OneCoin threaten to sue YouTube over account termination
OneCoin aren’t happy about YouTube terminating their OneLife account, and have threatened to take “legal action” against the company.
In a post published a few hours ago to the OneLife Facebook page, OneCoin addressed the closure of the OneLife YouTube account:
On Monday, we posted two informative videos on YouTube which were the subject of many aggressive and defamatory comments.
The OneLife channel is currently unavailable, but we’ll be taking legal action to ensure you can access our content there.
What legal action and on what basis OneCoin will sue YouTube is unclear.
When YouTube shut down the OneLife account, viewers of previously hosted videos were informed the videos were unavailable for YouTube policy violations pertaining to spam, deceptive content and scams.
As per YouTube policies, which all content creators agree to when they create an account:
Scams
Some users create content which attempts to trick others for their own financial gain. Content that deliberately tries to mislead users for financial gain may be removed, and in some cases strikes may be issued to the uploader.
Please be wary of claims that seem too good to be true, as they likely are.
Perhaps OneCoin is objecting to YouTube inferring that OneCoin is a scam. Either way, YouTube has deep pockets and a lawsuit between the two parties would certainly be interesting to watch.
I’m not sure how difficult it is to get a suspended account reinstated as it could have been automatically triggered by numerous compaints on a relatively new channel, but if YouTube decided to dig it’s heels in on their decision, I doubt the legal battle would go much further than OC saying turn it back on or we’ll sue you. 🙂
Naturally, OC is claiming to have “renowned lawyers” working on this. Of course, these lawyers are unnamed, as is always the case when pyramids/ponzis pretend to be taking legal action.
Funny how these so-called businesses even have to overhype their lawyers.
FYI: A former Onecoiner just posted the following on FB, which looks to be legit (Irina would be the initial responder, I believe, and she is a real employee):
What that means is, they are going to put their hands on their hips, stamp their feet and hold their breath till they turn blue.
As if any ponzi, pyramid or fake cryptocurrency is ever going to allow itself to face a court to explain how their scheme isn’t a ponzi, pyramid or fake cryptocurrency.
The worst YouTube can expect is a nasty letter from a pet lawyer (Or a threatening letter from a fake legal department)
Lol what rights do they or anyone have to post on YouTube? Why not cite anything related to actual law.
Even their threats sound like empty scammer promises.
STRIKE TWO AGAINST ONELIFE – HUFFINGTON POST REMOVES SCAM SPAM:
Last night OneLife reps began circulating this fluff piece link from Huffington Post (wish I had the article – it was just what you would expect from any Onecoin member who wrote it though)
OneLife Announcement:
HERE IS THAT “PUSH” NOTIFICATION FROM ONELIFE (screenshot): i.imgsafe.org/9f8dab1d2b.png
Then this (or something like it) happened:bitcoinnotbombs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Plane-pin-bomber.png
AND HERE IS HUFFINGTON POST’S RESPONSE (to the truth bombs): huffingtonpost.com/editors-note/removed.html
It’s tough to file a lawsuit when YouTube’s Terms Of Service give them the ability to terminate any account for any reason they want.
There is no right to use YouTube or ‘fair treatment’ from YouTube. They unilaterally own the content on their website and can do whatever they want with it.
Furthermore I would assume they are also bound to arbitration in a venue of YouTube’s choosing based upon the same TOS.
FULL DISCLOSURE In regards to comment #2
It appears that Hari Almi posted that response TO OneLife’s facebook page as a comment in their thread covered in this article as a mock “suggestion” as to what/ how OneLife (Irina) Legal Dept. might respond.
So, it appears that this was NOT OneLife’s official response – just to make that clear.
Hari then reposted it to his own page, which is where I originally saw it yesterday.
I understand the importance of sticking to facts, so as soon as I noticed that the “response” appeared to be of his own creation, I came back here to correct it. Thanks.
there are some funny comments in that thread though, as no one is taking them seriously anymore:
the thread (or parts which have not yet been deleted) also contains a response from OneLife:
And THAT is an actual response quoted from OneLife
Thank you to “WhistleBlowerFin” with this:
By the way, the blog writer was this dude: huffingtonpost.com/author/joey-florez
There you can still see a link to his blog about OneCoin which was removed. I wonder if this dude is a victims or was paid to write that kind of article.
@Tim – This just shows that you have been reaching a lot of people and having some success in trying to thwart that joke of a scam. Congrats.
Tim Mcmurrain is scum. He should be rotting in jail. Once again anyone with any brain cells should be able to look at that post and have red flags shooting up.
This guy is a supposed expert and he doesn’t even try to directly refute a single thing you have stated. Just hyperbole.
These people should be nothing more than a total joke. People’s ignorance and pure stupidity has given them the strength and momentum this ridiculous scam has. They aren’t even good at bull shitting.
aaaand the onelife youtube channel is back.
i’m pretty sure onecoinners are going to strut all over the net claiming that you tube checked the onelife business and found it fully legit, and they begged rujamama to run her little channel with them!
It’s not, original channel is still suspended – youtube.com/channel/UCHL9x-EinWKNEv1_ONRwW1g
OneLife have sneakily changed the channel the OneLife website links to.
haha the sneaky little lowlife’s!
the sneaky little onelife lowlife’s are also going to wordsmith their way around ‘sharia law’.
onecoin is receiving a lot of interest from the muslim community worldwide. their muslim investors were asking for withdrawals against their coins instead of ‘storing’ them in the ‘coinsafe’, as earning ‘interest’ is prohibited under sharia law.
so, to slow down withdrawals from muslim investors, coinsafe has introduced a feature that will make it sharia law ‘compliant’.
coinsafe will no longer pay ‘interest’ [which is banned by the sharia] but instead give a ‘gift’ to investors who store their coins in the coinsafe.
hahaha, ruja ignatova the psuedocompliance queen is going to pseudocomply with the sharia too!
i bet this will piss some of her muslim investors off.
Still illegal. A true hiba is done with NO consideration. If the hiba (gift) is dependent on the amount of “deposit” it’s clearly haram.
Yo, no matter what they call it… surely the Quran doesn’t give Ponzi schemes a high-five anyway?
Hypothetical example:
My religion says I can’t use a knife.
My problem is I murdered someone with a knife.
(Insert religious leader) tells me what I did is ok, so long as we call the knife a spoon.
Hello, murder?
Regarding the Huffington Post article and “Onecoin Miner” who feebly attempted to put out a hit piece on me, I found this:
leadhounds.net/fastest-growing-cryptocurrency-onecoin/#comment-174
Since when did marketing spam = a “very interesting article”?
When marketers read spam, of course.
Regarding the Huffington Post article, I reported the article to them asking that they remove it, not sure if I was the only one but it appeared to work.
Everyone who reads this post should now work on getting the Onecoin YT channel removed for the same reason.
Report report report 🙂
@Jay Carey – as noticed by Whistle Blower, the Ed Ludbrook disruption video was removed from YouTube this morning, obviously due to Onecoiners reporting it.
That video remaining on YouTube could save some sorry saps from throwing their money into the scam.
We need to publish this fact broadly and really push the bitcoin and reddit community to aggressively strike back on ALL the Onecoin/ OneLife channels and promoters of the scam by reporting them!
I’ve reported Onecoin site as scam on Youtube. I encourage everyone to do the same. I also sent one link (not link to Behindmlm) + gave very brief explanation of this madness scam. This really must stop now.
What was wrong with this video? It was probably a public “lecture” and questions asked were very much valid.
Maybe it was Ed Ludbrook himself who complained to Youtube about not giving permission to shoot a video showing him caught with pants down.
Hi Tim, I think you’ll find that that leadhounds site is run by Jimbo Mccormick, husband of your friend Renee.
Small world, the scammer world…
Disabled, you mean. Probably some OneCoiner issued a bogus DMCA “takedown”, claiming copyright violation.
Whoever uploaded it needs to send back a reply, stating it’s a public venue, while reupload it under multiple names as well as to other video sites like Vimeo.
Hey Guys!
That ‘IRINA’, Head of Legal & Compliance Department is NOT from their Legal & Compliance Department!
She is a ROGUE ATTORNEY, based in London who JUST QUIT working for Witch Ruja as SHE KNOWS WE ARE ON TO THEM and are taken’ ’em DOWN, and she does NOT want to be found an ACCOMPLICE!
OVER, ‘Inspector-Tzar Lazar’ (my new codename)
From London still.
P.S. GREAT JOB, ya’all!…. I can tell you, this ship’s gonna’ sink BEFORE October 1st! They will CAPITULATE and plan to SCRAM! This is WHY the bogus PROMOS goin’ on! The Grand Witch is building herself a MANSION in PERU, where she plans to live happily ever after.
But by the Grace of God, there go I . . . .
In other words: NOT HAPPENIN’!
xo¬A
I have to admit that watching OneCoin go into a death spiral for all these months has brought tremendous entertainment value to me.
I’m going to arrange for Tim, Angelina and I to have a follow-up Hangout session on OneCoin very soon. Stay tuned!
Regarding OneCoin and Islamic finance. As ever, not what it seems.
The grandly named “Leadership Summit on Islamic Finance & CryptoCurrency” took place at an airport hotel, where Ignatova was the sole crypto “representative”.
There is a website ifccleaders.com for the grand event, on which Abacus Ethical Investments are said to be the sponsor.
According to Principe, Abacus Ethical Investments is “one of the UK’s leading wealth management companies.”
Listed as a speaker is Tehsin Aslam (female) as “the Founder and CEO of Abacus Ethical Investments and Abacus Wills and Trusts.”
Abacus Wills and Trusts exists in Leicester and presumably does what it says through a bland website which informs us of their new office, in Dubai.
There is one Abacus Ethical Investments on the FCA database (obligatory for financial management companies).
Status “No longer authorised”. Tehsin Aslam comes up blank.
OneCoin recently visited Leicester, presenters included the Doctor who isn’t really a doctor and Labine. Ms. Aslam could easily have visited her new chums, her office being only a minute’s walk from their hotel.
Responding to YouTube DCMA takedowns requires giving the scammer who filed the complaint access to your real name and contact information, which is something many people (including myself) don’t want to do.
SD
A minor correction to the above epistle:
Ignatova didn’t grace the occasion with her presence, despite being listed as a speaker.
Out of 60 delegates, the entire cryptocurrency world was represented in person by Juha Parhiala’s partner Pehr Karlsson, who introduced a vid of the absent CryptoQueen.
Maybe she was worried that, if she turned up, she may actually have to answer an unstaged question or two about crypto?
She announced that
“OneCoin was launching its first Shariah compliant product in the form of a savings account called ‘CoinSafe’.
Originally it was simply a high interest savings account for OneCoin members’ Coins, however now members would be given Shariah compliant option whereby they can receive Gift Coins rather than interest.”
Gift coins not interest…. that’ll fool God.
I am writing to Faizal Karbani, a speaker who MAY be unaware of OneCoin’s staging of this, and others involved. Keep you posted on replies.