Topic: CryptoSwap.Finance--Plagiarism whitepaper (Read 208 times)

We got scammed by cryptoswap.finance but trying to working it out, we will file a police raport and contacted any channel that he ever used online.

For any updates, other people scammed, please post in here.

We will update continuously.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annico-cryptoswapfinance-crypto-exchange-with-defi-features-5327214

I totally understand you both. I am all in support that this sort of act is totally bad, and of course this kind of fraudulent.
I guess me using the word 'mistake' in my comment is were it seems confusing.

All I am trying to point out is that sometimes whitepaper writers are also cause of this (in some cases). And the project co-ordinators also do not don't cjdck the authencity of their jobs before publishing.

That's just too big for a mistake honestly, I mean look at the evidence that was provided, one is a coincidence but two or three is definitely something. It's the fault of the investors for falling for it since they didn't do a research about the company. Bounty hunters are in-between because they are there to advertise the service but they don't have to necessarily research about the legitimacy of the service.

It doesn't wrong to hire a whitepaper writer. He will write based on your theme. But there should be copyright writers who will write unique content for you. I know many whitepaper writers just use a template by changing the name. But eventually, the responsibility will go to the team. There is no way to ignore this responsibility or skip it. If they can't make sure that their content is unique or plagiarized then they don't have the right to run a platform. Doesn't matter they will scam or not, but simply they wouldn't be trusted to me and I won't invest a single penny with them.

Support flags.

That's exactly an excuse that these people use, "it was an honest mistake sir, our whitepaper writer copy/pasted by mistake, somwhow huge chunks of someone els'es material ended up in our whitepaper" , or even better one "company we hired to write our whitepaper tricked us, it's their fault and not ours". So no, in cases like this it ain't mistake for sure.

People do plagiarize due few different reasons though; some do it simply because they are ignorant, and for some reason they think that it's perfectly fine to copy parts of texts without proper referencing even if its just some technical part of whitepaper. Majority fall into those that are perfectly aware of what they are doing, but what they are not aware of is the bitcointalk's stance on plagiarism  so they end up like this, tagged and flagged.

In some extremely rare cases I could believe that someone made an honest mistake, for example if everything in whitepaper is properly referenced, but for some reason reference or two was forgotten to be included. I have yet to come across such case though, usually it's just a good old fashioned intentional plagiarism.


To be honest, majority of bounty hunters couldn't care less whether this is a scam or not. If CryptoSwap.Finance started bounty campaign today, bunch of them would join without thinking twice, even if they saw thread started being tagged for scam.

With all due respect that is not "Mistake". Calling that a mistake is a big lie that some projects have in the past, as you have noticed done and have been caught here.

Most of them even said about having changed the whitepapers after getting caught, which is very suspicious because why would a project copy another project's whitepaper in the first place? Sure bitcoin is open source, but that does not mean the roadmap of another project is going to be same as bitcoin - that is bullcrap is you ask me.

Projects like these are not to be excused at any cost, they are the reason the name of cryptocurrency has been tarnished from time to time.

Could it be the whitepaper writer made this plagiarism mistake? Cause sometimes some writers just copy and paste from successful projects. Though I expected they should have run it on copyscape before publishing this on their site.

Unfortunately some investors and bounty hunters will fall for this.

Well, a Google index link to this, willsurely save a lot of people, if they care to check. 

You are right, I also saw the generated photos of the team members. Unsurprisingly, they are laid out in a very small size to make it harder to see all the inconsistencies. But shirt collars, even at this size, look unnatural. Today it becomes more and more difficult to detect other people's photos, as the generated photos are created very real.
I took your advice and created a flag.

In addition to the findings made by OP, upon checking the website of their project, the pictures of their team members seems to be computer generated AI as well due to the disproportions of some of the facial features, backgrounds, and their shirts. In addition, the angle of the team member's picture are a clear example of a computer-generated AI picture.

Although there is no absolute guarantee or method to know if such pictures are computer-generated, by adding all the evidences against the project concludes that their project is most likely a scam. I highly advise OP to open a flag against him.

What happened:  Plagiarism whitepaper
A lot of copied material, without providing links where it was taken from.

Flag type 1 (support/oppose): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;flag=2692

ANN Thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.56672442
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210401161133/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5327214.msg56672442
Profile link: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/cryptoswapfinance-3254783
Website link: https://cryptoswap.finance/
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210401161147/https://cryptoswap.finance/
Whitepaper : https://cryptoswap.finance/whitepaper.pdf
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210328225653/http://www.cryptoswap.finance/whitepaper.pdf



Plagiarism whitepaper from :
https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/a-guide-to-pancakeswap




https://docs.pancakeswap.finance/


https://copyleaks.com/dashboard/v1/businesses/report/qvry04959ij507zy/preview?key=y9bwmoylkr3hgiwj&suspectId=286434ff29&viewMode=one-to-one&contentMode=html&sourcePage=1&suspectPage=1

https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/a-guide-to-pancakeswap


https://copyleaks.com/dashboard/v1/businesses/report/jm6s0n8wgqyfbzq0/preview?key=pxjo6zao6lsxfy0x&suspectId=c48eba324c&viewMode=one-to-one&contentMode=html&sourcePage=1&suspectPage=1

https://docs.mocktailswap.finance/mocktailswap-exchange/liquidity-pools-and-adding-liquidity





https://docs.pancakeswap.finance/products/syrup-pools/syrup-pool