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Pitcheum "self-drop" very likely SCAM - possibly related to Sunx ICO
by
marlboroza
on 25/09/2018, 22:56:11 UTC
⭐ Merited by suchmoon (4) ,SFR10 (2) ,Coolcryptovator (1) ,Juliya_D (1) ,_Django05_ (1)
Website: https://pitcheum.co
Announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5035092.0  http://archive.is/x3ZD2
Bounty: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036903.0  http://archive.is/HrWKh

Announced by: newsilike


There is no team, only advisors:



1) Sumit Kumar Pradhan

Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitpradhan/
ICObench profile(he is verified advisor): https://icobench.com/u/sumit-kumar-pradhan
There is nothing about pitcheum.co on his profiles at the moment:

ICObench:


2)  Robert Laguna

Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-laguna/
ICObench profile(he is verified advisor): https://icobench.com/u/robertlaguna

There is nothing about pitcheum.com on his profiles at the moment:




3) Hiroshi Muratomo (Blockchain investment hacker)

Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiroshi-muratomo/



The same resume can be found here https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-barbarino-22929692 :



4) Jonathan Carr

Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonncarr/



This developer https://youteam.co.uk/talent/1167 is using almost the same resume:




Domain is 50 days old and I couldn't find any kind of information about pitcheum:

Dates    50 days old
Created on 2018-08-06
Expires on 2019-08-06
Updated on 2018-08-11


They can't be found on coinmarketcap, but still they have chart dated from October, 2017:



I wonder why 520$ worth coin can't be found.

Their donation addy (as written, 0x12E836eFDa581d113c7609b88254aEb12E617e0D)...



...is redirecting to this site: http://lymcoin.ancorathemes.com/donation/177r3vcah3azabiqjfpmcrscp6tdzedub1/ which is I believe template.


Doing some research on pitcheum donation address(0x12E836eFDa581d113c7609b88254aEb12E617e0D), I have found contract creator https://etherscan.io/address/0x5a99f4592b0f78b5a1221b6604e3f631b0a3bf71
Both PCN and SUNX were created from this addy.


But what is sunx? I have found this information about them at ICObench, their co-founder and developer failed KYC test https://icobench.com/ico/sunxcoin which is pretty much good sign something is wrong.



I have located Sunx's announcement thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4073397.0 posted by sunxapp and their bounty thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4456229.0 archived was managed by, well.... newsilike.

Quick looking at their posting history, they managed bounty for this scam https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4986999.msg44989870#msg44989870 as well.