Stabila - Plagiarizing Documents from Many Sources

[holydarkness]

What happened: Plagiarizing documents --not their WP, other documents (plural)-- from different sources

Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3425174
Scammers Website: https://www.stabilascan.org/ | archived
Scammers ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379020.0 | archived
Plagiarized Documents:

Maybe they learned from their past action, their WP is actually rather clean. However, other documents of their project are not. Below is the list of documents available on their website which are copying content from others' work.

Brand Assets - Plagiarizing "Stablecoin Evolution and Market Trends"
Stabila Documentation - Plagiarizing Tron's Documentation
Stabila Asset Tokenization Plagiarizing 10XTS Article about Tokenization
Banking blueprint - Plagiarizing "Banking Blueprint for the Crypto World" by Arun Ghosh
Stabila for banks - Plagiarizing BCG's Article by Zubin Mogul

Additional Notes: Stabila is a child company of Moneta, a project with a plagiarizing history. In the past, upon being outed that their WP is stealing content, they defended themselves by saying that they hired content writer, and that some members are blackmailing them into paying some sum of money or else... well, they never shows the concrete evidence --screenshot and anything-- to backup their claim. Instead, they went full witch-hunt mode accusing and tagging anyone that stands against them.

I was notified by miWana about Stabila's connection with Moneta. Thanks to their help, the project enters my radar and I re-investigate them. The second section of this post is a snipped quote of what I wrote on the other thread in response to miWana's information, I'll copy them here to add them to the investigation materials for the case of fake team on top of the plagiarism accusation.

The third section of this post is what I called as a happy coincidence. Given that they've been online for days after I PMed them --they should have noticed my message and choose to ignore them-- and they gave no response, I decided to dive into their TG to well... notify them and take a look around their community. What I find is probably what we can say as a shilling service.

Some screenshot for easy view:

Brand Assets:


Documentation:


Asset Tokenization:


Banking Blueprint


Stabila for Banks:


And in case the team tried to get away from this accusation using the old excuse of "we hired a content writer and they copied material without our knowledge", allow me to add this evidence stating that their CEO, Daniel Varzari, is the author of the document, which --if they still insist they hired a writer-- means their CEO lied by claiming a paper that he didn't write as his.

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With that out of our way, I want to lay some foundation about how Moneta and Stabila is connected. Just like the link you provide as well as stated on Moneta's website and Stabila's whitepaper, Stabila is the child company of Moneta and teamed by the same people.



Several things that raised my concern upon reinvestigating them are:

1. The change of their office(s).
Although it is quite understandable for company to relocate themselves, it is quite uncanny for them to close all of their office on big cities --and country-- and move to a rather remote umm... town?



Something that's perhaps worth mentioning about the building where they're located, it is notoriously known for being listed as the address of a shady offshore trading company, at least that's the impression I get from reading the auto-translated review from people cross contries.

2. The lack of details about their team.
Moneta listed 9 people as their team according to their website, but from 9 of these people, I can only verify 3 of them as a real person, in a sense that their name and record is searchable outside Moneta, and all 3 are the higher ups. From these three people, only 1 acknowledged his empoyment with Moneta, the other two didn't mention Moneta on their profile. These person are:

1. Daniel Varzari
Out of the three people, Mr. Varzari is the only one that shows and declare his relationship with Moneta, which should help us decide whether the project is real or not --if the only one person associated with the project is not provable as a real person, then it will be justified to question the project's legitimacy. However, there is an article published --and written by himself-- on the website of other companies that he's been a board director of.



2. Igor Scvortov
Mr. Scvortov mentioned an employment with Paragon Capital on his LinkedIn, but not Moneta. However, sadly, if you try to access Paragon's website --I deliberately put the entire link here instead of shorten the link with bbcode for fair play-- http://www.paragoncapital.com/, the site will redirect you to a website called e-lease, which rather feels like that the site as well as the project itself has failed and the site is now used by other user.



3. Anastasia Kovaleva
With a little dig, I managed to get a means of contact with Ms. Kovaleva. Well, to be honest, she's very active on social media and has a lot of press published about her, indicating that out of the three, she is the most real person. Details about her is deliberately not served here to respect her privacy, because of that very reason. However, below is the proof of contact.



With all of the evidences I can gather in a day laid for public, the ball is now out of my court. I'll notify Stabila about this thread and hopefully they'll be able to clarify things. The way I see it, the easiest way to strengthen their credibility is by asking Ms. Kovaleva to reply my DM and vouch for them.


P.s.: hmm... that's odd, their ann thread as well as other threads they owned are all locked. It is also brought to my attention that the thread is tagged by GazetaBitcoin as thread that utilizes bumping service. I guess I don't have other way but to contact them via PM.

Edit: proof of notifying Stabila

So... what does their community think about their consensus network?






How about their decentralized feature?




So, overall, what do their community think about the project?


[note: the "valerstudio" username is a bounty hunter using the project's name and not Valerstudio's official tg handler]


Edit: notifying them via telegram as well, let's see if they'll come here or kick me out of their channel
Edit 2: they kicked me, LOL

[Erdogan]

It seems that their behavior confirms everything because their ANN thread as well as the bounty campaign thread have been blocked. They did it because they are probably afraid of the wave of negative comments and accusations, it just confirms that they are not legit, so you probably don't have to wait for any explanations.

Additionally, when it comes to the bounty campaign, they deleted the entire opening post about the campaign that started at the beginning of January and replaced it with information about some new airdrop, so this also confirms their intention to scam.

Link to bounty campaign thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5379533.0

[examplens]

yes, plagiarism is obvious here. now I see that their ANN is locked up too, they seem to want to avoid some discussion.
whether there were any other accusations against this Stabila project here?

However, I left the negative tag on stabilastb account, maybe that will invite them to tell their side of the story here.

[holydarkness]

yes, plagiarism is obvious here. now I see that their ANN is locked up too, they seem to want to avoid some discussion.
whether there were any other accusations against this Stabila project here?

However, I left the negative tag on stabilastb account, maybe that will invite them to tell their side of the story here.

I've put a negative trust the second they kicked me out of their tg as I think its rather obvious that they're evading the accusation... not that my rating matters as it didn't directly impacting them. So, thank you for tagging them for us.

Given the nature of their previous record with Moneta, and their shady decision in bounty --if we take Erdogan's statement as a fact-- I wonder if it's wise to raise a newbie flag against them, especially as they're still doing public sale --I'm just guessing here as I have no sources to check if their sale is still ongoing or concluded. Their shady action, alongside with rather questionable review on their other site, could indicate rug-pull.

Personally, I want to give benefits of doubts amd wait for them to give their defense, but as they ignoring my forum PM and removed me from TG, I somewhat think the possibility of them coming here is out of the horizon.

[The Cryptovator]

My bad, I did design work for them including the ANN thread. However, during that time the documentation was just the whitepaper. Though I don't need to research much only for design I hadn't found plagiarism in a quick search. There were few which is common things everywhere. Their behavior is quite aggressive. In the beginning, I thought probably they are legit. But after they start releasing a lot of products which seems to be unrealistic.

Thanks, OP for sharing it, tagged from my end.

[mdzahed134]

After STABILA bounty ended i have seen a few suspicious activities, when bounty spreadsheet updated the bounty manager (he/she might be a part of their team member) account deleted even bounty group also muted and removed bounty thread. Who guys asking questions bounty related questions they are getting blocked from their telegram group. They announced every hunter must be participate in their Airdrop campaign to get bounty rewards but this rules wasn’t required when bounty launched. As far as their promised they will pay bounty rewards within 45 days after bounty end. Let's see, but i think there is a most possibility they will deceive with hunters.