Yesterday Bittrex and Poloniex officially declared that the "Bittrex Team" (account created on 22 March 2014), "Poloniex" and "Poloniex-team" (account created on 21 and 22 March 2014) in Bitcointalk are fake.
See this BTT thread "PSA: Becareful of imposters on forum boards" for details
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=526884.0 The question is who are the imposters.
The "Bittrex Team" has only made 3 posts. All appeared on 22 March 2014. Two are mainly having direct communications with HongKongCoin dev team (Majorminers) to show a gesture of full support for HKC.
Because the "Bittrex Team" "Poloniex" and "Poloniex-team" appeared on the date or one day earlier of the direct communications between "Bittrex team" and HKC dev team .....
Will it be possible that HongKongCoin dev team (Majorminers) creating this fake exchange platform representatives to cheat the trust in the forum?
People may say there seems to be evidence for the fake "Bittrex Team". How about the fake Poloniex or Poloniex-team, even though fake Bittrex and fake Poloniex were created at similar time, but hasn't posted anything yet?
If you have been reading the posts the in HKC ANN thread, you will know that Poloniex is the next target that HKC dev team wants to list HKC for exchange. Here is the evidence of their plan:
Any idea with this coin will be listed on coinmarketcap?
BTW, can you think of any other places you would like to see this coin listed?
Some people are still sleeping on HKC and they need to be aware it's out there.
Poloniex would seem like the next logical step for the coin. It's still a small exchange, but not as small as Bittrex. A lot of nation coins seem to 'graduate' to there before then moving to larger exchanges.
Here are the posts of this fake "Bittrex team dated on 22 March 2014.
Thanks for giving us the oppurtinity to be a part of HongKong Coin.
We are looking forward for the volumes!
Bittrex Team
All of us at Team
HongKongCoin thank you for your excellent efforts! You're doing a great job expanding the market for HKC.
I fixed a bug while depositing HongKong Coin to the exchange, it should work now.
Bittrex Team
This fake Bittrex is created by
MajorMiners (owners of some pools), who is one of the key team members of the
HongKongCoin (HKC).
HongKongCoin key members (Scammers):
1. HongKongCoin
2. majorminers
(Probably HongKongCoin & MajorMiners are the same person according to their styles of written English.)
Very likely HongKongCoin key members (Possible Scammers):
1. zsnorbi
2. whatthefugg
3. poornamelessme
4. provenceday
MajorMiners' Twitter
https://twitter.com/majorminers