I recieved this message today in the bitcointalk forum:
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NVO project is one of the largest frauds to take place to date.The "milestones" are only used as a pretext for extracting and misappropriating millions of dollars of investors money in unjust enrichment of a group of scammers who had no intention of finishing this project.This is all an act or drama they are playing out now in order to close in huge profit playing good cop/bad cop between themselves.The argument between the devs is only an excuse/smokescreen so they can walk free and clear with millions of dollars and hand you back a pittance after using your coins for over a year with bitcoin multiplying in price and stealing all the forks from those coins.
It is fraud and theft on a massive scale.
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I contacted my lawyer who now makes contact to a specialist for economic crime in the eu - i am willing to fill a lawsuit in the European Union against all members of the nvo board and also against the escrow - i don´t know if any of them lives in Europe, but i hope so. The first step is to file charges at the police in Germany, which will be done today. I have a pretty good legal expenses insurance which will pay for the lawyers - i would be even fine with a legal settlement, but i would prefer to see some of these scammers in court.
it´s not even about the money, i "only" invested 2 btc - but i am so pissed about this team, the miscommunication and where all this led to. Nevertheless, i am not very confident that this will head anywhere - but at least i will give it a try.
I think the team only developed the "wallet" for the milestone. The escrow holds still most of the coins - so the escrow is also in possession of the fork money (BCC, BCG, BCD etc.) - they have no right to keep that money.
I liked the concept too, but this smells all too fishy - the delays, tswrs shilling, the murder story told by ton, the story that imed is a psychopath, the disappear of yanni and so on - that all sounds like a very bad mexican daily soap.
Just fyi.
I applaud your decision to take legal action against these people. Many of the investors got confused, scammed or simply have reconciled with fact that their investment is complete loss and the project won't be viable. I hope more victims will follow your example and proceed like you. Remember that 3% of the ICO contributors haven't received their tokens yet and now the team is using them most probably to cast votes for refund and enrich themselves even more.