Kickscammed
Creator: Soap, Colorado, Colorado Springs
Date funded: 3/23/2014
# backers: 830
Amount: $142,112
“The SOAP team claims they’re putting USB 3.0 ports on their board, but the pics clearly show only four pins on each of the USB ports. USB 3.0 requires nine pins. A closer inspection reveals these screenshots are from the files for Novena, [Bunnie Huang]‘s open source laptop.
In fact, all the mainboard pictures deleted from the Kickstarter page can be reproduced by downloading a few files from the Novena site. For example:
There’s a fairly convincing argument to be had that the SOAP hardware doesn’t exist. At the very least, the SOAP team is trying to Kickstart hardware without a prototype, something against the Kickstarter ToS. At worst, this is a complete scam.”
The above information provided courtesy of Hack a Day here
1 Comment
Hello,
I’m the author of the original reddit post that raised awareness about the suspicious activity behind Soap. Right now, I am waiting for some progress to make more assumptions, but there are many things not mentioned in the post that other people pointed out – I recommend checking out the comments on KS and hackaday. In my personal opinion, I guess this campaign will become an example of how easy it is to abuse KS and how hard it’s to prove that.
@sairon , March 9, 2014
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