Topic: MCXNow Shutting down (Temporary) - page 12. (Read 23954 times)
This is interesting. His best bet is running away with all that BTC gained from the sales, which is highly likely.
Yeah but he is just going to scam again. Come out with a new name for himself if no-one trusts realsolid any more and repeat on a new batch of suckers.
We need to catch this asshole. He has been scamming this community since at least 2011 it looks like and he is only becoming more successful.
There has to be clues. The feds Busted DPR off of a publicly available posting he made at Bitcointalk I believe.
Hardly a sole will trust him after this. And rightly so. Write off the losses, get your focus back. Get on with things. Don't look back. Learn from it. He simply and purposely destroyed his businesses Goodwill with this manure. His bs is all too transparent.
The following is how I decided to end/sign my messages here after starting out posting a while back.
Again it eloquently fits here in this message too. Guess I have a bit of vision...
Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware!
Yeah but he is just going to scam again. Come out with a new name for himself if no-one trusts realsolid any more and repeat on a new batch of suckers.
We need to catch this asshole. He has been scamming this community since at least 2011 it looks like and he is only becoming more successful.
There has to be clues. The feds Busted DPR off of a publicly available posting he made at Bitcointalk I believe.
This doesn't give crypto-currencies a black eye.
This is all about greed & fraud, pure and simple.
It has nothing to do with Crypto-Currencies at all.
This is the 2nd Gilded Age of Greed & Fraud!
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Fraud is rampant everywhere today!
And Greed has truly gone absolutely crazy!
Our world is spinning fully out of control!
Look around, everywhere. What do you see?
I see systemic fraud and the most extreme levels of Greed ever!
Just like anything this event is merely a reflection of society as a whole.
But it doesn't give this wonderful monetary revolution a black eye per say.
Instead merely another lesson and fact of life.
Scammers are everywhere these days. Be careful. Choose wisely. Don't be too greedy.
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Hardly a sole will trust him after this. And rightly so. Write off the losses, get your focus back. Get on with things. Don't look back. Learn from it. He simply and purposely destroyed his businesses Goodwill with this manure. His bs is all too transparent.
The following is how I decided to end/sign my messages here after starting out posting a while back.
Again it eloquently fits here in this message too. Guess I have a bit of vision...
Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware!
This is all about greed & fraud, pure and simple.
It has nothing to do with Crypto-Currencies at all.
This is the 2nd Gilded Age of Greed & Fraud!
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Fraud is rampant everywhere today!
And Greed has truly gone absolutely crazy!
Our world is spinning fully out of control!
Look around, everywhere. What do you see?
I see systemic fraud and the most extreme levels of Greed ever!
Just like anything this event is merely a reflection of society as a whole.
But it doesn't give this wonderful monetary revolution a black eye per say.
Instead merely another lesson and fact of life.
Scammers are everywhere these days. Be careful. Choose wisely. Don't be too greedy.
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Hardly a sole will trust him after this. And rightly so. Write off the losses, get your focus back. Get on with things. Don't look back. Learn from it. He simply and purposely destroyed his businesses Goodwill with this manure. His bs is all too transparent.
The following is how I decided to end/sign my messages here after starting out posting a while back.
Again it eloquently fits here in this message too. Guess I have a bit of vision...
Caveat emptor - let the buyer beware!
OK I looked it up.
http://www.whoisguard.com/
However could they not potentially have his information.
Also why would the phone number be disconnected?
http://www.whoisguard.com/
However could they not potentially have his information.
Also why would the phone number be disconnected?
That's not going to help, you need to get the authorities onto aws who host the site in the US follow the money trail, IP's that sort of thing, IP's that access the BTC wallets. If he has paid $20,000 per year for hosting as RS claimed in chat yesterday, that's a pretty clear money trail.
I can't believe RS would do this.
Why not? He was vocal that he "could" do it. Everyone thinking differently is delusional, according to him.
I made a lot of money on his exchange and it worked good, but he has very poor character.
Also interesting, how he promised that new batch of mcxfees will be released in a way that for every 1 one holds he will have a right to buy 9 additional ones. Then he offer overpriced mcxfees at 0.4 which was at the time 80-100$ (depending on the date) and change his mind that everyone can buy them, not only current holders. Some got really fucked with this. Davidpate for example stated he lost a few 100ks of dollars. He also bought overpriced Solidcoins at the price 0.004+/coin. Just some weeks later I could buy solidcoins for 0.00016
Now they are probably worthless, I just have around 800 of them which doesn't bother me too much.Anyway, fuck you all who bashed me because I was stating the obvious - this guy is a fuckin retard. He is smart nonetheless.
OK I looked it up.
http://www.whoisguard.com/
However could they not potentially have his information.
Also why would the phone number be disconnected?
http://www.whoisguard.com/
However could they not potentially have his information.
Also why would the phone number be disconnected?
I am wondering if realsolid is even Australian?
Being an intentional scam from the start the Australian thing could be to get us off track.
I Checked the domain registration.
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number which said it is to a land line in Slayton, Minnesota. I called the number and it is disconnected.
However this could be a clue. Why would an Aussie, use a phone number for some random town in Minnesota even if it was fake?
Being an intentional scam from the start the Australian thing could be to get us off track.
I Checked the domain registration.
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number which said it is to a land line in Slayton, Minnesota. I called the number and it is disconnected.
However this could be a clue. Why would an Aussie, use a phone number for some random town in Minnesota even if it was fake?
/Facepalm
That's not his phone #. He hid his registration info behind WhoisGuard.
I can't believe RS would do this.
What is whoisguard? a company?
I am wondering if realsolid is even Australian?
Being an intentional scam from the start the Australian thing could be to get us off track.
I Checked the domain registration.
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number which said it is to a land line in Slayton, Minnesota. I called the number and it is disconnected.
However this could be a clue. Why would an Aussie, use a phone number for some random town in Minnesota even if it was fake?
Being an intentional scam from the start the Australian thing could be to get us off track.
I Checked the domain registration.
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number which said it is to a land line in Slayton, Minnesota. I called the number and it is disconnected.
However this could be a clue. Why would an Aussie, use a phone number for some random town in Minnesota even if it was fake?
/Facepalm
That's not his phone #. He hid his registration info behind WhoisGuard.
I can't believe RS would do this.
I am wondering if realsolid is even Australian?
Being an intentional scam from the start the Australian thing could be to get us off track.
I Checked the domain registration.
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number which said it is to a land line in Slayton, Minnesota. I called the number and it is disconnected.
However this could be a clue. Why would an Aussie, use a phone number for some random town in Minnesota even if it was fake?
Being an intentional scam from the start the Australian thing could be to get us off track.
I Checked the domain registration.
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Domain ID: D165213326-LROR
Domain Name: microcash.org
Created On: 06-Apr-2012 00:55:33
Expiration Date: 06-Apr-2014 00:55:33
Sponsoring Registrar: eNom, Inc. (5065-EN)
Status: client_transfer_prohibited
Name Server: dns1.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns2.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns3.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns4.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns5.registrar-servers.com
Registrant ID: 2e57cbd5923bff21
Registrant Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Street1: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Registrant Street2: Unknown
Registrant Street3: Unknown
Registrant City: Panama
Registrant State/Province: Panama
Registrant Postal Code: NA
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.8365503
Registrant Fax: +51.17057182
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Admin ID: 2e57cbd5923bff21
Admin Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Admin Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Admin Street1: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Admin Street2: Unknown
Admin Street3: Unknown
Admin City: Panama
Admin State: Panama
Admin Postal Code: NA
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Email: [email protected]
Domain Name: microcash.org
Created On: 06-Apr-2012 00:55:33
Expiration Date: 06-Apr-2014 00:55:33
Sponsoring Registrar: eNom, Inc. (5065-EN)
Status: client_transfer_prohibited
Name Server: dns1.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns2.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns3.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns4.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns5.registrar-servers.com
Registrant ID: 2e57cbd5923bff21
Registrant Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Street1: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Registrant Street2: Unknown
Registrant Street3: Unknown
Registrant City: Panama
Registrant State/Province: Panama
Registrant Postal Code: NA
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.8365503
Registrant Fax: +51.17057182
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Admin ID: 2e57cbd5923bff21
Admin Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Admin Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Admin Street1: P.O. Box 0823-03411
Admin Street2: Unknown
Admin Street3: Unknown
Admin City: Panama
Admin State: Panama
Admin Postal Code: NA
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Email: [email protected]
I did a reverse lookup on the phone number which said it is to a land line in Slayton, Minnesota. I called the number and it is disconnected.
However this could be a clue. Why would an Aussie, use a phone number for some random town in Minnesota even if it was fake?
Yeah if it really was the same guy running all these scams....
It really puts a black eye on crypto currencies.
I know we have to take responsibility for what we do with our coins but it is hard to get others to get involved when so many people are getting ripped off.
It really puts a black eye on crypto currencies.
I know we have to take responsibility for what we do with our coins but it is hard to get others to get involved when so many people are getting ripped off.
Is realsolid really Ken Armitt kinda hard to believe even before I got into bitcoin I heard of this story http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3732468.htm
I never would have even registered at mcxnow if I thought he was Ken Armitt.
I never would have even registered at mcxnow if I thought he was Ken Armitt.
I hadn't seen this topic before I had started a thread of my own, here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mcxnow-shutdown-scam-347674 , but this was the jist of it.
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After having operated for 7 months mcxNOW is opting to shutdown with claims of re-inventing the site for its users. The fishy part is mcxFEE's about 2 months old are in-house shares in which have been sold to a tune of 0.4BTC at the time before the current rise in price. At this time it appears the owner isn't even offering to buy back the shares, after having roughly sold 50,000 shares, at the price of 0.4 BTC thats quite a lot. 20,000 BTC and at the current value of the moment that is roughly $17.66 Million and now he is shutting down the site....He claims he needs to remake the site, that no one else can manage the C++ code. It's pretty common for professional developers to inherit sites from other developers and make changes and maintain it, but perhaps he is more skilled than everyone else so only he can do it.
You guys be the judge, but all I can say it looks fishy, selling all those shares and shutting down, using a sob story to get away clean, either way, not cool, leaving a lot of people out in the cold. Make note anyone calling him out in his own chat, he makes a point to ban, seems none are allowed to speak out against him. I am not even a mcxFEE holder, but I feel for those that are, no one deserves that. So we shall see if he is a scammer or not if he returns with his new site. I would like to be proven wrong. I would hate to see people lose so much to a Chop Shop fraud scheme that this appears to be.
You guys be the judge, but all I can say it looks fishy, selling all those shares and shutting down, using a sob story to get away clean, either way, not cool, leaving a lot of people out in the cold. Make note anyone calling him out in his own chat, he makes a point to ban, seems none are allowed to speak out against him. I am not even a mcxFEE holder, but I feel for those that are, no one deserves that. So we shall see if he is a scammer or not if he returns with his new site. I would like to be proven wrong. I would hate to see people lose so much to a Chop Shop fraud scheme that this appears to be.
I you are going to report him to Australian law enforcement, make sure you get his DNS record and print out the cooresponding ARIN whois info. They can get his identity from Amazon for those servers that he rented. Need this before his site completely disappears.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.mcxnow.com
Address: 54.214.18.121
Name: www.mcxnow.com
Address: 54.214.21.135
Name: www.mcxnow.com
Address: 54.214.21.183
Network
NetRange 54.214.0.0 - 54.214.255.255
CIDR 54.214.0.0/16
Name AMAZO-ZPDX3
Handle NET-54-214-0-0-1
Parent AMAZON-2011L (NET-54-208-0-0-1)
Net Type Reallocated
Origin AS AS16509
Organization Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-47)
Registration Date 2013-03-19
Last Updated 2013-03-19
Comments
RESTful Link http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-54-214-0-0-1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.mcxnow.com
Address: 54.214.18.121
Name: www.mcxnow.com
Address: 54.214.21.135
Name: www.mcxnow.com
Address: 54.214.21.183
Network
NetRange 54.214.0.0 - 54.214.255.255
CIDR 54.214.0.0/16
Name AMAZO-ZPDX3
Handle NET-54-214-0-0-1
Parent AMAZON-2011L (NET-54-208-0-0-1)
Net Type Reallocated
Origin AS AS16509
Organization Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZO-47)
Registration Date 2013-03-19
Last Updated 2013-03-19
Comments
RESTful Link http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-54-214-0-0-1
Thanks This is a least a small clue. I am willing to put in some effort to find this guy purely on principle. I did lose money but he is just going to come up with a new sock puppet identity and scam again so must be stopped.
So much about his anonymity expertize.
LoL, he is fucked now.
Good job RealSolid.......
Good job RealSolid.......
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What is the backstory on this pic?
RealSolid had his wisdom tooth out.
BTW, this was just posted on IRC@#mcxnow:
[02:31] You guys want to know RealSolid's real name?
[02:32] Will his real name help me get back the money I spent on mcxfees?
[02:34] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has joined #mcxnow
[02:34] well you can chase him and his brother down
[02:34] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has quit [Client Quit]
[02:35] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has joined #mcxnow
[02:35] Yeah... I don't want to go to jail.
[02:35] == acejudas [~ace@2605:6000:6080:8a00:91f9:6f34:8598:36a8] has joined #mcxnow
[02:36] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has left #mcxnow []
[02:36] it'll also help you with filing a complaint with law enforcement or whatever agency handles securities fraud in australia
[02:36] So you want the name or not?
[02:36] Hell I'll eve give you a link to a video of the little fucker
[02:37] sure, post it up on pastebin
[02:37] no need - Ken Armitt (has brother Colin). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOY7LmwLAEM
[02:37] live in new south wales Australia
[02:38] here's his linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ken-armitt/4a/618/990
[02:39] little fucker used to be part of crytoxchange before they pulled a runner in nov 2012
[02:41] another video: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3732468.htm
[02:41] initial commit from solidcoin before the account "Ken" was renamed to "RealSolid"
[02:41] commit 81bfed8dd0a194352d75f98eb698f0c0cdd6e979 Author: Ken <[email protected]> Date: Fri Aug 26 13:16:52 2011 +1000 first commit
Hey, does anyone remember the photo that he posted of his tooth? Does anyone have a copy of that image? I never took a look at the metadata on that file. There might be something there. Possibly a gps coordinate of his home.
Damn. I found it. http://i.imgur.com/eITMwYh.jpg
However, it's imgur and they strip the EXIF data. It is logged however and they will release it with a subpoena.
Damn. I found it. http://i.imgur.com/eITMwYh.jpg
However, it's imgur and they strip the EXIF data. It is logged however and they will release it with a subpoena.
What is the backstory on this pic?
RealSolid had his wisdom tooth out.
BTW, this was just posted on IRC@#mcxnow:
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[02:34] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has joined #mcxnow
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[02:34] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has quit [Client Quit]
[02:35] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has joined #mcxnow
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[02:35] == acejudas [~ace@2605:6000:6080:8a00:91f9:6f34:8598:36a8] has joined #mcxnow
[02:36] == CANNYGEEZER [5ac811f8@gateway/web/freenode/ip.90.200.17.248] has left #mcxnow []
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