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Further Discussions => Reputation, Scams & Phishing => Topic started by: felixesteban on April 19, 2018, 01:22:17 AM
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This is a pretty wild case: A shifty cryptocurrency startup which used a stock photo of Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling for the headshot of their lead graphic designer has managed to raise almost a million in an initial coin offering (ICO).
Miroskii – as the company is called – has since attracted the attention of Reddit with its crafty marketing shenanigans.
But things actually get worse: as pointed out by numerous users on Reddit and Twitter, it appears that the shady cryptocurrency startup used ripped images for pretty much all of its team members.
But unlike the fake Gosling – who goes by the name Kevin Belanger according to Miroskii – the rest of stolen photos featured no celebrities.
CNET has since dug up more evidence showing that pretty much every photo which appears on Miroskii has been snatched from real people (with different names) who have nothing to do with blockchain or cryptocurrency.
Here are a few examples:
But if this wasn’t enough, there are even more red flags.
Miroskii has yet to share its white paper with its investors. Its website reads that the company will offer users their “own decentralized bank” with support for credit and debit card providers like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express, but its white paper is still “coming soon.”
Instead, all investors have to consult with when making a decision whether or not to pledge their money is a shoddy roadmap, with practically no informational value whatsoever:
“Miroskii Coin is developed and brought to business by the experts from China, Hongkong, Singapore and Japan to ease the crypto revolution in financial products,” the company’s marketing promises. “It is developed under its own highly secure encrypted decentralized blockchain technology.”
“Miroskii coin is been tested, approved and accepted by most of the industry giants who has already started using the MRC (Miroskii Coin) in their closed B2B sector,” it continues. “As per the high demand from these industries we were requested to start the first ICO stage for intuitional companies only.”
“Its time to be a part of the Crypto Revolution,” it concludes. The typo is theirs, for what it’s worth.
But here is the most shocking part: this fraudulent effort has raked in more than $830,000 from over 380 naive investors.
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/03/05/ryan-gosling-cryptocurrency-ico