I was able to verify "Esoteric Investments LLC" is registered in NJ. That's all the records show without paying, anyway. From what I can tell, using anonymous shell companies is pretty common in USA, and especially in New Jersey. And besides, Trendon Shavers' identity was well known early on, that didn't help much.
Thank you for actually checking to see if we were verified instead of merely dismissing us.
I'm not sure about shell companies, but then again I'm not well rehearsed in major scams either
We have some more info if you're interested.
https://www.esotericinvestments.com/pr/oct-22-2014.phpIs there anything else I can help with? And sorry about Digi, he can be a bit rambunctious lol
Without proof the funds 'invested' are not being used to fund payouts, the only reasonable course of action is to stay far away from schemes like this.
That's absurd logic. Think about this....10 ppl invest, all their funds go into a cryptocurrency on the exchange, the coin(s) are bought then sold at the higher price for profit. Then the funds are placed back in the pool and a payout is calculated based on the amount of profits made. So collectively all the investors' funds are creating profit and by proxy funding the payouts.
How else would profit be made and paid??? From thin air!?
It wouldn't. The operators would take funds from their investors and create the impression of shating profits by paying their victims a small portion of the funds they 'invested' whenever payouts are due. The users, happy, report success, convince new marks to join and possibly throw more funds at the scheme themselves. This goes on until the amount to be paid to victims exceeds the amount of funds coming in from the victims.
There is no place for trust in giving money to strangers. If a 'business' can't prove they're not operating as outlined above, especially when claiming to operate an investment scheme, they are to be avoided at all costs.
Then how would you like us to prove it to you?
This is not a HYIP, this is a trading pool.
How to prove it? Simple, produce evidence of the trades that were made. Screenshots of completed trade-orders would be a start, but they could be doctored. A read-only API-key would be better.
I can talk to Glenn Crystal about this. I speak with him daily, I'm sure he'd agree to give proof that it is being traded.
Digi and I spoke with Glenn via Eso chat, time is Eastern:
@Big Deej: In the forums an idea was posted that I'd like to bring up with you
(15:58:54 PM) Digicoinz: Exchanges have API's that can be setup
(15:58:58 PM) Digicoinz: for read only access
(15:59:09 PM) Digicoinz: which you could use to show trading activity
(15:59:19 PM) Digicoinz: in fact you could setup a live feed to the website showing tihs possibly?
(16:02:52 PM) Big Deej: its something we would have to build out
(16:03:26 PM) Big Deej: We have more than 1 person trading the pool and across multiple exchanges we would need to compile it all down into a summary for the entire pool
(16:03:41 PM) 1RuneKing: oh hey, you are here
(16:03:47 PM) 1RuneKing: okay, digi got ya first
(16:03:56 PM) Big Deej: as i said on/off today
(16:04:18 PM) Digicoinz: ya that would be an important implementation. and would quell ppl's worries a lil
(16:04:26 PM) 1RuneKing: indeed
Also I talked with him on skype, time is Pacific:
[1:01:50 PM] Rune King: Hey, could we get some screenshots of trading? Or a read only API-key? There are some people agreeing that these would be the best way to verify that the money is actually being traded and us not being a HYIP/ponzi
[1:04:36 PM] Glenn Crystal: Yes/no
[1:04:44 PM] Glenn Crystal: I have to get all that put together
[1:04:54 PM] Glenn Crystal: Its not as simple as just giving you access to 1 account
[1:05:02 PM] Rune King: yeah yeah
[1:05:07 PM] Rune King: i get it
[1:05:17 PM] Rune King: suggestion to add to the pile
[1:06:06 PM] Glenn Crystal: yeah unfortunately
[1:06:07 PM] Glenn Crystal: lol
[1:06:43 PM] Rune King: you really do need a few coding monkey lol
[1:07:29 PM] Glenn Crystal: yeah im the only one atm
[1:07:42 PM] Rune King: I know... :/
[1:07:29 PM] Glenn Crystal: yeah im the only one atm