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Add [SCAM doge-ai.org] #malicious #unsafe GBO6DK…AKQ7X7 #586

Closed stellar-expert-deploy closed 1 year ago

stellar-expert-deploy commented 1 year ago

Address: GBO6DKJYFBG7UEUSAOI3MD2SF7FJWEZBRICUAILXWGJINVL7SKAKQ7X7
Tags: malicious unsafe
Title: SCAM Domain: doge-ai.org
Requested by @frxeger

This is a token and a scam site from QSI, who previously were involved in the scam project ElonStellar. For several months now, they have been enticing people with false claims of annual payouts of 150%+ without providing any information on where this money comes from (Ponzi scheme). I believe the Stellar Expert team, along with the Lobstr/Stellarx team, need to once and for all add all resources advertised on the below-provided Telegram channels to the automatic block list.

FRxeger commented 1 year ago

Data taken from the analytical platform Telemetr (unfortunately without translation) indicates in the analytics some of the channels that advertise the AI DOGE channel, among them: QSI France, Elon Stellar, WhipLash, etc. изображение изображение изображение изображение

FRxeger commented 1 year ago

In addition to this, I find it strange that a huge number of tokens issued on Stellar (via stellarmint) automatically get the SCAM label on the StellarExpert platform from the moderator Crypto Hobbiest (the same happened to me when I released a fan token for my friends and a few hours later received a SCAM mark, and as a result, when making a transfer through the exchanger on bestchange, my funds were frozen, referencing that my address was labeled as scam on the Stellar Expert blockchain explorer). This moderator blocks everyone indiscriminately, while real scam projects, from which hundreds if not thousands of people suffer for more than a year, have been peacefully existing on Stellar Expert for over 3 months with a high rating. The same happened with Elon Stellar and other similar projects promoted by QSI/WhipLash. eXLM wasn't blocked for several months despite all the complaints sent their way. Eventually, there was a dump, and all messages from the Elon Stellar channel were deleted. изображение

FRxeger commented 1 year ago

I understand that the Stellar Expert moderation might be overwhelmed with the surge of scams, and I am grateful to the moderators for everything they do for the Stellar community. However, I kindly ask them to be more constructive if they have taken on such a responsibility towards the community. If necessary, I am willing to volunteer my assistance in analyzing the resources and media data of QSI/Whiplash and provide them here

CryptoHobbyist commented 1 year ago

Hello @FRxeger,

Sadly there are many token projects like doge-ai.org that come up with ways to avoid easy and direct scam or counterfeit tags. (I don;t want to explain here since I would not want them to know all the things used to quickly ID a SCAM or Counterfeit.)

I have been watching the doge-ai.org tokens since their beginning and also see many of the indicators of a scam and counterfeiter. The problem is that they are not a direct counterfeiter, (I'm guessing that their image was a DALL-E or openArt AI generated piece.) They also did not use some of the usual scammer and counterfeiter accounts.

I thank you for the information you provided and hope we can gather enough to finally tag this as just another scam from the usual suspects. Known scammers pumping and hyping crap tokens is not enough to label tokens as a scam.

The quickly identified tokens are ones that infringe on the rights or (or falsify relationships with) another brand, trademark, organization, country, or other such falsification. Also tokens minted by repeated infringement scammers get quickly identified. As you have said the task is massive and we don't have large resources to identify the scams.

I do not remember which token of yours that you believe was incorrectly identified, and I would like to help correct any errors.

These are some documents I created a long time before I got invited to help with tagging scam tokens in the Stellar Expert database. These show some of the ways tokens are evaluated be for tagging. "Things to Consider When Evaluating Token Projects" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vbo1GsQWSsTCeVw0nMLX6X7tPCufXMNRTmeUvQh7tmo/edit?usp=sharing

"Very extensive list of very questionable token domains" (I would guess that less than 10% of all scam are tagged on the Stellar Expert database.) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JCkWZ3X1h6kJKM6ZCZThDshK_whhNiTyGTV8R24Anho/edit?usp=sharing

CryptoHobbyist commented 1 year ago

The doge-ai.org market books are thin, but they have seemed to hold a peg (with wide margins at times) the stange one is their ETH that is almost 10x pegged price, but also has almost no trading. Usually scammers try to manipulate the price so it slightly below peg to look like a deal.

"Fake it till you make it" is not the same as counterfeits, serial scam minters, and infringement. Unfortunately questionable token projects sometimes should not be labelled as fraudulant until after the rug pull and abandonment of the project which hurts many people. This is a Defi market and as blockchain explorer we hope to not be making judgement but only posting facts and warnings.

I want to re-iterate that this project is very questionable and please give us any information that crosses the line. Please feel free to reopen this with more information.

Looking Towards The Future With You, Rob