“A revolutionary casino where everyone is a winner!” - such a statement is posted on the main page of the ZeroEdge website. However, this casino does not work and, most likely, will never work. Because their casinos and the Zerocoin tokens they issue are pure fraud.
How to recognize a wolf in sheep's clothing when the herd is so huge?
It's not that simple. There are a huge number of startups - “Confido”, “Karbon”, “Hong Coin”, “ToTheMoon”, etc. - who managed to collect hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars during initial coin offerings, the creators of which disappeared without a trace immediately after receiving the funds (some of them managed to leave farewell messages before this).
The main goal of these projects was illegal enrichment. The list of fraudulent ICOs will soon be joined by another project - ZeroEdge. The project has all the characteristics of a classic scam. However, there is good news - the creators made a fatal mistake even before the start of the initial placement of Zerocoin.
Let's take a look at who really are the creators of ZeroEdge.
Team
The “about us” column on the ZeroEdge website is absolutely empty. When you go to the “sponsors” and “news” sections, you get a suspicious message “will be available soon.”
At the same time, the Zerocoin website contains a lot of information about the creator of the project Adrian Casey and all the team members.
A person named Adrian Casey did not exist last year. A man named Adrian Casey will cease to exist as soon as the fundraising ends. If you want to find more information about him on the Internet, all you will find is profile on the LinkedIn portal, which contains a bunch of useless and dubious information, as well as several press releases dedicated to ZeroEdge and Zerocoin.
Adrian himself claims that he was previously an employee of several gambling companies including William Hill and CentreBet. Both companies deny this fact.
You can also find a Facebook profile, which, by an amazing coincidence, is soon turning one year old. The profile has one photo and several dozen completely random friends.
On YouTube there are several video interviews with Casey. It is noteworthy that a man who calls himself a “native Englishman” speaks with a very specific southern European accent..
ZeroEdge employees are also fake. The account names and names of Web Analyst Marissa Pierce and CFO Zoe Golan are different (the account name can be seen in the URL), and you will not find any additional information about them in online, and their friends list is filled with completely random people.
Hoax after hoax
ZeroEdge also has several reputable advisors, and some of them are even real. The interesting thing is that at first there were much more of them. The fact is that real people, having discovered that they were advisers to a suspicious enterprise, gave the project managers only one advice - to remove their photos and names from the list.
In order to hide evidence, Zerocoin's Internet address was changed from Tokensale.zeroedge.bet to Zerocoin.bet. However, you can always find an old version of the site (for example, using Archive.org) and compare it with the current version. You will need this link.
Let's return to ZeroEdge. The inscription in the header of the site reads: “ZeroEdge will begin work immediately after the end of the ICO.” Despite this, the site already has several games, and all of them are taken from open sources. Their poker - a game called “Jacks or Better” is taken from casinotop10.net, slots (slot machines) - from codecanyon.net, and 3D roulette is an exact copy of Microsoft roulette.
In addition, ZeroEdge boasted of having a license from Curacao. However, the license they were referring to actually belongs to another, real smart contract casino. After the ZeroEdge site received a letter of complaint from Curacao, the license statement was removed.
By the way, this was a fatal mistake. Aggressive imitation of a real ICO led to the project attracting the attention of many gambling regulators and other cryptocurrency projects. It was not difficult to detect suspicious inconsistencies.
The bad news is that, thanks to an aggressive marketing policy, more than 1,500 ETH have already been collected from the pre-ICO. The good news is that pre-ICO 2 and ICO have not yet taken place, so we have time to help others avoid falling for the scam - for example, spread the word by sharing a link to this article.
According to https://themerkle.com
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