Yeah, it is too early to call scam but it has been about 24 hours no updates or anything. After Cryptorush, Mt. Gox, etc. people don't have trust like before. Since you know him could you reach out to Hankrules and ask him to post an update over here or on the main Alternate Cryptocurrencies forum about what's going on? Before he or his people were always real good about posting updates when stuff crashed. This time nothing but radio silence. I had a pretty decent amount of coin I was just about to send to my wallet.
so...it looks like gotj.talesfromthescrypt.org was a scam.
the site has been down for over a day now and no one seems to care that it looks like they just ran off with all the coins they conned people into mining for them...
some family this turned out to be...
edit: every single pool this user has posted has meet the same fate. this default homepage is all that remains of the pools and their coins.
It works!
This is the default web page for this server.
The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.
Site frontend was up and down a lot since the JUG pool started. They had some DDOS issues. Personally I had some issues with my withdraw due to automated email not working on the site.
I messaged Hankrules on here, and he had it fixed for me in short time even though they were in the process of server migration.
Maybe just have a bit of patience, I don't think talesfromthescrypt has any intention of scamming anyone.