Martin Groot of Festingervault is harassing, impersonating doxxing me for publishing a negative review on Trustpilot

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Hi I am Adam Voulstaker.

Martin Groot of festingervault.com / grootmade.com took unauthorised payments from hundreds of people as can be seen on Trustpilot reviews.
Martin was banned from this forum.

Since my review Martin has engaged in a campaign of harassment, impersonation and doxxing.

So far he has posted false and defamatory stuff on:
blackhatworld
blogspot
cleantalk - adding my domain to spammers blacklist
complaintsboard
discourse
forexpeacearmy
freelancer - asking people to hack my site
github
issuewire
liststuff
medium
mql5
reddit
substack
slideshare
substack
tellows - publishing my phone number on telephone blacklists
trustpilot
youtube

He has also signed my email (tradingstocks.ai domain) up to hundreds of websites.

I have logged the fraud & harassment with New Zealand Police.

I am especially keen to talk to people in the Netherlands that have been scammed or harassed by Martin as Dutch police need to act and take this guy down.

If you have any helpful information on Martin Groot please can you reach out to me. You can find me on Twitter & Linkedin.

Thanks
Adam
 
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Panther28 said:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/p...m-scare-to-loose-money.1828408/#post-20938860

What you make of this then ? Your site seems a bit dodgy? Did you build a magic cypto money making tree with festinger vault technology? lol
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It is true that this kind of crypto/trading AI bot is shady as hell, but it's also clear that this post was created by Martin to tarnish his reputation...

all those accounts created between 25-30 June, one even mentions the name of the website creator, it's very weird, I always complain about some brands here, but mentioning the name of the CEO is not common, it just seems a coordinate attack to ruin his reputation

his website is shady and martin is creating fake profiles here to attack the guy who has taken down festingervault + grootmade...both can be true
 
Venusaur said:
It is true that this kind of crypto/trading AI bot is shady as hell, but it's also clear that this post was created by Martin to tarnish his reputation...

all those accounts created between 25-30 June, one even mentions the name of the website creator, it's very weird, I always complain about some brands here, but mentioning the name of the CEO is not common, it just seems a coordinate attack to ruin his reputation

his website is shady and martin is creating fake profiles here to attack the guy who has taken down festingervault + grootmade...both can be true
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you just sherlock holmed, my backstreet detective! lol
 
Panther28 said:
you just sherlock holmed, my backstreet detective! lol
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all credits for @LilMosey, he had already told me that Festinger is running a campaign with newly created accounts to post negative reviews about this website due to the fact that the creator is ruining his scam

@SettingSun77 please, do some investigation about it - the thread below + this thread and our allegations here

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/p...m-scare-to-loose-money.1828408/#post-20938860
 
I've banned that 'new user' and deleted the post in question.

In future, just report posts / threads / users, reach out to an admin (myself, @PetraAnn or @MintyGreenTea as we tend to member investigations) or contact Support. That way certain individuals don't know they're being investigated and try and pull some crap in the meantime.
 
So @festinger has been banned?

A lot seems to have happened on the forum recently that I miss out on.
 
HenryObi said:
So @festinger has been banned?

A lot seems to have happened on the forum recently that I miss out on.
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Several months ago, yes. Formally for failing to resolve a dispute but there had been numerous accusations against him beforehand. He then asked for his account to be deleted.
 
SettingSun77 said:
Several months ago, yes. Formally for failing to resolve a dispute but there had been numerous accusations against him beforehand. He then asked for his account to be deleted.
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Wow, that's sad to hear. He used to be good on the forum with his vault. I guess things went downhill ever since he had that legal issue with GPL licensing or something.
 
HenryObi said:
So @festinger has been banned?

A lot seems to have happened on the forum recently that I miss out on.
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He was banned months ago
Then he started a new scam project named Grootmade
Both this project and festingervault are still often charging people's cards and stealing their money with those unjustified charges
Now he is attacking whoever helped to take down his scams - like OP
 
HenryObi said:
So @festinger has been banned?

A lot seems to have happened on the forum recently that I miss out on.
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Haha, me too, its probably for the best we dont live on this website daily. My life is better . This whole place is full of the schetchy types
 
medialounge said:
Are we sure nothing happened to.a great guy
Why does he seem to have lost his mind
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The blue boys tried taking his wheelchair, that'd have me fuming

Seeing all of this though, could it all just be stories for attention and brand awareness
 
medialounge said:
Are we sure nothing happened to.a great guy
Why does he seem to have lost his mind
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Automaticc lawsuit took Martin's last braincell I guess.

I mean he was a great guy sharing free plugins here and being a top bloke before.

Then.

The lawsuit happened and Martin became a cockwomble of the highest order.
 
Panther28 said:
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/pls-help-is-tradingstocks-ai-scam-scare-to-loose-money.1828408/#post-20938860

What you make of this then ? Your site seems a bit dodgy? Did you build a magic cypto money making tree with festinger vault technology? lol
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This is another post by Martin Groot in his campaign of harassment, doxxing and impersonation against me.

This is after Martin has carried out mass fraud - scamming hundreds of people online.
You can read just some of the people Martin has scammed on trustpilot under festingervault and grootmade under the 1 star reviews.

You can see just how many fake accounts Martin runs online.

I have written up what has been going on, on my personal website which youll find on google.

We have no users on tradingstocks.ai which is a legitimate website - So all the negative reviews you are seeing are Martin Groot.

I have reported Martin to New Zealand Police.
New Zealand police have reported Martin Groot to Interpol.
 
SettingSun77 said:
I've banned that 'new user' and deleted the post in question.

In future, just report posts / threads / users, reach out to an admin (myself, @PetraAnn or @MintyGreenTea as we tend to member investigations) or contact Support. That way certain individuals don't know they're being investigated and try and pull some crap in the meantime.
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https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/pls-help-is-tradingstocks-ai-scam-scare-to-loose-money.1828408/#post-20938860

Tra23 is another account run by Martin Groot of Festingervault / Grootmade
 
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