THELOGICALINDIAN - A adumbral cryptocurrency ICO has been bent application banal photos for their aggregation associates including amateur Ryan Gosling as a clear designer
There’s a continued history of companies application celebrities to endorse their articles for business purposes. Of course, there’s apparently aloof as continued a history of acid bodies attractive to banknote in on a person’s name or face by fraudulently bond the celebrity to a artefact that they are not endorsing. A somewhat agnate case arose afresh back a ICO was started for a new cryptocurrency, and the ICO featured the handsome mug of Ryan Gosling as one of their aggregation members.
As declared before, a lot of celebrities accept accustomed assorted things over the years. Baseball fable Babe Ruth accustomed amber bars, soda, and tobacco. Today’s celebrities are generally begin shilling articles for a fat paycheck, such as Taylor Swift for Diet Coke, Brad Pitt for perfume, and Matthew McConaughey for cars. A cardinal of celebs accept alike accustomed assorted cryptocurrency projects, such as Paris Hilton, Floyd Mayweather, Jamie Foxx, and Steven Seagal.
However, Ryan Gosling is not announcement cryptocurrency. An accouterments by the name of Miroskii is accepting an ICO for a new cryptocurrency. They’re not adhering Gosling’s name to their crypto, but they are absolutely application his image.
On their website, which has now been taken down, you could see the Hollywood brilliant as aggregation affiliate Kevin Belanger. Apparently, Mr. Belanger is an “experienced bright artist with a bright focus on identities and illustration.” I assumption on the weekends, he looks for replicants, drives cars absolutely fast, or spontaneously break out into song.
In fact, the absolute Miroskii bearings throws up a lot of red flags. The armpit originally had all the accepted platitudes you would accessory with crypto and blockchain ventures, but there was no whitepaper to be found.
Even added absorbing is their agenda of aggregation members. Apparently, anniversary aggregation affiliate represented is absolutely fake. The images acclimated for the profiles either accord to absolute bodies (who accept no affiliation at all with the ICO) or are banal photos. For example, the angel acclimated for Perry Henderson absolutely belongs to John Davies, a managing administrator in London. You can analysis out the sources for the images on this Reddit thread.
What makes this ICO betray alike sadder is that a agglomeration of bodies accept collapsed for it. Afore the Miroskii armpit was taken down, 389 bodies had already spent $833,999 on the ICO. It seems that the betray artists accept bankrupt up boutique and confused on. Again, this absolute bearings reinforces the angle to consistently do a abundant accord of due activity afore any investing.
What do you anticipate about this affected ICO application an angel of Ryan Gosling as a aggregation member? Would you advance in an ICO accustomed by Gosling? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
Images address of Wikimedia Commons/@Gage Skidmore and Reddit/@arsonbunny.
