I feel SYNC and PURE might be from the same dev. Look at the wallet screenshots
I would stay away from PURE...it screams scam worse than this one does. Even if its not a scam, the whole VISA card thing is a big red flag...basically the dev is trying to act like an exchange of currency between PURE and USD. That breaks all sorts of laws. Charlie Shrem (among others) is facing prison for this. Either the dev is not aware of what he is doing or is perfectly aware and does not care...either way its best to stay away.
And its unlikely that one developer would steal a wallet from an obscure coin like Sync days after it was released. This is probably the same developer. Or at the very least somebody who has been heavily involved in Sync thus far.
What kind of laws are you referring to? I think dollars are free to exchange in the Eurozone, and especially if they are working together with a licensed bank which it appears to by the access to chipcards. This is Germany, remember, not Texas!
In order to exchange currency you need to register as a money transmitter. They plan to operate a website where this exchange takes place. In order for it to be legal, they need to register appropriately and they will be subject to a number of regulations/taxes
http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.htmlThe relevant part here is under "Administrators and Exchangers of Virtual Currency" in the document.
Where they are located does not matter if they conduct any business at all in the US. I don't know what other country's policies are but FINCEN will ruin your day here in the US. Also, VISA is an American company and subject to the same laws. If they get wind of this happening they will shut it down immediately. They could be on the hook for money laundering charges if something goes bad.
I know you Americans like to apply your laws on Europe, but the world isn't yours just yet. Visa is just a service making agreed currencies available for banks and it's the banks themselves that do the transaction in whatever currency. This "exchange" has nothing to do with Visa and I'm sure this coin provider has an agreement with a bank performing that last bit of the transaction.
Finland has a Bitcoin ATM, did you know that?
And don't forget that your states recently declared Bitcoin a "commodity". There's nothing more suspicious about paying dollars for Pure than paying dollars for rice...
This might be a long and boring case for the courthouses, but this is more or less the arguments I would use to defend against your lawyer
But thanks for the warning anyways, I'll be ready to sell in case it all goes pear-shaped