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Topic: btc-arbs.com - Update: dead HYIP, Refund progress: BTC-arbs still doing refunds - page 177. (Read 276958 times)

sr. member
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I don't know that cribbing a site design is necessarily a sign that it's a Ponzi scheme. It's more efficient to take a site that works and just swap out the graphics. Entirely possible that the BTC-Arbs people contracted with the same web developer (listed on the archive page as VentureTech - http://www.venturetechsolutions.com/) which just iterated on their original design.

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Who built the Poker By Proxy website?
The Poker By Proxy website was created by VentureTech, a digital web development firm that has a history of developing internet banking and investment software.

Of course, only invest what you can comfortably afford to lose if the whole thing crumbles, though.
legendary
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Ok, it reminded me about "Poker by Proxy" all a long and I did a search for you guys:

Poker by Proxy
"Poker by Proxy" was a ponzi few months ago that did the exact same thing. They also gave daily results of "their poker players". These were just like btc-arbs daily reports with a whole story about what happened in the poker world. This is why many people believed them. After a few months they run away with the money.

Backup site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131203020947/https://pokerbyproxy.com/
note:
- same type of design/style
- same type of info
- same page names (!!) like /join.html, /results.html, /login.html, /results/2013/12/04.html - as a webdev I can tell you that exactly the same page names on a site is rare - most have at least "register" instead of "join" or no .html suffix. That specific result page /results/2013/12/04.html is extremely rare - almost impossible. You can check this on archive.org by hovering over the link.
- same HTML structure, like (NOTE: /assets/img/ same URLs)
pokerbyproxy:
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