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February 02, 2020, 07:18:26 AM
#26
I participated in the bounty campaign in bountyhunters.io and I got 1012 Bamboo will you honor all your bounty campaign in bountyhunters.io people worked there to promote your project I hope you honor it and reward us because this is where your first promotion on your project.
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January 28, 2020, 01:34:26 PM
#25
My favorite post in their thread is this one:

agriculture sector.

We have gathered the best knowledge,  created a  guideline and set parameters that will enable our farmers to achieve the highest nutritional....

They are just copy/pasting tidbits of info from somewhere, and copied the last 2 words of a separate paragraph in this one. In this particular instance, the copy/paste is from their white paper. Since they obviously work for this ICO, I'm not certain it could be considered plagiarism, but several of their other non-company related posts contain plagiarism from other sources (not related to the ICO), and they have been reported as such.

We would appreciate you taking all the facts into consideration and agree that any yellow/red flags are no longer deserving and can be removed.  Thank you in advance and we appreciate your cooperation.

Its nice that you are changing your white paper to remove the plagiarized portions but your thread bumpers are still regularly engaging in plagiarism by quoting the plagiarized text from your (old) white paper. Using spammers in such a fashion is a sign of laziness and is a hallmark tactic used by scammers.

You may actually have the best intentions with your project but I suggest you attempt to organically develop a community and field questions from actual Bitcointalk forum members instead of just regurgitating stuff from your white paper.
Thank you very much nutildah for sparing your valuable time to go through our White Paper and for letting us know that our comments are at times text from our white paper. Please note that our White Paper is based on extensive research in this field and encompasses various sections such as the need for a healthcare platform like BAMBOO, our solution approach and our mission to help societies in achieving higher level of wellbeing through BAMBOO platform.

We want to pass on our White Paper information to masses who would eventually be our users and typically do not get enough time to read the entire White Paper. Therefore, sometimes we do take excerpts from our White Paper and make them a part of the thread. However, we do understand your viewpoints and respect them. We will take care of this in the future and will ensure that our comments will not have direct references from our White Paper.

As you have mentioned, we do have the best intentions at all times and firmly believe that a platform like BAMBOO, which is based on the latest technology, has an immense potential to help society in achieving wellbeing.

We really look forward to having a very free and open discussion in this forum and would like to receive your constructive comments which in turn will help us in strengthening BAMBOO further.
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January 25, 2020, 10:43:54 AM
#24
My favorite post in their thread is this one:

agriculture sector.

We have gathered the best knowledge,  created a  guideline and set parameters that will enable our farmers to achieve the highest nutritional....

They are just copy/pasting tidbits of info from somewhere, and copied the last 2 words of a separate paragraph in this one. In this particular instance, the copy/paste is from their white paper. Since they obviously work for this ICO, I'm not certain it could be considered plagiarism, but several of their other non-company related posts contain plagiarism from other sources (not related to the ICO), and they have been reported as such.

We would appreciate you taking all the facts into consideration and agree that any yellow/red flags are no longer deserving and can be removed.  Thank you in advance and we appreciate your cooperation.

Its nice that you are changing your white paper to remove the plagiarized portions but your thread bumpers are still regularly engaging in plagiarism by quoting the plagiarized text from your (old) white paper. Using spammers in such a fashion is a sign of laziness and is a hallmark tactic used by scammers.

You may actually have the best intentions with your project but I suggest you attempt to organically develop a community and field questions from actual Bitcointalk forum members instead of just regurgitating stuff from your white paper.
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January 24, 2020, 07:37:28 AM
#23
Hi all, we are happy to address everything publically and have been doing from the start of this thread (please scroll up to read the entire thread). However, if our public comments are not read and ignored, then the least we can do is message you privately so you can see our reply to you and treat the matter as seriously as we do. Our reputation is EXTREMELY important to us, and this is why (1) we are transparent about all aspects of Bamboo Wellness here and in general, and (2) are happy to actively address the feedback we get from communities, because this gives us the chance to improve. No one is perfect.

For example, we appreciate that you pointed out that some parts of the White Paper were not referenced or as you said ‘plagiarized.’  So we actively worked on making the improvements.  The parts that were not referenced, refer to facts and statistics from government and non-government institutions, and in error, we did not include the references/sources to these statistics. But have fixed this in Version 2 of the WP. The rest of the White Paper which has the core idea, core solutions, vision, future plans, etc is in fact 100% original.

We kindly ask you to read the entire thread and especially THIS POST, and see for yourself that we are a strong company, with impressive partners, support from UN, a reputable team and history behind us and deserve a second chance.  We would appreciate you taking all the facts into consideration and agree that any yellow/red flags are no longer deserving and can be removed.  Thank you in advance and we appreciate your cooperation.
legendary
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January 16, 2020, 06:42:27 AM
#22
Today I have received another PM, now from @thebamboo.io with identical text and asked to reconsider supporting flag decision.

All of you behind Bamboo (even if it seems there is only one person) need to come here in this topic and talk with us. Not through private message.
legendary
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January 16, 2020, 03:23:34 AM
#21
Let's see who opposes the flag apart from bamboo.io
AltairBetelgaize account with two posts, both shilling for 7 seconds...which is a dead project (website,fb) eveything is deleted
museakira78 who is also an account used for shilling projects like diamtoken, guess what...fb, twitter again deleted, token is dead with no transactions for almost 200 days...
Coincidence? Maybe...Probably it was a coincidence that the other projects had also a huge team with same little info about them.....coincidence lets say
But I already supported the flag when this topic was bumped (prior to looking at who opposes it) and I'm not going to change my opinion.
museakira78 and patrickmakdn doing +/- daily bump in bamboo ANN using identical style of posting.
Watching his ANN, also I am sure that flags need to stay on.
ANN bumping almost everyday.
museakira78 is probably one of their dummy accounts or other people paid for ANN bumping and which also leaves some positive feedback on the bamboo.io account which also had a weird reason.

The account accused did some Personal Message me for past and there is new account sent me a PM, which is bizfyn_ru.
I think it is much better if they will post it here in the accusation thread to make clearer for the public, not by sending us some personal messages.


hero member
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January 15, 2020, 11:31:08 AM
#20
Also, I am curious, what would happen if this topic not created? would you make a new one version of WP? Of course, we will never know that.
Looks like it because they've been caught off-handed they'll just take the initiative to revise it wherein if they really are a trusted project in the first place they'll think ahead about this kind of issue.

Coincidence?
More like a paid shill bumpers to me that take a little extra to oppose the flag for a cent.

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We also reached the soft cap! (at 20%).

it is very hard to believe in this.

I doubt that one too and to be honest, haven't heard that exchange yet and still I really doubt that happens. They should prove otherwise that they are a trusted project by delivering it even their trust has been dismantled (though it's really true they plagiarize contents).

I received a PM too but i haven't communicated to the sender yet.
I didn't bother to reply but I've read the whole message and think this kind of thing is better to resolve publicly.
legendary
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January 15, 2020, 11:15:22 AM
#19
Who else has been PM by this user bizfyn_ru about this accusation to them? This message above is directly sent to me and bones261 as we have supported the flag against their project, though my flag will not affect as I'm not on DT. I think to resolve this issue is to talk it here in this thread and I think it is more appropriate to talk it here in forum rather than just messaging privately every user that supported the flag.
I received a PM too but i haven't communicated to the sender yet. I mean if they are serious about resolving the issue then there is no better place than this thread. Sometimes i believe in second chances but it definitely has to be a genuine move before i can remove my support for the flag.
legendary
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January 15, 2020, 10:38:46 AM
#18
Let's see who opposes the flag apart from bamboo.io

AltairBetelgaize account with two posts, both shilling for 7 seconds...which is a dead project (website,fb) eveything is deleted
museakira78 who is also an account used for shilling projects like diamtoken, guess what...fb, twitter again deleted, token is dead with no transactions for almost 200 days...

Coincidence? Maybe...Probably it was a coincidence that the other projects had also a huge team with same little info about them.....coincidence lets say
But I already supported the flag when this topic was bumped (prior to looking at who opposes it) and I'm not going to change my opinion.


museakira78 and patrickmakdn doing +/- daily bump in bamboo ANN using identical style of posting.
Watching his ANN, also I am sure that flags need to stay on.

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We also reached the soft cap! (at 20%).

it is very hard to believe in this.
legendary
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Jambler.io
January 15, 2020, 10:20:01 AM
#17
Let's see who opposes the flag apart from bamboo.io

AltairBetelgaize account with two posts, both shilling for 7 seconds...which is a dead project (website,fb) eveything is deleted
museakira78 who is also an account used for shilling projects like diamtoken, guess what...fb, twitter again deleted, token is dead with no transactions for almost 200 days...

Coincidence? Maybe...Probably it was a coincidence that the other projects had also a huge team with same little info about them.....coincidence lets say
But I already supported the flag when this topic was bumped (prior to looking at who opposes it) and I'm not going to change my opinion.
legendary
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January 15, 2020, 09:14:04 AM
#16
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Who else has been PM by this user bizfyn_ru about this accusation to them? This message above is directly sent to me and bones261 as we have supported the flag against their project, though my flag will not affect as I'm not on DT. I think to resolve this issue is to talk it here in this thread and I think it is more appropriate to talk it here in forum rather than just messaging privately every user that supported the flag.

I have also received this PM from bizfyn_ru to delete my flag support to the user thebamboo.io
I agree with you, they need to start from here if they want to do something with his reputation.

After reviewing this topic and @bizfyn_ru fingering to his problem, I still see no reason to oppose support to this flag. This flag is because of plagiarism and questionable team member, as I know it is are the first signs of fraud in the announcement. Creating new WP (after scam accusation) can not annul that you are started with stealing someone's work and represent it as yours.
Also, I am curious, what would happen if this topic not created? would you make a new one version of WP? Of course, we will never know that.

Potential investors need to know if the project has any problem and to recognize if there is a risk.
hero member
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January 15, 2020, 06:30:21 AM
#15
Hi there!

I am the Bamboo project representative (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5171420.220).

You pushed a "support" to our yellow flag (right there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2652635), but there's no reason for it because it no longer holds the truth. You may ask "what? give me the proofs man", and that's why we kindly ask you to read this message below (which you can also find at the Scam Accusation thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bamboo-bbo-plagiarized-whitepaper-5172793). Need to be mentioned, like 4 users already removed their red trusts, and only 2 people left, but we are blocked by them everywhere and that's why it will take some time to contact them, but we are sure: they will delete their red trusts as well, meaning in total that publicity trusts us and people on our side.
We also reached the soft cap! (at 20%).
https://www.cgcx.io/market/bamboo-token
This would be unreachable for a scam project.

You can also help us if you'll forward this message to these two people since we need to contact them somehow (we are blocked everywhere by them and never received an answer to our last message with facts and explanation), but it's all up to you (but your help will be immeasurably appreciated).

Two users, who completely ignore us everywhere:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/greatarkansas-1164368 | GreatArkansas
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/aundroid-1015954 | aundroid

Here it is:

The below message is long but is worth a read.

As you have noticed, the reason we have messaged you so many times (and you ignore all of our messages) is because the red trust you have left for WP plagiarism and team has been addressed and 100% resolved.

See the LinkedIn of our team members,  and the new WP here: https://tokensale.thebamboo.io/documents/Bamboo_White_Paper.pdf 

For an instance, your red trust and the yellow flag NO LONGER holds true. We appreciate you warning the community of any ‘red flags’ where they are deservant as more than 90% of projects these days are scams, however real, authentic and long-term vision projects deserve a chance, and BAMBOO is that project.  If we didn’t care about our reputation and community support, we would not pay attention to your comments and just ignore them.  We have addressed all your comments, and so it is only fair that you do the same. 

As per our many private messages to you, please consider:

When the WP V1 was prepared, the writer, in error, omitted to reference some parts of the WP.  The information that was not referenced was research, statistics and facts from government, health and non-governmental organizations.  All other information in the WP is original and the project is 100% authentic with a very strong backing.   If we wanted to plagiarize intentionally, we would plagiarize other things as well. The omission of references was never intentional, and the team failed to notice this unfortunately before the WP was released.  When the sale was open to the public, the WP was already corrected.

The vision and mission of Bamboo is 100% authentic and original, with the very strong backing from Archipelago Group, which is well funded business that is generating a total revenue of USD205.7 Million in the past 5 years, USD 20 Billion of Total Sums Insured Managed over the last 5 years, and has over 2 million customers which Bamboo has access to.  Only a HANDFUL of all blockchain startups have such strong team and ecosystems behind them.  We are not here for a quick buck, we are here for the long term, to bring a healthier life to everyone, even those that can’t afford it!

In September, 2019, the United Nations invited Bamboo to the UN General Assembly (UNGA 74) Media Zone where Bamboo discussed the project on a panel in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals 3.8.1 - 3.8.2.  Here's the video proof:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=Dkv_gy192FY  As you can imagine, UN does extreme due diligence on all the projects they work with, and if they though BAMBOO could not be trusted they would not work with us. 

Bamboo also has multiple existing partnerships with respectable companies, and we will be announcing many more in the next few months. You can verify this information on our website and also through MoUs we have signed.  If we were here for the quick buck, would we care to go through all the trouble and work to sign contract with 25 reputable partners?

It is clear that BAMBOO is a serious, long-term vision start-up backed by a strong and successful institution. I don’t know what further evidence you need in order to remove your red flag, but do let us know and we would consider it.  It is clear that we care about our reputation, and that we pay careful attention to the constructive criticism from the public, because at the end of the day, BAMBOO is here for the people.  We are trying to make something good in this world by making other people’s lives better, to help them live longer and happier. If you don’t support our mission, that is perfectly fine. But please consider others who actually NEED our ecosystem to live a better life.

Who else has been PM by this user bizfyn_ru about this accusation to them? This message above is directly sent to me and bones261 as we have supported the flag against their project, though my flag will not affect as I'm not on DT. I think to resolve this issue is to talk it here in this thread and I think it is more appropriate to talk it here in forum rather than just messaging privately every user that supported the flag.
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November 13, 2019, 11:17:10 AM
#14
Its seems Bamboo is promoted by Bounty Hunter, here is link : https://bountyhunters.io/campaigns/Bamboo. I have tagged Bounty Hunter previously for private key issue. They were quite shady from the beginning.
(...)
Exactly, that user also keeps PMing me about the plagiarized whitepaper issue. They keep telling they already have their another version of their whitepaper, look also above their post.
For me, it will never change anymore even they will create a hundred version of their whitepaper since they already intended to plagiarized at beginning.

The below message is long but is worth a read.

As you have noticed, the reason we have messaged you so many times (and you ignore all of our messages) is because the red trust you have left for WP plagiarism and team has been addressed and 100% resolved. 

See the LinkedIn of our team members,  and the new WP here: https://tokensale.thebamboo.io/documents/Bamboo_White_Paper.pdf   

For an instance, your red trust and the yellow flag NO LONGER holds true. We appreciate you warning the community of any ‘red flags’ where they are deservant as more than 90% of projects these days are scams, however real, authentic and long-term vision projects deserve a chance, and BAMBOO is that project.  If we didn’t care about our reputation and community support, we would not pay attention to your comments and just ignore them.  We have addressed all your comments, and so it is only fair that you do the same.   

As per our many private messages to you, please consider:

When the WP V1 was prepared, the writer, in error, omitted to reference some parts of the WP.  The information that was not referenced was research, statistics and facts from government, health and non-governmental organizations.  All other information in the WP is original and the project is 100% authentic with a very strong backing.   If we wanted to plagiarize intentionally, we would plagiarize other things as well. The omission of references was never intentional, and the team failed to notice this unfortunately before the WP was released.  When the sale was open to the public, the WP was already corrected.

The vision and mission of Bamboo is 100% authentic and original, with the very strong backing from Archipelago Group, which is well funded business that is generating a total revenue of USD205.7 Million in the past 5 years, USD 20 Billion of Total Sums Insured Managed over the last 5 years, and has over 2 million customers which Bamboo has access to.  Only a HANDFUL of all blockchain startups have such strong team and ecosystems behind them.  We are not here for a quick buck, we are here for the long term, to bring a healthier life to everyone, even those that can’t afford it!

In September, 2019, the United Nations invited Bamboo to the UN General Assembly (UNGA 74) Media Zone where Bamboo discussed the project on a panel in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals 3.8.1 - 3.8.2.  Here's the video proof:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=Dkv_gy192FY  As you can imagine, UN does extreme due diligence on all the projects they work with, and if they though BAMBOO could not be trusted they would not work with us.   

Bamboo also has multiple existing partnerships with respectable companies, and we will be announcing many more in the next few months. You can verify this information on our website and also through MoUs we have signed.  If we were here for the quick buck, would we care to go through all the trouble and work to sign contract with 25 reputable partners?

It is clear that BAMBOO is a serious, long-term vision start-up backed by a strong and successful institution. I don’t know what further evidence you need in order to remove your red flag, but do let us know and we would consider it.  It is clear that we care about our reputation, and that we pay careful attention to the constructive criticism from the public, because at the end of the day, BAMBOO is here for the people.  We are trying to make something good in this world by making other people’s lives better, to help them live longer and happier. If you don’t support our mission, that is perfectly fine. But please consider others who actually NEED our ecosystem to live a better life.
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November 11, 2019, 12:06:28 AM
#13
Its seems Bamboo is promoted by Bounty Hunter, here is link : https://bountyhunters.io/campaigns/Bamboo. I have tagged Bounty Hunter previously for private key issue. They were quite shady from the beginning.
(...)
Exactly, that user also keeps PMing me about the plagiarized whitepaper issue. They keep telling they already have their another version of their whitepaper, look also above their post.
For me, it will never change anymore even they will create a hundred version of their whitepaper since they already intended to plagiarized at beginning.

In the first place they should know that if they plagiarized, people will lose trust on their project, whitepaper is very important because this is where all housed the relevant information of the project and every crowdfunding project, must know this is an integral part of crowdfunding, are they so ignorant on this sections and they did not drop on this sections to see many projects are ruined because of plagiarism, now they are one of the list.
legendary
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November 10, 2019, 06:50:53 PM
#12
Its seems Bamboo is promoted by Bounty Hunter, here is link : https://bountyhunters.io/campaigns/Bamboo. I have tagged Bounty Hunter previously for private key issue. They were quite shady from the beginning.
(...)
Exactly, that user also keeps PMing me about the plagiarized whitepaper issue. They keep telling they already have their another version of their whitepaper, look also above their post.
For me, it will never change anymore even they will create a hundred version of their whitepaper since they already intended to plagiarized at beginning.
legendary
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November 10, 2019, 02:03:48 AM
#11
Its seems Bamboo is promoted by Bounty Hunter, here is link : https://bountyhunters.io/campaigns/Bamboo. I have tagged Bounty Hunter previously for private key issue. They were quite shady from the beginning. They don't like to do their own diligence about projects, otherwise how a project with plagiarized whitepaper promoting by them?  All hunters should avoid them otherwise just would be waste of time.
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October 16, 2019, 06:41:01 AM
#10
Hello once again!

WP v.2.0 has been released!
https://tokensale.thebamboo.io

All the previous concerns (missing references in the White Paper and Bamboo Team updating their LinkedIn) have been addressed. We appreciate your diligence and attention, and your feedback is always welcomed and appreciated as we continue to improve the Bamboo project in all ways possible.

Thanks again!

newbie
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August 23, 2019, 06:00:12 AM
#9
It has been brought to our attention that some of the content in the White Paper Version 1.1 was not referenced. Thank you very much for noticing this! We are addressing this as we speak and will update you as soon as the references are added. Also, we are in the process of finalizing version 2.0 of the White Paper and will share it with you very soon!
You really intended it to plagiarized, even you will create a version 9999.999 of your whitepaper, you really did plagiarism and in that action, people will doubt on your project, especially on your upcoming ICO.
Are you really creating version 2.0 of your whitepaper or you just said because there are some contents in your whitepaper are plagiarized?


Nice job buddy keep it up you fake projects need to be clean from this forum since last couple of years many fake projects scammed peoples through posting here keep it up
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August 15, 2019, 06:40:41 AM
#8
The interesting thing that you have a huge team on your website. but in your LinkedIn account, no one from that team was been mentioned. There are other members were mentioned as Bamboo team members..

Website



LinkedIn Account






LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thebamboo/people/

I'm starting to doubt this project. So when will be this version 2.0 will be release?
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August 13, 2019, 12:34:15 PM
#7
The interesting thing that you have a huge team on your website. but in your LinkedIn account, no one from that team was been mentioned. There are other members were mentioned as Bamboo team members..

Website



LinkedIn Account






LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thebamboo/people/
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