And ReaLm85, who had an answer to every question and was always here to defend Recyclix, hasn't logged in for over a week.
They started to draw media attention so it's probably a good moment to pack up and run.
ReaLm85 was a long-time defender and shill for Recyclix, to the degree I suspect they may even have been part of the scam.
Seeing as the shit is definitely heading fan-ward, let's just remind ourselves of some of the people behind-the-scenes.
Roman Parra, a Colombian man behind the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange, Colbitex, was proven back in September to be intimately connected to this operation, the below image showing that back in the early days of Recyclix he was sending out the fiat payments to users from his own paypal account:
As you can see they had to process fiat payments through their existing payment processor account, which was registered to a company called 'C.I. Alternative Trade Ltda' for which online searches show a history of fraudulent behaviour. This is where we first meet 'Roman Parra' by way of his hotmail address linked to that payment account.
So, now we've objectively established that the company behind Recyclix is 'C.I. Alternative Trade Ltda', let's see what information can be found about it:
As you can see, it is classed as a small promotions and advertising company.
But who is running the show there?
Oh look! It appears that a gentleman called, 'Roman Eduardo Parra Gonzales' is the full name of the registered manager for this criminal enterprise.
Now, let's set about connecting the scammer Roman Eduardo Parra Gonzales, who owns the email account
[email protected] to the supposedly respectable Roman Parra, bitcoin entrepreneur.
Prior to becoming the thieving douchebag he would later choose to be, a young Roman Parra attended University and studied Industrial Production and Engineering. He wrote a detailed thesis on the subject, in Spanish naturally, but we are not particularly interested in the content of this thesis, just the name and email address of the student named as its author:
Roman Parra Gonzales wrote this thesis and, as you see, his email address is the very same
[email protected] who would later go on to become the fraudster douchebag behind many online scams.
This is a linkedin page the supposedly respectable bitcoin entrepreneur version of Roman Parra has:
His 'legitimate' business interests are listed there, such as Colbitex, Bitcoin Suramerica and Woodshares, which shares remarkably similar characteristics to the enviro-friendly Recyclix scam as you 'invest' in trees, you know, for the environment! Roman Parra knows his shit when it comes to yanking people's chains about the environment and persuading them to part with their hard-earned cash on the promise of bigger returns, later.
His Twitter account also lists his CEO and Founder status of these companies:
Handily enough, it also shows he has another name after the 'Parra' beginning with 'G' and I'm betting big that is stands for, 'Gonzales'.
Ok, so now we have the 'CEO and Founder' of these supposedly legitimate bitcoin companies with the name 'Roman Parra Gonzales', anybody want to bet there's an 'Eduardo' in there, too?
But let's take a look at the rest of his linkedin page:
How interesting! The supposedly respectable bitcoin entrepreneur version of Roman Parra studied Industrial Production and Engineering, as well as training as a Marketing Specialist. Remember that C.I. Alternative Trade Ltda is listed as an advertising and promotions company? My, how the young engineering student has grown!
Funny how he fails to mention being manager of C.I. Alternative Trade Ltda in the list of companies in his linkedin profile.
Isn't it 'funny' how Recyclix just went through a period of very actively demanding multiple ID documents from their 'investors'. Not only do they get to steal their customer funds, they also get a vast collection of valuable-on-the-black-market identity documents.