Re: [ANN] Symmetry - The Safer Cryptocurrency Fund with a Monthly Dividend.
Next time, before calling them, do read the posts... As I wrote in my initial post ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2480514.msg28957307#msg28957307 ):
I do like the idea of finding these scammers, but they covered their asses pretty well. I got the suggestion that maybe Europol might be a good entry point, but they point you back to your national police ( https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-cybercrime-online ).
I believe - but not 100% sure - that if a Telegram channel is deleted by its owners, then anyone else is free to register a channel with the same name. Read up a few pages, I raised this point and somebody here said that they created the channel to prevent further people falling victim.
Well that make sense. I also called Polaris Investment Advisory AG in Zurich and they confirmed that Mike Henkel is neither a partner in the firm or a known member in the Swiss financial advisory board. They also confirmed that they have denounced him to the appropriate jurisdiction.
So why don't we organize ourselves, try to find these bastards and make them pay?
- I emailed Polaris Investors AG, the company of the advisor "Mike Henkel". Their quick reply was "We were not aware of the fact that apparently people are using our name on Linkedin. This guy seems to be a fake and does not work with us. Honestly, I would not touch an ICO where a guy claims to be an advisor if he uses firm names randomly". And I got a kind remark that they would short SYMM
. - I can add to that: Tom Capital also mailed back to me that they don't know any Oliver Purr, so please don't call them
. - Directly after I made my post I reached out to all the ICO review sites that had them on their site and luckily some of those sites responded quickly by at least adding a remark with their article.
- In LinkedIn, I marked all team & advisor profiles as fake. Please do so too.
- I sent a note to the moderator of this thread to change the title to "SCAM...", but unfortunately that's not allowed by the forum rules:
From https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0:Q: Why haven't you banned who is an obvious scammer?
A: Possible (or real, not for me to decide) scams are not moderated to prevent moderator abuse. If we start picking out which ones we call "scammers" and ban, we would make a lot of decisions based on biased opinions.
I do like the idea of finding these scammers, but they covered their asses pretty well. I got the suggestion that maybe Europol might be a good entry point, but they point you back to your national police ( https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime/report-cybercrime-online ).
Guys! trying to get to the bottom of this story... and few thing doesn't match up....
How is it that the official telegram channel of symmetry has been taken over, muted and promote this thread? Unless it has been hacked, why on earth the owner(s) of Symmetry would redirect everyone's attention to a post indicating that they run a scam?
Also If I recall well, there was over 700 members in the original Telegram channel... not 19 as of now...
The current channel was created on Monday January 29 (few days only) and been viewed by 127 persons only...
Can anyone shed some light?
How is it that the official telegram channel of symmetry has been taken over, muted and promote this thread? Unless it has been hacked, why on earth the owner(s) of Symmetry would redirect everyone's attention to a post indicating that they run a scam?
Also If I recall well, there was over 700 members in the original Telegram channel... not 19 as of now...
The current channel was created on Monday January 29 (few days only) and been viewed by 127 persons only...
Can anyone shed some light?
I believe - but not 100% sure - that if a Telegram channel is deleted by its owners, then anyone else is free to register a channel with the same name. Read up a few pages, I raised this point and somebody here said that they created the channel to prevent further people falling victim.
Well that make sense. I also called Polaris Investment Advisory AG in Zurich and they confirmed that Mike Henkel is neither a partner in the firm or a known member in the Swiss financial advisory board. They also confirmed that they have denounced him to the appropriate jurisdiction.
So why don't we organize ourselves, try to find these bastards and make them pay?