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ICOs have provided an avenue through which the general public can invest in Blockchain ventures. The popularity of ICOs in the world of start-ups has been driven by the availability of a wider pool of investors compared to the traditional venture capital process. Additionally, the organizations are able to raise capital without following the stringent regulatory requirements of an IPO. As popular as ICOs have become, they are fraught with scams. According to Icodata.io, there were 886 Initial Coin Offerings(ICOs) in 2017 and these raised in excess of $6 Billion. This statistic provides evidence that the ICO phenomenon is no longer a peripheral strategy and has started to occupy a central position in the crypto-startup world. ICO refers to a mechanism through which start-ups offering Blockchain-based products and services are able to raise funds by tapping into the crowdfunding concept by selling investor tokens in exchange for capital. Due to the fact that there is an extremely h...

Just a few more facts on the fraudulent efforts of the criminal, Shehar Yar of Blocksims, who is trying to justify his stolen ICO. I will be showing you how they have chosen the photograph of a prominent business person as their Bounty Manager and the photo of a Russian serial killer to troll the Mobilink-coin Telegram group. I would like to give a shout out to FaceFirst , my personal favorite when it comes to facial recognition software. Blocksims.io created a false identity on their Telegram account named “Maxine Layare”. This user is Blocksims Bounty Manager. However I identified the image associated with this fraudulent Telegram Blocksims identity with a very respected business person named Janet Cowell. We reached out to Janet and she is aware of her photographic identity being stolen by Blocksims. Next we have a man named “Henry Layman” with an image of a bald guy who has been trolling the Mobilink-Coin Telegram page. As it turns out, Henry is...

In my prior investigative article I was focused specifically on the alleged ICO fraud of Shehar Yar and Blocksims . A couple of weeks have passed since that post and the investigation and observations have really started dominating the internet. Many of the ICO databases are marking Blocksims as a scam. One even removed their name from their list of ICO’s and they have been reported to the Ripoff Report and others. Today I saw a video Blocksims.io posted trying to communicate the legitimacy of their ICO. The video looks great. Very CONvincing. It features two individuals, Elias Rodriguez and Uri Valles who are allegedly Blockchain influencers and advisors for BlockSims. Problem is, they are actors. There is an entire ICO promotional industry working throughout the world. $20 per hour dev hacks from Malaysia, India, Philippines and abroad like Shehar Yar and his team, take advantage of the fact most new ICO’s are being run by people who would rather stay behin...

In November of 1955, a C-54 US Air Force transport plane crashed in the Spring Mountains in Southern Nevada. All 14 occupants were killed. The families of the decedents knew their family members had died but they were never told what the mission was until 1998 when an FOIA provided the accident report.  Flight 9068 was transporting members of the CIA and other defense contractors to Groom lake, aka Area 51 for a test flight of the U-2 Spy-plane. The U-2 was at the highest level of secrecy, probably in the the top five of secret black budget projects ever. This was a new technology. This was the first high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. There was no expectation of this technology. Maybe a dream of this concept, but it had to be kept under wraps so the missions could be implemented in secrecy once the U-2 passed all testing. After the public knew of the U2, there was an expectation of the next big thing in defense aviation. The public just did not know about ...

How will the SEC’s new Cyber Unit effect ICO offerings in the USA? If you have seen some of the posts I make online about due diligence and my interest into crypto, you can be sure as I move deeper into the cryptocurrency world, that I am going in with my eyes wide open. In the second from last quarter of 2017 alone, ICOs raised more than $1.3 billion for crypto  — around five times more than subsidizing brought through investment up in the blockchain space. There were 200 ICO’s in 2017 and at least 1,100 ICO’s in play worldwide now. The majority will fail because most of these ICO’s are fraudulent ponzi schemes. Games are played. The insiders are trading back and forth. It looks just like a penny stock pump and dump operation. One company that made the news lately is Bitconnect. So many people got in. Mostly greedy Americans that were looking for easy money. It seemed too good to be true from its inception in January of 2017, and it was. ...

Facebook has another crime prevention strategy relating to digital money, parallel choices and introductory coin offerings. The strategy is going to prevent ICO’s and other Cryptocurrencies from advertising or promoting on Facebook “that are as often as possible related with deceiving or misleading practices,” Facebook Product Management Director Rob Leathern wrote in a blog entry today. Cryptographic forms of money like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum, and initial coin offerings have all hit the standard, which has expeditiously brought about various scams. While Facebook says it needs individuals “to proceed to find and learn” about those items and administrations, “there are numerous organizations who are promoting paired choices, ICOs and digital forms of money that are not right now working in accordance with integrity,” Leathern composed. Leathern perceives that the strategy is very expansive, yet he says that is deliberate. The arrangement is to keep attempting to bet...