TO:

The Office of the Kentucky Attorney General

ATTN: Andy Beshear

700 Capital Avenue

Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

 

From:

REDACTED

 

September 9th, 2019:

 

Re: REDACTED

 

Dear Andy Beshear,

 

On April 25th, 2019 at 08:12 AM; Change Force Corporation CEO and Founder Rickie Hall reached out to you on your official Facebook Page regarding a complaint against REDACTED and all associated businesses related to the parties, in regards to information collected by the project, “Scammers Exposed”. The Scammers Exposed project uncovers scammer activities, gathers evidence, and forwards them to the appropriate authorities for review and possible prosecution.

 

REDACTED, and all related businesses the (Suspects), had been engaging in a Bitcoin Mining Scam in which they would use a fraudulent business entity website to bring in potential victims with the promise of massive returns on investment. The victims would in most cases purchase, “hash power” or computing speeds in which a machine can mine bitcoin and depending on the amount of hash power purchased, the victim would see a guaranteed return rate in the amount of bitcoin accumulated in one day. The Suspect’s would also use a trading method to place a market value on the bitcoin for which their business would invest victim money in bitcoin with the promise of the market value quickly rising, resulting in massive profits.

 

Once the victims began catching on to the scam, the Suspects would drop the business entity and domain and start fresh with another business entity and domain in an effort to avoid complaints and losing potential future victims.

 

While REDACTED was collecting evidence, approximately 75 victims came forward to provide additional evidence related to the Suspects and the amount of money stolen during the scam. The victims, who oftentimes are unfamiliar with legal matters, requested us, to submit the evidence for them. On May 1st, 2019; Change Force Corporation received an email from Angela D Hockensmith Pane, Executive Adviser with the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, in correspondence with our original complaint against the Suspects. This was a correspondence to a phone conversation that Change Force Corporation CEO and Founder Rickie Hall had with Ms. Hockensmith Pane about evidence that had been collected about the scam.

 

Approximately 1,000 pieces of evidence was submitted as an attachment to that email in which no further correspondence was ever received. Not even an acknowledgement of the receipt of the submitted evidence has been made as of today's date. Multiple attempts to contact the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General have been unsuccessful

 

More fraudulent businesses operated by the Suspects are being reported to Change Force Corporation by previous victims with no response by anyone from the KYOAG. On Behalf of the victims, all who have signed this document; we ask that the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, take investigative measures to end the Suspects ring of scams as it continues to include more victims. Cyber crime is a huge problem in today’s society and failure to acknowledge or communicate with the public and victims of crime increases the divide between the public and the community and deters victims of cyber crimes from reporting future crimes, fearing that those reports will go unanswered.

 

The Change Force Corporation Scammers Exposed Project aims to prevent cyber-crime by identifying criminal activity and forwarding information to Law Enforcement before the criminal has time to establish a large pool of victims. In order for this project to be successful, both the victims and we, need Governmental Agencies to step up and take a more aggressive approach at catching and prosecuting cyber-criminals.

 

Thank you for taking the time to hear our concerns and we look forward to future dialogue with you.

 

Sincerely,

 

Change Force Corporation and the Victims