Regium: Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

Thanks @BaronVonChickenpants. This just received from Thrinacia (nothing if not prompt). The last sentence is probably our only hope. Worth a barrage of other complaints to create pressure?

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting us. Please note that Thrinacia is not a platform.
While we have platform called "Reach" that we own and operate where we can
disable such campaigns, we do not run or operate the website you mentioned
below. We do provide technology and software for crowdfunding however. We have
many paying customers that use our software to launch their websites. These
websites could run on their own servers (frontends) or on our distributed
cloud. We do not monitor such websites as paying user is solely responsible
for them.

We will pass your request to our abuse department for further investigation.

Thank you."

I also contacted them with a similar message but havent had any reply yet

I think everything is garbage. They probably donated to themselves to make it look like they are succeeding. However, it should, of course, be shut down just in case.

One thing I'm puzzled about is that, if this is being done through a genuine crowdfunding site, it looks like $144k has actually been pledged. Where has this come from? Some mysterious campaign in Japan like he suggests?

You'd think it was something like that, @blindlyzerking, but presumably you need to put in credit card details to reserve one of these, and your cards would presumably get blocked/hit their limits with such huge transactions.

It looks like they have purchased crowdfunding software and set it up themselves. Presumably they can make it say whatever they want it to say.

I'm imagine all these pledges are non-existant to make it look real to new people discovering it. I cannot believe that they have been trying to crowdfund in japan and no other soul has mentioned it or heard of it until today.

So I just got a message they have raised 144k for their project: crowdfunding.regiumchess.com/regium?

surely not real?

That number of 144k is probably fake (as will the growth be fake too), but the money that people pay them now will do to their pocket and are not refundable.
So, it's sure that they will get some money, but we won't know how much. Probably this time the complaint should go to the payment processing company.

UPD. It seems that they use www.thrinacia.com/ as a proxy.

And they are able to update the donations with "offline donation information": www.thrinacia.com/faq/post/can-offline-contributions-be-accepted-entered-into-the-system-and-reflected-in-the-campaign-total
That's what they did to inflate the numbers.

And they probably enabled "Direct transaction mode": www.thrinacia.com/faq/post/what-does-enabling-direct-transaction-do
Which means all payments go directly to them and there's no way to revert it.

Come on guys! :-)

This is a SUB-DOMAIN to their main domain. Anybody with a domain can add subdomains like this like support.abcxxxxxxxxxxz.com

Money goes straight into their bank account. there is now crowdfunding platform here

that's fake #1
fake #2 the campaign just a cropped graphic from any campaign then recreated a look alike funding page under the cropped graphic

This is even worst than attempt #1

don't need to look any further fakes and traps written all over

And they at thrinacia say it's payer's responsibility to check whether a project is a scam:
www.thrinacia.com/blog/post/tips-to-avoid-crowdfunding-scams