Hello everyone,
I'm new here and I hope you will put this ICO scam on the list.
What happened:May 2018, I came across a facebook post of a Facebook friend, about a new crypto project, in ICO phase. Eckocoin was the name.
I decided to invest 150$ for 250000 eckocoins. The promise was they will go soon to exchanges for 0.2$ per coin.
In August 2018, they announced that a co-owner, named
Jayakumar, ran away with all the funds. The communications happened in a Telegram group.
So they announced that we have to recover from the losses and keep moving forward. Another person got in charge,
Kamran Baig, who created another Telegram group, moved all the investors there, and started a new campaign to raise funds for a wallet and exchange fees.
Kamran Baig said he chose to stay with the investors despite he was also scammed, and came with a new plan, to help everyone recover our losses and move forward.
Then they came with another idea, to make every investor pay a fee for the transfer of coins in the wallet, a wallet they didn't finish yet. Most of the people paid the fee, and then they created another Telegram group, for people who paid the fee, letting behind the others who didn't pay.
Then, for the next 5 months, an aggressive campaign followed, to sell the remaining coins, to raise funds for expenses of the website and other things. They came with a date for exchanges, 3rd February 2019, on Cryptopia.
Cryptopia was hacked in mid-January, so the chances to go on Cryptopia were zero. Right after 3rd February 2019, the co-owners announced that the owner in charge, for everything,
Kamran Baig, ran away with all the funds, around 55000$.
Another co-owner, named
Jane Smith, got in charge of the new situation, and decided to create another Telegram group, moved all the remaining investors there, and make a new token, named
Community Charity Token.
So they try to raise funds again from the remaining investors, for a new website, and to pay a fee for going to an exchange. The story repeats again. The new person in charge,
Jane Smith, she is saying that she decided to stay with all of us after being scammed the second time. She decided to stay with us to help everyone to recover our money.
Basically, the same tactics, the same story.
Okay, so after the first phase when
Jayakumar ran away with the money, I started to put questions about their methods and asked for proofs for the reports they said they made against
Jayakumar, proofs of expenses, proofs of their deal with Cryptopia and so on. Other people did it too. What we got was a dictatorial treatment, our questions deleted from the group and threaten to be kicked out if we continue to ask these type of questions. So I decided to just stay in the group and watch and put no more penny in this project.
After the second phase, when
Kamran Baig ran away with the money, it came obvious to me, 100% that it's all a scam.
When they started to ask money for the new project, Community Charity Token, I started to put them questions again, to show us proofs of why does it cost 700$ for new website and proofs of how Jane Smith
reported
Kamran Baig to police. Guess what, I got the same dictatorial treatment, my comments deleted, and kicked out from the group.
But before being kicked out from the group, I created my own group, inviting only the members, without owners. In this group, we talked about this scam, and you can join our group if you want to know more about this story and see more proofs of this scam. The link to my Telegram group:
https://t.me/joinchat/JDT2-RZLSiCBA5pFlbaKbwScammers Profile Link:They don't have an account here on bitcointalk, so I will put here their facebook accounts, the website, and the telegram group.
Kamran Baig had deleted his facebook account, and other social media accounts he had, so he has simply vanished.
Jayakumar:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009480731604Jane Smith:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008794020803Community Charity Token website:
http://communitycharitytoken.com and their Telegram group:
https://t.me/joinchat/Dn1_L1KqjFfx60LGzL62hgAmount Scammed: $170.00
Payment Method: Bitcoins
Proof of Payment: https://imgur.com/SuVhGNTOther names involved in this scam: Danial Afridi, Odede Omoefe, Bradley P, Tahir Ali, Bud Steinbach. These names are on the telegram group and I don't know if this is their real name, nor I know if the real name of Jane Smith and the others mention here are their real name. Probably they are using fake names, Facebook profiles and so on.
I have a lot of proofs on how they deleted my comments, and the proofs can be found on my telegram group:
https://t.me/joinchat/JDT2-RZLSiCBA5pFlbaKbw or contact me here if there is necessary to show the proofs.
So stay away from these scammers.