Quote from: xavierdamman on July 15, 2016, 12:35:59 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the updated table. I have been following your post for a while, but have only created an account today as I have pretty good evidence against a fraudulent cloud service named CloudMint.io.

I spent many hours this past month attempting to evaluate the honesty of this service and think I have enough to elaborate now. I'm a social networks professional and hope I can bring my 2 cents in fighting these scammers.

I've not read anything about CoinMint on the forum so far, nor have I found much evidence on google about them. I'm not buying anything from them, have a look and keep reading as I make my point:
https://www.coinmint.io/

The website contains data which doesn't look serious (google image'd their "about us" pictures and found no other place where these are used), moreover, the "us" are either fake people or can be linked to an almost blank CEO account. Keep reading.

The only "about us" you might consider remembering is "James Leary". And while you're at it, ask their "live chat": "are you a robot?" and remember the answer.

Long story made short: In my opinion "they" are a fraud based on the following assessment:
1 +2 +3 + 4 + 6 + 7

Evaluating #6 (anonymous, hidden operators) has led me to some intriguing "findings" about the owner / possible owner. Here are fishy things you may like to consider.

6: anonymous operators

Ask whois.net about www.coinmint.io and here is what you get:

Domain : coinmint.io
Status : Client Updt+Delt Lock
Expiry : 2017-03-01

NS 1 : kay.ns.cloudflare.com
NS 2 : sam.ns.cloudflare.com

Owner Name : Prieur Leary
Owner OrgName : Coinmint Corporation
Owner Addr : 1201 ORANGE ST!Unit 304
Owner Addr : Wilmington
Owner Addr : Delaware
Owner Addr : US

Then, I've initiated a purchase without checking out, but enough to get the Paypal account that's registered as recipient:
"Fortacloud/Coinmint (prieur3@infolinkco.com)" is the recipient for payments.

We'll get back to fortacloud right away, but first, infolinkco...
- the domain redirects to a hosting server "https://www.serverpronto.com/"
- live chat isn't using a bot, or not the same at least.
- remember these names: infolink and serverpronto...

Ok, Prieur Leary, who are you?

About FortaCloud (http://fortacloud.co/):
- they show off their Datacenter capabilities arround the world (even PCI certified ones)
- the CEO is "Prieur Leary", sounds familiar? Remember, there's a dude called "James Leary" on the "about us" page of CoinMint.co who doesn't show up anywhere else on google.
- The CEO's LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/in/prieur-leary-497657a7) is pretty empty.
- Google doesn't yet clearly mention a link between FortaCloud and CoinMint.
- The bot-chat system on FortaCloud front page answers exactly the same as does the one of CoinMint to "are you a robot?", this use of a similar bot-chat service strengthens the link between them.

Type "FortaCloud" in Linkedin and only 2 profiles show up (for a provider as big as they claim to be?):
- our friend Prieur Leary
- a second guy with a full length CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crivera305 (Christopher Rivera... ha! A real CV with recommendations from real people... Chris, are you behind this scam?)

Hmm I now have a look at CoinMint's twitter:
https://twitter.com/coinmynt
Almost empty.

Now I have a look at the linked twitter account on FortaCloud:
https://twitter.com/fortacloud

Fortacloud retweets the following....
Look for april 19th, a dude named "CordaroStewart" says "Invest in Bitcoin. Daily Payouts, Best Returns. http://www.coinmint.io"

There is no other hard link between both of them on google. But that paypal account is sufficient evidence!

Look further and "FortaCloud" is also known as "fortatrust": for that name linkedin shows about 9 members (Again, we have Christopher Rivera) . One of them probably owns the (scam?) service CoinMint.

Last minute finding about CoinMin.io aka Fortatrust aka FortaCloud (aka )
"These are the same guys as ServerPronto and Infolink.
Do not order from them, look them up and you'll see why."

A whole thread of 2014 identifies them as scammers:
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/31635/fortacloud-2-gig-ram-free-vps-discovered-to-be-a-scam

Fortatrust is described as a scam, the post adds credit to think Fortatrust and Fortacloud are linked and they are in bed with serverpronto. Or better, they're the same person.

More evidence using Linkedin, a FortaTrust anonymous employee is "Operations Manager Infolink Panama" (infolink is the domain of prieur leary's paypal account, remember?)

Now I also see the name Octavio Diaz: worked for both FortaTrust and ServerPronto. Small world.

thanks for telling about that, however, the sign that indicates ponzi scam is more explicit nowadays.
anyway did you know, you can sure it is a ponzi if they have referrals?