Bitconnect.com (which may have just been an affiliate of .co but still redirects to a bitconnect page) had the same owners as ethconnect.net (that shut down) although I can't really go into all the proof of that now (it includes the logo of ethconnect.net being on the ethconnect.com site well before it was on the .net site and the .com is definitely linked to bitconnect.com). Saw someone post this about the ethconnect owner on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTHVLwuv190The name of the guy who ran the Ethconnect scam, and in fact apparently runs many scams, is Yair Shalev
Here is the Ethconnect ICANN lookup. He obviously proxies the name registration information because he's a scammer and doesn't want to be identified. However, ICANN still requires a registration contact number. He gave the same (probablypre-paid cell phone) that he gives for all of his scam domain registrations. (this will come up in a minute)
ICANN lookup:
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=www.ethconnect.netSo, a quick google search of the number registered on the Ethconnect ICANN registration brings up the name "Yair Shalev", mostly in the context of a known fraudster/ mass spammer listed on "Spamhaus" who has had the FTC bring charges against him in the past for defrauding people with fake correspondence from the government regarding the Affordable Care Act and health care. Apparently what he does (since he is blacklisted from many places from renting servers, domain registrations etc.) is he pays some poor hispanic local who isn't blacklisted in Florida where he lives to use their credit card for registration of the domains needed in his spamming operations or whatever scam he is trying to pull off at the time.
The ICANN is another dead giveaway that he is indeed in America because the phone number which he registers his scam domains with has a +1 before it (this is the number +1.4806242599) which in the national phone format indicates that the number is from the U.S. (or possibly Canada). Again, this is the contact for all of his scam domains as can be seen on Spamhaus.
Main Yair info from Spamhaus -
https://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/evidence/ROK8847/yair-shalev-kobeni-solutions/main-infoSpamhouse link with his domains and reused contact number -
https://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/evidence/ROK8859/yair-shalev-kobeni-solutions/kobeni-solutions-domainsMore information:
His facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/yair.shalev.7?lst=100022340060935%3A722526248%3A1516153462His wife's facebook where he is clearly visible in pictures:
https://www.facebook.com/tali.shalev.1Florida address of his 1.9 million dollar home:
845 Meridian Ln
Hollywood, FL 33019
(
https://www.whitepages.com/address/845-Meridian-Ln/Hollywood-FL)
His Landline numbers:
954-457-3885
954-924-1027
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Yair-Shalev-Shalev/Hollywood-FL/uc9c9kvThis guy's whole "japanese" schtick was just to make people think he couldn't be found and prosecuted. He lives in Florida with his wife Tali and has been scamming people with cyber scams for years. Just look at the court documents and judgments entered against him on his scamhaus page.
Ethconnect and mmm.co and bitconnect.com (maybe not the real .co) are related :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C43Ra5AXBmsActually, some bitconnect.com URLs (all 404s or not found ones) redirected to mmm.co at one point too which proves the connection to ethconnect.
Actually, I think the phone number is just what is used automatically for private registration so it's probably not that guy. Ethconnect.com is still linked to Bitconnect.com