THELOGICALINDIAN - As appear by Quartz addition has created a adulterated aggregation with the name of the Telegram ICO Telegram Open Network Limited The UK aggregation registered with Companies House on Feb 28 lists Pavel Durov as CEO but was accepted as a affected by Telegram over Twitter
Keen assemblage may, however, accept spotted the clues suggesting that the aggregation may not be all that it seems.
For starters, the advertisement claims that Pavel (stated as sole director, actor and aggregation secretary) is a British citizen. In fact, Durov is a aborigine of St Kitts and Nevis. He larboard his built-in Russia afterwards he was ousted from the VK amusing arrangement which he founded.
The affirmation of £800 actor in paid-up basic is additionally suspicious. This bulk pumped into a British aggregation would allure a rather abrupt tax bill.
It is absolutely actual accessible and bargain to set up a aggregation in the UK. Many third parties will action to accord with all of the paperwork for about £100. But anyone with an internet affiliation can book the appropriate forms online for aloof £12.
Companies House await on self-certification by the applicant, although they do affirmation to backpack out checks. 528 counterfeit filings were appear by Companies House in 2012 back figures were aftermost published, although this one seems to accept slipped through the net.
Of course, we can’t be assertive that the assimilation of this aggregation was advised to bamboozle or abuse anyone or anything. It may artlessly accept been a antic filing, although I’m not abiding that I’d absorb alike £12 on a antic that lame.
It’s absolutely accessible that this is a absolutely altered Pavel Durov, who is absolutely a UK citizen. Perhaps he runs a arrangement who accessible telegrams on account of the advised recipient… but I accept that’s appealing unlikely.
Luckily, the alone notable victim of this betray was Calvert Journal. The online annual published a piece on Durov’s new UK citizenship, afore acclimation the commodity afterward Telegram’s Twitter denial.
Do you anticipate the new aggregation is a scam? Is this aftermost of the Telegram ICO scams that we’ll see? Let us apperceive what you anticipate in the comments below.
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