alert The fund can't be withdrawal from Epik.com via Masterbucks wallet

[enamebroker]

It happened on 23rd Aug 2022 and this matter lasted almost one month without any process. Masterbucks.com declined my fund withdrawal and disabled the button of fund withdrawal. And I contacted Epik.com and got no further action even if Rob Monster got involved in it for two weeks. All the time I was told in email by management review.

What is wrong with Epik.com? Do you think it is normal to disable fund withdrawal? How can I get back my fund from Epik.com? Thanks for your suggestion.

 

[mdrn]

Some interesting info for those with in-store credit:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1613965543064600589

 

[carob]

Yes, it is clear that she was expecting a payment in actual currency.

Does Epik produce invoices for sales? Kathleen was saying she did not know who the actual buyer is.

Sedo and Dan.com sales generate invoices showing the name and physical address of buyer and seller. Afternic sales do not.

Even if purely internal for accounting and anti-money laundering purposes there has to be a record of who the buyer is and how they paid. And what ToS the seller and buyer agreed to at the time. EU residents and citizens could request all data that Epik holds on them by making a free Subject Access Request under GDPR. Not sure what access US citizens have to data that companies hold on them, but that is worth exploring.

 

[Kt88]

Exactly. Someone (probably the ~25% ownership) is holding an axe over Rob's head in order to try and right the ship.

Maybe Brian is the 25% or has a close relationship to him/her/them, as I see no other reason to place such a prickly personality in charge of this (cough) "Epik recovery".

I was told from Rob direct that Brian has shares in Epik as his main recompense.

 

[koolishman]

I was told from Rob direct that Brian has shares in Epik as his main recompense.

May be you should share more on your knowledge of EPIK here. IMO.

 

[bmugford]

I was told from Rob direct that Brian has shares in Epik as his main recompense.

Well, unless Brian is the majority shareholder or there are a collection of shareholders that represent the majority, I am not sure how they can simply replace him involuntarily.

If you are the majority shareholder, which Rob seems to be considering there was no update on the annual report when it came to governor or controlling interest, that means he should have the majority voting rights as well.

If he is the majority shareholder with majority rights, he should be able to clean house. Considering he has not done that, and has been silent on social media, there has to be something else going on.

It doesn't seem like he was replaced legally as much as someone who had the physical ability to take away his access did that.

If Rob Monster owns 75% of the share count (seems high but I believe he does own majority), has the only board seat (Chairman and only one with voting power even after his monstrous "investments", according to his post hack stream), and was the CEO, how can anyone "force him out" or force him to do anything for anything for that matter? Oh, right, fraud, embezzlement, wire fraud and money laundering are serious crimes and probably make for pretty good leverage points.

If this is the case, and it is suspected that crimes have been committed, they should be reported to the authorities.

If Brian and others believe that is the case, but instead use that as leverage to to compel behavior they want, they are opening themselves up to potential issues.

Brad

 

[karmaco]

It looks like Epik finally filed their annual report on 1/12/2023.

Rob Monster is still listed as the (1) and only governor of the company.

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He has not been replaced. No one else has been added as a governor.

Also, under the "controlling interest" section no changes were listed.

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If you believe what Brian Royce said, the controlling interest of the company has changed hands.
Why is this not reflected in the filing?

The only two conclusions I can reach are -

1.) Controlling interest has not actually changed hands.
2.) Controlling interest has changed hands, but was not properly reported in their filing.

Brad

Are we even sure Royce isn’t just a figment of Rob’s imagination?

 

[Derek Peterson]

Well, unless Brian is the majority shareholder or there are a collection of shareholders that represent the majority, I am not sure how they can simply replace him involuntarily.

If you are the majority shareholder, which Rob seems to be considering there was no update on the annual report when it came to governor or controlling interest, that means he should have the majority voting rights as well.

If he is the majority shareholder with majority rights, he should be able to clean house. Considering he has not done that, and has been silent on social media, there has to be something else going on.

It doesn't seem like he was replaced legally as much as someone who had the physical ability to take away his access did that.


If this is the case, and it is suspected that crimes have been committed, they should be reported to the authorities.

If Brian and others believe that is the case, but instead use that as leverage to to compel behavior they want, they are opening themselves up to potential issues.

Brad

No "if", it is literally the only scenario wherein the majority shareholder, chairman of the board and only board member and CEO could ever be "forced" to do anything. And, yes, those crimes should have been reported.

 

[DomainRecap]

I was told from Rob direct that Brian has shares in Epik as his main recompense.

Well there is another puzzle piece. Thanks.

 

[thekiller]

I had about $600 in Masterbucks and I added them to my epik account yesterday. Renewed some 40 domains that were brandables mostly. Had no chance of withdrawal from masterbucks.

 

[tonyk2000]

Renewed some 40 domains

Were they actually renewed (as per registry whois)?

https://lookup.icann.org/en

"Registry Expiration" field..

 

[JB Lions]

Are we even sure Royce isn’t just a figment of Rob’s imagination?

Maybe he’s Intelliname Royce is probably real but what did happen to Intelliname, he was like Rob's right hand man, a Rob mini me, fellow conspiracy nutter. This guy - https://www.namepros.com/members/intelliname.1005170/

hasn't been seen here since Oct 2021

I remember getting negged for pointing out the obvious and people falling for advertising on one of his early posts - https://www.namepros.com/threads/open-letter-to-namepros-community.1180391/

 

[tonyk2000]

what did happen to Intelliname

If the memory serves me right, he was also one of top10 registrants (number of domains @ epik) as per leaked after-hack databases. Or maybe "top 5". Cannot check now, did not save these tables from twitter-github or where they were published by various "investigators", but I remember this fact. It makes him noticeably different from some Epik representatives here @ NP who for example voted for Epik in polls but registered their own domains elsewhere, at the same time. He was sincere at least.

 

[JB Lions]

If the memory serves me right, he was also one of top10 registrants (number of domains @ epik) as per leaked after-hack databases. Or maybe "top 5". Cannot check now, did not save these tables from twitter-github or where they were published by various "investigators", but I remember this fact. It makes him noticeably different from some Epik representatives here @ NP who for example voted for Epik in polls but registered their own domains elsewhere, at the same time. He was sincere at least.

Don't know, I would have to see that, because when he was posting here, I was calling him out on not being sincere:

"I've mentioned this a few times in the past. GoDaddy, Escrow.com, Paypal all over the site. Referred to as Trusted Service Providers. Had plenty of time to switch all that out to Epik, Epik "Escrow" etc. The old actions speak louder than words."

On the same page Embrand pointing out his home site was registered at GoDaddy.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/go...f-epiks-customers.1216491/page-8#post-8044457

 

[Kt88]

https://www.criticalhit.net/technol...count-before-selling-lifeverse-for-1-million/

EXCLUSIVE – Epik Had $128k in Their Bank Account Before Selling “Lifeverse” for $1 Million – But The Lifeverse Website Has No Organic Traffic & Didn’t Exist This Time Last Year….​

"Lifeverse"...worth $1 Million?

 

[Embrand]

https://www.criticalhit.net/technol...count-before-selling-lifeverse-for-1-million/

EXCLUSIVE – Epik Had $128k in Their Bank Account Before Selling “Lifeverse” for $1 Million – But The Lifeverse Website Has No Organic Traffic & Didn’t Exist This Time Last Year….​

"Lifeverse"...worth $1 Million?

Interesting. Strangely, lifeverse.com seems to be owned by the prolific Korean domain investor lawyer247 and is at a Korean registrar but now in Sedo escrow.

By the way, the hack lifever.se is still owned by Epik.

 

[bmugford]

https://www.criticalhit.net/technol...count-before-selling-lifeverse-for-1-million/

EXCLUSIVE – Epik Had $128k in Their Bank Account Before Selling “Lifeverse” for $1 Million – But The Lifeverse Website Has No Organic Traffic & Didn’t Exist This Time Last Year….​

"Lifeverse"...worth $1 Million?

Interesting. Strangely, lifeverse.com seems to be owned by the prolific Korean domain investor lawyer247 and is at a Korean registrar but now in Sedo escrow.

By the way, the hack lifever.se is still owned by Epik.

I am not sure where this website is getting their information from, but what amazing timing this would be.
The company reportedly barely had $100K in their account but owed $400K to one prominent customer.

Though if they sold this domain for another party, I am not sure where the money came from to pay John Rampton back, you know unless they "sold" it and there were some shenanigans with Masterbucks involved.

In documents seen by CriticalHit, it was shown that Epik Holdings sold “Lifeverse Assets” for $1 Million back in October 2022. The same document showed that before this deposit, Epik only had $128,825 in their checking bank account. This is despite the company owing millions of dollars to it’s customer’s in unpaid Escrow funds, potentially proving once and for all that Epik has misused customer’s Escrow money. When asked to comment on this, Epik CEO Brian Royce failed to respond.

Four days after the Lifeverse sale on the 18th October, a $400,000 payment to Epik client John Rampton took place, meaning some of the funds from the Lifeverse sale were paid out.

With so many other random Web3 sales can you rule out a $1M sale of Lifeverse.com? Not really.
However, when Epik is involved I think it is quite reasonable to be suspicious at this point.

Brad

 

[Kt88]

I am not sure where this website is getting their information from, but what amazing timing this would be.
The company reportedly barely had $100K in their account but owed $400K to one prominent customer.

Though if they sold this domain for another party, I am not sure where the money came to pay John Rampton back, you know unless they "sold" it and there were some shenigans with Masterbucks involved.

In documents seen by CriticalHit, it was shown that Epik Holdings sold “Lifeverse Assets” for $1 Million back in October 2022. The same document showed that before this deposit, Epik only had $128,825 in their checking bank account. This is despite the company owing millions of dollars to it’s customer’s in unpaid Escrow funds, potentially proving once and for all that Epik has misused customer’s Escrow money. When asked to comment on this, Epik CEO Brian Royce failed to respond.

Four days after the Lifeverse sale on the 18th October, a $400,000 payment to Epik client John Rampton took place, meaning some of the funds from the Lifeverse sale were paid out.

With so many other random Web3 sales can you rule out a $1M sale of Lifeverse.com? Not really.
However, when Epik is involved I think it is quite reasonable to be suspicious at this point.

Brad

When Epik is involved, you can almost guarantee that something fishy is going on here with this sale.

 

[Derek Peterson]

https://www.criticalhit.net/technol...count-before-selling-lifeverse-for-1-million/

EXCLUSIVE – Epik Had $128k in Their Bank Account Before Selling “Lifeverse” for $1 Million – But The Lifeverse Website Has No Organic Traffic & Didn’t Exist This Time Last Year….​

"Lifeverse"...worth $1 Million?

Lifeverse is a "Christian" metaverse app. that Monster purchased for $2M. The domain was obviously not worth $2M and "backlinks" and organic traffic don't really matter, the tech is what's valuable. Metaverse app tech isn't cheap to build but $2M? Probably not. They did sell for $1M and used some of money to repay John Rampton because he has 1M fake followers on twitter and Epik believed it was real. Still waiting for Rampton to reveal the info he has on Epik, screenshots etc, but grifter garbage only care about themselves getting paid.

SEO "marketing" people are as bad as crypto people.

PS - Christians should not enter any metaverse.

 

[bmugford]

I am confused with this recent review.

I thought Aman was able to withdraw his funds, somewhere around $25K.

There is a new review though from the last day. Was he actually able to withdraw the funds?

Brad

 

[Derek Peterson]

I am confused with this recent review.

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I thought Aman was able to withdraw his funds, somewhere around $25K.

There is a new review though from the last day. Was he actually able to withdraw the funds?

Brad

Isn't this the guy that said he had evidence of and was even part of Monster's money laundering operations but took payout for his silence and said he was done discussing subject and didn't care about anyone else getting paid? Good! I hope Epik never pays him.

 

[branding]

When Epik is involved, you can almost guarantee that something fishy is going on here with this sale.

They were seeking investment for lifeverse past year. He had it listed at kindomventures. I remember as the new(?) owner is still using the same crap logo.

Probably some people investing money in E/rob without the risk of getting associated with E.

 

[Kt88]

They were seeking investment for lifeverse past year. He had it listed at kindomventures. I remember as the new(?) owner is still using the same crap logo.

Probably some people investing money in E/rob without the risk of getting associated with E.

Sounds about right. Although they'll need around 20 of these fake sales to repay everyone back.

 

[branding]

Love they're on gab btw. Must be one holy verse they're creating there. Let me think... Who else was a prominent gab member? If E still owns the .se domain hack that is definitely their account still in use.

I don't usually question sales but they make it hard not to question stuff on this one.

 

[Derek Peterson]

Love they're on gab btw. Must be one holy verse they're creating there. Let me think... Who else was a prominent gab member? If E still owns the .se domain hack that is definitely their account still in use.

I don't usually question sales but they make it hard not to question stuff on this one.

Monster rarely posted on gab because the few actual people that are on that site all hate him and would brutally mock him. Gab only runs about 2,500 DAU during their peak political news cycles but even I would create alts to mock Monster there and I've been insta banned on gab since 2018 for exposing their traffic and fundraising scams and their massive child porn ring that Monster helped cover up and threatened me for exposing.

 

[bmugford]

They did sell for $1M and used some of money to repay John Rampton because he has 1M fake followers on twitter and Epik believed it was real. Still waiting for Rampton to reveal the info he has on Epik, screenshots etc, but grifter garbage only care about themselves getting paid.

That's pretty funny you mention that. If you look at his Twitter the engagement is absurdly low.
1.2M followers yet most of his tweets only get 3K - 5K views and most are in single digit likes.

For reference purposes I just started using Twitter recently, and have about 600 followers.
Many of my tweets have similar view metrics, but many more likes.

It seems pretty clear there is a massive disparity in his followers to engagement level.

Brad