Am I the first to notice the nick - E RUN DO OK - as in RUN (and) DO OK.

There were clear issues in the last week just from the high mount of the trollbox... too many people turning up saying they've lost coins.
If they come back online again with no losses I'll eat my hat ... sorry guys but start chalking up another loss.

http://www.bitcominers.com/shop/axon-labs-synapse-terra-1-blade-3-ths/

Looks pretty convincing to be a scam to me .... half an address, phone not answer, selling products that don't exist, payment in bitcoin (or wire on request pfftt), domain registered with crap details (phone # 0000000) only last month - pretty advanced for a one month old business. How do these hosting companies get away with being so lax nowadays!!! These sites are obviously the work of similiar sets of actors....

I own several businesses and I have just had a phone conversation with my standing lawyer.
He says it may likely be a case of necessity of breaking the law the prevent a greater harm.
See here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity if interested.

I take that under advisement - and thats is half the reason I posed the question - my first thought is in the strictest interpretation of the above wouldn't that make the silk road hacking/java callback by the FBI/NSA illegal wouldn't it?

The other half of the question in my mind is what does the common man think?

They have been reported to the hosting company, the DNS registrar, the SSL Provider, The FBI, and more. Namecheap won't take them down briefly.

What are people's thoughts about this?

I do not consider if I hurt a bag thief to stop him that that would be assault. It is the same thing here I believe. The only people I can think who may care are the hosting companies and only from a DOS perspective for other customers.

It is easy to say too hard/unlikely/waste of time - but a crafty approach CAN yield results.

The thing is I have a killer idea which I am well on the way to executing (Phase 3 for the scammers reading this).... I have written some tools in the last 10 days (I write in many languages at a professional level)... would anyone like to participate (Expect to have your authenticity reviewed). I have annoyed them with a few trillion form submissions, ping floods, brute force attacks, tcp syn flood etc for a while and they know I am here.

I have harvested all these wallet addresses by the way.
12qSSN4GikqYXrh1amWxs6M7NGxN2yHkgC
133fZp3fZEP48ZobmYcqVW9a25eJjAAfzG
13az5iXqQT9n7t89v32ESyedosteXbJ6No
13zrGuJUeK2GsUttYopnhioU5fNWhtWVXx
1469HhBgTJ1PGehUekZWjgqoj19BGsfnEe
14z8kgMcQBCdty888DVHmyLCnxyvri5J5B
152JPCBnYUjef9CcyFq5fQxpUYs63Vgoup
15pNUyTrthCfZVsJgrLi7JdEhfNneB49gz
15yYdE2goxJfQQ8YdjjYN2FqSC6YYFPzKr
16bSTL8Zmi6CXSh56DjRU9UvVtCbK5hhwi
16dxYUXvzuwMb7RTkGUNMgiCfjSwLbPFEg
16TcfAu4kdpo2XMG6HTB1TGtxNDaG4xuGK
17KhBTAUB7Q5xp9nktmHLaxUFCtj8sgZ3a
17RF2aaZ4f88XPFghhjuUa2SttR8rMAnM6
17zVunP5HCgvuJngHVF3TqjEQTgU6oex9L
18aNDaVNZpNEn47iiFiKPaBmbGGWccatWx
18btf8JrkHJrP2J9A1ufPCkxGcm7Ju14s1
18Er8beX2teavPThGaJg5dtfcKe3UqxAfp
18VZAeBaUZbX2zkAW1BjZYjiRBNptjT8wY
19bc8G53hkiPkLjYYQWQTQvt5624CWjtGc
19iLr6gkSbHCSgZ57QpjpEd5aBSaCCrL14
19xaymzDpRQwLxN2eB1xULjdt8Bx8HH9uu
1AE6MwS8eVfRJRrWGXWdyBrrBwo1wTsH6h
1bKFZSCd4AwFChUmPuP6Vz2LbVDwodi3x
1BoodTicGZJhH2KTB85Tugi53yLF6uyGkb
1c54zGZJKr6gaq4XnHA4rxPPbYRrDnQPC
1C5A8eChf6ihgSLmhKznk276qJUB1WXB4Q
1D123fv9s1tk5vZJbifrXq3Q89ff9KrevJ
1DJNBT91LqqUAXZxK38vW88w91Ps4riv7H
1EbsMqkdixEpop1MsaNz8pXuspnZEEPuov
1ECWufGZoRhc9X3FuTP8cCPhUe2xgEaWbc
1EdaQsmd3tiAadKUAj4xrfp3rYtzFzvrw7
1EeCVkyn3bZunMqSHef9vAMK4RW8uTcTLj
1EqEN7Hq971F9xmA1yY2LND5tsRA3WpDrj
1EuMkCBaf8Ds5JH5qSrB7iTHFDiFtZcyvK
1F7cyEEoGqMCHWt7P7XmPTZerrYfMkyHuM
1FGY1KjWis5EZsFyvsqP21eSGa2ZPV4gZD
1FVdfkVB9jcRJLggHh4h5RKk4Xc3eqKmBN
1G1WFMUBruWajEKHoNiLHxEETnYBcixBQQ
1GCahEvx7FsbMNWzfAXFRmzJhjBy36erpP
1GhuHW9gxFoVaNwiAifvTRy79jwaChEoqr
1GtVxYuTH5nEvBoM1F4nJmSkQsVVcye87Q
1H49knUy4t4BNYfvgyoo4ovbCxgontyWt
1HJP1BHWZXQJzxJ4STFFUqwWBexqhsFZFH
1JzRKRoXxaaKPEAmSnut8ddx7wd3YKvmgr
1K5cWejnRhyfXyEAposakaW7ZnNcqnAcue
1Ke9yCAPxVRgWP6GKVBM6Bnfz6ohQccFe9
15yYdE2goxJfQQ8YdjjYN2FqSC6YYFPzKr
17KhBTAUB7Q5xp9nktmHLaxUFCtj8sgZ3a
1GhuHW9gxFoVaNwiAifvTRy79jwaChEoqr
1GtVxYuTH5nEvBoM1F4nJmSkQsVVcye87Q
1GhuHW9gxFoVaNwiAifvTRy79jwaChEoqr
16dxYUXvzuwMb7RTkGUNMgiCfjSwLbPFEg
1D123fv9s1tk5vZJbifrXq3Q89ff9KrevJ
1F7cyEEoGqMCHWt7P7XmPTZerrYfMkyHuM
1EuMkCBaf8Ds5JH5qSrB7iTHFDiFtZcyvK
1JzRKRoXxaaKPEAmSnut8ddx7wd3YKvmgr
1N2nbFr6sgKH2rJYNVnLxQSiD8Wwa4Lt1F
1EdaQsmd3tiAadKUAj4xrfp3rYtzFzvrw7
1Hug4yg93q4pmD6EDTLY5TuAGmSvaXPG8S
1HJP1BHWZXQJzxJ4STFFUqwWBexqhsFZFH
1KZ6d6g16xFZxfzubSmW6sjyuPJPod7cJZ
1L49ExrixT3nNYfZom3yffURQjPd3pxJHb
1LrfzZchGqnymCu9Zv53rSPLHfXZ6EL2Sg
1Lvykc7oogBqN8ZWFp8jkpQW8JpuHKtNUp
1N2nbFr6sgKH2rJYNVnLxQSiD8Wwa4Lt1F
1N5kJYrhh7BCVz8ejpNAm7Bwe3bM9rRnEN
1PTkq7nR96VYXtSnECmAiba9aKShsE5RAr

Your thoughts are appreciated.

It is a travesty that these guys are still in the (now locked) wiki miner hardware comparison page.
People have been stung because of the presence of the link in that page.
The admins of the wiki are remiss in their duty to the community by not removing it. They have been under advice for a long time now. Weeks.

If you look at google maps for the site you will find it is divided into many units.
Their supposed address for mailings and deliveries does not include any unit number.
Does not look like any sort of place assembling bitcoin rigs.

They are a scam. I can definitely confirm this.
Look here for the scam payment.
https://blockchain.info/address/16yGVmHVUF4E6GnUo1HKf5BGnvDhq4yejG
Don't go near them

Yes Tim is a scammer. We have comms from him.
See here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=383039.0

Moving now - $US 40M
https://blockchain.info/address/1Facb8QnikfPUoo8WVFnyai3e1Hcov9y8T

https://blockchain.info/address/16yGVmHVUF4E6GnUo1HKf5BGnvDhq4yejG

Place should not be in the mining hardware comparison table by far.

Thank you all for your help - especially to the management of the forum.
Your leads and logs are starting to produce.

I am helping a victim of hashblaster.com.
(We have worked out some things about them - if you would like to PM i am happy to have a discussion.)

I agree with the prior poster ... these companies look like known companies. Wikipedia article etc.
How can the wiki page be publicly editable without at least a warning about scammers! I think the community could have done more to prevent this!!