Topic: Bamboo (BBO) - Plagiarized Whitepaper (Read 952 times)

My favorite post in their thread is this one:


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.


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.

agriculture sector.

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

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.

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.

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.

Coincidence?

it is very hard to believe in this.

I received a PM too but i haven't communicated to the sender yet.

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.

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.

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

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.

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:

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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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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.

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.

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.
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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?

Are you really creating version 2.0 of your whitepaper or you just said because there are some contents in your whitepaper are plagiarized?

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!

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