 Tonight I have got an email about 'Status RSK' ICO. It says I was chosen as one of Conony.io user for invitation to a closed Status RSK private tokensale available only for promo-code holders. Their web site says it is a Status.im clone, a decentralized chat bot protocol that automatically converts smart contracts into simple chat conversations, compatible with Ethereum but built for the aka "new Bitcoin smart contract Standart RSK'. Why I think this is a scam? Because their method involves a large set of psychological manipulation - I set my time zone on Colony.io. They say they found my email on Colony.io. I've got this email late evening, when impulsive behavior is more possible; - There are no any information about founders, developers, etc. Only contact email on GMail account. - There are a message on their landing site that 32,51% of tokens are already sold. Wow! So I need to buy it immediately? But this number remains from yesterday evening till today 8 a. m. - not even small change. - This ICO invites to send money from any wallet, from any exchange, just send promo-code with every transaction. A good idea to get more money from greedy to freebies lame ducks... And more and more and more... I think this is scam and you should not participate in this ICO. What do you think?
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hiveblocksGot an invitation email today as well (mine is #30549 if you care to compare). Scam flags:
- The site currently says that "32.29% tokens remaining", which more or less the same number as what you saw 11 days ago.
- The [srsk.co](https://srsk.co/) domain has an invalid certificate (not something you should spare upon when begging for a million dollars).
- The [chatbot](https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@srskbot) seems to only implement the "start", "account" and "send" commands. Everything else is fake.
- The [block explorer](http://explorer.srsk.co/) is fake or broken:
- Unable to browse blocks before [2079](http://explorer.srsk.co/block/2079). Blockchain without a genesis block? No, thank you.
- Give him any account address and it will [tell you](http://explorer.srsk.co/addr/0xblablabla) all the same stats about it.
- No Github or any indication of actual development.
- In general, the attempt to "hide the team" (not even finding a single person willing to come out as a legitimate representative) aligns much better with the desire to get the money and run without leaving a trace than anything else - the excuses "we want to be exclusive" look lame to me.
For the reference: the email I received came fromAiden Hamil (aiden@srskteam.org), the srskteam.org domain was registered just a week ago and is bound to a generic mailboxhost.com email provider. Google does not know of any notable developers with this name.| author | konstantint |
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Yep, got the same email. This ICO bubble is the same exact thing as the dot-com bubble of the Y2K era. I'm patiently holding off on buying any tokens during this speculative time: the house always wins, and most times it's in completely dishonest ways like these guys here. But thank you for writing this up; googling "statusrsk.org" lists this post as the fourth entry (and is in fact what brought me here : ).
| author | nemo |
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It is a scam. I fell for it, sent them some ETH and never received the tokens. What convinced me was the Telegram demo, which is actually pretty interesting. The thing I don't get is why they don't just send the tokens. Why go through all that effort and not send out a worthless token?
| author | sparcusa |
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hey fuckers what do u think now?? https://www.blockcollider.org/ is it a scam?? they r still be sending u ur tokens
| author | wolgang |
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