Vasco Rouw, Tamara Weeda and dutch rapper Boef are infiltrating the NFT business by ripping off communities they build with quickly generated hype
At first, I want to introduce myself:
I’m known as Fisto, and have also been known as “Strong Ape Fisto”, fulfilling an Admin Role on Strong Ape Club’s discord.
After the devs have seemed to abandon the project, by being very very inactive and not handing out any information to us, the mods and admins of their discord server, we started to research who they are in real life. (They have always wanted and still want to stay anonymous for security reasons, guess why…)
After a while of complaining about the social media accounts of SAC being way too inactive, they made me their “Social Media Manager” and I had access to the Instagram and Twitter accounts.
Surprise: the Instagram account was linked to Vasco Rouw’s facebook page:
Vasco Rouw, known from https://themillionairesclub.nl/ and his trash-game company VascoGames is anonymously infiltrating the NFT community with multiple projects to generate hype and grab cash.
Before he moved on to NFTs, he had already scammed people with his Token called XPOSE. (the irony of it being called XPOSE…)
He is being assisted by a team of at least 10+ people, having Tamara Weeda, Vasco Rouw’s girlfriend leading some of the projects.
Also Boef, a dutch rapper, is always part of the team (Him and Vasco created the Millionaires Club NL together). They have abandoned several of their NFT projects, when they didn’t meet the expected hype potential, that they had foreseen for these.
Tens of thousands of people have invested in these projects. Few made profit, most of them lost their whole investment. (“Pennyflippers” made profit, “Diamond Hands” lost their investment)
It became even more clear that it is him, when a freelancer joined SAC’s discord, to ask to talk to him about his request on Upwork:
Vasco Rouw:
https://www.instagram.com/vascorouw/
Tamara Weeda:
https://www.instagram.com/tamara.wda/
Projects he is most likely involved in: (perhaps many more)
The Zombie Graveyard
Monkey Society
Fat Ape Club
Island Ape Paradise Club
Strong Ape Club
Retirement Club
Rich Ape Yacht Club
Naughty Bape Club
Tropical Ape Club
Cyclops Monkey Club
Crazy Babies
Cheeky Lion Club
Crypto Bull Society
Shiba Social Club
Prime Ape Planet + Prime Kong Planet
Meta Moose
After they have already made millions with Fat and Strong Ape Club, they have started to hire really talented artists, with astonishing 3d art abilities, harming their reputation after abandoning the projects. (If the artists even reveal their identity, sadly the newer ones did..)
I already feel bad for everyone reading this article, who is invested in any of these projects.
We, the mod and admin team of Strong Ape Club’s discord started to investigate together, so I can get this article done. (We are Kryptiloid, ZENaims, colby, Any-More and wazme10)
They banned Any-More instantly (on Prime Ape Planet’s discord and Strong Ape Club’s at the same moment) after this message on Prime Ape Planet:
The “founder” of Prime Ape Planet has previously been a “Dev” in Strong Ape Club’s discord:
His name on SAC used to be Strong Ape Cordial, since he recycled his discord account, instead of making a new one, you can see his new name on old announcements in SAC’s discord server:
This phenomenon has already happened back in Zombie Graveyard’s discord, after they have abandoned it:
The “founder” of the Naughty Bape Club (the “breeding partner” for Strong Ape Club), originally named Monroe | Founder on NBC’s discord, recycled his/her account for the Meta Moose project:
Their team is pretending to not know about it and “investigated” the case to finally ban him/her:
“Strong Ape Club” , the Main Dev account of SAC discord, who was named Cezar back then (the Main Dev of Monkey Society). Compare this name with the Prime Ape Planet founder CAESAR… BTW: Tamara — “Kongfu” in SAC was named “Kong” in Monkey Society and Bongo | Team in Prime Ape Planet (Mod role removed by now, after I asked her in DM, if she is part of PAP).
They are always using the same font for their announcements on socials:
Just compare all their instagram posts of their different projects, its almost always the same style and font.
Several of their team members are involved in multiple of their projects, even joining their discord server with their main account:
They have reused their website design several times, making it look like these projects were copying each other, although they were most likely all made by the same group of people:
Compare these, it is always the same layout and they are all registered through GoDaddy LLC, which was already used for VascoGames.com back in 2008.
https://whois.domaintools.com/vascogames.com
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/monkeysociety.art GoDaddy
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/strongapeclub.com GoDaddy
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/fatapeclub.io GoDaddy
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/primeapeplanet.com GoDaddy
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/shibasocialclub.com GoDaddy
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/tropicalapeclub.com GoDaddy
-> https://whois.domaintools.com/crazybabies.io GoDaddy
He even talks about it in a dutch documentary about himself and his scam cryptocurrency, (XPOSE) he made millions with, before he went for NFTs (luckily YouTube has the subtext in english). He doesn’t want to tell the journalist, which NFTs he’s making money with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmAJGBgdBYE&t=1230s&ab_channel=BOOS
Watch this video also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfaJ_r3jQQ
And also read this article: (Translate it to your desired language)
Before it all started, he was looking for Artists on LinkedIn to join his scam projects:
Right now he is looking for Game Designers on LinkedIn for some of the projects that are apparently going to be “Play 2 Earn” games.
Other info:
VascoGames BV
Weerdingerstraat 36
7815 SC Emmen
WALLET NAMES:
Quick Explanation:
out = wallets they paid out to, from the creator wallet
in = wallets they paid in from, to the creator wallet
OS = OpenSea account
Creator = Contract Creator Wallet
Sweep = Wallets they have swept the floor with
Royalties = Wallets that get the Royalties from OpenSea/other
Apes in Space Creator 0x44f09af4e2daedcb6bbea3f37605ecabc1683ea5
Vasco KuCoin/Binance 0xafa660b16e72bd15093dcd5ca630012e0d32814b
Vasco Coinbase 3 0xeca80fcc8f47b567271c5dd5a6f31b4f1a1b780f
Vasco Coinbase 1 0x4e7ce7452b4d8dd0bf486db961d43c8298d63dbf
VascoRouw OS 1 0xc74e641512de1cd29e05d1e041b039d54599363b
Vasco New OS 0x86056456751e7db8781e4225C21c7C195E05de6C
Vasco Wallet 1 0xc5b564036469e116435feb84dfcb33659a816d20
Vasco Out 1 0x36824bad1dbcdf6653466dedcc2a517f55d093a6
Vasco old wallet 2 0x9b681a5884ac64382422e2a795f98993ae362d83
Vasco old wallet 0xb8467cb9d289b9c83d36d1bb63666d78c8e06dc7
Vasco LooksRare 0xdb89f5fe613ddff2bbf3b47c4a33cea27ff2910e
Shiba Social Creator 0x7cf9813fd687bd96e3f34c8d3ec05124e5fe846f
Shiba Social Contract 0xd692ced124a474f051f9744a301c26d1017b3d54
Shiba -out- 1 0x837b4694105aebd82d9899fa4d50d671ef34a687
Shiba Royalties 0x700eec4d6ed56ed0f97a0f43fc9df5b426ba25fc
Shiba -in- 2 0x907886cc8a7259ab6f7b14938ebe56526adf0662
Shiba -in- 1 in 0xd3ede9988d9616d078631dd1b91dc32e9ed20d17
Shiba -in- 1 0x3027628c5dac147a9d9c63b12e13d2ae6302b411
Baby Shiba Contract 0x081fac886fdcacdc826c4135ed4ba5b65ececfb8
Crypto Bull Creator 0x872E43aD97033aA8b202890AC018Ad2Edad9C2f5
PAP Creator 0x32a4b9f11003b8de8b6297240040fdcff1e67f32
PAP Contract 0x6632a9d63e142f17a668064d41a21193b49b41a0
PAP Coinbase 0xb51790ed5a0e9b5dd90956113843e564c9961891
PAP (9) 0x387b5f16f680acc82e64d68fc186dc5ff4553652
PAP (8) 0x3676c3882cd1a3a162fc215c7703d4eacbe4e580
PAP (7) 0x5f1273088c7248e8d1019a44eff0c0a8c6f7fdd2
PAP (6) 0xa346ad24eaa798583d9e5560ac6fd2d71f5126bb
PAP (5) 0xa39cccf614e24dc6a687b329dad62c5f047d91dd
PAP (4) 0xea6652ecd552ebe887c4262fd6ab0508b4a4b6a4
PAP (3) 0xba07e14b506499e5e6fb6a9e80d122d8dc276dae
PAP (2) 0x174e1b7bbaa4305615f75959bfe850af53d6c7e7
PAP (1) 0x174c4f8aa5451414fb286712958454caec2fa647
(PAP = Prime Ape Planet)
Goat Society Creator 0x7a984c84f0fafadaab7d0395e6abe560e26ff370
Cheeky Lion Creator 0xb80f4d37bce8f1da80b06f148a2b25322a2ebdb6
Island Apes Creator 0x074a31cab0d1dee07cfdbfb5b7056618c9362f34
TAC Creator 0xc268eaf1c21cae0b5f7b819cae37eccd206a8e36
TAC out 0x5cE88bB7e02DD4665eC92226EA61178940B2dE65
(TAC = Tropical Ape Club)
Crazy Babies -out- 3 0x3b087ba0118e7296f3da846b80e3e781ad741ce0
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Crazy Babies -out- 1 0xe3a210818747ad386f80e0ff8b9fd53a4a619d54
Crazy Babies -in- 0x2420d04348251b711106e786b1b5f7044842aa9f
Crazy Babies Creator 0x0390cd114db4e74539a9f8fbc526a42a2c62b292
Tamara Weeda 3 0x213b0ae52d1efc56f80b4c0167b7592e4e8a0eaf
SAC Sweep 10 0x4b162e9683bfb8ef6124f06ceb8ab958b0378cd2
Tamara Weeda ?! 0xa916776e27ce2da2f2835444909cd1939f1a324d
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SAC Sweep 8 0x055836e9aa1f74704dec769dfe8d1d36c593d27c
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SAC Sweep 5 0x4ab54e0a51d436817d37ef7924933f0d21d3330f
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SAC Sweep 1 0x0d30fa6110e9f4bdfa65467d1c96c6c87117c433
Tamara Weeda 0x5d27abe085bc641363e1fce3dffcd40bf1073966
SAC Royalties out 1 0x78c0913eb6cfc20746aa830763f7ed5476989aba
SAC Royalties 0xa6dfb34be07a2f3df98fe4fe75e8615bc9f96c4e
SAC Fund 0x59e97962375056a8c047923217ef714ec4dfee1a
SAC ? 0xe666ec5be2b5c1333f6e7fae269b24bec255f79e
SAC -in- 2 0x6e141f830531d4b64d1b8fd86f4d6b0ebb79cbd0
SAC -in- 1 0x39327deb4f7a2477c3bf8e23bd643b9d424f77a3
SAC -out- 2 0x91e80c9ea36b091a07c63ef00907d9c914f81604
SAC -out- 1 0x67aba7603fa48c2f0fce0b2f6a0d7dab4ca297e5
SAC Creator 0x0ea10e39a2923a7fc7354f40daac938764b71ca8
SAC Contract 0xbf3eb06c55709674504c2181362d09b51aeaf0aa
(SAC = Strong Ape Club)
Stoner Ape -out- 6 0x827dfa08e6282961b6491851869001cb444b840f
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Stoner Ape -out- 1 out 0x41c67b5a71860713aa8f7e50f08250ee791760f3
Stoner Ape -out- 1 0x0308539095797e6f562203c3d8f60cae82566eba
Stoner Ape Creator 0x45d29a1087f810390b40611b673e94948da47d8c
Stoner Ape Contract 0x984f7b398d577c0adde08293a53ae9d3b6b7a5c5
Prime-Ape-Planet-Official 0x07476a1c57a9bcfe1695c62c58cf5e31f899a42a
Slotie -in- 1 0x2fe1f1f4bc5f08695546fa133b2ee7324dfcd855
Slotie -out- 2 0xb5acd211fb974fae2b8f4bd1f1a60becf803a007
Slotie -out- 1 0x3946c56fb333fac8b8084e76413cef9fadd1ad22
Monkey Society Royalties 0xcdb3228b2be94f895c29d9838256c8f8a1367809
Monkey Society Wallet 0xdc80dfa06b7ad9331120d302551d10208901d9d6
Monkey Society -out- 3 0x5a2b02d202ef302df242ad28a41bd376eba76916
Monkey Society -out- 2 0x4d5f2e4ae93a085b731fd13441ed50832eded9f2
Monkey Society -out- 1 0xb1ed15aa243dd92a30670b9e3308bd6077fb1edc
Monkey Society Creator 0x5a13963dabbff2d1fc048bee68a6d517320d8183
Monkey Society Contract 0xd4acb618fa7202198a07e2b1c87ef9e7cd977bd5
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NBC Creator 0x8bfc090a4485dd55911e85d6f3e1b9212db361c8
(NBC = Naughty Bape Club)