Crowd Funding Fraud Leaderboard

[Badspot]

https://badspot.us/Crowd-Funding-Fraud-Leaderboard.html

I have compiled a list of the top crowd funding scams.  I've probably missed quite a few because I made the list a while ago and stopped keeping up with these things.  There's a new one practically every day and it's depressing.

Also this is for blatant fraud only, it doesn't include general incompetence like Coolest, or stufffest creative projects like Mighty No.9, or crazies like that guy who raised 50k for books but had a mental breakdown and burned them.

[Ad Bot]

[Nonnel]

wtf solar calculators don't even have real solar cells
do they just go until the battery dies then?

[Maxwell.]

wtf solar calculators don't even have real solar cells
do they just go until the battery dies then?

a lot of them don't have real solar cells but some definitely do, we have one, here's an example of one that does:
https://youtu.be/_VvEO_m3Owk?t=129

here's one that doesn't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoO68d1n7ZE

[Nonnel]

yeah yeah i saw that and i get some do
but the ones that don't just run on the battery they come with?

[Otis Da HousKat]

yeah yeah i saw that and i get some do
but the ones that don't just run on the battery they come with?

They condense energy through the ether instead of the sun's rays.

[Mr.Noßody]

Kickstarter Crap - Badspot edition

[MicroEDGE]

some of these things seem real cool


shame they don't even work/THE OWNERS BUY loving FERRARIS

[Goth77]

damn, i definitely gotta get me one of those underwater micro-oxygen filters, then I can breath underwater forever and reverse-evolve back into a fish, undoing many millions of years of evolution

[JumboMuffin]

damn, i definitely gotta get me one of those underwater micro-oxygen filters, then I can breath underwater forever and reverse-evolve back into a fish, undoing many millions of years of evolution

yeah but you'd need to suck in a stuff ton of water at once to actually get a breaths worth of oxygen

[Ipquarx]

Here's another one for you to add to the list. Crypteks lockable encrypted USB drive. Was supposed to ship over 3 years ago but they disappeared off the face of the earth with almost 200 grand.

[King Tøny]

I'm reading up on the sleev part, some people in the comments on Sleev were not loving fooled at all. lol

[Bisjac]

badspot should make the greatest and fakest and overhyped product on kickstarter, ever.

and bail, then in a loud PR move, donate the money to a fake charity that he also made up, to mock the lenders.

regarding the fake charity; its for a fake issue that badspot also made up.


in the end, the money disappears and everyone learns maybe 1 lesson.

[Nonnel]

make a donation to the human fund

[King Tøny]

I am donating to the boneitis fund.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3uk5bJcyM8

[Bisjac]

in all seriousness though. one could start (lol using a crowd source), a website that unofficially regulates and takes in reviews and ratings on crowd sources themselves.

fake bullstuff exists like that that pretends to be legit, to trick consumers into thinking you are the safe place to go for info, when you are really just taking in money and controlling how other products that have nothing to do with you are sold.
they call a few of these organizations: ESRB, BBB, yelp... corporate owned "services" that just hijack the industry :p

make one that "regulates safe and fair use" of crowd sourcing. $$$
make people pay to get their CS listed as you arnt stuff unless you make the site. make people pay to get bad reviews/complaints removed, make people pay to give ratings. ironically taking in money to counter seller/consumer back and forth. ad money as well.