Dear members,
My name is Umit Kurt, inventor of iGO Safe and CEO of IGO Tech LTD.
The reason that I am writing is to highlight some of the above accusations in regards to plagiarism of the invention which is totally incorrect.
I didn't say you plagiarized your invention, I said you plagiarized your white paper. I even qualified my statement in my first post:
To be fair plagiarized parts are only language surrounding the idea and not the technical aspects of the idea itself -- those parts seem to be original.
From your
whitepaper (
archived):
From page 6:
From seat belts to Electronic Stability Control, car safety has come a long way since the first automobiles were developed during the 19th century. Car safety is as old as the automobile itself. The first recorded fatality involving a vehicle happened in 1869 when Mary Ward, an Anglo-Irish scientist, was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. It’s likely that this event spurred authorities to adopt vehicle and road safety measures to protect not only drivers but also pedestrians.
From an article on
hyundai.news:
11 May 2018 - From seat belts to Electronic Stability Control, car safety has come a long way since the first automobiles were developed during the 19th century.
Car safety is as old as the automobile itself. The first recorded fatality involving a vehicle happened in 1869 when Mary Ward, an Anglo-Irish scientist, was killed when she fell under the wheels of an experimental steam car built by her cousins. It’s likely that this event spurred authorities to adopt vehicle and road safety measures to protect not only drivers, but also pedestrians.
Also on page 6:
Constantly evolving vehicles have created the need for more car safety features than vehicles of the past. As cars become faster and more efficient, they must also become safer.
From a
carsdirect.com article:
Constantly evolving vehicles have created the need for more car safety features than vehicles of the past. As cars become faster and more efficient, they must also become safer.
From page 11:
Improvements in roadway and automobile designs have steadily reduced injury and death rates in all first world countries. Nevertheless, auto collisions are the leading cause of injury-related deaths, an estimated total of 1.2 million in 2014, or 25% of the total from all causes. Of those killed by autos, nearly two-thirds are pedestrians. Risk compensation theory has been used in arguments against safety devices, regulations and modifications of vehicles despite the efficacy of saving lives.
From an article on
sciencedaily.com:
Improvements in roadway and automobile designs have steadily reduced injury and death rates in all first world countries.
Nevertheless, auto collisions are the leading cause of injury-related deaths, an estimated total of 1.2 million in 2004, or 25% of the total from all causes.
Of those killed by autos, nearly two-thirds are pedestrians.
Risk compensation theory has been used in arguments against safety devices, regulations and modifications of vehicles despite the efficacy of saving lives.
Your white paper is littered with plagiarism of this sort. Even if some instances of it is lifted directly from your references, you should put the parts you are taking word-for-word in quotations. Otherwise it looks like you are passing their writing off as your own.
The team does exist and I am one of the members. In regards to the social media profiles, information will be updated and even without, it shouldn't be a reason to mention that we don't exist.
Its highly suspicious that you didn't just include it in the first version of your website. Its absurd to think people will trust you without being able to verify any of your team members through social media links. Have you not studied what ICO norms are in this regard?
Ico Template, many project are using ICO templates as it is more convenient and adapting them to their taste doesn't make them illegitimate.
This is true, but it just looks lazy.
Every opinion is valuable and with respect towards anyonce taste, for some this project is not interesting, and for the other it is, also this doesn't make any project illegitimate. So, please do not make any other false accusations towards us as it might damage our image.
I strongly recommend you at least put annotations in your white paper where you are citing other sources. More importantly, you need to include social media links to your team members. Really, this is standard procedure and its hard to believe you are unaware of this.
Coinsbit looks like a scammy exchange, it lists several projects known to be scams (such as
KEP for example). The burden of proof is on you to prove you are not a scam in an environment where more often a project is a scam than not.
