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Topic: Bankera Scam project by Vytautas Karalevičius & Mantas Mockevičius (Read 30864 times)

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Be nice
Do us all a favor and report them as scammers where you can so they cant continue with their criminal activity using their social networks

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bankera/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/spectrocoin/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vytautas-karalevicius

https://www.instagram.com/vytautas.karalevicius

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mantasmockevicius

https://www.instagram.com/mantas.mockevicius

etc.

These guys robbed people of USD 150 Million and have fancy websites where they brag about how good businessmen and how smart they are. Its disgusting to see the immorality.
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Related to # 104

"As Bankera, SpectroCoin and Pervesk belong to the same group of companies owned by Mantas, Justas and Vytautas, such corporate structure, allows the founding team to separate risks associated with virtual currencies from regulated entities; hence, to be fully compliant with legal requirements and at the same time offer the best services to the clients with minimal reliance on 3rd party service providers."

We register who stands behind Pervesk - same dubious people how behind Spectrocoin and Bankera and Pacific Private Bank. Why did they found Bankera when Spectrocoin and Pervesk already are acting in the same financial sector? I think only for collecting money in ICO, trading BNK token (not regulated!) and preparing them for a "pump and dump scheme", and probably also for money laundering, as it´s already the case with well known tokens of TRON or VIBE or ...
at least fifty others ALT coins.


"...fully compliant with legal requirements ..."  Grin
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Bankera is proud to announce a Partnership with an Electronic Money Institution licensed in the EU

We are proud to announce a huge step towards a fully functioning banking-service platform tailored for the blockchain era. In line with our original intentions, the electronic money functionality is planned to be added to Bankera’s ecosystem through a partnership with Pervesk (the word “pervesk” means “to transfer” in Lithuanian) which is an electronic money institution licensed in EU since late 2017 and has the right to provide electronic money services across Europe with ambitions to grow into a bank one day. In a nutshell, Pervesk will provide a gateway to fiat currency payment services while Bankera and SpectroCoin will stick to virtual currency services.

In fact, our current product, SpectroCoin, has been cooperating with Pervesk for some time. Since we have an extensive experience with such partnerships, especially in the areas of KYC and AML, we are certain that Bankera will deliver the best possible product for banking in the blockchain era. As Bankera, SpectroCoin and Pervesk belong to the same group of companies owned by Mantas, Justas and Vytautas, such corporate structure, allows the founding team to separate risks associated with virtual currencies from regulated entities; hence, to be fully compliant with legal requirements and at the same time offer the best services to the clients with minimal reliance on 3rd party service providers

https://blog.bankera.com/2018/06/04/bankera-is-proud-to-announce-a-partnership-with-an-electronic-money-institution-licensed-in-the-eu/
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21ST FEBRUARY 2018 BY BANKERA
Listing Bankera’s Tokens: BNKs will be available at HitBTC
Our community members frequently ask about the listing of Banker (BNK) token on external exchanges. Today, we have great news! Bankera has finalized an agreement with one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, HitBTC. It means that BNK tokens will be listed on the HitBTC exchange.

Until now no listing, no trade!
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How does one stay ahead of the public? :-)
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I need to wait a few days to be able to check some things, my bank account is empty  -_-'

In the end this is all legit, so it will be impossible to put any real claim of wrongdoing on it.  It might be that the only clue the future gives about what happens in the company is by the movement of their offices and assets. It is interesting to follow this though, because the nature of (white collar) fiscal fraud is that it tends to remain ahead of the rules.

How does one stay ahead of the rules?
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I´ve puzzled ...

why Vilius Kavaliauskas has sold his Pacific Private Bank to the founders of Spectrocoin/Bankera, and I could find out only one plausible reason:
Spectrocoin/Bankera is strategically interesting for Lewben Group. The price for Pacific Private Bank could have been the secret integration of Spectrocoin/Bankera in Lewben Group. Lewben Group never reports its holdings in other companies!

Under this point of view Pacific Private Bank would farther stay at Lewben Group. The "acquisition" is only an eyewash for the public.

It's not even an eyewash, because mr. Kavaliauskas remains a sitting board member of the bank. That can be a legitimate way to structure one's interest in several parties. However, there is much more to this. Ask yourselves, what is this Lewben group?

What are we seeing here? A company?

The trade register in The Netherlands holds several entries related to the Lewben group, of which the most notable are probably the holdings, https://www.kvk.nl/zoeken/?source=all&q=lewben&start=0&site=kvk2014

Here's the main registrant's address / office seat:

https://www.instantstreetview.com/@52.365573,4.891106,343.9h,20.58p,1z

I can tell you right now.

This is textbook tax evasion.

There are several routes, but it will probably work like this:

- Company comes here and registers a holding or a similar construction

- Company uses a mechanism in the taxation system that is called [deelnemersvrijstelling], which basically is the exemption from taxation (for the holding) if taxation is done already, in another jurisdiction for example. It is a mechanism to prevent double taxations when doing a lot of transactions between or within companies here that do international business.

- Company will then notify the tax collector of this, and show that they pay tax in The Cayman Islands, Malta, Cyprus or wherever. The tax over there just happens to be 0% or extremely extremely low.

Done.

100% legit, no questions asked.
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I´ve puzzled ...

why Vilius Kavaliauskas has sold his Pacific Private Bank to the founders of Spectrocoin/Bankera, and I could find out only one plausible reason:
Spectrocoin/Bankera is strategically interesting for Lewben Group. The price for Pacific Private Bank could have been the secret integration of Spectrocoin/Bankera in Lewben Group. Lewben Group never reports its holdings in other companies!

Under this point of view Pacific Private Bank would farther stay at Lewben Group. The "acquisition" is only an eyewash for the public.

k, I send you a reply by private message, but somehow I messed up the message. Gimme a minute :p
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I think that this project is definitively a SCAM project. No news, no improvement.

Its right that the Bank acquisition in Vanuatu island did only for clear the image. If someone is interested i sell all my tokens. PM me if interested.

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I´ve puzzled ...

why Vilius Kavaliauskas has sold his Pacific Private Bank to the founders of Spectrocoin/Bankera, and I could find out only one plausible reason:
Spectrocoin/Bankera is strategically interesting for Lewben Group. The price for Pacific Private Bank could have been the secret integration of Spectrocoin/Bankera in Lewben Group. Lewben Group never reports its holdings in other companies!

Under this point of view Pacific Private Bank would farther stay at Lewben Group. The "acquisition" is only an eyewash for the public.
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Further background information about the Pacific Private Bank deal

"The founders of Lithuania-based ´cryptocurrency bank´ Bankera have acquired the Pacific Private Bank, operating in Vanuatu, from its owner, Lithuanian national, Vilius Kavaliauskas."

(Source: https://www.vilatimes.com/2018/01/26/vanuatus-pacific-private-bank-acquired-by-lithuanian-cryptocurrency-bankera/)

Who is Vilius Kavaliauskas? He is an (the?) owner and CEO of LEWBEN Group. (LinkedIn)

http://www.lewben.com/

"As European financial expert explained to Vila Times, the acquisition of Vanuatu´s Pacific Private Bank allows Bankera, a small controversal start-up with highly questionable future, to get an official banking license. According to the reports in Lithuanian media, previously Bankera did not have an official license from any country."

(Source: https://www.vilatimes.com/2018/01/26/vanuatus-pacific-private-bank-acquired-by-lithuanian-cryptocurrency-bankera/)

"Also, only Bankera’s team is based in Lithuania, but Bankera’s team is obtaining licenses in different jurisdictions."
   Huh

(Source: https://blog.bankera.com/2017/10/21/bankeras-qa/  under Q3)




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Hello guys, you remember the full acquisition of Pacific Private Bank by Bankera in January 2018. Before this deal already three out of the four key executives have been Lithuanians.

https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/companies/1338017D:PM-pacific-private-bank-ltd

Now here is the new managing staff of Pacific Private Bank:

https://pacificprivatebank.com/pacific-private-bank-is-acquired-by-fintech-entrepreneurs/

In February 2018 Lithuania´s Central Bank has begun an investigation on Bankera ICO, which is still pending.

https://icorating.com/analytics/news/2018-2-lithuania-investigating-120-mln-bankera-ico-for-securities-law-compliance/

This is the main reason why there is no token trading till today.
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The 29th week net transactional revenue share has been paid



Yesterday (20th of March, 2018), Bankera paid its twenty-ninth net transactional revenue share to BNK token holders.

Last week, SpectroCoin generated a net transactional revenue of 108,600.47  EUR. 20% of that was distributed among Bankera token holders. This totaled to 21,720.09 EUR or 49.60 ETH (given the current exchange rate of 437.93 euros for 1 ether). The total number of tokens outstanding includes 10,000,000,000 BNK tokens of the pre-ICO and ICO, and 598,550,139 BNK tokens that were distributed by the end of last week as referral commission bonuses, bounties (for translations, promotion, etc.) and as compensation for some of the advisors. The 598,550,139 BNK tokens were issued from the tokens allocated for management and advisors. There were 10,598,550,139 BNK tokens issued in total. Since the net transactional revenue share is only allocated to issued tokens (not the total possible supply in the long-run), each BNK holder has been allocated 0.0000000046796197254833 ETH (0.00000204934586638089 EUR) per Banker.

It is also worth mentioning that the SpectroCoin community has grown by 4,598 new users during the last week, from 824,736 to 829,334.

https://blog.bankera.com/2018/03/21/the-29th-week-net-transactional-revenue-share-has-been-paid/
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Though.  I bought before reading all this post and comment. I just hope it is not a scam
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I am not investing because their numbers do not stack up.

Also, they let us believe more than what they actually are.
Scammers or not, when did you folks last see a company to make £0 - $100m profit in three years?  

I totally agree on that.

In their whitepaper are some severe mistakes and it just doesn't add up!
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ICO Spotlight: Winding Tree, Bankera, Birdchain | Bad Crypto Podcast

I want my choice in travel. I want to pay fewer fees and have zero intermediaries for my financial transactions. And I’d love to get rewarded for my unused SMS texts that I am paying for and not using.

Well, I’ve come to the right place if the guests on today’s show have their way.
In this episode we welcome founders of Winding Tree, Bankera and Birdchain to discuss the ways in which their blockchain solutions can provide me with game-changing methods of engaging with the world around me.

Oh, and you too! In fact, it’s more about you than me. And Travis. Because you are the citizens of The Republic of Bad Cryptopia, and we’re glad you’re here for this ICO Spotlight sponsored episode of The Bad Crypto Podcast.
http://badcryptopodcast.com/2018/02/08/ico-spotlight-17/
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Bankera - the ICO that delivers. Bankera (https://bankera.com/) is the digital bank for the blockchain era. To raise funds for the project Bankera launched an ICO and has already collected over 100 million euros from over 80,000 contributors. The ICO is still live on https://spectrocoin.com. Join the future of banking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEg_bkAdClA
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Interview with Bankera’s Finance Specialist Jonas

Today, we are bringing you an interview with another team member from Bankera. This time our Finance Specialist Jonas will be sharing insights about his role at Bankera and its MVP, SpectroCoin; BNK tokens; and trends in digital banking.

https://blog.bankera.com/2018/02/06/interview-with-bankeras-finance-specialist-jonas/



"Finance specialist" Jonas. Does he have a surname?

I mean this is getting ridiculous. Some random 25-28y old boy is finance specialist with no public credentials, although he says he comes from a background of banking and audit (i guess i have to trust these "credentials"). Id expect a bit more detailed explanation if he references himself as a financial expert for "bank of the future". I mean wouldn't you? The more i look into this project, the more i see some BS con artists building some wet dream for naive people.
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Interview with Bankera’s Finance Specialist Jonas

Today, we are bringing you an interview with another team member from Bankera. This time our Finance Specialist Jonas will be sharing insights about his role at Bankera and its MVP, SpectroCoin; BNK tokens; and trends in digital banking.

https://blog.bankera.com/2018/02/06/interview-with-bankeras-finance-specialist-jonas/

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Bankera - The Only ICO with Banking License

Bankera aims to empower the Pacific Private Bank with bank-level blockchain technology and has taken the first step towards this by joining forces with the Private Bank, and also connecting it to the Ripple network.
The company has already attracted interest from some leading global banks such as Santander, UniCredit, UBS and Standard Chartered. In addition,blockchain-based identity management and KYC solutions are set to be implemented at the Pacific Private bank to improve client onboarding.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/bankera-announce-acquisition-of-pacific-private-bank-limited/

So I don't think that it is scam.

Dude, that fucking bank is registered in Vanuatu  Grin
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Bankera - The Only ICO with Banking License

Bankera aims to empower the Pacific Private Bank with bank-level blockchain technology and has taken the first step towards this by joining forces with the Private Bank, and also connecting it to the Ripple network.
The company has already attracted interest from some leading global banks such as Santander, UniCredit, UBS and Standard Chartered. In addition,blockchain-based identity management and KYC solutions are set to be implemented at the Pacific Private bank to improve client onboarding.

Read the details in the article of Coinidol dot com, the world blockchain news outlet: https://coinidol.com/bankera-announce-acquisition-of-pacific-private-bank-limited/

So I don't think that it is scam.
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How can be SCAM if in the advisor team there is also a European Member parliament

lmao!
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So they can accept "dirty" BTCs but they cannot send them back to the owners?

Nice policy...
my 100 btc is not dirty and yet they have locked my account for going to two years without word from them
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The 20th week net transactional revenue share has been paid

Yesterday (17th of January, 2018), Bankera paid its twentieth net transactional revenue share to Bankera token holders.

Last week, SpectroCoin generated a net transactional revenue of 384,286.76 EUR. 20% of that was distributed among Bankera token holders. This totaled to 76,857.35 EUR or 102.4710047 ETH (given the current exchange rate of 750.04 euros for 1 ether). The total number of tokens outstanding includes 4,778,855,939 BNK of the pre-ICO and ICO BNK tokens, and 452,829,891 BNK tokens that were distributed by the end of last week as referral commission bonuses, bounties (for translations, promotion, etc.) and as compensation for some of the advisors. The 452,829,891 BNK tokens were issued from the tokens allocated for management and advisors. There were 5,231,685,830 BNK tokens issued in total. Since the net transactional revenue share is only allocated to issued tokens (not the total possible supply in the long-run), each BNK holder has been allocated 0.0000000195866 ETH (0.0000146907 EUR) per Banker.

This revenue share is equal to 0.000793 EUR per 1 BNK of annualized return. This is equal to a 7.93% annualized return given the pre-ICO price of 0.01 EUR, 4.59% annualized return given the initial ICO price of 0.017 EUR, 4.33% given the ICO price of 0.018 EUR and 4.10% given the current ICO price of 0.019 EUR.

It is also worth mentioning that the SpectroCoin community has grown by 39,247 new users during the last week, from 639,074 to 678,321, which led to more transactions and a higher net transactional revenue.

There are still tokens left, so don’t miss out the opportunity and get your own Bankers (BNK) on SpectroCoin!

https://blog.bankera.com/2018/01/18/the-20th-week-net-transactional-revenue-share-has-been-paid/
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I have the reasons to believe, than bankera is a scam project organised by Lithuanian criminals. All that crypto bank projects are nothing but a scam.  

How can be SCAM if in the advisor team there is also a European Member parliament, there is founder of NEM and some other that is an important person. I think you are fudders sincerely otherwise bring us evidence and not tell only Bankera is SCAM.

Thank you fudders

What excludes a member of the EU parliament from the possibility of conducting mischief?

Because he's a politician?

The chairman of the ruling political party in The Netherlands has just been caught for involvement in a very sophisticated fraud, where he and several companions took over a hundred million euro with an investment of less than 50k. He was also one of the main advisors to the Prime minister.

that the question that some people here dont wanna answer

what does stop an european bla bla guy from being inside this scam just to get some profit?
After all, they are politicians

Between... not here to say if its a scam or not
I crossed yesterday night on bankera and reading that i was like wow this sounds to be good to be true so i ended here on this topic
Not going to invest because scriptsomething has very bad feedback also
beware and do your own research, i've serious doubts on this
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They did not pay for translation bounty
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I have the reasons to believe, than bankera is a scam project organised by Lithuanian criminals. All that crypto bank projects are nothing but a scam.  

How can be SCAM if in the advisor team there is also a European Member parliament, there is founder of NEM and some other that is an important person. I think you are fudders sincerely otherwise bring us evidence and not tell only Bankera is SCAM.

Thank you fudders

What excludes a member of the EU parliament from the possibility of conducting mischief?

Because he's a politician?

The chairman of the ruling political party in The Netherlands has just been caught for involvement in a very sophisticated fraud, where he and several companions took over a hundred million euro with an investment of less than 50k. He was also one of the main advisors to the Prime minister.
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I have the reasons to believe, than bankera is a scam project organised by Lithuanian criminals. All that crypto bank projects are nothing but a scam.  

How can be SCAM if in the advisor team there is also a European Member parliament, there is founder of NEM and some other that is an important person. I think you are fudders sincerely otherwise bring us evidence and not tell only Bankera is SCAM.

Thank you fudders
I believe that these 'fudders' were just trying to blackmail spectrocoin/bankera with 'tricks',  like using multiple (nick)names .
As a matter of fact, you mentioned Tony G.(advisor of Bankera) ... well here you can see him together with CEO of Bankera/Spectrocoin and others at Bitcoin Conference 2016 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=YWZQ1UUAfJc
http://thebitcoinconference.com/
Also, Tony G. is the driving force of Blockchain Centre Lithuania -> http://themeditelegraph.com/en/green-and-tech/technology/2017/12/05/lithuania-emerges-blockchain-gateway-europe-YVX3gnWsH60lH36eLrU3qL/index.html

Nothing in the  Vytautas Karalevičius , he is Just a scammer, I am a ex-serviceman and have worked in Police department in my country, i left the job due to uncertainties in health and i can assure you that i have met rich people like Vytautas Karalevičius who are scammers, they can hide every scam with their lavish amount of money, these people need mob justice.



Just google " Vytautas Karalevičius" and the first result in google is what he is worth for. I hope his family sees his name and would feel proud of him.



In Fact the whole crypto seems shady, i happened to read a thread about crypto kingdom where a guy called Risto scammed like 1000+ BTC , lol how things goes in life...



just about to transfer to ico
but u said its scam, then scam it is Smiley
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I have been personally investing into Bankera project since September 2017 – each week I have been receiving 0,2-0,3% from my investments, as company is sharing 20% of incomes with the investors (this means 10-15% of potential annual income from investments not depending from crypto currency price changes).

I do not see it as a scam at all. It is a great opportunity for me to invest money with huge potential.

For more information you could follow the link:
https://bankera.com/?ref=1293291357


Your account is so new here !
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Bankera ICO still going On...
Rip Off CEO.
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I have been personally investing into Bankera project since September 2017 – each week I have been receiving 0,2-0,3% from my investments, as company is sharing 20% of incomes with the investors (this means 10-15% of potential annual income from investments not depending from crypto currency price changes).

I do not see it as a scam at all. It is a great opportunity for me to invest money with huge potential.

For more information you could follow the link:
https://bankera.com/?ref=1293291357
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I have the reasons to believe, than bankera is a scam project organised by Lithuanian criminals. All that crypto bank projects are nothing but a scam.  

How can be SCAM if in the advisor team there is also a European Member parliament, there is founder of NEM and some other that is an important person. I think you are fudders sincerely otherwise bring us evidence and not tell only Bankera is SCAM.

Thank you fudders
I believe that these 'fudders' were just trying to blackmail spectrocoin/bankera with 'tricks',  like using multiple (nick)names .
As a matter of fact, you mentioned Tony G.(advisor of Bankera) ... well here you can see him together with CEO of Bankera/Spectrocoin and others at Bitcoin Conference 2016 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=YWZQ1UUAfJc
http://thebitcoinconference.com/
Also, Tony G. is the driving force of Blockchain Centre Lithuania -> http://themeditelegraph.com/en/green-and-tech/technology/2017/12/05/lithuania-emerges-blockchain-gateway-europe-YVX3gnWsH60lH36eLrU3qL/index.html

Nothing in the  Vytautas Karalevičius , he is Just a scammer, I am a ex-serviceman and have worked in Police department in my country, i left the job due to uncertainties in health and i can assure you that i have met rich people like Vytautas Karalevičius who are scammers, they can hide every scam with their lavish amount of money, these people need mob justice.



Just google " Vytautas Karalevičius" and the first result in google is what he is worth for. I hope his family sees his name and would feel proud of him.



In Fact the whole crypto seems shady, i happened to read a thread about crypto kingdom where a guy called Risto scammed like 1000+ BTC , lol how things goes in life...

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I have the reasons to believe, than bankera is a scam project organised by Lithuanian criminals. All that crypto bank projects are nothing but a scam. 

How can be SCAM if in the advisor team there is also a European Member parliament, there is founder of NEM and some other that is an important person. I think you are fudders sincerely otherwise bring us evidence and not tell only Bankera is SCAM.

Thank you fudders
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I have the reasons to believe, than bankera is a scam project organised by Lithuanian criminals. All that crypto bank projects are nothing but a scam. 
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Just to bump this thread and to inform people there is another guy named "Gurbaksh Singh Chahal" who has the same personality like Vytautas Karalevičius  who needs to keep keep his name upright in all short of scams.

read here: https://pastebin.com/iU9spbC0
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How can you invest in such a stupid name, sounds like a bancor ripoff, not even a creative name for yet another scam.
Pretty obvious name like bancor and if not scam then it will also end like bancor. I read somewhere that the 2nd guy behind the Bancor "Guy Benartzi " has started a new project with ICo recently and it is still going on. I don't remember the name of the project but it is sure there in the Announcement section.
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How can you invest in such a stupid name, sounds like a bancor ripoff, not even a creative name for yet another scam.
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Despite of active scam accusation bankera and their fraud team are hailing the ICO and killing it, I wonder how they manage to pay people on weekly basis.
Vytautas is a criminal and should be behind the bars.
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Be nice
I asked Spectrocoins support if I would get Bitcoincash when bitcoin forked in August previous to the fork and was told yes I would. I asked them here in the forum and they said yes I would. I did not move my bitcoins because of this. After the fork no bitcoincash was given and when I contacted support they told me that they did not support any opther version of bitcoin. I asked in the forum and they then edited their post saying yes to no, they dont support it.

Since then I have moved all my bitcoins from Spectrocoin and will not continue to use their services.

I advice you to find another less scammy solution.
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In order to support ANTI-SCAM efforts of this topic I have wrote special article
Please read and be aware of this project: "BANKERA: The Era of Monkey-Style ICO" (https://medium.com/@slobodangeorgiev/bankera-the-era-of-monkey-style-ico-d7e2fc0524fd )

I dont often want to bump this shitty scam thread, but @kingArbin your article is of another level.
I like the anology of ico and money , the age comparison of vyutatutas scammer is also awesome.
Please keep posting articles like this ,i support you and your views.
Thanks.
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In order to support ANTI-SCAM efforts of this topic I have wrote special article
Please read and be aware of this project: "BANKERA: The Era of Monkey-Style ICO" (https://medium.com/@slobodangeorgiev/bankera-the-era-of-monkey-style-ico-d7e2fc0524fd )
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Bankera scam projects 25 milon raised at pre-ico after that everything would be changed white paper ico date to next year end February

I dont think they actually raised such amount on money - with high probability is is scam also like in case of REcoin (thay also claimed to receive more then 1mln on pre-ICO, but SEC investigated that it is fake info).
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bankera scam projects 25 milon raised at pre-ico after that everything would be changed white paper ico date to next year end February
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Hell a lot of promotions of bankera on different wallet explorers from blockchain.info to etherscan.io , i think tgey will collect a huge load of money from advertising. I guess all advertising noney is coming from the scammed funds executed by spectrocoin.
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Well, in that case, Bankera white paper is worthless, less than the paper I printed it on.

 
Yeah this guy vytautas looks like a pig ....a scam pig.
Read the white paper and it's full of shit..even bitconnectcoin's white paper is better than bankera.
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Vytautas Karalevičius is a scammer and OP is a blackmailer, he takes identity of rusted users like Lauda and ask for cut on their behalf, GO OP have a life, and You (Vytautas Karalevičius) shame on your Parents.

Vytautas Karalevičius is a Scammer, his parents will be happy to see his name on googl, search his name followed by scam and you will find him.
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Vytautas Karalevičius is a scammer and OP is a blackmailer, he takes identity of rusted users like Lauda and ask for cut on their behalf, GO OP have a life, and You (Vytautas Karalevičius) shame on your Parents.
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Bankera is a doom scam project started by the Mastermind criminals...
Beaware of them...
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Oh believe me friend, I've definitely done the research and that's why I'm not buying any of his ICO but the post is just to really make sure everyone sees that they are trying to avoid this issue. I've noticed in the ANN that there are incredibly naïve people who just have $$$ in their eyes, not looking at this objectively and then there are non-stop shills, promoters and even their spokesperson who keeps talking like everything is fine.

Maybe I'm wrong but it has many signs of a classic scam operation.
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Mr. Karalevičius,

From one older CEO to an aspiring one, I highly advise that you take the time to nurture the trust and slipping reputation that is happening here to you. I want to give benefit of the doubt to you because I understand when people make accusations, they tend to only tell their side of the story. I think the community wants to hear yours as clearly and legally as possible because we want to believe in this project and most importantly, you. That's the whole point of a legitimate ICO as well as the spirit of a startup. I was about to make a decent token purchase on Bankera right before reading this and I honestly will say it's completely cooled me off for the time being. Your numbers in your whitepaper are a bit lofty, but that's to be expected with such ambition Wink 

If you are truly committed to Bankera and understand you could not do this without private finances and without a good reputation, then please model your behavior like other responsible CEOs by being direct and responsible for these problems. You cannot hide behind a company, paid shills or a convincing website in this era and especially when money is involved. In the end, it is about you and your leadership. A couple million is not worth a lifetime of tarnished name.


what the Fuck are you saying??? Karalevičius is a scammer with 100+Bitcoins stolen from users, he is highly alarming to this community and a weed to bitcoin ecosystem. I dont know how he got the courage to start a scam ICO in Public.

Just search His name followed by scam and this result appears: https://www.google.co.in/search?q=Karalevi%C4%8Dius+scam&oq=Karalevi%C4%8Dius+scam&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i61l3j0.2012j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Mr. Karalevičius,

From one older CEO to an aspiring one, I highly advise that you take the time to nurture the trust and slipping reputation that is happening here to you. I want to give benefit of the doubt to you because I understand when people make accusations, they tend to only tell their side of the story. I think the community wants to hear yours as clearly and legally as possible because we want to believe in this project and most importantly, you. That's the whole point of a legitimate ICO as well as the spirit of a startup. I was about to make a decent token purchase on Bankera right before reading this and I honestly will say it's completely cooled me off for the time being. Your numbers in your whitepaper are a bit lofty, but that's to be expected with such ambition Wink 

If you are truly committed to Bankera and understand you could not do this without private finances and without a good reputation, then please model your behavior like other responsible CEOs by being direct and responsible for these problems. You cannot hide behind a company, paid shills or a convincing website in this era and especially when money is involved. In the end, it is about you and your leadership. A couple million is not worth a lifetime of tarnished name.


This guy has been trying to sell as fake bitcointalk accounts, however we have ignored him (see screens attached). Today, he tried to blackmail us and as all acquisitions are false and creators of them have disappeared years ago, we have banned this guy to avoid spam.

 http://i.imgur.com/EZ2Eohi.png
http://i.imgur.com/xlMNBY6.png

We have more info about this guy and we are going to give all information about this guy to Europol, our advisors are taking care of this. We will not let this guy run away after trying to blackmail us.

The proof that he is asking for money:

http://i.imgur.com/mVJIOZF.png

And just to show how close we are to europol, a photo from the conference a good month ago at Europol's HQ:

http://i.imgur.com/G1TXmUX.jpg


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I also participated in the bankera pre-ico and today I got a commission of about 0.5% on my initial investment in commissions(ether). Furthermore the team has been working hard to solve the problems with the ether wallet. I think they deserve some more respect than they have got.
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Just now i read that participants in bankera ICO are able to get their BNK tokens not sure how much truth is there in it but will wait for someone experience in scam resolution here to make some investigation.

You get them immediately.  I deposited some Eth.  It showed up within one minute and and I purchased BNK in 1 minute.  They are showing in the wallet.
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Just now i read that participants in bankera ICO are able to get their BNK tokens not sure how much truth is there in it but will wait for someone experience in scam resolution here to make some investigation.
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So they can accept "dirty" BTCs but they cannot send them back to the owners?

Nice policy...
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The entire accusation that these people are scammers is unfounded. I have read through all of the material they have added and already have a plausible explanation.

Spectrocoin is not an imaginary company working from anonimity, but they are a physical company with that do have to follow the law. Lithuanian law in particular, as all of those who have used their services agreed to their terms and conditions. And these sob stories are propagated here because the people in question have not read terms and conditions. Why?  Because as Spectrocoin is a registered financial institution they have to abide to the laws which regulate money transfers regarding the prevention of terrorist financing, tax fraud,  money exchange and laundering. In Lithuanai you have to provide a real ID if you want to exchange money. The people in question who wrote these sob stories deposited their money onto their accounts (and therefore they have parked them, for all legal purposes on Lithuanian soil). 100 bitcoins or 40 bitcins is a sum that exceeds all the limits that add extra conditions for the regulations for additional scrutiny regarding the transfers of funds to kick in. We do not know if the funds in question are obtained legally or illegaly - neither does Spectrocoin, as we see from all the comments by their representative. Spectrocoin abides by the law and should the value of funds exceed a certain amount additional questions are to be asked and additional proofs of identity or the origin of funds (they are obligated to do this by the law). The laws requiring to provide ID and aditional proofs are to be made stricter soon, and should the ammount exceed 3000 EUR, than the company will be obligated to ask additional questions.

For all intents and purposes (if the money exists) it is in a legal limbo - until the proof of legality of how the funds were obtained and the origin of the funds is provided in a document that would be accepted by the law enforcement agencies it still belongs to owner, but cannot be moved without the proof that the person exists and/or funds were obtained legally .

After all is said and done - the company have been accused of folowing the law.

I have no comments regarding Bankera, although should it fail it will reflect badly on MEP A. Guoga, who attached his name with this projects.

P.S. I am in no way related to the company, have been using them for couple of years, no complaints, although their exhange is a bit pricey.
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More accusations in their official thread:



SCAM ALERT. PLEASE DONT INVEST YOUR MONEY IF YOU DONT WANT TO LOSE YOUR MONEY.
SAVE YOUR MONEY FROM SCAMMER BANKERA


SCAM!!! No bounty distribution for Twitter!!!
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Newbie-Zirkus))) from the side it looks very funny. Keep it up. The project can not do more damage))))
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My deposit from today went fine, however now I am a bit worried about this ICO.
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In God we Trust  Grin
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Now all that remains is to be careful.
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these guys are definitely scammers.

i have used their card services for almost a year with their parent company spectrocoin.com

everything was fine until yesterday.

they stopped crediting btc deposits and still will not credit a 1 btc deposit which currently has over 200+ confirmations.

they claim that they have not received it.

so it looks, walks and quacks like a duck.....

they laid the net for over a year, then started accepting eth, then launched an ico which has zero value for token holders and then
also stopped crediting btc deposits to wallets.

i hope some of you see this and bump it up if you have been scammed too so nobody else loses their coin.



Shocking. One of the million ICOs promising unbelievable profits overnight is a scam that looks good but can't deliver on its promises? That undermines my faith in the entire ICO market. It's time to go buy my Useless Ethereum Token shares right now! At least they were honest about it... and hey, their profits have been unbelievable so far, especially compared to the complete lack of profits promised by its creators. Tongue If I were going to buy securities (which ICOs will be considered soon, even if they're not now) I'd buy real ones, even in an possibly-overvalued market.
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these guys are definitely scammers.

i have used their card services for almost a year with their parent company spectrocoin.com

everything was fine until yesterday.

they stopped crediting btc deposits and still will not credit a 1 btc deposit which currently has over 200+ confirmations.

they claim that they have not received it.

so it looks, walks and quacks like a duck.....

they laid the net for over a year, then started accepting eth, then launched an ico which has zero value for token holders and then
also stopped crediting btc deposits to wallets.

i hope some of you see this and bump it up if you have been scammed too so nobody else loses their coin.

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Terminated.


Why have you used my alias here? I am not associated with the project, the scam accusation nor this *string operation*.
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The maths in the WP do not prove any profit for the token holders...
This is my main concern about this ICO.

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If you look at those scam reports made back in the day, it only makes me wonder why they didn't go to police if they claim $100k+ has been stolen from them and they know the culprit?

I call the reports BS or that it was somekinda money laundering operation, which Spectrocoin stopped and reported to the police.
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Karalevicius is currently a recognized researcher at the KU Leuven, one of the most reputable European Universities. Not bad for a 'scammer'.

http://feb.kuleuven.be/research/leuven/LIRIS/researchers.aspx
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Vytautas Karalevičius is a scammer who run spectrocoin and yes he looks like scumbag.
This thread makes me think twice before I use any virtual card company services like spectrocoin.
These guys should be hanged.
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Once the suspicion has entered a job it is really difficult to trust completely.Doubting is really very important in such projects  .If I had invested in such a project I could not sleep at night.A friend  (i dont know  her/his bytheway)  has obviously done a good research on this issue and added evidence to the visuals.i m sorry but Ignoring all this would be absolutely stupid. There is a proverb in our country. " There will be no smoke if there is no fire " . This friend would not infiltrate such a type of information if it had not been involved in such a case, if he committed a defraud.


 

   

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Call me a party pooper but these guys have no previous track record of building high revenue company, nada!
It looks like Vytautas has worked as "an intern" at Bloomberg, that's all.

FOLKS, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT:

The odds achieving $100 million or more revenue within six years are 3.5 in 10,000.
Bankera projections are about $300 million, making the odds worse than 1:10,000. That is less than 0,01% chance. I keep my money on the 99,99%. 

I am not a gambler but would say that under 1:10,000 odds are not good.
Last year, the bookies offered 1:2,500 for Kim Kardashian to become next US president.


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Page 16. Section 7, financials.

Small correction, it's actually EUR 100 million and USD in year three.  Grin

You guys are so funny defending Bankera that I had to check my calendar that it's not April's Fool day?



Wether or not that is realistic is up for debate. At least you're making a sound argument.
The only thing left to correct you on is that they are starting from 0 profit right now. They have an mvp already working which is where the pre-ICO is being held. So there is already an operation which those numbers are probably based on. Again, whether or not those numbers add up is up for debate.
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are you sure these accusations are based on the right identity?
apparently there is a guy with his same name, but based on this paper, he was born in 1952:
http://en.tm.lt/dok/Karalevicius_v__Lithuania_DEC_2002.pdf
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Page 16. Section 7, financials.

Small correction, it's actually EUR 100 million and USD in year three.  Grin

You guys are so funny defending Bankera that I had to check my calendar that it's not April's Fool day?

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Well, in that case, Bankera white paper is worthless, less than the paper I printed it on.

 

really? you are actually PRINTING white papers?
It is 2017 - you should save the environment and read it from the screen.
Or at least, read it briefly and print it only when you see it is not worthless.
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I am not investing because their numbers do not stack up.

Also, they let us believe more than what they actually are.
Scammers or not, when did you folks last see a company to make £0 - $100m profit in three years?  

Where do they even claim that ?
They use the figure of 10m EUR (you already used two different currencies in your post and still didn't get the right one) and that's just for an example calculation. They don't claim that, that is going to be their profit.
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Well, in that case, Bankera white paper is worthless, less than the paper I printed it on.

 
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I am not investing because their numbers do not stack up.

Also, they let us believe more than what they actually are.
Scammers or not, when did you folks last see a company to make £0 - $100m profit in three years?  

lol, are you aware of the fact you are on BITCOIN forum in 2017?

every second guy here earned $100m in last 3 years (maybe not every second but sure there are lots of them)
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How stupid do you think people are ?

I am sure you remember the times when average IQ of this forum was over 130.
But those times are long gone Cheesy
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I am not investing because their numbers do not stack up.

Also, they let us believe more than what they actually are.
Scammers or not, when did you folks last see a company to make £0 - $100m profit in three years?  
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Dude, the Vytautas Karalevičius in the link you posted was, according to the website you linked to, born in 1952. You mean to tell me that the guy in the picture was born in 1952 ? Really ?

This guy is 65 years old ?

How stupid do you think people are ?

There are other explanations.
The picture can be old - it was taken in 1972
OR
He is vamnpire and does not get old!

Those damn Lithuanian vampires again...
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Dude, the Vytautas Karalevičius in the link you posted was, according to the website you linked to, born in 1952. You mean to tell me that the guy in the picture was born in 1952 ? Really ?

This guy is 65 years old ?

How stupid do you think people are ?

There are other explanations.
The picture can be old - it was taken in 1972
OR
He is vamnpire and does not get old!

EDIT: his shirt and glasses look really ahead of time though. If his company is also that ahead of time, I am starting to think about investing in ICO.
However, if he is a vampire I would advise you all to stay out of this ICO.
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Either some random newby accounts on btt are scammers or 16 publicly known people including 2 members of eu parliament are scammers...  I wonder which is the case.
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Dude, the Vytautas Karalevičius in the link you posted was, according to the website you linked to, born in 1952. You mean to tell me that the guy in the picture was born in 1952 ? Really ?

This guy is 65 years old ?

How stupid do you think people are ?
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This is some serious allegations. Makes one pause and think
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As a general rule of thumb, scams share two common signs:

1.) Promised returns that sound too good to be true, and,
2.) Making money day from the day 1.

Bankera promises both. Their revenue and profits are unheard of. I work in the investment industry and am not aware of any company to-date which has grown as fast as what Bankera projects and make $100 million profit in year 3.

The funny thing is how such people with known profile and open personal information still be respected in their home after ripping so many people...Why don't police catch them. May be the whole crypto is fraud...I lost more of all m saving till Now after some hacker stole my ERC and LTC coins.
I will be happy if this project fails and this scammers go to prison.
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As a general rule of thumb, scams share two common signs:

1.) Promised returns that sound too good to be true, and,
2.) Making money day from the day 1.

Bankera promises both. Their revenue and profits are unheard of. I work in the investment industry and am not aware of any company to-date which has grown as fast as what Bankera projects and make $100 million profit in year 3.
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@VytautasK you are a scammer hiding in your mum's basement. You will surely pay for all your scams heavily with life and money.
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I asked some law & enforcement friends of mine investigate these fellas and those who are publicly backing them up.
They could not reveal what they found, but told me to be careful and that they are being monitored by authorities.

 
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And just to show how close we are to europol, a photo from the conference a good month ago at Europol's HQ:


How come you have guts to stand here after stealing more than 100 bitcoins.
Just now I read that you had scammed a guy named Rasta.. I see him begging in the thread to you to return his money. Actually this is not your fault but the fault of crypto system...Just see resto scamed more than 1000 BTC here and still appears here to troll and respond.

You know if you would be in my country then probably people would had hanged you, I am in police department and have seen scenario where inspite of law and order people take authority in hand and punish the bug. You are to fortunate to be safe...Btw your personal info is available everywhere...Take care..

I hate scammers and spammers. Both OP and you are shit...One is spammer and another you is a scammer.
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The second link from the court of human rights can’t be the same guy as Bankera CEO beacuse judging from his pictures he wasn’t born in 1952 as the press release states..
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@VytautasK





Have you solved all these problems?


Have people received your bitcoins?



@Alert guy

This is exaggerated, you do not have to do this, just create a thread in  scam accusations

Scam Alert:

Bankera.com is a scam by serial scammer VytautasK.

Check Here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bankera-scam-project-by-vytautas-karaleviius-mantas-mockeviius-2126829




They have many accusations. In such cases, people should report the police authorities


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Haahhaa...why not ...
Rain some money..to hide your previous scam and why don't you accept that you are a scammer, and why not return Rastaway his 100 BTC, he lost his retirement money because of you.

Just distribute the 100 BTC to all members of the forum.

CoinMarketcap has been sent an email not to advertise this scam, I do even have sent a email to previous company in which your COO used to work.

You scammers rip this forum , and i make a string operation to catch you guys, read my OP , i have said everything.

Edit: seems many people behind you, I am not shown in OP.
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This guy has been trying to sell as fake bitcointalk accounts, however we have ignored him (see screens attached). Today, he tried to blackmail us and as all acquisitions are false and creators of them have disappeared years ago, we have banned this guy to avoid spam.

 


We have more info about this guy and we are going to give all information about this guy to Europol, our advisors are taking care of this. We will not let this guy run away after trying to blackmail us.

The proof that he is asking for money:



And just to show how close we are to europol, a photo from the conference a good month ago at Europol's HQ:



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How they Bankera is a Scam:
Bankera is Founded by the two scam artist Vytautas Karalevičius & Mantas Mockevičius who has proved to scam many members with 150 BTC+

Bankera Scam ANN thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annbankera-building-the-bank-for-the-blockchain-era-2091093
Bankera ICo introducer Scammer's Profile: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bankera-1101537
Scam Website: www.bankera.com

Note: I made a string operation and asked them for money to keep things quite and to see if they really aware of it and yes they were , after hooking on some result they banned me on slack.

Unresolve Scam allegation against Spectrocoin:

1. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/beware-scam-spectrocoincom-stay-away-from-spectrocoin-shady-company-1515839
2. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/spectrocoincom-imitated-a-transfer-of-64-btc-then-removed-24-btc-more-1586595
3. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scam-by-spectrocoin-of-100-btc-1669877

Some details about the Scammers:

Vytautas Karalevičius:








Mantas Mockevičius



He is the Main Culprit behind the scams, i am currently accumulating major Info against him, and i have do contacted the previous victim of spectrocoin to take legal action against : Mantas Mockevičius

The bitcointalk profile of te CEO is already red and needs more red feedbacks: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/vytautask-317543

More Information about these two scammers coming soon, A class action will be taken soon.

Stay Tuned.

I would like to see how community responds to it.


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