HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by a-dub on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:51PM (#17085855)

The real question is, who are those people? They are really smirking hard. I bet they're SEC employees, the images have real first names on them (that don't match their fictitious names) which would seem to indicate they're not just stock photos.

I can imagine the email to the office now. That would be the coolest thing ever... "we need volunteers, must be reasonably photogenic and capable of producing a foreboding smirk...."

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by zacharycohn on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:01PM (#17085932)

Stock photos.

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by aflagatopamoon on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:23PM (#17086120)

Couldn't find those stock images anywhere else. Some names are unique enough to be mistaken for someone legit.

The site was announced today. The whitepaper was created on 2018-04-11 and the site was registered on 2018-03-08. So they probably spend a few months and 10k's $ on this scam project.

This project only works "PR"-wise, because it is posted on social media. No unsuspecting investor is going to happen upon on this site and change his/her behavior and be "educated". That's a deluded pipe dream by out-of-touch no-coin government employees.

This is 1990's Microsoft level of lame.

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by kbar13 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:43PM (#17086295)

ok like regardless of whether or not it educated me i had a pretty good chuckle. they're good memes brent.

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by SimbaOnSteroids on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @06:59PM (#17087144)

brint

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by curuinor on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:27PM (#17086161)

is this a sarcastic post or not

they link to the investor's advisory...

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Re:HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to po... by aflagatopamoon on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:34PM (#17086221)

That's like putting up a flyer about the danger of knives in a juvenile detention center, paid for with tax money, under the hopelessly naive banner of "re-educating problem youth".

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