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Adviser Douglas Lyons: how to make money on a fake rating.
Profile of ICOBench adviser looks very strange - almost all the projects in his profile evaluated as 1.1.1. and he is not writing reviews, but simply copy/past them.
Two examples, try to find differences:
Project INFRACOINS
https://icobench.com/ico/infracoins/ratings#ratingsDouglas Lyons
Board Advisor- Early Adoption and Strategic Partnerships
Rated on Jul 17, 2018
Modified on Jul 24, 2018
this is just another property rental listing site with no discernable features from others. The competition in this space is fierce, fuelled by huge advertising budgets and name brand awareness. There is absolutely no implementation of blockchain beyond the fund raising.
there is 0 opportunity for any type of ROI to investors.
This is not a good investment.
2. Project PLACETORENT
https://icobench.com/ico/placetorent/ratings#ratings Douglas Lyons
Board Advisor- Early Adoption and Strategic Partnerships
Rated on Jul 17, 2018
Modified on Jul 24, 2018
this is just another property rental listing site with no discernable features from others. The competition in this space is fierce, fuelled by huge advertising budgets and name brand awareness. There is absolutely no implementation of blockchain beyond the fund raising.
there is 0 opportunity for any type of ROI to investors.
This is not a good investment.
Another strange thing – advisor Douglas Lyons does not particularly study information about the project, when rating it.
For example:
He rates with 1 (SCAM) the team of WEMARK.
https://icobench.com/ico/wemark/ratings33 expert ratings - 4.0
ICO PROFILE - 4.9
TEAM - 4.3
VISION - 3.7
PRODUCT - 3.7
Adviser Douglas Lyons rating:
TEAM – 1 (SCAM)
VISION– 1 (SCAM)
PRODUCT– 1 (SCAM)
Let’s look, what people he calls scam:
Lars Perkins - Former CEO & Founder @Picasa, Director @Google
Keren Sachs - Former Director of Content Development @Shutterstock
Miguel Forbes - Co-Founder @Forbes.com
Amir Feder - Token Economy Advisor, Northwestern University
Ismail Malik - ICO advisor, Founder & CEO @Blockchain Lab
And I wondered why ICOBench advisor Douglas Lyons lowers the rating of those projects?
I got in touch with team representatives of those projects which were evaluated by adviser Douglas Lyons and everything became clear:
Shortly before the rating of advisor Douglas Lyons appears or right after it was published, some people turn to them with a proposal to raise the rating at for money.
Price for a better rating by 20 experts is 8 000 USD. Very good income, even if shared with other “experts”, consider to the amount of “scam” projects adviser Douglas Lyons finding every day.
Excellent Business brings excellent ROI (return on investment)
Adviser Douglas Lyons profile ICOBench: https://icobench.com/u/doug-lyons
Adviser Douglas Lyons profile LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-lyons