..............CLOSED..............
As stated by Darkstar and Sparkit, we are currently discussing and have been discussing this whole situation via telegram. Myself, Lauda, Minerjones, Sparkit, Darkstar, Superwoot, and Lutpin are the participants in the discussion.
We have control of 7btc currently. This was the amount invested as of this morning. All of the funds invested past 3am EST we had no connection with. We are currently waiting to hear from Mr Joel_Janston as well. He has been MIA for 24 hours, at least on his main account.
I have tagged Joel and the Ascendancyteam accounts as i believe none of the rest of the users mentioned above are involved in the scam. The 8 hour window before funds were transferred opened up possibilities we didnt forsee obviously. We were talking with the team on skype right up until 10 minutes before the website went down. Nothing seemed fishy at all. Least not in my mind.
As far as the 7btc is concerned, we are discussion the appropriate course of action to take. Should we just refund the users that invested this 7btc? Should we give everyone who can prove they invested a %? I personally think since we never controlled the later investments then we should only refund the investors whos money we controlled.
Ill update this thread with any other information we come up with when we reach a decision or whatnot.
I apologize to everyone involved in the shit end of the deal. We obviously didnt expect this to happen
So here:
This bounties thread are now closed because the project is now (I assume) discontinued due to the devs ( Andrewpenn and Richard Aldridge ) are officially the thieves of this project as for the recent update from Lauda
Yes, I'm working on everything.
One of the thieves has contacted me; they are very sorry and have already apologized to me:
- The damage is nowhere near as suspected; it looks like the data on the website was faked (less than 8 BTC was stolen; our Google Form does confirm this story so far as < 5 BTC was reported).
- "Andrew Penn" has paid back ~4.3 BTC to the escrow address (https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/5be2f935373fc19789199622a4792668c20a05f6705d7663df3a387851b43ccb) and another ~3.2 BTC + funds for campaigns is due (taken by "Richard").
- It is not exactly known who Richard is at this time, and it looks like he suckered in this young individual into an "easy money scheme".
We are trying to figure out everything and calculate repayment options. In the most optimal scenario, investors should expect a maximum of ~3-4% loss rate at (escrow fees as per agreement, TX fees and/or other cost). Worst case scenario estimate (if the first point is is true) right now is a loss of ~25% per investment.
This situation can be solved as I had previously anticipated. People tend to make mistakes.
Please do not file any reports, and remain patient. Please submit the Google Form if you have been scammed / invested on Friday (after 8 AM GMT):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGaaai3TRKnag0G8jvG_9qmJnLkMFsx2yHPTTJpvDp1ZYXOg/viewform?c=0&w=1
The current situation is now: some of the investor's funds have been returned to the escrows' address. We're (probably) not going to deduct any amounts from this funds and will be facing the worst situation which is
will not be paid because we're actually promised will be paid in ASC token which is now worthless and inexistent. For further updates, I will post in this thread.
Update: I've got some information from the team who are investigating the issues and we will not receive anything as a reward because as you know, we're only promised ASC token rewards, therefore, we will not receive any rewards in form of bitcoin and seem to receive none, Apology for wasting your time in this campaign and completing many tasks which ended up become nothing.
