I am reading on the Asset Forum that the BurstVest-Asset from DDOS is a probable scam. Why did noone talking here talking about? I know vella invested "heavy" in this one. Is it verified or what are the reasons for calling this a scam? Buying some more just a few days ago. This fucking shit of scam disrupts cryptocurrency.
The whole scam unraveled after user "username" posted a picture of his supposed miner that was backing his "UMine Big Dual Mining Asset".
http://forums.burst-team.us:4567/topic/1289/scam-umine-big-dual-mining-asset Someone noticed that there were Cyrillic labels on the shelves behind this rig that was supposedly in Lansing, Michigan. Some Google Image searching showed this was a picture from a system review done in Russia. "Username" was never seen again after that. One of the other forums members, gpedro, did some digging and found that several assets, all run by "different" users, were all transferring the asset purchase funds to the same Poloniex account. These included:
- The gDaily asset
http://forums.burst-team.us:4567/topic/1294/scam-new-gdaily-asset/36 run by "goody"
- the Kmining asset
http://forums.burst-team.us:4567/topic/1251/scam-new-kmining-asset/6 run by KevinFML
With this knowledge that these assets were most likely scams - and I have to say, good scam. He actually paid out in the beginning. - I dug deeper. I pulled the account info for all the forum users, then wrote an app to flag different users that were sharing the same IP addresses. This showed that Username/Goody/KevinFML were only three of the nineteen accounts this person created. One of those nineteen accounts was "ddos", who had launched the BurstVest asset about a month earlier.
I'll be taking a closer look at any asset issuers from now on, and if any raise red flags, then I'll post in the asset thread.
My post from the forums:
Well it seems our scammer was a very busy individual. He has/had 19 accounts, one of which I banned for spamming. A little bit of digging into the guy shows: It looks like he attends Louisiana Tech, has an AT&T phone, has Suddenlink Communications as an ISP, uses a VPN called NorthGhost and possibly has a virtual server with a firm called LogicWeb. Anyone wishing to dig further, go for it.
The accounts are, well were, they'll all be banned soon:
Username: "158.69.119.171","196.53.32.12","173.217.226.92"
Goody: "158.69.119.171"
KevinFML: "196.53.32.11","158.69.119.171","173.217.226.92","173.30.217.79","138.47.157.205"
ddos: "158.69.119.171","173.217.226.92","173.30.217.79","107.77.199.80"
ThatGuy: "158.69.119.171"
BITOPPERTUNITIES: "173.217.226.92"
Bum: "173.217.226.92"
Burst: "173.217.226.92"
BusyBee: "173.217.226.92"
FinalBurst: "173.217.226.92"
HamsterMuffin: "173.217.226.92"
InternetOfHub: "173.30.217.79","173.217.226.92"
Jerry: "173.217.226.92"
MuffinMan: "173.217.226.92"
PancakeFlipper: "173.217.226.92"
Physical: "173.217.226.92"
Queasy: "173.217.226.92"
Significant: "173.217.226.92"
Wandering: "173.217.226.92"
If the ddos name seems familiar, its because he launched the BurstVest asset about a month ago. Although there have been some payments from the asset, it has to be assumed it's also a scam.
Given that 173.217.226.92 maps back to a Louisiana ISP, one of the other addresses is a Louisiana Tech WiFi, it's pretty unlikely that these shared addresses are a coincidence, and "ddos" using two of the same IP's as "username" seals it.
ddos is/was a scammer.
H.