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[H]ardOCP: Blockchain Startup Takes $11, Leaves Penis

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday February 01 2018, @01:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the took-it-all dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

In a report yesterday, blockchain start up "The Prodeum Project," whose goal was to "revolutionize the fruit and vegetable industry" with Ethereum has apparently absconded with millions of investor dollars. Upon exiting with the investors money, the website went offline, and was replaced with one word: "Penis." The companies press release detailing the project is still online.

I really need to come up with some half-baked idea and slap "blockchain" in it so investors give me millions. This article also states that other digital fingerprints of the crypto-team's former existence are being scrubbed from the web. Webpages from TokennDesk, a Linkedin profile, twitter handle, and even a blog post on Medium have all been deleted. One could say a lot of people got the...shaft.

Source: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/01/30/blockchain_startup_takes_11_leaves_penis/

Also at Wired and Business Insider.

[Ed. Note - Although the quote mentions millions of investor dollars, as far as I can tell they made off with just $11 US.]

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:15PM (3 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday February 01 2018, @06:15PM (#631599) Journal

    Excouse me sir!
    My prince has mooney for you but hers benk accunt is froozed. Couds you be sneding mooneys to gets heers

    Oh shit, too hard to write with auto correct.
    Neeeever minds sir. Princesis freeb. Noothing to seep here.

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:39PM (2 children)

    by edIII (791) on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:39PM (#631673)

    That's funny because most of the Nigerian Prince letters I receive are quite well written. No spelling mistakes, grammar is done good as far as I can see, .etc.

    My favorite thing to do is to string these people along for as long as I can. Stuff like, "My parents estate ended up giving me some money, but I've got to go across town and speak with the lawyer. My current financial institution is my sock behind the washing machine." You've truly turned the tables on them if you can get them to send you cab fare to go to the bank :)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:30PM (#631706)

      Always amusing stories at http://www.419eater.com/ [419eater.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 01 2018, @09:34PM (#631707)

      and everyone clapped.