Topic: [Scam] student from Romania is claiming to have ASIC units for sale at 85 GH/s - page 3. (Read 8395 times)

indeed.

geez, I am wondering if anyone will fall for this. But if history repeats itself someone on this forum surely will.

And then you find out that their secret to making millions is actually just selling a book...about making millions...

Haha, yeah. It reminds me of the TV commercials that promise to show you how to make a a million dollars. They never explain why they are selling books instead of making millions themselves.

Just another copycat scam. A lazy one at that, albeit with a half decent story.

Scam. He tried to spam here too and wants anyone to pay to him via btc and email him at his hushmail after doing so.

Haha exactly!

I had a good laugh when I saw this...usually scammers actually try to play out their scam. His was a terrible, terrible attempt.

He said in the OP that he already did.


At least some thought and effort went into the scam. BTC Guild has a feature if you contact them where you can verify an ASIC machine. Not only would some good photos be good, a proof that it can hash the crap out of SHA256 would be great. I could easily put together a PCB board and and take photos of it with some worthless chips on it. That wouldn't prove that it would boot or hash anything.

If this person really used their own funds and developed this, they would have zero incentive to not be mining with them right now. They have no customers and no obligation not to.

LOL.. Ask for video or photos..

It has everything I look for in a scam. A promise to get rich by participating in a secret plan. 

i just send him a email
i`ll post if there are some news
i can go also and check the device if it is real .

Still more legit than Tom/bASIC..

I find it hard to believe anyone who ever received an academic grant has such shitty English.

Nice, already have a tracking # 

as soon as i read the word romania I stopped reading.

OH MY GOD!

My scam detector is off the charts.

SCAM 

EDIT: As per mod information I am marking this as a likely scam. Be careful who you deal with!

Link: http://www.bitcoinforum.com/mining-discussion/107-units-with-85-ghs-are-ready-for-shipping/

Text: The Unit what we offer to You contains from 5 boards, each board has power 17GH/s and electrical consumption 30W.
Chip was developed on unnamed University with help on GRANT that is focused on the development cryptographic hardware accelerator. When we found potential in Bitcoin mining we decided secretly manufacture first batch on chip´s in Asia. Our University still working on powerful version of these chip's
From september 2012 we are slowly tune up units firmware and units connecting into the network. Bitcoints that we have mined we used to pay the loans manufacturing on first batch and second batch is still in progress. This units we are able to bring on market within 3 weeks.
By selling on this product we put ourself in hazard that University found out our activity and this can lead sanction. To minimize risk of uncover, we decided to receive only orders by e-mail [email protected]. In the first round which will be 48 hours its possible to order maximum 2 units on one shipping address. Buyer has 6 hours to pay for the unit after that he will receive confirmation e-mail. If we dont receive payment unit will go to next buyer.  
If after first round will be some units left than in second round won´t be any restraint on the amount limits of order units. Price include shipping and the delivery time is 10 days worldwide.

Price: 70 BTC / unit!!!

My opinion:  Sounds totally bogus, I sent them a formal email basically saying "pics and vids or it didn't happen." 
I think community info/feedback will be more important now than ever to ensure that we don't get ripped off.  Be careful with your BTC people!