Plagiarized Whitepaper - EPNOC

[holydarkness]

What happened: Plagiarizing whitepaper and no team member
Suspect's Profile Link: N/A [They don't have an official account here, far as I know. However, we have...]
BM's Profile Link: ahmim
Suspect's Website: https://epnoc.io/ | archived
Suspect's ANN thread: N/A
Suspect's Bounty thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5436868.0 | archived
Suspect's Documents: https://epnoc.io/static/media/EPNOC%20Whitepaper.b42fe325.pdf | archived
Plagiarized Source: https://degrain.gitbook.io/docs/ | archived

Additional Notes:
They do provide a bibliography, though not exactly on the academic format, nor that I found these sources being cited on their WP --I'm not really looking into them, though-- but this one that's cleverly slightly adjusted, is not on their list of sources.



Some screenshot for easy view:

[RapTarX]

Suspect's Profile Link: N/A [They don't have an official account here, far as I know. However, we have...]
BM's Profile Link: ahmim

His account already has been red-tagged for bounty cheating. Since the guy is a bounty manager only, I guess it's better for someone just simply sends a PM to ask him to investigate before launching a bounty. This is an obvious scam but the bounty manager has nothing to do unless spending a few hours. There are plenty of such bounty managers on the forum who never would do due diligence before launching a bounty.

[holydarkness]

Suspect's Profile Link: N/A [They don't have an official account here, far as I know. However, we have...]
BM's Profile Link: ahmim

His account already has been red-tagged for bounty cheating. Since the guy is a bounty manager only, I guess it's better for someone just simply sends a PM to ask him to investigate before launching a bounty. This is an obvious scam but the bounty manager has nothing to do unless spending a few hours. There are plenty of such bounty managers on the forum who never would do due diligence before launching a bounty.

Ahh, I was just finished posting another thread on reputation board with a topic still related to this accusation. You might want to give it a read. This is not the first scam project they promoted.

[albon]

Good catch, mate

If we take a look at the "Contact Us page" on the EPNOC scam website, we will find this address "EPNOC TECHNOLOGIES, F-325 SECTOR -63 NOIDA-201305, INDIA" as their project headquarters.

If we search for this address in Google Maps!, we will find that the address is false, and there are no results about their headquarters.

Domain Name: epnoc.io
Registrar: Godaddy IANA ID 146
Creation Date: October 29, 2022
Update Date: December 6, 2022
Expiration Date: October 29, 2023
Age: 126 days

Please, guys, be positive and report the domain so that it is down and no investor is harmed:

[1] GoDaddy Abuse Report Form: https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/AbuseReport

[holydarkness]

Good catch, mate

If we take a look at the "Contact Us page" on the EPNOC scam website, we will find this address "EPNOC TECHNOLOGIES, F-325 SECTOR -63 NOIDA-201305, INDIA" as their project headquarters.

If we search for this address in Google Maps!, we will find that the address is false, and there are no results about their headquarters.

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Ahh yes, thanks for reminding me about this point, that part was left out forgotten and unmentioned. I actually did the investigation about Epnoc in "installment", little by little when I have free time and that address is one of the aspect I DDed on the earlier phase [ignore the other screenshots, they were materials for other investigation, LOL].




So, continuing what aibon reminded me, I did a stroll on "street view" on my earlier investigation on Maps and with a little effort finally meet their "neighbor", F324, Sector 63, Noida


So, their address, F325, would be one of the three in front of them, either the dead center, the one on the left, or the one on the right. Problem is... here's the three of them, which... doesn't evoke any confidence for the platform.

[shasan]

His account already has been red-tagged for bounty cheating. Since the guy is a bounty manager only, I guess it's better for someone just simply sends a PM to ask him to investigate before launching a bounty. This is an obvious scam but the bounty manager has nothing to do unless spending a few hours. There are plenty of such bounty managers on the forum who never would do due diligence before launching a bounty.

The bounty manager is a jr. member and already tagged negatively so the user is not taking any responsibility. If the account had any value then the user would not promote such a project. And if run unknowingly then s/he would be stopped immediately. This type of account can't get any project. I think this user has a reputed account. And by providing that as a reference getting a project and as the user thinks it is a scam project/it can be a scam, running bounty from alt account which has no value.

[Ronsbit]

His account already has been red-tagged for bounty cheating. Since the guy is a bounty manager only, I guess it's better for someone just simply sends a PM to ask him to investigate before launching a bounty. This is an obvious scam but the bounty manager has nothing to do unless spending a few hours. There are plenty of such bounty managers on the forum who never would do due diligence before launching a bounty.

The bounty manager is a jr. member and already tagged negatively so the user is not taking any responsibility. If the account had any value then the user would not promote such a project. And if run unknowingly then s/he would be stopped immediately. This type of account can't get any project. I think this user has a reputed account. And by providing that as a reference getting a project and as the user thinks it is a scam project/it can be a scam, running bounty from alt account which has no value.

Very unfortunate that some bounty  managers barely conduct due diligence before embarking on a project campaign even sometimes when they notice that they do not give it the urgent attention by calling on the team of the project, they simply improvise so  as not likely loosing the project and opt for a new account to a low rank account to carry on with the project campaign so if they are being tagged with the account, they have nothing to loose as it is a low rank profile on the platform.

[RapTarX]

The bounty manager is a jr. member and already tagged negatively so the user is not taking any responsibility. If the account had any value then the user would not promote such a project. And if run unknowingly then s/he would be stopped immediately. This type of account can't get any project. I think this user has a reputed account. And by providing that as a reference getting a project and as the user thinks it is a scam project/it can be a scam, running bounty from alt account which has no value.

Seems like you are on to something. Who are you referring to if you don't mind sharing? I guess it's better to come straight forward if you have any proof of what you are claiming. What you are claiming would be such a bad move from a reputed bounty manager. Running a known scam project is dishonesty. But running a know scam project from an alternative account is dishonesty and a big fraudulent. Expose him, please.

[shasan]

Who are you referring to if you don't mind sharing?

I am not referring to anyone. If I know who is behind of this then I could reveal the identity and I could create a flag against that user. But it is common to find pout a campaign by this type of rank and reputation is quite impossible. And reputed users will think twice before taking on a project.