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Re: [ANN] [ICO] TribeToken - A Decentralized Charity Platform - ICO July 24
by
steamon
on 18/07/2017, 00:54:31 UTC
WARNING - TRIBETOKEN IS A SCAM - READ TO FIND OUT WHY

I had a look on your website, and it reminded me of another website I was looking at some time ago, namely SkinCoin.

Your website is an EXACT replica, WORD FOR WORD with SkinCoin. What's even funny is that your GITHUB contract is EXACTLY the same as SkinCoin with a few variables/things changed to mention TRIBE instead.

Without further ado, here's the proof I gathered:

http://i.imgur.com/g26fWK0.png
http://i.imgur.com/ynX5fSv.png
http://i.imgur.com/QxDjz8K.png
http://i.imgur.com/OGyGYRU.png

Watch how everything is almost the same as SkinCoin, even their diagram follows the same design pattern

SkinCoin's Crowdsale code
https://github.com/Steamtradenet/smart-contract/blob/master/contracts/Crowdsale.sol

TribeToken's Crowdsale code
https://github.com/TribeToken/Tribe-Token-Contracts/blob/master/Contract/Crowdsale.sol

Pretty much the same, don't you think?

SkinCoin's contribution page (read their Contribution Rules and FAQ)
https://skincoin.org/ico/#contribute

TribeToken's contribution rules and FAQ
https://tribetoken.org/ico/

Pretty much an exact replica...

You guys should be ashamed, stealing in the name of charity? What an immoral thing to do. I'm always skeptical of ICO's and do my due dilligence, but this one takes the cake...

I'll be reporting this to as many channels as I can find, this ought to be closed down immediately. I hope you have a pretty good answer why you copied over SkinCoin, to me this smells like a quick scam to get the money, no wonder you don't want any escrow for the funds sent and frankly I'm worried that NO ONE ELSE caught this.

Your current proof on we are a scam is based on the fact that you found a website layout looking the same with a few lines of text the same that we are a scam?
And while yes our contract may have parts inspired and in some cases forked from the code from skincoin GitHub we do not or will not deny it, which I should add there is no copyright presented on the GitHub, however by your own logic anyone who uses code parts such as the ERC20 is scamming.
“Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.”- Douglas Crockford
PS. Why reinvent the wheel when there already is one and is already working the way is needed?

GitHub TOS : https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#5-license-grant-to-other-users