water... 

I suppose they've spent several thousand bucks to make pretty nice website, branded stuff (flags, cups, pens with logo etc), to pay actors, to make video etc. So, I suppose it's not the last time we see them. They will try again for sure, with a new cover story

This scam project has all caracteristics of another scam Buucoin - they did the same thing (printing material, renting an office, etc).
I have a feeling that if we look closely we will find the "Deinas" fingerprint on this one.

[hacker1001101001]

Office location: "Coworking 14" (https://www.coworking.ru/) You can rent office there for just 1 day  

You may take a look at photos - everything is equal, even furniture and window-view. Also on the video there is a print "14"
So it's easy to find

Great catch bro!

I was searching the location of that office for hours. I think there are more such services around the world offering fake offices for video creation. This clearly states how far this people could go to create a fake ICO. I hope they don't recover any of the funds from this fake project and get bankrupt soon...

[morvillz7z]

I was sent the following message by a newbie account localhero15, thought I should share it here. It basically confirms the obvious, that they've used fake identities.

They are free to come and address the issue as I don't like to communicate with any of these accounts outside BitcoinTalk.

Good day!

We can say that you did a really great job, guys! Actually, we've had to hire some actors to shoot a video about our company, but we have a good reason for it: our team is located in Russia and some guys of the team are related with the goverment authorities (as you know, russian goverment is about to ban ICO and crypto in the country). So we've decided to hide actual names and surnames in order to preserve the project in the early stages.

Can you please provide me your telegram contact details to continue the conversation?

[Xandrah]

They have now disabled commenting on their youtube vidoes because of skeptical comments. The company showing true colors of its scammy behavior, thankfully it looks like nobody has invested into their project.
Announcement post has also been removed from these forums.

Good work to everyone for providing evidence and keeping people away from it!

[logfiles]

New bounty thread up: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157242
I put up a warning it already.

[SkyLords]

Thank you so much for informing us. I joined the telegram channels. After reading here, I immediately left the group. Maybe if you didn't share it, there might be things that upset us. Thank you so much for sharing.

[Xandrah]

They are still pushing on their website, along with youtube videos. Promoting their own crypto currency and low power effective ASCIS now. (More complete bullshit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJK30TFncaM (multi channel marketing/promoting their own crypto... okay)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5pYy8CzFNg (very strange video about their products.)