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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Biggest Crypto Scam going on right now

WarningBiggest Crypto Scam going on right now (self.CryptoCurrency)
submitted   by tokentraderx2
This post has fallen victim to Paragon Coins brigading as well. It was only a matter of time. Please message the moderators of r/CryptoCurrency to request that this post be sticked to the top of the page until the end of their ICO. We need to protect our community from these malicious scammers.
I encourage everyone to head over to the AMA they are holding today to ask the questions that are being posed here:https://www.reddit.com/r/ParagonCoin/comments/6wc6zc/ama_wparagon_coin_execs_sunday_august_27_1pm_est/ This is their second AMA thread after they deleted their first thread when it posed questions they didn't like.
I have never spoken to anyone on their Slack / Telegram. "Ransom to take this post down" claims are completely false. But they do however call everyone who criticizes them a Troll.
Paragon Coin. Their PR team is brigading any post that explains why it is such a scam. I watched this one go from 60+ votes to 0 in a few minutes.
(from the original) Full post: a. Starting off they are faking their numbers and are not sticking to the distribution they planned. Here is a picture from their website : http://i.imgur.com/oQsnVob.png They said they will cap the amount raised to 5 million dollars between 15th and 25th August. Today is 23rd of August, and they just said they have sold 30 million tokens(22.5 million USD) already. I don't believe in that number to be honest. But they obviously don't care about the number of tokens distributed. b. The founder behind the idea is actually Egor Lavrov, and not his wife Jessica. He is just using her face and her business to market the idea better. He is the person who has the knowledge about crypto and the internet. He really doesn't have an all good past. I don't mean to be judgemental here. But from all the articles, interviews and his posts from the past are just about money. I did a little research and found articles(which you can read): http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080724005337/en/Innovative-Tattoo-Design-Contest-Tattoolizator.com-Invites-Entrants https://techcrunch.com/2009/12/04/friends-around-me-funding/ (DO Make sure to read the comments on this one ^ ) https://www.volkskrant.nl/archief/decadent-dansen-in-een-strafkamp~a715588/ c. The guy was married to a model Lourdes E de Lavrov, but hasn't had a good past. He has been convicted in the past and was asked to stay away from his wife for Domestic Violence. http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Miami-Dade-County-FL/Egor-Lavrov.68139389.html --- http://i.imgur.com/N3Rgy0Q.png d. They are promoting and throwing money on marketing it in any way possible. Recently they did an AMA thread which had fake users, fake upvotes, and fake questions posted to make the ICO look good and professional.https://www.np.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6uxipy/iota_paragoncoin_david_s%C3%B8nsteb%C3%B8_jessica_versteeg/ Likely fake users who posted. https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Daveysaves https://www.np.reddit.com/user/remotuhttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/RixieGhoul https://www.np.reddit.com/user/chroinic420https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Canna007 https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Aesopfairy999https://www.np.reddit.com/user/sewic https://www.np.reddit.com/user/DerLexx https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Sebster83https://www.np.reddit.com/user/ounceofsilver https://www.np.reddit.com/user/DahLeeLah e. Lastly. If you do a little research into their youtube channels, facebook pages. You see things like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZ1TBzv_SM , which is probably a parody of sorts. But still after browsing through any of their social media history, it should become apparent that all they care about is getting money.
[–]jwinterm[M] [score hidden]  stickied comment 
Hijacking top comment. I got a private message on my ccticker bot account that runs the ticker in the header supposedly from a paragon person. Posted here for full disclosure (I have no idea who's lying here, and honestly don't really care):
Hello!
We’re ParagonCoin team, we’re working on a blockchain solution for legal cannabis industry. Seed to sale supply chain tracking, compliance, medical marijuana patient ID and prescription verification, lab test verification, etc.
Our CEO, Jessica VerSteeg is deeply involved in the cannabis industry, she runs her own successful startup, a cannabis delivery company in California.
We have a very reputable team: VP of City National Bank is our CFO, partner at Y-Combinator is on the advisory board, even director of operations at Apple endorsed us and is on board as well.
We have a solid dev team and legal team overlooking compliance with SEC and cannabis. Our reputation is at stake here and we’re being bullied and wrongfully accused of fraud by a scammer.
OP originally scammed Coinschedule website by pretending to be us, later he scammed us by pretending to be Coinschedule. You can check with them. He also came to our slack and DM’d one of the team members and when asked if the negative post was his, first said ‘maybe’, then even deleted it to prove it was his: https://www.reddit.com/user/Buster01
Now they’re trolling our slack and telegram, demanding a ransom and promoting a post on your subreddit that got pinned. Please help to fix this, it’s not fair and you’re supporting a scammer and a criminal.
Best, Paragon Team
[–]veqtor 1093 points  
Let's get this post up! Such a shady project
[–]tokentrader[S] 445 points  
They have downvoted this post to the ground
[–]NotchWith 215 points  
Holy shit this was at like 400 upvotes. They paying the big money for the bots
[–]CJYP 108 points  
Now it's back at 778. Did the bots get banned?
[–]Reginald_Martin 91 points  
Here's the ransom demand- http://imgur.com/a/lxxF0
[–]tokentrader[S] 127 points  
This is a pathetic attempt to de-credit this post. I am not @karen.coinshedule. There is no ransom demand. The r/CryptoCurrency community is now well aware of Paragon Coins scam, as this has turned out to be the most upvoted post of all time despite all of Paragon's brigading. The moderators have also sticked it to the top of the page (Thank you).
I encourage everyone to head over to the AMA they are holding today to ask the questions that are being posed here. I'm sure they will be censoring posts, but the more we fight back the less people will succumb to this scam. Here's the link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParagonCoin/comments/6wc6zc/ama_wparagon_coin_execs_sunday_august_27_1pm_est/ *updated link since they keep deleting threads when they get questions they don't like.
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[–]Dyslectic_Sabreur 13 points  
Holy shit have a look at that sub. Only accounts that are new or were inactive for years and they are all talking only about this shitcoin. They are even circlejerking with each other.
[–]Tamlopredditor for 1 month 2 points  
People are right to be suspicious of you and your post, though. You're asking people to believe you are sincere, and not a scammer/ransomer, just because... why? Just because you want them to?
I don't think Paragon Coin is a good investment (I think it will face adoption problems in the weed industry) but being a bad investment isn't the same as being a scam, and you're making baseless accusations on the internet.
a. Starting off they are faking their numbers and are not sticking to the distribution they planned. Here is a picture from their website : http://i.imgur.com/oQsnVob.png
Lots of ICOs change terms according to changing conditions. Even good ICOs do that. They changed the distribution plan, therefore they're a scam? Wut?
They said they will cap the amount raised to 5 million dollars between 15th and 25th August.
Ok?
Today is 23rd of August, and they just said they have sold 30 million tokens(22.5 million USD) already.
Ok, os what?
I don't believe in that number to be honest.
You give no evidence.
But they obviously don't care about the number of tokens distributed.
Wut?
b. The founder behind the idea is actually Egor Lavrov, and not his wife Jessica. He is just using her face and her business to market the idea better. He is the person who has the knowledge about crypto and the internet.
What's your point here? How does this support your 'scam' claim?
He really doesn't have an all good past. I don't mean to be judgemental here. But from all the articles, interviews and his posts from the past are just about money.
He's a businessman, interested in luxury. All that bling stuff is certainly disgusting when people are starving, but you're claiming Paragon is a scam, which is a very different claim.
What's your point here? So he did a tattoo contest? How does that have any bearing on your claim?
c. The guy was married to a model Lourdes E de Lavrov
You're just posting random information anyone with access to a search engine can find out in seconds. This has no bearing on anything.
, but hasn't had a good past. He has been convicted in the past and was asked to stay away from his wife for Domestic Violence. http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Florida/Miami-Dade-County-FL/Egor-Lavrov.68139389.html --- http://i.imgur.com/N3Rgy0Q.png
This is pretty bad, and makes me dislike the guy.
d. They are promoting and throwing money on marketing it in any way possible. Recently they did an AMA thread which had fake users, fake upvotes, and fake questions posted to make the ICO look good and professional. https://www.np.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6uxipy/iota_paragoncoin_david_s%C3%B8nsteb%C3%B8_jessica_versteeg/ Likely fake users who posted. https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Daveysaveshttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/remotuhttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/RixieGhoulhttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/chroinic420https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Canna007https://www.np.reddit.com/user/Aesopfairy999https://www.np.reddit.com/user/sewichttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/DerLexxhttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/Sebster83https://www.np.reddit.com/user/ounceofsilverhttps://www.np.reddit.com/user/DahLeeLah
No evidence given here.
e. Lastly. If you do a little research into their youtube channels, facebook pages. You see things like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZ1TBzv_SM , which is probably a parody of sorts. But still after browsing through any of their social media history, it should become apparent that all they care about is getting money.
What is your point? You're a guy who spent ten minutes googling Lavrov and VerSteeg, and posting every link you found. There's no evidence of anything. /r/cryptocurrency mods need to unsticky this until the facts become clear.
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