Just gave their number a call and spoke with Andreas.
Having worked in Sweden a lot Andreas is definitely a Swede and definitely picked up the phone and had a conversation with me
SO I am pretty happy that these guys are genuinely who they say they are. The proof will be a demo of an ASIC machine. This will be provided as and when they have it. They are not promising anything as of yet and holding back specification until the development is more concrete.
Watch this space I guess!
no offense but i don't buy this. you just created this user and you are implying that only after one phone call they are a legit ASIC business? why didn't you asked some technical questions. they should know the fab, the process node and some other stuff. you just spoke with one person on the phone. BFL has offices, has boxes full of fans and they even "shipped" some kind of FPGA shit that they called ASIC, but that doesn't prove anything.
It's a reverse psychology sockpuppet thing.
You have the sockpuppet start out as a loud critic, then slowly scale back and have the sockpuppet turn into a loyal supporter, for he "has seen the light".
Combine it with a third sockpuppet as suporter who you had sockpuppet A argue with and Bam! Instant Reputation.
Beat to the punch once again. I'm slippin'!
The guy has done nothing but read this forum, but had to come here to save us from this one particular scam, finding nothing relative in all past scams on this forum to weigh in on. What a trooper!
At the moment, I'm leaning toward ID impersonation. If my name were Bruno Smith and I discovered another Bruno Smith to impersonate for just a long enough period of time, I would use my existing social media accounts to perpetuate the scam, hoping the reward justifies me going dark. I would do this off the back of prior web presences of the other Bruno Smith somehow interweaving the two and maybe even get lucky by discovering he had a partner. Then I would set up two Google+ accounts and have them follow each other, which I've already shown to be the case.
Oddly, the two wives of Andreas and Samuel never mention their husbands on Facebook, yet link to said names, now having me think that they are only some other relatives.
It is so motherfuckin' easy for viable entities to prove who they say they are, yet they opt to go the dance route.
Madness!