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Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo

Crowdfunding giant Indiegogo.com had to close down lately more campaigns due to Violation of their Terms of Use. The latest campaign that was shut down yesterday by Indiegogo's Trust & Safety Department raised funds for a fitness gadget called BioRing. After raising more than 800% of their initial goal ($509,918 in total) the team behind the project simply vanished, leaving 2184 backers behind. Mor information: http://bit.ly/BioRingScam-Igg
( 4 comments | on HN )
Re:Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo by maker1138 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @03:00PM (#12881302)
Wow. Just watched the BioRing campaign video. How could anyone think that was real?
Re:Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo by ddorian43 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @02:07PM (#12880991)
Why do people have to be retarded ? This is cleary only marketing shit.
Re:Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo by TomHavok on Saturday November 05, 2016 @02:31PM (#12881147)
Sadly it is no marketing shit. There is quite an uproar amongst backers, because Indigogo can't refund them... I'm not sayin' people aren't retarded, it was pretty clear that this BioRing stuff can't work. It was totally science-fiction.
Re:Another scam shakes trust in Indigogo by Abdur91 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @03:15PM (#12881374)
similar has been happened with kickstater