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Topic: Re: SpartacusMiner (non-locked discussion thread) (Read 1277 times)

hero member
Activity: 637
Merit: 502
wish this was real  it would be the best homer you can buy atm but we all know , this just can't happen yet at least not this way.

Usually scammers who tries to sell a fake product have really good specs.
legendary
Activity: 1274
Merit: 1000
wish this was real  it would be the best homer you can buy atm but we all know , this just can't happen yet at least not this way.
hero member
Activity: 767
Merit: 500
It's a good thing scammers are so darn lazy. If they'd put half their website design budget into any kind of feasibility research and spoofing hardware, it might have taken more than 30 seconds to completely pick them apart.

I think they are trying for a quick buck.  It is 100 percent sad and lazy.   Throw a rig with a GPU showing and brag miner.

Most likely they/he/she if sell 1 pay for quite a few of these attempts.   So I'm guessing they go for number of scams and not quality on scamming.

well, they were hoping for the people that know nothing on what hardware looks like what, but, it only takes one person to look into things to make it all fall down.

im surprised they didn't use the more alien looking furyx gpu with the stacked memory, then photoshop it to a quad core thing (since you see single and dual core furyx out there).. maybe that might be a little more obvious..

 Hmm, let me Decap a G80 (Nvidias old 8800GTX Ultra, from back in 2006) and show the silicon die.. or a Core 2 Quad, you don't see many photos of them. Then i'll photoshop it onto a Gridseed/U3/R-Box board, watch the masses flock to that! yeah, i know, giving the scammers ideas, and you people the knowledge!
legendary
Activity: 1456
Merit: 1000
It's a good thing scammers are so darn lazy. If they'd put half their website design budget into any kind of feasibility research and spoofing hardware, it might have taken more than 30 seconds to completely pick them apart.

I think they are trying for a quick buck.  It is 100 percent sad and lazy.   Throw a rig with a GPU showing and brag miner.

Most likely they/he/she if sell 1 pay for quite a few of these attempts.   So I'm guessing they go for number of scams and not quality on scamming.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
FUN > ROI
That is the unfortunate truth of any scam - they typically only need a single person to fall for it for them to recoup whatever costs they made.  On the up side - it's been a while since a company tried it using Bitcoin mining hardware with new chips on this forum.
(last one I know of was updating website in parallel to SFARDS' updates, sneaky sneaky).
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
Theoretically mods are not meant to be police here but it doesn't stop us expressing our opinion. Usually I'd just call it a scam and open the discussion open for others to crucify them, but the aggressive repeated locking of the thread was clearly in violation of the spirit of the forum rules and that was enough.

Yeah I guess he was hoping for one or two orders by keeping it locked.
legendary
Activity: 3374
Merit: 1859
Curmudgeonly hardware guy
It's a good thing scammers are so darn lazy. If they'd put half their website design budget into any kind of feasibility research and spoofing hardware, it might have taken more than 30 seconds to completely pick them apart.
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
Theoretically mods are not meant to be police here but it doesn't stop us expressing our opinion. Usually I'd just call it a scam and open the discussion open for others to crucify them, but the aggressive repeated locking of the thread was clearly in violation of the spirit of the forum rules and that was enough.
newbie
Activity: 55
Merit: 0
Meh fuck it I'll just get rid of him and it.

Thanks! :-) Great that some people (including you) do this much effort to take care of the community. And then there are people who destroy it... Cry
legendary
Activity: 4256
Merit: 8551
'The right to privacy matters'
-ck best move yet  thanks

So 2.36 btc is the cost.

using bitcoinwisdom as a calculator:

  I am .9btc  usd in the black on day 84

On day 114 I am 2 btc  in the black

Plain and simple if it were real it would not be this cheap.


legendary
Activity: 1174
Merit: 1001
As soon as I saw the thread, and got in it to check it out it was locked lol.
legendary
Activity: 2800
Merit: 1012
Get Paid Crypto To Walk or Drive
Meh fuck it I'll just get rid of him and it.

Nicely done.  Thanks -ck for taking care of scammers.
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
Meh fuck it I'll just get rid of him and it.
newbie
Activity: 55
Merit: 0
Unlocked. Go get him...

Looks like it is still locked...
-ck
legendary
Activity: 4088
Merit: 1631
Ruu \o/
Unlocked. Go get him...
newbie
Activity: 55
Merit: 0
Amazing how fast this scam has already been proved to be one...  Grin
legendary
Activity: 2030
Merit: 1076
A humble Siberian miner
600W power peak consumption at 4.8 TH/s. Cool.  Roll Eyes If only it could be true...

Are there any Hungarians here? Someone who can visit their office?
hero member
Activity: 637
Merit: 502
It is obvious scam.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
FUN > ROI
You may have seen the Introducing the brand new Spartacus Miner thread, and realized that it is locked.  Red flag number one of many.

From their site spartacusminer.com, we've got a purported image of a board, which Google will readily tell you has an uncanny resemblance to a Radeon R9 295x2
Spartacus Hero2Radeon R9 295x2

Similarly, their "Spartacus Miner One", Google identifies as beeing eerily similar to a Radeon R9 295x2 setup.
Spartacus Miner OneAMD Radeon R9 295X2 review image

Their engineer, 'Norbert Toth' (hover over middle team image), is apparently aka "Perényi Károly"; http://medievkonf.hu/speakers
Norbert TothPerényi Károly

tl;dr: Do your due diligence.
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