I also just received the below e-mail verbatim. It's a form letter! In my reply to the form letter, I asked for a full refund along with two others that ordered (each of them as also individually requested a refund from their e-mail addresses). I will report if I get the refund, but if I don't, I think more than this forum should be informed of these guys. There were articles (one of them by Bloomberg) that reported on these guys as legit, and believe it or not, I felt that mattered! Those publications and others should be immediately informed if I or the two others that ordered 10 too don't see their orders refunded. This scam is going to end up costing people millions maybe! It should be stopped if that is indeed what it is!

Also for others that were pulled into this, I am sorry and I doubt you lost as much as I did (I'm also new to mining and was not aware that this crap had gone down before). It irritates me that many people on this forum seem to think everyone who sort of wants these to exist so was maybe a little gullible like I was are stupid and should be berated. I assure you, I'm not stupid, and come on, people, show a little compassion! Like others, I really did want these to exist because I have dozens of Antminer S9s and they run very hot as everyone knows. If these miners do exist (something I think is unlikely now), they sure would be an Antminer S9 killer, but I also know that if flying rainbow fur unicorns existed that shit gold nuggets, they'd be a nice ride and money maker too.

Roger

PS - Has anyone even attempted to contact the FBI about this? Obviously if someone is stealing millions in Bitcoin via a non-dark web website no less, it seems to me it should be traceable.

Quote from: lakustus on December 24, 2017, 05:57:21 AM

Thought "lets write them a stupid email and see what happen". This is their answer:

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Hello Akira,

I can assure you that we are real, we exist and we are definately not a scam.

It is only natural that there will be speculation regarding a new company and product in an industry that is currently highly centralized and there have been bad actors in the past. We believe this has been further aggravated by our competition and we have had a number of people attempting to gain insights into the new technology and water cooling deployed in our units.

In light of all this, we have had to be much more guarded in the information we release than we otherwise would have given a perfect launch scenario. To gain the social proof for the long term success of our company we have a review program which will give our customers 10% off their order in return for making an unboxing or short review video when they get their units. We feel this will be sufficient in gaining the trust of the community when these videos are posted. If you would like to take part in this program, please let me know and I will set you up with a coupon for your order. Alternatively, you can wait until you get your units before placing orders into batch 2.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Best regards,

Clive.

Quoting "Contact page - syanmining.com" <support@syanmining.com>:

Your name: Akira
Your email: xxxxxxxx
Select: Orders
Subject: are you real?
Your message: Hello,

do you really exist and your products? or you are scam?

greetings
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I answered that I would be happy to make an "unboxing video" and share it with the community
if they would send me an example of their asic(s) without pre-paying

I'm curious of their answer