I've been hesitant to jump on the scam bandwagon. However, given in particular that Phonetic is logging on to this site and not giving out any information, it's seeming more and more likely that our DOGE are gone (losing about 100k myself).
So if it turns out to be a coin grab by Phonetic, what do you think about this?
We pool resources to finance a lawyer (which shouldn't be hard - google "internet fraud lawyer"). Maybe we can even get one to do it for free since it'd probably make headlines, being associated with Bitcoin - not to mention an Internet meme - what a great story!
As far as dealing with the lawyer, I'm guessing that, first things first, we'd need to know if this whole thing falls under Internet fraud. If so, we might be able to track Phonetic down. It might hinge on an account that I'm hoping belongs to Phonetic. In his
profile, he has a link to a Dogecoin
t-shirt for sale at Teespring. Teespring is a
US-based company. Hopefully Phonetic is a US citizen as well, else I'm guessing we've got little to no chance of recourse. The Teespring FAQ sates that they do allow international seller accounts but they do
require an associated PayPal address.
Googling the Teespring Dogecoin t-shirt URL will only give you links back to Phonetic, so I think that's a good sign that the account belongs to him.
Anyway, if we can get the lawyer to get a subpoena for the account information from Teespring (and/or PayPal), we might be in business.
Not sure where it'd go from there but that's what the lawyer would be for. FBI Internet fraud?
I'm pretty sure that Internet fraud in the US carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment plus restitution for a first offense.
Obviously it's not a matter of money for me, just principle.
is this a serious question?
