I haven't looked through the whole archive, but it seems like there might have been actual mining to back up the hashlets. It's possible that the non-Zen hashlet solos were legit, and that all hashlets were above board.
People who later fled the company or refused to do anything unethical were involved in this stage of the business. It's still possible this didn't turn into fraud until Paycoin.
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March 04, 2015, 11:14:41 AM
March 04, 2015, 11:12:15 AM
So, received a couple of PMs urging me to buy back into XPY. It seems that the idea now being circulated is that the SEC is going to make investors whole (paying them $20 each for their XPY) by bringing in the "FDIC" because people used cash from credit cards to buy XPY on Paybase (which is now "down for maintenance"), and we all know that the FDIC insures cash deposits..
Seriously? This whole situation couldn't get any scammier if HJG was a Nigerian prince with a rich relative that just died and left them millions.
Seriously? This whole situation couldn't get any scammier if HJG was a Nigerian prince with a rich relative that just died and left them millions.
I think you need to out those folks who are furthering this scam. As you correctly note, neither the SEC nor the FDIC has any ability to repay investors in a non-FDIC insured scam anything, even if they wanted to (which they don't). So anyone pushing that hoax is part of the scam and deserves to be brought out into the light IMHO.
March 04, 2015, 11:11:52 AM
I wonder if his attorney's have been paid yet or if they are planning to go after Josh just like everyone else is.
If they did any kind of due diligence - kind of a requirement in this line of business - they would have demanded an advance payment.
A couple more notes from the SEC subpoena. Government talk is hilarious. "Singular includes plural and plural includes singular"
. But they really seem to have done their homework. The document mentions Paycoin, Hashpoints, Hashstakers (with details like staking duration and payout rate), CAF, white paper, ICO, wallet addresses, GAW entities/DBAs, etc etc, so it sounds like a well-prepared fishing expedition.The scope of documents they are requesting to be produced in 3 weeks looks like a full time job for the remaining GAW staff. And the deadline was February 27th so it kind of explains what happened to the whole "honors" thing.
March 04, 2015, 10:56:17 AM
Gretchen L...
Counsel, Division of Enforcement
(SEC)
is apparently the same Gretchen referred to here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10356040
http://imgur.com/6dPi4uU
Not that it matters much, just that it was speculated if she's GAW's lawyer. Apparently not.
I wonder if his attorney's have been paid yet or if they are planning to go after Josh just like everyone else is.
March 04, 2015, 10:48:28 AM
Gretchen L...
Counsel, Division of Enforcement
(SEC)
is apparently the same Gretchen referred to here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10356040
http://imgur.com/6dPi4uU
Not that it matters much, just that it was speculated if she's GAW's lawyer. Apparently not.
March 04, 2015, 10:42:40 AM
Yes, thank you. There was one more e-mail in addition to those two.
And this made me chuckle....
https://archive.today/GJIiK
He just can't help himself. If there were any compromises, I believe they mostly originate from Josh and his duplicity.
It's also clear MrCoins hasn't seen the most recent leaks. Especially the more 'interesting' ones
https://archive.today/GJIiK
He just can't help himself. If there were any compromises, I believe they mostly originate from Josh and his duplicity.
It's also clear MrCoins hasn't seen the most recent leaks. Especially the more 'interesting' ones
Was that a Bitcointalk screenshot in John's e-mail? Pool guy has to read all this crap to keep track of his rogue CEO.
Yes it was a screenie where the GAWCEO (iirc) account was making various statements, ones that were clearly upsetting the people back home and ones that were painting the company ever more into a corner.
March 04, 2015, 10:39:41 AM
A quick note on the Rishab/CaptainAmerica denial - even though it's barely relevant anymore in the context of all the other crap that's been exposed.
Somewhere in the leaked e-mails (not sure if that's been archived) were at least three denial e-mails from Rishab, each worded slightly differently. Now that is not something you would normally do as a spontaneous reaction to an article. It looks more like an attempt to craft a PR-ish response.
Also his whining about not being contacted by the reporter - all he really needs to do is e-mail CoinBrief's Dustin from his [email protected] address with DKIM headers and I'm sure Dustin would let us know if the e-mail checks out.
Somewhere in the leaked e-mails (not sure if that's been archived) were at least three denial e-mails from Rishab, each worded slightly differently. Now that is not something you would normally do as a spontaneous reaction to an article. It looks more like an attempt to craft a PR-ish response.
Also his whining about not being contacted by the reporter - all he really needs to do is e-mail CoinBrief's Dustin from his [email protected] address with DKIM headers and I'm sure Dustin would let us know if the e-mail checks out.
I would say that Josh got his PR firm to create the 'false e-mail' story for Rishab, but since he owes them over $15k it's doubtful, but someone did write it for him after those failed examples of his efforts.
Would anyone in their right mind admit to investing millions of dollars in a coin that turned into a gigantic clusterfuck?
Those e-mails have been out for awhile but it's just now that they are admitting to the e-mail hack. Why did it take so long and why didn't they respond when those messages were first released? I guess they didn't think anyone would pick them up and run with them.
March 04, 2015, 10:38:13 AM
I don't think I have ever read a more scary document in my life, I mean this is some serious serious shit.
Names and addresses of investors, amounts invested, names and addresses of employees, salaries, full accounting of all companies, tree list of all companies, names and ips of posters on hashtalk.org everything and anything related to this, by 9:30 am. Not 9:00 am and not 9:31 am. 9:30 am OR YOU WILL GO TO JAIL.
Wow.
The SEC is not messing around here and not one single snivel from Homero can stop it.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/257653034/SEC-Subpeona-Josh-Garza-Paycoin-Scam
I think movies are made about this actually getting caught in the "Big Machine" and never being able to get out. No Huffing, No Puffing, No Bluffing can ever make it go away. A living nightmare for all who ever even so much as touched anything ever Homero related. All to be exposed and all to be databased for eternity. Rashib won't be able to lie his way out of this one, colinfx and bitcoin bar and all those snickering smug smiley faced clowns are going to get their painted faces scraped off by the big SEC machine.
Hold on to your hats there kids!
Names and addresses of investors, amounts invested, names and addresses of employees, salaries, full accounting of all companies, tree list of all companies, names and ips of posters on hashtalk.org everything and anything related to this, by 9:30 am. Not 9:00 am and not 9:31 am. 9:30 am OR YOU WILL GO TO JAIL.
Wow.
The SEC is not messing around here and not one single snivel from Homero can stop it.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/257653034/SEC-Subpeona-Josh-Garza-Paycoin-Scam
I think movies are made about this actually getting caught in the "Big Machine" and never being able to get out. No Huffing, No Puffing, No Bluffing can ever make it go away. A living nightmare for all who ever even so much as touched anything ever Homero related. All to be exposed and all to be databased for eternity. Rashib won't be able to lie his way out of this one, colinfx and bitcoin bar and all those snickering smug smiley faced clowns are going to get their painted faces scraped off by the big SEC machine.
Hold on to your hats there kids!
It wouldn't surprise me if Mr. Garza would try to con the SEC with fake info and sob stories. Or more likely just take off and leave others to deal with it.
BTW those train tickets and taxi voicemails seem to show that Mr. Garza is already in Europe and waiting for some other family members to arrive on the 10th.
March 04, 2015, 10:31:55 AM
I don't think I have ever read a more scary document in my life, I mean this is some serious serious shit.
Names and addresses of investors, amounts invested, names and addresses of employees, salaries, full accounting of all companies, tree list of all companies, names and ips of posters on hashtalk.org everything and anything related to this, by 9:30 am. Not 9:00 am and not 9:31 am. 9:30 am OR YOU WILL GO TO JAIL.
Wow.
The SEC is not messing around here and not one single snivel from Homero can stop it.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/257653034/SEC-Subpeona-Josh-Garza-Paycoin-Scam
I think movies are made about this actually getting caught in the "Big Machine" and never being able to get out. No Huffing, No Puffing, No Bluffing can ever make it go away. A living nightmare for all who ever even so much as touched anything ever Homero related. All to be exposed and all to be databased for eternity. Rashib won't be able to lie his way out of this one, colinfx and bitcoin bar and all those snickering smug smiley faced clowns are going to get their painted faces scraped off by the big SEC machine.
Hold on to your hats there kids!
Names and addresses of investors, amounts invested, names and addresses of employees, salaries, full accounting of all companies, tree list of all companies, names and ips of posters on hashtalk.org everything and anything related to this, by 9:30 am. Not 9:00 am and not 9:31 am. 9:30 am OR YOU WILL GO TO JAIL.
Wow.
The SEC is not messing around here and not one single snivel from Homero can stop it.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/257653034/SEC-Subpeona-Josh-Garza-Paycoin-Scam
I think movies are made about this actually getting caught in the "Big Machine" and never being able to get out. No Huffing, No Puffing, No Bluffing can ever make it go away. A living nightmare for all who ever even so much as touched anything ever Homero related. All to be exposed and all to be databased for eternity. Rashib won't be able to lie his way out of this one, colinfx and bitcoin bar and all those snickering smug smiley faced clowns are going to get their painted faces scraped off by the big SEC machine.
Hold on to your hats there kids!
March 04, 2015, 10:31:48 AM
Yes, thank you. There was one more e-mail in addition to those two.
And this made me chuckle....
https://archive.today/GJIiK
He just can't help himself. If there were any compromises, I believe they mostly originate from Josh and his duplicity.
It's also clear MrCoins hasn't seen the most recent leaks. Especially the more 'interesting' ones
https://archive.today/GJIiK
He just can't help himself. If there were any compromises, I believe they mostly originate from Josh and his duplicity.
It's also clear MrCoins hasn't seen the most recent leaks. Especially the more 'interesting' ones
Was that a Bitcointalk screenshot in John's e-mail? Pool guy has to read all this crap to keep track of his rogue CEO.
March 04, 2015, 10:23:38 AM
A quick note on the Rishab/CaptainAmerica denial - even though it's barely relevant anymore in the context of all the other crap that's been exposed.
Somewhere in the leaked e-mails (not sure if that's been archived) were at least three denial e-mails from Rishab, each worded slightly differently. Now that is not something you would normally do as a spontaneous reaction to an article. It looks more like an attempt to craft a PR-ish response.
Also his whining about not being contacted by the reporter - all he really needs to do is e-mail CoinBrief's Dustin from his [email protected] address with DKIM headers and I'm sure Dustin would let us know if the e-mail checks out.
What else... I've been told that GAW had 2FA on their e-mail accounts. That would make it impossible for accounts to be compromised for months without anyone noticing. Even without 2FA it's extremely unlikely. Again, largely irrelevant after the latest leak - who in their right mind would "fake" PR bills and Tesla detailing invoices.
However MrCoins is not impressed by any of that: https://hashtalk.org/topic/33060
(tl;dr: all e-mails are fake because two recipients denied them)
Somewhere in the leaked e-mails (not sure if that's been archived) were at least three denial e-mails from Rishab, each worded slightly differently. Now that is not something you would normally do as a spontaneous reaction to an article. It looks more like an attempt to craft a PR-ish response.
Also his whining about not being contacted by the reporter - all he really needs to do is e-mail CoinBrief's Dustin from his [email protected] address with DKIM headers and I'm sure Dustin would let us know if the e-mail checks out.
What else... I've been told that GAW had 2FA on their e-mail accounts. That would make it impossible for accounts to be compromised for months without anyone noticing. Even without 2FA it's extremely unlikely. Again, largely irrelevant after the latest leak - who in their right mind would "fake" PR bills and Tesla detailing invoices.
However MrCoins is not impressed by any of that: https://hashtalk.org/topic/33060
(tl;dr: all e-mails are fake because two recipients denied them)
https://archive.today/wyDRP
Those I think you mean?
And this made me chuckle....
https://archive.today/GJIiK
He just can't help himself. If there were any compromises, I believe they mostly originate from Josh and his duplicity.
It's also clear MrCoins hasn't seen the most recent leaks. Especially the more 'interesting' ones
March 04, 2015, 10:14:39 AM
First post under this new alt. I'm a semi-active user on this site, but I'm going to be posting under this alt for any discussion related to the giant dump of GAW information that got posted yesterday. I am going to start digging into the materials that were released later today.
Is there an easy way to break his work up into chunks and distribute it. I wouldnt mind doing some analysis too but going over the same area as others would be silly.
I agree it would be good to split up the review and start a master document that contains all of the most relevant information, linked to the source archive(s). Posting in here in random chunks makes it very hard to follow.
Feel free to start aggregating here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/PayGAWD/
Its 2am so im getting some sleep but will see what i can do tomorrow
March 04, 2015, 10:13:08 AM
So, received a couple of PMs urging me to buy back into XPY. It seems that the idea now being circulated is that the SEC is going to make investors whole (paying them $20 each for their XPY) by bringing in the "FDIC" because people used cash from credit cards to buy XPY on Paybase (which is now "down for maintenance"), and we all know that the FDIC insures cash deposits..
Seriously? This whole situation couldn't get any scammier if HJG was a Nigerian prince with a rich relative that just died and left them millions.
Seriously? This whole situation couldn't get any scammier if HJG was a Nigerian prince with a rich relative that just died and left them millions.
I think you need to out those folks who are furthering this scam. As you correctly note, neither the SEC nor the FDIC has any ability to repay investors in a non-FDIC insured scam anything, even if they wanted to (which they don't). So anyone pushing that hoax is part of the scam and deserves to be brought out into the light IMHO.
March 04, 2015, 10:09:48 AM
A quick note on the Rishab/CaptainAmerica denial - even though it's barely relevant anymore in the context of all the other crap that's been exposed.
Somewhere in the leaked e-mails (not sure if that's been archived) were at least three denial e-mails from Rishab, each worded slightly differently. Now that is not something you would normally do as a spontaneous reaction to an article. It looks more like an attempt to craft a PR-ish response.
Also his whining about not being contacted by the reporter - all he really needs to do is e-mail CoinBrief's Dustin from his [email protected] address with DKIM headers and I'm sure Dustin would let us know if the e-mail checks out.
What else... I've been told that GAW had 2FA on their e-mail accounts. That would make it impossible for accounts to be compromised for months without anyone noticing. Even without 2FA it's extremely unlikely. Again, largely irrelevant after the latest leak - who in their right mind would "fake" PR bills and Tesla detailing invoices.
However MrCoins is not impressed by any of that: https://hashtalk.org/topic/33060
(tl;dr: all e-mails are fake because two recipients denied them)
Somewhere in the leaked e-mails (not sure if that's been archived) were at least three denial e-mails from Rishab, each worded slightly differently. Now that is not something you would normally do as a spontaneous reaction to an article. It looks more like an attempt to craft a PR-ish response.
Also his whining about not being contacted by the reporter - all he really needs to do is e-mail CoinBrief's Dustin from his [email protected] address with DKIM headers and I'm sure Dustin would let us know if the e-mail checks out.
What else... I've been told that GAW had 2FA on their e-mail accounts. That would make it impossible for accounts to be compromised for months without anyone noticing. Even without 2FA it's extremely unlikely. Again, largely irrelevant after the latest leak - who in their right mind would "fake" PR bills and Tesla detailing invoices.
However MrCoins is not impressed by any of that: https://hashtalk.org/topic/33060
(tl;dr: all e-mails are fake because two recipients denied them)
March 04, 2015, 10:06:52 AM
https://hashtalk.org/topic/33067/paybase-and-zencloud-down/21
What is this but a Festival of Faith? What is Faith but hanging on the Impossible?
Since they are so shorthanded at GAW and all of the remaining employees are busy alternately gathering relevant documents for the SEC or shredding them, I figured I would donate a little something so they could spruce up the Paybase placeholder message. I think it really makes it pop quite nicely.
What is this but a Festival of Faith? What is Faith but hanging on the Impossible?
Since they are so shorthanded at GAW and all of the remaining employees are busy alternately gathering relevant documents for the SEC or shredding them, I figured I would donate a little something so they could spruce up the Paybase placeholder message. I think it really makes it pop quite nicely.
March 04, 2015, 10:04:37 AM
March 04, 2015, 10:04:20 AM
March 04, 2015, 09:58:15 AM
So, received a couple of PMs urging me to buy back into XPY. It seems that the idea now being circulated is that the SEC is going to make investors whole (paying them $20 each for their XPY) by bringing in the "FDIC" because people used cash from credit cards to buy XPY on Paybase (which is now "down for maintenance"), and we all know that the FDIC insures cash deposits..
Seriously? This whole situation couldn't get any scammier if HJG was a Nigerian prince with a rich relative that just died and left them millions.
Seriously? This whole situation couldn't get any scammier if HJG was a Nigerian prince with a rich relative that just died and left them millions.
March 04, 2015, 09:50:37 AM
First post under this new alt. I'm a semi-active user on this site, but I'm going to be posting under this alt for any discussion related to the giant dump of GAW information that got posted yesterday. I am going to start digging into the materials that were released later today.
Is there an easy way to break his work up into chunks and distribute it. I wouldnt mind doing some analysis too but going over the same area as others would be silly.
I agree it would be good to split up the review and start a master document that contains all of the most relevant information, linked to the source archive(s). Posting in here in random chunks makes it very hard to follow.
Feel free to start aggregating here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/PayGAWD/
Thanks for setting that up. But if we wanted to use reddit for these purposes, may I suggest http://www.reddit.com/r/joshgarzaisafraud, which is semi-active and already has ~60 users?
Whatever works, doesn't matter to me - certainly enough room in the universe to discuss this stuff in multiple forums.
March 04, 2015, 09:36:35 AM
Did anyone catch the Zinc Save conversation (Josh, Joe & max I think it is) where Dev is asking for payment (repeatedly it's noticed) and then its mentioned (by Josh iirc) handing it all back to the Dev as it runs on their platform.
There was also mention of TOS breaching there too.
There was also mention of TOS breaching there too.
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