Warning, this Indiegogo campaign for the 121GW multimeter was NOT setup or authorised by me, it is a SCAM!
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I Just a quick impromptu video. yes I am on holidays but I had to do this one just letting people know. Thank you for the person on Twitter who no, no on the forum eevblog forum who alerted me to this. It is a complete scam.
Check this out and of course IndieGoGo The Scammers platform of choice Somebody it is Not me. I did not do this nor authorize this. It is a complete ripoff of my 1:21 GW multimeter Kickstarter campaign. They've completely copied everything.
They copied the backer levels, they've copied all my photos, everything, all the text like it's you know it could even be some BOTS doing it. You know, like like just scraping successful Kickstarter campaigns and setting it up. But if you go into about here, they copied my profile picture, everything one campaign created, email verified. So yet it's not my David eevblog com email I can assure you or that they even ripped off my announcement video from YouTube Actually that may be why it couldn't be a bot because they must have at least went to knowing to go to my youtube channel to actually rip off my youtube video.
So yeah they like it's I could play it but I won't bother. Anyway, it's my youtube announcement video on my channel and they've already raised a thousand dollars. I'm not sure how long it's got a month left, but six people have already backed this. At the Great Scott level it is a scam.
Do Not back this. I will of course of course put a claim in, try and get it taken down but I'm Not sure how long that will take. I'm sure they will actually take it down. but yeah, it's like I've seen this before for other projects I just didn't expect it to happen to mine.
but I guess you know it was a fairly success. Reasonably successful Kickstarter campaign in the scheme of things at you know, six hundred and something thousand dollars. So yeah, um, beware of these IndieGoGo campaigns. It is common I see these actually quite a lot and a lot of them are legitimate.
Of course a lot of people will of course. IndieGoGo contacted me and asked me if I wanted to go over to their in Demand program they contact I guess every successful were Kickstarter campaign and asked them if they want to go over. So the marketing is really good trying to get people over so that's common. So you do see a lot of Kickstarter campaigns moving over or maybe vice-versa that's usually from Kickstarter over to IndieGoGo anyway.
but this is not me. Do not back it. You will lose your money alright. like this is not me.
alright. so to not back it please. So I'll do my best to get it taken down. but yet I Just want to alert people of that.
Do not back it anyway. Catch you next time and comment down below. If you've seen these scares before, you've been caught in one of these scams because sorry for these six people I Hope they get their money back. but yeah, I Think if they take it down because it's a fraudulent scam, they won't get charged or whatever. But yeah, it's that flexible goal or the funding choice of Champions Scam is everywhere IndieGoGo Flexible funding? Unbelievable. Anyway, catch you next time.
Do not buy from indiegogo, they are scammers.. this product is fake and does not exist. I paid for product more than 400 GBP 40 days ago and did not receive it they do not reply to email.. Beware
indiegogo IS a scam by itself
On the topic of scams, check out Muzo on Kickstarter. It's hilarious.
Hah! I just got the 121GW joke!
isn't everything on indiegogo a scam
So shit. Whoever initiated this has so little worth to society. They really shouldn't exist.
ohh, i wanted to donate ๐ knockoffs are nice to have
Man, what would they have sent.. a nice Extech painted blue!
Wooowww this is baaaaaad… lucky they took it down, link is gone already "under review"
good job, its taken down
a bot can do youtube video ripping – ijs
Looks like its down now
WTF, anyway sue Indiegogo is not an option. This video can do more than sue Indiegogo!
This is all that's showing: ""Campaign" is under review by the Trust & Safety team. Check back later or contact us if you have concerns."
121 gigawatts! Great Scott!
Hi there,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention! We have removed the campaign from our platform and will not allow the user to use Indiegogo in the future. Indiegogo is an open platform so we regularly review campaigns during their duration to look for suspicious activity.
This campaign showed up in our review queue today and our Trust & Safety team was just about to review it when you wrote in. Thank you for assisting with this process! I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused you.
Sue the bastards !!!
I reported the campaign. After few days I got this: โThis campaign showed up in our review queue today and our Trust & Safety team was just about to review it when you wrote in. Thank you for assisting with this process! I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused you.โ
"Campaign" is under review by the Trust & Safety team….LOL. Even though Dave just said it's not him, there still might be a chance it's legit….lol What ever happened to common sense?
"Campaign" is under review by the Trust & Safety team.
Check back later or contact us if you have concerns.
WE DID IT!
awesome meter, I'll back that up for over 9000!
already have one and love it, thank you dave!
good to see they've acted at last – I expect the indiegogo complaints department are usually kept quite busy ๐
hope everyone scammed by this gets a quick refund… and a very clear explanation that dave wasn't behind it. I think there's a risk that in order to seem less careless, indie might just say flatly that it was a scam campaign they've shut down without elaborating that the details were ripped off leaving the scammed backers thinking it was that video guy in Sydney who tried to rob them.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but not in this case. What the scammers have done is benefited from your original idea. I hope something is done about it real soon.
It's still showing the "Under review by trust and safety team" page right now… Looks like something is happening at least – especially considering that the YouTube Redirector is also showing their safety warning… Good work by the original forum poster for spotting it in the first place and good on you Dave for standing up for your IP and design rights…