#kreyosfraud please help us

3 points by jonathanmarvens 11 years ago | 5 comments

Hey, Hacker News!

If you haven't seen the link to the post about the $1.5M Kreyos fraud, please take a look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8187544 ... we really need your help!

If you're on Twitter, please consider using this link to tweet: http://jonathan.sh/kreyosfraud ... thanks!

- Jonathan

dang 11 years ago |

Posting once about this was ok, though the ring votes and (especially) the sockpuppet comments were not ok—we penalize and ban those, respectively.

Please don't post about it repeatedly though. Rallying support for a cause is mostly not on topic here.

jonathanmarvens 11 years ago | |

Hey, I wasn't aware that this was an issue. However, those comments were NOT "sockpuppet comments". All of us backers who've been ripped off have a Facebook group ( https://facebook.com/groups/469833006482519 ) and those comments were from folks on there. You guys really should not just make assumptions like this and delete comments. That isn't fair. - Jonathan

minimaxir 11 years ago | | |

> please go upvote. The more upvotes it gets, the faster it reaches the front page of Hacker News (which has a HUGE HUGE audience). Thanks!

You are quite literally asking for upvotes.

dang 11 years ago | | |

I didn't mean that the commenters weren't real—sorry for the imprecision. We use the term "sockpuppet" rather loosely to include cases where people show up to comment only as part of a story they're trying to push. When a bunch of new accounts show up to do it at the same time, we ban them, because that's not a legit use of HN comments.

migrantgeek 11 years ago |

Man you got took. It happens. My father once bought a TV on the street in the Bronx and the box just had a couple of bricks. He didn't go around asking strangers to help get his money back.

You gave money to a child for a watch you never saw. You got the watch and didn't like the long wait or the quality of the watch. I don't think that's fraud.