Kickstarter Funding Request Exposed as Scam - harperwinfory49

Thanks to the detectives on several online communities, including Reddit, Something Awful, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun, a cozenage to exploit Kickstarter, the crowd-funding site, has been unveiled.

The project measured pretty cool: a video game called "Mythic: The Story of Gods and Men," to be created by a team of "manufacture veterans" who had antecedently worked at play powerhouses Activision and Blizzard. All they needed was $80,000 to get rolling, and soon we'd each be playing mythological heroes in a game that had characteristics "corresponding to that of World of Warcraft" and graphics quality "functioning in that respect with Skyrim."

According to the gritty's Kickstarter Page, the team consisted of two former creative directors, one V.P. of output, unrivalled former CTO, three senior programmers, one user interface designer/programmer, and four 3D experts. The team allegedly worked on some World of Warcraft and Diablo II.

Yet, information technology wasn't far before users started noticing something fishy. Namely, that game's artwork displayed on the Kickstarter page had been lifted from other websites, the text edition for rewards had been copied from some other Kickstarter project and the game poster was a bray-up of stolen art. The scammers even stole counterfeit office photos from Richard Burton Aim Group for their Facebook page (now defunct).

The page even enclosed a substance video featuring "Set Westfall," questionable fanciful director and cofounder of "Little Monster Productions":

There's none word until no on who Seth Westfall actually is, simply he's speaking nigh the game, and so we can only assume that he's in all probability in connected the scam.

Kickstarter Funding Request Exposed as Scam

The scammers managed to raise $4,739 of its $80,000 goal, from 83 backers, most of whom pledged $10 to $25 each. Still, once the project was outed as a defraud, the creators canceled the Kickstarter project and deleted the lame's site and Facebook page.

Kickstarter has recently been a rattling successful platform for indie spunky developers, so it's none wonder that people are trying to take advantage of the arrangement. Most notably, game studio Double Very well raised more than $3.3 million for its new game, dubbed Big Fine Adventure — $1 million of which was brocaded in less than 24 hours.

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Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/464166/kickstarter_funding_request_exposed_as_scam.html

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