HASHRA - LUNAR SERIES - ASIC SCRYPT MINERS

[Develop]

the Chinese consumer council forwarded me a copy of the letter they sent to hashra.com regarding my complaint. I encourage anyone and everyone that sent hashra.com funding through ANY means IE: BTC, Wiretransfer whatever.. to file reports with all the various legal authorities listed in this post. They are investigating Simon and the more complaints registered the better.

CC 301/110864/2015
      04 March 2015
 
 
The General Manager
HASHRA Limited
Level 9 Central Building
1-3 Pedder Street
Central
Hong Kong
 
 
Dear Sir,
 
        I refer to our letter of 02 February 2015.
 
        So far a reply has yet to reach us from your company.  A copy of our letter of 02 February 2015 and the case relevant document is enclosed herewith for your reference.
 
        Please expedite to look into the matter and revert to this Council before 13 March 2015.  For queries, please communicate with the undersigned on 3761-1611.
 
        Thank you.
 
Yours faithfully,
 
 
 
 
Richard FU
Complaints & Advice Division
Consumer Council
 
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[suchmoon]

It's funny that Simon/Hashra wouldn't respond to authorities but has time to communicate with Jeff/Lifeforcepools:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: HASHRA <info@hashra.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: status
To: Lifeforce <Lifeforcepools@gmail.com>


Hi Jeff

Things have been crazy here.

I'll call you tonight I promise.

Everything is still on track for shipping next week.

Kind regards

Simon

[Develop]

Hashra is under investigation on multiple fronts, their website is down and after six months since payment was sent I still have nothing, not even a promised refund. WE HAVE ALL BEEN SCAMMED BY THIS ASSHOLE

I have already filed reports with the following authorities and strongly encourage you to do the same.. the more reports of his fraudulent activity the better.

United States:

https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx

IC3 Complaint: I1410121225127641

United Kingdom

www.actionfraud.police.uk:

National Crime Reference Number: NFRC141000793999

Submitted by user suresync:         NFRC141000796740

Submitted by user onefix:             NFRC141000801205

Submitted by user dafky2000:       NFRC141000802650

Submitted by user Develop:          NFRC141000801250

Submitted by user kalps:              NFRC141000803431
 
                            IC3 Complaint: I1501111152238182

Hong Kong

http://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/02_er_room/

Direct Link
https://secure1.info.gov.hk/police/eforms/report_cyber_crime_en.php

Hong Kong Consumer Council Complaint:

https://www.consumer.org.hk/cc-complaint/index.php?lang=en


I would suggest referencing the above reference numbers as well as including yours in the posting. If we can create a large enough network of these filings it may help trigger some type of action.

Please see this forum thread for reference information regarding Simon Bright's most current contact information:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=601217.580

Please reference it when you submit your report.

Here is the bank information that you can reference in the report:

Beneficiary Bank: HSBC Hong Kong
Beneficiary Bank Address: 1 Queens Road Central, Hong Kong
Country: Hong Kong
Name of Account Holder: HASHRA Limited
Account Number (IBAN): 652303793838
Bank Code: 004
Swift Code (BIC): HSBCHKHHHKH

Here is HASHRA's registered Addresses, business ID numbers, and contact information:

HASHRA Limited

London:
1st Floor, 6-8 Bonhill Street
London, EC2A 4BX.
United Kingdom
UK Company Registration Number: 08828755

Hong Kong:
Level 9, Central Building
1-3 Pedder Street, Central
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Company Registration Number: 2041737

Here is Simon A. Bright's Most Recent Contact information:

Simon Bright
39A Prairie Street
London, London SW8 3PL
United Kingdom
+44 7941159485

Email:
info@hashra.com

If you are located in another country other than the ones listed above please file a report with your local authorities and paste a link to the website you used and the ID number of the report so others may reference it.

[Develop]

bump

[Develop]

Still nothing, no refund.. no Lunar miners, no hashra website.. nothing... file legal actions against Simon.

[Develop]

-BUMP

[Develop]

Any word on the "March shipment!" lol ? File legal actions guys.. it's about all you can do.. other then kiss your money good bye.

[bitcoinreviews]

Let's hire those bounty hunters already

[Develop]

File legal actions against Simon A Bright / Hashra.com below is a list of authoritative bodies.


United States:

https://complaint.ic3.gov/default.aspx

IC3 Complaint: I1410121225127641

United Kingdom

www.actionfraud.police.uk:

National Crime Reference Number: NFRC141000793999

Submitted by user suresync:         NFRC141000796740

Submitted by user onefix:             NFRC141000801205

Submitted by user dafky2000:       NFRC141000802650

Submitted by user Develop:          NFRC141000801250

Submitted by user kalps:              NFRC141000803431
 
                            IC3 Complaint: I1501111152238182

Hong Kong

http://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/02_er_room/

Direct Link
https://secure1.info.gov.hk/police/eforms/report_cyber_crime_en.php

Hong Kong Consumer Council Complaint:

https://www.consumer.org.hk/cc-complaint/index.php?lang=en


I would suggest referencing the above reference numbers as well as including yours in the posting. If we can create a large enough network of these filings it may help trigger some type of action.

Please see this forum thread for reference information regarding Simon Bright's most current contact information:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=601217.580

Please reference it when you submit your report.

Here is the bank information that you can reference in the report:

Beneficiary Bank: HSBC Hong Kong
Beneficiary Bank Address: 1 Queens Road Central, Hong Kong
Country: Hong Kong
Name of Account Holder: HASHRA Limited
Account Number (IBAN): 652303793838
Bank Code: 004
Swift Code (BIC): HSBCHKHHHKH

Here is HASHRA's registered Addresses, business ID numbers, and contact information:

HASHRA Limited

London:
1st Floor, 6-8 Bonhill Street
London, EC2A 4BX.
United Kingdom
UK Company Registration Number: 08828755

Hong Kong:
Level 9, Central Building
1-3 Pedder Street, Central
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Company Registration Number: 2041737

Here is Simon A. Bright's Most Recent Contact information:

Simon Bright
39A Prairie Street
London, London SW8 3PL
United Kingdom
+44 7941159485

Email:
info@hashra.com

If you are located in another country other than the ones listed above please file a report with your local authorities and paste a link to the website you used and the ID number of the report so others may reference it.

[Develop]

-BUMP

[suchmoon]

Anyone surprised by this?

From: HASHRA <info@hashra.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: status report
To: Lifeforcepools <lifeforcepools@gmail.com>


Hi Jeff,

I sincerely apologize for the delay in getting you a status, but we have been working around the clock on the assembly, machines and most importantly testing.

Where we stand right now is that about 50% of the chips were unstable.
We had to test everything thoroughly and the news wasn't great, about 50% of those were also unstable.

We know the chip and the boards can work fine as we have being testing it with exactly the same specifications before but since this batch of chips have been made we have had stability issues with them after 48 hours of testing.

I know this is a real pain for everyone but we have to keep testing to figure out if we need new chips produced or we can use these for at least some of the machines. You will be first to know as we come to some conclusions.

Please bare with us for a few days till we have some more concrete news.

Sorry Jeff.

Simon

[Develop]

file legal actions listed in this thread and others.

[Develop]

Straight rip off, its been over 9 months now.. money is gone.

[suchmoon]

In his latest e-mail lifeforcepools / Jeff Jennings is suddenly talking about Alcheminer. Not sure where that came from but apparently he thinks that Hashra is "building" Scrypt miners using Alcheminer chips. If that's true (which is still doubtful given the sleazy nature of Mr. Jennings) then it's a good news / bad news kind of deal:

1) Good news is that Hashra actually has a chance to deliver something. Alcheminer is a real company with real products.

2) Bad news is everything else. Alcheminer is selling their own products at ~$5 per MH/s now so you could have just saved the money and purchased it now, delivered within a few business days instead of lending your money to Hashra for 9 months. Power consumption is nowhere near what was promised - Alcheminer is around 10W per MH/s, Hashra promised 6W per MH/s. Alcheminer software is awful, doesn't work with anything other than LTC mining (no multipools, no P2P).

So if all this is true then all these delays would turn out to be just a typical scam strategy of collecting money and waiting for the technology to catch up without actually doing anything. Perhaps the original idea was to use Zeus Volcano, which was cancelled. Now the best case scenario is an overpriced substitute with nearly twice the promised power consumption.

[damm315er]

In his latest e-mail lifeforcepools / Jeff Jennings is suddenly talking about Alcheminer. Not sure where that came from but apparently he thinks that Hashra is "building" Scrypt miners using Alcheminer chips. If that's true (which is still doubtful given the sleazy nature of Mr. Jennings) then it's a good news / bad news kind of deal:

1) Good news is that Hashra actually has a chance to deliver something. Alcheminer is a real company with real products.

2) Bad news is everything else. Alcheminer is selling their own products at ~$5 per MH/s now so you could have just saved the money and purchased it now, delivered within a few business days instead of lending your money to Hashra for 9 months. Power consumption is nowhere near what was promised - Alcheminer is around 10W per MH/s, Hashra promised 6W per MH/s. Alcheminer software is awful, doesn't work with anything other than LTC mining (no multipools, no P2P).

So if all this is true then all these delays would turn out to be just a typical scam strategy of collecting money and waiting for the technology to catch up without actually doing anything. Perhaps the original idea was to use Zeus Volcano, which was cancelled. Now the best case scenario is an overpriced substitute with nearly twice the promised power consumption.

Interesting..  I'm also on the lifeforce email list, and haven't received an email that says anything about alcheminer.  Can you post yours?

Now, I also have a thought on whether the Astros thing is actually a scam.  Bear with me for a minute, as I've been on the internet for 20 years now, and ran across quite a few scams.

There is a pattern that is typical among scammers.  They build on hype, then take the money and run.

Credit cards have a 30 day policy for chargebacks and paypal has a 45 day policy about chargebacks, while bitcoin is still a wild frontier and basically has none.  This means that after 45 days, all the pre-purchases for the Astros are basically non-refundable.

If the Astros were a scam, Simon could have run off with all the pre-order money months ago, and just disappeared from the internet, to reappear with a new identity that he could have purchased with the money from the pre-orders.  Yet, he still answers emails, even though he shut his website down.

What is his benefit, were he to be a scammer, to keep answering all this time?  His website is down, therefore there are no more sales to be made with the exception of them still being listed on lifeforce, and lifeforce is only known to a small part of the mining community.  So, there's really no more sales to be made, if a buyer does a google search and finds out about delays.

So, why is he still responding?

Here's my take..  Simon, had a great idea and acted on it, but totally underestimated the complication and difficulties involved in the project..  The problem is, he runs Hashra as a 1 man operation.  He got in way over his head, and instead of hiring someone else with the skill and connections to do the stuff he couldn't handle on his own, he just plowed ahead on his own because of the budget he set for himself by pre-selling a new technology miner at such a low price.  Adding in the Chinese engineering and construction of these units, which in theory is cheap but in reality is a nightmare, he shot himself in the foot.  Actually, both feet, and knees.

That doesn't make him a scammer, just ignorant of the realities of what he got himself involved in.

Poor business management in a very cutthroat society like mining is.

Did he fuck up?  ABSOLUTELY!!

Does he deserve to get beat up over the delays?  ABSOLUTELY!!

Is he a scammer?  I don't think so, as I mentioned above he doesn't fit the profile.  But I am pissed about the delays, just like a lot of others.

Just my 2 cents.

[suchmoon]

Poor business management in a very cutthroat society like mining is.

Did he fuck up?  ABSOLUTELY!!

Does he deserve to get beat up over the delays?  ABSOLUTELY!!

Is he a scammer?  I don't think so, as I mentioned above he doesn't fit the profile.  But I am pissed about the delays, just like a lot of others.

Just my 2 cents.

You have a very lenient definition of a "scam" then. Remember, he hasn't delivered ANYTHING since August last year. It will be a miracle if he comes up with something before 1 year anniversary. And the product would likely be overpriced and not meet specifications - if it's really Alcheminer it has almost twice Hashra's power consumption. In other words, if you lend me 1 Bitcoin until next month, then I drag it out for a year and pay you back 0.5 BTC, am I scammer or not? I could give you a very convincing sob story too, does that make me less of a scammer?

Then there is the lifeforcepools/Jennings guy lying at every turn (note the 5.5W figure in the e-mail below and my screenshot following that). BTW PayPal now gives 180 days for disputes, that's why he's dragging his feet.

Here's the e-mail:


Edited 2020-11-28 to fix a broken image

5.5W at the chip level translates to 8.6W at the wall and in reality it's about 9-10W. Yes, I own Alcheminer hardware.

https://www.alcheminer.com/en/


Edited 2020-11-28 to fix a broken image

[damm315er]

Poor business management in a very cutthroat society like mining is.

Did he fuck up?  ABSOLUTELY!!

Does he deserve to get beat up over the delays?  ABSOLUTELY!!

Is he a scammer?  I don't think so, as I mentioned above he doesn't fit the profile.  But I am pissed about the delays, just like a lot of others.

Just my 2 cents.

You have a very lenient definition of a "scam" then. Remember, he hasn't delivered ANYTHING since August last year. It will be a miracle if he comes up with something before 1 year anniversary. And the product would likely be overpriced and not meet specifications - if it's really Alcheminer it has almost twice Hashra's power consumption. In other words, if you lend me 1 Bitcoin until next month, then I drag it out for a year and pay you back 0.5 BTC, am I scammer or not? I could give you a very convincing sob story too, does that make me less of a scammer?

Then there is the lifeforcepools/Jennings guy lying at every turn (note the 5.5W figure in the e-mail below and my screenshot following that). BTW PayPal now gives 180 days for disputes, that's why he's dragging his feet.

Here's the e-mail:



5.5W at the chip level translates to 8.6W at the wall and in reality it's about 9-10W. Yes, I own Alcheminer hardware.

https://www.alcheminer.com/en/

My definition of scam, is a plan meant to defraud, that is implemented.  Nothing more, nothing less.

I didn't get that email, I'm curious as to why..  

But, my impression from the delays so far, is that that is not the chip used.  Simon mentioned having issues getting chips made.  If he was using Alcheminer chips, he could have just bought them from Alcheminer, or straight from the foundry that made the Alcheminer chips..  Instead the word is that there was a problem with the first batch of chips, and the second batch was better but the board design was bad.  That doesn't add up to him using other known chips.  I'm thinking it was more of a comparison meant to show the hashra chips are more efficient.

My job in analysis..  Observe patterns, find stuff that doesn't fit in, and figure out why, then correct it.  It happens to be something I'm pretty damn good at and made a career out of.  Granted, I do technology not assessments of personalities, but patterns are patterns and anomalies are anomalies, and this doesn't fit into scams for me.  I could very well be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time, but one of very few.  

[e637688]

Well, I have sent Simon the Sleeze email after email and nothing back......my opinion SCAMMER......DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH HASHRA, SIMON OR ANYONE HE IS ASSOCIATED WITH!!!!!

[suchmoon]

My definition of scam, is a plan meant to defraud, that is implemented.  Nothing more, nothing less.

I didn't get that email, I'm curious as to why..  

But, my impression from the delays so far, is that that is not the chip used.  Simon mentioned having issues getting chips made.  If he was using Alcheminer chips, he could have just bought them from Alcheminer, or straight from the foundry that made the Alcheminer chips..  Instead the word is that there was a problem with the first batch of chips, and the second batch was better but the board design was bad.  That doesn't add up to him using other known chips.  I'm thinking it was more of a comparison meant to show the hashra chips are more efficient.

My job in analysis..  Observe patterns, find stuff that doesn't fit in, and figure out why, then correct it.  It happens to be something I'm pretty damn good at and made a career out of.  Granted, I do technology not assessments of personalities, but patterns are patterns and anomalies are anomalies, and this doesn't fit into scams for me.  I could very well be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time, but one of very few.  

I'm not sure who that e-mail was sent to. One of lifeforcepools' customers sends me those e-mails occasionally.

My point is that Simon and Jennings have been lying so many times for so long that it's quite clear they never had a solid plan when they started to collect the money. That is about as fraudulent as it gets, barely short of "take the money and run". What if they couldn't "make the chips" at all? If they do somehow procure the chips will they have enough money to fulfill all orders? BFL made some miners too, doesn't make them any less scammy. Also MAT (another scam vendor Jennings was shilling for) - they delivered a few miners and went bankrupt.

Remember the "shipments went out, tracking numbers will be updated after the weekend" e-mail a couple of months ago? How does that work into the rest of the story? None of it can be trusted.

[damm315er]

Remember the "shipments went out, tracking numbers will be updated after the weekend" e-mail a couple of months ago? How does that work into the rest of the story? None of it can be trusted.

They never said anything shipped, they said they were going to ship.  BIG difference.

Going back to what I said before, why would they perpetuate it?  They have the money, and there is no recourse at this point besides legal, so they could have both disappeared by now. 

They didn't.

Instead Jeff from lifeforce started smarterhash, and has invested quite a bit of money into it, particularly into coding which is not recoverable if he decided to disappear and reuse the servers for something else.

And Simon is taking flack from all sides, it's not surprising that he wouldn't be answering a ton of emails while trying to run his one-man operation.  If he answered every email, how would he get any work done on development of the miners?  Instead, he updates Jeff from time to time, just to have a point of reference to update the outside world.

Sometimes you gotta step back and look at the bigger picture.

In this case, the bigger picture still isn't pretty, and getting uglier by the day.  But that's on Simon..  He made poor business decisions that put him where he is.  Even after he delivers the astro's, the hashra name is mud for delivering them this late.

But then again, most people now have short memory..  If they are what they are supposed to be efficiency-wise, when people price compare he'll sell a ton of them until someone else comes up with better.  Some people will nay-say, but the proof is in the numbers and they will sell.