ICO scammers, Sell your uploaded KYC ID documents, adress for a lot of money.

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Quote from: muhtesem on March 08, 2019, 05:18:55 PM

I never did an ico kyc.. Come on, maybe you could send an ID card or a passport, but who stupid send selfie? I think this seller is a cheater. or any other possibility that's more likely; This vendor is the employee of an exchange. He hacked a Exchange KYC datas....

Well , even if you do not send the selfie, sending only the documents NIC is very risky because these are just original documents that can be used anywhere. I think we should not send our KYC to ICO sites which can be a real threat for us if they misuse it.
They can even sell this private information on darknet and get good money out of it too.

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Quote from: Bonsaiav on March 14, 2019, 08:41:19 PM

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But, it's very unfortunate, if the existence of KYC has been used by third parties who are not reluctant to use / sell our ID for their needs in carrying out their deceptive actions.

You can minimize a chance to fool ICO scam if we know how to have dig research on it, we have our own responsibility to manage that kind of risk. Ain't against in KYC/AML implementation because it helps to conduct investigation towards financial investment. There's an important
of KYC remediation and why we should be doing it. Please refer to this link: https://complyadvantage.com/knowledgebase/kyc/kyc-remediation/

Do your own research before submitting KYC/AML for your own risk, let's accept the fact that time to time all ICO/company will implement KYC.

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Various startups in several developed countries, seem to continue to grow along with the development of technology and various needs of society. Cryptocurrency's a new currency model, and can also be used as an investment asset that has a fluctuating value, because its condition's prone to manipulation, at least this condition forces several institutions to present KYC in monitoring the progress of this volatile currency. But, it's very unfortunate, if the existence of KYC has been used by third parties who are not reluctant to use / sell our ID for their needs in carrying out their deceptive actions.

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Quote from: kawetsriyanto on March 11, 2019, 06:37:17 PM

Quote from: sidkz on March 11, 2019, 04:05:36 AM

I try not to participate in such bounty companies, and in general I don’t understand why they may need my documents, now and some exchanges are beginning to demand KYC

You are no need to avoid bounty campaigns. You just need to avoid a bounty that requires KYC to claim the rewards. There are many bounties with no KYC for bounty participants. While exchanges, it is difficult to avoid since most of them require KYC.

I think the emerge of IEO can help resolve issues like this, I mean that's the only good it can offer. And not the profit part. Instead of giving out your information on every ICO that requires it, you give it out 'once' to one trusted exchange with their help you enter into ICO knowing that, your data, funds and investment are protected. Remember it all depends on the exchange you participate on.

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These are the same ICOs you will work for and you wouldn’t get paid for the work you did.
Then after they have stolen your info and your money they would also go and sell your info on the dark web and make extra money, lol.

These dudes are quite funny. That’s why anyone who is looking for an ICO to participate in should be very careful so that they don’t end up with any of these. And by the way, it’s not all info you should give online, some things are meant to be kept secret.

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Quote from: kawetsriyanto on March 11, 2019, 06:37:17 PM

Quote from: sidkz on March 11, 2019, 04:05:36 AM

I try not to participate in such bounty companies, and in general I don’t understand why they may need my documents, now and some exchanges are beginning to demand KYC

You are no need to avoid bounty campaigns. You just need to avoid a bounty that requires KYC to claim the rewards. There are many bounties with no KYC for bounty participants. While exchanges, it is difficult to avoid since most of them require KYC.

There is no point of avoiding them if you know to your self that they are legit and as long as you have the required i.d's to do a kyc . legit companies wont ever sell your identity . they only hold it and store it on their safe because that will be use for future references . i dont get the point of kyc on bounties but i know that kyc on exchanges use to increase you trading limits .

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Quote from: sidkz on March 11, 2019, 04:05:36 AM

I try not to participate in such bounty companies, and in general I don’t understand why they may need my documents, now and some exchanges are beginning to demand KYC

You are no need to avoid bounty campaigns. You just need to avoid a bounty that requires KYC to claim the rewards. There are many bounties with no KYC for bounty participants. While exchanges, it is difficult to avoid since most of them require KYC.

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This has been a threatening act from ICOs who receive our documents in place of KYC. Can not blaim all ICOs. Few would be in place to do when the sale did not meet the expectation, they go about selling the documents for the price they could opt of to gain some money. Its out duty to check ICO's background completely before giving out our documents.

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Oh shit, never knew that before. Is it a deep web right? I guess i should be more careful to upload my kyc right now. Luckly i never upload my kyc id documents on trash site and trash ico or trash bounty.

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I try not to participate in such bounty companies, and in general I don’t understand why they may need my documents, now and some exchanges are beginning to demand KYC

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This is highly unsecured, we trust the company and send the details for verification but it is purely a game selling individual identities through a panel of website to others and there are chances the buyers can make utilized for illegal activities.

Next action plan: we need to report Google to shut down the website which is a crime.

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Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on August 17, 2018, 01:59:20 PM

It can take years to rebuild your life and credit after identity theft

What could possibly happen if your identity would get stolen by someone? Worst case are?

Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on August 17, 2018, 02:41:15 PM

Even if the project itself isn't selling info, they could easily get hacked. Who knows what they do for security or with the information.

Since you are I think is more knowledgeable in this kinds of things, what do you recommend to do if you already are "A" victim of this identity theft?

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this is very scary and I often give my data to KYC. I'm sure this data won't leak.
I started thinking about securing my data and stopped to follow part of this fraud.

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Quote from: muhtesem on March 08, 2019, 05:18:55 PM

I never did an ico kyc.. Come on, maybe you could send an ID card or a passport, but who stupid send selfie? I think this seller is a cheater. or any other possibility that's more likely; This vendor is the employee of an exchange. He hacked a Exchange KYC datas....

People send everything to the ICO sites which includes ID card, passport and a selfie holding the NIC etc. The ICO sites has so many real Identities which can be misused. Even they can verify their accounts at exchanges and other site using these IDs.

We should be very careful when submitting our real documents to such sites. The best option is to watermark a logo on our docs/pics stating "Only for this " etc so it cannot be used at other sites.

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The aim and objective of some team requesting for kyc is to steal identity of ico buyers and bounty participants who participated in their project, many people have brought up this issue of team stealing peoples identity, it is high time people also kyc someone you are spending your identification card and image to. Be careful.

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I never did an ico kyc.. Come on, maybe you could send an ID card or a passport, but who stupid send selfie? I think this seller is a cheater. or any other possibility that's more likely; This vendor is the employee of an exchange. He hacked a Exchange KYC datas....

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I don't know if you guys heard about the Coinbase admittance:

https://cryptopotato.com/coinbase-executive-our-client-data-was-sold-by-third-party-providers/

So not just ICO scammers but it seems one of the best trading exchanges has sort of slipped up because the own that they hired that supposedly protect their clients data as selling it as well. So don't be surprised if our data ended up in the dark web and being used by others.

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I am afraid now seeing how scam ICOs had been stealing vital information of people in the name of KYC its high time we nip this problem in the bud I think its time regulations of these ICOs should be set up, this will adequately take control of this embarrassing situations wherein an ICO will steal investors both funds and identities is quite discouraging and unacceptable.

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There are things that are regarded to as sensitive information, just like your home address and phone number, those things you shouldn’t give out. So you should be very careful with sites that asks for such things. And as for email, you can create as many as you want and have one that serves as your personal (main) email which you’re not going to use for things like that,. You should only use your other fake emails for things like that. And in some cases, you shouldn’t give your real name.

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Quote from: EyeOfHorus on February 11, 2019, 01:39:05 PM

This is true lots of scam or fake ICOs implement KYC just to gather the information about you just to gain more info about you and use it for their purposes in the future. So you should beware where you upload your information. The KYC is usually requested if the project succeeded already then yes but before that it is pointless. For example my last search DexAge ICO for the decentralized p2p escrow trading exchange is considered to implement KYC too but not before they finish their project and go out on the market so that looks right as it should be.

Yup buddy. It happened to me some time ago I don't even remember the name of the ICO but it's got scammed and shortly I was also receiving emails from different project which I din't even sign for. So as I figured it out this all information when filling up KYC can be used later to attract to a new project and probably got scammed again. Or even use your information to make a fake CEO of the project. Who knows what they might do with it. I also following DexAge ICO and yeah they do not acquire it during the ICO which is right. So people should pay a notice to this - no KYC before the project is out and running.

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