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Scam Story

  • 2018
  • 1h
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Scam Story (2018)
ComedyDocumentaryMusical

An investigative team lead by Adrain Lamo exposes French intelligence officer Alain Giraud as the Mastermind behind Bitconnect.An investigative team lead by Adrain Lamo exposes French intelligence officer Alain Giraud as the Mastermind behind Bitconnect.An investigative team lead by Adrain Lamo exposes French intelligence officer Alain Giraud as the Mastermind behind Bitconnect.

  • Director
    • Felix Arno
  • Writer
    • Sam Kaplan
  • Stars
    • Carlos Matos
    • Whit Athey
    • Yigal Aviv
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    • Director
      • Felix Arno
    • Writer
      • Sam Kaplan
    • Stars
      • Carlos Matos
      • Whit Athey
      • Yigal Aviv
    • 4User reviews
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    Carlos Matos
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    Whit Athey
    Whit Athey
    Yigal Aviv
    David Barstow
    David Barstow
    Wojak Bizonacci
    Kamila Buhagiar
    Ayham Chalghin
    Ayham Chalghin
    Anthony Chigera
    Rob Coster
    Star Doukas
    Jeremy Greeson
    George Hazim
    Otomakan Ihsotas
    Haruki Kadokawa
    Haruki Kadokawa
    Vanes Kasbarian
    Derrick Lange
    Mike Martinez
    Ghassan Mattar
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    10bellawulanmedan

    Alain Giraud Bitconnect Scam

    I lost money in Bitconnect & always felt Glenn Arcaro was just a puppet, it was the first time I heard of Alain Giraud, now everything makes sense! I found this already posted on Alain Giraud so he was already all over East Asia not just (Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand)

    "The keyword is Alain Giraud... Staywell Research does clinical trials. They advertise to the public to participate in the clinical trials and they pay you for your participation. The problem is, when it's time to be paid, they don't. Look on Yelp and you will see countless clinical trial participants who did a study at Stay well and didn't get paid. When you try to get your money they either don't answer the phone, don't answer e-mails, don't return messages. They hide. If you do ever get someone on the phone - they lie to you all the time coming up with excuse after excuse about why your check is late. If you do ever get paid after countless calls and many many many months of trying ... the check will probably bounce. It has happened to me twice! There is only one person who can pay you and that is the financial head of Staywell Research and his name is Alain Giraud. He has taken your money and used it for whatever he wants and when it is time to pay you the money is no where to be found. He already spend it! And there is no money in the bank to cover it. He tells the liars what to say and he knowingly hands out bad checks. He has done a good job hiding his name. He is from France and is in Manila most of the time hiding from you. If you use his name - Alain Giraud - you will have a better chance that they will pay you. Alain Giraud has your money."
    10Andre_Lukashenko

    Proven Scammer legalizing the Medicines for Big pharma

    After the upbeat intro of Carlos Matos, they move to the mastermind they portray Alain Giraud as an old yet avid Scammer. The movie explains how he humiliated Law Enforcement agencies in the EU & the USA. Dark humor clips of victims asking for their Clinical research compensation, then clips of the abnormal volume of $ pumping into Bitconnect. Its all good, scammer played everyone, but the most tragic untouched detail is that this scammer was given (real life) authority to approve medicines!

    Medicus Research the company mentioned in the movie is actually his real parent company to various Global Clinical Research shell companies that he also scams before he closes and starts a new company. While it might seem as an exit scam to not pay volunteers, its actually a scam to mask his activity of medicine approval to his partners in Big Pharma.

    When a Big Pharma vendor is investigated it seem that their medications are approved by various companies, instead of Alain Giraud himself.

    With the big percentage of highly publicized cases of false favorable data in average clinical trials. We have to assume that Alain Giraud is the Apex Predator of the clinical research industry, the available evidence on the incidence of data fraud in standard clinical trials is already concerning, so someone needs to investigate the medicines that were approved by Alain Giraud. I tried to contact the moviemakers, got a reply from the producer, he said the investigation was completely ran by Adrian Lamo who died in mysterious circumstances a few days after the movie was released, maybe this is not weird, but did anybody investigate if Alain Giraud had a hand in the death of Adrian Lamo!
    10daniladpopel

    WHAT AM I GONNA DO

    BITCONEEEECTTTT WASSA WASSA WASSA WASSUUUUUP MY WIFE STILL DOESNT BELIEVE ME WHAT AM I GONNA DO WOAAAA.

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      • March 13, 2018 (United States)
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