I rarely, if ever, make threads like these but this time the amount of shady actions is just too overwhelming for me to look the other way.
Long story short I ran a bounty for GOMA some time ago and as always with a lot of bounties when payday comes around there's a bunch of issues/delays. The owner of GOMA stopped responding to me and only when I brought up issues in the bounty group he would get back to me and be like "omg duude I'm in like 500 chats wtf why would you slander all that I've worked for just because I didn't respond to you ASAP!?" and things like that.
Either way. About half the bounty ($15,000) was paid out according to the timeframe that had been set beforehand. It was not without issues and this guy "Dean" (Telegram @staysentient, Twitter
https://twitter.com/deancannell), would complain to me about how the bounty was the worst decision he had ever made as all the hunters were just killing the price and he had to use up a lot of resources to "save" it. The funny thing here is that a couple of days before the price had started to dump already (likely from him selling) and he/the goma team as well as his 2nd project Torii.finance (which he'll claim is someone elses project) would blame the bounty alone for this dumpening.
Fast forward a bit and I'm asking Dean about the 2nd payment and the other 50%, when it will happen and how it'll go. He does not respond to me for a week at which point my inbox starts blowing up from all the bounty participants so I give them his telegram and he instantly responds to me, again with the same disbelief of how I could have done such a thing as he had never fucked me over and just didn't see my messages because of 500 chats etc. etc. At this point I'm pretty fed up and done with it but he said they'd take care of it beginning of September. I message him almost daily and he "sees" the first few messages but never replies, up until yesterday he had not responded yet.
Today, the 20th of September someone in the bounty group shares this image from the goma main telegram group:
They send an email to that address and gets this reply:
This has never been communicated to me which just agains shows they'll always try and deflect and pin their ability (or lack thereof) on somebody else when they screw up.
A few users have said they sent an email to the specified address and received part of their payment but others are reporting they get no reply, all sent within a similar timeframe.
I'm still owed about 1 trillion GOMA tokens from the bounty management (it's a bit more) which right now is worth roughly 29 BNB.
I do not expect much to come from this. This is just a warning, do not invest in GOMA. Do not invest in TORII.FINANCE. If you ever come across the user "Dean" - Run away as fast as you can and don't enter into any dealings with him.
Funny thing is I messaged him like 30 minutes ago saying I would make this thread as this has gone too far and lo and behold he became active and read my messages, only to clear our entire history and likely blocking me on Telegram right afterwards.
Again, I don't create this threads very often so apologies for the formatting. Can take some time and make it look better as I'm sure others may come in and help me. I do not care about the money I'm owed, I counted those as lost long ago but I do not want anyone else to get involved with this obvious rug pull.