Hello, dear community!
Recently, our "potential investor" has tried to scam us.
This post is created in order to let all of you (and those who will google them) know that they are scammers and you do not have to waste a second on talking with them and trying to do anything in business terms.
Some details:
The company from Lichtenstein called ACC-Holding (
www.acc-holding.com ) is offering to buy your token (if you are planning to do a coin offering in any way) or to buy a cryptocurrency by different means - wire transfer, another crypto.
What is important - they are not asking anything in advance (otherwise we would not even talk to them).
Names:
Bernard Hollenstein (CEO)
Alexandre Weinberg (Financial Director) (phone number +41 77 999 58 94)
Edouard Forestier (Consultant) (phone numbers +39 350 981 7585 and +44 7733 428385)
Maurice Gardin (Consultant)
Most probably these are fake identities.
All the conversations have been conducted via WhatsApp messages and calls.
The story:
We have been approached by Edouard Forestier who saw our fundraising initiatives on the internet and said that their family office (holding) is currently interested in investing in crypto and newly generated tokens.
We have sent them all the materials related to our TGE after signing an NDA. They said they are very interested and willing to close our seed-stage round, paying us up front with a wire transfer or crypto, and offered to meet in person in Amsterdam to discuss the details and see each other.
We have met Alexandre Weinberg in Amsterdam and negotiated the deal that they will buy for X amount of money 50% of our tokens that will be generated in May and for 50% any kind of stable coin with a wire transfer.
After we came back and started to prepare everything for the deal, they have changed the conditions in order to feel more comfortable, as they were not willing to pay that much X upfront. We negotiated for a minor deal in order to check each other and according to that deal, they were willing to exchange 10 ETH into BUSD as to the exchange rate. We negotiated that we will send BUSD as soon as 10 ETH transaction is confirmed in the blockchain.
And here is the scam, which we believe is just funny for everybody around here - they have sent 10 ETH on Ropsten Testnet, trying to convince us that this is real ETH, etc.
They have even tried to blackmail us because we "have stolen" their 10 ETH.
Conclusion:
Wherever you see ACC Holding trying to "buy" something from you - just don't waste your time, as we did.
Hopefully, this can be beneficial for somebody in the community.
Good luck!
P.S. Proof.
Etherscan proof of testnet ETH being sent:
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x9b2f73dff2dde44d5cce6b0bd1cdd53e94f9bbae
