I'll prevent all crypto enthusiasts and purists who will comment here below:
"centralized digital coins are scam, anyway"
Ok, please, make a lot of comments 🥳 .
But my aim is just the opposite, let's try to cheat together the biggest centralized coins that companies and institutions are building. May be this new coins will help the world to become a better world, we hope so, and they'll surprise us, but now it's cheating time.
In the short time of 3 hours, today, I found two very well packaged scams.
Facebook Diem scam
The first hits Facebook Diem, the recently announced centralized digital coin by the Social Network and other fiat whales. The official website of the project is https://www.diem.com/en-us/.
Inside Media tab you can find this clear statement about the official website and the state of art of the project:
The statement is clear: there's no pre-sale, and this is the only official website.
But some smart guys, or better some regrettable scammers, invented this copy of official website and gently launched a pre-sale (gently, with your potential money):
Yeah buy Diem guys, and may be you'll find your bed full of gold tomorrow, or later next week. Using a Whois search engine I found this about owners:
Domain Name: THEDIEMPROJECT.IO
Registry Domain ID: D503300001193932151-LRMS Registrar
WHOIS Server: Registrar URL: Updated Date: 2021-02-07T23:44:49Z
Creation Date: 2021-02-07T23:42:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2022-02-07T23:42:00Z Registrar
Registration Expiration Date: Registrar: Sarek Oy Registrar IANA ID: 802672 Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Reseller:
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: 1337 Services LLC Registrant State/Province: Charlestown
Registrant Country: KN
Name Server: DNS1.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
Name Server: DNS2.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
The .kn country registration code stands for for Saint Kitts and Nevis. It is administered by the University of Puerto Rico, Central Administration.
We have some exotic scammers, laying down in a sunny beach.
d-Yuan scam
The government of China is working on a digital currency, the digital yuan, and is performing a lot of trials. They want to test a digital system which could support all days life and transactions, so they cannot release something unstable, hackable and so on.
But someone has built a sort of company, the Yuan Pay Group, that is doing the following:
they announce that "the wait is over"
they have a countdown which level up the price in 15 minutes (c'mon guys, what are you waiting for)
obviously, if you deposit fiat you'll have d-yuan, now.
Conclusion
Many people have no confidence with crypto currencies. They imagine decentralization as the Land of No One, where million of scammers are ready to steal their money. It is very probable that these people will easily trust a digital currency, better if centralized 😣 owned by Facebook or chinese government.
I think that this scams are very dangerous, because could hit a lot of newbies. Therefore I sent an alert to Diem project (the official one) about the scam I found.
A part from serious questions, we have scams before coins. Let's cheat together, and keep publishing.
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