Hi, talkers.
I want to tell you about one potential scam ICO - Asseta. You can read about it in these threads:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2817414 - ANN
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2817582 - BOUNTY
Why scam would ask you? I will tell you about reasons why I think so.
1. Asseta team doesn't like answer questions about their project, just check threads above. Admin hasn't been answered from 5th to 17th Feb and returned with link to Medium "Tarantino movies like" post about some guy who blackmailed team and wanted 5 ETH for keeping silence. Sound stupid, right? And Asseta erase his email on screen shots. Why did they do it, people should know hackers by sight.
Link to article is here: https://medium.com/@asseta/asseta-is-a-scam-the-whole-story-the-proofs-and-the-individuals-behind-the-slander-335a10be0c31
2. Starting from 2 Feb team received 16 000 ETH according to their site: http://ico.asseta.eu. But how did they do it, if they don't have enough of advertising and have 287 followers on Twitter and don't have even Facebook page.
OK, lets check their wallets.
First one
Second one
And what do we see? No funds, low amount of transactions. Where is 16000 ETH? Guys invest to ICO using bank transfer, seriously?
3. Let's look to their Linkedin profiles. Firstly, not all of team members have links to their accounts. One link is broken, good point for perspective ICO project: http://ico.asseta.eu/www.linkedin.com/in/erik-harma-054096157
The rest part has only Linkedin profiles information. Look at their CEO Lukas Zaranka.
Seems not impressive for CEO of bank payment ICO. Let's check information about these companies.
First is SKOLESKA LT
Company with 300 EUR debt - niiice. Next one is VARTWA. 950 EUR debt, sounds better, right?
And the last: official registered legal name of Asseta - Crypto Bankas
0 employees.. Asseta team, teach me how to work without employees. PM please.
All other guys have poor record of service, their advisors include several lawyers and that's all..
4. During bounty campaign Asseta decided.. to giveaway IPhone X. Is it ICO or joke?
5. Their official company "site" is a typical one-pager. Senior developer will make it for half a day.
6. And the last: they don't show their faces.. No photos, videos with any persons. Asseta has only two demo videos on their YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_FHKV9W8YRHisGVKqNTUA. And these guys received 16K ETH ? Don't lie to me.
In the end I want to say Thanks to cautious guys who helped me to detect that dangerous ICO. And want to quote my favorite actions movies actor: "BULLSHIT!" This word completely describes Asseta.
Link to Russian version of that disclosure post for guys who speak Russian: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2980449.0
Thank you dude! Everything in detail described, there are your conclusions. I'll go to the Russian branch, it's clearer than through an interpreter) Merit was over, so I would treat him for a quality and useful postI want to tell you about one potential scam ICO - Asseta. You can read about it in these threads:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2817414 - ANN
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2817582 - BOUNTY
Why scam would ask you? I will tell you about reasons why I think so.
1. Asseta team doesn't like answer questions about their project, just check threads above. Admin hasn't been answered from 5th to 17th Feb and returned with link to Medium "Tarantino movies like" post about some guy who blackmailed team and wanted 5 ETH for keeping silence. Sound stupid, right? And Asseta erase his email on screen shots. Why did they do it, people should know hackers by sight.
Link to article is here: https://medium.com/@asseta/asseta-is-a-scam-the-whole-story-the-proofs-and-the-individuals-behind-the-slander-335a10be0c31
2. Starting from 2 Feb team received 16 000 ETH according to their site: http://ico.asseta.eu. But how did they do it, if they don't have enough of advertising and have 287 followers on Twitter and don't have even Facebook page.
OK, lets check their wallets.
First one
Second one
And what do we see? No funds, low amount of transactions. Where is 16000 ETH? Guys invest to ICO using bank transfer, seriously?
3. Let's look to their Linkedin profiles. Firstly, not all of team members have links to their accounts. One link is broken, good point for perspective ICO project: http://ico.asseta.eu/www.linkedin.com/in/erik-harma-054096157
The rest part has only Linkedin profiles information. Look at their CEO Lukas Zaranka.
Seems not impressive for CEO of bank payment ICO. Let's check information about these companies.
First is SKOLESKA LT
Company with 300 EUR debt - niiice. Next one is VARTWA. 950 EUR debt, sounds better, right?
And the last: official registered legal name of Asseta - Crypto Bankas
0 employees.. Asseta team, teach me how to work without employees. PM please.
All other guys have poor record of service, their advisors include several lawyers and that's all..
4. During bounty campaign Asseta decided.. to giveaway IPhone X. Is it ICO or joke?
5. Their official company "site" is a typical one-pager. Senior developer will make it for half a day.
6. And the last: they don't show their faces.. No photos, videos with any persons. Asseta has only two demo videos on their YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_FHKV9W8YRHisGVKqNTUA. And these guys received 16K ETH ? Don't lie to me.
In the end I want to say Thanks to cautious guys who helped me to detect that dangerous ICO. And want to quote my favorite actions movies actor: "BULLSHIT!" This word completely describes Asseta.
Link to Russian version of that disclosure post for guys who speak Russian: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2980449.0