[WARNING] KEEP5R - Fake Team

[qwertyup23]

What happened: Fake team using stock photo

Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1132719
KEEP5R ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5286913.0
KEEP5R WEBSITE: https://kp5r.cc/
KEEP5R ARCHIVED ANN: https://archive.fo/cuRVr

READ: Two (2) of the members of the team were EDITED based from the original pictures. Be careful, fake projects might use this kind of scheme in the near future.

FLAG: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2441

Code:

1 days old
Created on 2020-11-04
Expires on 2021-11-04
Updated on 0000-12-31

REAL IDENTITY: Matija Balantic
PROFILE LINK/S:
https://udimi.com/matijasoloads?rating=585957
https://udimi.com/bx899





REAL IDENTITY: Tim David
PROFILE LINK/S:
https://www.amazon.com/Tim-David/e/B00MFFSK5K%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

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[sujonali1819]

Good finding op. The announcement thread was lanched today means you do this job so fast to warn people. And this is not the first project that came by this user, If we follow this user trust feedback we can see another project was come by this user which was content plagiarised.

I will support the flag and also give him neg feedback.

[$crypto$]

Your work efforts are very good and fast even always taking the time to detect it.

It is fortunate that the arrests are still being made and I think those who carry out the fake team in the project will always come and go.

The flag that you raise, of course I will support it.

[SiNeReiNZzz]

Pardon? My accusition is not even a few hours ago, and now he comes back with another project with such flimsy claims that he doesn't know anything... WTF!?

You have to check yourself if everything is clean before you post something like this...

So 1x make a mistake, i can at part understand, dumb, but we are all not flawless... But what? To continue a few hours later, with almost the same thing!? No, surely not! I will tag you too...

Plagiarized Content/Fake ICO:

User: Panchum ◄◄◄ Ban please

Fake ICO-ANN-Thread: PUBGSwap- The world's largest ecosystem-level gateway for blockchain games ◄◄◄ Delete please
Archived

Fake (Website) Roadmap: https://pbgswap.com
Archived

Copy:

Archived

Clearly plagiarized from Matic Network:

Original Website Roadmap: https://matic.network/roadmap/
Archived

Original:

Archived

And the roadmap was not even the only one...
Even the complete whitepaper was copied almost identically by Mineraltoken and only the tokennames were changed!

This is the one from the fake project: https://pbgswap.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PubgSwap-Whitepaper.pdf
What was almost complete copied from here: https://www.mineralhub.org/whitepaper/eng.pdf

[The Cryptovator]

I am wondering even who had forced them to use team photos for a crypto platform? Many projects have been running even without team photos, it doesn't mean there is no team behind that project. But using a fake team is an immediate red flag for me and fake team=/scam. No matter who is behind it, their intention is just to raise funds and skip somehow. Just stay away from scammers.

Have left negative feedback and support flags. Good job OP, keep it up..

[AhmadM]

Nice catch and obviously fast as always OP. If we look on the track record of profile who post keep5r ANN, in the current week s/he also promoted a scam (stolen contents) project before which already reported by SiNeReiNZzz. It seems he accept the job without checking the legitmacy of each project and not really care about the impact later to community.

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[TalkStar]

Most interesting thing is that this guys have wasted a lot of time to change these real faces by editing. I wanna give all credit to their editor who should start work for filmmakers. Unfortunately their fake team has been detected by you and now they are going to hire another photo editor for next project.

Another Impressive work done by you.

I am wondering even who had forced them to use team photos for a crypto platform? Many projects have been running even without team photos, it doesn't mean there is no team behind that project. But using a fake team is an immediate red flag for me and fake team=/scam. No matter who is behind it, their intention is just to raise funds and skip somehow. Just stay away from scammers.

No one forced them to steal these images where its their habit to use other people’s identity. If i am not wrong then they are not new in this field and tried their best to create new identity for all these stolen images but unlucky again.

[dkbit98]

This image with edited long hair made me laugh so much 

Fake team is obvious, I supported the flag and I noticed that their topic is now deleted, but they are creating new ANN topic.

[Insanerman]

Most interesting thing is that this guys have wasted a lot of time to change these real faces by editing. I wanna give all credit to their editor who should start work for filmmakers. Unfortunately their fake team has been detected by you and now they are going to hire another photo editor for next project.

Another Impressive work done by you.

Indeed. Lol I guess this is the first scam project with fake team that really takes the editing too far. Seems that the project is still serious about one thing tho - scamming with some sprinkles of editing mastery.

Also, isn't the Keep[anynumber]R is too common now? AFAIK there was KP3R^[1] while there was also KP4R^[2], now there was KP5R? ROFL. Seems that the security idea of the legit KP3R had been copied by many trying hard scammers, as its price recenlty made a noise on the crypto space.

[1] - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/keep3rv1
[2] - https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/keep4r

[andrei8787]

Reported to CryptoScamAlert
https://cryptoscamalert.com/crypto_scam_report/819

[qwertyup23]

I appreciate all the kind words that everyone mentioned. To be honest, I find it appalling that they edited the picture so bad and they thought that they were going to get away with it. This slightly poses a problem for future projects as there may be some fake team members on some projects that was not recognized by the reverse image search.

This image with edited long hair made me laugh so much 

Fake team is obvious, I supported the flag and I noticed that their topic is now deleted, but they are creating new ANN topic.

The first time I saw the image, I was like "wtf?" They had the audacity to do such thing and it is very disgusting in that way. These scammers would do at least anything just to take advantage of their fake projects to newbies.

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Adding a tab for team members and posting an edited photo is like digging your own grave. It primarily constitutes and concludes that such project is indeed, fake. I just find it funny that they poorly edited a picture that looks fake facially.